Hey everyone

Quick story: I've launched a few side projects and every time I needed a marketing or promo video, I'd either:

• Spend days learning complex tools, or

• Pay $1000+ for a agency

That's when I decided to build something better.

I recently launched Premation an open-source AI-native motion graphics editor built as an alternative to After Effects.

What makes it different?

• AI that can edit your animations

• Timeline & keyframe editing

• Fast desktop app

• Open source

I launched it about a week ago, and it's already reached 3,100+ active users, which has been incredibly motivating. I'm now looking for more motion designers, video editors, and creators who are willing to test it and share honest feedback.

ZonePlan SEO experiment update: merged 6 near-identical planner pages into 1 comprehensive page. Before: 4670 impressions, 5 clicks, 0.1% CTR. One day after consolidationBuilt ZonePlan (zoneplan.net), a free worldwide meeting planner.

Had 6 near-identical planner pages for months. 4670 monthly impressions. Only 5 clicks. 0.1% CTR.

For a long time, we assumed that if users had detailed documentation, tutorial videos, and a help center, they would be able to figure things out on their own.

The reality was very different.

Users still asked the same questions:

• "Where do I find this?"

• "How do I complete this workflow?"

• "Why isn't this working?"

Every photo book tool I tried handed me a blank spread and 300 thumbnails and said "go on then." I got four pages in and closed it.

The photos went back to the folder. That was two years ago and they're still there.

So I built the opposite. PhotoBooks (macOS + iOS) takes an Apple Photos album or a folder and gives you a finished book first - curated, laid out, cover, spine text, back cover - before you've made a single decision. Then you argue with it. Make this one bigger, swap that, drag it there, write on the page, change the book size at the very end. The whole thing reflows around you.

Two rules I refused to break: it never crops a photo to fit a template, and nothing leaves your machine.
Scoring runs on device, your book is a plain file in whatever folder you keep it in, no account.

Hey Product Hunt

Have you ever searched for a simple online tool like a JSON formatter, regex tester, color converter, or text cleaner and somehow ended up fighting through endless ads, annoying popups, forced signups, and websites that feel like they were abandoned in 2009?

I have.

As a developer, I constantly found myself bookmarking random tools across dozens of websites. One site for JSON. Another for regex. Another for CSS. Another for text processing.

Job Notebook is a web app built for people who are serious about their job search but tired of managing it in spreadsheets and sticky notes.

Built on a core insight: getting 1 marketing job takes an average of 120 applications and 130 days. Most people don't have a system that helps them last that long and they quit before the odds turn in their favour.

I've been building SalaryLabs, a free toolkit for US workers and job seekers who want to make more sense of their pay.

The idea started pretty simply: salary sounds straightforward until you actually have to use the number.

$80K a year sounds great, but what does that look like after taxes? What's the hourly equivalent? How much would overtime add? And if you get another job offer, how do you actually compare the two?

Today s TalkPix AI experiment started with:

• One still portrait

• One short Beat It audio clip

• No filming

• No manual animation

I uploaded the image, added the audio, and generated a complete singing performance in a few clicks.

The platform automatically handled lip sync, facial movement, and performance animation.