Early-stage founders often try to improve their product as much as possible and tend to take almost any feedback into account.

Sometimes they end up adding every feature users (even non-paying ones) ask for, even when those features are unnecessary. The product then becomes more complicated and harder to use.

And I m not even talking about the stage when the product is already established. At that point, there are more users, and their expectations start to differ.

If I'm being honest, I'm online (and on PC in general) more than is healthy. Never less than 12 to 14 hours a day.

In practice, I use it most often for:

creating graphics

TL;DR: Anthropic refused to sign a contract with the Pentagon that would have allowed the U.S. military to use all of its models without restrictions. Anthropic insisted on an exception, and brace yourself, that its models cannot be used: 1) for mass surveillance of citizens, 2) for autonomous killing. Now the administration is threatening that if the founder of Anthropic doesn't change his mind by a certain date, they will come after him.

Google, OpenAI, and Musk (Grok) have all signed the contract.

Following Sam Altman's announcement over the past few hours, people have been speaking out massively about cancelling their OpenAI subscriptions and subscribing to Claude.

Hi Product Hunt!

I ve been building desktop apps for years, and I ve realized I really enjoy focusing on desktop over web or mobile. Frameworks like Squirrel .NET make updates smooth, but the reasons I prefer desktop go deeper than just convenience.

Two less obvious benefits for me:

1. User data stays on the user s PC I don t need to worry about security, privacy, or building complex backend systems. I can focus on features instead of infrastructure.

2. Low ongoing costs I don t need expensive servers to keep things running. If I lose interest or shift focus, the app doesn t go offline; it can keep working, and I can return whenever I want.

Hello all! I am Emmi, Co-Founder and CMO of Persona. As our launch is approaching this spring, I wanted to hop on here to share thoughts on this crazy journey.

Building a startup has forced me to accept two things:

1. Most growth problems are actually clarity problems. If people don t immediately understand what you are building, no amount of marketing will compensate for that.

2. Leadership often means operating at a level slightly beyond your comfort zone and learning to move forward before you feel fully qualified.

Hey PH! Adnan here, AI engineer & founder building FinCrew AI , an AI CFO platform for SMBs ($10M-$200M). We use multi-agent orchestration to automate financial operations. Excited to learn from this community and eventually launch here.

What are the biggest PH launch day tips?

Hi Product Hunt! I m Vlad a Windows desktop developer with ~15 years of experience.

I ve spent most of my career building native desktop apps because I genuinely love the feeling of creating fast, practical software that people actually use every day.

My main project is FTPie a paid app (with a free version available) that I m trying to turn into a sustainable indie business. It s my long-term focus and the project I m continuously grinding on.

Along the way, I realized that many internal tools and components I built for FTPie could become useful standalone products. That s how my second project was born: