Connect with the Product Hunt community

tldr: yes. Shoutouts are one of the simplest distribution levers on Product Hunt.

Shoutouts are meant to pay it forward and highlight the tools that helped you build. But beyond goodwill, they create durable distribution for your product on Product Hunt and across LLM driven discovery.

When you shout out a product during launch, it becomes a founder review on that product s page. Founder reviews sit above regular reviews and include a link to both your profile and your product. That means your product is now attached to every future visit to that product s review page, long after launch day. For example, check out @timliao s shoutout of @Framer or @guymanzur s shoutout of @Base44

TL;DR: Anthropic refused to sign a contract with the Pentagon that would have allowed the U.S. military to use all of its models without restrictions. Anthropic insisted on an exception, and brace yourself, that its models cannot be used: 1) for mass surveillance of citizens, 2) for autonomous killing. Now the administration is threatening that if the founder of Anthropic doesn't change his mind by a certain date, they will come after him.

Google, OpenAI, and Musk (Grok) have all signed the contract.

Following Sam Altman's announcement over the past few hours, people have been speaking out massively about cancelling their OpenAI subscriptions and subscribing to Claude.

With the advent of clawdbots, it's as if we've all lost our inhibitions and "put our lives completely in their hands."

I'm all for delegating work, but not giving them too much personal/sensitive stuff to handle.

AI workflow automation tools help you design, run, and evolve workflows that actually take action not just suggest what to do next. Some use AI to make workflows easier to build. Others embed AI directly into execution so workflows can handle ambiguity, make decisions, and adapt as they run. The strongest tools do both.

This definition excludes tools where AI only generates static workflows and then steps aside. It also excludes general assistants that never meaningfully participate in end-to-end execution.

If I'm being honest, I'm online (and on PC in general) more than is healthy. Never less than 12 to 14 hours a day.

In practice, I use it most often for:

creating graphics

I am a Computer Science student doing research into how solopreneurs and small startups create new apps and what their stack looks like. Particularly, I'm interested in how you handle things like authentication, billing, and permissions/authorization in your apps.

Let me know what you're working on below and how you're going about it -- I'd love to connect for some quick calls to learn about your product and talk about your process in building it!

If you followed Naoma a year ago, you knew us as a sales conversation analytics tool. We connected to your CRM, analyzed rep calls, and surfaced patterns from top performers so the rest of the team could learn from them.

It worked. Teams liked the insights.

But we kept noticing the same thing: the real bottleneck wasn't after the demo. It was getting to the demo in the first place and what happened in those first few minutes before a rep ever joined.

Qualified buyers were waiting 3 6 days for a demo slot. Many dropped off. The ones who showed up often hadn't been properly qualified. Sales reps were spending half their week running intro demos for people who were never a fit.

I recently saw a marketer with 10k+ followers launch and finish 6th with 348 upvotes. They followed a proper pre-launch and post-launch plan, did everything right, and still the outcome felt unpredictable.

Now I m launching @Curatora next week.

I m not a marketer. I have a little over 1k followers. Of course, asking for support helps. But I also keep hearing that a large part of the Product Hunt community shows up mainly for their own launch, then goes quiet until the next one.

That makes me wonder: how much of success here is strategy, and how much is timing and network effect?

While building a product, I ve also been trying to run content on social media to bring in more traffic. I experimented with creating AI-generated characters and producing UGC-style videos around them.

During this process, I realized something interesting: there are hundreds of tools that can generate virtual characters and UGC-style videos. But what actually makes a video engaging isn t the tool - it s the authenticity of the person creating the content.

Content is your best tool to do just that.
Content allows you to:

Establish credibility

Show you understand their pain
Build a connection before even reaching out
When you post regularly whether it's about industry insights, product use cases, or personal experiences you start warming up your leads before you send that first email.

By the time you reach out, they already recognise you. They re already engaged. They already trust you.

Hey Product Hunt

We launched CourseKit today and I wanted to share what we're building and why.

ZeroThreat.ai isn t new. But what we ve built into it changes the game. 

