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I ve been thinking about this a lot lately.

For Second Brain, the answer was clear: the setup. Terminal. Git. Cloudflare configuration. People wanted to try it but the friction was too high.

Prelint is live on Product Hunt today!

We'd really appreciate your support. If you have a moment, please check it out and share your thoughts.

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There s a lot of ways to block ads on your iPhone.

However for effective ad blocking without creating more problems than it solves requires you to understand how each ad blocking method works, where it may block ads, and the trade-offs to consider.

A faster, more capable way to plan trips, alongside Apple Intelligence.

AI is a great, cheap foundation we can all agree on that (depending on token usage, of course).

When you re building your first product, and you re not sure if it will work and earn money, the obvious goal is to keep costs as low as possible and avoid burning money early on.

This release came out of the issues, the bug reports, and in a few cases other people's code.

The main change: you decide how your brain remembers now, not us. Seven controls in a settings window, in plain English rather than variable names. How much recent memories outrank older ones. What counts as a duplicate. How far to follow connections. Three options each, with an honest note about the tradeoff. Changes apply to your next search. No redeploy.

When I first started speaking with founders, I thought my job was to explain my product.

I quickly realized that wasn't what people wanted.

The best conversations happened when I spent most of the call asking questions instead of giving answers.

Sometimes a 30-minute call would end without a demo because I learned something that completely changed how I thought about the problem.

I spend a lot of time on the investor side of the table, and the thing that surprises me most isn't bad decks. It's good founders following bad advice with total confidence. Someone they trust told them to do it, so they don't question it. Then they watch a raise stall and never connect it back to the "tip."

A few I run into constantly, and what I think actually works instead:

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It's 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.

A few days ago I commented on Flo s discussion about confidential transfers and AI agents:

https://www.producthunt.com/p/so...

The conversation wasn t about adding another blockchain. It was about something simpler: if an AI agent is spending my money, I want guardrails and visibility.

OpenBox.ai is live on Product Hunt today with major product updates!

We ve expanded OpenBox from a runtime governance layer into a framework-agnostic control layer that teams can use across their existing AI agent stack.

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8+ integrations with Temporal, LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, Mastra, Deep Agents, CopilotKit, and n8n

you guys wanted it,

tomorrow, Hermes agent is coming in Murmell.

Any last advice before we go live?

From your experience building or using tools:

what usually makes a launch actually work and not just go live ?

would love to hear real lessons

Spent more time on the "no sign up needed" part of my site than on any actual feature. Not because it was technically hard, it's the absence of something, which should be easy. It's because every shortcut that makes onboarding faster quietly wants an email, a login, a "just to save your results." Fighting that instinct at every step took longer than building the thing people actually came for.

Nobody's going to comment on it. Nobody screenshots "wow, no signup wall." It just quietly removes the one moment where someone almost leaves. That's the part I think gets underweighted when people plan builds, the effort spent on friction you're removing never shows up as a feature anyone can point to, but it's often the difference between someone actually using the thing and someone bouncing in the first ten seconds.

Curious if others have a version of this, something that took real effort specifically because it was invisible by design. What's the thing in your product nobody will ever thank you for, that you know mattered anyway?

Hey PH We're Baptiste & Samuel, and next week we're launching Capacity Desktop a free Mac app that turns plain English into real apps, built and stored on your machine.

The bet everyone tells us is wrong: move away from credits system. You plug in your own Claude / GPT / Open Router key and pay your provider at cost. Our take is that you feel the credits system is unfair, you never know what a failed fix loop just cost you, and you feel the tool profits from your retries.

I checked Google Search Console for my site. I wanted to know which of my twelve guide pages were bringing people in. None of them were.

The site got 87 clicks in 90 days. My brand name by itself was 56% of them. Most of the rest were people spelling my brand name wrong. Searches that had nothing to do with my name showed up three times in total.

So no new people are finding the site. Everyone who arrives already knew the name before they searched. I had been looking at those clicks and calling it growth. It was not.

I decided the fix was longer and more useful guides. Each one was about 450 words. They are now about 1,000. This time I checked real keyword data first, instead of guessing what people search for.

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Most people don't realize this: you no longer need to know JavaScript to build a Chrome extension.

With PlugThis, you describe what you want your browser to do and it builds a real, installable extension for you.

Here's what that actually unlocks

Since launch, the most common first project hasn't been what I expected. I assumed smart home sensors. It's 3D printers.

The pattern: an ESP32 wired to the printer, one HTTP POST when the print finishes, a notification on the phone at 2am. Total firmware footprint is about a dozen lines, and the sketch is in our public examples repo.

A few other builds that came through the delivery logs and community submissions:

A garage door that complains after ten minutes open. A mailbox with a magnetic contact switch that pings when real mail arrives.

Quick context for those new here: Agently is a company brain your agents actually run on. You connect your tools, it builds one shared memory of how your company works, and the agents do the work on top of it. Not a chatbot. Something that compounds.

We're early. Two private cohort betas so far, and we're opened the public beta with our PH launch. The people who matter most to us right now are the ones already inside it.

So if you've tried Agently, come say hi. We wanna know:

• What's the first thing you handed off to it?

• What surprised you, good or bad?

• What's still missing that would make you use it every day?

AI agents don t need to become smarter. They need to stop working alone.

Everyone is talking about AI agents as if the future is:

Give an agent a task wait get the result.

But creative work doesn t happen like that.

I mainly follow the principle of "reversibility".

EG. An archived newsletter or a starred investor email can be always reversed.

If ai is right -> makes my life easier

disclosure first I work on a tool in this space, so weigh it accordingly. not linking it, this isn't that post.

I went in assuming the failure mode would be detail. it isn't. wear survives better than I thought scuffs, paint marks, a dent all came through on the things I tested. what a single photo genuinely cannot give you is the parts of the object it never saw. the back is inferred, not captured, and on anything with a genuinely different back it shows.

honest read after a lot of tests:

• works for a spinning hero shot, social video, a floating cutout on a slide or a plain background

• works when the object is roughly symmetrical, or you only ever show the front

• doesn't work as a substitute for a real turntable rig when the buyer will inspect the back

• doesn't work if you need something dimensionally accurate rather than something that looks right

AI can generate a web page quickly, but in real work the first draft is not the end of the process.

After generation, teams still need to review the structure, rewrite copy, improve CTA wording, adjust colors, inspect sections, and prepare the page for sharing or delivery.

526 apps in five days. Final results:
Gold, $10,000: The Last Blockbuster by Quinn Zenith
Nobody expected the first Glaze Awards to be won by a game, but this one blew everyone away. Rewind the tape, unlock the truth. There's a surprise appearance in there too.
Silver, $5,000: My Stash by Noman
Photoshop for your macOS folders. Custom folder icons that make your Mac look like yours. One simple thing, done really well.
Bronze, $2,500: Elsewhere by Yann-Edern Gillet
Ambient soundscapes you can layer up and leave running. I've been using apps like this for over a decade and this is the one I'm keeping.