... Product Hunt community Let's cut through the noise. Here are five of the most common fears about location tracking and the facts behind them. The Myth vs. Reality at a Glance Myth 1: "If I share my location, I'm being spied on 24/7." This is perhaps the biggest misconception. The image of a blinking dot on a map that never goes off is a fiction. The Reality: Reputable safety and family apps are built on explicit, user-controlled ... ... Location sharing is typically an active choice you decide to start it, who has access, and when to stop . Many apps are designed for specific scenarios, like checking in during a late commute or a solo hike, not for passive, round

... been obsessed with the tech behind "Invisible" AI copilots (like Cluely or Final Round). They are incredibly useful for interviews and high-stakes meetings, but the $60/month price point felt like a barrier for most people. I spent the last few months building MindWhisper AI to see if I could create a high-quality alternative

... Performance can degrade as pages grow larger and more complex. And critically, the usefulness of a page often depends on the behavior of a community rather than on intentional editorial structure. Qeeebo takes a different path. A Static, Structured Alternative Qeeebo is built as a structured library of questions and answers rather than a collection of ongoing discussions. Each page is designed to deliver a clear answer quickly, without requiring users to scroll through debates, comments, or tangential replies. Instead ... ... changing threads, Qeeebo uses static pages generated ahead of time. These pages are organized around individual questions, grouped by topic, and delivered through a global content delivery network. This architectural choice influences nearly every aspect of the platform. Qeeebo vs

... content - it sharpens the chaos. What s new in v1.1: Improved pixel font + larger text for better readability Visible mute toggle on home & header (DMCA-safe for streamers) New Progressive mode : starts at 20 buttons, adds 15 each round Clearer win screen with sarcastic stat microcopy + bigger NEXT ROUND

... collective of newsletters Overview  TLDR is a collective of 12 newsletters on topics like AI, DevOps, and more.  Product Hunt, on the other hand, maintains 3 newsletters: The Leaderboard, Product Hunt s daily digest The Roundup, a weekly summary featuring the top launches The Frontier, a weekly, AI-focused newsletter  Let s compare the two AI-focused newsletters, their audiences and performances. Larger audience on TLDR, founder-first on Product Hunt TLDR reports 920,000+ subscribers ... ... 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

... right this year), I stumbled into "Threshold" this dark-humored simulator where you're a CEO forced to make gut-wrenching layoff calls to keep your startup afloat. It's addictive, frustrating, and weirdly eye-opening. Played a few rounds and hit a high score of 72% survival rate... but it got me thinking about real-world parallels. Here are 5 tactics the game "teaches" that actually apply to navigating (or avoiding) layoffs in tech pulled from my plays ... ... throws curveballs like funding dries up mirrors 2025's AI bubble bursts. Real hack: Build a 6-month runway buffer and diversify income (e.g., side gigs or open-source contribs). What's your go-to buffer strategy? Balance Morale vs

... many resumes and not enough time to screen them? Spending engineering hours on first-round interviews? I m building ProCodebase to help teams handle resume screening and first-round

... conversion is ending that bottleneck. Instant visualization (tools like Foursite ) means weeks of acceleration, which translates to months of economic advantage.   Here's the ROI from VirtualSpaces ' perspective: Direct cost savings:  $30-50K professional visualization Vs. $1.5K AI visualization. That's a 97% cost reduction. For a developer doing 5 projects per year, that's $145K+ in annual savings. Time-to-revenue acceleration:  4-week typical acceleration per project. For a $200M project, that ... ... drives 30-50% higher inquiry rates and 15-25% better conversion. For a 300-unit project, that's 30-60 additional units sold = $24-48M incremental revenue. Faster feedback cycles:  Revisions shift from " 3-5 days per round

... timelines work on our platform. How long does it take to receive payouts after investing? It depends on the business model and the schedule of each project (you can see this on every project page). First, the funding round happens. After the round

... keyboards) For most people developers, writers, PMs, operators voice is already better than typing for a large portion of daily work. Snapshot: Pricing & Platform: Funding (publicly disclosed where available): Wispr: $81M+ total, including Series A and additional round in 2025 Aqua Voice: YC-backed; at least $500K+ publicly noted Willow Voice: YC-backed; thus also at least $500k raised Others : no public funding data; best understood as indie / bootstrapped / OSS. TL;DR: Your Award Winners The People's Champ ... ... noticed (and what pushed me to start building my own tool) is a growing segment of users asking for a local-first, offline, one-time-purchase option on macOS. Something that s fast, private, and doesn t require a cloud round

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... what their past investments have in common. 2. Start with one great anecdote; if it lands, you ll see it instantly. I now have one that I love to tell and the flashes in their eyes feel rewarding. - US vs EU: US wants vision + return the fund. EU wants GTM, repeatability, CAC/LTV comfort. - Fundraising is random. I met one founder at $2M ARR who can t get funded and another at $3M ARR with a hyper-competitive round

... everything. If you re selling luxury in a downturn, you re not reading the room. Here s what a great cold pitch looks like for me right now: Hey Dan, saw you founded Meet-Ting. I assume your biggest competitor is Calendly. Using our tool, I found XXX interesting insight about them that might help you. Want to see how we could surface more like that? That message nails it: they ve done their homework, they understand my business, they ... ... working? Why is this notable? Who is your team, why are they the right people for the job? What notable past experiences do they have? What's your fundraise status past & future plans? "raising a seed round

