... built software for 14+ years. Somehow, we still make decisions with screenshots and spreadsheets. Hi everyone! I m Ernesto, co-founder of Scalari. I ve spent more than 14 years building software, leading engineering teams, working with startups, and helping companies turn technology into actual business results. And somewhere along the way I noticed something slightly absurd: companies have never had more data and somehow it s still

... Nowadays the AI is dramatically improved product visual creation, but every workflow still seems to have one step that takes more time than expected. For me, maintaining consistency across a growing catalog and creating multiple variations still

... dedupe, run it again, watch it hold. Agents probably make this worse because they learned from the same quickstarts that only imagined one clean event. Curious what broke for you A bug that sailed through review and CI but still blew up in prod, and what would have actually caught it? (This is the itch I'm building FetchSandbox around, running the failure before customers do.) Comment from Raj Nagulapalle(@rnagulapalle): @akbar_b  the TTL point is the sharpest ... ... part i keep bumping into: even once the checklist points you at "retries can happen," you're right back to reading a diff going "yeah, looks like it dedupes." the checklist tells you what to worry about, it still

... years. The blue-and-white template. The dense wall of text posts stacked on top of each other. The same "3rd" badge next to every name. The same grey card shadows that haven't changed since profile redesigns were still called "beta." It is functional in the way a government form is functional. Nobody opens it because they want to. They open it because they feel they have to. Now scroll Instagram. Or Arc. Or Linear's website. Or basically ... ... years by people who cared about how it feels to use. Dark, considered interfaces. Whitespace that isn't accidental. Content that is the product, not decoration bolted onto a spreadsheet. The short answer to "what's the best LinkedIn alternative

... felt it was pretty slow, taking about 10 to 15 sec just to fetch info, then another 10 to 15 sec to start the download. felt way too slow. tried optimizing with yt-dlp arguments and prewarmed pools, still around 9 to 10 sec. i was obsessed with speed at this point. almost 3 months gone. shifted to bun to experiment, thinking it'd be faster than node, but turns out the cmd process time was basically the smae regardless ... ... whole frontend again under a new name and a new concept, kind of like an ai chatbot that takes a url and just downloads it. felt like ai was doing the work in the backend when really it was still

... draft is now a correct reply to a question nobody is asking. It fails quietly because the send still succeeds. Local should be worse, not better. Same person is sitting there, waits four minutes, does it by hand, then approves the resumed plan and it runs twice. So re-resolve whether the reason for the run still

... were a Member of the European Parliament, I would ask one question before supporting any new technology policy: If a government outside Europe restricted our access to frontier AI tomorrow, how much of our technological future would still be under European control? That is no longer a theoretical question. A few weeks ago, we received a very real warning. The US federal government instructed @Claude by Anthropic to suspend access to two of its most advanced AI models for every ... ... could determine whether Europeans were allowed to access a frontier AI model. Europe did not 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

... paid conversion. 25%+ with PQL. Webinars (live): 22-33% CTA conversion. High-engagement webinars hit up to 69%. AI search (GEO/AEO): 4-5x higher conversion than traditional organic. One B2B study found AI-referred traffic converted at 7.12% vs 1.37% for organic. Another found 14.2% for AI traffic. Quora: 2-5% conversion. 35% of B2B decision-makers answer questions on Quora. Reddit: 0.3-1.5% post-to-customer conversion in fit subreddits. CPC of $0.50-$2.00 vs

... backlinks are still one of the strongest signals Google uses to judge whether a page deserves to rank. For competitive commercial queries, they remain one of the clearest ways to separate two pages with similar content. But the math changed. In the age of AI search, backlinks influence visibility differently. They act on the retrieval layer the live search index that grounds AI answers rather than the model's frozen training weights. That split explains why studies measuring pure ChatGPT ... ... answers sometimes find links matter less, while studies measuring AI Overviews or Perplexity find they still

... since a broken first impression on launch day is basically unrecoverable; you don't get people back to try again. Website and onboarding both sound like real work still. Which one's actually eating more of your time right now? Comment from emmanuel LNU(@emmanuel_lnu): @busmark_w_nika  Still

... data is clear: backlinks are still a valuable part of any SEO strategy. Nearly 70% of marketers say backlinks have a "big impact" on search rankings , and 30% say they have a "moderate impact". The top result in Google SERPs has nearly 4x more backlinks than positions two through ten. Marketers are spending $5,000 $10,000 monthly on link building, and a single low-authority link now runs around $300 almost 8% higher than last year. But the game ... ... matter more. Different machines. 3. Google now evaluates links in real time. Low-quality links are ignored instead of penalized. For competitive eCommerce queries, backlinks remain one of the clearest ways to separate two pages with similar content. What Still

... Some founders are just 14, 15, or 16 years old already building tools, and some are even raising funding. AI has completely changed what's possible. Today, we welcomed a new summer intern at Minimalist Phone. I still think internships have value. You meet people, learn how a company works, and gain experience you can't get on your own. [it gives you a clear structure about processes and how to work with collegues] But it made me wonder... Will ... ... breaks because the work stopped teaching. On building your own project instead, that teaches you to build, which is the easy half. It does not teach you to inherit someone else's mess, disagree with a colleague and still

