... According to the 2025 @Stack Overflow Developer Survey (49,000+ participants), @VS Code still is the most-used dev environment, maintaining the top spot thanks to its marketplace. @Kilo Code , @Github Copilot , @Ultracite ... What are the extensions that significantly improve your coding workflow? Comment from John Abiola(@jonabiola): @fmerian The agentic feature is quite very helpful. I practically use it to code, troubleshoot, etc. Basically, I use it as far as using it to troubleshoot my server, inclusive security audits ... ... case is just endless. Comment from John Abiola(@jonabiola): Combining GitHub Copilot with VS

... analyzed their onboarding flows, and mapped out where we could differentiate. I thought our competitive advantage would come from being smarter, faster, or more accurate than them. I was completely wrong about where the real competition was. Our biggest competitor was never another AI product. It was the user doing nothing. It was the journal sitting unopened on the nightstand. It was the therapy appointment that kept getting rescheduled. It was the voice in someone's head saying "I will ... ... with each other on capabilities, but the real question for most users is not "which tool is best?" It is "will I actually use this?" For anyone building in this space: what does your product compete with when the alternative

... Most AI visibility tools show you a dashboard. They tell you where you're invisible. They show you competitors winning. Then what? You stare at the screen, knowing there's a gap, but no idea how to close it. RAIVE 2.2 (Rankfender AI Visibility Engine) fixes that. It's not just a tracking engine. It's a prescription engine. It analyzes where competitors

... just exposure, but the degree to which AI treats your brand as a credible source . Share of Voice (SOV): Represents your brand s voice share within AI narratives the probability that AI mentions your brand rather than a competitor when answering a topic-related question. Sentiment: Captures the emotional tone of AI mentions positive, neutral, or negative showing how AI portrays your brand. Together, these four metrics answer the two most fundamental GEO questions: How frequently does AI mention ... ... brand? and In what tone and context is the brand represented? 1.2 Trends and Competitor

... Maybe more. Here's the painful truth: Your site is translated. Your AI visibility isn't. When a German user asks ChatGPT in German about your category, you're invisible. When a French prospect searches Perplexity in French, your competitor shows up. Translation AI visibility. And it's costing you. The Data We tracked 200 SaaS companies with multilingual sites at Rankfender. Market % Visible in Local AI Answers US (English) 64% UK (English) 58% Germany (German) 22% France (French ... ... Founder: B2B SaaS, 8M ARR "We spent 40k translating our site into German and French. Beautiful work. Native speakers. Perfect messaging. Six months later, we checked German AI answers about our category. We weren't there. Not once. Our competitor

... found errors. Average cost: 28k." 120k impressions, 400+ new signups. Free resource: Post as a human. Share what you're learning in real time. People don't follow companies. They follow people. 5. Multi-Language: The Hidden Channel Most competitors track AI in English only. We built for 120+ languages from day one. Why: A German user asks in German. AI answers in German. If you're not in German content, you don't exist. One example: A US SaaS ... ... with perfect German translation had zero German AI mentions. A local competitor

... Rankfender , we've identified clear patterns. Certain content types get cited 3x more often than others. Here are the 7 content types that win AI citations with real examples you can steal. First, the data: Content Type Citation Rate (vs. average) Best For Comparison pages 3.2x higher "X vs

... Average monthly retainer for AI visibility audits 1,200 2,500 Average monthly retainer for ongoing AI visibility + content 2,500 5,000 First-mover advantage is real. The agencies offering this now are locking in clients before competitors even know the category exists. Service Model #1: The One-Time AI Visibility Audit What it is: A comprehensive audit showing where the client appears (or doesn't) across ChatGPT, Google SGE, Perplexity, and Gemini. Deliverables: 20 50 keywords analyzed Screenshots ... ... actual AI answers Competitor

... hurt early-stage founders. When you are in the early stage, you already doubt yourself enough. You are building, fixing, testing, trying to get users, trying to stay alive. Then you open LinkedIn, X, or founder communities and see competitors posting MRR screenshots, traffic spikes, and growth wins nonstop. And if you do not have built-in credibility, it hits even harder. You are not ex-Google. You are not YC-backed. You do not already have a huge audience ... ... sometimes the answer is no. Sometimes your product is actually better. Sometimes your users are happier. Sometimes your direction is stronger. But the other company is just better at turning random things into a growth story. We saw a competitor

... schema 71% 19% Cite data sources 68% 27% Part 3: What content wins AI citations? This is the question everyone asks. Here's the data: Top 5 content types by citation rate: Comparison pages (X vs Y) 3.2x average Structured FAQs 2.8x average Data-driven articles (with stats, tables, studies) 2.4x average "How to" guides (step-by-step) 1.9x average Original research 1.7x average What performs poorly: Short opinion pieces Thin content (<500 words ... ... great for blue links. But none of them show you how you appear in AI answers. Here's what we track: Actual AI-generated answers mentioning your brand Citation rates across ChatGPT, Google SGE, Perplexity, Gemini Share of voice vs

