... most expensive hour of your day (GitHub + Slack + Calendar Notion) Every morning starts the same: check GitHub for what happened overnight, climb through Slack, glance at the calendar an hour gone before any real work starts. Hand the whole routine over. Connectors team up on a single task, and with a schedule attached, you don't even have to ask: "Every weekday at 8:55 check overnight GitHub activity and #product on Slack, cross-check today's calendar, and post ... ... most expensive hour of your day (GitHub + Slack + Calendar Notion) Every morning starts the same: check GitHub for what happened overnight, climb through Slack, glance at the calendar an hour gone before any real work starts. Hand the whole

... wall of charts and trusting people to be adults Right now I lean north star plus a rotating cast of supporting metrics, but I'm maybe 60% confident in that. If you had to pick one number your whole team sees every morning, what would it be, and how did you pick it? No matter what you pick, we just launched Basedash Subscriptions to make it easier for everyone on your team to keep on top of your core metrics ...

... 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 in 2026" is this: builders aren't looking for another feed. They're looking for a professional network that was actually designed, not just maintained. That's the gap forg.to is built to close. Here's why the gap exists ... ... front of an audience of people who actually build things not bots, not tire-kickers. Most launch platforms give a product one loud day and then let it disappear. Forg treats launch day as chapter one, not the whole

... about a year we sold a suite. Six or seven modules, and we would walk buyers through the whole catalogue. Outreach sat in there as the entry item, the cheap one, the thing you would add on at the end. We were also running it on ourselves, because we needed meetings and had no budget for them. It was the only module getting daily use by anyone, including us. Took us embarrassingly long to notice what that meant. We killed ...

... barely in the room for it. I wrote the paragraph that started it. Then I tapped a button a few times over three days once at dinner, once from my phone, once from bed and the whole thing showed up as a single pull request against main. The agent did the engineering. I never read a diff. I never touched my keyboard for it after the first sentence. That is not how handing a big feature ... ... agent shreds that story into implementation tickets and works them one at a time. This is  its  altitude. I never open one. I never name a function. I never see a branch. That line is the whole

... China and California both moved to rein in AI companion apps this month and the whole debate hinges on a question most builders never ask: what happens when the user closes your app? Two weeks ago, on July 15, China rolled out rules specifically aimed at curbing emotional dependence on AI companion bots. Platforms now have to detect distress, intervene in a crisis, cap excessive use, and hand users real control over their data. California, meanwhile, became the first ... ... inside your app if they can only feel understood while they're talking to your model you haven't solved loneliness. You've made it more comfortable to stay lonely. You've built a very sophisticated waiting room. The alternative

... 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

... sharing what I've been building. I'm Karthik, and I ran a performance-marketing agency for years. The most-repeated task was always the same: study competitors' winning ads, then rebuild what's working into on-brand creative for my own brand. It was slow and scattered across ad-spy tools, spreadsheets, designers and AI image tools that don't know your brand. So I built Klipio to do the whole

... believe that when launching a product on Product Hunt, you should focus on one main feature and two supporting features that help bring the whole idea together. When I see a new product with too many features and the whole

... client needs a performance report, so you open five tools, screenshot the numbers, paste them into Google Slides, and spend two hours making it look like you didn't just paste screenshots into Google Slides. We just made that whole process unnecessary. Artifacts by Databox lets you turn any Genie conversation into a polished, shareable document. Ask for a report, a slide deck, or even an interactive calculator, and Genie builds it on the spot, pulling live numbers straight from ... ... scratch every cycle. Share it with a public link, no login needed for whoever's on the other end. Download it as a PDF. Or just ask Genie to turn it into a different format, and it rebuilds the whole

... goal: if you want raw eyeballs go Tue-Thu, but for a badge/ranking with a modest following a weekend can punch above its weight. Comment from Sabber Ahamed(@sabber_ahamed): @busmark_w_nika   @abdullah_javaid3  the invitation vs favor framing is the most useful line in this whole

... median points needed to break the top 5 and top 10 on each day. Check the full report here: https://app.databox.com/shared/a... The short version: Saturday is the easiest day. Only 266 median points to crack top 5, vs 360 on Wednesday. That's a 35% harder climb on the worst day vs

... keep flip-flopping between two setups that both feel wrong. Setup 1, babysit: I watch every command and approve everything myself. Nothing slips past me, but I'm stuck at the terminal and the whole point of running an agent is gone. I might as well be typing it myself. Setup 2, let it rip: auto-approve, skip permissions, go do other work. Faster in theory. Except I come back to one of three things. It finished 30 minutes ... ... Comment from Aadil Ghani(@aadilghani): @virko_kask   This made my day, partly because you actually went and rebuilt the thing, and partly because "a file cannot tap my shoulder" is the cleanest one-line version of this whole

