Hi Product Hunt community! My name s Tikue, co-founder of Kudos, and I m so excited to announce that we re LIVE on Product Hunt! After spending several years helping build Google Pay and Affirm, my co-founder and I came to the realization that card issuers make credit cards unnecessarily complicated. So over the past year, we brought on a team many from Google Pay and PayPal Honey, and built Kudos. Our mission is to make every purchase as delightful as possible by streamlining the checkout process and taking the guesswork out of credit card rewards and benefits. Kudos is a free shopping extension that helps you pick the best card at checkout on over 2 million sites and doubles your credit card rewards across 15,000 partners. As this is our first time launching on the platform, your support means the world to us! Let us know what you think and drop us a comment below. Link: https://www.producthunt.com/post...
I've started asking one thing before I give anyone advice about their product. Do you want me to help you think, or do you want me to tell you what I would do?
They are completely different conversations and most of the time people want one and receive the other.
I automated my site's indexing checks this month and hit a wall that surprised me. The Search Console API will inspect URLs, report coverage state and resubmit sitemaps. The separate Indexing API only accepts job postings and livestream pages. The one thing everyone actually wants, the Request Indexing button, has no API at all.
So my daily job does everything the API allows, inspects up to 160 URLs, resubmits the sitemap, then writes a shortlist of URLs stuck in Discovered or Crawled but not indexed. The last step is me clicking Request Indexing by hand off that list.
Has anyone found a legitimate way around this, or is the manual click just the toll Google charges?
In a time when big corporations are overpaying for their job offers just to steal the best talent from another big company, and in an era where everyone can build their own startup, there will always be room for people who prefer to join a team and work on something (in the future) big.
Last month I tried 5 AI based tools for different tasks. I kept 2 and dropped 3. The 2 I kept had the same pattern: they gave me suggestions but I made the final call. The AI didn't try to do everything, it did the boring part and I did the deciding part. The 3 I dropped either did too much automatically and got it wrong with no way to correct or did too little to be worth opening.
My read is that "human in the loop" isn't a feature it's a requirement. People say they want full automation but in practice they want control.
So for those who use AI tools daily: do you actually prefer full automation or do you want the tool to stop at "suggestion" and leave the decision to you? And the harder question: if a tool automated 100% of the task correctly every time, would you trust it or would you still check?
