Hey everyone,

After launching Intrascope and finishing Top 10 Product of the Day, we wanted to open a quick discussion.

The biggest takeaway for us wasn t the ranking, but the conversations. We talked to teams who are already using AI daily and are struggling with scattered tools, separate API keys, lost context, and costs growing without visibility.

That s exactly why we built Intrascope: a shared AI workspace where teams bring their own API keys, work with shared context and Manifests, and keep usage and costs predictable.

Over the past few days, I ve been trying to understand what helped the most successful launches stand out.

In general, here s what I noticed they tend to share:

• Their Product Hunt page had at least 500 followers.

• The product was in overall good condition (I mean, already had some level of reputation, really good marketing).

• Many were hunted by well-established, well-known hunters on the platform.

• Every comment received a response.

• The visuals were strong there was almost always a video or demo featured at the beginning of the carousel.

We re getting ready for our second Product Hunt launch on Jan 31, and a post by @busmark_w_nika got me thinking.

What to do (that we didn't do the first time):

• Plan your launch. What does it mean?

  • Write down everything you need to do before you launch.

  • Cleaning your copy

  • Your product images

  • Your product video (demo under 60 seconds if you can)

  • For our first launch, we didn't do anything. Even though we got 2nd Product of the Day, I would not recommend others to leave it to their luck. Plan and maximize your chances of success.

• Keep it simple, stupid.

  • Don't overcomplicate your page with lots of marketing language.

  • Simplicity, clean product screenshots, and clear language.

  • I think this is the single most important thing to take into account when launching, and why we probably did so well on our first launch.

    • Ask yourself: Does the tagline make sense? Will others understand what the product does and what it is in under 10 seconds?

    • For us at @Pretty Prompt: Grammarly for prompting. (Grammarly = it is an extension.) Improve prompts in one click. (super clear what it does).

    • You can straight away visualise how you might use the product and what it will do for you.

• Focus on your strengths.

  • Don't give everything you got in one go.

  • Earn the right for people to read and scroll down. Read and scroll down.

  • Save some stuff for your pinned post.

  • People have a short attention span.

  • Hook people on your most important feature, showcase it front and centre, don't give me everything together cos I'll forget, and also I'll get lost.

  • For us at @Pretty Prompt: Improve your prompts in one click. Works inside ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Lovable, and more.

  • Even though you have about 10 other features on Pretty Prompt, we don't talk about them right in the beginning; we just feature that one "killer feature" and let users dive deeper afterwards.

• Product assets = show, don't tell.

  • Your images and video should be about your product.

  • Don't make it marketing-heavy. Make it product-heavy.

  • Show me what the product does, don't tell me about it.

  • For us: 60-second demo video actually using the tool. Screenshots of the top features (Improve - Refine - Save - History). Not fancy Figma designs, I mean screenshots of the actual product.

  • If you get big like Notion, Cursor, Claude, etc. you may also be able to add a more human video of you talking about the product, or new functionality, your story, etc. But for the majority, just show your product, and let the product win.

• Learn from others.

  • Though no two products or launches are the same, you can learn from others and pick the best things that fit your own product.

  • Checkout this post by @fmerian on "The Cursor Way to Launch". Great tips.

• Warm up the Audience.

  • Don't just rely on your followers.

  • Use as many channels as possible to maximise the reach and get people excited about your launch, even before you launch.

  • If you do this step well, the launch is just 50% of the job, and you're already a step ahead of most.

  • For us: I did a community post, Substack one, LinkedIn one, Slack one. We'll be recording a founder video too. I want it to be as human as possible; people buy into people.

Yesterday went through this Tweet by Greg Isenberg.

There is an app called "rent a human."

Meow world, welcome back to The Breakpoint, a weekly thread on all things dev tools on Product Hunt.

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In a 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.

First day back with my co-founder Charlie, and we showed up ready to build!
Feels a bit like the first day back at school: excited, a little nervous, ready to dive in .

I see this pattern all the time with creators and small teams (and lived it myself):

You start with Google Docs + Google Sheets because:

• they re free

• everyone knows how to use them

• we ll switch later when it gets serious

Fast forward a few months and suddenly you have:

Hey all,

15 years ago I wrote an article about the rise of a more social web for Huff Post.

Hey everyone!

What a day. Thank you all so much for the support.

I just switched to OpenSUSE after windows kept messing with my touch pad drivers to the point where I had to reinstall them every day to somewhat fix the issue.
I've been a heavy Linux user on and off since 09 and have hopped all the distros.
I might try to run the Windows version of Tonkotsu with WINE or even Lutris, but I am unsure of how that will go.
I don't know if there will be a linux build. I know half of san fransisco is on mac so probably not lol.
but one can dream.

