... Hello everyone - we ve been really quiet recently... ...that s because, after a wild 18 months, we re completing a private sale of Ting and closing the company. To wrap it up, I thought what better than a full-colour, HD play-by-play (or blow-by-blow) of those 18 months. How we got so much right and still got it wrong . To everyone who upvoted and supported us along the way: it meant more than you ll know ... ... market: I speak Portuguese, Mariana is Portuguese and my wife is Brazilian. We ran a test in Portuguese. We recruited 100s of Brazilian users in three weeks, mainly thanks to Ting on WhatsApp. IYKYK . December Based on competitors

... return the favour: I honestly didn't imagine a launch where we'd have a customer registering every couple minutes - or that I'd spend part of it exchanging comments with one of the world's most popular YouTubers. Wild week. I replied to every comment on our launch - solo builders, CTOs, investors all interested in the same problem from different angles. Here is how it started in February: Prelint exists because of one code change. An agent ignored ... ... carelessness. They violate it because it was never written anywhere they could read. Mart n's point about making it structurally hard to bypass the source of truth is right, and I don't think it's an alternative

... expression parser - Two SQL formatters (because one doesn't do BigQuery) Every single one has ads. Half of them upload my data to "the cloud" for a task that's literally 3 lines of JavaScript. Here's what's wild I've been doing this for 8+ years. Every dev I know does this. We just accept it. So I wanted to ask the PH community: 1. What's the ONE utility tool tab you can never close? 2. Have ... ... these tools into one keyboard shortcut ( K style), which 5 would they be? Genuinely curious what your daily "utility stack" looks like I've been building something in this space and the patterns I'm seeing are wild

... nika): @abidhusain  I am curious when you will launch. Once you are ready, I will gladly upvote. :) Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @abidhusain  When you describe it like this, it sounds complex. Does it have any competitors at all? Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @abidhusain  What is your tool about? What does it do? :) And does it have your first initial testers? Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @buildtheweb1  Thank you so much ... ... nika): @dinocorreia  I was the very first user of my tool (because the problem happened to me) :) Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @dinocorreia  To be honest, for now, I was able to find only one competitor

... messages, according to research from email management company Superhuman. That means one in three people trying to "connect" with you are actually trying to sell you something. Recruitment spam is worse. You will receive messages for roles you are wildly unqualified for, roles that require seven years of experience in a three-year-old framework, roles where the salary range is "competitive" (which means they will not tell you), and roles that list seventeen required skills for what is clearly ... ... what the actual job entails. Developers have noticed. Only 12% of developers use LinkedIn as their main source of technical information, according to a Stack Overflow survey. Most are on the platform purely because they feel they have no alternative

... different words. You caught a "sale" that was just the normal price dressed up, sometimes sitting at that level for three months straight. That is the exact moment we built Dupely for, and watching it happen in the wild today made our week. What you are asking most By a wide margin, the top question is how DupeScore actually decides two listings are the same product and not just similar, especially when a seller changes the bundle size, repackages ... ... where it is today because of customer feedback. We soft launched our alpha version in January and beta in march. The product today is vastly different then where it was in January and I anticipate it will look wildly

... each bad hire costs over 200k. must have problem for HR. three. the 92 percent of work that linkedin never covered. plumbers, nurses, electricians have never had a portable record. that is the most must have segment because the alternative is no record at all. when receipts replace resumes, all three solve at once. that is the wedge. @anna_ludwinowski   Comment from Anders T.(@atherkildsen): @anna_ludwinowski   Comment from Anders T.(@atherkildsen ... ... more than any UI polish did. So yeah, I d say naming the problem is the actual unlock. The demo just has to not get in the way of it. Comment from Viraj Parab(@viraj_parab): StartupHQ to organize competitor

... those industry-wide trust problems nobody talks about directly. Solo and 4 weeks in is no joke. My honest take on your free-tool-vs-dealer question: go free users first, dealers convert better once they see real listings already using it and trust the tool from seeing it in the wild

... Cursor: coding Supabase: backend and auth Vercel: hosting GitHub: version control Google Search Console: SEO Campix: my own project, camp software, yes I'm biased Comment from Hans Desjarlais(@ismaelyws): Gmail Calendly Claude Code Google Docs & Sheets VS Code Comment from Bill Davis(@billspaced): @nolan_vu  Slack, not because I love it but because everything dies without it. YESSSSSSSSSSSSS Comment from Bill Davis(@billspaced): @riya_pariyar   @benfleming   @asapx  same question... never heard ... ... solo founder, these are the five tools I use almost every day: ChatGPT VS

