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I probably spend more than 10 hours a day at my computer and I know it s not ideal. It is actually bad.

It has quite a few negative effects on our eyes, posture, stress levels, and overall well-being.

Still processing yesterday!

@Articos launched on Product Hunt and ended the day at #3 with 350+ upvotes.

Some context on the day: We launched alongside well-backed products @Monid @Claude by Anthropic Fable 5.1, @OpenClaw, and several from YC portfolios. Landing at #3 as a bootstrapped team was more than we expected going in.

From 1 October, leaving Apple In-App Purchase drops a Small Business Program developer from 15% to 10% in the EU. On a 4.99 euro subscription, a processor's fixed per-transaction fee can eat most of that on its own - and your choice locks for 12 months.

Apple updated the Developer Program License Agreement on 18 August, and the new EU business terms go into effect on 1 October. The coverage I've read frames it as Apple finally opening up. That's true in a structural sense and mostly irrelevant to anyone running a small subscription app, because the interesting question isn't whether you can leave Apple's payment system. It's whether the arithmetic works. For most of us it doesn't, and it's worth being able to say why rather than just having a feeling about it.

Well, after this post, they probably won t be that secret anymore.

But there are still a few things not everyone knows about: 

Hey PH community, the big day is finally here.

After 6 months of building and weeks of preparation, Hello Inbox is officially launching today.

I m active here, and English isn t my first language.

It s actually interesting that the whole global community of builders, makers, and founders has basically one common language: English.

And sometimes I wonder: how good does your English actually need to be?

I definitely overthink it sometimes:
Is this sentence natural? Is my grammar okay? Will people understand what I mean?

I m curious how other makers approach this.

The more features a product has, the harder it becomes to explain it without overwhelming a new user.

Do you:

guide users step by step
give them a simple starting task
let them explore everything themselves
use videos/tutorials
hide most features until they need them
or something completely different?

I ve ended up with hundreds of saved links that I keep telling myself I ll come back to. Now it s getting harder to find anything useful and I don t really want another paid bookmarking tool just to organize them. Do you have a simple system or any built-in browser features that help you automatically clean up old bookmarks?

The Y Combinator has posted the topics (products) it wants to cover and support.

Here is a list of them:

• The Primer  AI education with personalised learning

• The Future of American Defense (Drones, sensors, interceptors,...)

• A Cloud for Small Software

• Multiplayer AI (Teams collaborating with shared AI agents)

• Compute at Sea (Offshore data centres)

• AI-Powered Consumer Products for 1 Billion People

• AI for the Ageing Population

• New Operating Systems for the Physical World

• The Best Time to Build in Crypto (stablecoins, agentic commerce)

• Data for the Real World

• Proving You're Human

• AI-Native Compliance Infrastructure

• Self-Maintaining APIs

@Mac Duo 1.1 is out, with a few changes focused on making the fold feel more natural while keeping Mac Duo lightweight when you're just using your Mac normally.

We always think we'll take Saturday off...

Then we remember:

users don't stop using the product
ideas don't stop coming
launches don't wait
neither do bugs

Curious how everyone else handles it.

One thing I keep struggling with is prioritizing.

There are always too many things that feel important.

And I think solo makers have the same problem as teams - just with all the voices in the head =D

In a team everyone can have a different priority, the designer might want to polish the UI, developers want to fix backend issues, marketing wants to improve the landing page...

We ve added an important new feature! You can now set the zoom focus point to anywhere you want, which should solve any issues you were having with zooming!

Check out the short video in the features section on our website: https://screencursor.com/#features

It is live.

If you run client work, you are the last pair of eyes on everything. Every report, every update, every deck. That is what caps how many clients you can carry. It gets worse as you grow.

We re all naturally a little better at some things than others.

I ve been thinking about what skills and behaviors make me me. =)

I think some of them come with our DNA. Others are things we practice and practice until they become part of us.

And maybe the interesting part is learning how to make our strengths even stronger, while quieting the ones that sometimes make our path harder.

One of my young and enthusiastic maker followers recently asked me for advice on finding alpha testers.

And honestly I realized I m not the best person to answer this one =D

We built RunEvr inside an animation studio, so our team of artists naturally became our first alpha testers.
We had a real product, a real team, and a real workflow to test it on from day one.

So I couldn t really give advice based on my own experience.

Most people use Product Hunt primarily for launching their product, which is completely understandable and a basic thing. That's what the platform is best known for.

BUT I think Product Hunt offers far more opportunities than just launch day. If you approach it strategically, it can become an ongoing marketing channel rather than a one-day event.

What s in the recent tab of your AI conversations?
Doesn t matter if it s about work, coding, planning, writing, or something completely random...

Just curious what everyone is actually talking to AI about =D

Mine was about applying late to Y Combinator for Fall 2026.

To be honest, I posted the question in p/yc and got rejected there =D

most teams spend a lot of time thinking about user authentication. who can log in, how, with what credentials.

and then the services behind the scenes just... trust each other. because they're on the same network. because they're in the same VPC. because nobody questioned it when the architecture was first drawn up.

you're moving fast, you've shipped login, it works, users are in. and then an enterprise prospect shows up and the first thing they ask is 'do you support SSO?' and suddenly the thing you built in a weekend is blocking a six-figure deal.

but SSO is usually just the first question. after that comes the security questionnaire. then someone asks about audit logs. then their IT team wants to know how they'll provision and deprovision users at scale. then legal asks about data residency.

A scan of 1.2 billion URLs found 15.3K validated prompt injections sitting on live pages, and about 70% of them are in HTML you never render. The fix most teams reach for - strip the page to plain text before you send it - is the worst of the four options tested.

Two of the last three things I've written here were about reading the primary document instead of the coverage. This one is about a paper almost nobody covered, which is worse, because it changes a line of code a lot of us shipped this year without thinking about it.

Hey Product Hunt!

We launched ChatRecall.dev last week to stop AI context from evaporating between sessions. Since then, we ve realised the chat logs themselves hold the exact architectural blueprint developers and teams are constantly losing.

Whenever an agent builds software, it makes dozens of micro-decisions and cuts corners ("we'll fix this later") that immediately get lost once the prompt session ends.

Three weeks ago I posted a list of things I learned on launch day. I left one off, because I only noticed it after the dust settled.

Almost every good thing that happened to Construct came through someone we already knew.

Not cold DMs. Those mostly went nowhere. It was a friend of a friend of a friend, and the ask worked because the person in the middle could say "yeah, I know them, they're legit."

This release is about giving you more than two folders at once, and about folders that keep themselves tidy.

Up to six panes in one window

Split a window into one to six panes, each with its own folder, its own view mode and its own terminal if you use that. Pick the arrangement from the toolbar, or press Control Command and the number of panes you want.

I m curious how other makers prefer to build.

There are obvious advantages to both.

Building solo can mean faster decisions, complete ownership, and no need to constantly align with someone else.

With a team, you get different perspectives, more skills, and someone to share the ups and downs with.