... product mentioned in ChatGPT or Perplexity answers, and the data keeps pointing somewhere that makes me question the whole "GEO/AEO" hype. Ahrefs looked at 75k brands and found branded mentions correlated with AI visibility way more than backlinks 0.664 vs 0.218. It's correlation, not causation, so take it with salt

... rather than simply shrinking the desktop product onto a phone. Comment from Adana Marukhyan(@adana): @sansa_grey  Thanks for sharing your opinion! What are you building? Does it have a mobile version? Comment from Adana Marukhyan(@adana): @debra_salt  We all know it s not necessary to have the entire workflow on mobile... but that s a big challenge ! With complex SaaS, you have to make the right decisions about what to bring to mobile. Sometimes it feels ... ... Basically the "where do things actually stand?" question, answered without chasing five tabs or waiting for standup. What part of production are you coordinating in RunEvr? Curious how much of that same pain you're hitting Comment from Debra Salt

... send a one-pager, it's faster." A dense page of text and I read none of it. A deck gives an investor a clean, focused way to follow your story, one idea at a time. "Don't mention competitors, it makes you look weak." A blank competition slide reads as naive, not dominant. Showing you understand the landscape is what makes the "here's our edge" line land. I've watched each of these cost founders real momentum ... ... working top down. A bottom up number is far more convincing. Comment from Lucas Pols(@lucasjpols): @mshen316  Agreed, and the follow up matters as much as the slide itself. Being able to say why the obvious alternative

... collaborative production workflow, not just a single-creator tool. That s why team seats, shared workflows, and support for episodes up to an hour are now high priorities for us. Comment from Parsons Wu(@parsons_wu_real): @debra_salt  Thank you, that s exactly how we see it. Finishing #3 was an encouraging milestone, but the launch is really just the starting point. The most important work now is listening to creators, improving the product, and turning that early ... ... christian_onochie): One thing I'd love to see is an even faster first episode flow. Getting from an idea to a finished draft in just a few clicks would make it much easier to try. Comment from Debra Salt

... transcript: relational transcript + keyword index (SQLCipher): page level AES 256, each page authenticated with an HMAC so tampering is detectable, key stretched from the passphrase via PBKDF2. vector index: XChaCha20 Poly1305 authenticated encryption, key derived via Argon2id, KDF params + salt bound as AAD. same passphrase as layer one so an old key buried in history isn't readable by another process, MCP client, or synced backup without it. fail closed -- passphrase absent > the store refuses to open, never ...

... Katsura(@daniil_katsura): Yes, and I think that should be a release gate rather than optional documentation. A useful guide must be independent of the Android UI: define the capsule byte layout and canonical serialization, algorithms and KDF parameters, salt and nonce rules, authenticated metadata, password and recipient envelopes, armored transport, parser limits, and every fail-closed condition. It should include deterministic positive vectors, wrong-key and tamper vectors, expected intermediate values where safe, and a small reference ...

... three weeks" and messaging them the morning of, and I'd guess the timing changes how many actually show up. Comment from Stacy Wycoff(@stacywycof83995): We literally just launched this week so take this with a grain of salt, but the thing that helped most in the final days wasn't more channels, it was writing down the actual answer to "why does this exist" in one sentence and testing it on people who'd never heard of the product ...

... FounderFlow, it watches across everything and tells me the 1-2 things that actually need a decision, so I stop rebuilding context from zero every morning. Comment from Eden(@builder_eden): On the team behind this, so grain of salt, but honest: mine is content. Nothing forces a deadline on it, so it is always the first thing I let slide when something else catches fire. Funny part of handing it to MyInc was trusting it to ship while ...

... about building in adversarial feedback from day one rather than hoping it shows up. Comment from Ahmed Mohamed(@ahmed_h_mohamed1): I'm just starting up as a solo founder so take my current take with a pinch of salt. I think there is never a guarantee that your plan will succeed, even with input from a co-founder and other decision makers. I am currently focused on a short to mid-term outlook so I can gather plenty ...

... feel like one workflow instead of five handoffs. If I can explain that clearly, the features make sense; if I start with "scheduling + agendas + notes," it sounds like a checklist. Comment from Viraj Parab(@viraj_parab): StartupHQ to organize competitor research, validate ideas, and keep my roadmap focused. It removed a lot of the "what should I do next?" moments. Now the challenge is exactly what you mentioned: getting distribution right. Comment from Mincheol kim(@mincheol_kim): @anna_ludwinowski ... ... Kozlo(@wvitalik): I look for the problem/need first. However, note that some products are solving the problem of a bad existing UX and user interface (think about the goal "to manage virtual private servers" and solutions via the terminal VS

... film. Their job is to generate the best possible shot from well-defined creative inputs. Consistency comes from the workflow, not the model. Comment from Ghost Kitty(@ghost-kitty-9934789): Comment Deleted Comment from Markus Etter(@markus_etter1): @debra_salt  I actually think character consistency is becoming less of a model problem and more of a workflow problem. If you establish the character, scene, and visual language first, the generation models can stay remarkably consistent. That's the direction ... ... support the execution. Comment from CHRISTIAN ONOCHIE(@christian_onochie): I lean toward giving creators more control. AI can speed up the process, but the storytelling still needs a clear creative direction from the person behind it. Comment from Debra Salt

