February 20th, 2026
Adobe might be cooked
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NotchPrompt wraps your script around the MacBook camera so you can actually look at people on calls, keychains.dev lets agents hit APIs without you pasting raw keys into configs, and Pomelli from Google Labs turns your site and a product photo into free, on-brand ads in a few clicks.
Adobe and Canva might be sweating

Pomelli pulls in your site and a product photo, learns your brand colors, fonts and tone, then spits out campaign ideas plus editable assets for socials and ads. The Photoshoot feature can turn one basic product shot or a short text prompt into a full batch of on brand visuals. It is free in public beta for small and mid sized businesses in a few English speaking countries.
🔥 Our Take: If I worked at Adobe or Canva right now, I would not be sleeping great. Google owns the ad pipe and is now handing small teams free creative that is perfectly fine for everyday campaigns. For a huge chunk of businesses that is enough, and others could be really cooked here at the low end.
How to rank in AI search

This one is from inside the house. Andrew, our resident SEO nerd at Product Hunt, wanted to know why AI assistants were barely mentioning us when people asked for tool recommendations, even though our pages rank well on Google and have real reviews and discussions. So he treated AI visibility like a new search channel, used Gauge to track how often models like ChatGPT and Google AI Overview cite Product Hunt, and picked one test case: AI dictation tools.
The team turned that category into a proper roundup, added community-sourced FAQs, and cleaned up the SEO so it matched how people actually search speech to text. Those small changes led to big jumps in citations and made Product Hunt a meaningful source of AI visibility for tools like Wispr Flow and Superwhisper, sometimes from a single URL. The bigger point: AI results are easy to game right now, but solid content plus smart SEO can still move the needle. The case study walks through the experiments, the graphs, what worked, what didn’t, and how we’re thinking about AI as a new distribution layer for makers.
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Eye contact without panic

NotchPrompt is a native macOS teleprompter that lives around your MacBook camera notch. It wraps your script in a thin strip right by the lens so you can read while still looking straight ahead. When you share your screen, the overlay is invisible to everyone else, while you still get auto scroll, hotkeys, and a simple menu bar controller.
🔥 Our Take: If you have ever tried to pitch on Zoom with notes buried in a window off to the side, this lands immediately. It turns that awkward notch into something actually useful, keeps you looking human on calls, and it is free and open source on top of that. Tiny idea, very clean execution.
Stop exposing keys to AI

Keychains dev is a secure credential proxy for AI agents. You swap hard-coded tokens in your curl calls for template variables like {{GITHUB_TOKEN}}, run them through keychains, and it injects the real secrets server side so the agent never sees them. Users approve each scope with one click, can revoke access anytime, and you get an audit trail across 10k+ APIs using OAuth, API keys, or basic auth.
🔥 Our Take: A lot of people are literally pasting Stripe or GitHub keys into agent configs and just hoping nothing weird happens. This is closer to how it should work: agents get tightly scoped, revocable access, humans keep the real keys, and you still get to hit any API you need. It is boring but it’s miles better than the alternative
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