... Quick build-in-public update from Sponkly (real-time voice translation for chat, calls and meetings in 32 languages). This week, as a solo bootstrapped founder: NVIDIA Inception: accepted AssemblyAI Startup Program: accepted AWS Activate: $10,000 in credits LiveKit Startup Program

... Quick build-in-public update from Sponkly (real-time voice translation for chat, calls and meetings in 32 languages). This week: NVIDIA Inception: accepted AssemblyAI Startup Program: accepted AWS Activate: $10,000 in credits issued today What it changed right away: we moved Video Studio's speech recognition to AssemblyAI and raised the video limit from 5 minutes to 1 hour. A 30-minute video is now transcribed in ~10 seconds and is ready with subtitles in under 2 minutes ... ... usage grows. Tip for other bootstrapped founders: AWS rejected my first two Founders-tier applications (the first one because my company email domain did not match my AWS account email). What finally worked was applying through a partner program

... week for Sponkly: right after NVIDIA Inception, we have been accepted into the AssemblyAI Startup Program . Every Sponkly feature starts with speech recognition. Before a call, a meeting or a face-to-face conversation can be translated, the app has to understand exactly what was said, in any accent and in real time. With AssemblyAI's support we will make Sponkly's live voice translation faster and more accurate, from live calls to meeting transcripts and video subtitles. Thank ...

... Album Download - batch-save Weibo albums, package them as ZIPs, and handle image-host hotlink protection. Chrome extension. github.com/misswell/octoman-weibo-album RedNote (Xiaohongshu) Original Image Helper - paste a share link to save original images, videos and Live Photos. WeChat mini program. redwater.liuguofeng.com Everything is also listed at https://www.liuguofeng.com/ . If one of these is useful, I'd love to hear which one and what you'd change. Happy to answer anything about building small tools solo ...

... currently working on a referral program for my hosting startup, and I'm trying to figure out how to make it worthwhile for both creators and the business. Here's the model I'm considering: Creators get a free server for one month to test the product before recommending it. Each creator gets a personal promo code. When someone makes a purchase using that code, the creator earns 10% of the purchase amount as hosting credits. For example: $10 purchase ... ... profit. I need to balance acquisition costs with the actual margins. I'm also unsure whether product credits are attractive enough for smaller tech creators, especially those who don't need additional hosting. For founders who've built referral programs

... independent founder from Pakistan. I've already built and launched a SaaS platform, and my next goal is to introduce AI tools and agents that help creators, freelancers, and small businesses save time and grow. I've explored startup programs from major AI companies, but I haven't secured support yet. Building independently means making difficult choices about what I can afford to develop next. I understand that startup programs

... been working on a programming language called Sere . The basic idea is to combine Python-like syntax and readability with the performance and lower-level capabilities you d expect from languages like C++ or Rust. Sere is compiled, statically typed, and built around LLVM, with features aimed at both application development and systems programming

... From 1 October, leaving Apple In-App Purchase drops a Small Business Program developer from 15% to 10% in the EU. On a 4.99 euro subscription, a processor's fixed per-transaction fee can eat most of that on its own - and your choice locks for 12 months. Apple updated the Developer Program

... been building HX Code Studio, a browser IDE for a small programming language called HX. The goal is to make Arduino-style programming

... early-stage product without a large distribution channel yet, I'd rather give affiliates a much stronger incentive and reach customers I probably wouldn't be able to reach on my own. For founders who have already run affiliate programs with recurring commissions: Did offering a higher commission actually help you attract better affiliates and generate more sales? Would you choose a 20 30% commission and keep higher margins, or offer 40% lifetime to make the affiliate program

... suddenly lose access to all AI. But what happens if , one day, access to the leading American models is restricted more broadly? We would still have European models, open-source systems we can operate ourselves, and Chinese alternatives. But there is no guarantee that another major power would never make the same decision to protect its own strategic advantage. AI is no longer just another software category. It is becoming infrastructure. It will shape education, healthcare, national security, research ... ... world are American, and Europe should continue working closely with the United States. But cooperation and dependency are not the same thing. Technological sovereignty does not mean refusing to use foreign technology. It means having a real alternative

... vibe-coder, and I am worried that the whole vibe-coding is based on AI so, Should we also learn programming along with vibe-coding projects? Comment from Alex Borsuk(@alexander_borsuk): keep building but learn the fundamentals alongside ...

