... 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 fmerian(@fmerian): @Prettier was the MOAT. now I have a bias towards @Ultracite , simpler and faster. Comment from fmerian(@fmerian): curious what's your experience with @Kilo Code ? cc @dax1 Comment from fmerian(@fmerian): @jonabiola ... ... Thanks! :) Comment from Viorel Mocanu(@viorelmocanu): I've been tweaking this setup for about 6 months now, it's getting better by the day as the agentic harness matures, but plugins really help all this work well in VSCode

... everyone I ve been working on a project called InkWell a platform that helps creators monetize their content using a smart paywall system. How it works: Users can read a few articles for free After that, a paywall is triggered Users subscribe to unlock premium content It is a subscription-based content platform where users can access limited free content, after which a smart paywall is triggered. It integrates Razorpay for seamless payments and instantly unlocks premium content ... ... designed to help businesses monetize their content and generate recurring revenue. Basically: It s like Medium, but with built-in monetization. Why I built this: I noticed many blogs get traffic but don t generate revenue. So I built InkWell

... this guide isn't just a quick summary. We're going to go deep. We'll explain exactly what Snaply is, how it works, why privacy matters so much for dictation tools, how it stacks up against every major alternative, who it's best for, and how to get the most out of it. Whether you're a solo professional, part of a team, or evaluating dictation software for an enterprise deployment, this is the most complete breakdown ... ... find. Table of Contents Why AI Dictation Matters in 2026 What Makes a Truly Great Dictation App What Is Snaply? Snaply's Core Features: In Depth Why Privacy Is Non-Negotiable for Dictation Snaply vs

... thought we knew We assumed enterprise customers wanted the same things as our small business users, just more of it. More security. More control. More features. We never talked to them. We read blog posts. We looked at competitor pricing pages. We guessed. Here's what we missed: Procurement cycles. Enterprise deals take 6-12 months. We had 30-day sales cycles. We weren't built for that. Security reviews. We needed SOC2. We didn't have it. Customers asked ... ... They don't exist anymore. We also need to keep in mind the communication channels and the way we worked were different in the pass. 10 years ago, I did not know such things like Product Hunt and its alternatives

... months ago, we ran an experiment with our own data. At Rankfender, we tracked 5 of our own competitors across 8 AI systems. We log their share of voice, citation velocity, content gaps, platform variance. Months of raw numbers sitting in a dashboard. I pulled 6 months of data and fed it into Claude. One question: "Based on this, who is most likely to overtake us in the next 6 months? Show your work. Use the data. Don't summarize ... ... Give me the numbers." The answer changed how I think about competition. The dataset: 5 competitors

... Last month, I did something that felt slightly insane. I took our product description, fed it into ChatGPT, and asked it to build a competitor. Not a parody. A real competitor

... 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

... marketing problem. They think: "Let the SEO team handle it." Here's why that's wrong: Your product is being evaluated by AI every single day. When potential users ask: "What's the best tool for [your category]?" "Alternatives to [competitor

... problem we kept running into Every founder and growth person I talked to was doing some version of the same thing: Manually scrolling Reddit and Slack to find relevant conversations Running half-broken n8n workflows with keyword alerts Checking competitor mentions once a week (if that) Looking at their LinkedIn feed and seeing posts that were 10 days old And the frustrating part? The conversations that actually mattered like buyers switching tools, people asking for alternatives

... 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

... just letting it rip . I m very curious whether others have struggled with free trial versus freemium and whether doing both is a bad idea (I m leaning towards that being a yes by the way). I also wonder if we are giving away too much for free and should be feature gating more. The challenge then shifts from a pricing perspective vs

... 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

... answer first. If they find it immediately, they cite it. The structure makes extraction easy. Step 2: The Comparison Page Template Comparison pages drove 40% of our citation growth. Here's our exact template: Title: [Brand X] vs [Brand Y]: Which is better for [use case]? Quick verdict (100 words) Who wins and why One sentence summary Feature comparison table Feature Brand X Brand Y Feature A Feature B Feature C Price XX YY Detailed breakdown (by feature) How each ... ... margin of error. Result: This block was cited verbatim by Perplexity within two weeks. Step 5: The 90-Day Update Cycle We analyzed citation decay across 500 pages. The drop-off is steep: Months Since Update Citations (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

