... obvious. Sometimes it isn't. If the only answer is: "We can see what it looks like." I probably want to investigate first. That might mean: talking to a potential user testing a manual workflow checking an existing alternative testing willingness to pay running a small experiment The interesting part is that AI hasn't necessarily removed product uncertainty. It may have just made

... Guys did you saw the guys who built the outbid website, like the million dollar page but you can bid to be first, it blew up and he made 150k$ + and it's coming up. That prove one thing, sometimes it's the simplest ideas that work's the most ! btw, murmell is coming back 2 of september :) Comment from Moss Ab Mirande-Ney(@moss_ab_mirande_ney): @busmark_w_nika  Basically, you bid to get the #1 spot ... ... website. If someone outbids you, they take your place. Simple mix of visibility, competition and status : that s what made

... different kind of context problem while working with AI coding agents. The agent can read the code. It can inspect the git history. It can find the files it needs. But sometimes it still misses something important: Why we made a particular decision in the first place. For example: Why we deliberately didn't use an abstraction Why an API is handled differently in one workflow Why a certain dependency is pinned Why a seemingly duplicated piece of code exists ... ... need a number, and that number pasted into the code. Comment from Konstantin Tikhaev(@konstantin_tikhaev): Agent wired early placeholder directyl into production reports. Output showed confident number nobody ever measured. Took us full day to trace back. Model made

... doctor who was willing to look at wearable exports? Giving up on most of it and picking two metrics? And for anyone who tried to connect it all and quit, I would like to hear that too. What made you stop ...

... window and filled 75% of the round. Then a major UK VC offered to take the whole thing. We decided to stand by our angels and finish the round with them instead. From a relationship standpoint, I think we made the right decision. For the business, I m less sure. A VC is incentivised to get you to the next round and bring their VC network. A potentially pivotal decision in hindsight. June I went full-time. a16z decided ... ... about an internal rollout and possible deeper integration. After the low of a16z, this was a new high. August We expanded beyond a Gmail-only beta and removed the waitlist. I had resisted opening up because Ting still occasionally made

... What made you guys choose Product Hunt over other launch websites, and did you got good stats/traffic with it ? And what alternatives

... research showed they quietly get worse the more you feed them and that flips how you build. There's a move almost every maker makes the first time they build something on top of an AI model, and I made it too. The window is huge now, so you fill it. All the docs. The whole conversation history. Every tool you might conceivably need. The reasoning goes: the model is smart, more information can only help it, so give ... ... instruction you most need obeyed should be the last thing the model reads, not buried in a system prompt from forty turns ago. I'll be honest about where this hit home for me. A while back we made

... Could be a website, an app, a checkout flow, a product demo, or anything interactive. What made it memorable? Comment from Nadiia Prokofieva(@nadiia_prokofieva): Mine was G-MOS. Before joining the team, I d worked with Google Ads in both SaaS and e-commerce, so I knew how much time teams spend building and maintaining campaigns. When I first saw a product feed turn into thousands of Search campaigns automatically, I knew this was something different. That ... ... completely change how you experience a product. Once you've used a checkout that removes all that friction, going back to filling out forms suddenly feels painful. What's one other small product detail you've experienced that made

... sounds obvious only after someone says it well. The part I'd add from our own experience: it's not just ownership, it's intent. A follower scrolled past you and tapped once. Someone who gave you their email made a decision. Same person, completely different signal, and the list is filtered for the ones who actually chose you. The trap, and I've fallen in it, is that reach gives you a dopamine hit today while a list pays ... ... perfectly: the reach felt like progress. That gap between "felt like" and "was" is where a lot of early time disappears. Comment from Sharun Kanan(@sharun_kanan): @rohanrecommends  Thanks Rohan, and yeah, #2 feels good. Your vertical-vs

