I m noticing something weird happening in solo dev land.

We used to compete on:

• remembering docs

• knowing frameworks

• being a better coder

Now it feels like the real edge is:

We recently discussed the changes that took place on the platform in 2025, so it s clear that the approach to Product Hunt will need to evolve as well.

Some features were removed, others were added, but there are still opportunities to gain visibility.

I just read an article from TechCrunch about how Robotics company 1X has struck a deal to send up to 10,000 Neo humanoid robots originally marketed for home use (but they want to focus on factory use in the future, although that was their original intention).

This made me think about several things:

Some launches or events are more memorable than others (and that's because they know how to differentiate themselves from the rest).

We are not completely at the end, but I can certainly say that the PH launch and event struck with me in the sense of making it memorable.

What s worked for us looks very different from spray-and-pray.

We ve learned that outbound works when it s intentional at every step.

A few things that made the biggest difference for us:

Getting the ICP really right. Sometimes the first outreach isn t to the buyer, but to someone who can open the door.
Personalization isn t optional. Company context, role, recent updates. Generic gets ignored fast.
Channels are chosen by output, not comfort. We double down on what actually converts.
The first message rarely works. Conversations usually start around the third or fourth touch, if there s value each time.
Timing matters more than volume. Funding news, hiring, social posts. Showing up when the problem is top of mind changes everything.
We focus on relationships, not just pipeline. Some buy later. Some refer. All conversations compound.
Context before calls helps. If someone engages multiple times, the conversation feels very different.
Signals matter. Engagement often tells you when to reach out, not just who.

I was doubting myself about whether I should post this. It's hard to share your real story in front of thousands of people and not be critical about it. But it s out !

All the slides from the HubSpot x Pretty Prompt event - Preview here

Feels a bit cringe. But you do what you have to do to grow your company, and maybe these learnings help other builders scale their products as we did.

I ve been using Google s @NanoBanana image tools for a while now for quick visuals, edits, and the occasional cursed meme. They ve been good enough that I haven t really felt a big urge to switch.

But I m seeing a ton of buzz around @ChatGPT Images and how much better they are for real-world stuff like thumbnails, product shots, and UI mocks.

From the announcement:

Today, Brex and Capital One are announcing the largest bank-fintech deal in history for $5.15B, joining forces to build the most important financial platform for businesses in the US.

...

To give you a sense of the scale of what we ll build together, Capital One today operates orders of magnitude ahead of Brex on almost any metric: $900B in annual card GMV, $700B in assets, $150B in market cap, a $6B marketing budget, and a $6B R&D budget. By combining Brex s technology, product, and go-to-market success with Capital One s unprecedented scale, brand, distribution, and balance sheet, we will supercharge our go-to-market and product development with levels of investment that will accelerate our mission by over a decade.

I believe that your chances of becoming visible on this platform also depend on how credible you appear.

In the past, there were even bots on Product Hunt, which led to the introduction of certain measures:

Last night I opened LinkedIn for a moment, and at that moment, someone wrote to me who is going to relaunch a product after a year and a half. (Yes, I do not have anything to work on Friday night, don't blame me, I do not have a social life) :D

Needless to say, a lot has changed on this platform in a year.

The Drive AI doesn t just create files, it works on them. You can merge documents, remove or insert specific pages, and restructure files exactly how you want using plain English. No clicking through folders, no manual edits, no busywork.
File work today steals time in small, frustrating ways that add up fast. The Drive AI takes that entire layer of work off your plate, so you never waste a second on boring file tasks again.

https://youtu.be/ebGqLm0A-Ww

Hey PH, today we're launching the BrowserBook Agent!

We ve been working on a way to move past manual, step-by-step automation building. The new Agent is a fully autonomous builder designed to take a single high-level prompt and turn it into a complete, deterministic workflow - handling all the technical heavy lifting behind the scenes. See it in action here:

GitHub recently published this year's Octoverse, the state of the open-source ecosystem.

Below are my key takeaways:

1. AI doesn t replace developers it brings more people into the ecosystem. A new developer joined GitHub every second in 2025. Top 5 developer populations: 1. United States, 2. India, 3. China, 4. Brazil, 5. United Kingdom.

2. Open source remains the foundation. Fastest-growing OSS projects by contributors include @Zen Browser, @VS Code, and AI-focused @Continue.

