... starts with a portrait and builds an interaction around it. First, the image establishes how the character looks. Next, a persona describes the character s role, background, tone, and conversational goal. A separate knowledge document provides material for specific topics. The creator then chooses a voice and can try a text or microphone conversation. These pieces solve different problems. The persona guides how the character responds; the knowledge source gives it information to draw on. For example, an interactive story ... ... grounded answers, voice turn-taking and latency, or the rendering and engine integration? I would especially value examples of the failure cases that surprised you. Links: TalkingHead Studio https://mugen3d.ai/studio?kind=t... API documentation https://mugen3d.ai/api/ TalkingHead Web SDK https://github.com

... BYOK to offload the heavy jobs. GitHub:  https://github.com

... everyone. Flatbb goes live on Product Hunt tomorrow (Sep 5), so here is a quick heads-up and the story behind it. The problem: every forum I tried wanted Composer, Node or Docker before it showed a single topic, while the people I was building for had cheap shared hosting and an FTP client. Flatbb is plain PHP with no framework, no Composer and no build step. Unzip a folder, open the URL, and a short installer asks for SQLite ... ... single text file. Paste it into Claude Code, Codex or Cursor, describe what you want, and upload the folder you get back. There is a marketplace with one-click installs. Free, MIT licensed. Site: https://www.flatbb.com Source: https://github.com

... learning was never really designed for it . There is certainly no shortage of technical content. If anything, we have the opposite problem. You can watch part of a YouTube course, read a blog post, jump into documentation, save a GitHub repo, subscribe to a newsletter, buy a Udemy course and bookmark three different roadmaps. Some of that content is fantastic. ByteByteGo was one of the best things I found. I loved how technical concepts could be turned into concise, visual ... ... other directions a tech career can take? Something designed from the beginning around the idea that sometimes five minutes is all you have . That idea eventually became SysSnack . What I'm trying to build with SysSnack SysSnack takes technical topics

... best time to launch! The next best time is now! But I am intending to launch my own product on 4th August! Look forward to seeing your launch! Comment from Raphael C.Sena(@raphael_c_sena): Slightly off topic from the original question, but what would be some platforms or people in general that I should ask to test out my own product? In dire need of some feedback to roll out a good update on my SaaS tool. Comment from ... ... default and only fall back to cloud AI for the more complex tasks. Comment from Hammad Shams Uddin(@hammad_shams_uddin): @busmark_w_nika  No, verification was the easy part. A work email on my own domain, plus GitHub

... there is nothing to find by reading. The number simply looks right. So for text, comparing against a source works. For anything the model computed, the only check is recomputing it. That is the work people forget to price. github.com/dimhold/llm-arithmetic Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @yelyzaveta_kibets  But I think that my brain is so ADHD that I prefer short texts (and AI has problem with writing short texts) lol :D Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika ... ... nika I think polishing is fine as well ! Comment from Richard Acheampong (@richatsealedvault): @samran_elahi   @busmark_w_nika  100% exactly. AI can do it all is the mindset now. Comment from Richard Acheampong (@richatsealedvault): Another interesting topic

... usually follow particular topics or "subdiscussion" categories and whenever I see that, I try to hlep :) Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @jacqueline_v_twillie  you are welcome! :) I recommend searching more about PH within discussions. I outlined many topics

... systems. Comment from Adana Marukhyan(@adana): @akarsh_hegde  It was nice meeting you. Wishing you the best of luck! Comment from Adana Marukhyan(@adana): @busmark_w_nika  We ve met here and there under different posts and topics, but it s nice to get to know you a little better! Do you still practice yoga for yourself? I think yoga is one of those things that, once you start, you can t really give up. And behaving like ... ... Adana! I m from India. I ve been working on a few open-source projects recently: LaraCopilot : an AI-powered development tool for Laravel developers: https://laracopilot.com Freedium : a Chrome extension for reading Medium articles: https://chromewebstore.google.co... GitHub

