... frequent question AI founders heard from investors and customers over the past year. If the early days of AI were about selling "novelty," today it's about solving "real problems that cost real money." As Big Tech dominates the Horizontal AI battleground, where should startups look? Here's my take on where the real opportunity lies. 1. The Era of "The Great Polarization" Today's AI market isn't just shifting; it is polarizing. With massive foundation models acting ... ... general-purpose service area with overwhelming capital. In this landscape, solutions sitting in the "Messy Middle" offering mediocre, generalized functions will lose their footing and vanish. The market is splitting into two surviving groups: 1) Big Tech (The Horizontal

... seen a lot of vertical products, very focused, very niche, wonder if that will limit them on Product Hunt. The thinking is: Our ICP isn t here. Should we go broader, more horizontal, just for launch? I do have my perspective, but honestly, what interests me most is hearing from others who ve gone through this. If your product is vertical , did you present it as-is on PH? Or did you broaden the messaging to make it resonate with ... ... learn from your experience Comment from Aleksandar Blazhev(@byalexai): @banglinhpham  Do you have experience with such a launch, or have you not done it before? Comment from Linh Pham(@banglinhpham): When a product is launched with a 'horizontal

... life? How certain people affect your productivity? Let us know which interesting ones you come up with. And Much More... Mood. Habits. Travel. Photos. Milestones. Quotes. Notes. Links. Check out our roadmap to see what else is on the horizon. We're Live I've recently soft launched Big Journal and while it's still very early you can try it out today. We'll be launch on Product Hunt in the near future as well as releasing our mobile ... ... multiple times per day. It's so new that even I've not put loads of data into it yet but there's 2 insights I'm really excited to watch and see the results: Resting Heart Rate vs

... www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5ypDElAMto Introducing new Color Picker - Easily select and save custom colors in Annotate. Editable Window Screenshots - Change or remove the background after taking a screenshot. Horizontal Scrolling Capture - You can now capture horizontal

... also open source the server so that people can self-host it. Kinda following in the footsteps of PostHog. SharedState by AirState uses CRDTs (YJS) under the hood so it is conflict-free by default and our server scales horizontally and never misses a message (i.e. the two browsers will never be out of sync if they're online) thanks to NATS. We're also working on other companion products to be more complete. (do let me know ... ... performance overhead if you make a huge change in one go. The keyword being change because we only encode and send changes over the wire, and never the entire new state. You should be fine with running a sheets alternative