... According to @RevenueCat 's State of Subscription Apps 2026 report, " hard paywalls convert 5x better than freemium, but with significantly wider variance." Day 35 download-to-paid, freemium vs

... would regulate, but it seems the US isn't far behind. Today I read a report that a New York bill would ban AI from answering questions related to medicine, law, dentistry, nursing, psychology, social work, engineering, & more. According to them, the main reason is to prevent AI chatbots from causing harm through their advice and endangering minors, for example. But then there's the view that it's really about protecting the value of professional services (where some ... ... charge $500/hour, so people don't bypass paid experts and get advice for free instead. Where is the truth, according

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... Anthropic said it uncovered industrial-scale efforts by Chinese Labs ( @DeepSeek , Moonshot and @MiniMax-M2.5 ) to extract capabilities from its Claude models via distillation. According to Anthropic, the campaigns involved: 16M+ exchanges ~24,000 fraudulent accounts Proxy networks to bypass regional restrictions Targeted extraction of reasoning, coding and tool-use abilities Distillation is a common technique for training smaller models from larger ones. The controversy here is using a competitor

... notable shift in the AI landscape, Apple and Google have announced a multi-year collaboration under which Apple s next generation of Apple Foundation Models will be based on Google s Gemini models and cloud technology. According to the joint statement , these models will help power upcoming Apple Intelligence features, including a more personalized Siri, expected later this year. Apple emphasized that inference will continue to run on-device and via Private Cloud Compute, maintaining its stated privacy standards. What ... ... framing : Apple says that after careful evaluation, it concluded Google s AI provides the most capable foundation for its future models. That s a rare and fairly explicit acknowledgment in an industry where vendors usually avoid naming competitors

... According to @Supabase 's State of Startups 2025 , founders follow newsletters like TLDR.  ICYMI Product Hunt isn t just a launch platform. It s also a collective of newsletters.  As we re gearing up for 2026, you might be planning your marketing strategy. So, I compared both options and did the math. Here s what I found.  Fig. 1: Product Hunt also is a collective of newsletters Overview  TLDR is a collective of 12 newsletters ... ... both audiences are mostly US-based, resp. 64% for TLDR and 53% for Product Hunt. Product Hunt has a significant proportion of founders (19%) and subscribers are more likely to work in early-stage companies under 100 people (59% vs

... Activities: Map competitive content gaps using our Niche Insights tool to identify underserved viewer segments Analyze viewer behavior patterns beyond basic keywords to find opportunity zones Cross-reference demand signals with supply quality to spot low-competition topics According to Think with Google's discovery research , unique content angles drive 4.3x more impressions than copying popular formats. Our Niche Insights processes millions of videos to show exactly what audiences want but aren't getting. Common Mistake : Creators copy what ... ... competing, they were filling a verified gap. Phase 2: Viewer Psychology Mapping Critical Success Factors: Use Channel Insights to decode your specific audience's emotional triggers and content preferences Map viewer journey patterns showing what keeps people watching versus

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... Monday , the first day of the conference for maximum exposure. Launching on a weekend for less competition @Ultracite , an open-source product for developers, built by a solo maker, launched on a weekend , less competitive than a week day according to @Product Hunt . Launching after gaining traction on X @Dimension first launched on X, got some traction (3.5M+ impressions), and launched on Product Hunt the next day , riding those tailwinds. Final thoughts Different launches, different timings. So, when ... ... wanted that badge, I would go for weekends. If I wanted challenge and huge traction  week days  esp. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Comment from Abdul Rehman(@abod_rehman): Do you think launch timing matters more for solo makers vs

... According to the 2025 @Stack Overflow Developer Survey (49,000+ participants), @VS

... agents is hard because they are non-deterministic. These challenges scale non-linearly with real usage. Most teams don t want to build, maintain and manage their own voice infrastructure. We're making choices about how we build @Layercode accordingly, and want to hear from more builders in the voice AI space. If you're building in voice AI: If you could wave a magic wand, what would you change about building voice AI today? Comment from John W.(@john ... ... Curious if I am missing context though, any reading links appreciated! What jumped out to me was just that this one of the first areas I've seen where people actually expressed a preference to deal with an AI VS

... brand mentions across these models in real time, analyses sentiment and provides prompts showing how and where the brand is being referenced. It also sends real time alerts when a brand is cited by an AI model and offers competitor monitoring to identify positioning gaps. Thirdeye as one of the most-advanced AI analytics and recommendation platform that helps brands get discovered not just on Google but inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity, emphasising that if you aren t cited ... ... billion by 2032. The conversational AI platforms such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini are becoming the new homepage for information, so brands must optimise for visibility across these models. This shift is supported by wider industry data: according

... ChatGPT + testing their own models. It seems that collaboration with someone stronger in the AI field will be their salvation because Apple s AI team faces talent losses, and the company is still behind AI rivals. Which option (according to you) would be the best for Apple? Going solo or teaming up? In case of teaming up with whom? I am kinda surprised they are considering Google because this one has always been their rival, e.g. in hardware devices ... ... Store vs

