Hi Product Hunt community, I m Artin, founder of SUN.

Ask me anything about how we got into a16z Speedrun, the product, fundraising, team building, or our Product Hunt launch.

Happy to chat and share what s worked (and what didn t).

One thing we think is still underrated in compute platforms is observability.

A lot of infra feels simple until something breaks in production. A webhook fails, a cron job doesn t run, an AI agent gets stuck, or a function times out even though it worked fine in testing.

That is where just running code stops being enough.

In Inquir Compute, we think logs and observability are a core part of the product, because developers need more than raw output. They need context: what triggered the execution, which route or webhook was involved, how long it ran, whether it retried, and what happened right before the failure.

Coding agents have transformed software development. It's now possible to do in a day what used to take weeks. Features that would have gathered dust in a forgotten Jira ticket now see the light of day! This wave will keep going, making developers more and more productive.

There are still bottlenecks in the product development, but they've shifted. Writing code is no longer the constraint. Taste and judgement are, and in software, there's no place where taste and judgement are more obvious than in the UI. Crafting thoughtful, distinctive, high quality user experiences is still a constraint. No one wants their product to be perceived as a generic slop cannon.

I want to talk about how I built @MCPCore - a cloud platform where developers create, deploy, and manage MCP servers from their browser - and what 10+ years of backend experience taught me about using AI in production work. Not the hype version. The honest one.

Every idea is already taken. So what?

I'm a backend engineer. I've spent most of my career building server-side systems, and I currently lead a backend team at my company. At some point I wanted to build something of my own. A product. Something real.

I'll take the hit.

AI has no idea when someone is politely furious.

You know the email. "Hi team, just circling back on this again as I haven't heard anything. Thanks for your attention to this matter." Reads like a sweet grandma wrote it.

A human reads that and thinks "oh no, they are about to burn the building down." AI reads it and thinks "great sentiment, very positive, 98% satisfaction score."

I ve been testing this with an AI agent we use for outbound workflows.

The agent s job is simple: take a lead, generate a personalized outreach email, and send it.

Before:
The agent only had access to the lead s basic details (name, company, role) and a prompt to write the email.
Output was consistent, clean, and predictable(though the personalisation aspect was limited) .

What we changed:
We gave it more access:

Most people are using AI wrong and I was one of them.

For the first year, I used AI like a fancy Google. "Write me a product description." "Summarize this." "Give me 10 ideas for X." Useful? Sure. Transformative? Not really.

Building something useful is hard. Explaining it clearly can be just as hard.

I ve noticed a lot of products seem solid, but the value isn t immediately obvious from the first sentence, screenshot, or landing page.

Tomorrow we're back on Product Hunt with something big.

Last time we launched, you gave us #7 Product of the Day and 488 upvotes. That meant everything to us.

10,000+ people named their @KiloClaw bot and fun fact looking at the data: 4 people named theirs HAL 9000.

March was a big one for @Pretty Prompt.

Did you know we don t follow a strict roadmap?

We take a more "nimble" approach:

We reduced noise. We improved clarity. We even changed accents.

But sometimes the biggest meeting problem isn't background noise. It's Todd.
odd from Finance. Todd who turns a 30-second update into a 12-minute spoken-word essay about spreadsheets. Todd who says "just to piggyback off that" and then doesn't piggyback he builds an entire second pig.

So we built AI Deboringifier

A Voice AI feature that detects boring speech patterns and automatically makes them less boring.
https://x.com/krispHQ/status/203...

Road to 1,000,000 #Votap users Day 61 | Current: 1295

Part of my job in growth at Clueso is talking to Marketers, PMs, customer success managers, solo founders building in public.

And over time, one pattern kept showing up that I genuinely didn't expect.

Everyone is panicking about the March 2026 Core Update.
It started rolling out on March 27 and will take up to two weeks to complete .
The spam update hit just three days earlier and finished in 19.5 hours, the fastest spam update on record .

But here's what the data actually says.

