ClawOffice was a bit of a gimmick - a 3D virtual office for AI agents. It was fun to build and got some attention on launch, but let's be real: it didn't take off. People thought it was cool for a minute, then moved on. No real retention, no real problem being solved.
Here's what I actually learned from it:
Novelty value. A cool concept gets you a launch day. It doesn't get you users who come back on day 30.
I was building for the demo, not the workflow. ClawOffice looked great in a screenshot. It didn't solve anything measurable for anyone.
"What gets tracked gets improved" is real. The founders I talked to afterward all had the same pain - they were shipping features and running experiments with no clue what was actually driving revenue.
I've always been on the personal brand side. More and more founders are building it now (sometimes even before the product is ready while it's still in development, before seed fundraising). The CEO builds their position so the product sells more easily at the official launch.
But I have experience with people who built the product, scaled it, and only then did we discover who was behind it.
Honestly, with the first approach, I'd be concerned that people invest more in me as a person than in the product. People would idealise the founder and overlook the product's flaws (which could hurt development and constructive feedback).
+ I noticed the most common mistake that many people who started building a personal brand first, connected their product to their personal accounts (emails, social media, etc.) and started having a problem selling these things, because they cannot "give someone keys" to their personal profiles.
We just went live with the SigmaMind MCP Server, and we re on a mission to end "infrastructure hell" for voice developers.
For the last year at SigmaMind (YC S22), we ve watched builders struggle to stitch together telephony, low-latency models, and fragmented APIs. Today, we re changing that. We ve built a way to configure and deploy production-grade voice agents directly from your IDE (Cursor, Claude Code, etc.) using the Model Context Protocol. No more manual glue - just one prompt to connect your model, pick a voice, and get a live phone number.
We just launched our newest product Onform on Product Hunt today and would love your support!
Onform is an alternative to Typeform and Jotform. Build and manage forms completely through Claude Desktop using plain language no dashboard required. Intake forms, post-meeting surveys, feedback forms all of it, just by chatting.
Basic plan allows you create as many forms, and get many responses as you want.
We ve just released an update to the browser extension.
The extension now opens in the browsers side panel, which means it will no longer cover part of your search. The extension also remains open as you search, so feel free to switch between tabs and pages as you re doing your deep dives. Plus, we ve integrated Listen Mode into the extension. So now, you can listen to your content in that familiar voice you ve grown accustomed to over the past week!
Hey everyone - quick update on DeployHermes (managed hosting for Hermes agents on Fly.io).
Since our last public release (right after we moved the stack to Vercel), we ve been heads-down on reliability and on features people actually asked for. Here s what s new:
I made this extension for myself because long chats in ChatGPT and Gemini kept getting slow and annoying to work with.
At first I just wanted to make long AI chats easier to handle, but then I added export too, because I often need to move information from one chat to another or save useful chats somewhere else.
