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Nostalgia in your pocket

gm legends, happy Wednesday.

Roll brings back the disposable camera energy, Claude Code Routines lets agents run on a schedule instead of waiting around for you, and a discussion on who gets to own the agent layer.

Also — quick one — we’re teaming up with Vercel for a special launch day friday. If you’re building on it, you might want to get something live.

Vercel Day is coming

April 17 is shaping up to be a busy one.

We’re teaming up with Vercel for a special launch day on Product Hunt, which means a dedicated leaderboard, more visibility than usual, and a bunch of teams shipping all at once.

If you’re building on Vercel, schedule your launch for midnight PT on April 17 and tag it under 'Vercel Day' to be part of it. These focused launch days tend to move fast, pull in more attention, and make the leaderboard a lot more fun to watch.

And there is something real on the line too. Vercel will pick five startups that will get access to Vercel VIP Startup Perks, worth $30k in Vercel credits, and one or more startups will be invited to pitch to Vercel Ventures.

If you have been waiting for a good reason to launch, this is a pretty solid one.

Schedule that launch

Your camera, but disposable again

Roll turns your phone into a disposable camera. You take photos without seeing them, wait for them to “develop,” then get a batch back later. No retakes, no edits, no checking every shot right after.

🔥 Our Take: If you ever handed a disposable camera to your parents and hoped for the best, this will feel familiar. You did not know what you got until days later. Half the photos were blurry, someone had their finger over the lens, and somehow those were the ones you kept. That’s the energy here.

Wait for it

So we’re just… talking to software now?

ElevenLabs has been the go-to for voice for a while. Now they've turned that expertise into agents that actually get things done. You set one up, it talks like a real person, listens, responds, and helps handle the task — support calls, bookings, whatever the job is. Not a demo, not a "press 1 for sales" situation. It's ready to deploy. Feels like one of those shifts where the interface quietly changes. Less typing, less clicking, more just saying what needs to happen and letting it play out.

Try it today

FROM THE FORUMS

Who gets to own the agent layer

Balazs kicked off a thread arguing that agents are about to run into an identity problem. If they are going to handle email, logins, OAuth, and real work on the internet, they cannot keep living under random subdomains and product names that may not last a week.

The real point of the post is the fight over .agent, which is still unclaimed ahead of ICANN’s next application window. Balazs is pushing for a community-led bid before one company locks it down and gets to control pricing, access, and the rules for what could become a pretty important layer of agent infrastructure. The thread is really about whether this category builds shared rails early, or hands them over before it even knows what it is becoming.

Drop your take

Coding agents on a schedule

Claude Code Routines let you save a prompt, connect it to a repo, and have it run automatically. You can trigger it on a schedule, from an API call, or off something like a GitHub event, so it keeps doing the work without needing to be reopened.

🔥 Our Take: This is where things start to feel less like chatting with an AI and more like setting up a system. Define the job once, then it runs in the background. Fix bugs overnight, review PRs as they come in, clean up a backlog without touching it.

Set it and let it run

April 15th, 2026