... build this?" Now, before opening my editor, I try to answer a few questions: Does this solve a real problem? Is this based on actual user feedback? Am I building this because users asked for it, or because AI made it easy? I'm still figuring out the right balance between moving fast and staying focused. I'm curious how other makers have adapted. Has AI changed the way you decide what not to build? Or do you think rapid ... ... while building products. Comment from Evolvix AI (@evolvix_ai): @charlotte_reed1  That's a fair point. Some breakthrough features definitely weren't requested directly. I'm curious how do you decide which intuition is worth betting on versus

... years by people who cared about how it feels to use. Dark, considered interfaces. Whitespace that isn't accidental. Content that is the product, not decoration bolted onto a spreadsheet. The short answer to "what's the best LinkedIn alternative in 2026" is this: builders aren't looking for another feed. They're looking for a professional network that was actually designed, not just maintained. That's the gap forg.to is built to close. Here's why the gap exists ... ... bigger than an employment timeline. Instagram, by contrast, rebuilt the idea of a profile around the content itself. Your grid is your work. Your Story is your update. The design gets out of the way so the thing you made

... federal government instructed @Claude by Anthropic to suspend access to two of its most advanced AI models for every foreign national, including Anthropic's own foreign employees. Access was later restored, but the message was clear: a political decision made outside Europe could determine whether Europeans were allowed to access a frontier AI model. Europe did not suddenly lose access to all AI. But what happens if , one day, access to the leading American models is restricted more broadly ... ... would still have European models, open-source systems we can operate ourselves, and Chinese alternatives

... Hello PH folks, My name is Ahmad, I have been in the filed from 99s, I built and ship a lot of products, made millions of $$ in the past 12 years from my services, and projects. I'm here to share, and help you all with my information. Starting from 99s I was study and explore the internet as normal person in middle east, in this age "Yahoo" and "MSN" was the top before Google take everything. if you want ... ... create one. Anyway, here were my explore was at top at young age a study a lot it was famous the vbulletin and bb forums, so I search on how to create one especially for Arab community, I made

... having to trust a black box. We improved the desktop experience too. Connections are easier to explore, setup is clearer, and new users get better guidance instead of landing in an empty app with no direction. We also made recall faster and more focused, so one large result does not overwhelm your AI assistant with unnecessary context. A lot of work went into making the product more reliable and easier to build on from here. Huge credit to Vincenzo Fabiano ... ... FaberVi , who made

... static HTML files, and it will strip them out, breaking your mobile menus or shopping cart slide-outs. After running this task, the main stylesheet size dropped from over two hundred kilobytes to just thirty-four kilobytes, which made a massive difference in mobile loading speeds. --- Day 3: Solving the Micro Technical Friction (Product Image Aspect Ratio Issue) By Wednesday, I ran into my first real technical hurdle. The template's product cards were designed to display beautiful medical device ... ... img.addEventListener("load", () => adjustContainer(img)); } }); function adjustContainer(image) { const width = image.naturalWidth; const height = image.naturalHeight; // If the image is extremely wide, adjust padding to keep it centered and neat if (width > height * 1.5) { image.parentElement.style.padding = "20px 10px"; } } }); This simple fix made

... Since the content rarely changes, I suggested going with a static website. It is incredibly secure, loads instantly, and can be hosted for free on platforms like Netlify. I advised her that we should start with a polished, pre-made HTML Template to save time. We picked the Edomi - Bootstrap 5 Education, Learning Courses HTML Template because it already had the clean layout cards we needed for her class lists. Here is my daily developer journal of how I built ... ... Auditing and Cleaning the Source Files On my first day, I downloaded the source folder and inspected the directory. The layout is built with Bootstrap 5, which means it is fully responsive and uses modern CSS variables. This made

... answer common questions instantly but when something genuinely goes wrong, talking to a bot can become more frustrating than the problem itself. I m curious: how often has poor customer support or the inability to reach a real person made you switch to another product? And what does good human support actually mean to you? For me, it s not necessarily 24/7 access or an immediate solution. It means: understanding the context without making me repeat everything; taking ownership ... ... replace people completely or simply handle routine questions and bring in a human when judgment and responsibility are needed? Have you ever left a product because its support felt like an endless conversation with a bot? What would have made