... waking up. Yes, Siri already partially integrates ChatGPT, but the bigger AI upgrade has been delayed multiple times. And now I m reading that in an internal meeting, Tim Cook told employees that Apple simply must win in AI. According to Bloomberg, he reaffirmed that the company will significantly increase its AI investments, as he already told investors. Plus, Apple is currently hiring people with experience in search algorithms and engine development , aiming to build its answer engine ... ... Vision Pro and other edge computing devices. As long as we need hardware to interact with AI and right now, every AI interaction is through hardware Apple has a massive advantage. The real danger signal would be if a competitor

... According to Finance Yahoo , Figma wants to come up with an Initial Public Offering that could raise up to $1.5 billion. The company is profitable in 2023, 2024, and 2025: 2024 Revenue: $749 million, a 48% increase from 2023. 2025 Growth: 46% year-over-year revenue growth in Q1. Gross Margin: 91% gross margin. Figma reports negligible debt, but it has a revolving debt line that could be updated. I s @Figma a company you would invest in? (Considering that ... ... relayn): @busmark_w_nika  both EU regulators and the UK s CMA, reflecting broader skepticism of Big Tech mergers, here are the details: https://www.figma.com/blog/figma... They feared it would create a "too powerful" design monopoly, stifling smaller competitors

... your Q2 goals, and how did you perform at maintaining them? Feel free to share your successes. Here's a rundown of what I accomplished (or didn't accomplish) in Q2: My goals for Q2: Record 30 YT shorts according to scripts I created 30 videos recorded (accomplished it in 2 weeks in June). Edit at least 10 of them Not at all, this will be a difficult nut to crack, so I wanna accomplish it in Q3. 30 Twitter ... ... SMART: Some of yours were great (like "Record 30 YT shorts"), but others could be more specific. SMART = Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound. For example, instead of "Prepare a strategy for growing newsletter paid subscribers," try: "Research 3 competitor

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... find out it s not what the market wanted. That's why smart founders validate first before they build. I'm building something to make that journey faster and smarter: BrandClover Instantly research your market for your idea Analyze competitors Understand your target audience Get actionable insights in minutes Creates Marketing/Financial/Operational plan according

... According to the Verge, Open AI is trying to create a new social network where people can share their creations produced by artificial intelligence. Meta is also considering creating AI avatars for social media to drive engagement. At first, I thought people would resist, but AI in social media is quickly becoming the norm. Most content images, texts, comments, even videos and DMs  is already AI-generated. On IG, YT, FB, TikTok, X and LI too. Are you already ... ... Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @sietse_schelpe  I think that we already do it with social media. I think they have enough information to aim their ads at us. Well, some laws and rules are different e.g. US law vs

... fairly loaded topic. Analytics & Building Your Own Admin Tools Easily integrate Google Analytics by simply inputting your measurement ID into Bolt for basic user insights. Remember to ask it to track key events across your application. Alternatively, build your own internal admin-only analytics dashboard for more detailed engagement tracking, such as daily and monthly active users, and specific engagement metrics. Once your app is live, monitor feature that are getting used the most and proactively prune features that ... ... prompt it with: "What s a secure but simple way to implement this? Do not make code changes yet" Bolt often defaults to generating numerous Supabase hooks, which may impact performance negatively. Clearly distinguish when to use backend APIs versus

... have made a list of platforms where you can create your community and share your knowledge in a closed circle (and in some cases sell memberships). The list is according to my preferences, so the platforms I use the most are at the top. Slack Discord WhatsApp groups (or alternatives

... ideally targeting the B2B market. However, this past week I've also seen a lot of "fun" products that not only made it into the featured category but also earned one of the product of the day titles. According to statistics , the most downloaded apps are games and probably this category earns the most money. No wonder, because: people like to be entertained people like to spend time doing an easy activity monetisation can be quite easy with ... ... personality. Basically, an AI comedian that isn t afraid to tell you the harsh truth. One app is practical the other is just for pure entertainment, but both are growing in different ways. Monetization depends a lot on virality vs

... place as a more reliable and balanced source of information , where discussions can be held at a high level, perhaps also due to sometimes stricter moderation. + I am noticing how some makers proclaim that Reddit brought them good leads. According to these facts, do you think that Reddit has the potential to outgrow bigger social media players? Do you use Reddit for your business & marketing efforts? I'd like to hear your thoughts, and approaches, as I'm considering ... ... deleted? :DDD Comment from Harold Gary(@harold_gary): I agree that Reddit will become a leading discussion platform in the future. There are a few aspects that attract me: Reddit users are highly active, and posts receive responses quickly. According

... phones are now an integral part of our lives and it's with no doubt I am certain to say that we re more mobile than ever. According to one of the US Mobile App Reports indicates that: We now spend 50% of our digital media time in smartphone apps Time spent in mobile apps absolutely dominates over mobile web We most often only access 20 or fewer apps in a month, but we position them on our screens ... ... friend groups were close to 100% Apple users. It's interesting that user device preferences have shifted. I'm mind-blown by this interesting party conversation, help me out! Here's my question to you: Are you an Apple vs