... 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): Combining GitHub Copilot with VS

... create attention, but not always truth. If you stay invisible for too long, growth can become harder because trust, distribution, and early community are weaker than they could be. So I don t see it as brand first vs product first. I see it as: product first for credibility founder brand for trust and distribution both growing together after there is something real behind the story We re seeing this ourselves with SpeakUp. In categories where trust matters ... ... emmerita_ambata): This has me thinking differently. As a marketer, I'm all for founder-led content, especially on LinkedIn. I've seen firsthand how much growth and visibility a product gains when a human is talking about it versus

... most important and challenging experiences you ll have as a founder is fundraising. I pitched VCs across London and San Francisco. Some spent 15 seconds on my deck. Some took the call just to diligence a competitor. One told me to ask for more money. Oh, and I found out your pitch is probably being recorded and run through AI. This is the high-impact version of all of those lessons to save you time, energy, and emotional damage. Please ... ... There are plenty more fish in the sea. Use VCs for insight and intelligence too One underrated part of fundraising is that it s also a feedback loop. Practice the pitch. Notice when eyes light up. Notice when someone leans

... their businesses solo, without employees. Until now, I ve seen these more as exceptions rather than the norm. But with AI, nothing seems impossible anymore. I believe this model could start to dominate: Companies will shrink their workforce structures, lean teams of senior talent will remain, and use AI to multiply high-quality output. Highly capable individuals will compete with these companies, with their differentiation largely driven by personal branding. What I still can t fully figure out, though ... ... meant hiring at least 2-3 devs, a designer, maybe a marketer. Now it's just me and AI tooling, and I'm shipping faster than some teams I've worked with. But I think the framing of "solo vs

... died there. The Beatles never got together. Larry and Sergey lost touch. That kind of thing. People loved it because it landed straight in the imagination. Then we told a different story: a more emotionally intelligent assistant . One that leans into the messiness of human meeting culture rather than pretending people are neat little calendar blocks. That felt important at the time because there was already a growing anti-AI slop feeling online. We showed a version of AI that ... ... some social signal. 3. LinkedIn We re a meeting software tool, so we ve pushed hard on LinkedIn. It makes sense for our category. I ve found personal channels almost always outperform the brand account, so we ve leaned

... 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

... isolation. the problem is real but most solutions either just throw people into group chats or give them a chatbot that feels hollow after a few days. we're trying to go deeper than that. stack is pretty lean: React Native on the front, Supabase for backend and auth, and we're using some custom AI logic to make the experience feel more adaptive over time. solo design founder so i do most of the product and design work, leaning

... built Stillonair an app that turns YouTube videos into a lean-back, old-school cable TV experience. Instead of picking individual videos, you just tune in and surf channels. Right now there are ~30 live channels, including: GameVerse (gaming) Toontown (animation & cartoons) Reelhouse (film & movie content) Total Sports (sports highlights & talk) 90 Minutes (All things Soccer) Plus tech, documentaries, entertainment, sports and more Each channel runs as a continuous programmed stream built from YouTube videos ...

... Desiree.io , we believe no one should face loneliness without support. We identified a critical gap: young men , often overlooked by traditional support systems, needing a space for connection without judgment. Built on a Lean Budget With focus and determination, we built a capable, empathetic AI companion from the ground up. Every resource was optimized to serve one goal: creating a meaningful, responsive, and kind digital presence for our users. Why Bitcoin-Only? To stay true to our mission and ensure ... ... operate with sovereignty, free from external control. We prioritize user privacy and network integrity. Desiree.io is more than an AI. It's a commitment to building sustainable, human-centric technology for the future. #Web3 #Bitcoin #AI #MentalHealth #MensHealth #LeanStartup

... Performance can degrade as pages grow larger and more complex. And critically, the usefulness of a page often depends on the behavior of a community rather than on intentional editorial structure. Qeeebo takes a different path. A Static, Structured Alternative Qeeebo is built as a structured library of questions and answers rather than a collection of ongoing discussions. Each page is designed to deliver a clear answer quickly, without requiring users to scroll through debates, comments, or tangential replies. Instead ... ... changing threads, Qeeebo uses static pages generated ahead of time. These pages are organized around individual questions, grouped by topic, and delivered through a global content delivery network. This architectural choice influences nearly every aspect of the platform. Qeeebo vs

