Hi I want to appreciate everyone who took out time to support Kalendar, the love was real and organic and goes to show that Product Hunt is a place where one who is not known can get visibility on their product so long as it solves a real problem very well. We will do our best to keep being active in this space, releasing one template at a time to support our mission at @founding.dev of reducing the cost of SaaS for business, so they can channel the savings towards causes that drive their impact, innovation and growth.
AI as you know it is disrupting industries, and the software industry is at the forefront of this disruption. So what will be the future of SaaS, a model that presents users value for use?
The first and most important impact as we are already seeing is that the barrier for non-technical people to build software they require will drastically drop. This is evident in tools like lovable, bolt, replit etc... where users with no coding experience can whip up apps in a couple of minutes or hours as the case maybe.
Hi Everyone! Our app is designed to be used at site and I always felt that response speed is critical for seamless app use
It appeared to be a compromise. This specially relates to audio and TTS we use. We can use very naturally sounding TTS models, but they may take about 1 minute to respond. Or we can use something which responds in 5 seconds but quality will be lower. How much do you think a user can wait for response before she shuts down the app as it takes too long?
There s a lot of discussion on X and other places about the future of software development. As with many things in life, the reality is both complex and in the middle of the extreme viewpoints. What we re seeing at Tonkotsu:
Agents are fast and powerful, but make mistakes. They can t operate unsupervised. We think they re like unreliable compilers.
That means developers are as critical as ever, but their role shifts to being managers of coding agents.
This transformation means developers need to be focused on planning and verification, while delegating coding. The role has become barbell-shaped, and the industry needs new tools and workflows to accommodate this.
This week Intrascope was featured in the F6S newsletter and it honestly felt great to see us listed next to companies like Make, Instantly and Cloudflare. For a small team building something from scratch, these moments matter.
What made it even better is that the way they described us was exactly what we wanted people to understand. A central place for teams to organize their AI use, keep their context, and control their costs. That has been the core idea from day one.
The launch on Product Hunt gave us our first wave of validation and now we are getting more organic visibility from other communities. Step by step, it feels like the product is starting to resonate.
If anyone here wants to try it or just follow the journey, you can find us at intrascope.app
This term has been coined by someone and there are already more than 80 products that you could put in this category. Looking at the numbers, it's growing pretty fast.
I've built my product around traditional SaaS pricing (monthly tiers), but I m starting to wonder if that model is getting outdated, especially with more AI-powered and compute-heavy tools entering the market. That shift requires real architectural changes, instrumentation, metering, billing logic, and UI changes, not just pricing tweaks. It s something I m starting to seriously think about for my own product.
In particular, AI usage has real COGs (every prompt costs money), and I m seeing more platforms experimenting with usage-based models, or hybrids like SaaS base + usage + overage.
For those of you building AI or compute-intensive tools:
This is something I ll find out in just a short while, one week from now (Jan 28), as I m about to re-launch a digital detox app. If you want, follow, maybe you will be on watch of my steps and activities
Yesterday, I had an unpleasant experience. For a few minutes, I lost my LinkedIn community of several thousand people (TL;DR: I was falsely accused of using suspicious software).
Fortunately, I got my account back but it was a strong reminder that we don t own platforms, nor our profiles on them.
As an SAP ABAP Developer, I had app ideas sitting in my head for years. Before AI, the learning curve for mobile development felt impossibly steep. Now? I shipped my iOS app in weeks.
But here's my honest question:
How many of us vibe coders are actually building sustainable products?
I ve noticed that my workflow has changed completely over the last year. I rarely start a new project with a blank file anymore. Instead, I pick a template, reuse snippets, or let an AI helper suggest the structure and then I just vibe my way through the build.
It s faster, but sometimes I miss the old blank screen energy, when every line felt handcrafted.
Are you the kind of person who believes in your dream enough to burn through most of your savings on it?
For millionaires, this might not be a big deal, but what about people with a typical 9 5 job? I see how much a solid marketing campaign costs on just one platform (often the monthly expense is equal to at least a full year s salary).
The day before yesterday, a friend told me he and his wife are closing their restaurant, which they opened just six months ago. They had taken a loan for it, which makes it even worse.
is there any reason to prefer one over the other? Have you used both or either?
My needs are simple. I want to be able to add two accounts and let someone put a meeting on my calendar from a link. I think both cover the use case -- which should I use?
