I can safely say that the video is one of the most important things on launch day.

Sometimes even more important than your images.

My browser tab bar gets messy quick and constantly using the trackpad to click around really slows down my workflow. I spent the afternoon looking for a basic keyboard shortcut extension to hop back and forth between active tabs.

Instead of simple hotkey tools everything on the Web Store feels like an over engineered workspace manager requiring full access to reading browser data.

What tiny privacy friendly extension do you use that handles basic tab cycling without any extra fluff?

Fixing slide alignment and spacing takes up way more time than actually writing the content.

You spend an hour tweaking margins and then someone asks to translate the whole thing into another language, which completely breaks every single layout.

I started using strict layout grids to speed things up, but multi language formatting is still a nightmare.

Do you rely on standard slide templates to keep things consistent or does every deck get a custom design?

lately I open product hunt and the top 3 spots are just another feature drop from one of the big three, every single day :/
a small maker trying to get real feedback and traction doesn t stand a chance when they re going up against a billion-dollar company s changelog update.
don t get me wrong, these companies ship incredibly fast and usually groundbreaking stuff. We all know it, and honestly, it s fun to watch. (I upvote a lot of them myself too)
but to me, PH used to be about finding products I would never find otherwise. Chatting with makers, getting feedback on my own stuff. That was the whole point.
for the big three and other giants, we re all going to see it anyway. Every reel, every thread, every newsletter will cover it as soon as it's launched, whether or not it s featured on Product Hunt.
I am really curious about what you all do for these 2 things now
- how are you all still finding good indie stuff on here?
- and if you ve launched recently or are thinking about it: is it actually worth it anymore, or has it become a vanity checkbox?
feels like Product Hunt needs a separate board for corporate launches vs. new indie products. Or am I wrong?

the ai marketing space is going crazy right now, but there's this weird gap i keep noticing tools specifically built for "vibe marketing" are all over the place and barely tagged on product hunt. you know what i mean? those ai tools that don't just pump out generic content but actually get your brand's personality and create connections that feel real. after months of obsessively testing everything from ai sales bots to content optimizers, i finally put together a collection of tools that are absolutely crushing this balance between smart algorithms and actual human vibes: https://www.producthunt.com/@pol...

what gets me hyped about this whole category is how these tools are cracking the code on ai marketing's biggest problem: staying authentic while scaling like crazy. we're talking about ai that doesn't just spit out content it creates stuff that actually hits different, builds genuine trust, and gives people those good vibes that turn random visitors into ride-or-die fans. the tools in my collection are the real deal when it comes to this movement, from community platforms that actually understand culture to content creators that read the room and adjust their tone.

Nobody browsing a site sends a HEAD request, which is why this sat there for months with every check I had staying green.

HEAD is meant to be GET without the body, so one URL cannot honestly answer both ways. Mine did. 253 pages answered 200 to a normal request and 404 to a HEAD: the whole template matrix, every guide, four hub pages and the API reference. My framework matches a route against the method list that route declares, and those declared GET alone. An undeclared HEAD matched no route at all and fell through to the 404 handler.

The clients that send HEAD are the ones asking whether a page exists rather than asking for it. Link checkers. Uptime monitors. Shared caches revalidating a copy they already hold. That last one is what made this expensive rather than untidy. Those pages are served with five minutes of freshness and a day of stale-while-revalidate, so a cache is invited to keep them and check back. A 404 to that check is not a slow revalidation, it is a discarded copy.

So here is the check, and it is about two minutes. Take ten of your own URLs, ideally ones written at different times, send each a HEAD, and compare the status against a normal GET of the same address. Anything that disagrees is broken for a class of client you will never see in analytics, because none of them run JavaScript and most never appear in a session count at all.

I spend a lot of time learning from YouTube, and the long ones (conference talks, interviews, two-hour podcasts) are where I lose the most time. Usually I need one specific answer, but I end up dragging the progress bar around.

What I've tried so far:

- Searching the auto transcript for keywords. It works if I know the exact word they used

Everyone tells founders to get a mentor, so I tried properly. I used one of the mentor-matching platforms, had one useful call and then the person stopped replying. That was not a one-off. A lot of people there never reply, and of the ones who do, some profiles look fake and others are mainly there to sell you their agency.

Reaching out directly was not much better. Two advisors cancelled the intro call once they heard we are bootstrapped rather than venture funded, because their real service costs tens of thousands, not hundreds. Another sells a course for $10K, advertises large growth, but in reality there is no guarantee.

I'm a quant developer. AI agents run three of my small web businesses; I pick the projects, approve spending and set the kill rules. Ledger as of October 5: at least $158.35 cash out (including prepaid balances), $0.00 revenue, 3 positions open, 0 closed.

- pixtidy (passport and visa photo checker): $54.98 so far. September 28 to October 3: 48 sessions reached the landing page, 18 viewed the tool, 2 selected photos, 0 clicked purchase.

- agentoolrank (directory of AI agent tools): $10.46 so far. 41 directory submissions through October 3, 7 listings confirmed live, 0 visitor sessions from them.

- newsiteradar (tracker of newly launched AI sites): $92.91, the largest commitment.

It has happened to me with my previous saas. There were visitors coming from different channels and through SEO also. At the beginning, I was very confident that people would be signing soon. But, after sometimes, I was actually confused as to what is the problem. 2 people signed up. That's it. They used the application just once and never came back. I concluded that it wasn't solving any big or real problem and moved to my new project.
What do you actually do in these situation? Would you continue with your journey, pivot or move to your next project?