... change later in the day. And probably the most practical lesson, prepare as much as possible before launch. Having our images, video, and posts ready saved us a lot of stress once things got busy. The launch eventually made the top 5 and was featured in the Product Hunt newsletter, so it was a pretty good one to learn from. For anyone who has launched before, what part of launch day made

... shipped a caching bug that made one page load in 2.1 seconds instead of 0.4 seconds. It was live for 6 days before we caught it. In those 6 days, we saw something strange. Users on that page were spending more time on it median 4m 20s versus

... Never made a game before this one. Today it finally goes live. It's called Wake the City. The whole city is dark, you turn the wire pieces until every bulb gets power, and that part of the city lights back up. Honestly the "lights coming back on" moment is the only reason I kept going on the hard days lol. Biggest lesson: I thought harder levels just meant more moves. Nope. It's hard when you look ... ... tell where to start. 80 levels, Android only, works offline, no sign up. Would love some honest feedback if anyone tries it. Even "this level sucks" is useful. Also curious, for those who shipped something, what almost made

... Generative tools have made it cheap to produce another version of a shot, a cut, a color pass, whatever. What hasn't gotten cheaper is deciding when to stop. On interview-heavy edits I used to have a hard rule: three cuts, then we lock picture and move to color. That rule doesn't really work anymore, because a client can now ask for a fourth, fifth, sixth pass and each one only costs an hour instead ... ... there's no natural friction pushing toward a decision. The strange part is that more options hasn't made

... Every product has that one auth decision that made complete sense at the time, but became a pain to change later. Maybe you set sessions to 30 days because users hated logging in again. Maybe your permission model started with 3 simple roles and somehow turned into 14 roles nobody fully understands. Or maybe you stored something that, looking back, you probably shouldn t have stored at all. That s the tricky part about auth decisions. Most bad ones ... ... copied refresh flow. A recovery method that accidentally became the easiest way around everything else. If you could go back, what s one auth decision you d change? And did you know it was a shortcut when you made

... right and is more useful than either, and the revised version went up this month, so it's worth twenty minutes before you write your Q4 plan. It's NBER working paper 35275, Demirer, Musolff and Yang - "Writing Code vs. Shipping Code." More than 500,000 GitHub developers, matched against their actual AI usage telemetry rather than a survey, in a matched event study design. The headline numbers are large and I have no interest in arguing with them. Cumulative ... ... effects on commits: 30% for autocomplete, 180% for interactive coding agents, 240% for autonomous ones. If someone tells you agents made

... kept running into the same complaint in photography and Instagram threads: someone edits out a trash can with Photoshop Generative Fill, and Instagram slaps "Made with AI" on the whole photo. Clients ask if the photo is real. It's not even a generated image it's one AI-assisted edit on an otherwise real photo. So I built NoMoreAI ( nomoreai.in ) to clean it up. What it does: reads the file, shows you what's embedded (C2PA Content Credentials, EXIF ...

... decided to spend an entire Sunday finding free or cheaper alternatives to my current app subscriptions, mostly by digging through Product Hunt and old bookmarks. I made

... agent you use and generate a ridiculous amount of code in a few hours. We've been seeing this firsthand while building Murmell, where we often have multiple coding agents working in parallel on the same project. And it made me wonder if we're actually shipping faster. Because while AI makes writing code cheaper, it also makes it incredibly easy to: build features nobody asked for create more code to review run several experiments at once accumulate technical debt ...

... differently from each other, which we didnot expect, and it broke things we didn't even imaging could break. Since then we have shipped 60+ commits to fix all of those issues and still continue to ship at speed. Made chats recover after a mobile browser freezes or suspends the tab. Made

... also a designer lol Comment from Alexey Glukharev(@alexeyglukharev): I d split this into two stages. Early on, I think having a genuinely good UX designer is important. We found one for our project, and it made a real difference, because good UX isn t just about visuals. It s about the whole conversation with users, the use cases, and how much a person s experience can shape the product in ways you wouldn t catch on your ... ... actual build or copywriting because it all looks the same. A copywriter and a designer have the power to make your website and, by extension, your business stand out, so I think they're worth it. The alternative

... ever built something from scratch, you know how much a simple launch can mean. If Traccia resonates with you, we d be incredibly grateful for your feedback and support on Product Hunt. Today isn t we made it. It s we finally made

... made some parts of building dramatically faster for me. A feature that used to take a long session can sometimes become a much shorter implementation task. At first, I treated that as straightforward productivity. More shipped = more progress. Then I noticed something. The faster I could generate changes, the more time I needed to spend deciding: Is this actually the right change? Did the agent touch anything unrelated? Does this fit the existing workflow? What assumptions did it make? What ... ... uncertainty, solving a real problem, or learning something important is progress. AI makes creation cheaper. That makes choosing what deserves your attention even more important. For people building with AI: Have you changed how you measure progress since AI made

... pressure, trust your instincts, and see how good your scam radar really is. I got tired of seeing DON T CLICK SUSPICIOUS LINKS everywhere and thought okay, but what happens when someone actually puts me under pressure? So I made HUNCH. Try it here: https://hunch-bice.vercel.app/ And if you play it, I genuinely want to know: What scenario made

... made leaderboards. I made

... 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  Yes that's the point Comment from Moss ... ... Mirande-Ney(@moss_ab_mirande_ney): @busmark_w_nika  Basically, you bid to get the #1 spot on the 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 ... ... itself agent just refactors comment away, uses mock anyway ) 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

... 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 Samran Elahi(@samran_elahi): the checkout flow on some apps where it just remembers everything and you're done in one tap, no forms, no re-entering info, simple thing but it stood out because it made

... 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 ... ... experimentation is always the better approach? I'd love to hear how others are navigating this trade-off while building products. Comment from Evolvix AI (@evolvix_ai): @evelyn_clark1  I can relate. AI 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