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.
Claude's paid subscriptions have more than doubled this year. New users hit record numbers between January and February. Previous users came back in record numbers too.
But companies are still opening internships, which suggests something deeper than just skill-building still matters (like understanding systems, workflows, and how companies actually operate the management part).
At YC, investors outlined 8 startups across space, AI, gaming, and agriculture (most of them want to bet on futuristic ideas, e.g. space), and these sparked interest in funding them.
This was the pick:
Beyond Reach Labs satellite solar arrays that expand from table-size to football-field size in orbit Est. valuation: ~$100M+
Byteport next-gen file transfer protocol Est. valuation: ~ $30M
Hex Security AI agents that continuously hack your system to find vulnerabilities (Rev.: $1M+ run-rate in 8 weeks) Est. valuation: ~$100M+
Grazemate autonomous drones that herd cattle, track weight, and monitor land Est. valuation: ~ $30M
GRU Space moon factory turning lunar soil into buildings (starting with a moon hotel) Est. valuation: ~$100M+
Luel marketplace for real-world human data (video/audio) to train AI models (Rev.: ~$2M ARR in 6 weeks) Est. valuation: ~$100M+
Pax Historia AI strategy game where players rewrite history (e.g. Rome never falls) 35K daily users Est. valuation: ~ $30M
Stilta AI agent for patent lawyers (search + analyse IP faster, cheaper) Est. valuation: ~ $30M
Sheet Ninja turns any Google Sheet into a live API in seconds. Your data already exists. Stop rebuilding it in clunky databases. Paste a link, get endpoints. Build with Lovable, Bolt, or Replit and your data stays in Sheets. Your clients edit like a spreadsheet. Your app reflects it instantly. No backend, no redeployments, no calls from confused clients.
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...
PLG was the backbone of some of the fastest-growing companies in history.
Slack grew by making team invites frictionless. Dropbox gave you free storage for every referral. Zoom let you host 40-minute meetings without a credit card. Those models worked because reducing friction was enough.
Claude Code’s new auto mode lets Claude approve file writes and bash commands for you. A classifier checks each action: safe ones run automatically, risky ones get blocked and handled differently. Use in isolated environments.
A few years ago, getting a VC check was the ultimate shortcut. The fastest way to scale. The signal that you'd "made it." But with AI is a little bit different.
Global VC funding declined 30% in Q1 2024. One of the lowest quarters since 2018. And bootstrapped startups are quietly catching up. Recent data shows bootstrapped businesses are growing as fast as VC-backed startups, while spending only about one-quarter as much on customer acquisition.
When I started my first job after school at a small local agency, a project manager once said something like: If someone has three companies on their CV and stayed less than a year in each, it doesn t look good.
I took that to heart. I tried to stay longer in every role, so I wouldn t seem unreliable, even in underpaid jobs I didn t enjoy. I endured it just to make my CV look stable. In hindsight, it was a little bit stupid. (Sometimes a waste of time.)
Lovable hit $400M ARR with 146 employees. That's $2.7M revenue per employee. Midjourney goes even further. $500M revenue. ~110 employees. $0 raised from investors. That's over $4.5M per employee. Bootstrapped. For context: most SaaS companies celebrate $200k-$300k per employee as a strong benchmark.
If 146 people can generate $400M, what does the math look like at 10?
Every morning, I scroll through the new launches to see what people are building, as many others do, and some recurring patterns are simply impossible to ignore.
When your product hits the front page, you have exactly three seconds to convince someone to click.
Just three gatekeepers stand between you and a new user:
Last week Garry Tan (CEO of Y Combinator) shared his entire Claude Code setup on GitHub and called it "god mode."
He's sleeping 4 hours a night. Running 10 AI workers across 3 projects simultaneously. And openly saying he rebuilt a startup that once took $10M and 10 people. Alone, with agents.
Product Hunt just added a new leaderboard and it finally answers a big question: who s actually contributing to the platform?
For a long time, Streaks were the main signal of activity on Product Hunt. But streaks only showed who visited every day. Opening the site or app daily doesn t necessarily mean someone is adding enough value.
