Stan Kolotinskiy

Stan Kolotinskiy

Developer for the win

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We built AI that can't go 'off-brand'

We built AI that's constrained to your component library - so it can't go off-brand

Something we kept seeing across every enterprise team we work with: AI design tools generate fast, then the cleanup takes longer than building from scratch.

The pattern is always the same. The AI generates a beautiful dashboard. Everyone's impressed. Then someone looks closely. Wrong button variant. Spacing doesn't match the system. The card uses a shadow you deprecated months ago. The loading state doesn't exist. A developer receives it and rebuilds everything using the real components anyway.

The generation was fast. The aftermath was expensive.

Nigel Koh

17h ago

AI spending through the roof! what are the tools you use for cost/routing optimization?

Posting because I read about Waldo from Glean today: https://www.glean.com/blog/waldo...

We cut our cloud bill by 70%

Most devs I talk to are quietly overpaying AWS or GCP. Not by a little but by a lot.

We've been building Huddle01 Cloud for a while now and honestly, the pricing difference is wild. Same bare-metal performance, global edge infrastructure with sub-100ms latency, no egress fees, no hidden markups.

What's everyone paying for cloud compute right now? Curious if others have found good alternatives.

When Does a Product Become Too Complex to Understand?

There s a point where products stop being fully understandable.

Too many features
Too many dependencies
Too much history

And decisions start getting made with partial context.

we hit #1 on product hunt… after completely breaking our last launch

3 months ago we launched Orange Slice on Product Hunt

and it should have been a huge moment for us

instead it was honestly one of the worst days I ve had building

not because people didn t show up
they did

Launching ArkGroups - Automatically Organize Tabs in Tab Groups in Realtime

Hey Product Hunt!

Tired of messy browser tabs? ArkGroups to solve that. It automatically organizes your tabs into smart, color-coded groups in real time based on rules you set. No more manual dragging, just open tabs and they sort themselves.

Wasil Abdal

1d ago

Is Self-hosting trap for most makers?

I see so many makers spending weekends setting up n8n, OpenClaw, or Postgres on a VPS. They think they're saving money.

But your time isn't free. SSL certs expire. Updates break things. Backups fail. One 3 am debugging session and you've lost any "savings."

Unless you have compliance reasons, just pay for managed hosting. Am I wrong? Tell me why self-hosting is actually worth it for you.

Nika

1d ago

What marketing strategies do you consider unethical, and which ones do you consider brilliant?

During today s standup meeting, an idea came up about improving our presence on Reddit (for LLM search visibility and similar reasons).

One of the suggestions was to look for high-karma accounts and possibly buy them to appear more credible when posting and mentioning the product within the posts/comments. It s a tactic, sure, but to me it already feels like it crosses an ethical line. I sometimes worry they can seriously damage a company s reputation.

QIQI

1d ago

Are all-in-one AI builders actually better, or do you still prefer a custom stack?

Lately I ve been wondering whether the one AI tool builds the whole product idea is actually what people want.

For a simple website or SaaS-style app, the workflow often ends up looking like this:

UI in one tool, backend somewhere else, auth/payment setup in another place, deployment on a different platform, and maybe an admin dashboard built separately.

That gives you flexibility, but it can also get messy fast especially for non-technical founders, small teams, or people trying to validate an idea quickly.

QIQI

1d ago

Would you rather use 5 tools to build an app, or one AI builder for the whole thing?

I ve been thinking about how messy the current build an app with AI workflow still is.

For a simple website or SaaS-style product, people often end up jumping between multiple tools:

  • one tool for UI generation

  • another for backend/database

  • another for auth

  • another for payments

  • another for deployment

  • and maybe something else for internal dashboards or admin tools

It works, but the workflow can get fragmented pretty quickly especially if you re not a full-stack developer.

Nika

1d ago

How do you distinguish AI content from real, human-made content?

AI is incredibly good, I d even say almost perfect.

And for many people, that uniformity of perfect templates is starting to feel annoying.

Nika

3d ago

How much do you invest in healthtech? Share your health tech stack.

They say the best investment is in your health. (I agree, although I have to admit I don t really stick to that myself.)

Right now, health is mostly being supported at the level of:

physical fitness (workout apps, weight-loss tools, smart devices for heart-rate tracking, step counters)
mental health (e.g., digital detox apps, a personal therapist in your phone)
longevity (more of a long-term process, experimenting across different areas)

Dan Mindru

3d ago

How would you launch a non-AI product today?

Hey folks,

I launched about 20 products on Product Hunt, but in 2026 it's been a bit difficult for me to schedule a new launch.

Julian Wong

4d ago

How many project group chats are you actually keeping up with right now? Be honest.

Between Slack channels, Teams groups, WhatsApp threads, and Telegram I feel like I'm in a constant catch-up loop and I still miss things. Curious if this is just us or if it's universal. What's your actual number, and have you found anything that helps?

octoscope v0.6.0 — tabs + a contribution heatmap in your terminal

v0.6.0 is out. octoscope, the GitHub TUI dashboard, just grew a proper navigation surface.

  • Tabs Overview Repos PRs Issues Activity. Jump with number keys 1 5 or cycle with tab / shift+tab. Your banner and profile stay pinned; only the body swaps.

  • Activity tab contribution heatmap. Your last ~52 weeks of contributions rendered on an accent-pink gradient, month labels above, and a summary line below: total, current streak, longest streak, busiest day with its date.

  • Crosshair glyph in the top banner ( ) small thing, echoes the logo on the landing page, reads as signature rather than decoration.

The [Overview] tab is the same five-section dashboard you know from 0.5.x, so if you just open-and-glance, nothing changes. The other three tabs ([Repos], [PRs], [Issues]) are placeholders today drill-in views ship in v0.7.0.

Ivan Anisimov

6d ago

How do you make the right choice when every niche seems crowded?

Lately I ve been thinking about how hard it s become to choose well.

Almost every category now feels overcrowded agencies, SaaS tools, AI products, consultants, even simple productivity apps. On the surface, there are more options than ever. But instead of making decisions easier, that abundance often makes everything feel noisier and harder to evaluate.

What breaks first when product discovery scales?

We ve been looking a lot at how product discovery changes as teams grow.

At small scale it s fast and intuitive, but at larger scale it often becomes fragmented, slow, or disconnected from the actual system.

From your experience-what s the first thing that breaks in discovery workflows when teams scale?

Nika

6d ago

Will AI and technology improve our skills or downgrade them?

Today, I read a study showing that social media use is linked to weaker reading, vocabulary, and word-recognition skills in teens under 16.
Yesterday, I read an article saying that students who used AI showed up to 55% less brain activity and remembered less.
According to the news, if this is what technology was supposed to help us with and make our lives easier, then I don t see the future very brightly.

On the contrary, I have to say that I use AI for education (e.g. for building, explaining things when I do not understand them). But 80% of people just take the information and do not bother to think about other things.
Yes, we can save a lot of time, and mental capacity/energy with "no memorising" but do we really spend that saved time on something useful and meaningful?

The cost of technical debt: a longitudinal study of 100 startups.

We analyzed the codebases of 100 startups that hit a scalability wall (*)
The goal was not to find the most exotic bug. The goal was to find the most common, expensive, and preventable patterns of failure.

The results were almost identical across 85% of them. Here is what the data says.

The Timeline to Failure

Months 1 6: Everything worked. Fast releases. Happy customers. No time for architecture.