... 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

... Netflix uses for recommendations). Here's the flow: USER FEEDBACK LOOP Write AI Suggests Accept/Deny/Retry System Learns Model Stats DB Model A: 85% Success rates Model B: 72% Model C: 91% Use this one! Thompson Sampling Algorithm Balances exploration vs exploitation Try new models Use proven models (10% of time) (90% of time) What's Thompson Sampling? Think of it like this: The Casino Analogy: You walk into a casino with 5 slot machines. Some pay out more than others ... ... emails Mistral is fastest for quick edits Week 3: Sarah just writes SourcePilot automatically uses GPT-4 for blog posts Switches to Claude when she's writing emails Uses Mistral for quick grammar checks Sarah's accept rate: 91% (vs

... everyone! I ve been working on Inkfluence AI for the past few months. It helps authors, coaches, and content creators go from blank page complete book in minutes. We just went live here on Product Hunt today Built with OpenAI + Firebase Includes cover designer & story templates Live demo video + free trial available Would love your thoughts, feedback, or launch-day tips Product Hunt Link here: https://www.producthunt.com/prod... Thanks to the PH community for all the inspiration! Seeing everyone ...

... projects you re shipping Let s crowd-source the best combos for 2025 . Who knows, maybe we ll spot the next trend before it blows up. Comment from Tom Eldridge(@teldridgeldn): Running Claude Code inside Cursor and as a VS Code extension. Created a script to manage claude.md across the 2 environments and have a shared repository for skills and workflows to scaffold and spin up projects Comment from Stella Samuel(@stella_samuel): Love how fast the vibe-coding space ... ... shipping internal tools and small MVPs. Curious which tools people trust most once things hit production. Comment from Andre Lin(@andrelinhk): Interesting.. reading through the replies, it feels like a clear majority right now is gravitating toward Claude + VS

... noticed two main narratives in how companies view their competitors. Either it s a fight to the death approach exactly like what we see between Replit and Lovable (though it seems Replit does more of the provoking ) basically: We speak badly about our competition. Or it s more motivational: We speak positively about our competition. Tho I do not know whether I have seen some example of this competition, I can see it only in terms of personal branding when ... ... people do not want to say bad things about someone, even when they are competitors

... Ever wanted to peek behind your competitors ad strategies? Now you can with full transparency. I just launched a free n8n workflow that pulls ad creatives straight from Google s Ads Transparency Center, powered by SerpApi. n8n Template link This workflow does the boring stuff for you: Fetches ads by domain (like nike.com or apple.com ) Filters by region Categorizes creatives into text, image, and video Exports clean CSVs for instant analysis All you need to do is hit Test workflow ... ... messy results) Splits by ad format Exports everything neatly to /files/ as CSVs You ll get: text_{domain}_ads.csv image_{domain}_ads.csv video_{domain}_ads.csv Example use cases: Benchmark ad copy styles in your niche Track seasonal trends from competitors

... been tinkering on a side project that helps answer the questions we all debate rent vs buy, pay off a loan 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 Sanskar Yadav(@sanskarix): VS

... Product Hunt I m building LitmusB.com , a tool that helps product teams stay ahead by: Benchmarking your product s UX against competitors Tracking what your competitors

... 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

... balanced diet of espresso shots and questionable amounts of energy drinks, which means you guessed it: fresh updates are here. From saying goodbye to Coming Soon, to giving you a shiny red self-destruct button, to sprucing up Alternatives, and a shiny new footer, we ve packed a lot into this round. Coming Soon Forum Threads The old Coming Soon pages have officially retired ( and you lot noticed ). From now on, every new product you create gets its own forum ... ... Click it and your launch is gone. No forms, no waiting, no awkward back-and-forth, and our support team get to sleep in. (P.S. Don't worry if you accidentally delete your launch, our team can restore it) Alternatives