I joined product Hunt recently and feel a bit lost. between daily launches, upvotes, collections, and comments, it is hard to tell useful tools apart from products that just got votes from friends.
I am also unsure about the general etiquette. is lurking and upvoting standard, or should i be commenting? Do makers reply to questions from new users?
How did you navigate the site when you first joined? What habits help you filter out the noise and spot genuinely good tools?

... I built it with love, but as other times in the past, no one seems to understand or care? When I should give up?

Hey everyone,

I m curious to know: What are some of the apps, tools, or services you ve discovered that have truly transformed the way you work or build your startup/product, or basically helped you in day-to-day work productivity? It could be anything from project management, productivity hacks, automation, communication, or even wellness tools that help you stay focused.

I've been thinking about AI product economics, and I think "cost per API call" is only part of the problem.

An AI feature can look cheap from the infrastructure side and still become expensive to operate.

About a week ago, there was a case in my country where a woman took a Bolt taxi, which, instead of taking her to the designated place, started driving her to the Austrian border. In the end, the woman jumped out of the car to save herself.

[So the police were not very active, and Bolt just used only AI-generated answers, the company then announced it was a mistake in the GPS... but to be honest, I would say it was a kidnapping attempt].

Yesterday I read an article in Reuters that Mark Zuckerberg is investing billions in developing his chips to reduce his dependence on NVIDIA.

Microsoft, OpenAI, and Google want to make them too.

With all the recent data leaks and surveillance laws, it feels like the vibe is shifting toward 100% local, on-device compute, even if it means settling for smaller models. Running things locally used to feel like a niche hobby, but with the massive leaps in open-source efficiency, it is becoming a viable daily setup for privacy-first projects.

Granted, dialing in the right hardware and dealing with speed tradeoffs is still a massive pain compared to a ready-to-go API.

Are you guys actually moving your daily workflows and tech stacks to local alternatives, or is cloud still your go-to for convenience? Where do you stand on this?

For those who don't know:

• The EU has proposed a law intended to protect children from online abuse.

• But the draft includes a highly controversial measure: mandatory scanning (client-side scanning) of private communications, including encrypted ones, for child sexual abuse material.

• Experts and authorities (such as the EDPB and EDPS) warn that this kind of mandatory scanning could lead to mass surveillance through automated tools, posing a serious threat to fundamental rights like privacy and data protection.

• According to reports, 15 member states support the proposal, 6 are against it, and 6 remain undecided. The law would not apply to political officials, but it would affect the reading of communication of ordinary citizens.