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whaddup legends? Welcome to the Friday issue of the Leaderboard. in today's digest: grow trees by doing nothing, if you're loud you pay, and a way for AI to communicate with Product Hunt.
P.S. Want your launch to be featured in this newsletter? Drop us a line with your pitch at editorial@producthunt.co 🫶
Grow trees while doing nothing
Idleforest is a browser extension that uses your unused internet bandwidth to plant real trees. You install it, forget it, and keep browsing like usual. In the background, you're funding reforestation, without lifting a finger or spending a dollar.
🔥 Our take: Everything online wants your attention. This just wants your leftovers. Idleforest quietly turns your wasted bandwidth into actual forests. No dashboards. No guilt. No effort. Finally, a passive good deed that’s actually passive.
The louder you post, the more you pay
The Wall is a public social feed where every post costs money—and every new post costs more than the last. No likes. No edits. No delete button. If you want to say something, you’ll have to mean it.
🔥 Our take: This might be the first peaceful social network ever made. No clout-chasing, no ragebait, no endless replies. The loudest people burn through their wallets first. The quiet ones finally get some air.
Your agents stopped answering and started doing
Your agents call tools, write to databases and move money, so a wrong answer is now a wrong action, which is a considerably worse meeting. Arcjet runs policy before every LLM call, tool call, query and API request: prompt injection, sensitive data, bots, rate limits, spend quotas, and your own rules in Rego on top. It reads the OpenTelemetry you already emit, so switching it on is one environment variable, no code changes and nothing to deploy. Each check also reads the earlier steps in the same workflow, so an agent's tenth action gets judged against the first nine and not on its own. JavaScript, Python and Go SDKs all at 1.0, agent framework guards included, free tier to start on.
Let your AI browse Product Hunt
Welcome to Community Gems, where we feature useful, weird, or just plain cool stuff built by the Product Hunt community. Got something you're working on? Pitch it to editorial@producthunt.co. We actually read them.
🔥 Today’s pick: Product Hunt MCP, built by Jai Pandya. It connects LLMs and AI agents to Product Hunt through the Model Context Protocol, giving them structured access to real-time data — posts, comments, topics, collections, votes, users, the whole firehose. No scraping, no janky middleware. Just clean access for AI tools that need to understand what’s happening on Product Hunt as it happens.
This wasn’t supposed to work
Kamilas dropped a fun one: “What’s the most unconventional way you’ve ever come up with a business idea?”
Turns out, inspiration shows up in weird places. One person credited a teenage friend who spewed “dumb” ideas until one finally hit. Someone else got there through a joke product called Purposeful Poop (yes, really). Others mentioned aimless walks, strange customer requests, or just building something ridiculous and realizing later it had legs.
Not every idea starts with a whiteboard and a roadmap. Sometimes the best ones sneak in sideways.
Worth a scroll if you’ve ever backed into a good idea by accident.
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