The Leaderboard: Thursday

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The best serverless GPUs

Modal is the best serverless GPU platform. I know because I founded Banana.dev, a popular competitor. (Yes, writing this was quite the exercise on the ego). What I love about Modal is that it makes me *think differently* about how to write code. I don’t need a microservice, I just write a function. I don’t need S3, I just add a volume. I don’t need to deploy to show my coworkers my app, as I was developing in the cloud the whole time. Modal is what programming and deploying should’ve been from the start — with the added perk of GPUs.

Erik Dunteman

Contractor (and most handsome Erik) @ Modal

Grow your app with Setapp: revenue, users, & AI

You shipped the app. Now comes the part nobody warns you about.

Billing across dozens of countries. Licensing agreements. Tax compliance. Customer support for users you haven't met yet. And if your app does anything with AI, add provider management and infrastructure costs to the pile. None of that is why you started building — but all of it is now your problem.

Setapp is trying to take it off your plate.

You probably know Setapp as the subscription marketplace — one monthly price, hundreds of Mac apps. On May 21st, they turned toward developers. The pitch is simple: list your app, reach users who are already looking, and let Setapp handle the business layer.

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Slack overflow

Zivy (#1 on yesterday’s leaderboard) is an AI-powered work app organizational tool that plugs into Slack and categorizes messages based on perceived importance and urgency. The idea is great, but with Slack’s own AI recap feature already out, Zivy faces stiff competition. Without broader integrations or standout features, I’d imagine it will struggle to compete in a cutthroat productivity tools market.

Ben Griese

Community Support Manager @ Product Hunt

Stop counting timezones

There (#5 on yesterday’s leaderboard) is a MacOS menubar extension that displays the local time of friends and teammates worldwide. The founders first launched the extension six years ago, but the new version is native and open-source. I work with people in 5-7 different timezones on a daily basis and still have no idea what UTC offset I’m in, so this is the best news I’ve heard since I found out that Hawk Tuah girl was starting a podcast.