... genuinely excited to share this one. Intrascope is now a member of the @NVIDIA Inception program. We started building Intrascope because our own team needed a better way to use generative AI across the company without losing control over access, context, models, usage, and costs. What began as an internal need has grown into a platform that helps teams connect leading AI providers, manage permissions, define shared company and project context, and understand how AI is being used across ... ... organization. Joining the NVIDIA Inception program

... helping people. That project is LastBro.com and LastBroAI.com , created and developed by Jan Mo n (30) , Czech senior software architect, programmer, founder and CEO. Unlike many modern technology platforms built by large development teams, LastBro.com and LastBroAI.com were conceived, designed, programmed, and developed by a single creator with a long-term vision of combining social networking, artificial intelligence, and future healthcare oriented technologies within a unified ecosystem. LastBro.com is a community-focused social platform designed to connect people, encourage communication ... ... help users access relevant information through natural conversation. Behind the technology lies a much deeper human story. Six Years on a Health Helpline The idea behind LastBroAI.com was not born in a technology company or during a startup accelerator program

... what the actual job entails. Developers have noticed. Only 12% of developers use LinkedIn as their main source of technical information, according to a Stack Overflow survey. Most are on the platform purely because they feel they have no alternative, not because they find it genuinely useful. The Fake Everything Problem LinkedIn has a trust problem that is getting dramatically worse, not better. In the second half of 2024, LinkedIn identified and removed 80.6 million fake accounts at the point ... ... maintainer whose most important work exists in repos, not on payroll A developer whose most impressive skills are visible on LeetCode, Codeforces, GitHub, and YouTube, not in a bullet point list There is no native space for your competitive programming

... download yet another one. End result: I forget I joined, points expire, and my phone's full of apps I never open. Can't imagine the brands are happy with that either. Half the point of a loyalty program is getting people to actually use it. Genuinely curious what people here think ...

... just shipped a referral program for Swiftbill (swiftbill.dev), our free invoice generator built for freelancers and contractors. The idea: if you're already using Swiftbill, you can now share your personal referral link and earn real rewards not useless credit that expires, but actual free Pro access and bonus invoice slots. The 5 tiers: 1 referral +5 bonus invoices/month 3 referrals +15 bonus invoices/month 5 referrals 1 month Pro free (unlimited invoices + clients) 10 referrals 3 months Pro free ... ... referrals Lifetime Pro No credit card needed to start. Free tier handles most freelancers. Referral link is in the Referrals tab after you log in, and the public program

... Maker of PostPulse here (we launched our social media API on PH a while back). We wanted an affiliate program for our 9-platform posting API. The obvious path was Tolt/Rewardful/Refgrow at $29 49/mo plus fees but we realized we already owned the two hard parts: first-party attribution (a cookie we set anyway) and our own Stripe webhooks. So we built it into the product in two days: referral cookie commission ledger a "Refer & Earn" tab every user ... ... already has. No third-party script for ad-blockers to eat. The program

... Product Hunt My name is Damira, and I am a participant of nFactorial Incubator 2026, an intensive program for developing your own product in 8 weeks. Comparing myself to others' profound skills in programming

... everyone Quick but happy update: MiroMiro now has an affiliate program. The terms are simple: 40% commission on every sale, which works out to nearly 30 per referral on the lifetime plan. If you write, build, teach, or just talk about design + dev tools with your audience, you can sign up here: miromiro.app/affiliate Thanks to everyone who's supported MiroMiro so far, and as always, happy to answer any questions in the thread! Comment from Soraia(@soraiadev): @hosseinyazdi ... ... question, right now it's pretty bare-bones, so I haven't added ready-made assets yet, but it's definitely something I'm planning to do in the future! Comment from Aden Will(@aden__will): The best affiliate programs

... ideas for projects 2) TesterBuddy for finding testers and testing my apps 3) @Claude by Anthropic / @Gemini for brainstorming and organizing ideas 4) @Cursor my programming buddy 5) @DevCleaner for cleaning up the mess left behind after development Comment from Dinko Andres(@rocket4ce): Here are my 5 (can't work without them): VS

... community I'm Thomas, solo founder of ForgeSport, a strength training app that automatically adapts your program every week based on your real performance. Here's the problem I kept running into: every fitness app gives you a static program

... curious. I downloaded everything, tested apps, explored files, learned little hacks in games, and one day I even managed to update the Android version through articles. At that time I did not know this was my first contact with programming, but today I can clearly see that this curiosity changed my life. After finishing school, I knew I needed to leave my hometown. I went to Vit ria, and later S o Paulo. I worked, I tried to survive ... ... created online stores, tried some ideas, tested products, learned a little about branding, pages, ads, creatives, and Shopify. I even sold a watch outside Brazil once. It did not become a real business, but it taught me a lot. Programming

... Some of you have been using and sharing Velo without us asking. We are seeing it and we really appreciate it. More than you know. So we have launched an affiliate program - our way of giving back for all that organic sharing and the love you have been showing Velo. We would love for you to know more about it. And if it interests you, we would be genuinely happy to have you as part of the Velo family. Check ...

... formally studied marketing as a university program (5 years), and due to inspiration on social networks, it feels completely natural to do it, even easy to learn (because most of the time you just guess what might work for you). BUT I am currently learning to program