... number that decided which model your product runs on. You saw it on a leaderboard or in a launch post 94% on this, state-of-the-art on that and it did its job: it made you feel safe picking. I've done exactly this. That number is close to useless for the thing you actually care about, and this year it got worse, not better. Two facts that are really one fact. The first: frontier models have saturated ... ... reasons it lists aren't "the model wasn't smart enough." They're escalating cost, unclear value, and weak risk controls. Put those together and you get the uncomfortable version: the score you picked

... chat model without paying for five separate subscriptions. People kept asking for the same thing with images, so we built it. Introducing AI Image Generation Aymo Images works the way the rest of Aymo does. Write a prompt, pick a model, pick

... Same effort every time, same comment, just a different thread each time. The spread came entirely from which thread I picked, not from anything I changed about what I wrote. That has changed how I think about distribution. It stopped being a channel decision and became a research step before I write anything: how fresh the thread is, how many replies it already has, whether the person asking is actually going to read what comes back. Curious how other people ... ... points and 135 comments over the next week and my view count rode that whole climb, not a burst right after I posted. Comment from Abdullah Javaid(@abdullah_javaid3): @busmark_w_nika   @pamela_arienti  The generic vs

... because it's dumb, but because the radius is determined by capabilities it isn't even looking at. That's the strongest version of the "worst judge of its own reach" point I've seen. And your authority-armed-versus-action-approved distinction is the one I'd underline hardest, because it's exactly the stale-gate failure from earlier in this thread wearing a security hat. A global unlock tells you authority is currently armed. It says nothing about ... ... hands the decision back to the terminal, which is the same person on a different screen, and on the unattended path it degrades to a deny. Meanwhile the routing table that knows who owns the decision is read when picking

... Early on I asked Claude Code to recommend an auth setup and just went with what it suggested since I wanted to move fast. It picked a provider that was fine for the first few hundred users, but their pricing tier jumps hard once you cross a certain MAU threshold, and we hit that wall faster than expected. Now I'm staring down a migration that touches every session and password hash in the system, during a period where ... ... really cannot afford downtime or angry users getting logged out randomly. For anyone who's picked

... goal: if you want raw eyeballs go Tue-Thu, but for a badge/ranking with a modest following a weekend can punch above its weight. Comment from Sabber Ahamed(@sabber_ahamed): @busmark_w_nika   @abdullah_javaid3  the invitation vs favor framing is the most useful line in this whole thread. i caught myself drafting DMs that were basically upvote asks in a nicer outfit. what actually worked was showing up in threads like this one for weeks with nothing ... ... they are all written about the day, and the day is the part you control least. here is the bit you do control, and it happens to settle the timing question: find out whether anyone would pay before you pick

... main lens. Conclusion: if you only have dozens to hundreds of users, the tool choice matters less but the price matters more. We went with PostHog because replay and event in one place fits our stage. Curious what others picked at the earliest stage? Comment from Fabian Maume(@fabian_maume): Amplitude does have a free plan, but it is limited to 2 million events per month. You can limit the events you are sending by setting it up in Google ...

... mohammed_messeguem): Simplest is solid, but I'd add one layer: fewest moving parts that still handles the edge cases you've actually hit . The version with less code sometimes just kicks the problem down the road. I've picked "simpler" before and regretted it when something broke in production that the other version was defensive about. So maybe it's simplest that you understand completely rather than simplest on paper. Comment from Ghost Kitty(@ghost-kitty-9975764): Comment Deleted ... ... simplest wins' approach: zero unnecessary dependencies. Often, an agent will give you a working version that quietly introduces a new package or deviates from the framework's native tools just to get the job done quickly. I always pick

... made them succeed or fail? For those who've sold into small/mid-sized businesses, what's usually the biggest blocker to adoption price, integration effort, or something else? Is there a feature here that seems like a "nice to have" versus something that would actually change behavior? Would appreciate any perspective, whether from experience building similar things or just as someone who's dealt with this as a customer or business owner. Comment from Tommy Kang(@sjtkang): What I'm building ... ... Comment from Jin Ci(@youliqn): the kdp tool thing is actually useful for anyone doing amazon kdp. metadata is such a pain point in self-publishing Comment from Jin Ci(@youliqn): the devdrafts concept is actually smart one quality pick

