... them. But there's a difference between a tool that was built around it and a tool that stuck a chat box on top because it was trendy. From the listing alone, those two look identical. Curious if anyone else feels this. What's an AI feature you actually use regularly, versus

... Every "which LLMs should I track" list defaults straight to ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude. Makes sense in one way. Scout's a smaller, more efficient model (10M token context, MoE architecture) built for scale and cost, not for being anyone's primary "ask it everything" assistant the way ChatGPT is. But the distribution is the part that's hard to ignore: it's sitting inside apps billions of people already have open every day, recommending things in casual chat context ... ... rather than a dedicated search box. Genuinely curious, for anyone

... post about it so far is coding benchmarks and "look what it built in one prompt" demos. Which is fine, but I don't write code for a living, so it's not telling me much. Genuinely curious if anyone's actually thrown real work at it yet, not a toy prompt. I keep seeing "our best model yet" every few weeks now and I'm starting to tune it out a little, which probably isn't a great instinct ... ... given how fast this stuff moves. Anyone

... everyone! Is anyone here from Malaysia running a digital agency, doing performance marketing, or managing campaigns for local businesses? I m based in Malaysia and currently building AdsTrack, a tool that helps agencies track ad spend, leads, daily sales and ROI in one place. I m curious to learn: How do you currently report campaign performance to clients? Do you use spreadsheets, WhatsApp updates, or another tool? What part of client reporting takes the most time? Would love to connect ...

... cannot tell you what a single one of them did. Not because analytics are hard. Because I never wired up one event. I knew how many people landed and roughly where they came from, and absolutely nothing about whether anyone got value out of the thing I spent months on. The uncomfortable part is that on launch night, traffic felt like a result. It is not a result. The only number that would have told me anything is how many ... ... after. What surprises me is how little this shows up in launch checklists. Everyone talks about the hunter, the timing, the first comment, the gallery assets. Almost nobody says: make sure that on launch night you can answer "did anyone

... attention on HN specifically for that idea, more than the platform itself. I've been dealing with a version of this same problem: figuring out where the line is between actions an agent should just do versus actions that need a human to say yes first. The "async" part is what's interesting to me. Most approval flows I've seen block the whole turn until someone responds. Doing it asynchronously means the agent can keep working on other things ... ... while one action sits waiting. Curious if anyone

... complain about. It costs the user nothing no extra charge, same wait. It costs them one more step at the start. I made it optional because the first run is where people quit. Asking for a second thing before anyone has seen a single result felt like the fastest possible way to lose them. So now the version I'm actually proud of sits behind a field most people scroll past, and the version most people meet is the weaker ... ... hole in it is that I don't know whether people come back for a second run often enough for the timing to matter, and I'd rather not build the whole prompt just to find that out. Has anyone

... output. This week I put a free account in front of it. Same allowance, same features, no card, but you now sign up before you get anything. The reasons were dull and real. I couldn't attribute anything to anyone. I couldn't tell a returning person from a new one, so I had no idea whether people were coming back. And an anonymous endpoint that costs me money on every call was an abuse problem I was going ... ... things I'm stuck on: The people affected are, almost by definition, people I cannot contact. They never gave me an email. That was the entire point of the thing I removed. The change makes the product better for anyone

... part where I'd ask you to slow down, because there's a story being sold about what replaces it. You've seen the claims: AI referral traffic converts 5x better, 9x better, it's the highest-intent channel anyone's ever seen. Almost every one of those numbers comes from a company selling AI-visibility optimization. The largest independent look I can find points the other way 973 ecommerce sites, $20 billion in revenue, 12 months of first-party ... ... Another study, from Amsive, found no significant conversion difference at all and LLM referrals under 1% of sessions. Hold both: the old channel is shrinking, and the new channel is currently a rounding error that converts fine, not magically. Anyone

... failing: -SEO isn t working -Backlinks are not coming -I m not reaching the right audience -No clear guidance or structured approach to follow It feels like there s a missing playbook after building a product. If anyone has gone through this stage or has a proven framework for acquiring users, doing marketing, or growing a SaaS from zero I d really appreciate your guidance ...

... there's a distinction I keep thinking about: apps built with AI (Cursor, Claude, Copilot writing the code) vs apps that depend on AI APIs at runtime to function. I'm in the first camp. I used AI-assisted coding heavily to build Briskly (a cleaning app that scans your room and generates a timed task list), but the app itself makes zero LLM API calls. The scanning runs on Apple's Vision framework, entirely on-device. No tokens ... ... serve. I also hate the idea of sending images externally to an LLM. But I'm aware I'm trading away capability. A cloud LLM could do far smarter things than my on-device pipeline can. So, questions for anyone

... everyone, my name is Aman, and I'm the co-founder of Nvestiq. We allow anyone to build, validate, and export their strategies without code. People rely on LLMs a lot nowadays, especially in the trading world, which has a huge effect on their outcomes. There is no surprise that LLMs hallucinate. Our platform is designed to help traders backtest their strategies with the same level of validation that institutions use but at the retail level. We enable anyone

