Update: The Deel Leaderboard will no longer be going ahead today for the Paris event.
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+.
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
Came across the Drift launch today. We are very used to seeing the AI agent tools on PH, but this one caught my attention.
One of their team members had shown me the product a week before the launch. I instantly told her this is going to be a good launch. Largely because I saw Antler on their landing page and second, the niche they are building is very refreshing for Product Hunt audience.
Launched last week, open-source frontier model @MiniMax M2.7 scores 56.2% on SWE Bench Pro, converging towards the best proprietary models like @Claude by Anthropic Opus 4.6.
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
It's more than a name change. It's a commitment to a much broader vision.
As the world shifts, relationships have become both harder to maintain and more precious than ever. For the first time, we can actually map, understand, and activate networks at scale dynamically, intelligently, and in real time.
In a mesh, nothing is truly isolated and nothing valuable is ever lost. That idea sits at the center of everything we're building. Because the future of relationships isn't about managing contacts. It's about understanding the shape of your entire network and knowing how to move through it, grow it, and shape it.
You'll start to see Mesh roll out across our product, brand, and experiences starting today and over the coming weeks.
Hey PH community. Yesterday we launched ClawSecure and landed #2 Product of the Day
ClawSecure is the free security scanner for OpenClaw AI agent skills. But I'm not here to pitch. I just want to share real traffic numbers and what I actually learned from our Product Hunt launch, so it's useful for other makers planning theirs
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.
Well, that was fast. Digg only just relaunched but now will be shutting down because they couldn't fend off the SEO bots:
When the Digg beta launched, we immediately noticed posts from SEO spammers noting that Digg still carried meaningful Google link authority. Within hours, we got a taste of what we'd only heard rumors about. The internet is now populated, in meaningful part, by sophisticated AI agents and automated accounts. We knew bots were part of the landscape, but we didn't appreciate the scale, sophistication, or speed at which they'd find us. We banned tens of thousands of accounts. We deployed internal tooling and industry-standard external vendors. None of it was enough. When you can't trust that the votes, the comments, and the engagement you're seeing are real, you've lost the foundation a community platform is built on. This isn't just a Digg problem. It's an internet problem. But it hit us harder because trust is the product.
This is a problem we're of course familiar with on Product Hunt, and is something the team is working on every day.
ClawSecure
