If you re launching today, the leaderboard is about to get a lot more interesting.

We are running a Randomized Day to give products launching more of an opportunity to get seen!

The Mechanics

To level the playing field, we are cycling the homepage layout throughout the day:
The Loop: This cycle repeats every 30 minutes, all day long.

Hi,

Even if we disagree on the cause of it, I think most people would agree that Hiring is Broken right now - I would use a more powerful and scottish adjective here to reflect my true feelings!

Last week we did something stupid.

We paused all human coding. Gave Claude (Anthropic) access to our GitHub repo. Told it to build new features, fix bugs, and ship.

No human review. No guardrails. Just Claude and our codebase.

For 7 days, it ran the engineering team.

If you re launching today, the leaderboard is about to get a lot more interesting.

We are running a Randomized Day to give products launching more of an opportunity to get seen!

The Mechanics

To level the playing field, we are cycling the homepage layout throughout the day:
The Loop: This cycle repeats every 30 minutes, all day long.

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.

I've been going through hell for the last month. I was banned from LinkedIn for excessive activity.

• For 24 hours

• For 48 hours

• For 72 hours

• For 168 hours - currently waiting until Tuesday, 10 PM CET.

The only useful advice I've received from support is to be less active.

When we started building Murror, I made the same mistake most AI founders make: I marketed the technology.

"Powered by AI." "Smart algorithms." "Personalized insights." All the buzzwords. And you know what happened? Crickets.

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.

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:

Hi everyone, I'm Simon and I am trying to build a solution in hiring that isn't just another AI layer slapped on top of a broken system. What's more is I am building extremely in public and trying to see what is possible in 100 hours with all the tools that are now available plus my experience with building products.

I don't know if it's possible, but I'm going to give it a go!

A friend of mine who launched here a while back recently reached out with an unexpected message. He's selling his product and the whole startup.

His launch wasn't just good. Product of the Day. Product of the Week.

Hey everyone! Another lost programmer joins your family. I spent 10 years in film production, then about 7 years in video editing and marketing, and somehow ended up building my first real app. It s the first thing I ve actually designed and built for myself, not for a client.

The idea is pretty simple. Supa looks at what you already have in your fridge and tells you what to cook. It suggests a main dish for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and also gives ideas for snacks, desserts, and salads. The point isn t more recipes, it s giving you one clear answer for today.

Hey Product Hunt community!

I m Abhijeet. For a long time, I lived behind a title.

I ve spent the last 8 years (including a pivot to NYU for my MSIS) as a Product Manager in the US tech sector. I ve navigated high-stakes roadmaps and spent thousands of hours justifying decisions to stakeholders.

But honestly? I felt like a "ghost" in the machine. I was building success for others, but I didn't have a single thing that was truly mine.

Hey everyone! Luis here.

I am a "UX designer who codes", not as good as a developer, but I can manage to build my own stuff - slowly and not too complex, but works. My primary passion is the human side and have been working with UX for about 20 years. I learned to "code" in the old good days of Flash and since then I been exploring several different languages, always to help me build a custom tool to better understand peoples pain points - mainly building mockups/prototypes for digital and physical products, for user tests and explorations.

Hey everyone, I'm Adam Jabbar, tech and AI compliance consultant, working with SaaS and AI founders mostly in the US and Europe. I chose Technology Law deliberately. When everyone in law school was chasing corporate litigation, I was obsessing over where technology and law were going to collide. That was before "tech lawyer" was even a real job title. Took a while to convince people it mattered. It matters now.

Somewhere along the way that obsession with Legal AI got out of hand when i thought AI would take a lawyers job, I ended up writing ChatGPT for Lawyers, which somehow hit #1 on Amazon. Still not fully over that. The book came from genuinely believing AI was about to reshape the legal profession and nobody was talking about it practically. Turns out a lot of lawyers felt the same way.

On the consulting side I've spent years drafting Terms of Service, Privacy Policies, AI compliance frameworks over 2,000 platforms across 30+ countries (Fiverr and Upwork mainly). The AI policy work is what I find most interesting right now. It's genuinely new territory. Most lawyers don't fully understand it yet either.

The thing that still gets me though, I reviewed a founder's policies last year and his Terms of Service were word for word copied from his direct competitor. Same company name. Different product entirely. He'd been live for 8 months. Completely unprotected. Didn't even know it. Just grabbed what looked professional and shipped.

Hi everyone

Over the last few months, I ve been building PeakRoutine, a product that tries to solve a problem I personally faced while using wearables.

Hey Martyn here.

I ve been building things on the internet since the late 90s. Started out the same way a lot of people probably did back then, tinkering with early websites, figuring out how things worked, breaking things, fixing them, and generally making software do things it wasn t originally designed to do.

I ve always been more of a problem solver than anything else. If something annoys me or feels inefficient, my instinct is usually to try and build a way around it.

For most of that time I was a developer, mainly web and backend, but over the last year AI has completely changed how I work.

I'm Arman, spent 8 years building WordPress plugins, WooCommerce stores, and SaaS tools for other people's businesses. 60+ products shipped, none of them mine...

Tried WhatsApp chat automation tool, didn't work, this year I built Kommentify, its a Chrome extension that automates LinkedIn engagement so founders and sales reps can grow without spending hours commenting/posting every day.