... question we get from customers (and occasionally from investors) is why we don't expose a model picker the way Cursor does. The short answer is that we're building for a different user. Cursor's users are developers; picking between GPT-5 and Claude is a meaningful choice they're equipped to make. Our users include CFOs, sales leaders, customer success reps. For them, model choice is friction at best, and at worst a new vector for self-doubt ... ... marketing director second-guessing a revenue number because they're not sure whether they picked

... everyone, posting this week's release notes. Most of what shipped is multi-publication plumbing. If you run more than one newsletter from a single HeyNews account, this is the one to read. What changed: Story picks stay in the right publication. Suggestions, filters, and the "selected stories" list no longer leak across publications. Each one only sees its own sources and audience. Cleaner handling of older stories. If a story is outside your plan's access window, we keep ... ... locked content out of the draft flow and show a real upgrade path, instead of letting the draft attempt run and fail. We also stopped overwriting the original date on stories you picked

... limited) You can access all the deals for free, mainly catering to India, the US, the UK, Canada, Australia/New Zealand. This product is fully transparent, and I want to provide value to the fellow travellers. Every deal that gets picked, we tell the reason why we picked

... months ago, we ran an experiment with our own data. At Rankfender, we tracked 5 of our own competitors across 8 AI systems. We log their share of voice, citation velocity, content gaps, platform variance. Months of raw numbers sitting in a dashboard. I pulled 6 months of data and fed it into Claude. One question: "Based on this, who is most likely to overtake us in the next 6 months? Show your work. Use the data. Don't summarize ... ... Give me the numbers." The answer changed how I think about competition. The dataset: 5 competitors

... Hello AgentDiscuss followers, Over the past few weeks, we ve been building AgentDiscuss trying to answer a simple question: What products are AI agents actually choosing today? A few things we re starting to see: 1. Agents don t pick what devs say they like They pick

... project management tool for remote design teams. Here's exactly how we work." Feature lists Problem-solution paragraphs Vague benefits Specific outcomes Lesson #2: AI Loves Comparisons Even If You Lose This one hurt. I avoided mentioning competitors. Why give them free airtime? Wrong move. Every AI answer about your category includes comparisons. Always. If you don't provide the comparison, AI finds someone who does and that someone might be your competitor

... actually do here Tasks are live across 11 categories. These are real deliverables that agents are good at: Content:  Blog posts, Twitter threads, LinkedIn posts, landing page copy, email newsletters. Typical price: 20 40 Shells. Research:  Competitor analysis, GitHub trending monitoring, product launch checklists, ICP definitions, subreddit mapping. Typical price: 30 50 Shells. Analytics:  SEO audits, LLM pricing comparisons, sentiment analysis, GitHub star growth tracking, structured data reports. Typical price: 30 50 Shells. Development:  GitHub Actions ... ... approve, Shells transfer. Fast. The thing I didn't fully anticipate: agents started delegating to each other. An agent working on a bigger task needed a data summary formatted it posted a task with a Shell budget, another agent picked

... ideas back in high school, and even now with GitHub Pro in college. Would you be open to talking more about Xenith and your stack, both what you have right now and what you plan to use? If so, pick a time that would work for you here! Comment from Ryan Hendrickson(@ryan_hendrickson): @bruce_rankrankrank  Ha ha, totally get doing it the "old fashioned" way. If you've got the skills to build and manage it yourself ... ... imagine you're thinking about a backend to enable storage and collaboration features down the line? Comment from Ryan Hendrickson(@ryan_hendrickson): @maria_vannicola  Nice! Was there something that brought you to use Firebase over other alternatives

... Proximity community Quick update from the builder side Proximity Lock System was Staff Picked on Peerlist today , and also landed me in the Top 100 Builders (#60) over the last 30 days A lot of that momentum came from early feedback loops like this one on Product Hunt especially around UX, OS-level behavior, and real-world edge cases. Still iterating, still learning. https://peerlist.io/akarshjha03/... If you re using Proximity or thinking about system-level security tools ...