Ship fast or ship smart?

Hey, hi! Welcome back to The Roundup. We’ve got another packed edition this week — a launch from Anthropic that can control your computer, a huge innovation in animation, some maker-fuelled drama, and much more. Let’s dive in. — Sanjana and Aaron

Softr for Notion: Turns Notion databases into portals and apps without code. 

Softr’s Notion integration lets you build custom apps like membership portals, inventory trackers, and directories on top of Notion databases. You can customize the design, layout, and permissions with no code and publish the app on a custom domain. 

Glazed: Analyzes user interactions with your Figma design.

Glazed lets you analyze user interactions with your UI by creating funnels to recreate their journey with your product and see where drop-offs occurred. It gives you visual feedback on how various screens in your app are used. 

Trag: AI code review companion that can lint patterns. 

Trag does one simple thing: it matches written rules to code. You give it a set of plain English rules, and it enforces these rules on every pull request. Think of it as a “superlinter” or an extra teammate who knows exactly which errors or vulnerabilities to look for.

Runway Act One: Generates expressive character performances from video inputs.

Act One is RunwayML’s new tool for generating expressive character performances from video and voice inputs. It’s a big step forward for applying generative models to live-action and animation. 

Claude Computer Use: Claude can now control different aspects of your computer

Anthropic’s latest launch is a bit of a doozy. Currently, in beta, Computer Use allows the company’s flagship AI, Claude, to control your computer. It can take screenshots, use the mouse, and type. The demo video shows it doing data entry. Maybe don’t give it access to your credit cards just yet.

The Indie Maker community is buzzing with drama after Marc Louivon, the Product Hunt Maker of the Year, found himself at the center of a classic “ship fast, break things” saga. Known for his popular boilerplate, Ship Fast, which gained a cult following for speeding up product launches, Marc learned the hard way that sometimes speed comes with a price.

It started small: users privately messaged Marc about missing GDPR compliance and some worrying security gaps. But when those issues were ignored, users went public, revealing loopholes that allowed access to both the tool and even its source code for free. The response? Marc blocked some critics, doubling down on his “speed > security” stance, while the community split between those backing the hustle and others advocating for a more cautious “ship smart” philosophy.

Marc responded with an apology video, which was met with some sighs of relief and a lot of kudos from the community for being so genuine. 

Our take: There are no real good guys and bad guys here. Entrepreneurship is a tough nut to crack, and there’s a lot of value in shipping fast. When you go from unknown to maker extraordinaire in such a short time, you can make mistakes along the way.

Examples include Airtable ProductCentral, Sweego (email/SMS API), Treblle 3.0 (API management), and tools like Mailbird and hiring.studio.

Developer tools have always been one of the most popular categories on Product Hunt. But some weeks are better than others, and this week has been one of them. Here’s some tools that could change a dev’s life. 

Trag does one simple thing: it matches written rules to code. You give it a set of plain English rules, and it enforces these rules on every pull request.

Sweego is a multichannel sms and email-sending API that’s built for developers. You can create, send, and monitor your messages all in one place. 

Manicode is a tool for editing codebases via natural language. Just npm install it, point it at your directory, and you're off to the races

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We asked Ken Miller, one of our staff engineers, to give us his take on Manicode, the new npm codebase editor that launched recently on the site. Here’s what he said:

I’ve been testing out Manicode (terminal-based interactive AI code writer) and comparing it to Cursor. My take so far is that it’s far more productive, albeit with some rough edges, especially when you need to make a coordinated change among several files. Manicode will make a change, run tests, evaluate the result and adjust as needed. Pretty cool, though this does absolutely chew through credits.

It seems to get my intent better than Cursor, in my experience. It edits code and runs test without confirmations, so it’s on you to make sure you’re preserving checkpoints in git or similar. In that sense, it’s pretty opinionated and maybe not to everyone’s liking. — Ken.

That's all for this week's edition. Hope you enjoyed, and as usual send us any feedback at content@producthunt.co.