... brush roll. Here's the pattern I kept running into: two vacuums with basically identical suction numbers on paper perform completely differently after a few weeks of real use. The reason isn't the motor, it's hair wrap. Long hair (human or pet) catches on a standard bristle brush roll, tightens with every rotation, and eventually chokes the motor or just stops the roller from spinning properly. At that point it doesn't matter how strong the suction spec ... ... machine physically can't clean anymore until you cut the hair off manually. It's kind of a classic "spec sheet vs

... 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

... agent could fetch on a user's behalf. The entire point is a person sitting with their own thoughts for ten minutes the slowness, the privacy, the fact that it's them doing it and not a delegate. Wrap that in a tool call and you've automated away the only thing that was working. Some products are a step in someone's workflow. Some products are the place the workflow was trying to get them to. Those are different ... ... destination? If the value is a result someone wants and doesn't care how they got an action then being agent-callable is close to free distribution and you should be looking hard at it before your competitor

... 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 ... ... Facebook of Professional Networks Facebook's core layout hasn't fundamentally changed in over a decade. A vertical feed of text and photos from people you loosely know, interrupted by ads, sorted by an algorithm you don't control, wrapped

... Monday, and I've been thinking about something odd: most teams obsess over Friday wrap-ups and weekly reports, but almost nobody pays attention to how Monday actually starts. In my own experience, the first signal of the week (a late start, a skipped update, a sudden scramble to catch up) often tells you more than any Friday report does, just nobody's usually looking for it that early. Genuine Monday question for this community: Do you pay more attention ...

... decades. So no foundation model has ever seen it. This isn't something a bigger crawler or a longer context window fixes; the data simply isn't out there. Which is why general-purpose LLMs, and the startup products wrapped built on them, fail at real B2B problems. It doesn't just get the method wrong. It doesn't know the method exists. And even if was trained on the method, it needs to know how to apply which requires ... ... expertise from big tech, strategy consultancies, and unicorns, systematically cleaned, audited, and structured. The neural layer handles nuance and language. Neither layer works alone. What that means in practice: on rule-bound queries we run at roughly 10% hallucination versus

... Compliance: Every allowed/blocked action is signed (ed25519) and written to a tamper-proof Merkle append-log so enterprise teams have a cryptographic audit trail. It's model-agnostic and works with Node, Python, LangGraph, and Claude Code. You can wrap your dangerous tools in about 3 lines of code. Who it's for: Devs/Platform teams deploying autonomous agents with access to prod systems who need to get past their AppSec/CISO review. It's free to test right now. Would love ... ... tear it apart and give me feedback on the architecture. Live app & docs: https://relay-security-lemon.ver... What do you guys think about the "deterministic vs

... Setup (Literally 60 Seconds) pip install copium-ai copium wrap claude That is it. Two commands. Now every Claude Code request routes through a local compression proxy before hitting the API. My prompts get 40-80% smaller. Same answers come back. Where My Tokens Were Going I ran copium stats --period month after the first week and saw the breakdown: Category Tokens/Day (Before) Tokens/Day (After) Savings File reads (duplicates) 180K 12K 93% Tool outputs (JSON) 320K 64K 80% Build logs ... ... file reads, fewer redundant tool calls, fewer wasted output tokens on re-doing work. Does Quality Actually Stay the Same? I was skeptical too. Here is what I measured over 4 weeks: Code that compiles first try: 78% (before) vs

... rows." We support 10+ dialects (Postgres, MySQL, BigQuery, Snowflake, Athena, SQL Server, Spanner, and friends), and every query gets paginated because we can't stream a 12M row result set to a browser. For years the approach was wrap-and-pray. Take whatever the user wrote, stuff it in a subquery, slap pagination on the outside: SELECT * FROM ( -- whatever the user wrote ) AS t LIMIT 100 OFFSET 200; The nice thing about this is the query stays opaque ... ... asked for. And if the user already wrote their own LIMIT, page 2 came back empty. So we ended up with a pile of provider-specific overrides taped onto a leaky abstraction. The fix was to parse instead of wrap

... SaaS (software as a service) dedicated solely to custom automotive shops. Traditional shops which perform vehicle maintenance (engine work, tires, tune ups, oil changes) already have a few automated products like BayPilot. The custom automotive shops who apply vinyl wraps, window tint, lift kits, audio/electronic installations, custom paint jobs, specialized modifications, etc., were never covered. That s where BayPilot comes in. We offer custom shop owners a product that is sent via web link to their customers when contacted ... ... with pen and paper, jotting down customer and vehicle information, then rushing to get a quote put together keeping the potential customer in limbo - who most likely goes to the fastest quote. We offer a quote in 30 seconds vs

... 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

... real conversation beats a pile of silent upvotes. 4. Show up and reply to everyone, fast, like a human. The thing I underestimated until recently: how much the boring prep (assets, audience, a tight story) decides the day vs the launch-day scramble. Comment from Margarita Shvetsova(@margarita_s88): This topic is always relevant and interesting to discuss :) today is my 4th launch, and I'd like to add my insights to this thread: 1. Hunter vs

... Last week, @Kilo Code launched for the fourth time on Product Hunt, introducing a new VS Code extension. The product ranked #1 Product of the Day and #1 Product of the Week. I had the opportunity to work on this launch . Here's a breakdown of what we did and how to apply it to your launch. TL,DR Keep the tagline relatable to your audience Show the product in your image gallery Engage with the community thoughtfully Reverse-engineering ... ... display ad campaign. The objective is to keep the momentum going. Stay curious! How to apply this to your launch Keep the tagline relatable to your audience Show the product in your image gallery Engage with the community thoughtfully Wrapping

... Goals across six life areas, so growth isn't just about career Daily Journal with mood tracking and AI-powered reflection analysis Manifest : vision boarding, affirmations, and scripting journal Quarterly Reflect : an AI-narrated review of your progress Year Wrapped : a Spotify Wrapped

... makes sense to separate the founder from the product ? Comment from Mickael Chiron(@hivin): Good point, personal brand helps early traction, but it can also bias feedback and hide product flaws. Maybe the real question is less brand vs product and more how to get honest users early without distortion. Have you seen cases where strong founder visibility actually blocked real feedback? Comment from Jinji Huang(@jinji_huang): I lean toward a hybrid, with the product doing the first ... ... doesn t need a savior complex Comment from B ra eker(@busra_seker1): @tonyspiro  Attention can bring the first users but the product still has to earn trust after that. Comment from Sourav Mahapatra(@sourav_mahapatra1): The framing 'before vs

... been building my app for 8 months now, and i ended up having 5 repositories nextjs app databases customer facing API node-sdk that wraps the api react-sdk, for both reusing shared component and customer facing components So i thought, it's gonna be great if i create a mono repo with submodules. But it was terrible. I realized that turborepo does not like external packages, and as i tried to reuse my own customer facing libs ... ... dependency graph. For those shipping SDKs: do you find that keeping the SDK code in the same monorepo helps the AI write better integration tests, or does it get confused by the different environments (e.g., std for SDK vs

... hurt early-stage founders. When you are in the early stage, you already doubt yourself enough. You are building, fixing, testing, trying to get users, trying to stay alive. Then you open LinkedIn, X, or founder communities and see competitors posting MRR screenshots, traffic spikes, and growth wins nonstop. And if you do not have built-in credibility, it hits even harder. You are not ex-Google. You are not YC-backed. You do not already have a huge audience ... ... sometimes the answer is no. Sometimes your product is actually better. Sometimes your users are happier. Sometimes your direction is stronger. But the other company is just better at turning random things into a growth story. We saw a competitor

