Gemini 3 doesn’t care if you don’t like it

gm legends. It’s Sunday funday.

This week: what Gemini 3 means for AI startups, why 100 rejections can be worth $850,000, when a bug is the feature, and music that’s good for your brain. Plus: some of the top launches from the past week

Fill the Yeti, take a moment to make another monthly payment on that sucker, and then read on. 

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

This week, Google’s war with OpenAI deepened when it dropped Gemini 3, the first major update to its AI model in eight months.

While no one’s confusing Gemini 3 with Grok (which shipped 4.1 this week), this version supposedly won’t care too much about being nice. The CEO of Google DeepMind, Demis Hassabis, wrote that the upgrade meant “trading cliché and flattery for genuine insight — telling you what you need to hear, not what you want to hear.”

That is amazing, Google, and how perceptive and thoughtful of you to…oh, sorry. What we meant to say is that we’ll have to see whether users respond better to the upgrade than they did to OpenAI’s GPT-5 rollout in August. GPT-4o stans revolted when they learned that GPT-5’s emergence meant they’d be losing access to the previous model. Within a week, OpenAI brought 4o back from beyond the sunset. 

Developers are wasting no time putting Gemini 3 to work: 

• Google Antigravity, which lets people run multiple coding agents in an IDE, launched this week and uses Gemini 3 Pro.
• Trickle, a 2023 Golden Kitty runner-up that leverages AI to vibecode webapps, upgraded to tap into Gemini 3.
• “Self-evolving IDE” Dropstone, which just dropped last week, now lets you “plug the Gemini 3 API into Dropstone to get Google-level reasoning with Dropstone-level memory and control.”

And, of course, Gemini 3 will be just about everywhere Google is, including its web searches, at a time when browsers and LLMs are starting to merge. Google injected Gemini straight into Chrome’s veins in September. The following month, OpenAI made its own browser, Atlas, that runs on ChatGPT.

“No.” 

“No.” 

“No.” 

For months, that’s all Sergey Bakaev heard as he tried to raise preseed funds for LovOn, an AI therapist app he created alongside Kirill Ilichev and Anton Ponikarovskii. 

With no investor network and completely new to fundraising, Sergey called up his LinkedIn connections, tapped into his industry circle, and messaged investors on Telegram. The cold outreach rarely went anywhere, whereas the warm intros at least led to some polite “nos.” Over 100 of them, according to Sergey.

And then, one investor led to another, until the team had raised $850K. 

If you want a soup-to-nuts lesson in the fundraising tactics and strategies that did and didn’t work for Sergey and LovOn, read on.

By Brian Quan (creator of Notisprite)

“About eight years ago, on a quiet summer afternoon at work, something strange happened. I was staring at my shiny 27-inch iMac when I noticed a tiny bug crawling across the screen. I tried to brush it away with my hand. It didn’t move. I tried again. Still there.

“Then it hit me. The bug was inside the screen!

“It had somehow slipped between the glass and the display. I just sat there staring at it. There was something oddly charming about this tiny creature wandering across my desktop like it owned the place.

“That moment stuck with me!

“The next day, I made…”

Spotify is great at playing an endless stream of music you like, but what about when you need to focus on work, give in to relaxation, or find a tune to meditate to. Music that keeps your neurons calm and focused. An app that does just that launched on Product Hunt 10 years ago this month, hitting #1 for the week and #2 for November. Need a hint? Use your mind.