... make everyday social interactions easier and more fun. I m currently working on a community-first mobile app that helps groups keep track of who s paying next whether it s lunch with colleagues, a coffee run, or a round of drinks with friends. The idea came from real-life frustration: someone always ends up paying more, someone forgets, and it gets awkward My approach is: no registration privacy-first (secure through shared link, no accounts) super lightweight and fast ... ... want to co-create with a community of early users. I d love to learn: when do you face this who pays next? moment? what would make an app like this genuinely useful? what features should stay minimal vs

... beyond excited to announce Scribe Optimize , the newest product in our Workflow AI platform and a massive leap toward reshaping how the world actually works. To power this movement, we ve raised a $75M series C financing round, valuing Scribe at over $1 billion. With Optimize, we re not just showing teams how work gets done we re giving them the intelligence they need to make work better .  That s what every leader wants (and often has AI mandates ... ... keep building, to push harder, and to be better. Thank you for showing up every day to make work better. You re the reason we do what we do. To our investors: Especially StepStone, who led this round

... Launching Tight Studio Starter plan, a much more powerful Screen Studio alternative at only $5 per month (and $3.75 per month if you subscribe yearly). If you missed it: we recently won Product of the Day on Product Hunt - people love it as the modern, AI-native alternative

... from Paul Tseluyko(@paultseluyko): @minach  adoption of Cursor is just so huge and I don't understand why Cluade Code is a killer Comment from Paul Tseluyko(@paultseluyko): I actually prefer Claude code or GPT Copilot extension for VSCode more than Cursor. I don't understand the hype around Cursor, why is it better than just having an extension? Comment from Raf Vantongerloo(@rafvantongerloo): @minach  Thanks, I think most vibe coders are using approximately the same tools ... ... them "for free" for a year with a Lenny's Newsletter subscription. That's why. Lol Comment from Raf Vantongerloo(@rafvantongerloo): I use @Lovable a lot to create websites, then @Replit to make Chrome Extension, but I use @VS

... According to the 2025 @Stack Overflow Developer Survey (49,000+ participants), @VS Code and @Visual Studio remain the most used dev environments, despite the rise of subscription-based, AI-enabled code editors @Cursor  and  @Windsurf  among others. Both maintain their top spots relying on extensions as optional, paid AI services like @Github Copilot and @Kilo Code . Curious which ... ... Product Hunt community uses the most? Comment from Andrew Stewart(@andrew_g_stewart): @1001binary   @fmerian  I used to use @Cursor , and then @Windsurf . Once I started using @Claude Code as my AI agent, I switched back to VS

... balanced diet of espresso shots and questionable amounts of energy drinks, which means you guessed it: fresh updates are here. From saying goodbye to Coming Soon, to giving you a shiny red self-destruct button, to sprucing up Alternatives, and a shiny new footer, we ve packed a lot into this round

... really help you shine on launch day. If you want me to give you feedback on your landing page, product positioning and messaging, hit me up via the social URLs mentioned on my PH profile. :) So, in short: Round 1 = Judges (PH mods decides if you re featured) Round

... their sales workflow in under five minutes. Four months later I quit my job to work on it full time. Why bother? I kept asking myself: Why isn t there an AI sales monopoly yet? My take: because most competitors deliver AI consultants that talk like robots and kill revenue. We focused on building a real rep that: Doesn t ask you to prompt or pick an LLM you just tell us about your business and we do the rest ... ... Talks like your top salesperson, not a bot. Books meetings and pushes data back into your CRM. Fast forward a year: Pleep has 500+ paying B2B customers, hit ~$20k MRR, raised a $100k pre seed round

... half a year building an early version of that. It was a small wearable device that converted neural signals from silent speech into text or voice. Once we had it working in a limited capacity, we raised our first round of funding and were off to the races. Over the next three years, we built an incredible team, with some of the best PhDs in neuroscience, machine learning, and signal processing. We used our funding to build a 40-person ... ... that we could keep doing some experiments there. We had amazing people, including one of the best systems neuroscientists in the world. But we chose to do a clean cut. I didn't want to do a second round

... everyone! Co-founder of Roundups here which launched earlier this year on PH . TLDR; AI analyzes products and generates guides that influence buying decisions. Creators generate revenue when an audience gains insight and makes purchases. Not here to promote the product but I just wanted to introduce myself and gauge the temperature for a Substack for Products. We initially launched as a content play for bloggers trying to stay relevant in the age of AI with high value content ... ... easy monetization, but with Google killing SEO, unless you have an existing blog and audience, you would have a mountain to climb to realize value from Roundups

... more than $200M, so it must be decent. They just announced the release of a CLI tool, Auggie, to compete with Claude Code. Here's the launch announcement . Does anyone use Augment day to day? Is this a viable alternative to @Claude Code ? I tried it out the other day and couldn't get used to not being able to see the diffs like you can with other tools. Comment from steve beyatte(@steveb): @rickyguo  nice, are you using ... ... with VS

... also reminded that the speed that start-ups are capable of gets faster every year, especially with AI. As for hesitations...sometimes people balk at the dilution, but generally speaking, the higher price that startups command in their next round at Demo Day more than compensates.     https://www.ycombinator.com/apply Comment from Aur lia Bret(@aurelia_b): Hello @rajiv_ayyangar We are applying to YC with @Intlayer !! Multilingual content infra for devs that started as a CLI, now expanding into ... ... helps shortlist jobs where you are a great match, generate tailored cover letters and apply. Everyone, give it a try and let me know what it needs to be next mega app. Comment from Olivia(@oliviarey): Not applying this round