Emmett Charles

Emmett Charles

Business Consultant

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How many calls do you do per day?

As founders, calls are part of our daily life. Brainstorming, quick updates, random discussions with the team and there s always value in those moments. But most of the time, all that value just disappears after the call.
By connecting Prodshort to your calendar, it automatically joins your calls and turns them into ready-to-post content.

If you're a founder and want to create content, I'm doing short discussion calls. Let's connect !!

Had to kill my favorite feature to survive Apple Review 🍎✂️ (Referral System)

Hey Product Hunt family!

Just wanted to share a little "behind the scenes" pain from the OptiClear launch. We all know the Apple App Store review process can be a rollercoaster, and I definitely hit a loop.

I had built this sweet "Invite a Friend" feature. The logic was simple: generate a code, share it with a friend, and both of you earn free premium days. A classic, organic growth loop, right?

Well, Apple hit me with a rejection. Apparently, unlocking premium features outside of their standard In-App Purchase flow (even as a reward) is a big no-no.

Holy shit... I just automated sth I thought was impossible with AI: product tutorial videos

The problem at MindPal was pretty simple: we have hundreds of AI templates to share. We know videos of these templates work - some have gotten us tens of thousands of views. But actually making them was a total nightmare.
We tried everything. At one point, we even hired a freelancer, but the feedback loop was exhausting. It actually took longer to give feedback and wait for revisions than it did to just make the video ourselves. It was slow, expensive, and impossible to scale.
When we did it ourselves, it was a massive grind:
Record the screen of the behind-the-scene agent builder
Record a demo of the agent working
Write a script that didn't sound like a robot
Record a voiceover or an avatar
Spend hours editing everything together
If my co-founder or I were tired or busy, the videos just didn't happen. I assumed this was just the "manual tax" you had to pay for quality.
Last weekend, I got fed up and asked Claude if I could just automate the whole damn thing.
Turns out, I can.
So I spent the weekend cooking something - an internal AI SOP to turn any workflow URL (yes, from just a single URL) into a publish-ready use case video that passes all quality standards in ONE GO.
Here is the new setup:
Playwright: Records the screen and even moves the mouse like a human
@Claude by Anthropic: Writes the narrative based on our actual product info
@HeyGen: Creates the avatar and voiceover
@Remotion: Programs the entire edit - syncing everything into a final file
@Zernio + @Railway: Automatically publishes the video and saves the assets.
Now, I just give the system a URL and a finished video comes out. I don't even have to click "upload."
I just wrote a post sharing the full behind-the-scenes build, the architecture, and the logic behind of this AI video agent. Check it out here if you think this could be helpful for your company: https://mindpal.space/article/ai...

P/s: This is what I wake up to every day now

opencode — Free, open-source AI coding agent for your terminal

Stop paying monthly for an AI wrapper. opencode runs in your terminal, connects to 75+ model providers via your own API keys, and costs exactly what you use nothing more.

I switched from Cursor after my third renewal. The thing that finally pushed me: I realized I was paying for the tool and the model, when I already had API credits sitting unused. opencode let me plug those in directly.

A few things that actually matter in daily use:

Build vs Plan mode. Plan mode drafts what it's going to do before touching any files. Sounds small. Isn't.

How to give enough value without giving away the product

I was reading Nika's thread here about free vs paid features. Really made me think.

Link: https://www.producthunt.com/p/ge...
( shout-out to @busmark_w_nika ! )

She talks about giving generalized advice for free, but charging for specific, tailored help. That's a good framework.
But most product owners figure this out after they build, not before.

That's backwards.

p/clustrTim

12d ago

Forbes 30U30 🏆

Hi Gang! Excited to announce that @arthur_romanov and I got nominated for our local Forbes 30U30 award - could you kindly support us by visiting the link below and smashing that button (under profile pic) to make sure we get the top vote Huge thank you for all your help over the years

https://30-under-30.forbes.ru/20...

Product Huntp/producthuntAaron O'Leary

19d ago

🔥 Pitch by Deel finalists: get ready to launch

If you made it to the Pitch by Deel Paris finals, you ve got a special Product Hunt launch day waiting for you.

We ve partnered with Deel to give finalists a dedicated chance to launch, get discovered, and show the community what they ve built.

If that s you, submit your launch by Sunday at midnight PST and make sure to add the tag pitch-paris.

launch of GradPipe delta engine

guys we are launching the delta engine, which takes data of what people in elite roles have done to get there and tailors a few projects for you to reach the similar position, we have had 1500+ engineers on our platform from people working as quants in Jane Street, Citadel, IMC Trading, Graviton, Optiver to software companies like Google, Amazon, Uber, Databricks, Snowflake, Twilio, Confluent, Rippling. We even have some researchers from Google Deepmind, Anthropic and other frontier AI labs, you can all get to know what you need to do to your profile to reach where they are.
Obviously your context matters, so we take into account that and give you the delta that you need