... some of the important stuff in the repo... Comment from Amon Chowdhury(@amon_chowdhury): Mine was catching an agent "fix" a reconnection race by adding a half-second sleep, described in the summary as "improved connection stability." It technically made the symptom disappear, which is somehow worse than failing loudly; if I hadn't read the diff I'd have shipped a timing bug wearing a trust-me coat. What changed for me wasn't trust creeping back ... ... stopped trusting fluency and started demanding provenance. Now every answer has to say which source it used and how fresh it is, so "confident" and "correct" stop being the same signal. Building in that space ( ada.im ) has basically made

... really underestimated how hard it would be to pick one. Before launch, I was considering things like: Will users trust something that processes their messages with a model they have never heard of? What is the real uptime record, versus the claimed one? Do I go cheap/free , or pay more for something that will last longer? Self-hosted? Or just ride on someone else s frontier model and take their roadmap? I took a solution and moved ... ... when there are fifty other decisions to be made

... certain kind of comfort I derive from movies and shows about people who actually built something. These days the struggle and the passion pull me in more than almost any other genre. The last one to get me was Made in India: A Titan Story (2026) the story of a small team building India s first world-class watch. What stayed with me was the number of times they were on the cusp of shutting down before they made

... team that knew how to run performance marketing campaigns. Growing our internal team with specialists. Having experts focus on what they do best led to much better results. Meeting in person twice a year. It strengthened our relationships and made remote collaboration much smoother. For my personal brand (social media/marketing industry): Having occasional calls with people from my community. They got to know the real person behind the content, which made

... life where it crosses a threshold. The person who built it can still explain it. But the person who just joined cannot. The complexity is not in the code. It is in the context. The decisions that were made. The compromises that were accepted. The edge cases that were built around. The technical debt that was deferred. No one writes those down. They just become the way things are. The threshold is crossed when the product can no longer ... ... fully understood by one person. Not because the person is less capable. Because the product has absorbed too many decisions that no one remembers making. That is when decisions start getting made

... routine verification and wrote it in a notebook. I went home thinking nothing of it. Later that day, I received a 1,000 fine for not wearing a helmet . The problem? I was wearing my helmet. What made it even stranger was the evidence photo. It was blurry, almost like a reflection. After looking at it closely, I realized the officer had likely taken a photo of my bike with his phone and later photographed that phone screen using ... ... realistic photos, videos, documents, invoices, and even voices. If I showed someone a selfie, they could simply say, "That could be AI-generated." The same applies to PDFs, Word documents, contracts, invoices, certificates, or almost any digital file. That made

... problem, the decisions, and what I learned not constantly ask people to visit the product. Instead of saying look what I built, I try to explain: what problem appeared; why the obvious solution was insufficient; what trade-off I made; what I still do not know; and where feedback would genuinely help. Promotion feels less salesy when the post would still be useful even if the product link were removed. Comment from Vijay Kanna S(@vijaykanna56): I kept running into ... ... think "salesy" isn't really about word choice it's about whether you're answering something someone asked, or interrupting something they weren't asking about. Curious if others have found the line shifts once you have actual users vs

... your bullet points about scalable architectures. They are looking for one thing: a fast, undeniable signal that you can build real things. The developers who clear that filter are not necessarily better developers. They are the ones who have made their work easy to verify quickly. The Tutorial Trap Here is the quiet killer of most developer portfolios. Someone learns React, follows a tutorial, builds a to-do app. Then another tutorial. Another to-do app with a different ... ... reads like a product page, not a technical manual. It answers: what problem does this solve? Here is what it looks like. Here is the tech stack. Here is a live demo. Here is one interesting technical decision I made