... here. Vercel Day is live today on Product Hunt. 750+ products launched with the vercel-day tag everything from AI coding tools to desktop assistants to one app that simulates fMRI data on your pitch deck. The range is wild. The best ones are in the running for a direct pitch to Vercel Ventures and $30k in Vercel credits. Voting is open all day and the top of the board is already moving. Go explore, find the ones worth backing ... ... there a calendar of upcoming theme days somewhere. we are 52 days out from launching TAM Network v2 on aug 12 and would love to align the launch to a theme day if there is one that fits. an alternative

... actual insight, and it's bigger than it looks: making the notification say why it's waiting is what turns a ping into a triage. "Done" makes you tab back to find out what "done" means. "Needs approval vs finished vs

... your disk. No accounts, no cloud sync, no telemetry. If Folio disappears tomorrow, your manuscript is still just a folder of `.md` files. What v0.1.9 brings: - Panel-visibility settings (hide/show inspector, plan, AI panels per project) - Split IDE-wide vs. book-scoped settings (theme/font global, status flow per book) - Plan timeline + beats improvements for outliners - Smaller polish: status bar cleanup, settings gear moved out of the way The bigger picture (in case you're new to it): - Codex / world-bible ... ... Auto-snapshots chapter history, restore previous states. What I'd genuinely like input on: I'm wrestling with how prescriptive the "manuscript format" export should be. Right now it's opinionated (Shunn-ish defaults), but writers querying agents have wildly

... Most devs I talk to are quietly overpaying AWS or GCP. Not by a little but by a lot. We've been building Huddle01 Cloud for a while now and honestly, the pricing difference is wild. Same bare-metal performance, global edge infrastructure with sub-100ms latency, no egress fees, no hidden markups. What's everyone paying for cloud compute right now? Curious if others have found good alternatives

... matters more than you'd think: An algorithm tuned for 25-year-old athletes gives bad scores to 65-year-old cardiac rehab patients Sleep scores built for monophasic sleepers break for shift workers HRV baselines vary wildly between populations With Open Wearables every algorithm is open. Read the code. Fork it. Adjust thresholds for your specific users. Building for clinical? Your medical team can verify every line. Should health algorithms be auditable by default? Curious what you all think ... ... Thami Benjelloun(@thamibenjelloun): Been on Whoop for almost 2 years now, and honestly at this point I can predict my recovery score most mornings before I even check Which probably says something about how personalized these models actually are vs

... yourself! Tl;dr - one is not better than the other. The key is leaning into your own personality and going for what works for you. Comment from Jeffery(@new_user___1102026a5df18af33327f5c): Fr, it s wild how stans don't even care if a product is mid. They ll buy anything just 'cause their fave is the face of the brand. It s lowkey confusing tbh. Like, people are actually buying out whole movie screenings and dropping serious bags just ... ... marketing. Comment from Ghost Kitty(@ghost-kitty-9755974): Comment Deleted Comment from Mustafa Arian(@thenameisarian): we did both. shipped the v1 with 22 real humans then started building the brand around the thesis. building TAM Network. an alternative

... month ago we launched Contral on Product Hunt and hit #1 Product of the Week. Here's what happened since. 500+ developers downloaded the beta. We didn't expect that number this early honestly. The feedback has been wild, some stuff we expected people to love (the teaching layer) and some stuff we didn't expect at all (Defense Mode became the most talked about feature by far, people genuinely love being quizzed on their own code which was surprising ... ... from Leon Jakob Kastelic(@kastelicjakob): Really interesting that Defense Mode became the breakout future... Says a lot about how people actually want to learn. Have you seen any patterns in when developers engage with it? (like after writing code vs