... connects directly to GSC and runs real-time analysis across 50+ SEO aspects: Top Page and Query Performance Top Mover Delta Analysis Growth and Decay Analysis Performance Trends Rank Disparity Analysis CTR Uplift Analysis Impression and CTR Segmentation Brand vs. Non-Brand Performance Cannibalization Analysis Topical Cluster Performance Device Parity Analysis Device Distribution Country Performance Long Tail Performance Trust and Authority Analysis Then it doesn't just report it. It moves from Performance Opportunity Analyze Fix Apply. Automatically. Comes with ... ... audits. Then: AI Brand Visibility Brand Analysis Prompt Run Prompt Tracking Competition Tracking Citation Tracking Monitored across Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Grok, and LLaMA. It surfaces missing semantic anchors, authority gaps, structural issues, knowledge reinforcement weaknesses, and citation loss vs

... plays a significant role in how products appear in Google search results. What surprised us was that AI assistants like ChatGPT were rarely citing Product Hunt in product recommendations. AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Gemini rely on reviews, alternative lists, and structured product information gathered across the web. Product Hunt is strong across all three. In theory, this should make Product Hunt a natural source for AI-driven product recommendations and comparisons. In practice, it was not happening ... ... many tools which systematically run prompts against several AI models daily, and measure visibility of a product within prompts. We're using a new tool called @Gauge . We chose because a) their citation tracking is more useful than the alternatives

... sparked an interesting thought experiment: how likely is it that we ll see AGI (AI that thinks and learns like a human) within the next five years? The report highlights a fascinating divergence: the view from money vs. the view from science. Money : the probability inferred from trillions poured into data centers, Nvidia chips, and servers. Investors seem to be betting that AGI is inevitable. Science : the probability inferred from research papers and AI development models. Experts are far more ... ... might be ahead of reality. Expect volatility, overpromised outcomes, and valuable lessons along the way. Meanwhile, AI continues reshaping work, attention, and human behavior. I d love to hear the community s perspective: Are you seeing this money vs

... from chat history? 2. How do you iterate? Do you have a systematic approach or just tweak until it works? 3. Different prompts for different models? Or do you use the same prompt for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini? 4. Text vs image prompts do you treat them completely differently? I've noticed I was doing the same optimizations over and over (adding role, being more specific, structuring output format), which made me wonder if everyone has their own "prompt formula." Would ... ... that persists - embedding key info, organizing it spatially (not just chronologically), making it searchable and semantically connected. Once that foundation exists, my prompts can be simple: "Add error handling here" "What's the best approach for this?" "Show me alternatives

... good. Anyone down to help? Im struggling right now with getting users and i just wanna know if this is any good outside my bubble of nice friends. Would really help me out! Comment from Markus Kask(@markus_kask): @ilia_ilinskii

... tested them all building the same "Todo" app from scratch using identical prompts, requirements, and a stopwatch. The goal: Which AI tool actually delivers production-ready output, not just pretty demos? Watch the full head-to-heads: JustCopy.ai vs Base44: https://youtu.be/c79HJaWz6Y8 JustCopy.ai vs

... According to the 2025 @Stack Overflow Developer Survey (49,000+ participants), @VS Code and @Visual Studio remain the most used dev environments, despite the rise of subscription-based, AI-enabled code editors @Cursor  and  @Windsurf  among others. Both maintain their top spots relying on extensions as optional, paid AI services like @Github Copilot and @Kilo Code . Curious which IDE the Product Hunt community uses the most? Comment from fmerian(@fmerian): yep, @VS

... brand mentions across these models in real time, analyses sentiment and provides prompts showing how and where the brand is being referenced. It also sends real time alerts when a brand is cited by an AI model and offers competitor monitoring to identify positioning gaps. Thirdeye as one of the most-advanced AI analytics and recommendation platform that helps brands get discovered not just on Google but inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity, emphasising that if you aren t cited ... ... platforms such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini are becoming the new homepage for information, so brands must optimise for visibility across these models. This shift is supported by wider industry data: according to Nowspeed s guide on AEO vs

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... remind me to tweet. Provide 5 draft ideas. Currently tricky prompt but promising: Daily metrics monitoring from external docs (Notion, Sheets). What creative ways can you imagine using GPT Tasks? And have you tried this feature? Comment from Ilia Pluzhnikov(@ilia

... every tool has its hidden traps and secret advantages only daily users know about. I'd love your experience on these points: Which automation tool are you actually using right now, and why? What's best for newbies vs. advanced users? Have you discovered any hidden limitations or unexpected costs for those platforms? Drop your thoughts below Let's help each other automate smarter! Comment from Jahnavi Thota(@jahnavi_thota): One hidden challenge with many of these tools is debugging ... ... friendly tools like n8n or self-hosted setups can be helpful. Comment from Hugo Pochet(@hugo_pochet): Make is cheaper and as powerful as Zapier IMO, even if it can be a bit more complicated to setup Comment from Ilia

... everyone! Excited to finally join the Product Hunt community and connect with fellow makers, designers, and founders! I m Ilia, a UX designer with a passion for building products from 0 to 1 Over the years, I ve worked with startups to Shape their user experiences Optimize engagement Create products that actually make an impact How I can be helpful I d love to contribute to the community by sharing my experience in UX & product thinking happy to give ... ... curious, you can check it out here, built on Notion Make Dashboard Let s chat Looking forward to learning from all of you, sharing insights, and being part of this awesome community! Comment from Simone Bonechi(@simone_bonechi): Welcome, Ilia