JetDigitalPro analyzed 600,000 web pages across the update period. The correlation between AI usage and ranking penalties was 0.011, effectively zero . Google isn't penalizing AI content. It's penalizing low-value content that happens to be AI-generated.

Websites relying on mass-produced AI output without human oversight saw traffic drops of 60-80% . Affiliate sites were hit hardest 71% saw negative impacts .

After our first launch on Product Hunt, our team spent a little over a month upgrading the product. There were major changes to the UI and several new features added, so the process took time from discussions and redesigning the interface to testing, fixing bugs, and updating AI prompts.

We re also a very small team, so everyone had to push themselves to give 200%. Time and resources are limited, and at the same time, we also had to work on securing funding for the next six months to keep the team running and continue developing the app.

Hello everyone, I've reduced the price from $4 to $1 so everyone can try it.

We're paying you up to 10% for every subscription you bring in.

We just shipped an affiliate program for TravelAnimator.  

No minimum follower count. No setup complexity. No need to be a creator. Just a link.

If you know someone who'd use the app for travel videos, educational content, social media, anything, you can earn from recommending it.        

Hey Product Hunt

1. A Russian developer built an app for Nigeria but can't accept payments. App stores are unavailable, direct providers are complex. Needs a simple solution. Budget $500 700.

2. Need an AI app: upload a photo get a weekly verdict progress / no progress and advice on when to increase load. Existing trackers either lack AI or are too complex. Willing to pay $100/year.

3. There is no simple and secure way to pass bitcoin to heirs in the event of sudden death. Without complex multisignature setups or trust in third parties.
Boris,
ProblemHunt

In most parts of the world, Easter is being celebrated right now, honestly, not really.

Today, I was invited to a weekly meeting despite the holiday.
I had forgotten one fact: Orthodox countries celebrate Easter a week later.
(and countries in the Far East simply don t have this holiday at all.)

This is actually a broader topic, because every country celebrates holidays differently, and with many teams being international, some kind of synchronisation is necessary the question is: how?

Hey Product Hunt

1. No simple, affordable credit layer to bridge payment processors with user balances developers rebuild credit tracking, consumption logic, and refunds for every app.

2. For 5 years, goods have been stolen from the office. There is no available service that automatically analyzes camera footage and sends alerts about suspicious activity.

3. Risk of a LinkedIn ban due to false positive bot detection. Official support is unhelpful. Need a tool that warns about suspicious activity to avoid losing 11,500 followers.
Boris,
ProblemHunt

Last year we hired a design agency to build our marketing site for @Basedash. They did an incredible job. The headline makes it sound like I'm dunking on them, but I'm not. The site was genuinely great. They built it in Framer so we could manage content ourselves, which was a completely reasonable bet at the time (and something we explicitly asked for).

Every time I built a dashboard for one client, I had to rebuild it for the next. Creating clients, reports, dashboards, data sources felt like clicking through ten different pages just to do one simple thing

So we made some changes

Now in ZapDigits

You can create everything from the sidebar. No more jumping around
Any dashboard can become a template you reuse
Templates have their own gallery so you can see yours and ours in one place
More Google Analytics metrics to get better insights
Each dashboard can have its own look

Hey folks,
We're cooking up our next major product release and pretty excited about it. As a GLP-1 user myself, I know I struggle with finding the right things to eat. Do you or someone you know feel the same? I'd love to chat how we might help. https://calendly.com/kent-at-foo...
Can't wait to learn from you!

I ve been spending more time vibe coding recently, and I ve started to question something I initially took for granted. Most of the conversation around vibe coding is about speed. Like how quickly you can go from idea to prototype, or how fast you can iterate. And to be fair, that part is real. The barrier to building has clearly dropped.

But the more I use these tools, the more it feels like speed isn t the limiting factor anymore.

The real constraint seems to be taste.

• what do you choose to build?

• what do you keep vs discard?

• what actually feels right vs just working ?

• what is genuinely useful vs just impressive in a demo?