A few years ago, AI at work meant smarter autocomplete or a chatbot on your website.

Now, I m seeing something different.

Companies are experimenting with AI agents as teammates - not just tools. They schedule meetings, file reports, analyze data, and even handle parts of customer support.

I was going through my old bookmarks and found three products I had saved from Product Hunt over the last couple of years that simply no longer exist. They are just dead links now, or a short message on the landing page thanking people for the support.

It feels strange because when those tools launched, they had hundreds of upvotes and active comment sections with people saying they would use them forever. Then at some point, the project just stopped, and nobody really mentioned it. The original launch page is still sitting there, frozen in time and full of optimism.

I know most side projects do not last, and that is just part of how building software works. Still, it has made me much more careful about what I rely on. I find myself checking whether a tool has an actual team behind it, or if it is just a solo creator who might move on to something else in six months.

Do you think about a product's long-term survival before committing to it, or do you just use whatever works right now and deal with finding a replacement later?

I have tried quite a few platforms for distribution. Reddit is among those platforms which can be considered good to get customers. It is not because I got a lot of customers from there, but rather it has almost all type of audiences for people to get started. People also suggest to post on IndieHackers platform, but personally, that is not where your market exists unless you target indie devs or so.

I have seen posts where people tell that they have started marketing via cold outreach, ads, social media (tiktok, instagram), but that didn't work at all in my case.

What do you think? Do you think there could be a universal method fo indie devs to market?

We recently launched on Product Hunt and noticed something I don t fully understand.

We asked our users for support a bit late, and all of them had new Product Hunt accounts. From what I understand, some votes from newer accounts do not count and may be filtered.

But I also noticed notifications that someone upvoted the product, while the total number of votes didn t change.

I just searched through my notes for something I m pretty sure I wrote down a while ago.

Couldn t find it.

There are probably 200+ notes in there now, and most of them are basically remember this, links, random ideas, things I was looking into, etc.

This is where simple notes apps start annoying me. But then I try a more advanced one and suddenly I m spending time deciding where every note belongs.

If you're a SaaS, digital product, agency or freelancer what payment gateways do you use to handle local methods, taxes and subscriptions?

PayPal charges me 5% per transaction and their support is unwilling to reduce it to 3% for me while I know they do lower the transaction fee for certain accounts.

The perfection of creations generated by artificial intelligence makes it difficult to distinguish fiction from reality.

The precision of AI images has advanced to the point that even professionals (graphic designers, video-makers) are sometimes not 100% sure of their authenticity.

Disclosure first: I build a shared-list app, so I am not neutral. But I keep running into something I would like other people's read on. Every shared-list tool I know asks everyone in the group to install it and create an account before the list works. In my experience that is where sharing dies not because the apps are bad, but because the person you are sharing with has to do three things before they can tick off "milk". Most people give up and paste the list into a chat message instead.

So my question to people who have built collaborative tools: have you found the same, and what did you do about it? Did you make accounts optional, defer them until someone needed sync across devices, or did you decide the account was worth the drop-off because of what it enables later?

Browsing Product Hunt over the last few years, it feels like the variety has completely shrunk. It used to be normal to run into strange browser extensions, niche hardware projects, or random little tools built to fix super specific problems. Nowadays, almost every page is packed with productivity apps and similar tech wrappers.

I am not saying those tools are useless, but I definitely miss the random surprises. I miss seeing weird projects that made you click just out of pure curiosity to figure out why someone made them.

Is this just a natural side effect of current software trends, or have you noticed the homepage feeling a bit copy-paste lately too?