We ve added Agentic AI an autonomous, decision-driven execution layer that: 

 Observes application behavior 

As usual, Y Combinator came up with segments that are worth investing:

1. Cursor for Product Managers
2. AI-Native Hedge Funds
3. AI-Native Agencies
4. Stablecoin Financial Services
5. AI for Government
6. Modern Metal Mills
7. AI Guidance for Physical Work 8. Large Spatial Models 9. Infra for Government Fraud Hunters 10. Make LLMs Easy to Train

Product Hunt is best known for its homepage, a daily leaderboard of the most creative and innovative products on the internet. Makers go all out to win launch day, because that visibility matters. Product Hunt also plays a significant role in how products appear in Google search results.

What surprised us was that AI assistants like ChatGPT were rarely citing Product Hunt in product recommendations.

New AI models pop up every week. Some developer tools like @Cursor, @Zed, and @Kilo Code let you choose between different models, while more opinionated products like @Amp and @Tonkotsu default to 1 model.

Curious what the community recommends for coding tasks? Any preferences?

I just shipped Prosaic v1.3.3, a small but meaningful update focused on reliability and writing flow.

The big change is autosave. Files now save automatically every 10 seconds, with a simple status bar indicator so you always know what state your document is in:

• just saved

• idle

• [+] unsaved changes

• [ ] saved state

That's CourseKit.

Paste your sales page get a full suite of branded AI tools that help your students execute what you learn. One click. Free. Embeddable in your course.

First off, thank you to everyone who supported Springfield Oracle during launch. The response on Product Hunt and beyond has been overwhelming. The feedback, ideas, bug reports, and encouragement have all been incredibly motivating for our small team.

Over the past few days, we've been going through everything you've shared and working late nights to improve the platform. Here s a quick look at what s coming next:

1. Major Bug Fixes & UI Improvements
We ve been working through a long list of bugs and UX improvements to make the site smoother and easier to use. Expect improvements to navigation, loading performance, and the overall browsing experience, so exploring predictions feels seamless.

2. More Predictions Being Added
The world is constantly changing, and so are the events people claim were predicted by The Simpsons. We're actively adding new predictions to the database as they appear in the news cycle. While the headlines aren t always rosy, we re hopeful that over time we ll start seeing more positive predictions making their way into reality as well.

The problem: students buy courses, consume the content, and then stall when it's time to implement. It's not a knowledge gap it's an execution gap.

The solution: CourseKit.

I posted a random thread on X about the cost of living in the Netherlands. Nothing about what we're building. Just genuine thoughts about life in the Netherlands.

It hit 1M+ impressions. And here's the weird part we got a ton of signups and paid users for Starnus from it. Without ever mentioning the product.

Meanwhile, my "here's what Starnus does" posts? Way less engagement.

This genuinely messed with my head. I'm sharing the actual X post below

Building a team or want to join a startup? Let's kick 2026 off to a great start.

Founders, teams, and startups drop a comment if you're hiring.

Two conversations. Same week.

First founder said,
Really interesting product. Love what you re building.

Great energy. Smart questions. Strong validation.

We never heard back.

Hey everyone,

I just wanted to drop a quick note to say a massive thank you to all of you who have been using Pinly and supporting it since the launch. Seeing people actually rely on something I built to make their days a little easier has been awesome.

A couple weeks ago, Boris Cherny (the creator of Claude Code) shared a bunch of really useful tips on getting the most out of Claude Code. #1 at the top of the list: do more in parallel. He himself runs 10-15 Claude codes in parallel.

His advice and practice makes sense: coding agents give us the ability scale infinitely. At this point, the only real limiter is our own ability to manage all of these agents.

Early-stage founders often try to improve their product as much as possible and tend to take almost any feedback into account.

Sometimes they end up adding every feature users (even non-paying ones) ask for, even when those features are unnecessary. The product then becomes more complicated and harder to use.

And I m not even talking about the stage when the product is already established. At that point, there are more users, and their expectations start to differ.