... decision fatigue. From my own experience, the biggest issue with existing AI guardrails is that it is overprotective in the wrong places creating decision fatigue while still letting dangerous actions through. Product Hunt Page: https://producthunt.com/products... Github ( Apache 2.0): https://github.com

... this Reddit post today and it hit so close to home. I've had this exact conversation multiple times. AI Memory is a topic that people get instantly. There are many people who have open-sourced basic AI memory layers and published their own GitHub

... keep not sharing context on every future change too, not just the one that prompted you to think of it. otherwise you're back to trusting a read instead of a result. Comment from Zach Reed Smith(@zrsmith): Great topic. Agree. It's almost like a "cognitive debt" that can accumulate. This is an attitude I have encountered: If the AI writes the code, and also debugs the code, why do I need to understand the code? Said differently ... ... anything touching a data-access boundary. I got tired of describing this and built a reproduction instead same test suite, red on one branch, green on the other, npm ci && npm test, about two seconds, no Docker: github.com

... easier to move quickly without spending weeks setting up backend infrastructure. GitHub version control, shipping, tracking changes, and generally keeping the product from turning into chaos. Essentially, the list is a tool that I built, and the enablement layer that makes it possible. Comment from Giulianno Vollmer(@giulianno_v): For building Lernex and the Metis-1.6 model work, my five right now are: 1. GitHub

... build backends that were not present. The useful summary was not just "56 checks passed." It was "install failed first, here is the exact environment, recovery, and what this result does not claim." I published that reproduction here: https://github.com/meridianverit... If you are open to it, I would rather compare one synthetic approval event than keep debating the schema in the abstract. We could define the request, policy result, human decision, side effect, delivery, and later audit ... ... claude code - /remote_control in session and approve prompts on the go in the mobile app. It's also possible to do some automation with hooks, like maybe turning on alarm when task is done :) I haven't been using github

... each unique message is embedded once no matter how many traces contain it. For the failures you would not think to search for, Behaviors cluster sessions by what the user was trying to do, and each topic carries a trend against the week before it. When password-reset loops start spiking, the change shows up as a status before anyone has gone looking for it. 3. Annotate what you find Whatever you find will evaporate when the tab closes unless ... ... Claude code command here: bash claude mcp add --transport http latitude https://api.latitude.so/v1/mcp For other coding agents refer to our docs: https://docs.latitude.so/getting... Latitude is MIT-licensed, self-hostable, and the whole workspace is exposed over MCP. Github

... schema, and an AI-SEO check before publish. Handle each of those manually and you've just traded one bottleneck for four. So I turned the pipeline into four Claude skills that chain together. Topic Research pulls from People Also Ask, Reddit, Stack Overflow, and GitHub

... Notion page or Google Doc where you collect ideas genuinely works. The General section is my favorite. But unlike social media, where you often post about whatever is trending right now, here you should focus on evergreen market topics. Subjects that will remain relevant for months or even years, rather than the newest model on the market that may feel completely outdated two months later. Comment from Abdullah Javaid(@abdullah_javaid3): @busmark_w_nika  Your "just by hunting ... ... user___15220260fd153a4893b7802): @alexander_eliot   That's a great example, and I think it highlights something bigger: feedback doesn't have to come from comments it can come from behaviour. Whether it's Product Hunt discussions, Etsy analytics, GitHub

... track it from the plugin? Any hints? Or should I use only my landing page? Thank you so much for this extensive help. Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @marie_saxon   @byalexai  Probably LinkedIn can be the topic :D Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @anna_ludwinowski  Hey Anna, thank you so much. Have you ever experienced any soft or hard restrictions? Because some of them are caused by sudden "abnormal" activity. And you can make ... ... when you like things fast, or reply to fast. So my tool is counting the "safe limit" for activities + pacing. Comment from Andr J(@alchemist_studio): I actually built a tiny version of this into my upcoming product. https://github.com

