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A few months ago, I started building a terminal app with vibe coding.

I spent a week giving AI instructions, asking it to implement features, fix bugs, and keep going. The codebase grew quickly. There were thousands of lines of code, a UI, and what looked like a working application.

Except the terminal barely worked.

The first Electron version wouldn't even launch properly. I moved to Tauri, tried replacing xterm.js with a custom terminal renderer, and ended up dealing with ANSI parsing, screen buffers, Unicode widths, and Vim rendering bugs.

Agent capabilities are improving incredibly fast, but there s still a big gap between the agent can do this and I m comfortable letting it do this completely unsupervised.

For me, anything involving production infrastructure, credentials, modifying or deleting data, deployments, or actions with external consequences still feels like it needs some kind of oversight.

Curious where others draw the line. What tasks do you still keep a human in the loop for, and what would need to change for you to trust an agent with them autonomously?

I've used ChatGPT and other AI tools while building my startup, and they've made it possible to take on work that would normally require a much larger team. Research, technical problem-solving, planning, and exploring new ideas can happen much faster. But one thing I've learned is that completing more work doesn't necessarily mean the business is moving forward at the same speed. You can build faster, solve technical problems faster, and make improvements faster, while the harder questions about customers, adoption, and business growth still take time to answer. It's changed how I think about productivity as a founder. I'm learning to distinguish between how much work gets completed and whether that work is actually moving the business forward.

For founders building with AI, what's one lesson you've learned about the difference between moving faster and making real business progress?

Cloud Releases - Compare can now show you what the other clouds offer for the services you use, and what has changed in each of them lately, all on one page.

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After months of building, tweaking, and probably spending far too long getting a little robot to behave, Marv is officially live.

Marv is a little Windows companion that lives around your cursor, helps you understand what's on your screen, answers questions out loud, and can draw arrows, circles and annotations to guide you through things.

Think of it as your cursor's new plus-one.

I'm building Marv to make getting help on your PC feel more natural, without constantly switching windows or breaking your flow.

Hi everyone,

Vitals 1.2 is out. Most of it came from what you asked for here and by email after the launch.

I launched NotchMind, a Mac app that turns the MacBook notch into a small hub, as a solo developer with under 500 followers on X. It finished #16 for the day with 76 points, and I'm at about 20 sales so far.

The traffic surprised me:

• X, where I post the most: the tracked link brought 1 vote.

• YouTube: my demo video has about 4.6K views, and around 73% of them came from YouTube recommending it for free. I only spent about $11 on a promotion.

• Reddit, Hacker News and Indie Hackers all stopped me because my accounts were new. One flagged me as spam, one flagged my post, and one wouldn't let me post.

I'm trying to work out where to put my time next, so two specific questions for makers with a small audience:

Yesterday, OpenBot launched on Product Hunt and finished as the #2 Product of the Day with 350 upvotes.
Honestly, we didn t know what to expect. Seeing so many people support OpenBot, test the product, ask questions, and share honest feedback meant a lot to our entire team.
Thank you to everyone who:
- upvoted and commented,
- shared our launch,
- downloaded and tested OpenBot,
- reported bugs,
- or told us what we should build next.

The ranking is exciting, but the most valuable part was seeing that other people share our vision: AI should move beyond isolated chats toward teams of specialized agents that can work together.
We re now going through every comment and piece of feedback from the launch. Some of it has already influenced what we want to improve next.
This launch was not the finish line. It was the beginning of the next stage for OpenBot.
Thank you again for making this launch special. We re just getting started.
- Kamil and the OpenBot team

This release is about keeping things in order: tabs that sit together in groups, folders that open right in the list, and iPhone photos that arrive already sorted.

Tab groups

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Last week I asked here where you go to find out why a number moved. The answers were almost all the same: the CRM, Slack, the support desk, Linear, a doc somewhere. Anywhere except the dashboard.

That's what we launched today.

With MCP Connectors, you connect the tools your team already uses, and Genie, our AI Analyst, uses them to answer your questions. Ask why signups dropped 18%, and it checks Linear, finds the signup form that shipped Tuesday and breaks on Safari, and ties it to the drop. You get the number and the reason in one answer.

A first version can do one job well and still feel unfinished.

There is always something else you could add:

• Team accounts

• Billing

• Integrations

• A better onboarding flow

MePersona brings all your social media conversations into one place, but it goes beyond just managing your inbox.

As a creator, keeping up with comments and DMs across multiple platforms can be challenging.

With MePersona, you can:

• Manage comments and DMs from Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, X, and more in one inbox.

• Get reply suggestions that match your communication style.

• Keep track of past conversations with your fans.

• Review and approve replies before sending them.

• Connect with English- and Spanish-speaking audiences.

WattMate 1.5 is out, and it is mostly for people who run AI coding agents on a laptop.

• Claude Code, Codex CLI and Cursor Agent get their own row in the app list, ranked by watts like any app

• Each agent has a page with what every task cost the battery, with its project, branch and commands

• A notification when an agent leaves a process running after its session ends

• A notification when a long task finishes

Also new: a redesigned statistics window, a choice of panel sections, and more accurate watts.

wattmateapp.com

The original idea behind GenPage was simple: if you ve taken the time to write a relevant sales email, the page someone clicks through to find your offer should feel relevant too.

