Hi Noodlers!

Big week . Here's what happened!

Your Halo is here

We shipped it. Halo is your AI assistant, embedded directly on your website. Customers ask questions. Halo answers. They book appointments. Halo handles it. One script tag, 5 minutes, done.

There are products I keep using when launching on Product Hunt -- products that help me craft beautiful assets, plan content distribution, and analyze results.

Here's my personal collection. How about you? What's your stack?

In traditional systems, architecture hides in diagrams.

In AI systems, architecture shows up in behavior.

Dear Product Hunt community,

If you re reading this and you ve launched something - or you're close to launching - you are already incredibly special.

We re getting ready for our second Product Hunt launch on Jan 31, and a post by @busmark_w_nika got me thinking.

What to do (that we didn't do the first time):

• Plan your launch. What does it mean?

  • Write down everything you need to do before you launch.

  • Cleaning your copy

  • Your product images

  • Your product video (demo under 60 seconds if you can)

  • For our first launch, we didn't do anything. Even though we got 2nd Product of the Day, I would not recommend others to leave it to their luck. Plan and maximize your chances of success.

• Keep it simple, stupid.

  • Don't overcomplicate your page with lots of marketing language.

  • Simplicity, clean product screenshots, and clear language.

  • I think this is the single most important thing to take into account when launching, and why we probably did so well on our first launch.

    • Ask yourself: Does the tagline make sense? Will others understand what the product does and what it is in under 10 seconds?

    • For us at @Pretty Prompt: Grammarly for prompting. (Grammarly = it is an extension.) Improve prompts in one click. (super clear what it does).

    • You can straight away visualise how you might use the product and what it will do for you.

• Focus on your strengths.

  • Don't give everything you got in one go.

  • Earn the right for people to read and scroll down. Read and scroll down.

  • Save some stuff for your pinned post.

  • People have a short attention span.

  • Hook people on your most important feature, showcase it front and centre, don't give me everything together cos I'll forget, and also I'll get lost.

  • For us at @Pretty Prompt: Improve your prompts in one click. Works inside ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Lovable, and more.

  • Even though you have about 10 other features on Pretty Prompt, we don't talk about them right in the beginning; we just feature that one "killer feature" and let users dive deeper afterwards.

• Product assets = show, don't tell.

  • Your images and video should be about your product.

  • Don't make it marketing-heavy. Make it product-heavy.

  • Show me what the product does, don't tell me about it.

  • For us: 60-second demo video actually using the tool. Screenshots of the top features (Improve - Refine - Save - History). Not fancy Figma designs, I mean screenshots of the actual product.

  • If you get big like Notion, Cursor, Claude, etc. you may also be able to add a more human video of you talking about the product, or new functionality, your story, etc. But for the majority, just show your product, and let the product win.

• Learn from others.

  • Though no two products or launches are the same, you can learn from others and pick the best things that fit your own product.

  • Checkout this post by @fmerian on "The Cursor Way to Launch". Great tips.

• Warm up the Audience.

  • Don't just rely on your followers.

  • Use as many channels as possible to maximise the reach and get people excited about your launch, even before you launch.

  • If you do this step well, the launch is just 50% of the job, and you're already a step ahead of most.

  • For us: I did a community post, Substack one, LinkedIn one, Slack one. We'll be recording a founder video too. I want it to be as human as possible; people buy into people.

Building a team or want to join a startup? Let's kick 2026 off to a great start.

Founders, teams, and startups drop a comment if you're hiring.

Imagine that you are about to join a startup (before raising funds) as a part-time employee.
You are paid for work (compensation is like in any existing, well-established company in the industry, but you do not have regular employee benefits covering 401 plan, no equity, no health care plan, HO equipment fee, etc.)

You hope that after raising funds, you will become a full-time employee and receive benefits.

I am so excited about this one!

You can now use Pretty Prompt right inside @Lovable (in beta)

We ve been working super hard to take Pretty Prompt beyond the generic ChatGPT world, and stepping into Vibe Coding.

We launched dark mode for Tonkotsu earlier this week. It was written entirely by Tonkotsu with 63 completed tasks. My involvement was exclusively during planning and verification (the classic barbell shape described here).

Here's how it went...

In about 17 days (I hope I m counting correctly), I ll be re-launching the mobile app, and now I m wondering how much the Product Hunt community will try it out.

I spend 100% of my time on a desktop on this platform.

But the majority of the population is mobile-only.