It s been a minute since I ve posted here. Over the past few months, we ve been deep in building at Clueso and talking to a lot of Marketers, trainers, Product managers, and solo creators about how they make videos.

The conversation has shifted from speed vs polish to how do we create videos that are clear, thoughtful, and visually solid.

As reported by @alexeheath :

• An AI agent social network: When we asked about social networking ambitions beyond Sora, Simo went somewhere unexpected: What happens to social relationships in a world where everybody has their own personal agents? And how can these personal agents help you manage your social relationships in a better way? She framed it not as agents aimlessly talking to agents like Moltbook, but as AI mediating existing human relationships. We haven t cracked what that will look like, but I think that s a very interesting area.

Every year I reflect on how I spent money in the previous year. Previously, I have manually scraped my bank statements and put together a report, but 2025 was interesting because I built a fairly overkill personal finance product to make this report easy to generate for myself.

Because it is really easy, I m going to do a deep dive on how I spent money in 2025. (I was able to put this all together in ~10 mins)

There are countless products and services out there, and I ll admit I sign up for more than I probably should. But I usually stop using them for a few common reasons:

1. It doesn t actually fit my needs

2. The company feels unreliable or opaque

3. The value doesn t justify the cost

After spending my career in enterprise software, I ve noticed that many of these issues aren t just product problems, they re relationship problems.

When companies show a bit of intention, clarity, and care, trust goes up. When they don t, everything feels disposable, even good tools.

AI agents are everywhere right now.

They help with launch copy, visuals, outreach, follow-ups basically most of what used to take days can now be done in hours.

But I keep thinking about something. Are AI agents actually improving product discovery on Product Hunt or are they just making launches look more polished?

Yes, AI speeds things up. You can test messaging faster, create better assets, prepare more efficiently.

Hi everyone! I m Hansi, founder of You2Mentor. I started this platform to bridge the gap in mentoring. Most people either don t have access to mentors, or the mentoring they get is limited to the organisation or the department they work in.

We re building a platform that helps individuals find mentors and supports organisations in running structured mentoring programs. Users can set goals, track progress, and grow skills in a meaningful way.

Whenever I browse product launches, I somehow subconsciously judge not only the product itself and its quality, but also the quality that is reflected in the effort the makers put into preparing it.

It may sound insignificant, but in my case, these things also make a significant difference:

• Icon GIF at the launch it enlivens the overall impression and is dynamic

• Quality graphics and video

• First, a properly filled-out comment

• Photos in the makers' profiles (it's less trustworthy for me when there's only the letter "J" or something similar)

• Whether any of my contacts or acquaintances on the platform reacted to the launch

Hey PH, today we re rolling out Scheduled Automations in BrowserBook. Check out the demo here: https://youtu.be/x6VmagIm1yw?si=...

What happened today shocked me
We added a new politician to Votap Zack Polanski based on user suggestions.
In the first minute:
22 votes
4 comments
and the chart started moving
Watching the feedback live within seconds that was one of those okay, this can be big moments.
We re at 689 users now.
Imagine this when it s 10,000. 100,000. 1 million.
That spike of activity was proof that people care and they re ready to express it.
If you want to be part of it, download Votap.
More tomorrow.

For me, productivity means getting (more) results faster in less time. My goals for 2026 are closely linked to the fact that I want to learn a lot of things, which will require a lot of concentration.

Therefore, I think that a large part of what I want to gain will be ensured by:

We ve been growing really fast (30%+ MoM ARR) at @Basedash since launching last year. Most of that growth has been the result of hard work, but we ve also had a secret weapon: an AI agent that acts as both a data analyst and a PM, working 24/7 to optimize our product s activation and conversion rates.

For decades, companies have been making product decisions based on intuition and manual data analysis. We wanted to see what would happen if AI could take the wheel completely.

The last 4 months have been intense, launching, testing, getting #1 product of the day and #1 productivity tool of the week here, late night bug fixes, getting featured in FORBES, & feature requests from hundreds of YOU!
But watching this community grow has made every late night worth it.

Seeing this for the first time? Here's what AI Context Flow does:

It's a Chrome extension that creates one unified memory across all major AI platforms i.e. ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini, and Perplexity.

The problem it solves:

I m curious how people here think about a calmer, signal-first feed in practice.

If you ve tried Trace already:
What felt immediately useful?
What felt missing or confusing?
What would make it something you d actually open every day?

If you haven t tried it:
What would you need to see before giving a feed like this a real shot?
What would make you bounce?

I m early and still shaping this, so honest feedback (good or bad) is genuinely helpful.

This week, I'm adding EADA Co-Pilot to query athletics data using natural language.
Data sets from https://ope.ed.gov/athletics/#/