... look made me catch that my gallery started with the wrong image. In the old form I d never have noticed until launch day. Rescheduling from the same screen was painless too. What felt awkward: categories vs. tags. I went looking for Sports and Web App under categories and only later realized the broad ones are categories and the specific ones are tags. A one-line hint next to each would have saved me some confusion. +1 to what @bengeekly ... ... result. The old flow made you hold the whole launch in your head while clicking through steps, and that's where mistakes creep in. The checklist taking you straight to the field is a smart call too. Required vs

... everyone! I'm Mike, 45 years young (wait... HOW did that happen so fast?!). I'm old enough to remember that magical time before the Internet existed. Yep, I'm practically a dinosaur in developer years. I'm a dad of three, a full-time programmer, and a part-time survivor of three kids with seemingly unlimited energy. Seriously, I wish I could borrow just 10% of their batteries. Once the workday is over, family time is done ...

... young, and still love it today. Then I saw someone using Lovable to turn pet photos into paintings and is making $300k/m!!! So... What if I could take this idea and make it for MTG custom cards? Yep, I built it . Upload a picture of yourself, a friend or dog -> Get a custom card ready to print. I built it entirely on @Lovable , and it was super smooth. ( Video here if it helps ). I didn't tackle ...

... roadmap. The biggest lesson: daily use surfaces the boring states (crash recovery, empty files, slow disks) that demos never do, and those are what users actually judge you on. Comment from Michael Hurley(@michaelh_rley): @adana   Yep, I design my own marks and layouts, and I built Omadesign because I wanted pro-level design tools that run natively on Linux. Comment from Amy Ingram(@amy_ingram): Yes, between all of us, someone is always using Querri to analyze ... ... often check PC hardware on the second-hand market, and a genuinely good deal can disappear in less than an hour. I wanted a fast way to see whether the price is actually good, compare the hardware with alternatives

... Yep, the title says it all, and if you don't believe me, have a look https://x.com/im_dimneo/status/2... Try it yourself, and let me know what else ...

... makes running things in parallel. On a normal day I have up to 12 sessions going in mine. Keeping up with all of them by eye is the hard part lol Comment from Hisashi Space(@hisashispace): @konstantin_tikhaev  Yep, that's the lesson I'm taking from this too. Thanks Konstantin, it's been a good back and forth. Comment from Hisashi Space(@hisashispace): @konstantin_tikhaev  Agreed, simple wins Comment from Hisashi Space(@hisashispace): @konstantin_tikhaev  Yep

... Hands up who's worried with token costs? Yep, me too. We were actually paying ~$5/year to keep track of our LLM costs for @Helicone AI . After the @Mintlify acquisition it wasn't the same . So last week we built (vibe coded) our own LLM observability tool to keep track of this. Now we can see: cost per LLM call which user costs the most latency where it fails down to a single request, up to any timeframe No name ...

... security tool trustworthy. Makes total sense that the write is unconditional otherwise you'd have to build a whole separate 'is this repo clean' system just to decide when to record. The trade-off you described (false positives vs silent baseline) feels like the right one. Already using it on a few internal repos, and the speed is genuinely impressive. Thanks for the detailed breakdown this thread alone has been more educational than most tool docs I've read this ... ... costs. glad it's quick on your end the lockfile read has a fetch budget of its own, precisely so it can't crowd out the axis that catches the actual payload Comment from Giovambattista Fazioli(@gfazioli): @sumonmatrix  yep

... time to finish the gallery. Does the day of the week still matter much in your experience, or is that mostly a myth now? Comment from (@new_user___26020267b63ea4605738cbb): Launching BillFast today has reinforced the ready enough vs. finished distinction for me: the core flow (create an invoice, preview it, download a client-ready PDF) is narrow and usable, while feedback is now surfacing the edges currencies, taxes, templates, and payment instructions. For a small product, that feels ... ... limited testers. They gave us the first feedbacks for us to make the app better. After we didn't succeeded with a try on LinkedIn, where the feedback was nearly zero, we are on our way to find good alternatives

... work itself. The real productivity skill is knowing when to delegate to AI and when to just make the change. Comment from Ghost Kitty(@ghost-kitty-9637764): Comment Deleted Comment from Orkhan Ilyas (@orkhan_ilyas): @milan_cheeks  Yep, exactly! As a designer, I have the same problem with small UI adjustments, and this is the main reason why I started this discussion. At the same time, it can also mean extra token usage. MCP helps a bit with providing ... ... more context, but setting it up and using it can also add some extra work. Comment from Orkhan Ilyas (@orkhan_ilyas): @yosun_negi  Yep

... Context is king. Yep, I know, we've tried to solve it a bunch of times. But moving that context is a pain: Go to a website -> Copy text -> Switch tabs -> Paste in ChatGPT -> Get an answer -> Go back to the other tab -> Repeat 100 times a day So instead of bringing the page context to the AI, we brought the AI to the page. Introducing Pretty Chat ! (Best part, it super simple, like ... ... that's the weird thing, but we've been using it non-stop internally for stuff like: Summarize this long article Draft a reply to this LinkedIn comment Translate this page "Answer to a support ticket" What are the competitors

... other people see your responsiveness, but anyway, I would be careful with that because the crowd effect can work with bad comments too (people just join the hater) Comment from Richard Romero(@richard_romero2): @busmark_w_nika  yep i agree Comment from Richard Romero(@richard_romero2): To be honest it does not bother me having worked in the public sector for 20 years i just smile and say thanks for your input and move on there will always ... ... This is garbage, it hung up on my mother" is rude and actionable. "Love the vision, excited to see where this goes!" is lovely and worth nothing. Second, the distinction that changed how we respond: hate at your product versus

