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Vercel Day is live π¨
Vercel Day is live on Product Hunt today.
We teamed up with @Vercel for a special launch day, which means there s a dedicated leaderboard full of teams shipping on Vercel, all in one place. More launches, more competition, more reasons to spend too long refreshing the page.
Forbes 30U30 π
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
https://30-under-30.forbes.ru/20...
HtmlDrag v2.0: AI creation now has File Mode, Thinking, and a redesigned Template Mode
Hey everyone I just shipped HtmlDrag v2.0, and this is the biggest product update I ve made so far.
This release is all about making AI HTML creation more practical.
Instead of treating AI like a one-shot generator, I rebuilt the experience around two clearer workflows:
File Mode
Will we work for AI or will AI work for us?
Y Combinator startup will pay humans to help AI agents when they get stuck. (This is what I read today.)
At the same time, I see how Indian employees in production have cameras on their heads, and the AI learns from their movements (practically filming their firing process).
In addition, there was already a site where AI agents hired human actions for stablecoins.
First, AI worked for us.
Now we are starting to work for AI.
And eventually, will AI work (without us)?
I don t want to portray a Terminator scenario where people will have to unite against AI, but what future awaits us in terms of cooperation/non-cooperation with AI?
We asked what felt off about AI voices, you told us. Weβre fixing it.
Over the past few months, we ve been talking to a lot of you using Velo.
Real conversations, and people trying it out, sending clips, pointing things out.
And almost everyone said some version of the same thing: It sounds like me but something feels missing.
At first, we thought it was about accuracy. Maybe the voice wasn t close enough. But the more we listened, the clearer it became - that wasn t the issue.
The issue was how it felt. The tone stays a bit too samey. The emphasis doesn t always land where you expect it to. And the little natural shifts that make your voice yours just aren t fully there yet. It sounds right, but it doesn t feel alive.
So we went back and started reworking how we think about voice cloning at Velo. Not just matching how you sound, but capturing how you express. The way your voice changes when you re explaining something, when you re just talking casually, or when you actually care about what you re saying.
That s what we re building now. The next version of Velo is focused on higher fidelity voice cloning. More nuance. Better pacing. More natural expression.
Something that doesn t feel like a generated voice reading your script, but closer to you actually speaking.
We re still building it, but it s coming together fast. We re planning to ship this soon.
If you ve used Velo before, we d love to know - what do you think about Velo's voice cloning or other workflows? What would make it feel right?
We re listening.
We realized 12% of our "Active" MRR was actually ghosts π» Have you checked your silent churn?
Hey everyone! I had a massive reality check this month and wanted to see if other founders have experienced this.
We use Stripe for billing and HubSpot as our CRM. Our dashboard looked incredibly healthy, MRR was growing, and deals were marked as "Active." But out of curiosity, we cross-referenced our active paying users with our actual product analytics (Mixpanel/PostHog).
Turns out, almost 12% of our paying customers hadn't logged into the app in over 20 days. They were "ghosts." Because their Stripe subscription hadn't failed yet, our CRM was completely blind to the drop-off, and our CS team was doing nothing to save them.
We ended up having to build a native bridge to pipe usage data directly into HubSpot to fix this.
48 Hours, $2398 in Sales and my story π
I wrote something like this back in 2023. Life was slower then. Fewer people knew me, fewer people used what I built. Now, more people are coming, using my work, trusting it. And sometimes I think should I clean things up, remove old things that don t move anymore? But I don t. I just let them stay.
When I started building saas, I didn t know what would happen. I was just one person, sitting with a laptop, trying to build something simple. I had a job before. Life was okay. But inside, I felt something was missing. So I left that path and started this, not knowing where it would go.
The early days were quiet. I built, I changed things, I made mistakes. Many things didn t work. Many nights felt very long. Sometimes I forgot why I even started. But still, I kept going, slowly.
Then I launched Slashit App. I didn t expect much. Maybe a few people would try it, maybe no one would care.
Pitch your product. Win $1M+
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+.
Vote selling on Product Hunt
Every day, after launching, makers are contacted on LinkedIn and X by people offering to sell votes. As the Product Hunt team, we are very much aware of this and really hate it. We have systems in place to neutralize this type of gaming. Every vote counts for a different number of points on Product Hunt. A couple examples:
An account with a recently created gmail address and no history of quality contributions on Product Hunt: this vote will count for 0 points. Yes, this might be a well intentioned user, but we take a conservative approach to protect the community. If the account has a company email or applies for verification on Product Hunt, that's a different story.