... Claude Code for most of what I build, and these go through it. The drafts are mine though: my thinking, my call, and nothing goes out that I haven't read line by line. Which is on topic, I suppose. That's the gate I was describing, and you just found the tell it doesn't catch. Taking the note on the dashes. Comment from Aadil Ghani(@aadilghani): Forget the options for a second, because I think there ... ... state cannot be checked through a bounded observation path, expiry should abort rather than recurse into another broad grant otherwise, as you say, it s turtles. I added this exact seam to the hardening matrix in issue #2: https://github.com

... gets more goodwill than pretending to be bigger than you are nobody expects a new product to already have scale, so there's nothing to hide. Comment from Julia Shtogren(@julia_shtogren): Oh, self promotion is a really complicated topic! I grew up in the same environment. I love the options you tried actually. And idea of editing post after it performs well is smart! Making expert content is good idea, but sometimes it can be a trap of giving ... ... Answer questions in public instead of posting announcements is such a good tip. Thanks for sharing! Comment from Giovambattista Fazioli(@gfazioli): hey nika, this hits home. i build dev tools (netfox for networking stuff, findergit for git, octoscope for github

... built a Chrome extension that adds a one-click " Open in Freedium " action directly to Medium articles and the Medium feed. You can try it here: https://chromewebstore.google.co... It's also open source on GitHub: https://github.com

... language chips, latest release, languages bar, recent commits with a "N total M by you in the last year" counter, open issues / PRs preview, topics. Each detail is fetched in a single targeted GraphQL query for that one item no fan-out across your list, zero rate-limit pressure. Descriptions and comments render through glamour ( https://github.com

... what you re building. Maybe it s less about waiting vs promoting and more about how intentionally you bring people into the journey. Comment from Kabir Salunkhe(@kabirsalunkhe): @busmark_w_nika  Hahaha! Apologies, it was an interesting topic for discussion. To be honest even I'm finding it difficult to keep track of the thread replies! :D Comment from Kabir Salunkhe(@kabirsalunkhe): @busmark_w_nika  Interesting way to frame it. False positives might actually do more damage than ... ... positive problem paige mentioned, because strangers on the internet don't care about you, they care about the problem. the "can't hand over personal accounts" point is real though. from day one separate the product entity (email, twitter, github

... octoscope o Open in GitHub d View details c Copy URL enter confirms, single letters are direct shortcuts (lazygit-style), esc closes, q quits at any depth. Repo drill-in (d from the menu) replaces the Repos tab body with a rich detail view: Header with visibility / license / language chips Description, quick stats, latest release Languages bar Recent commits with N total M by you in the last year inline summary Open issues + PRs preview Topics

... organization. However if they lack of real experience, we still give them time to get familiar soon. Comment from Arnold Oshenye(@oshylabs): Id assume general interest in what im doing..possibly over competence, perhaps? or is that hot topic...? Comment from Tham Yik Foong(@tham_yikfoong): As a founder, I think understanding of the problem/vision we are solving and the 'vibe' is what I care for the most. Comment from Swati Paliwal(@swati_paliwal): I have a small checklist ... ... m me si c est moche V1 2. Ownership : prend le probl me jusqu au bout sans qu on respire derri re 3. Communication async : sait crire clairement sur Slack/Notion. Dipl me + ann es d exp je m en fous. Montre-moi un repo GitHub

... Every single week, my X feed and GitHub trending list tell me the same thing: the tech stack we chose three months ago is already obsolete. There s a new AI wrapper that promises 10x speed, a new framework that claims to solve all state-management nightmares, and a database that apparently runs on pure magic. It s exhausting. As a CTO, the pressure to constantly innovate is real. You want to give your team the absolute best tools ... ... engineer prove the bottleneck, migrate one narrow path, and rollback cleanly in a day? Comment from Herco Bezuidenhout(@herco): In my experience, the noise is by being on social media. The algorithm shows me all the newest, trendiest topics