Nvidia + $100B + OpenAI = Bubble?

gm legends. It’s Sunday funday.

In this edition, we talk about whether Nvidia’s $100B investment in OpenAI is another sign of an AI bubble, what to do to get your first $1,000 in monthly recurring revenue, how to go to YC without dropping out of school, and the most popular new products this week. 

But first: Can you guess the Product Hunt launch? 

This voice dictation tool launched September 30 of last year and hit #1 on our daily and weekly charts. Even better, people are still talking about it.

P.S. Launching soon? We’d love to hear about it → editorial@producthunt.co 🫶

Chipmaker Nvidia announced this week it will be investing up to $100B in OpenAI to help it build out its computing power. This follows OpenAI’s move earlier this month to buy $300B in computer power from Oracle. 

Those are some pretty eye-popping sums. But that may not be a good thing.

AI companies need unprecedented sums of money to increase their computing power. The question is whether AI models will be able to improve enough to make those investments worth it. After GPT-5’s rocky rollout, some people believe the AI bubble is about ready to pop. 

And it’s not a fringe idea. 

The Wall Street Journal ran it on the front page Friday. And none other than Sam Altman himself recently compared AI to the dot-com bubble, telling reporters that he believes “investors as a whole are overexcited about AI.”

So, the questions are: 

• Are we in an AI bubble? 
• If so, who will be the winners and losers after it bursts?

Sometimes $1,000 feels like a bigger deal than $100 billion. 

That’s the case for Ch David, the creator of AI-powered full-stack app builder Shipper.

Shipper is not OpenAI or Nvidia. We’re not even sure it’s incorporated. But since launching one month ago, Shipper has sailed past the $1K mark in terms of monthly recurring revenue. 

According to David, he tried all the growth tactics. Here he shares what worked, what didn’t, and his biggest tips for parlaying a Product Hunt launch into paying customers.

If you’re itching for a reason to emulate Steve Jobs or Bill Gates and drop out of university, don’t look to Y Combinator for help. The fabled Silicon Valley accelerator program this week announced Early Decision, which allows college seniors to apply now, attend later. (Which also means they can skip all those boring job fairs.)

But why stop there? Nika asks: Do you see any possible improvements or ways to expand this program to Europe (or other parts of the world) as well?