... productivity space, AI and tolling overall. With my team we often do reviews of our favorite new products (from product hunt and from other places) internally so happy to check out yours! Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/niko... Nikolas Comment from Andrew Froehlich(@andrew_froehlich): Testing has become a serious part of my role as solo founder and developer. We still have a ways to go before I can delegate to a Claude Code testing agent for user ui testing. If anyone ... ... opinion, is that many projects don t have clearly defined scenarios at all. If the expected behavior isn t documented, neither humans nor AI can reliably test it. That s where most testing problems actually begin. Comment from Nikolas

... Building can be lonely, so I am looking to expand my network of founders and product builders. If you're ...

... there, I am Nikolas and with my 30+ team we like giving back to the community. So, while I cant support every project that launches every day (I can barely keep up so somedays I dont even log on PH), I do want to make an effort for dev tool projects, especially those helping with AI code assistants (and platforms that could help me evaluate their effectiveness), IDEs, productivity tools and more. I am also interested in SaaS products with ... ... better if you connect with me a few days before your Launch instead of the same day). p.s. I dont plan a launch for now but might do one later this year for a tool I open sourced. cheers, Nikolas

... auth its just device id stored in keychain no accounts needed which keeps onboarding super minimal biggest challenge has been text extraction different sites block scrapers differently. revenucat for subscriptions has been great tbh, saves a ton of time vs rolling your own Comment from Jamie(@jamie42): Building Monk Mode, a Mac app for people who need the useful parts of YouTube, X, and Reddit without getting sucked into the feeds. The whole idea is feed-level blocking instead ... ... dealing with Twitter API rate limits and LinkedIn's strict OAuth scopes. Happy to chat about that if you're researching API-heavy products! We're launching on Product Hunt soon, would love any feedback or support! Comment from Nikolas

... open source code if you want to check it out and apply it to your own projects: https://github.com/JulienAvezou/... We would love feedback on this. Where would this actually fit in your workflow? Comment from Julien Avezou(@avz): @nikolas_dimitroulakis  much appreciated! Comment from Nikolas

... questions for us. We have talked to many devs who strongly believe tools like this should be open. At the same time, we are thinking carefully about: how to structure the repo and contributions how to balance direction vs community input what we wish we had known before flipping the switch etc etc. So I wanted to open this up and ask directly: If you have open sourced a project (especially a dev tool): What do you wish ... ... public? I want to stay committed to doing this thoughtfully, not performativel, so learning from people who have been through it already would help a lot. Appreciate any hard-earned lessons you are willing to share Comment from Nikolas

... there, What are the biggest issues/problems you currently have with building and Testing APIs with existing tools like Postman, Insomnia etc? Is it about lack of features? Or maybe too many features? Developer Experience? Security? Anything else? Nikolas Comment from Liudas Jankauskas(@liudas): From my experience leading API testing teams, the biggest problems aren t a lack of tools it s the gaps in what people actually test. Some recurring issues: Boundary values are almost never tested (min/max, overflow, negative ...

... Nikola, and I'm thrilled to launch Viral Rocket today! The Story: We noticed something that kept happening to content creators. They'd spend 10+ hours making and editing a video, upload it with excitement, and... crickets. 50 views. Maybe 100 if they're lucky. The problem wasn't the content quality. It was the metadata. Titles that didn't spark curiosity; Descriptions that don't help with SEO; Thumbnails that don't pop. When we talked to creators, they ...

... rise of visual media, logos, and other brand assets, visual representation plays a huge role in brand identity. Here are some tools and methods that I am aware of: *Social Listening Platforms: Track mentions and conversations about your (or competitor's) brand on social media. Tools like Hootsuite and Brandwatch are some examplles. I also tried Octolens, which offers an AI-powered social monitoring tool for dev-focused startups (monitors mentions on Reddit, Hackernews, etc). https://octolens.com/ Visual Recognition ... ... Crawlers: Platforms like Google Alerts or Mention scan the internet for textual mentions of your brand. Review Aggregators: Tools like Trustpilot or Yelp help monitor customer reviews across platforms to maintain your reputation. Any others? Let me know, Nikolas