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Just shipped Netfox 0.4.2. Here's what's new:

No new tabs this time. v0.17.0 is the boring-on-purpose release: I went back through everything you actually touch in a long session and made the app meaningfully steadier underneath. It does the same things v0.16.0 did it just behaves the same in hour eight as in minute one.

The self-multiplying API traffic, gone

Thank you guys for a great launch, great vibes and amazing feedback. I have received a suggestions that were just absolutely awesome. I appreciate the time you guys are taking to give MoDev a go.
There are many ways to turn your phone into a workstation, but I wanted to create something more convenient, and one day as powerful as a pc. I have an entire list of features i want to bring but i believe in time and progress. I rather ship 95% finished work, and continue to build better than to procrastinate and keep piling feature junk.
Since launch the following updates have been shipped:

Google sign-in fixed (was blocking new accounts on day one)

AI tool discipline tightened (less hallucination, better tool selection)

Chat error logging so nothing fails silently!

There s a growing pattern of using tokens to generate AI code and documentation slop. Then use even more tokens to understand and review that slop.

Then judge engineers by token usage instead of how empathetic and clear their docs and code actually are

At some point, the system starts optimizing for the wrong thing. Instead of asking Can a human actually work with this? , we continue asking How much did we generate? or How many agents did we spin up today? - are those the success metrics we want?

A clear example of this is what we re seeing in AI-generated UIs for landing pages. Tools like Claude (and others) can produce interfaces quickly, but they often converge into a very recognizable template. Same layout patterns, same spacing, same visual language. It becomes less design and more average of all designs the model has seen.  

Hey Product Hunt,

We just shipped Room Service 1.3.0 with two new workspaces: Health Check and Space Map.

My way is daily walks and regular meetups with someone s orange cat who also loves walking with us

This week in the Product Hunt blog, we have a banger from Julia Yu. She's the co-founder of 2024 Golden Kitty winner Unicorns Club, which matches VCs with early-stage startups. She's also founded three VC-backed companies herself.

According to Julia, early-stage founders need to change their mental model about pre-seed funding ASAP. As she puts it:

Once upon a time (in fact, as recently as two years ago), early-stage startups needed three things to get into investor conversations: a strong narrative, a solid team, and a prototype. Now, in most software categories, that s no longer enough.

The advent of AI has shifted investors attention to actual metrics. Yes, even at the pre-seed level, investors don t care so much about promise as they do about realized potential. They want monthly recurring revenue (MRR) and growth rate.

The key insight we got while working on ProblemHunt: a startup's success directly depends on the intensity of the pain it solves. Everything else is secondary. This is exactly what Paul Graham (YC founder) meant when he wrote about the importance of solving acute problems, not shallow ones.

Long chats break when the model forgets what you said ten turns ago. Oasis uses optional structured session memory (internal nickname  Railroad ) to help follow-ups stay coherent.

Insight for other users: Session memory extracts structured facts across turns and re-injects them into later prompts so the assistant can remember details within your session and plan limits. You do not edit memory by hand. It updates as you chat.

What it is not: Memory is not a full backup of web pages. It is distilled text used to steer replies, not a copy of everything you browsed.

How to work with it:

Would you create spin-off accounts for your brand with influencer personas?
E.g. sophie.diets for promoting Cal AI?

One week ago, @Y Combinator hosted a launch day here. We launched @Flare on it.

Here's what happened:
3rd place

400+ upvotes

1,860 App Store impressions
150+ downloads
8.39% conversion rate

Hey everyone :) !

I m trying to figure out the best ways to gain visibility and drive potential buyers to my website. It feels like certain social platforms are much better suited for this type of business than others.

Today we are writing up an email to YC and hopefully getting their eyes on the project! I think it would be a good addition to their website and if we can get some more official or helpful APIs to hit and extract data from for YC it would be amazing!

Please help me spread ExploreYC and get YC's eye on the project! Share on X, LinkedIn, ProductHunt and let's do this together!