So we made it easier to create a dedicated page for each prospect. Something that helps them see how your product or service fits their business.

Working with customers, we saw the same problem across their campaigns.

Someone clicks an ad for CRM for real estate agents and lands on a homepage that talks to everyone. The ad did its job. Now the visitor has to figure out the connection themselves.

Right now, to use languages like Greek, Hebrew or Swedish in Tipword, you have to set up your own Google Translate API key. Most people hate that step.

I m thinking of running it on my side instead. You d just turn it on and it works, no key and no Google account. It d cost a little extra since I pay Google for it. On-device translation stays free like now.

I was looking at @Higgsfield and other AI video tools recently.

You can now create an ad without organizing a real shoot. Higgsfield also has tools specifically built to generate product ads from existing assets. A normal shoot means finding a location, people, equipment, then filming and editing everything. Now you can test different versions before doing any of that.

I don't think real shoots are going away, but I can see brands doing a lot less of them.

When would you still choose a real shoot over AI?

Most Mac alerts slide in from the corner, fight for attention and disappear before you can act. In the new update, the notch grows into a small banner right under your camera with a button you can press right there.

What drops down:

• Claude Code needs your approval Go to Claude

• Meeting in a few minutes Join (Meet, Zoom, Teams)

• An app is eating your CPU or memory Quit or Ignore

• Focus session done Start break or Keep going

• Timer finished Restart

• Battery at 10% Battery Settings

• Download finished Open, or drag the file straight from the notch

• Screenshot taken Copy, or drag it into Slack or a mail

Vitals 1.3 is out, and the app now works in ten languages besides English:

- German

- French

Hey

Currently working on the iPad version of WMail. What would you like to see in the iPad app that you use all the time in other mail apps or that you wish an iPad mail app had?

What does EpicTopia do with a voice entry?
We recorded a short demo about a small win: helping a first-year student understand a paper, sketching diagrams on receipts, and realizing you ve learned more than you thought.

Mixed into the story were forty minutes of mentoring, a mood score, and a promise to send over some notes.

Here s what EpicTopia organized from that recording:

• A journal entry with a title and matching emoji, keeping details like the coffee and the receipt worth saving.

• Two trackers: Mentoring Duration 40 min, and Mood 8/10.

• Two to-dos: I promised to send her my notes tomorrow became a checkbox, alongside a task to photograph the receipt diagrams.

• Highlights and signals: the emotion, topics, and person mentioned, plus a short reflection on the moment.

• A new Epic called Academic Mentoring, automatically created with this entry added to its timeline, ready for future mentoring moments.

Search Central states plainly that AI Overviews need no special markup, no AI text files, no schema. The one independent study of what users actually do is 18 months old and says a citation is worth a 1% click. Everything fresher is measured by the people selling the service.

It's Q4 planning season, which means a lot of small teams are about to write GEO on a budget line. Before you do, I'd spend twenty minutes on two documents, because they disagree with the pitch in a specific way.

The first is Google's own page on AI features and your website, in Search Central. It says there are no additional requirements to appear in AI Overviews or AI Mode, and no special optimisations necessary. Further down it's blunter: you don't need to create new machine-readable files, AI text files, or markup, and there's no special schema.org structured data to add. The whole page is a restatement of ordinary SEO fundamentals - be crawlable, be indexable, be useful, have your important content in text.

That's the platform saying, in its own documentation, that the product being sold to you does not exist as a distinct technical practice. You can decide Google is being coy. I'd just note that this is the one party in the conversation with nothing to sell you, and that it's the version I'd have to defend if I were wrong.

Everyone building anything emotional with AI reaches for the emotion recognition article. The sentence that is more likely to apply to you is in Article 50(1), and it has applied since 2 August.

When I went looking at what the EU AI Act asks of an app like Murror, I assumed the provision about emotions was the one aimed at us. It isn't, quite, and the one that is aimed at us is simpler and already live.

Half of what a Lispr Pro customer pays us can go to the person who invited them. That covers the first payment and every renewal, for as long as they keep paying.

We set it at 50% because of cost. An ad charges us before anyone installs Lispr. A commission costs us nothing until a customer has paid. We d rather pay people who already use Lispr and tell others about it.

FinderGit 0.53.0 is out: your stars, and your card on your GitHub profile

The Profile Card was a moment. Now it keeps moving

Thanks for being part of our launch!

Your requests gave us some interesting challenges, especially around helping people find manufacturers and figure out how to sell what they make.

We shipped 10 updates during the day and finished #6 on Product Hunt. I ve included a few of the requests and what we shipped below.

Thank you to everyone who tried Autonomyware, asked questions, shared ideas or supported the launch. We appreciate it.
And welcome to everyone who followed us yesterday! We ll keep sharing updates here.
If you ve tried the product, let us know how it went and what you d like us to improve.