Ghibli-fy everything

gm legends! we're taking a deep dive into the latest OpenAI image model that has folks everywhere Studio Ghibli-fying their selfies. But first, an announcement:

On April 10, GenAI Collective, Product Hunt, and Fenwick are bringing together 8 of the sharpest AI startups for a night of live demos, real feedback, and a crowd that decides what’s hot (and what’s not).

No panels, no fluff—just builders, products, and a room full of people who care.

OpenAI’s latest 4o image model generates hyper-realistic visuals with more accuracy, control, and fewer of the usual AI weirdness. It's rolling out across products and already showing up in everything from ChatGPT to DALL·E.

🔥 Our take: You’ve probably already seen the Studio Ghibli-style selfies flooding your feed—that’s 4o in action. This model isn’t just better, it’s viral-ready. The realism is impressive, but what really lands is how fast people are finding personal, playful ways to use it. It’s not just about quality anymore. It’s about culture.

Kaiboard is a clipboard-powered AI tool that lets you bind prompts to keyboard shortcuts. Highlight text, hit a shortcut, and it runs your chosen prompt on the clipboard using an LLM. Great for things like rewriting text, summarizing, translating, or any repetitive task you’d normally toss into ChatGPT.

🔥 Our take: Most people already use ChatGPT like a second clipboard. Kaiboard just skips the middleman. It’s not trying to reinvent the interface—it’s embracing the copy-paste chaos and turning it into something actually efficient. If your daily workflow is 30% tab-switching and 70% prompting, this might save your brain some clicks.

Gemini 2.5 is Google’s latest flagship model, now live in Gemini Advanced. It improves long-context reasoning, handles up to 1 million tokens (soon to be 2 million), and outperforms GPT-4 in 87% of Google’s internal benchmarks across tasks like math, code, and multimodal understanding.

🔥 Our take: The model is serious—and so is Google’s tone. There’s no flashy launch, no voice support yet, and the naming is still confusing (they’re “aligning it soon”). What you get is a quiet rollout of one of the most capable models yet, tucked inside an experimental preview. It’s powerful tech, just not the kind that makes headlines.

Steve Beyatte asked a simple question: what’s one new product you love using—that isn’t yours? And people responded sans the self promotion! 

Arc showed up a lot. So did Superflows, Cleanshot, Windsurf, Typedream, and a few under-the-radar picks like EMMO and OpenArt. No trends, no obvious pattern—just stuff people actually enjoy using day to day.

If you want the good stuff builders are low-key obsessed with, this thread’s your shortcut