... create real value for people, right? What s even more interesting is that research shows the most adopted agents right now are coding agents and web-scraping agents, and their target audience is mostly developers and creators. Yep, it s pretty much the same group that s building them. The ecosystem is basically self-producing and self-consuming. And the truth is, most normal users don t even know the difference between an Agent, a Generative App, or a Chat ... ... still alien to them. After digging deep, I realized low adoption probably isn t because agents suck. I ve tried a lot of open-source agents that are actually useful. The real issue is understanding, delivery, and the reliability vs

... founder. It s all the same essence - but the words and framing shift depending on who I m talking to, and why they might care. Pitch With Context Once you know who they are, add some relevance. Yep, that means doing a bit more homework. If I m pitching a journalist, I read their recent stories. I might write: Hey [Name], I saw you covered [similar startup]. We re tackling the same space but from a fresh angle - mind ... ... everything. If you re selling luxury in a downturn, you re not reading the room. Here s what a great cold pitch looks like for me right now: Hey Dan, saw you founded Meet-Ting. I assume your biggest competitor

... 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 David Bernard(@david_bernard4): After several years of VSCode

... worry about monthly bills adding up, especially for early tools that might not be part of my everyday stack yet , but show a lot of potential. Plus, as a user, it creates this weirdly satisfying feeling of ownership. Like Yep, this is mine now. Of course, I get why subscriptions exist too, they help keep products sustainable and support ongoing development and as a founder myself, in most cases I would prefer using subscriptions, because it is more predictable. Curious ...