We built something weird: an ashtray for digital secrets. Throw the password in, light it once, and watch it go. No smoke. No evidence. Just a little click and it s gone.

Why this exists

• People still email passwords, paste keys in Slack, and trust we ll delete it later. That trust is why things get leaked.

• BurnLink flips the script: make sharing fast, then make the trace disappear.

You open Claude or ChatGPT every morning and start from zero. Re-explain your project. Your role. Your context. Again.

We've built incredible AI - and given it no memory of you.

We've been thinking a lot about this moment. A stakeholder asks "how did our paid campaigns do last week?" or "are we on track for the month?" - and even with dashboards already built, getting a clean answer still takes more steps than it should.

You open the right tool. Filter the right date range. Cross-reference another source. Paste it into a Slack message. Sometimes you just end up saying "let me get back to you on that."

The data exists. The dashboards exist. But the path from question to answer still has too much friction in it.

That's the problem we set out to solve with Databox MCP - launching on Product Hunt May 28. Instead of navigating dashboards, you ask the question directly in whatever AI tool you already use - Claude, ChatGPT, n8n, Cursor - and get an answer pulled from your live data.

Hey everyone Small but satisfying one today. After 0.4 brought the menu bar popover + Sponsor links, a few of you noticed the in-app "What's New" panel wasn't behaving it either didn't show up after updating, or it showed the previous version's notes. That's fixed.

While I was in there I also changed how it works: the What's New panel now appears after every update, patches included not only the big feature releases. [ ] Dismiss it and you can always pull it back up from Help What's New.

Everyone's talking about how easy it is to build with AI right now.

Spin up an agent, write a prompt, ship. Done.

But if you've actually deployed something in the wild built mostly by AI, you know it's more complicated than that. Especially when you care about quality.

PH Community

We're designing the Pretty Mac App landing page. And I'm trying something new.

Instead of just shipping what I think is right, I'd love to get your feedback!

In our meetings, we usually keep debating about what features to add to our product. But honestly, we need to be able to say NO to that.

Building became even easier with AI, so it is tempting to add a ton of features. The cost is how complex your app becomes. This is why products get messy fast. Usually it looks fine for old users, because they learned each feature slowly while you built it. But new users open the app and feel lost.

@busmark_w_nika asked yesterday what PH is missing and what people would improve. I am sure the team has enough to cook with now. So I want to ask the opposite:

• What should Product Hunt kill? What feature would the product be better without?

• What did you say NO to in your own product?

• What feature would you remove from a big product you use?

Video has always been one of our biggest customer acquisition channels at my company. But for 2 years, our video making process was a mess. Not the recording - the everything else. Finding editors who understood our specific AI context was hard, so we ended up doing it ourselves. It was draining. It was inconsistent. It was a bottleneck.

Over the last 10 days, I built an autonomous AI video agent (powered by Hermes - or OpenClaw - both work) to kill the drudgery for good.

For years, I ve been hearing that we re a mobile-first (or even mobile-only) society.

Smartphones are portable. We spend the most time on them.
Distribution via App Store / Play Store is huge.

So logically You should build for mobile, right?

Every now and then, I treat myself to a workshop to learn something. (Officially, I do it because I work from home and sometimes the lack of socialising makes me sick.) :D

Today I'm going to an art-related workshop. It's a bit outside my field, but on the other hand, marketing also uses creative (I wonder if it will give me something relevant).

Thank you for the incredible support!

We've crossed 130+ followers and received amazing feedback from the Product Hunt community.

If you're a YouTuber, creator, agency, or manage content at scale, we'd love to show you how Growati can help streamline your post-upload workflow.

I am still a bit stunned writing this.

We launched Emily on Product Hunt on June 1st. Emily is the voice AI copilot built into Co-Desk, the pay-as-you-go platform we have been building for coworking and coliving operators. The day closed at #18 of the day with 98 upvotes.