I don t mean this in a disrespectful way or anything like that, but throughout my life, I ve come across (and I m sure you have too) several products whose actual usefulness wasn t exactly impressive, but their creators still made a huge amount of money.
For me, for example, it was:
Fidget spinners (2017). At the peak, the global market was estimated at hundreds of millions to over $1 billion.
Metaverse land (2021) valuation could be for tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars each, with the overall market reaching hundreds of millions during the peak hype cycle. I bought one too. :D (actually was scammed).
Pet Rock (1975) the creator became a millionaire within a few months.
I built Prodshort because I understood after my previous companies that the hard thing is not to Build but to Sell. But because I'm a builder, not a seller. I decided to build something that Sells for me. And Because the trend is Founder Led Marketing, I decided to build something that Create content on your behalf. But there was a lot of AI tools out there. So I decided to go the opposite way, make it the most authentic possible. I want you to create content when you are not even aware of it. And honestly it worked for me. Many people tell me it's amazing but to keep it honest, NO ONE PAYED, and that's the only KPI I'm looking at. For now, I have feedback about the landing page being too AI generated, and doesn't reflect the quality of our product. And Builder socially scared from sharing there first content. Let me know what you think https://www.producthunt.com/prod...
We launched Velo on Product Hunt this morning without expecting anything.
I thought we'd spend the day refreshing the upvote counter. Instead, I got hooked on reading every comment, watching sign-ups roll in, and seeing users create their first Velo in real time.
We've just shipped one of our most requested features. With Listen Mode, any content you save to Recall (articles, podcasts, YouTube videos, PDFs, web pages) can now be summarized and read back to you as audio. Pick from our library of built-in voices, or clone a voice of your own.
I cloned my dad's voice so he can read me my morning podcast summary. Check us out in action below!
I want to talk about how I built @MCPCore - a cloud platform where developers create, deploy, and manage MCP servers from their browser - and what 10+ years of backend experience taught me about using AI in production work. Not the hype version. The honest one.
Every idea is already taken. So what?
I'm a backend engineer. I've spent most of my career building server-side systems, and I currently lead a backend team at my company. At some point I wanted to build something of my own. A product. Something real.
We're enhancing Rankfender's Content Generation Engine (RCGE) and v2.2 is coming in the next few weeks. Before we lock things in, we want to know what actually matters to people who use content generation tools.
Here's what RCGE already does:
Intelligence. It analyzes the top 10 ranking articles for any keyword and identifies patterns. What structure do they use? What headers? What formatting? What makes them get cited by AI? Then it builds a brief based on what actually works, not guesswork.
Structure control. You can add, remove, and reorganize H2s before generation. No fixed templates. You decide the flow.
Inline images. Generated articles include images, not just text walls.
Regeneration. Mess up one paragraph? Regenerate just that part. Not the whole article.