... Solo builder here, using Cursor + Claude Code as basically my whole engineering team. Six months in I still don't have a good instinct for this: some days I let it just run with a whole

... worked for me: shipping what people actually ask for, in public. Someone commented on my launch asking for a way to bookmark content to find it again later built it, replied back once it shipped. That's the whole pitch, no push needed. Feels less like promotion and more like closing the loop with someone who cared enough to ask. Comment from Yousuf(@yousuf_x7): Honestly still figuring this out myself. What's helped a bit: talking about the problem ... ... think "salesy" isn't really about word choice it's about whether you're answering something someone asked, or interrupting something they weren't asking about. Curious if others have found the line shifts once you have actual users vs

... your disk is the trust boundary." instead there's opt in at rest encryption on the local store one switch, pointed at a passphrase you hold (env var or OS keychain, never written to config) and the whole local store is encrypted, both layers, not just the 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 ... ... store refuses to open, never a silent fallback to plaintext. scope gating: per client. MCP access is by scoped token; hand an agent a token bound to a specific session (or set), and it can't widen to the whole

... hurts. Here you're spot on: name it plainly and you've half-sold it. "Formatting slides for the third time" everyone winces, instantly bought. Latent problems real and expensive, but the user hasn't hit it yet. (My whole field is one of these: nobody feels their compliance gap until the complaint lands.) You can't lead with the problem, because no one's nodding along yet so you attach it to a felt problem, or lead with ... ... exactly the right swap! It's the same trap in enterprise IT and in most launches here, just dressed differently (feature list vs

... verified AI disclosure. others will not. over time the receipts with agent transparency outperform on credibility because the alternative (resumes claiming pure human work that we all know used AI) has already lost its signal. the platform does not force the choice. it lets the market price it. Comment from Mustafa Arian(@thenameisarian): TAM Network. an AI-native alternative

... launching @Velo , we noticed something interesting. People weren't using it alone. They'd clone a voice, generate a few videos, then immediately ask: "Can my co-founder use this too?" "Can my editor access these assets?" "Can the whole team share credits?" At first, we thought they were edge cases. They weren't. The more people used Velo, the more obvious it became that content creation wasn't an individual workflow anymore. The AI could move at incredible speed ... ... last month, that's what we've been focused on. Today we're rolling out Velo for Teams Shared workspaces for brand kits, resources, and pooled credits Clone your voice and face once, then make them available to the whole

... blocks), and mixed responses where both appear together. It covers Aider, Cline, Continue, Copilot CLI, Goose, Windsurf, and any OpenAI-compatible backend Azure, groq, fireworks, mistral, together.ai . The hardest design decision was not the parsing. It was fail-open vs. fail-safe. If capture logic throws an error, do you surface it (fail-safe) or swallow it and pass through (fail-open)? We chose fail-open. A proxy that occasionally interrupts a developer's coding session gets uninstalled. Governance with ... ... retention rate is strictly worse than governance with 95% retention. The payoff: once your whole

... both content and   product work.   2. Google Search Console I basically live in it. For anything SEO, it's the only honest source of truth   about what's actually happening vs. what I assume is happening.   3. Ahrefs keyword and competitor

... winning comment: "Make the AI a wildly overconfident conspiracy theorist playing Minecraft every normal thing gets an increasingly ridiculous theory. No breaking character." So I typed that personality in and Wallie became it. Fully committed, zero breaks, the whole run: Villagers? Government agents, obviously. Creepers? Surveillance drones sent to watch him. The Ender Dragon? Final boss of a secret underground organization. A normal sunset? "They're testing the lighting system on us." The unhinged confidence is the part that kills ... ... never once doubts itself. But here's the actual point and why this whole

... Live traffic, one click away . The menu bar popover now charts your Mac's download and upload over the last minute a filled curve for down, a line for up, live readouts next to them. It samples for the whole life of the app, so the chart opens already full of history. No setup, no special permissions. Custom ports . The security scanner has always walked a curated catalog of well-known ports. Now you can extend it: add your ...

... point it at agents that act in the world. Aadil does Pushary let you gate specifically on irreversibility (this step touches the outside world always ask) vs gate-everything? That selective ask is the whole

... level ( PRs / owner/repo#NN / Files / path/to/file) and the visible key hints narrow to what actually works there. You never see f inspect while already inside the inspect surface. Free hint visibility refactor. Every key-hint line across the whole app drill-in title bars, sub-view footers, list-tab footers, action menu, settings panel, global footer now follows the same convention every TUI in this neighbourhood already uses (lazygit, k9s, gh-dash, ranger): emphasise the key over the label. Keys ... ... drill into next. Side-by-side diff view? Ignore-whitespace toggle? Per-file folding? Let me know the v0.11.0 thread shaped this release, the v0.12.0 thread will shape the next one. Thanks again @sk_uxpin your comment kicked this whole