... everyone! I m David, the founder of Budgee ( www.trybudgee.com ) . I started Budgee because I saw a recurring painful pattern in lean startups and scaleups. As a marketer in a high-growth environment, you are hired to deliver results, drive leads, and build the brand. But in reality, you end up spending hours every week wrestling with static spreadsheets, chasing down invoices, and trying to reconcile your "Plan" with what Finance sees in QuickBooks or Xero. It s a massive distraction ... ... built Budgee to solve the a typical marketer's Dilemma at lean

... launched a tiny tool I ve been using internally: Indie PRD Generator . Most PRD templates are bloated and written for big teams. As an indie hacker, I just want: Problem Who it s for One success metric (7 days) Lean solution that ships in a week Risks + kill/iterate rule That s it. One page, Markdown, copy + build. I turned my own process into a generator: type your idea (5 10 lines), and it outputs a lean

... Polling is repeatedly knocking on a door to see if anyone s home. Webhooks are installing a doorbell that notifies you when someone arrives. When building integrations, one of the first choices is: polling vs. webhooks. Polling feels simple and predictable, but it wastes resources and introduces delays. Webhooks deliver events in real-time and are efficient, but come with challenges security, retries, monitoring, and debugging. We just published a guide breaking down the pros and cons of both approaches ... ... when each makes sense: https://vartiq.com/blog/webhooks... Curious to hear from the PH community: Do you lean

... Feels relatable? You have a great idea but no reliable technical team. Agencies overbuild and drag out timelines while draining your budget. Hiring full-time engineers too early feels like setting money on fire. Every week lost means another competitor could launch first. That s exactly why we built DevVoid . We help early-stage founders and lean

... hard, but it feels like something that could change quickly. That s got us thinking about what a pivot could look like. Is the shift toward more curated paid content / courses / memberships? Or is it more about leaning into community models like Patreon and building a one to many setup where the audience funds the work directly? Personally - I lean

... UTCP is a plug-in protocol that lets apps call tools the same way, whether they re HTTP APIs, CLIs, or other transports. Version 1.0.0 brings a lean core, protocol plugins, and a cleaner config so teams can scale tool usage without wrestling with glue code . What s new Plug in only what you need . Lean

... Product Hunt! I m Williams, a lean fullstack web developer who loves building useful, no-fluff tools for real people. I work mainly with PHP PDO, MySQL, TailwindCSS, JavaScript, and Alpine.js, and I ve built 3 tools so far : all focused on solving real problems without unnecessary complexity. I m here to connect, share my work, and learn from this amazing community. I believe in creating practical products that people can start using right away, without bloated features or complicated ...

... around an IDE. Looking forward to hearing everyone's thoughts! Comment from Andr J(@conduit_design): @gabe  The gemini cli github account is getting pounded RN https://github.com/google-gemini... . Classic "SEFO" "ship early and find out" As an alternative if the gemini connection is flaky because of high traffic / early bugs etc. Then there is also Cline with Grok 3. Its pretty good actually. Also free for now (requires a very painless 1-click singup with GitHub on Clines ... ... seriously, because invisible AI costs mess with your judgment fast If anyone else here is using Claude Code heavily, I am curious what surprised you more: the quality jump or the bill. Comment from Kurt(@krutftw): neither for me VS

... plan your day every morning? Do you use pen and paper or use any app? I have multiple life and work projects and want more control on my day, hence i made lean planner which helps you plan your day while managing your projects and goals. Check it out and support us : https://www.producthunt.com/post... Also let us know if you like the landing page : https://leanplanner.app

... personally look at packages and am okay downloading things from internet devs but I'm curious what folks here think? Would distribution hurt download chances? Awareness: This is pretty much the same imo other than App Store search vs SEO but curious if anyone has had negative/positive experience regarding discoverability either through App Store or self-distribution Payments : I would probably use something like @Superwall but am curious what the best way to introduce a " free for 7 days then ... ... distribution method impacts this at all. Any other tips, recommendations, and stories you have about distributing silly, lightweight apps would be helpful! A lot of the apps that are silly that I've downloaded are DMG, so I'm leaning

... everyone - I'm launching my first product soon & would love to tap into this community's experience on price-setting for B2C software (ours helps job seekers). The long story short is we ve been leaning towards entering a fairly established market at significantly lower pricing (like ~4-5x) than competitors

... been using @Spacemacs for a few years now. Recently, I started using @VS Code to "see what I was missing". I liked that linters and such seemed to work a bit smoother out of the box. I kept hearing: VSCode