... this. Reading these replies has been a little surreal, because a lot of you described the exact problem we've been building for. Tessa's @tessa_lynch "it's storage at this point, not knowledge" and Debra's @debra_salt point about messy builds beating polished demos are basically our whole thesis in two sentences. We built DemoBook for this. A library of short clips of people actually using AI tools in real workflows, the messy middle included ... ... shipped, not what got tweeted about. i scroll through who-built-what once a week, not who-recommended-what. that switch cut my ai tool reading by 90 percent and my actual learning went up. Comment from Debra Salt

... with you, niche market for a long time. My two answers: I'm so deep in my own product right now that I can barely see the rest of the world, so take this with a grain of salt. reFrame. It's built on a standard for how we treat each other, the R3 Framework: Regulated, Respectful, Repairable. When the world hears Google, we think search. My bet is that "did you reFrame it?" becomes as common ... ... surface is what dies. And that distinction has teeth commercially: the moment your product becomes infrastructure someone else operates, you usually lose the customer relationship the agent owns the user now, you're just a backend it picks. 'Visible vs

... understand, especially if the AI handles the repetitive application steps. One thing I d be curious about: how do you let users review or tune the applications before they go out, so it still feels personal? Comment from Debra Salt(@debra_salt

... cost, policy, or internal governance needs. So the idea is not just who can use AI , but also which project context they can access and which models they are allowed to use. Comment from Vladimir(@vkrstic): Hey @debra_salt  , That s a great point, and definitely the direction we want to go in. Right now, Intrascope already provides analytics around usage and cost per model, per user, and per workspace, so managers can see how different AI models ... ... real issue as teams move from everyone tries AI to everyone uses iy daily. Access is easy but keeping spend, context and permissions under controls is the messy part. Shared limits per project sounds especially useful. Comment from Debra Salt

... biggest change is the integration of a music player. I will continue to update and improve boobar every 1-2 weeks. I would be very grateful if you would like to support my work. Comment from Debra Salt(@debra_salt

... Product Hunt community! If you ve ever been told to watch your salt intake for your heart health, you know how incredibly frustrating it is. Deceptive serving sizes, hidden sodium in "healthy" foods, and tedious mental math make grocery shopping feel like a chore. I built Sodi to be the ultimate, privacy-first sodium tracker and smart label scanner that handles all the heavy lifting for you. What makes Sodi different: Smart Label Scanner: Point your iPhone camera ... ... nutrition label to instantly parse sodium content, percentage of your daily goal, and true servings per container. The Dilution Counter: A unique hydration progress bar that dynamically scales your water target based on your logged salt

... roomservice ports` CLI with JSON output is the sleeper feature here scriptable port cleanup is something i end up rigging with lsof + awk way too often. does it show which process started each listener too? Comment from Debra Salt(@debra_salt

... with tools like lovable don't, I question the output more rather than taking what's generated at face value. I started asking what this would need to look like at enterprise level, then worked backwards IP rate limits, salt hashing, input validation, proper error handling robust security rules. Looking at how top end applications are built and reverse engineering the plan from there has served me better than hoping what the AI generated is good enough. There ... ... vars in client bundle, TLS fallbacks Claude can't see because it never runs the deployed URL. I run an automated header/SSL scan after every deploy now (separate from code review). Same project, two different failure surfaces - code logic vs

... access on day one. Comment from Navanita Devi(@navanita_devi): Dedy's point is interesting, the opacity problem is real. Most people conflate "AI having access" with "AI having unchecked control." They're very different things. Read-only access vs write access, logged actions 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 IDE the Product Hunt community uses the most? Comment from Ankur Tyagi(@theankurtyagi): I was using intellij idea from ... ... Code reviews CodeRabbit Programming / IDE Cursor Problem solving / prototyping Codex GPT-5 AI assited coding Claude Code + GPT-5 codex These together help streamline my overall dev flow. Comment from Hong Phat Ly(@1001binary): I still stick with VS

... Waitlist, I would make it easily visible and lable it like that. For example: "Get notified about updates" (just a plain thought and I haven't looked at your website, so maybe take that with a grain of salt) Comment from David(@david442): @sheraz_abdul_hayee  Thank you so much :D Glad you liked it and that it was helpful. Fingers crossed, I wish you all the best for your launch. Nervous? Comment from David(@david442): @sheraz_abdul_hayee ...

... spinning up apps like it's child's play. I even saw one person spin up a 3D game faster than I could hit the like button. Benchmarks, benchmarks, benchmarks Benchmarks should always be taken with a grain of salt . They are effectively a snapshot of a models capabilities under near perfect conditions. Sort of like the Big Mac you see on the ads vs

... read. i ran it through an accessibility checker and it passes, so it's purely based on my opinion. i'm also not a fan of dark mode in general... so take this input with a grain of salt. Thanks for sharing! I love this pricing page. It's worth copying. Comment from Chris Messina(@chrismessina): Love this prompt. What do you think about this page ? Comment from Rishi Uttam(@rishiuttamhk): @laura_cruickshanks  Awesome and thank ... ... Admittedly, I cheated a bit and ran your website through our app. So, kudos to you on having a simple pricing strategy. Looks like having transparent pricing that isn't overly complicated will already help you win against your competitors

... others are navigating this and what s realistic. Would really appreciate any thoughts or lessons learned Comment from Bryce York(@bryce_york_ag): Hey Floris - we haven't launched yet, so take this feedback with a grain of salt :) I looked at your most recent launch. I love the concept of the product (we're building one similar, but for sales). But your launch page has 1 still image and nothing else. All of the top-performing launches ...