... accepted the tax? Comment from Kidder(@hellokidder01): @omri_ben_shoham1   Claude Code at least lets you set this globally in CLAUDE.md one line there and every project inherits it, no per-project prompt editing needed. Still opt-in, but at least you only opt in once. That said, you're right that "agent leaves a re-entry note" probably should just be default behavior in the tools themselves. It's the kind of thing nobody asks for until they ... ... lost 10 minutes reconstructing context for the fifth time. Comment from Kidder(@hellokidder01): @nextmark   I'm honestly more in the former camp but I've come to think it doesn't really matter. Vibe coding is still

... Comment ### Building an Agentic UI Test Harness with a Remote Headed Browser Modern UI testing is changing. Traditional end-to-end tests are usually written as deterministic scripts: click this selector, fill that field, assert this text. That model still works for stable flows, but it becomes brittle when the UI is dynamic, when the test expectation is semantic, or when the product changes faster than the test suite. Agentic UI testing gives us a different shape. Instead of encoding ... ... page, or whether the UI looks correct but the script failed for the wrong reason. This is where remote-browser.dev becomes valuable. It gives the harness a remote headed browser that can be controlled through a browser automation protocol while still

... simply too slow and lacked access to heavy device processing. But with WebAssembly (WASM) , WebGPU, and modern browser engines, we can compile heavy native libraries and run them directly in the browser at near-native speeds. Despite this, I still see developers spending months writing Swift and Kotlin code, going through stressful App Store approval processes, and paying developer fees just to launch simple utilities. The Modern Web App Advantage: Zero Install Friction: Users can solve their problem ... ... like in-browser video compressors or image optimizers that leverage client-side FFmpeg/WASM), the web app experience feels so much smoother and cheaper than native apps. I d love to hear your thoughts: For simple utility startups, do you still

... pattern holds across all of them. The posts that converted best were rarely the ones with a CTA, because the earlier free work had already done the persuading. Simple test before you publish: if the post would still be worth reading with the last line deleted, it is not too salesy. Comment from Arnold Oshenye(@oshylabs): The thing that changed it for me was dropping every number from my own copy. I run a small housing tool and early drafts ... ... profile, pinned post then every comment you leave can be pure generosity with no pitch in it at all, and the profile does the selling. You stop sounding salesy because you've actually stopped selling in public. The ask still

... There is a point in every product's life where it crosses a threshold. The person who built it can still explain it. But the person who just joined cannot. The complexity is not in the code. It is in the context. The decisions that were made. The compromises that were accepted. The edge cases that were built around. The technical debt that was deferred. No one writes those down. They just become the way things are. The threshold ... ... documentation does not grow with it. New people join. They ask why things are the way they are. The answer is always "that is how it has always been." No one knows why. No one knows if it is still

... solo right now, as someone who can't write a backend from scratch. Two years ago that was a joke. So I'm curious about the makers here. If you build for a living, does it still feel like your craft, or like something else now? Loss or relief? Comment from Alexander Bickov(@bickov): @nevertoolateoriginal  Debugging a store rejection over permission strings in 14 languages is the most developer thing anyone did this week. The job was always about ... ... give way to something like Experience Builder or Product Expereince . Comment from Roopesh Donde(@roopesh_donde): @bickov  Yep, thats the approach I am following right now. Learning by building. Comment from Prashant Patil(@prashant_patil14): I think it still

... channel. So far it has: 349 guides around 690,000 words of original content 22 templates 16 investor lists 10 tool comparisons 5 free tools 1,732 visitors all-time 830 visitors in the last 30 days SEO is still early, and most of the newest pages are not even properly indexed yet. But this is already one of the more exciting parts for us because people land there with very specific intent. They are not searching random startup content ... ... place We reduced the price at one point because we wanted to lower friction and learn faster. Then we increased it back up because the product is too hands-on and too valuable to keep underpricing forever. I still

... gives the AI model the option to look at them rather than force-feeding the context in full, which gives you less control and subpar responses. I still don't know how to properly describe why someone would want to do that, and it matters less today with agents but it is still

... About to launch Lineage Lens 2.0 on Product Hunt and I keep hitting the same wall everyone repeats the same playbook (Tue Thu, 12:01am PT) but the advice is years old and I can't tell what still holds. So, asking the people who've actually done it recently: 1. 12:01am PT real edge still

... only conflict if you confuse passion for the idea with passion for the problem. Ideas are cheap and disposable. A problem you actually care about survives ten pivots. For me that problem was lifting. A decade in and still no tool that adapted training to recovery instead of just counting sets, so I built one. On the flat days the motivation is already there, because the problem is mine and I do not have to manufacture it. Pick a problem ... ... close enough that you would still

... What if nobody cares? What if we launch and nothing happens? On X, I often saw people saying Product Hunt is dead. That it doesn t bring traffic anymore. That launches don t matter like they used to. But still, I wanted to do it no matter what people are saying. Before this, I had launched own.page on smaller launchpads. And yes, they helped. They brought some users, some traffic, some attention. I m grateful for that. But honestly ... ... choose the day. We were deciding between Monday and Tuesday. In the end, we picked Monday because we wanted to avoid going directly against huge launches from companies like Claude or OpenAI. But even with that, the day was still

... Many people are still using good 'ol Gmail. It's comparable to the 1900s, when washing machines were first mass-produced. Even though there were good washing Machines that could save people 10 hours a week, some people still

... think yes - but only if it solves a real problem well enough that people actually care about the product. A lot of products are adding AI because they feel like they have to. But if the core workflow is still messy, confusing, or not that useful, AI does not fix the product. I m building PrepIt for coffee shop operations, and this is something I think about a lot. Maybe for some products, AI can be a real advantage ... ... others, clarity, reliability, and solving a very specific problem still