An agent can have permission to use a tool without having enough context to make the business decision behind it. That's the boundary I'd want to define before giving it write access.

For me, drafting a customer email and sending it are separate permissions. Recommending a budget change and applying it are separate decisions. The useful question is what the agent can commit you to, and who carries the consequence if it gets that wrong.

I'd define the allowed action, the affected people or systems, the spending limit where relevant, and the point at which a named person must approve. I'd also want that person to see what will change before agreeing.

Rollback helps, but it doesn't erase every consequence. You can restore a price after someone has bought at it. You can correct an email after someone has acted on it. Neither returns you neatly to the starting position.

Our AI bill was 3x what we estimated. Not because we picked the wrong model - we just didn't know what we didn't know.

Turns out token price cards are the tip of the iceberg. Reasoning models bill internal chain-of-thought tokens at full output rate.

During our Product Hunt launch, we received offers for:

Paid upvotes
Engagement pods
"500k+ audience promotion"

We declined every one of them.

Not because they don't work.

Apple folded the iPhone in half, and my first thought wasn't "nice", it was "so now there's a third layout".

I was already arguing with myself last week about whether our launch images survive a phone screen. Now there's a shape that's a phone, then suddenly isn't. Half of me thinks this is fine, we've had tablets forever and nobody rebuilds anything. The other half has seen enough layouts break at one odd breakpoint to know somebody will spend a week on this.
Are you planning to do anything about it, or waiting to see if enough people actually buy one?

Hello everyone.

I hope I can get some advices here. I am developer, a solo developer. I make my project, snapencode.com. It is a self-host video platform. The idea is you buy license one time, for lifetime. No more monthly pay. You own it.

The building part, is fun for me. I love code. The logic.

Your killer app's biggest competitor is a new browser tab
We're seeing a TON of new platforms and systems that offer incredible functionality, I'm not here to dismiss that in any way.. BUT (you could feel that 'but' coming, right?)... Injecting AI into the places that people are already working makes waaay more sense when possible.
My main discipline is marketing - I've spent 20 years jumping between tools every other month, it's exhausting but there's always a core group of tools that survive and it tends to be communication tools. Whether it's simple like Slack or WhatsApp, or Project Management like Jira, Monday etc. this is where the teams do their work.
I have an oversimplified ask: If you're making a cool tool for a business try and find a way to bring it into their existing workspaces. That way you don't have to deal with as much behavioral change/resistance of logging into a new tab each time (I know, I know.. I'd love to change the world with a killer app too). As useful as your tool is; the accessibility/ease-of-access will always be somewhat of a hurdle and it's something to keep in mind.

When I first started using AI, I treated it like any other online tool. I was cautious about what I shared and assumed everything needed to be anonymized.

Today, my first instinct is often to open ChatGPT or Claude before I even search the web. I use them to brainstorm ideas, review code, rewrite emails, summarize documents, or think through problems. They've become part of my workflow rather than just another website.

As entrepreneurs, we spend so much time hustling, agonizing, organizing, and pathologizing. The burnout rate for founders is high. When you finally launched your product or service, how did it make you feel?

When we launched our beta (not on PH, but to our beta group), I felt peace. Finally, I could rest my mind on problem-solving based on facts instead of stressing over things that weren t real. I m curious to know how your mental health changed post-launch and what you re doing to keep yourself sane in the meantime.