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Vercel Day returns to the leaderboard Friday, September 25! This time, top launches could head straight to Vercel's Ship SF.

The mission: ship a sharp, polished web product built on Vercel. If it s ready, don't let it sit on localhost.

Product Hunt has teamed up with OpenAI Developers to launch the GPT-6 Astra Challenge!
@OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra is built for complex, multi-step work from software engineering and research to workflows that require judgment and follow-through.
Build something useful with Astra, launch it on Product Hunt, and compete for API credits and ChatGPT Pro subscriptions.
If you re already building with Astra, this is a chance to share what you ve made and put it in front of a wider audience. You can schedule your launch for Friday, September 18.
Here's everything you need to get started:

• Schedule your launch: https://www.producthunt.com/cont...

• GPT-6 Astra Challenge Launch Guide: https://producthunt.s.gy/forum-a...

• GPT-6 Astra Model Guide: https://developers.openai.com/ap...

• GPT-6 Astra API Docs: https://developers.openai.com/ap...

• OpenAI Demo Showcase: https://developers.openai.com/sh...

• OpenAI Discord: https://discord.gg/openai

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.

The last two days, I had some personal problems and spent basically the whole time trying to solve them.

And during that time I did no work, no posts, no ideas, no inspiration, nothing... =D

Just me, solving my own puzzle !

I m trying to grow on X right now. I am still at the beginning, and I really want to know what actually worked for people here.

For those who managed to grow on X, what worked for you?

I ve been experimenting with something new at Kanverse.

A real-world message can enter Roblox, reach an avatar, and actions inside the virtual world can be verified and reported back outside.

It s still an early prototype the avatar is player-controlled for now but the next step is autonomous interaction.

I posted a short video showing the experiment here:

For me, I finish the tasks I didn t complete during the week, then try to get ahead on a few things.

And I always finish my weekend by preparing my tasks for the next week.

I know some founders completely disconnect on weekends, but I ve never really managed to do that

What about you? Do you work on weekends or completely switch off?

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?

Changes:

- Improved design of the Dashboard page;

- Tagged: added sidebar for easier tag management;

- Tagged: added action toolbar for better filtering and preview;

I m building Inquir Compute, a platform for running apps, databases and background jobs in one workspace.

AI tools are helping more people write working applications. I m interested in what happens next, when you need to put that app online and keep it running.

If you ve deployed something you built with AI, where did you get stuck? Build errors, database connections, environment variables, unexpected costs or something else?

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?

Be honest, even just for a second

Do you ever think that AI might eventually take over the world?

Most of the time I open a screenshot again, I want one thing out of it: the URL behind a QR code, the address on a receipt, a phone number from a chat. 1.2.0 adds Parts for exactly that.

Select any item in your history and press Control+U. BiBimba lists what it found inside: QR and barcode contents, links, email addresses, phone numbers, postal addresses, and, for text copied from a web page, the page title and URL. Pick one, press Return, and only that value is pasted into the app you came from.

QR codes and barcodes are read on your Mac with Vision when the screenshot is taken, so their contents are searchable in the history too. Nothing leaves the machine, same as before.

In my 4 or 5 years of working at startups, I ve noticed that people always have a problem when they are told about changes:

free version jumped to a trial with a subscription or lifetime purchase

subscription and lifetime purchase prices increased

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

We're excited to welcome @Loops as Designeer's first Diamond Sponsor
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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...

As I am very close to release the mobile version of my Jottoo app on Apple and Google platforms, I am keen to do a stress test and capture your feedback about the apps and what to improve.

What you'd do (about 30 minutes over a week):

• Record a meeting, upload an audio file, and type a quick note

• Check that the summary and tasks with deadlines look right

• Tell me what felt confusing, slow, or broken

• Rate the app with your honest feedback

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

Genie, our AI Analyst, can already tell you what changed in your numbers. It's never been able to tell you why, because the why almost never lives in Databox.

Revenue drops 8%, and the real reason is a stalled deal in HubSpot, a pricing objection buried in a Slack thread, or a support ticket nobody flagged. Right now, finding that out means leaving your dashboard, opening three other tools, and piecing it together yourself. Every time.

Next week, we're launching MCP Connectors. Connect your CRM, Slack, support desk, or any MCP server, and your AI Analyst gets that same context, right inside the conversation. Ask why a number moved, and it points to the actual deal or thread behind it, not just the number.

Hello everyone!

This release is all about bringing your read-it-later URLs to life by getting your content into Recall. You can now import reading lists straight from a CSV, watch exactly what succeeds or needs attention, and jump right to your new cards. We have also released a new flow so you can save your chat outputs to either one new card or any existing card, improved the images for EPUB and social saves, and squashed a wide range of bugs across saving, sync, and mobile.

We're relaunching omadesign on Product Hunt tomorrow, Saturday Sep 26, at 12:01 AM PT.

Since last Friday's launch we've shipped 0.5.1 through 0.5.9: Lua plugins, cloud sharing and review, responsive layouts with prototypes and HTML export, chroma key plus 30 raster filters and effects, editable gradients and compound paths, a screen-wide eyedropper, and a pile of bug fixes. I'm shipping new features daily, and 0.6.0 is right behind it.

WP Bones 2.1.0 is out the bones CLI that ships inside every plugin gets sturdier

Runs from any folder. php my-plugin/bones used to stop with a TypeError anywhere but the plugin root. Now it works, custom commands included.