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Hey PH community!

As founders and builders, we spend so much time crafting our products, but communication precision is equally crucial, whether pitching investors, writing copy, or leading teams.

Mastra is an open-source TypeScript framework for building AI-powered applications and agents.

Founded by the team behind @Gatsby and backed by @Y Combinator, they will be live on @Product Hunt this Wednesday, January 21.

It's a year since the last Pagecord launch on Product Hunt and, wow, a lot has changed!

I'm going to launch the latest version next week. I'd love your support!

Most AI platforms treat memory like a walled garden.

What you tell ChatGPT stays in ChatGPT. What Claude learns about you stays in Claude.

People frame this as a "memory" problem. We don't think it is. It's an interoperability problem.

Throughout building our universal memory layer, this is the pattern we kept seeing:

One of the coolest parts of my job is getting a front-row seat to how @marianaprazeres thinks about AI.
Memory feels table stakes in AI right now. But for @Meet-Ting, it s not just a log of the past - it s a living system that shapes how people schedule, work, and want to spend their week.
It s not just logistics - it s patterns around energy, priorities, and relationships over time.

Here are a few things we learned while designing and testing agent memory in production:

Looks fine to me is one of the most expensive phrases in engineering.

Not because it s careless,
but because it s often said when someone doesn t have time to dig deeper.

Most review shortcuts come from time pressure, not lack of skill.

PRFlow exists to reduce the number of times a reviewer has to rely on gut feel instead of evidence.

Hi all - I've built @Mnexium AI and I thought the fastest way to get folks to try was it to build a chat plug-in for websites. I am providing free keys (however much usage it may be) to anyone who is willing to try it.

The plug-in can be found on NPM https://www.npmjs.com/package/@m...

npm install @mnexium/chat

We re building Swatle for modern, lean teams that care more about speed and outcomes than heavy processes.

Swatle works like a powerful project management tool but with a twist. You can create intelligent AI chatbots for customer support, sales, and more. When something needs human attention, it automatically creates a task.

Here s the game changer: you can assign tasks to AI agents and yes, your AI agents can assign tasks to you too.

Sounds interesting? Give it a try and experience a new way of working.

GitScrum was built by engineers who got tired of pretending this was sustainable.

Dark Mode Isn't a Theme, It's a Philosophy

Fifty-four IDE color schemes. Dracula, Nord, Tokyo Night, Catppuccin, Monokai Pro. Not because it's trendy, but because developers are viscerally attached to their environments. Switching from VSCode to a project management tool shouldn't feel like stepping into fluorescent-lit corporate purgatory.

Hey Product Hunt community!

This is YUKI from the Typeless marketing team.

Let's be honest: mobile typing is broken. We lose ideas because typing feels like too much work. We delay replies because it's tedious. We fight autocorrect, fix typos, and hope our messages don't sound rushed.

This is why we built Typeless for Android AI voice dictation that transforms how you communicate on mobile.

If your launch does not go as planned, do not judge it too quickly.
Avoid the instinct to immediately add more features or pivot the product.

Instead, pause and evaluate what already exists.
Check whether the core features are clearly communicated, fully polished, and genuinely solve the intended problem.
Often, the issue is not the idea, but the execution, positioning, or user experience.

Refine what you have. Improve clarity, usability, onboarding, and messaging.
Then relaunch with focus and confidence.

Many products fail not because they were wrong, but because they were unfinished, unclear, or rushed.

With today s tools, translation (UI, copy, even video) is no longer the hard part.

What slows us down instead are things like tax, legal compliance, hiring, support, payments sometimes even geopolitics. The moment users show up from a new country, a product problem turns into an operating one.

We just shipped multi-provider support in @Mnexium AI so you can change LLMs without resetting conversations, user context or memories.

The problem

When teams switch providers, they usually lose everything:

There are plenty of tools that seem useful on paper, yet something makes us close the tab instantly.

Sometimes it s pricing, sometimes messaging, sometimes the onboarding feels unclear.

Often it s a gut feeling that s hard to explain.

Hey Product Hunt

I wanted to share a quick update on Planelo.

After launching on iOS & macOS, I m now finishing the Android version, and I ll be opening a closed testing phase in the next few days.

I m currently looking for early Android testers who:

20,000 users. Just in time for the new year
It s not a finish line. Just another step.
If you used Pretty Prompt even once this year, this one s yours too.

I can't believe we got here in just 7 months, all from that first PH launch...
Tonight, it s a glass of Malbec and family time.
Short pause to close 2025. Then back to building.

Salud

You can now submit your app to the OpenAI App Store directly from Noodle Seed - no waiting on us.

If you have any questions or need help, the entire Noodle Seed team is here. We'd love to help as many folks as possible get listed on the OpenAI App Store.

Most code doesn t last.
But the reasoning behind it should.

Good code review captures intent,
why something exists,
what problem it was meant to solve,
and what tradeoffs were accepted at the time.

I've had to restart alot recently, and it's getting tiring. Restarting means not just restarting the app but also the many procedures that I have running. Once a week is fine, but honestly, check this out:
January 16, 2026 restart update

January 14, 2026 restart update

January 12, 2026 restart update

In this version, you can hide the desktop widgets on whichever Desktop View you like.

New Version Discount: 30% off ($8.99) until the end of January 2026 with promotion code PRODUCTHUNT at checkout!

We don t need to say your product is great, let others decide that.

There is no guarantee that we are the best, or that what we build is amazing. As someone who prefers doing over talking, I always remind myself: what customers say about my product is the most honest reflection of what it truly is.

If users feel satisfied, it means the product is moving in the right direction.
If they don t, it doesn t mean we ve failed completely. It means something isn t right yet, and it s time to fix it.

I think it was Robert Kiyosaki who said that straight-A students end up working for C students, and B students work for the government.

On the other hand, we often see stories of college dropouts building billion-dollar companies. But these next big thing cases are maybe 2% at most. I believe top students usually find their place in more formal paths: becoming doctors, lawyers, and similar professions.

We just shipped @mnexium/chat: a single npm package that adds a polished, production-ready AI chat widget to any website. React, Next.js, Express, or plain HTML it just works, and most importantly it remembers.

The Problem

Adding AI chat to a product usually means:

I keep seeing the same pattern across early-stage teams:

the MVP works until it really doesn t.

For many founders, the hardest part isn t getting something online
it s everything that comes after:
infra that cracks under real users
code that no dev wants to touch
rewriting the whole stack
AI-built projects no one can maintain
the moment you realize your prototype isn t a product