An account with a company email address linked to a legitimate LinkedIn account with a history of meaningful contributions on Product Hunt: this vote carries significant weight.
A couple questions for the community:
Are there specific accounts on Product Hunt that you suspect participate in vote selling? You can reply here or email report@producthunt.co
What would you want to see us do differently here?
Coding from your phone
Hey, I was wondering how many of you are coding from the phone - it's easier to do it with AI coding agents now, so I'm wondering how often developers are doing it.
Personally, I do some coding tasks daily from my phone and I'm curious how others are doing it?
Introducing Randomized Leaderboard Day on Product Hunt!
If you re launching today, the leaderboard is about to get a lot more interesting.
We are running a Randomized Day to give products launching more of an opportunity to get seen!
The Mechanics
To level the playing field, we are cycling the homepage layout throughout the day:
The Loop: This cycle repeats every 30 minutes, all day long.
We let Claude write 100% of our code for 7 days. Here's what broke first.
Last week we did something stupid.
We paused all human coding. Gave Claude (Anthropic) access to our GitHub repo. Told it to build new features, fix bugs, and ship.
No human review. No guardrails. Just Claude and our codebase.
For 7 days, it ran the engineering team.
Introducing Randomized Leaderboard Day on Product Hunt!
If you re launching today, the leaderboard is about to get a lot more interesting.
We are running a Randomized Day to give products launching more of an opportunity to get seen!
The Mechanics
To level the playing field, we are cycling the homepage layout throughout the day:
The Loop: This cycle repeats every 30 minutes, all day long.
Can you do real development from your phone β one-handed, on the subway?
I'm a senior developer in Seoul. My commute is long and the subway is always packed. Here's how I tried to make mobile development work and where it fell apart.
Seoul subway is not quiet. You're standing, one hand gripping a bag, the other holding your phone. Coding the traditional way IDE, terminal, file trees is physically impossible. The screen is too small, your fingers too fat, and the text too tiny to read without squinting.
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The problem in a nutshell:
When everything is easy to build, taste becomes the bottleneck
I ve been spending more time vibe coding recently, and I ve started to question something I initially took for granted. Most of the conversation around vibe coding is about speed. Like how quickly you can go from idea to prototype, or how fast you can iterate. And to be fair, that part is real. The barrier to building has clearly dropped.
But the more I use these tools, the more it feels like speed isn t the limiting factor anymore.
The real constraint seems to be taste.
what do you choose to build?
what do you keep vs discard?
what actually feels right vs just working ?
what is genuinely useful vs just impressive in a demo?
The one marketing lesson I learned from building an AI product that no one talks about
When we started building Murror, I made the same mistake most AI founders make: I marketed the technology.
"Powered by AI." "Smart algorithms." "Personalized insights." All the buzzwords. And you know what happened? Crickets.
Apple Cracks Down on βVibe Codingβ Apps
Apple is reportedly pushing back on AI vibe coding apps like @Replit and @Vibecode App, tools that let users create apps just by typing prompts.
The issue isn t a new rule. Apple is enforcing an old one:
Apps must be self-contained
They can t download or run new code that changes functionality after review
What makes you click into a Product Hunt launch?
There are so many launches on Product Hunt every day. How do you decide which ones are worth clicking into?
What s your #1 filter or shortcut?
Why we killed our 430-line Orchestrator (and why yours might be a "Black Box")
I ve spent the last few months obsessed with a specific failure in multi-agent systems: The Black Box Dilemma.
Most MAS setups I see (including my own v1) treat orchestration as "glue code." You have a central manager, a few agents, and a lot of hidden logic. When it fails, you re left guessing. As someone on IndieHackers put it: "You re just parallelizing chaos."
The Shift: From "Dictator" to "Blackboard"
In our latest iteration, we deleted the 430-line monolithic controller. Instead, we implemented a Blackboard Pattern.
How do you decide what features should be free and what should be paid?
Let me start from the creator s perspective:
I personally don t have a product (apart from hiring people for creative work or offering personal consultations).
But as a creator, I constantly share content, insights, and information, value that helps me build trust (for free). Based on that perceived expertise, people eventually decide to work with me (a paid service).