Hey everyone! Just shipped a few improvements:

New collapsible FAQ - Privacy questions answered upfront (yes, your code stays on YOUR device)

Hard moments for open-source maintainers right now - they re getting flooded.
We re seeing repos like tldraw auto-closing pull requests because of AI-generated noise. The code may be syntactically fine, but the context isn t there, and review cost explodes.
We ve been polishing our open-source project specifically around cases like this: reducing low-context, high-noise PRs before they land in a maintainer s inbox.
I wrote about why PR review needs to evolve from:
checkbox enforcement signal interpretation
Topics covered:
- AI-generated PR noise and low-context changes
- Why looks correct isn t enough anymore
- How agentic analysis can surface why a PR is risky before merge
- Where static rules and agentic guardrails should coexist
Our approach is intentionally defensive, not prescriptive.
If there are review patterns you re seeing that aren t covered yet, happy to turn them into new rules - that feedback loop is the whole point.
Read more here: https://medium.com/p/30c41247db5a
There s a preview setup at https://watchflow.dev where you can try rules in analysis mode before enforcing anything.
It s fully open-source, can be self-hosted, and the idea is to experiment safely: see what would be flagged, why, and how contributors would experience it - without blocking PRs by default.

Many of you sometimes write to me in DMs asking how to position yourself on Product Hunt.

From the question, I always get the feeling that people want to speed up the process, publish something quickly, get a high position in the ranking of launched products and a badge. But this is a long-term game.

Meow world, welcome back to The Breakpoint, a weekly thread on all things dev tools on Product Hunt.

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Recent dev-first products launched on the site

Hey everyone,

After launching Intrascope and finishing Top 10 Product of the Day, we wanted to open a quick discussion.

The biggest takeaway for us wasn t the ranking, but the conversations. We talked to teams who are already using AI daily and are struggling with scattered tools, separate API keys, lost context, and costs growing without visibility.

That s exactly why we built Intrascope: a shared AI workspace where teams bring their own API keys, work with shared context and Manifests, and keep usage and costs predictable.

This summer, we made a bold decision to launch on Product Hunt. The problem? We had zero idea how to actually do it.

Well, almost zero. Our CTO @mokosiy was a massive Product Hunt fan, and his enthusiasm was our only compass. He armed us with the right stack: Cursor for code, PostHog for analytics, latest .NET and Avalonia to build the gorgeous app.

The Reality Check By August, the "Launching Soon" label we were banking on had vanished. We were flying blind. That's when the real work began. I didn't just read the guidelines; I followed them to the letter. We had to change the date of the Product Hunt launch five times. We realized that we weren't ready.

At the beginning, my reason was very simple: I needed a job and I genuinely liked the product.

I graduated with a Marketing degree, but I never felt like I belonged in agencies or similar environments. It just wasn t for me. At the same time, I didn t have much experience in tech either. So I took a leap of faith and applied for a Customer Support role, almost blindly.

The early days were tough. I had no technical background, no real understanding of how apps were built, and everything felt overwhelming. But the product itself became my motivation. I started from the most basic things: learning simple technical terms, understanding how an app is structured, and slowly exploring how everything works behind the scenes.

Building a team or want to join a startup? Let's kick 2026 off to a great start.

Founders, teams, and startups drop a comment if you're hiring.

There are tons of great coding agent CLIs and IDEs out there. Which do you use on a regular basis? What stands out as being the killer feature?

I'm building My Financ , which is a tool that allows you to understand your finances, and plan for the future.

I launched on PH in September, got some users and have been iterating.

Hey Product Hunt
I'm the indie developer behind Still, a private journaling app built around one simple idea:

Reflection shouldn t feel like a task you can fail at.

Today, I'm excited (and a bit nervous) to share a major update that rethinks how Still feels and flows.

Over the past year we've gotten 1000s of request for Wispr Flow for Android.

Before I give you context, I have to say this one really feels like magic!
The Lovable integration with Pretty Prompt is now open to everyone
After a lot of testing.
A lot of feedback, you can use Pretty Prompt right inside Lovable

Best part? You keep doing exactly what you did before.

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In a notable shift in the AI landscape, Apple and Google have announced a multi-year collaboration under which Apple s next generation of Apple Foundation Models will be based on Google s Gemini models and cloud technology.

According to the joint statement, these models will help power upcoming Apple Intelligence features, including a more personalized Siri, expected later this year.

There are countless products and services out there, and I ll admit I sign up for more than I probably should. But I usually stop using them for a few common reasons:

1. It doesn t actually fit my needs

2. The company feels unreliable or opaque

3. The value doesn t justify the cost

After spending my career in enterprise software, I ve noticed that many of these issues aren t just product problems, they re relationship problems.

When companies show a bit of intention, clarity, and care, trust goes up. When they don t, everything feels disposable, even good tools.