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This is the perfect time to actually build on those crazy ideas you've been sitting on.... or resurrect one of your "ongoing" side projects.

Because building products has become much more accessible thanks to AI, the bar has had to rise a bit, or at least the expectations have become stricter.

I built my own tool  SafeLimit, but personally, I wouldn t launch it on Product Hunt yet because it s still very basic and doesn t even have a website.

Article 14 reporting went live on 11 September. It applies to apps you shipped years ago, the only filing channel is a web form with no API, and the login you need to use it is not something you can obtain at hour 23.

Almost every summary of the EU Cyber Resilience Act you've read ends with the same reassurance: it applies from December 2027, you have time. That sentence is true about the part of the Act that will cost you the most work, and it is wrong about the part that is live right now.

I think a pitch deck is almost like a passport for a startup =)

It needs to contain all the important information about the business, but at the same time, it has to be presented in the right, clear, and aesthetic way.

I m realizing how difficult that balance actually is...

Too much information - nobody wants to read it.
Too little - the business isn't clear.
Too much design - the message gets lost.
Too little - it becomes just another boring document.
So, I have a lot of questions =D

For solo makers, wearing every hat is almost unavoidable - developer, marketer, support, product and often designer too.

AI makes this even easier now. You can generate UI pretty quickly, but a lot of products end up relying on consistent, polished AI-generated solutions rather than something truly unique or thoughtfully designed for their specific product.

So I m curious:

Do you design the UI/UX yourself when building solo?

We just shipped Second Brain 3.4.0, and since the last Product Hunt update was 3.0, I wanted to share what has changed.

The biggest addition in 3.4 is Projects.

If you use AI across different products, clients, codebases, or areas of your life, one giant pool of memory can get messy fast. Projects let you keep related memories together, so your AI can pull from the right context without you having to explain everything again.

Making a product is one big challenge. But shifting your mindset from building to marketing it might be an even bigger one.
As makers, we spend so much time improving the product. Then comes the question: How do we get people to discover it - and ultimately turn that attention into real customers and sales?
I'm not sure traditional approaches like email marketing and constantly posting on social media are enough anymore. The way people discover products is changing.
So I'm curious:

How do you approach marketing your product?
And for the marketers here:
What would you consider a modern marketing approach in 2026-2027? What would you advise an early-stage founder to focus on?
I'd love to hear different perspectives...

Two months ago I asked here how people stay aware of what their agents are doing, and @getosmo replied with something that has been quietly rearranging my roadmap since.

I had been treating "can you undo it" as the line for when an agent should stop and ask. He took that apart. Irreversibility over-fires and under-fires, he said. It over-fires on things that cannot be undone but that nobody cares about, like the agent writing a log line. It under-fires on the ones that really hurt: a mass email to 50k users, or a migration you can only roll back after downtime. "Reversible on paper, ruinous in practice."

I m not really a person who likes sharing my everyday life online =)
That s one of the reasons I m really happy to be part of the Product Hunt community.

I like being able to stay in touch with like-minded people and have everyday conversations about things we re building, learning, and interested in.
But I understand that social media is a big part of today s lifestyle, and it s absolutely great that it gives people a way to connect, share, and find each other.

So, I m curious:

Do you have social media as a maker?

Building a startup means that you make decisions, take risks, learn from mistakes, change your strategy and try to think a few moves ahead.

For me, it would be chess.

Open the terminal where your agent is running. Do it now, before you read the rest.

Is something sitting there waiting for you? How long has it been there?

Mac Duo 1.2 is out, with a broader visual refresh focused on making the whole app feel more at home on the Mac.

What's new:

In every community, we naturally find people we love to communicate with, interact with, or simply follow.

From my very first day on Product Hunt, some people became little lighthouses for me here.

The moment I signed up, I noticed @busmark_w_nika and her threads. She became one of those people I always enjoy following here.

Then came @amraniyasser and @bengeekly .
And that was only my first day =D

Hey Product Hunt

We ve launched Noodle Seed here twice this year, and I wanted to thank this community and everyone who has tried the product and shared feedback with us. You ve helped shape what we re building next.

Across those launches, we learned two lessons. Our first product was easy to get started with, but left too little room for different business needs. Our second gave engineers more flexibility, but getting started still required technical work that many businesses couldn t take on.

Your feedback has helped us focus our roadmap on bringing those qualities together: making Noodle Seed approachable for a business owner / founder, with enough flexibility to adapt as their needs grow.

For every comment that I leave, I usually upvote about ten other items. Reviewing my own history, there was one thing that all my comments had in common: the creator had made a tough choice. Either they were worried about pricing or had dropped a feature.

A polished announcement gets an unobtrusive upvote. An honest doubt is responded to because it's the only way to do so.

Tellie 1.6 is out. Liquid Glass chrome; it remembers which display you put it on (docked or floating); a coaching strip that tells you when a point landed and how much time you have left; and Take Coach, an after-take debrief written on-device (beta). Voice Follow is the same idea it always was: it matches the words you say, so pausing and ad-libbing don't lose your place. Free download, Pro $29 once, 10 days of Pro on every install. https://tellieapp.com/ph

I'd never considered packs until a friend complained about the "default" words they just weren't doing it for him. "Now, if you had a fantasy pack ". And thus fantasy, sci-fi, supers. I find the fantasy pack the most challenging, but on a good day that really works. :)

And again the pricing plan =D

Let s discuss the serious side of product growth.

At first, it seems easy: set some prices, create a few plans, and start selling your product.

But when the time actually comes, a ton of questions appear...

Road to 1,000,000 @Votap users - Day 92 | Current: 1554

When I was reading TechCrunch today, I came across Jensen Huang s (NVIDIA CEO) view that AI safety should be handled by companies through engineering and market pressure, rather than through new regulation.

In my opinion, the power of consumers and the public is sometimes simply not strong enough to counterbalance large technology companies. That s why I believe governments sometimes need to step in and establish rules and regulations.

I recently saw a reel where a girl was recording a Skill with Claude to find newly posted real-estate apartments every day.

She had specific filters - location, price, etc. and Claude would go through the new listings, find the ones that matched, collect all the relevant information, and create a spreadsheet with the results every day.

Ota lets one task declare native, container, or configured remote modes. The contract makes differences in context, dependencies, environment, command, and runtime explicit, while developers, CI, and AI agents discover the same task.

After launching RunEvr, we started getting a lot of offers related to blog post creation.

But we had already designed our own blog mechanism earlier, even before the launch.

We re working on this ourselves right now. We even built our own CMS to make it easy to create, review, and publish posts directly to our blog.

But one thing is important to us: the blog belongs to us.

My Downloads folder has slowly turned into a mix of PDFs screenshots installers and random files I only needed once. I keep meaning to clean it up but doing it manually every few days gets annoying. I d rather not pay for another cleanup app just for this. Are you using any built-in rules shortcuts or simple folder setup to automatically deal with old files?

One of the most requested MinkNote features here on Product Hunt was for MinkNote to automatically detect when notes are changed by other apps or AI tools.

It was actually the #1 request I received from the Product Hunt community.