Hi everyone, I was responsible for a launch in November 2024 which did very well and would love to get your guidance on the main differences and best practices on how to perform well on our Product Hunt launch. As this is my own company now, would love to hear your guidance!
I noticed that the teaser pages do not exist anymore so I guess the message to audience and sharing teaser page does not make sense anymore. Any other things that matter now / differ?
The Perplexity CTO announced at their developer conference this week that they're moving away from MCP internally. Garry Tan tweeted "MCP sucks honestly." Pieter Levels called it useless. The "MCP is dead, long live the CLI" post hit the top of Hacker News. OpenClaw, the hottest open-source agent project in the world, deliberately chose not to support it.
The argument: MCP tool definitions eat your context window. Auth is clunky. The whole thing is an unnecessary abstraction over APIs that already exist. LLMs are smart enough to call APIs directly, or use CLIs, or write their own integration code. Why add a protocol layer?
I'm hoping to gage the general sentiment of the average Product Hunt user when it comes to crypto. We're launching a crypto-adjacent product on Friday so your input is highly valuable!
Even back in university, I noticed how much younger people (17 or 18 years old) were always jumping into some kind of trendy business model or income stream that happened to be booming at the time.
First, it was dropshipping and flipping items.
Then came NFTs and everything happening in the crypto space.
Now everyone seems obsessed with quick vibecoded AI solutions and investment apartments.
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Imagine your product is due to be launched tomorrow morning.
You re very excited, but also kinda concerned.
What would you consider as the worst outcome? Please share!
Some tools just feel more reliable even if the backend models are similar. Is it the tone, layout, citations, or transparency of the process? What gives you confidence to act on what AI says?