... generate the same week three separate times, in three different places, and none of them agree. 1. The daily update. Standup, a Slack thread, a "what did you do today" bot. Everyone writes it. I'm not convinced anyone reads it a week later. 2. The calendar. Which is, quietly, the most accurate record any of us keeps. Nobody games their own calendar. It just sits there being right. 3. The timesheet / invoice. Filled in Friday at 6pm or worse ... ... month-end from memory, from Slack scrollback, from vibes. Then it becomes the number a client actually pays. So, three questions for anyone

... years by people who cared about how it feels to use. Dark, considered interfaces. Whitespace that isn't accidental. Content that is the product, not decoration bolted onto a spreadsheet. The short answer to "what's the best LinkedIn alternative in 2026" is this: builders aren't looking for another feed. They're looking for a professional network that was actually designed, not just maintained. That's the gap forg.to is built to close. Here's why the gap exists ... ... profile. A dedicated home at forg.to/@you for your product, your stack, your links, and your entire build history with shipping streaks and an immutable changelog attached to it. It's proof of work, not a claim of work. Anyone

... that is reach=1 and shouldn't stop for anyone. The single moment that earns a human is publish, because that's the one action where the blast radius jumps from "me" to "the audience" in one irreversible step. You've found the exact line where reach changes by orders of magnitude, and everything before it can run unattended precisely because it can't reach anyone

... page or disappear shortly afterward. I'm aware Product Hunt has anti-fraud systems, but these are genuine supporters. I'm trying to understand whether this is expected behavior, a delay in vote processing, or something else. Has anyone else experienced this during a launch? If so, did the votes eventually return, or did you need to contact the Product Hunt team? I'd appreciate hearing about your experience or any advice. Thanks ...

... Flash as the default model, running roughly 4x faster than Opus 4.8 or GPT-5.5, worth knowing if you'd written it off as the "free but weaker" option. What I haven't found a clean answer to: does anyone have a real methodology for tracking cost-per-solved-task rather than cost-per-token? Token counts alone feel misleading once you factor in retries, wrong turns, and the fact that a "cheap" run that needs 3 follow-up prompts ...

... other founders/makers here are seeing this: a chunk of my own search behavior has quietly moved from typing something into Google to just asking ChatGPT or Perplexity directly, and getting an answer with no click to any website. For anyone building a product with organic/SEO as a growth channel, has this shown up in your numbers yet? Or is it too early to tell? Not trying to sell anything, genuinely curious how other builders here are thinking about ...

... looking through the newly released benchmark comparison, and one thing stood out immediately. Opus 5 outperforms Fable 5 on many of the benchmarks that matter to me: * Agentic terminal coding: 43.3% vs 33.7% * Knowledge work: 1861 vs

... launch team that went live today. The readiness side was all done, product works, landing page up, payments in, guidelines followed. What decides the day is whether anyone outside the team shows up to comment, and that cannot be built on launch morning. Ours ran a long stretch with zero comments from anyone

... some kind of read receipt or basic activity signal on my profile, like knowing when a recruiter actually opened it or shared it further. right now you basically send your info into the void and have no idea if anyone's engaging with it. would help close the loop without compromising the end-to-end encryption story Mark as readReplyAward View Upvote 16h ago Unread Erdal zda One thing that would make this way more useful for people like ... ... actually respected you" is a pitch that resonates instantly because everyone has LinkedIn frustration. Rebuilding recruiting with respect as the foundation addresses a systemic problem that affects millions of professionals daily. Your PH launch is active. Recruiting and LinkedIn alternative

... what the actual job entails. Developers have noticed. Only 12% of developers use LinkedIn as their main source of technical information, according to a Stack Overflow survey. Most are on the platform purely because they feel they have no alternative, not because they find it genuinely useful. The Fake Everything Problem LinkedIn has a trust problem that is getting dramatically worse, not better. In the second half of 2024, LinkedIn identified and removed 80.6 million fake accounts at the point ... ... engagement metrics. It is useless for a developer trying to find their people or get found by the right opportunities. The Verification Gap One of the most specific frustrations developers have with LinkedIn is that nothing is verified. Anyone

... things are going well. You notice it the moment you want to switch tools, bring in an actual engineer, or move to your own hosting and suddenly realize how much of your app doesn't travel with you. Has anyone hit this wall for real. Did you end up rebuilding from scratch somewhere else, or did you manage to get everything out cleanly. And if you checked this before you started building, what did you actually look ...

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... start of the week than explain them at the end. Comment from Shahroz Siddique(@shahroz_siddique): @kartikbatchu2003  Exactly, and the annoying part is Friday reports basically just confirm what you could've caught days earlier if anyone had been watching Monday. By the time it shows up in a report, you've already lost the days where a quick check-in would've fixed it. Comment from Shahroz Siddique(@shahroz_siddique): @stacywycof83995  That's a smart ...