... would hold their attention for twenty minutes instead of forty seconds. That is the entire premise. Not where you've worked. What you've built. The Real Answer Is Not Either/Or In 2026, the strongest combination is not resume versus profile. It is resume plus profile. One gets you noticed in the first seven seconds of a scan. The other gets you remembered for the twenty minutes after that, and it is the twenty minutes that actually decide whether ... ... Comment Deleted Comment from Roy Kek(@roy_kek): I believe profile seems better. As its kinda like github for developers. Comment from Ghost Kitty(@ghost-kitty-9606238): Comment Deleted Comment from Nolan Vu(@nolan_vu): The "20 minutes vs

... that smaller products spread the risk and throw off extra income toward buying a house. Because none of the bets are existential, the math feels a lot more forgiving than going all-in on one thing On focus vs. spread, I d say it s less either/or and more about sequencing: build one product to a real footing first, then layer in the next, rather than splitting attention across ten on day one. Comment from Raj Nagulapalle(@rnagulapalle): the portfolio ... ... shipping 5 products and none share an audience you're not running a portfolio. you're running 5 startups poorly. that's how focus reclaims the throne. Comment from Blake at Vassant(@blakeatvassant): @busmark_w_nika Yep

... both content and   product work.   2. Google Search Console I basically live in it. For anything SEO, it's the only honest source of truth   about what's actually happening vs. what I assume is happening.   3. Ahrefs keyword and competitor

... time. Comment from Amy Ingram(@amy_ingram): @samirrashed  We will be launching again sometime next month, and we will work on a better onboarding experience that will help us customize follow-ups that are actually meaningful to users, vs generic onboarding emails. So still working on it ;-). Just upvote your launch! Comment from Samir Rashed(@samirrashed): @ella_reyes1  Here we go https://www.producthunt.com/prod... Would love to know your feedback Comment from Sourav Dey(@souvenger): may be rescheduling ... ... just about to launch, and even though we ve tried to prepare properly, it still feels like we re probably making half of these mistakes anyway. The hardest part for me is knowing what s useful preparation vs

... actual insight, and it's bigger than it looks: making the notification say why it's waiting is what turns a ping into a triage. "Done" makes you tab back to find out what "done" means. "Needs approval vs finished vs

... common. I have a theory that AI is moving beyond the browser, into your desktop So we're following it there. From the end of this month, you can use Pretty Prompt on any app on your machine. Yep. A native Mac app on your desktop! Highlight -> Command -> Enter (Hit me up if you want to beta test it for the end of May) We've got only 50 spaces left. I want quality feedback before relaunching ...

... Because we're not hiding from it. That's the difference. founder of @BurnLink Comment from Qasim Khan(@qasimkhan): @joy0x1  yeah that experience permanently changes how you think about security honestly Comment from Qasim Khan(@qasimkhan): @joy0x1  yep, 100% agreed on this Comment from Joy G. Majumdar(@joy0x1): @qasimkhan  Man, I feel that. There's nothing like watching it happen in real-time to make you realize how fragile everything is. Once you've seen the access ... ... Khan(@qasimkhan): this hit hard because i went through something similar recently watching accounts get accessed in real time permanently changes how you think about temporary security compromises and trust Comment from Joy G. Majumdar(@joy0x1): @kinsley_brooke  Yep

... front-end/back-end frameworks, deployment tools etc.) and having full control over it via config files is something that is comforting me way more than having to use some CLI (I'm looking at you, aws-cli) or UI (yep, still looking at you, AWS). As an example, a single VPS that I'm using for a pre-prod environment of a product that is currently being built, costs 35 EUR, and there is a good chance ... ... think that this is a real issue in 2026 with letsencrypt and its toolkit. I'm probably old-school, but I love tinkering and having fun with servers. Comment from Stan Kolotinskiy(@sk_uxpin): @wasil_abdal  yep

... text. Even the general structure doesn't tell you much, at least for articles where humans were pushed into the same handful of SEO-friendly templates before generative AI became widespread. Comment from Fabrizio Pfannl(@fabriziowexare): Honest answer: AI-vs-human detection is mostly broken now. What still works is detecting whether a piece of writing was edited by someone with an opinion versus

... makes pricing easier. Products from anonymous creators compete on price. Products from known practitioners with a track record compete on trust. That's a completely different conversation. Comment from Samir Asadov(@samir_asadov): For specialist/practitioner products this 'brand vs product' framing breaks down the product IS the brand statement. A financial model template built from real deal experience signals more credibility than a thousand brand posts ever could, because the buyer (a CFA with a deal on their desk) reads ... ... were only concerned w/ my wellbeing I'd do the same, but when I have others I'm responsible for, and they themselves have mouths to feed, I think differently about the long term effects of my brand vs

... indie stuff on here? - and if you ve launched recently or are thinking about it: is it actually worth it anymore, or has it become a vanity checkbox? feels like Product Hunt needs a separate board for corporate launches vs. new indie products. Or am I wrong? Comment from Ruxandra Mazilu(@ruxandra_mazilu): Yep

... dependency graph. For those shipping SDKs: do you find that keeping the SDK code in the same monorepo helps the AI write better integration tests, or does it get confused by the different environments (e.g., std for SDK vs no_std for core)? Comment from Csaba Ivancza(@csaba_ivancza): @josephine_roux  yep

... they are. Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @rohanrecommends  Sorry, missed the word :D Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @jordan_valuable  yeah, but personal is more "trustworthy" Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @felix_nolan  yep, if you are forced to something, you will hate it (averse) :D Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @david_sherer  We can see that "loyalty" from the company side when it comes to AI layoffs. Comment from Nika(@busmark ... ... when personal branding quietly becomes an unspoken job requirement. Building a public presence takes time, energy, and a level of personal exposure that not everyone wants or should have to want. So to me, the key difference is voluntary vs