3. TypeScript is now the most used language on GitHub, overtook both Python and JavaScript. The AI effect? 80% of new repositories used just six languages: Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, C++, and C#.

4. Gen AI is now standard in development. 1.1M public repositories now use an LLM SDK.

5. Agents are here. Coding agents created 1M+ pull requests (PR) in the last 6 months, and it's just getting started.

Dear PH community,

Next week marks six months of Ting - and it would feel wrong not to do something special here, where it all started.

The most great ideas hit you when you re away from your workstation. Planelo Web was built to remove the friction between a "spark of inspiration" and "execution."

With our new Public Beta, you get a powerful Kanban-based workspace accessible from any browser. Whether you are juggling game dev, a startup, or a hobby project Planelo ensures no thought ever falls through the cracks.

Hey fam!
Thanks for all the support and interest for Citable! We're super excited to help you out along the GEO journey hands on)
During our launch, a lot of you asked very real, non-hype questions about AI visibility and GEO. Instead of answering them one by one in comments (which we did, but not enough), we re opening this up as a shared walkthrough on how to research GEO properly and turn it into measurable action.

Here are the exact questions people have been asking us:

• How is GEO actually different from SEO? What signals do LLMs care about?

• How do you know which prompts are worth optimizing before spending time or money?

• How do you separate being mentioned from being trusted or recommended ?

• How do you track impact when models are non-deterministic and drift over time?

• How do actions like Reddit posts, blogs, or LinkedIn content actually move AI answers?

• How do you prioritize when ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini disagree?

• Is this just analytics, or can you actually improve outcomes?

We ll walk through how we approach these questions step by step, using Citable as the working tool among others:

You spend 3 hours learning 50 vocabulary words for your exam.

One week later, you remember 8.

Hey Proximity community

Quick update from the builder side
Proximity Lock System was Staff Picked on Peerlist today, and also landed me in the Top 100 Builders (#60) over the last 30 days

This question is semi-philosophical, but I recall my ex-classmate she had quite rich parents and really didn't need to work. As an only child, she had everything first (all technology, all pricy vacations, they even bought her own flat in 18 + car). Since she had a lot of money from her parents and a lot of free time, she only enjoyed life (some dr*gs and other stuff). As a person, she didn't look like someone who would appreciate money or time at all because it was "normal" to have everything from all above mentioned.

(And I don't want to sound bad, but I honestly don't know what skill she would have that she could use to make a living - the only thing she was really good at was being sassy, which, oddly enough, earned some people's respect.)

Some metrics shared by @copple on X:

• 10,953 forks

• 95,435 stars

• 1,640 contributors

First launched on Product Hunt 5 years ago, [1] this growth rate is insane.

Every feed today claims to be better curated or more relevant.
But most of them still measure success by how long you stay.

I ve caught myself opening Twitter or YouTube to check one specific thing, then resurfacing 30 45 minutes later,

wondering where the time went.

Curious how this plays out for others here.
When you open a feed for a quick check, how long do you actually stay?
And does it usually feel worth it after?

Happy New Year, everyone. How did you spend the first day of 2026?

For me, the first day of a new year feels like the opening step of a long journey. So instead of rushing into productivity, I chose to begin 2026 by taking care of both my body and my inner world.

Here s how my Day One looked:

An early morning run, pushed myself 1km further to reach 7km
Wrote down all my goals for the year, both personal and professional
Repotted my flowering plant into a new pot
Cooked a nutritious meal for myself with Stranger Things series
Started reading a new book
Cleaned and reset my living space

I have to admit I m a tragedy when it comes to being first at trying new technology or so which means I ve fallen for more scams and shady situations than I d like to count.

(At least I can warn my friends and family before they make the same mistakes, so that's the only advantage.)

I decided to share some best practices I regret not doing sooner:

Teams aren t just adding AI into existing workflows.
They re reshaping the workflows themselves with the AI agent in the loop.

Steps get removed.
Objectives become clearer.
Old constraints disappear.
Processes reorganize around what the system can now do natively.

The real productivity gain isn t automation.
It s rethinking the architecture entirely.

Curious to hear from this crowd:
What s one workflow you rebuilt because AI made the old version irrelevant?