... designed to coordinate multiple parts of the GrowHouse ecosystem at once. 1. Reduce reward pressure during stress If the ecosystem is under strain, Blaze can reduce output pressure in bounded ways instead of letting emissions or claim pressure run wild. That can include things like: slowing certain reward lanes increasing friction on overactive loops easing the speed of extraction reducing harvesting efficiency during stressed conditions temporarily hardening resource generation when volatility is elevated This is not punishment. It is pressure ... ... places. That can mean: raising certain upgrade or feed costs softening payout tempo slowing conversion cadence tightening cooldown windows increasing world friction in overheated lanes The important part is that these moves happen inside approved bounds, not wild

... Last month, I did something that felt slightly insane. I took our product description, fed it into ChatGPT, and asked it to build a competitor. Not a parody. A real competitor

... just being another tool? One thing I've noticed from early feedback is people using it differently than I expected. Some folks are treating it like a QA tool, others are building design docs with it. That's wild to me and honestly way more interesting than what we initially built for. So here's what I want to know - what's your workflow with ClickSay? Are there features you wish it had? And be real about it - if something ...

... reach for the stars like the many great PH Makers before us. Every upvote, comment, and review helps us get there. If you ve tried Honestly, glanced at our website, or just thought we had a wild launch story, we d love your feedback on our Product Hunt page :) Oh and if you hit bugs, have ideas, want to connect, or just feel the need to tell us we re crazy for forgetting our launch date, please don t hesitate ... ... result. Comment from Arun Tamang(@arun_tamang): Curious how much of that early traction translated into actual usage, considering the bugs and broken flows. It s a strong signal either way, but the difference between people checking it out vs

... conversion or churn for Premium features by 7 days. I m at a cross road of likely ripping the trial out in favor of just letting it rip . I m very curious whether others have struggled with free trial versus freemium and whether doing both is a bad idea (I m leaning towards that being a yes by the way). I also wonder if we are giving away too much for free and should be feature gating more. The challenge ... ... then shifts from a pricing perspective vs

... Nobody talks honestly about what faceless YouTube channels actually cost to run. So here's a real breakdown. Monthly costs for a 2-video/week channel: Voiceover (the biggest variable): Hiring a narrator: $50-200 per video (varies wildly by length and quality) Cloud AI TTS (ElevenLabs, Murf, etc.): $22-99/mo depending on character limits Self-recording: $0, but 2-4 hours per video for scripting + recording + editing takes Local AI TTS tools: $0-30/mo one-time, unlimited after ... ... Premium: $300-500/mo The voiceover line item is where most channels overspend or underspend. Cheap voice = viewers click away. Expensive voice = margins disappear. What's your monthly spend on a faceless channel? And where do you splurge vs

... Save it and AI auto-names, tags, and files it for you no more Screenshot_final_v2_REAL.png Create your own categories the AI learns YOUR system, not some generic one "That meme I saved last Tuesday" found it. Semantic search is wild. Everything runs 100% locally on your Mac. No cloud. No login. No creepy data collection. The fun part? We built the ENTIRE thing with Claude Code in 5 days product, design, architecture, code, CI/CD, even these marketing posts . One human ... ... full product team energy. Free. Open source. MIT licensed. Go wild

... input support (multimodal) - Local Speech-to-Text (STT) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) for fully hands-free use - 20+ built-in AI prompt templates (resume writing, coding, brainstorming, etc.) - Full inference controls: Temperature, Max Tokens, Top-K/Top-P The Wild Part: Phone Automation Agent I added an experimental Accessibility Service agent that lets the offline LLM control your phone. It can read your screen's UI hierarchy, tap buttons, swipe, type, and navigate no cloud required. "Open Settings and turn ... ... 31MB size is a huge advantage . Most people assume local LLM = heavy and slow. You re breaking that assumption. The phone automation agent is probably your most underrated feature. If it becomes reliable, that s a real differentiator vs

... developer. My "co-founder" is AI. It wrote 90% of the code. Although it was expensive, I used OpenClaw + Codex + Opus. The hardest part wasn't the tech it was staying focused on what actually matters to users vs. what I thought mattered and looked cool lol Happy to hop on a call! Comment from Monk Mode(@ranvir_singh12): Building TokenBar (tokenbar.site) - a native macOS menu bar app that tracks your AI spending across 20+ providers in real time. Stack ... ... along with making coding easier/accessible for everyone). And currently, I'm the guy who likes to move fast. I'll sign up for a time slot! Comment from Vihaan Kodiganti(@vsync_66): Hi... I'm building LeoIgnite AI, an alternative