... 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 ... ... After several targeted iterations, Product Hunt shifted from near zero AI citations to consistent inclusion across multiple models. We are now rolling these changes out across Product Hunt. Product Hunt is becoming part of the AI retrieval layer. Key Lessons

... learned: if you can't afford the game, change how the game is played and second learning i learn is Technology is like a magic with which you can do anything. I just didn't know yet that this lesson would take me 14 more years to actually use properly. The Seed But the real reason I couldn't stop building wasn't the phone. It was my father. He manufactured generator spare parts, ignition coils, spark plugs ... ... rejected us. And soon after, the business died too. Buyers were in big cities, exchange points were in small towns. The exchange could never physically happen. We tried delivery but shipping a $1 book for $3 made no sense. Lesson

... Building @Tonkotsu has taught us many lessons in product design, with both the underlying technology and user behavior shifting rapidly. One of the hardest but most critical lessons

... builders: what are key lessons you ve learned whether technical or product or GTM from building agents? This is still such a new discipline that it would be great to share amongst this community of builders. I ll kick off with an experience that had us scratching our heads for months last year Our product, @Tonkotsu , runs a bunch of coding agents in parallel. They re built on top of Sonnet 4.5 and do coding tasks by repeatedly calling tools ... ... rounds of experimentation to fix, but the experience gave us a window into LLM behavior at the edges. Surprisingly, there are real parallels with human behavior too. If you re interested, full write-up here: https://blog.tonkotsu.ai/p/ive-f... What lessons

... building a online tool for US MBA applicants currently in Beta stage, opening it to a small group so I can shape it properly before a wider launch. The goal is simple: make the MBA application process less chaotic and more structured. What it currently helps with: Essay + MBA-specific CV workspace (AI + editor + version history) One dashboard to track deadlines & application events A personalized AI timeline so you always know the next best step If you re applying ...

... based game currency designed to operate across Ethereum and Polygon , with stability and usability as first-class requirements rather than afterthoughts. If you re building in Web3 gaming, token economies, or play-to-earn systems , this post focuses on lessons learned, trade-offs made, and mistakes avoided. The Core Problem: Why Most Blockchain Game Currencies Fail Before touching code, the team spent time understanding why blockchain gaming economies fail so consistently. Common failure patterns observed Tokens designed for speculation instead ... ... Challenge 3: Preventing Pump-and-Dump Behavior Problem: Speculative trading could destroy long-term trust in the currency. Solution: Introduced token locking periods for new purchases Added monitoring for unusual transaction behavior Designed incentives around gameplay utility, not trading Lesson

... strongest days (Tue, Wed, Thurs) More people see your product (but higher competition) Higher traffic to your page if you are featured Launching during the weekend Sat, Sun Higher chance of getting a placement, Product of the day Less competition And also fewer people on the platform, lower visibility Everything has its advantages and disadvantages; it depends on the preferences and goals of the individual. So why do I think that during the week is better? Because during the week ... ... Tuesday to Thursday can sometimes be too competitive. So many products launch on those days that traffic gets split across dozens of listings. You re competing with more products for the same attention, which can actually reduce visibility. Weekdays vs

... Many people who want to achieve the Product of the Day badge prefer to schedule their product for a less busy day (aka, when there is less

... everyone! I m a founder of MobiDB and today I'm launching new product for teachers Akkem Study. I got the idea of creating a tool for building interactive lessons during German study. I wanted a simple way to turn any text like exam papers or articles into interactive lessons

... expertise. However, it also introduces several systemic problems that become more severe at scale. Answers can become outdated as technology, facts, or best practices change. Threads often drift off-topic. High-quality answers may be buried under newer but less accurate responses. 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

... system designed to help people  sound like themselves again especially in places where self-presentation has become tense, filtered, or oddly generic. The work sits at the intersection of language, presence, and honest self-expression. Less generate, more  clarify . Less

... meet my work goals very well in the last few quarters, I now plan to approach them more systematically and not push myself too hard on work goals, as that ultimately led to problems that made my plan less sustainable. So here is my structure and list: Work goals: Edit min. 15 pre-recorded YouTube videos Remove inactive newsletter subscribers, which will be in the hundreds (this will be mentally difficult) Product launch on Product Hunt (this is a specific ... ... product, not a random product) Personal goals: Stay consistent in exercising Learn 4 languages (+ read lessons

... productivity means getting (more) results faster in less time. My goals for 2026 are closely linked to the fact that I want to learn a lot of things , which will require a lot of concentration . Therefore, I think that a large part of what I want to gain will be ensured by: 1) spending less

... days is more than enough time to get burned, mess things up, and (most importantly) learn some hard lessons. My biggest wake-up call this year was neglecting my health until it completely derailed my business I had to turn down collabs, miss conferences, meetups, and a ton of opportunities. Here are my top 3 learnings from 2025: Fix health issues on day 1 (or better yet, prevent them). It cost me 3 whole months of lost projects, events ... ... have neglected it for 4+ years. So opportunities missed. Build real relationships both offline and online. A handful of video calls this year opened doors to collaborations and support I never expected. What are your top 3 lessons

... focused. Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): I think that whenever you have many ideas and want to know whichone will be the best for monetisation, you need to build as quickly as possible, so you can exclude other "less promising" ideas. If s omeone starts messaging you about your great idea , you can spot early interest, and when he/she wants to use it and pay for it, it is a win! Comment from Caroline Harper(@caroline_harper): From ...

