So here's what happened. We were running campaigns, watching our click metrics climb, feeling pretty good about performance. Then we started digging into where those clicks actually came from.
Half of them were bots.
Not simple ones either. Headless browsers mimicking human behavior perfectly. Selenium scripts automating clicks at scale. Click farms using mobile devices. Advanced stuff rotating IPs, spoofing geolocation, faking mouse movements, generating realistic referrer patterns. Fingerprinting evasion. Timing tricks. Some were so good they looked completely human.
We realized most link tools just count clicks. They don't ask if those clicks are real.
I'm a solo founder from Barcelona. I have this idea that I'm calling a social restaurant discovery app for international travelers (although it can be for locals as well). What's the problem I have encountered (and talk with friends and family that they have as well):
Most of us, we are discovering restaurants from Instagram reels and TikTok, we might save them or share them in a group chat, but then it gets messy. Maybe one of us saved the location on Google Maps, just to discover that the Restaurant its on the other end of the city from where you are when you're hungry. Also, in places like Japan, Korea or China, the best and most local places are in the local language, so you need to look in Google Maps in Japanese, Chinese, or Korean (which with ChatGPT is simpler). But all this, in my opinion, it s still messy. Also, maybe you want to find a new restaurant in the city, we all have that foodie friend that we as for recommendations, but maybe they are not available when we need them (it can happen, they have a life haha), so why not simply go check something that your friend has been to and has rated highly?
There's a pattern on LinkedIn right now that's hard to miss. Every other post opens with a one-line hook, follows a numbered list, and ends with "What would you add?" You can tell within two sentences whether someone used AI or not.
The problem isn't AI writing it's that most AI tools have no idea who you are. They generate from a blank slate every time.
We got rejected for a finance application once. Not because we weren't qualified, but our documents weren't ready in time. So i got involved in a company that's doing something about it. CoID is a digital identity for your business. You build your profile once, carry it forward, and decide exactly what you share with who. Built around audit logs, access controls, and the ability to revoke at any time. Your business info, always in your control. We are in early access and completely free right now. We call it Founder membership and all we want in return is honest feedback from people actually running businesses. Would love to hear how you all feel about KYB & business compliance. I've experienced some real nightmares in the past.
Just went live today. FluoTest lets you build scored quizzes that automatically route respondents based on their score. Free forever, no response limits. Would love honest feedback from this community.
I'm building something to solve a problem my family faces every single day, and I'd love your feedback.
The problem:
Every household has someone carrying the invisible mental load of meals. It's not the cooking that's exhausting it's the deciding. 21 meals a week. Remembering who eats what. Knowing what's in the fridge. Figuring out quick meals for busy nights.
Just launched Vurly on Product Hunt today. It's a white label link shortener built for agencies each client gets their own workspace, branded links, QR codes, and analytics.
Would genuinely love feedback on two things:
Does the landing page at vurly.app communicate what it does clearly enough?
If you sign up and poke around the app, what's confusing or missing?
Not looking for nice words, looking for honest takes. What would stop you signing up?
I ve been working on StructScope, a local-first tool for inspecting and analyzing memory layout in C, C++, and Rust projects.
The idea started from a fairly common systems programming problem: understanding struct layout, alignment, padding, cache-line behavior, and ABI differences usually requires a mix of compiler flags, manual inspection, platform-specific knowledge, and trial-and-error experimentation.
StructScope is designed to make that process more visible and easier to reason about directly from source code.
The tool parses struct-like definitions and reports:
I launched RunMySEO today. It s a local SEO workspace for agencies, freelancers, and small businesses that want to understand where a business actually ranks across a city.
The problem I kept seeing:
A business can rank well in one part of a city, then disappear a few streets away.
