We re teaming up with The Pitch by @Deel, a global startup competition where up to 100 winners will receive $50k in funding and up to 10 winners will receive $1M+.
If you make the cut, you ll also show up on special Product Hunt leaderboards, starting with the first event on April 13.
Every day, after launching, makers are contacted on LinkedIn and X by people offering to sell votes. As the Product Hunt team, we are very much aware of this and really hate it. We have systems in place to neutralize this type of gaming. Every vote counts for a different number of points on Product Hunt. A couple examples:
An account with a recently created gmail address and no history of quality contributions on Product Hunt: this vote will count for 0 points. Yes, this might be a well intentioned user, but we take a conservative approach to protect the community. If the account has a company email or applies for verification on Product Hunt, that's a different story.
An account with a company email address linked to a legitimate LinkedIn account with a history of meaningful contributions on Product Hunt: this vote carries significant weight.
A couple questions for the community:
Are there specific accounts on Product Hunt that you suspect participate in vote selling? You can reply here or email report@producthunt.co
What would you want to see us do differently here?
Hello Product Hunt! We are thinking of spinning up topic specific, weekly digest newsletters that break up the firehose of goodness that is the Product Hunt leaderboard. What topics would you subscribe to? Who would you like to see sponsor these newsletters?
Here is an early prototype of what an AI Agent Digest newsletter might look like: https://gist.github.com/kerzhner...
We ve been getting this request a lot, so we re taking it seriously.
We re currently exploring a free tier for Embedful and have already started the initial steps to integrate it. The goal is simple: make it easier for more people to try creating and sharing dashboards, charts, tables, and counters without friction. At the same time, we want to be thoughtful about how this impacts the product long-term.
With AI bots getting harder to detect, there s been growing discussion around platforms using biometric verification (like face scans) to confirm real users.
Cool in theory... Reddit is full of bots, fake accounts and garbage engagement. But let s be real
Last month, I did something that felt slightly insane.
I took our product description, fed it into ChatGPT, and asked it to build a competitor. Not a parody. A real competitor. Better features, better positioning, better everything. I told it to be ruthless.
It did!
The output was polished. Confident. Structured like a real go-to-market plan. It named features we don t have. It positioned itself against us. It looked like a threat on paper.
I wrote a forum post not long ago on marketing as one of the rising in importance hires for all startups. This is all the things we've done, with some results and free resources.
If you re still sitting on your launch, this is the push.
YC made a special exception for this community: one or more companies that launch tomorrow will get a YC interview and potentially funding. A YC partner will review every eligible launch.
Let me start from the creator s perspective: I personally don t have a product (apart from hiring people for creative work or offering personal consultations).
But as a creator, I constantly share content, insights, and information, value that helps me build trust (for free). Based on that perceived expertise, people eventually decide to work with me (a paid service).
Hi everyone! I'm Kantar, a Vancouver-based indie dev. I built AlivePing Check-in to help people stay connected with loved ones simple check-ins, automated SMS/call alerts, no unnecessary location tracking. Key features: - Flexible daily/weekly check-in schedules - Automated SMS & voice call alerts for missed check-ins - Privacy-first (no default location tracking) - 100% Canadian-made Important: This app is currently available ONLY on the US & Canada App Stores. SMS/call alerts work only in US/CA. We re working to expand globally soon! Launching on Product Hunt this Monday (Mar 9). Would love your feedback!
We've been talking to hundreds of teams building with Cursor, Claude Code, and other agentic tools and the honest answer from most of them is: "We just run it and hope."
Some do a quick manual click-through. Some write a few spot checks. Some just ship and wait for users to find the bugs.
We built TestSprite to solve exactly this autonomous testing that runs from your PRD and codebase but I'm curious what your actual workflow looks like before you merge.
AI workflow automation tools help you design, run, and evolve workflows that actually take action not just suggest what to do next. Some use AI to make workflows easier to build. Others embed AI directly into execution so workflows can handle ambiguity, make decisions, and adapt as they run. The strongest tools do both.
This definition excludes tools where AI only generates static workflows and then steps aside. It also excludes general assistants that never meaningfully participate in end-to-end execution.
Hey, friends! We've posted 5 new problems. Especially check out problem #4 (first I laughed, then I thought about it, and then I posted it ). 1. Nigeria's transport trap: Uber/Bolt too expensive, okada too deadly, Danfo buses a nightmare. Millions need safe, affordable carpooling. Ready to pay.
2. Photographer loses 20 30% of clients to spam needs an AI clone with a copy of her voice to answer calls and book sessions. 3. Voice control for AI coding breaks when I change my mind mid-sentence. Need an AI intermediary that cleans up prompts through conversation before sending.
4. Need a smart device that automatically detects pigeons and permanently deters them. Everything on the market only works temporarily.
tldr: yes. Shoutouts are one of the simplest distribution levers on Product Hunt.
Shoutouts are meant to pay it forward and highlight the tools that helped you build. But beyond goodwill, they create durable distribution for your product on Product Hunt and across LLM driven discovery.
When you shout out a product during launch, it becomes a founder review on that product s page. Founder reviews sit above regular reviews and include a link to both your profile and your product. That means your product is now attached to every future visit to that product s review page, long after launch day. For example, check out @timliao s shoutout of @Framer or @guymanzur s shoutout of @Base44
TL;DR: Anthropic refused to sign a contract with the Pentagon that would have allowed the U.S. military to use all of its models without restrictions. Anthropic insisted on an exception, and brace yourself, that its models cannot be used: 1) for mass surveillance of citizens, 2) for autonomous killing. Now the administration is threatening that if the founder of Anthropic doesn't change his mind by a certain date, they will come after him.
Google, OpenAI, and Musk (Grok) have all signed the contract.
Following Sam Altman's announcement over the past few hours, people have been speaking out massively about cancelling their OpenAI subscriptions and subscribing to Claude.
