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It may feel like you ve considered everything:
product page, positioning, network support, social media content even day planning.

We thought we did too.

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. hard paywall

Does access method impact download-to-paid conversion within 35 days?

This may sound dystopian, but ever since I watched all the Terminator movies, I can t help seeing the parallel:

People are becoming overly dependent on AI and feeling helpless without it. Almost as if AI slowly takes control of our lives.

Sleep debt doesn't just make you tired. It degrades decision-making, reaction time, and emotional regulation, and you often can't feel how impaired you are.

Most people try to fix it with more caffeine. That makes it worse.

Clarity helps you use caffeine to perform better today without destroying tomorrow.

5 days until our Product Hunt re-launch. Follow along. We're excited to show you the changes since the last launch.

Road to 1,000,000 #Votap users Day 66 | Current: 1348

We stripped Clarity back to what actually matters:

Caffeine timing optimised around your sleep window

Half-life tracking so you know exactly what's still active

Personalised cutoff times based on your chronotype

We just shipped v1.10.0, and this one is all about making prompt iteration feel a lot less painful.

You write a solid prompt but then only specific parts need changing.

Before rewrite the whole thing
Now just tweak the actual part that matters.

We just launched on-screen text translation not just subtitles.

As a quick example, we translated Jensen Huang s GDC talk into Chinese:

• audio Chinese voice, tone preserved

• on-screen content localized, style preserved

At the beginning of the year, 2 co-founders reached out to me because they wanted to scale their personal LinkedIn profiles. The reason: In a few months, they re planning to raise funding and believe their personal brand could help.

A few days ago, another founder contacted me with a similar intention, although he s not planning to raise funding. For him, LinkedIn has become the platform that generates the most leads. He doesn t particularly enjoy the network itself, but he still wants to keep building it.

@charlie_hb started quite an interesting thread where he outlined on which days people lose their streaks the most often.

He showed some stats regarding days in a week, but I am still lacking the reasons.

The most common ones I have heard were:

I understand that everyone comes here with the hope of winning the Product of the Day award (at least one of the top three spots).

But so what does that mean for you?

Are you going to sell more products/subscriptions?

There's a question we all ask when setting up @OpenClaw: which model should I actually use?

What are your suggestions? Any preferences?

What it is: ClarifierAI is an iOS keyboard extension that improves your writing with AI directly where you type no switching apps, no copy-pasting.

How it works: You type normally, tap the Clarify button, and AI rewrites/fixes/translates your text inline. Changed words are highlighted so you can tap to revert individual edits you don't like.

Clarity is so much more than a product.

While it's a great product ( unbiased opinion of course ), it's a whole movement.

At YC, investors outlined 8 startups across space, AI, gaming, and agriculture (most of them want to bet on futuristic ideas, e.g. space), and these sparked interest in funding them.

This was the pick:

1. Beyond Reach Labs satellite solar arrays that expand from table-size to football-field size in orbit
   Est. valuation: ~$100M+

2. Byteport next-gen file transfer protocol
   Est. valuation: ~ $30M

3. Hex Security AI agents that continuously hack your system to find vulnerabilities (Rev.: $1M+ run-rate in 8 weeks)
   Est. valuation: ~$100M+

4. Grazemate autonomous drones that herd cattle, track weight, and monitor land
   Est. valuation: ~ $30M

5. GRU Space moon factory turning lunar soil into buildings (starting with a moon hotel)
   Est. valuation: ~$100M+

6. Luel marketplace for real-world human data (video/audio) to train AI models (Rev.: ~$2M ARR in 6 weeks)
   Est. valuation: ~$100M+

7. Pax Historia AI strategy game where players rewrite history (e.g. Rome never falls) 35K daily users
   Est. valuation: ~ $30M

8. Stilta AI agent for patent lawyers (search + analyse IP faster, cheaper)
   Est. valuation: ~ $30M

The more visible I become on platforms, the more opportunities I receive (not just sponsored ones).

Quite often, people reach out saying they re looking for a marketing co-founder.

And practically every month, there s someone with another revolutionary idea, the next big thing, a multimillion or multibillion-dollar business but then you never hear about them again.

Most of my classmates from elementary school, high school, and university have been married for a long time and have had kids for at least 4  5 years.

But none of them started a business. They got jobs, their shift ends at 5 on Friday, and then they go enjoy their free time.

Building a team or want to join a startup? Let's kick 2026 off to a great start.

Founders, teams, and startups drop a comment if you're hiring.

Hey PH community!

We launched OptiClear on April 14th to help everyone tackle the 'Disk Full' nightmare. The support so far has been amazing, but the best part has been the feedback!

A fellow maker (@gaurav_singh91) already pointed out a huge pain point: 'Xcode Junk' and iOS simulators. Those hidden GBs are now officially at the top of our roadmap!

My goal is to make OptiClear the most community-driven utility tool for Mac. Since we re just getting started, I want to ask: What is that ONE annoying folder, cache, or file type that eats up your storage and you wish would just disappear with one click?

Hi!

ARKTABS PLUS IS NOW FREE FOR EVERYONE AND OPENED FOR SPONSORSHIPS.

Most people are using AI wrong and I was one of them.

For the first year, I used AI like a fancy Google. "Write me a product description." "Summarize this." "Give me 10 ideas for X." Useful? Sure. Transformative? Not really.

Part of my job in growth at Clueso is talking to Marketers, PMs, customer success managers, solo founders building in public.

And over time, one pattern kept showing up that I genuinely didn't expect.

Road to 1,000,000 #Votap users Day 64 | Current: 1348

Today, @gabe and the Product Hunt team launched Randomised Leaderboard Day.

I need to say that I enjoy every gamification aspect which this platform offers.

• PH Streaks

• PH Kitty points Leaderboard

• Todays Randomised Leaderboard

• (Partially) Orbit Awards

hi everyone! blown away by the response here, thank you for 110 upvotes and a bunch of thoughtful comments

a few features were asked for, that I will be actively working on -

based on your feedback: