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Hey everyone, Siddhant here, founder of @PeakRoutine

First and foremost thank you.

We genuinely never imagined we'd crack the top 10, let alone land at #4. The engagement, the comments, the kind words you made our day, and we mean that.

Some of the feedback we received left us both surprised and deeply moved. It's one of those rare moments where you realize the work you've been quietly doing in the background actually resonates with real people.

Hey everyone,

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who followed and checked out Cliptop so far. It s still early, but the support from Product Hunt has already been really helpful.

I'll be honest I've never liked the feeling that someone "owns" me.

So being employed was very distant to me. [As if I had no power over my income.]

I will go first.

"Do you do backlinks?"

Every week. Sometimes every day. From prospects. From agencies. From people who read one SEO blog post from 2018.

Backlinks are not the problem. Backlinks are a solution to a problem that has changed.

As you may know, we just launched Dirac yesterday!

This is one small step towards building a better email for all of us who are stuck being our own email assistants.

The launch was incredibly fun for me as the Maker of Dirac. Many of you guys signed up for Dirac and our 100 founder members are starting to fill up spots.

Got some feedback on the UX of Bitgrain Studio from the users, it really needs some UX improvements and redesigns. Let's see where it goes : )
When was the time you realised, your product needed some redesign?

Hi everyone!

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Arkida is launching tomorrow on Product Hunt and I d love your support.

Please help me get some exposure, it will motivate me to keep updating this and building more tools!

The last high watermark was back in April, when we hit 1000 products launched in a single day.

Before that, it was 600 products four months ago.

What motivates you to build your product? For me with @Bitgrain, it's my passion for creating with graphics. I needed a tool to make grunge posters myself, so I built one, and figured, why not share it with everyone else?
What's yours ??

From experience, I see that product makers most often rely primarily on just 2 things:
1. Social media (and ads on them)
2. Influencers and UGC

As if nothing else existed.

Yesterday s discussion about who is more likely to be replaced (white-collar vs. blue-collar workers) raised another question for me.

So I m asking:

What do we need to do to keep our jobs in the age of AI and robotisation?

On a Tuesday, the first enterprise question is usually not can you capture AI code? It s who can see the records, how long do they live, and what happens when a policy blocks a change?

That s the part LineageLens is built for. Base gives you local capture. Lite gives a shared team record. Plus and Max move the data into a backend where auth, permissions, retention, and policy live next to the provenance records instead of around them.

The useful thing here is not another dashboard. It s a self-hosted record of prompt, model, tool, file, and outcome that engineering, security, and platform teams can actually govern on their own infrastructure.

I keep seeing AI governance tools start with visibility, then discover that the real enterprise questions are identity, retention, and review. If the record cannot be scoped, retained, and exported on your side, it is not really governable.

For months, we celebrated our power users at Murror the ones journaling every day, sometimes multiple times a day. They had the highest session times, the most entries, the best retention curves. On paper, they were our success story.

Then we started reading what they were actually writing.

Hey Product Hunt community!

I m working on a revamping the 3 years old project called PriveGuard.com and wanted to share the vision behind it with the PH community before our official launch.

Build-in-public started as a genuinely good idea.

Be transparent. Share your journey. Let people watch you build something from nothing. The openness creates accountability, builds audience, attracts early users who care about the product before it launches.

For a lot of builders, it worked exactly like that.

Then it became a content strategy.

I have been looking at what is actually getting traction on Product Hunt right now. The pattern is clear.

In March, OpenClaw products dominated the leaderboard. Anything with "Claw" in the name got votes. That was a land grab new space, everyone rushing in to claim a spot .

In April, that stopped. The "just build an agent" strategy stopped working. What replaced it? Products that do specific tasks inside workflows you already have .

Here is what the data shows.

Just saw reports that SpaceX acquired Cursor in an all-stock deal valued at $60 billion.

This is one of the most insane startup outcomes we've ever seen:

• Cursor was founded only ~4 years ago.

• The reported price tag would make it one of the largest startup acquisitions in history.

• It went from "just a VS Code wrapper" jokes to becoming the default AI coding tool for a huge number of developers.

• SpaceX/xAI would instantly gain access to one of the most valuable datasets in AI: how millions of developers actually write, edit, debug, and ship code.

That's a lot of AGI, with some substantial firepower:

Anthropic has raised $65 billion in Series H funding led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital, valuing the company at $965 billion post-money.

From Coatue, who lead the round:

...what s changed since three months ago (the last round was only three months ago, believe it or not)?

Three things:

1. We ve seen the shift from co-pilots that help make us more efficient to agents actually doing long-form work tasks on our behalf. This has meant an explosion in both productivity and ROI for customers.

2. Anthropic introduced Mythos Preview, a whole new model class that demonstrates a step change in intelligence level as seen in the METR chart below. It not only shows dramatic improvement to coding and long-running agents, it is also defining a new frontier for security.

3. And finally > use cases spreading from coding to everything else.

Building Hayley has meant reading a lot of research on how people process decisions out loud.

The patterns that come up most: a relationship that needs a conversation you keep avoiding. A business decision that's already made but won't stop reopening. A version of yourself you're not sure you're living up to.

Curious what it is for the people in this community. Not looking for details, just the category.

So far, the impression I have of this community and maker circles is that you work every day.

Which is great, it s one of the reasons I m here.

"Data portability doesn't make money."

I heard this for years - from market leaders, from VCs, from people I respected.

"This is a regulatory problem, not a technical one." "This is a feature, not a product." "People don't pay for idealistic things."

<<Back story>>
In 2019, my team and I went deep into Self-Sovereign Identity: wrote research papers, ran experiments, and found ourselves at the intersection of data, identity, and web3. Right at that intersection lay data portability and sovereignty: the ability to own your data and take it anywhere on the internet.

Excited to launch the Parsewise MCP
You can now connect Parsewise directly into tools like Claude, Cursor, and other LLM tools.
That means you can ask questions across your documents, extract structured data, and pull answers with citations, without leaving your workflow.
Here is a video on YouTube with an example of how it's used: Parsewise MCP Demo

As you may know,

Dirac is an email agent that hands you only decisions, not busywork.

And one of the most important parts of that is "It can't be just AI SLOP".

I spent the last two months analyzing Product Hunt launches.
Not the upvotes. The patterns behind them.

Here is what the data says.

The first hour is not the most important hour.

The top 10% did not have more upvotes in the first hour. They had more comments in the first hour. Comments signal engagement. Upvotes signal approval. Engagement carries more weight.

Hey everyone, Elitza here, founder of own.page

A few days ago, own.page reached #2 Product of the Day on Product Hunt.

As a solo founder competing against products backed by much larger teams, this wasn't something I expected - but it was something I was determined to achieve. There were moments during the launch when I thought it would be incredibly difficult.

But this incredible community showed up.