... waitlist for StartupTD is officially open! Quick recap: A few days ago I asked what game to build with my PlanetScale credits. After all your amazing suggestions, I landed on something that felt too perfect - a tower defense game about startup survival. What is StartupTD? Defend your startup from waves of enemies using MRR as currency. Classic tower defense mechanics meets indie hacker humor. Your defenses: Tweet Tower - shoots at haters Coffee Station - speeds everything up Content Marketing Cannon ... ... Gateway - converts enemies to customers Product Hunt Nuke - massive damage, long cooldown Your enemies: Haters ("this already exists") Bugs (production down!) Big Tech Clones (unlimited budget) Churn (steals your MRR) AI Replacement ("ChatGPT does this for free") YC-backed Competitor

... they receive from you, and through which channels they receive them. Here's a snapshot of what setting a users preferences looks like using the Trophy Node SDK: const response = await trophy.users.updatePreferences("user-123", { notifications: { achievement_completed: ["email", "push"], recap: ["email"], streak_reminder: [], reactivation: ["push"] } }); Rate limit tiers To ensure fair usage, we've updated Trophy's default rate limiting to use a tier system based on endpoint. No changes are required to any integrations as we've ensured that ... ... here's a few things we have cooking... Points boosts Temporarily modify points logic around key events with no code e.g. "2X points weekend". Aggregated leaderboards Configure leaderboards that create competition between groups of users like "London vs

... both audiences are mostly US-based, resp. 64% for TLDR and 53% for Product Hunt. Product Hunt has a significant proportion of founders (19%) and subscribers are more likely to work in early-stage companies under 100 people (59% vs. 29% for TLDR).  Higher open rates on TLDR, cost-effective on Product Hunt TLDR reports a 44% open rate (OR) Product Hunt: 41% OR  Looking at the ad opportunities, TLDR offers 3 different placements. The primary placement ... ... around 150 words (fig. 2). Pricing also is simpler: starting at $10K, 4 issues, $2.5K per sent, i.e. $6 CPM. Fig. 2: Example of an ad in The Frontier, Product Hunt's weekly, AI-focused newsletter  Recap

... Instead of categorizing unclear charges into the infamous Other category, Balance uses multiple signals to categorize transactions more accurately and consistently. The result is cleaner dashboards, more accurate metrics, and a financial picture that reflects reality. Financial Progress with Recaps One of the most meaningful additions this year was Recaps

... more people. Whether you're a creator or someone who wants to use content to influence others, learning to shift your perspective is a skill that's well worth developing. And this is something we really care about with Recap helping our users not just record ideas and organize information, but also understand and express their content from multiple angles. Recap

... clearly define your target audience: Who are they? What's their knowledge level? What market are they in? What kind of content do they usually consume? What content actually works for them? This is essentially user profiling combined with competitor analysis. Back when we were creating educational content, we'd put a ton of effort into user interviews, benchmarking against others, and even using a PBL (Project-Based Learning) approach to constantly refine our content structure ... ... thinking in every piece we create. Even if it only lights up one person, it's worth it. We believe AI can be a huge help in both of these areas, and that's exactly why we started Recap

... Quick recap AICosts.ai is the unified dashboard I built to track AI spending across 50+ platforms after getting tired of juggling multiple billing portals and surprise charges from forgotten automations. We recently tried our first organic launch on PH a few days ago as well so thank you to everyone who upvoted and/or commented! Milestone Update: First Paying Subscribers! Just hit two major milestones this week: First $19.99/month Pro subscriber - A freelance developer who was manually tracking costs across ... ... surprise OpenAI bill last month and needed team-wide visibility Both found us through word-of-mouth and PH, which validates that this pain point is REAL for people actually building with AI tools daily. What's Working vs

... Last month we kicked things off with a high-level recap of our Product of the Month launch - and you had so many questions that we went back to document every tactic in full. Today, here s the in-depth playbook : the exact strategies, experiments, and community-powered tests that took Chronicle to #1 on Product Hunt and over 1,000 upvotes within 24 hours. 1. The Spark: one tweet On June 6, Andrej Karpathy casually spoke about Cursor ... ... replies, retweets and DMs to harvest the language your audience actually uses. 2. Rapid-fire experiments We never waited for launch day. Instead, we treated our entire buildup as a real-time lab: Email CTA swaps ( Try Chronicle Pro vs

... Here's our recap We launched Howdy this week, an AI-powered tool to send personal DMs at scale. It was our first time launching on Product Hunt. Here s what happened in the first 24 hours: Hit #2 Product of the Day on Product Hunt Added 200+ new accounts Users created 500+ lead lists Additional 1.8K active users on the landing page Over 75,000 Instagram profiles collected How did we prepare? Teaser Page We launched a teaser ... ... from Fei C.(@feichen_): Congrats on the launch, you and your team's hard work paid of! My team and I are preparing for a launch coming next week. We are all very excited, but nervous as well. This recap

... working on right now actually revolve around these two directions: First, in the idea validation stage when we were building educational products in the past, we'd pour a ton of time and energy into things like PBL design, competitor analysis, and user research. Now, we're asking: Can AI help accelerate this process of "figuring out what we actually need to build"? That's our first big focus. Second, in the final production stage traditional note-taking tools ... ... both note-taking tools and the education industry, we're continuously thinking and experimenting with how to leverage this ability to create more valuable format-agnostic content. That's the second thing we're doing. We're launching Recap

... better understand, interact, share, or remember the world around you. Fieldy focuses on remembering, and more proactively reminding you about your latest interactions, things you need to do based on your day or meetings, and even a nice recap of how your day went. The device is a lightweight wearable designed to blend reminders, voice capture, and productivity tools into a single, always-on companion. After a week of living with Fieldy and having it across meetings, errands ... ... mobile app design Great task list generation Reliable reminders that also appear on Apple Watch Impressive battery life (over 3 days per charge) Useful day highlights feature Lightweight and comfortable Seamless Google Calendar and Google Tasks integration Really good recapture

... Today, I m excited to launch Recaps a comprehensive monthly financial summary that helps you step back and understand your financial patterns over time. While Balance s daily insights provide tactical awareness, Recaps

... Bucket , we're on a mission to help you ship the right features faster with feature flags. Below is a recap of what we recently shipped. # What Bucket shipped in April 2025 ## MCP server We introduced the Bucket MCP server : flag features, manage company data, and control feature access from your favorite AI code editor @Cursor @Windsurf @Claude by Anthropic @VS

... Since Recap s launch in January, we ve received a lot of encouraging feedback and valuable suggestions. Based on these friendly inputs, we ve quickly rolled out an updated version with the following key features: You can now upload links/images directly from the mobile device , so you can use Recap

... Yesterday, we successfully launched Recap, and we re deeply grateful for the support from the Product Hunt family. Today, I d like to take a moment to discuss this topic with you in detail. Recap

... Product Hunt family! I'm Zhiqi, co-founder and CEO of Recap. What is Recap

... been half a month since Recap's launch, and I'm really eager to know everyone's answers to this question. Comment from Zhiqi Shi(@zhiqi_shi): @aliya_husain Thank you for your kind words. You are right. Comment from Aliya Husain(@aliya_husain): Hey Zhiqi, I just checked out Recap

... super excited (and nervous) to launch Recapit tomorrow, our personalized news recap

... favor and designed a mobile home screen streak widget. See your current streak and always stay vigilant and on top of your streak game. Get the mobile app if you re still missing out. EOY recap This year s been a blast - thanks for being a part of it! A quick lookback on some highlights: - We launched Product Hubs and Launch Pages in June - The new mobile apps released in August - Profiles got redesigned in September and the new activity ...