I still reply to every comment manually. Reddit, LinkedIn, Product Hunt, forums, Twitter, Discord. Every single one.
AI could do this. There are tools that generate replies, post on schedule, analyze sentiment, even mimic your brand voice. But I don't use them. Here's why.
A 2024 study on community engagement across 500 brands found that personalized responses drive 3.2x higher retention and 4.7x more repeat interactions than automated replies. People can tell when a response is copy-pasted. They can feel when no one actually read their comment. The average user only needs 2-3 automated interactions before they disengage entirely.
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 !!
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.
TwelveLabs just introduced Pegasus 1.5, their most significant leap in generative video AI, transforming video into a queryable, structured data asset.
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...
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.
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.
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
@Wispr Flow launched on Product Hunt back in 2024. Since then it has become one of those tools that quietly sticks. It's the AI dictation tool a bunch of us here use day to day (yes, there are still a few people committed to typing everything out). It works anywhere on your Mac or PC, so you can just talk and have clean text land wherever your cursor is.
For the next three days, it is showing up on the leaderboard in a different way. From April 14 to 16, you can upvote and comment on Product Hunt using Wispr Flow directly. If you use dictation, those upvotes and comments will carry a bit more weight. Try it out by clicking the Wispr Flow unit on the Leaderboard and telling it to upvote a product name
As builders, we love tracking daily metrics: MRR, GitHub commits, daily workouts, Inbox Zero. Standard habit trackers are incredibly optimized for this gamification.
But lately, I've realized my "mental RAM" gets completely eaten up by the irregular tasks. The stuff you only need to do every few weeks or months:
Changing the AC filter
Watering specific houseplants
Following up with that one dormant enterprise lead
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.
Someone told me: "Just be consistent. Post every day. The algorithm rewards consistency."
So I did.
For six months, I posted every single day. Sometimes at 7am. Sometimes at 10pm. Weekends included. I wrote about our product, our features, our roadmap. I followed all the "best practices" hook in the first line, three takeaways, call to action at the end.
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.
