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

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?

1. No way for city residents to order delivery from local stores to their elderly relatives in remote villages.

2. It's difficult for parents of newborns in India to organize vaccination: there is no service for easy doctor search and a turnkey process provision.

3. Solar installation companies lack a platform for end-to-end tracking of a customer's project from sale to official approval, causing complaints and dissatisfaction.

Hey everyone!
It s been a busy week at the Ping HQ. We re big believers in building in public, and that means being honest: our Copilot had some rough edges that were getting in the way of a truly frictionless workflow.

We spent the last few days digging into the code to fix what was broken and polish what was working. Here is the breakdown:

Dear Hunters, Founders and Marketers

There s a common assumption that job applications are mobile-first now.
Before moving into building a mobile app, we wanted to test that assumption with data rather than rely on intuition..

First, we looked at real usage.
In our GA4 data, mobile accounts for ~22% of active users.
But desktop dominates engagement and core actions, longer sessions, more events, and more consistent usage over time.

Whether you're a solo builder or part of a fast-moving product team, documentation always seems to lag just behind reality.
Is it the speed of product changes?

• Getting engineers or PMs to consistently update docs?

• Lack of ownership?

• Tooling limitations?

• Or is it something else entirely?

  Would love to hear your thoughts on this.

Just shipped version 1.6 with some big changes:
App Store Link: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/ai...

New: Journal Mode (Beta)

• Chat with your AI companion about your day

• It asks thoughtful questions to help you reflect

• Generates a summary when you're done

• Mood tracking built in - see your patterns over time

• Add photos to capture moments

• Calendar view to browse past entries

Yesterday was a big day for us, and we re still processing all of it.
TinyCommand finished as #2 Product of the Day, and for a small team that s been quietly building for months, it genuinely meant a lot.
We started TinyCommand because we kept seeing the same problem everywhere, people spending more time stitching tools together than actually doing their work.
Workflows breaking silently, data scattered across apps, forms living in one place and automation in another it never felt as simple as it should be.
That s the gap we wanted to close.
Seeing so many of you understand that instantly and even share the exact struggles you face made the launch feel meaningful beyond the ranking.
Thank you for the comments, the feedback, the upvotes, and the honest conversations throughout the day.
It helped more than you know.
There s a lot ahead for TinyCommand, and yesterday gave us even more clarity on what matters next.
#AllItTakesIsATinyCommand

Is there something you feel you missed and if you could go back, would you make the same decision, or choose differently?

I ve only recently started my professional journey, working at a startup that builds an app. I don t have a long or glamorous career yet, nor a lot of experience. But one thing I do regret is not trying to work earlier, and instead spending most of my time buried in academic studies.

When I finally entered the workplace, I realized that much of what I learned in school was no longer aligned with the market or the speed at which things evolve. The job required soft skills that textbooks and theory never taught. I learned quickly that without self-learning and constant adaptation, it s easy to fall behind.

Most quality conversations happen after the code is written.

That s already late.

We support flexible compute sizing in Bult.ai so apps only use what they actually need.

XS to XL sizes cover everything from prototypes to databases, with per-minute billing and the ability to resize anytime from the Canvas UI.
Compute options:
XS: 0.1 vCPU, 256 MB RAM, $2.7 per month. Ideal for prototypes
S: 0.25 vCPU, 512 MB RAM, $5.4 per month. Suitable for small apps
M: 0.5 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, $12 per month. Designed for web applications
L: 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, $24 per month. A good fit for APIs
XL: 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, $48 per month. Optimized for databases

Custom sizes are also available for advanced workloads available on request.
Happy to answer questions about sizing or use cases.

According to @Supabase's State of Startups 2025, founders follow newsletters like TLDR. 

ICYMI Product Hunt isn t just a launch platform. It s also a collective of newsletters. 

Getting Devs to Change Their Workflow Requires Being 10x Better, Not 2x Better

And how Context Sync is building toward that 10x difference

Last night, I had what I thought was a billion-dollar idea.

We ve already talked a few times about how handing a child a tablet isn t always the best solution.

Meanwhile, some countries are starting to ban access to social media for minors (even my country is considering a ban up to age 16).

But there are certain technologies that can actually develop a child s talent and imagination through play.

I bet you learned and experienced a ton over the past 365 days. All those lessons are pure gold you can carry into the future, especially into 2026.

So, what s the single most valuable piece of business advice you would give your 2026 self right now?

and edit file from Dropbox, Google Drive

If you tried to build this "Email Finder and Verifier" inside Zapier or Make, you d be stuck creating a massive spiderweb of router steps to handle every single exception.

You d have to manually define every rule: "If the email is invalid, do this," "If that fails, try this name search," "If that fails, try a domain search." It s exhausting!

As one year comes to an end and a new one begins, I find myself pausing to reflect. If you had the chance to say something to your future self to the version of you in 2025 and 2026, what would it be?

Looking back, I want to thank myself for how much I pushed through this past year:

• For finding a job I genuinely value, even after going through a long period of stress and fear of unemployment

• For speaking up and sharing my own perspectives at work

• For choosing action over just talking

• For walking away from toxic and unnecessary work relationships

• For daring to learn new things outside my original field of study

• For letting go of some comforts and entertainment to focus more on my health

This debate often gets framed as Should researchers use AI for literature reviews?

I think the real question is different.

Is it ethical to spend hundreds of researcher hours on mechanical work when that time could be spent advancing actual knowledge?

Think about a researcher spending an entire weekend searching papers, skimming irrelevant abstracts, copying citations, and fixing references. That s not insight or discovery. That s overhead.

I've been building ResumeUp.AI to help job seekers, and the feedback I get is wild. Some recurring themes:

• ATS systems rejecting qualified candidates over formatting

• "Easy Apply" leading to 500+ applicants per role

• No response after multiple interview rounds

• Job descriptions that don't match actual roles

For those hiring, what's broken from your side? Would love to understand both perspectives.

Mastra (YC W25) is launching on Product Hunt today, releasing stable 1.0 for building AI apps and agents, and announcing 300,000+ weekly npm downloads, 19,400+ GitHub stars, and production use at companies like @Replit and @WorkOS.

I had a blast working on this launch with @calcsam @smthomas3 @bookercodes and team, and wanted to share with you some thoughts we put into the ops.