Elon goes public

gm legends. It’s Sunday.

This week: OpenAI and Anthropic compete to go public first, the best open-source products of 2026, a new Chrome extension that doesn’t demand your attention, and free alpha just for reading. Plus, some of our favorite launches from the past week. 

Thanks for reading, legend. Enjoy.

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Quick: Name the biggest tech startups that haven’t gone public. Too late — they’re all getting ready to file IPOs.

Last week, OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX all took steps toward public offerings. SpaceX filed confidentially and could start trading in July, while OpenAI may have filed by the time you read this. And Anthropic is making all the right moves for going public. (Health tracker Oura also filed on Wednesday.)

Between them, the companies have raised over $200 billion from investors. Apparently, that’s still not quite enough to a) get to AGI and b) get everyone on Elon’s rocket to Mars if AGI goes berserk. Hence, the need for public stocks.

They may not have emerged on Product Hunt, but plenty of IPOs did get their start here, including Figma last year.

Can you name some others?

 

Not every product needs to be earth-shattering, AI-infused, or built to scale the globe. Some of the best launches focus like a laser on obliterating one irritating UX issue. Take alex_drmx’s cause:

“I spend most of my day inside the browser — reading, writing, working in web apps. And for a long time I had a small, stubborn problem I couldn't solve cleanly.

“I wanted to hide my tabs and the address bar to focus on a single page — but still keep that page in a normal window, so I could put my notes right next to it. In fullscreen, I lose access to my other windows. Multitasking becomes impossible. And Alt-Tabbing every few seconds is its own kind of distraction.

“If you've searched for a way to hide Chrome's tab bar and address bar without going fullscreen, you've probably found what I found: nothing clean.”

 

New week, new leaderboard contest. Last Friday was Alpha Day, where never-before-launched products could compete for a spot atop the leaderboard and some Product Hunt edition Meta Raybans.

Here are some cool alpha products that launched on Alpha Day:  

• Cleo: If OpenClaw is your AI personal assistant, Cleo is your company’s product manager.

• General Compute: General Compute says GPUs are best saved for training AI models; when it comes to inference, ASICs rule. Its “ASIC-first inference cloud” is built for speed. 

• AutoPosts: While there are other tools to help you schedule social media posts, AutoPosts is pitching affordability and agility. It’s built for small teams, not enterprise.

• Nugget AI: We all know we’re supposed to talk to customers, but then we lose track of all that needs to be changed. Nugget uses your customer interviews to develop a product roadmap.

• Moop: Is your brain tired of being bombarded with videos and photos every time you check LinkedIn or X? Moop is social media — without the media.

 

The vast majority of commercial software contains open-source code. So it’s only right that fmerian wants to “shine a spotlight” on this sometimes-underappreciated ecosystem and the tools that have launched this year.

Several open-source launches have hit #1 Product of the Day this year, including OpenClaw (“self-hosted agent”), Kilo Code (“AI coding assistant”), InsForge (“backend built for agentic development”), Tailgrids (“React UI library”), and Ghost (“self-hosted game servers”). And people are giving shout-outs to their personal open-source faves. 

What’s yours?