gm, legends. It’s Sunday funday.

Today’s highlights: why the AI feature you want doesn’t exist, the joy of brutal feedback, how productivity tools might be zapping your productivity, and our cherry on top: the most popular products that launched this week.

Put on the kettle and relax into the read.

P.S. Launching soon? We’d love to hear about it → editorial@producthunt.co 🫶

Tired of SEO analytics he couldn’t make sense of, Josh Nichols started building a real-time dashboard that gave him the data without the drama. 

Three months later, he launched WebVisor so other websites could peek under the hood to see their stats. Then came the “brutal comments.” But in a good way!

His Product Hunt launch garnered him instant feedback that he could use

Cookies? Undigestible. “No setup” claims? Lies! So he gave the site a makeover to get setup down to under a minute and cookies down to zero. In 48 hours, he onboarded over 100 sites. Now he wants more—not just sites, but critiques that can lead to his next midnight makeover.

He’s brewing a pot of coffee right now.

Just a quick note to remind you that AI can’t do everything a startup staffer can. Hamza asked: “AI is everywhere...what’s one thing it still can’t do right?” 

Nearly every commentator agrees that AI doesn’t do great at being human. Rahul thinks that its understanding of human emotion lacks “real nuance,” and Haiqa said using it for customer support “sounded like a robot giving a TED Talk.” 

Zagita put this conversation about context into clear terms: Sometimes when a customer says, “Great, thanks,” what they really mean is “Fix this now or I’m out.” You mean it’s been trained on millions of human interactions but hasn’t figured out how to be passive-agressive? Maybe we should feed it our mom’s texts asking why we aren’t coming home this Christmas.

In the meantime, AI, maybe you can get us a coffee. It’s not going to brew itself.

Kenedy asked, “Do you ever feel like your tools are working against you?”

Kenedy thinks with all our focus on “productivity,” we may just have gone and “overengineered our digital workflows.” As in, the abundance of tools might…be making us less productive. Whereas we once might have opened our (physical) notebook and scribbled down a few thoughts when the lightbulb turned on, now we have an 18-step process for capturing ideas.

So the bigger question is: Which productivity features are essential, and which are just adding friction?