... problem. Why we create CheckAnalytic.com ? Because website owners are stuck between three bad options: 1) GA4: Powerful, but complex, sampled, opaque, and heavily impacted by consent. 2) Server-side tracking : Expensive, fragile, over-engineered for most sites. 3) Cookie-less tools: Often too simplistic or disconnected from real business needs. CheckAnalytic exists to answer a simple question: How many real people are actually using my site without legal risk or UX damage? What is CheckAnalytic (in plain terms)? A privacy ... ... clients actually gain? 1. Real numbers again: Traffic, pages, referrers, devices without losing 30 60% of users to consent banners. 2. Simpler compliance: No cookies = no consent for analytics. Fewer risks, fewer lawyers, fewer meetings. 3. Better UX: One less

... Product Hunt! Our team has just released a very beta version of Mernin Bot a lightweight Slack app designed to make mornings in your team channels a little less... meh. Every day, someone types @mernin in your channel. Mernin Bot replies with a good morning and a fresh, illustration sometimes beautiful, sometimes odd, always something to talk about. Why? Because team chats are usually all business in the morning, and I wanted a frictionless, genuinely fun way to kickstart ... ... Just Add to Slack, pick a channel, and see what happens. (Feedback? Reply here or ping me directly.) Would love to hear from anyone who s into playful bots, remote culture, or even just making Mondays suck a little less

... most of the growth. Writing this out so others don t repeat the same mistakes. Context: We re building a no-code tool that helps non-technical people build apps - think Cursor or Bolt, but way simpler and friendlier. Less developer-first , more I just want something that works . What actually worked 1/ Product Hunt (both launches) Neither launch won product of the day. First launch landed us #7 Product of the Day Second launch didn t perform great during ... ... followers... BUT! Most were inactive from years ago I would get 30 impressions per post and 1 like, from my co-founder (lol). Basically, it was a fresh account But I kept posting daily! Day counters. Screenshots. Small lessons

... think my landing pages are probably weak in terms of social proof / legitimacy i'm probably logistically doing things wrong with the ad campaign itself. I'm not sure what I'll do next. I have more or less all the features in the tool that I personally want, so I may just occasionally write some posts about it (like this one) and let it simmer out there in the ether. Comment from David Sitbon(@dsitbon): @catt_marroll ...

... always big concerns. Large tractors are powerful but not always suitable for orchards, vineyards, or small fields where turning and maneuvering are difficult. This is where Captain tractors make a difference. They are compact, easy to drive and consume less fuel while still being strong enough to carry out ploughing, tilling, hauling and spraying. Many farmers choose Captain because the Captain tractor price in India is much lower compared to big brands, making it possible even for new farmers ... ... loads. With each increase in horsepower, the Captain tractor price also goes up, but it still remains within an affordable range for small farmers. Key Features That Add Value to Captain Tractors Even though they are compact and cost less

... afraid of everything all the time. So, it was difficult at first to accept that these emotions weren't actually bad or my enemies, but merely signals. And the most counterintuitive thing for me was that the less I suppressed them, the less

... more creative deals Someone without those words keeps making the same offer in different packages 3. How you evaluate trade-offs Rich vocabulary = you can hold multiple competing values simultaneously Limited vocabulary = you collapse complexity into binary thinking Pragmatism vs idealism. Short-term vs

... together a digest of the last few months building Ting - the good, the meh, and the lessons I can imagine me wanting to tell future founders so they can dodge the bruises and get to the good stuff quicker... The good: - Nearly 1,000 users - ~50% MoM growth with no ads. - Added Outlook, Teams, Zoom + multi-calendar. - Launched Memories , micro product moments when the AI remembers small details + you feel seen. - Team is now 2 founders, 2 engineers ... ... walked a block in San Fran, it's competitive for mind share out there. - Some VCs still bucket us as AI secretary wave - a reminder to tell the story clearly and focus on what makes you different + distinctive. Founder Lessons

... 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

... whole product launch experience has been extremely valuable. I had no idea what to expect coming into this (obviously I had plenty of hopes and dreams) and the outcome has produced some very real lessons. First is to know my audience. The feedback I have gotten, while mostly positive all pointed to changing my target for getting the word out and what platforms to begin advertising what I have and showing the potential. Second, the feedback from my early users ... ... with a choice, after burning the candle at both ends to make this happen do I say good enough as is or really polish this and make it shine. Needless to say, the work goes on, and with launch lessons