... engineers and agents touching production systems, terrifying. MCP creates a permission boundary that CLIs don't have. The spec mandates OAuth 2.1 for remote servers. You get user-level consent, token expiry, scoped access, audit trails. The CLI alternative is API keys in environment variables. Yikes. Even the projects being held up as proof that MCP lost tell the opposite story. Perplexity still runs an MCP server for developers. Their new Agent API is basically a managed MCP gateway with ... ... ClawHub, runs on MCP servers underneath. Cloudflare's Code Mode, framed as the "MCP killer," literally uses MCP's discovery layer to find tools before converting them to a typed API. These projects didn't abandon the protocol. They wrapped

... Solo builder here, won't say much about the product yet but happy to talk shop on the plumbing. Quick version of what I'd tell my past self: Auth - Supabase, Clerk, Auth0, pick one. An afternoon of setup vs. days of building it badly. I tried the days version first, do not recommend. Permissions - this is the sneaky one. Most people check "can this user see this?" in their app code. Way better to push the rule into ... ... tattoos or mockups) Tech-wise I m using: Flutter for the mobile app Firebase (Firestore + functions) OpenAI + Replicate for image generation (testing multiple models right now like DreamShaper, Flux, Ideogram) Biggest challenge so far has been balancing quality vs

... milestone: 300 points @Kilo Code  still is #1 Product of the Day and just reached 300 points. 07:00:AM:PST - new milestone: 331 points When @Kilo Code first launched their @VS Code extension on Product Hunt about a year ago , they got 330 points. They just surpassed it. Product Hunt is about consistency. Launch, and keep launching. 09:39:AM:PST - new milestone: 400 points Currently #1 Product of the Day, @Kilo Code just reached 400 points. They ... ... milestone: 600 points Product Hunt is a 24-hour run! #1 Product of the Day, @Kilo Code  just reached 600 points. 12:00:AM:PST - wrapping

... there s always hope you should never give up on shipping. This is my first time hitting the #1 spot, and it feels incredible. The Stats & The Community In just 24 hours, 49 makers have already generated their Wrapped! Seeing your journeys visualized is exactly why I built this. I want to give a massive shoutout to @jesv and @zaczuo for supporting the project and giving me the advice I needed to navigate a successful launch. And most importantly ... ... Banger" This app isn't going anywhere. I ve officially launched a Public Roadmap here: product-hunt-wrapped.vercel.app/roadmap I want to invite you to submit your ideas for next year. I m already planning Product Hunt Wrapped

... also get bandmates to collaborate and put timestamped comments on the waveform, which has saved me from Whatsapp scrolling. There's also a feature on it where you can invite fans, friends, and family to vote on your alternative mixes, which is useful when deciding which track version to release. I'm still at testing stage with it and once I'm happy with it I'll likely wrap

... launched 10 products or spent the year supporting others, the hustle was real. I ve always felt that the "end-of-year" data on PH is a bit hidden, so I spent the last few days building Product Hunt Wrapped 2025 . I wanted to give us all a cinematic way to see: Your Global Rank (calculated based on your activity) Your Maker Persona (Are you a "Blitzscaler" or a "Community Pillar"?) Your 2025 Growth stats in a shareable card. Check ...

... wrapping up 2025, what are the best dev tools launched on Product Hunt this year in your opinion? Dropping here some of my favorite, most inspiring dev-first product launches, in no particular order: @v0 by Vercel - Runner-up in 2023 , the v0 team is back. They launched twice this year, introducing v0 for iOS , ranked #1 Product of the Day. @Cursor - The 2024 Product of the Year still hits the charts. This year, they launched 5 times , introduced ... ... localization engine (YC F24) launched on Product Hunt last February and crushed it: #2 Product of the Day, #1 Developer Tool of the Week, #1 Developer Tool of the Month. @Appwrite - Launched Sites , the "open-source Vercel alternative

... Community! As we wrap up the year, I ve been looking back at the sheer amount of shipping that happened on this platform in 2025. It s been an incredible year for builders. I wanted to give everyone a cinematic way to celebrate their journey, so I built Product Hunt Wrapped