Apple had it's annual fall event today and they dropped some seriously cool products from new watches to new AirPods and new phones, I'm pretty excited! What peaked your interest the most?
I can see that many people use especially: LinkedIn (group) posts, DMs Twitter posts, DMs, Streams Product Hunt in p/self-promotion Newsletter in sequences campaign YT for streaming Have you ever used other channels too? (E.g. Reddit, HN) or any other form that would make your upcoming launch stand out?
Tonight, we are hosting a small hackathon in Phoenix in partnership with @bolt.new! All the hackers get free credits to build whatever they can imagine during the hackathon. Thanks Bolt for the hookup! In this forum thread, all the hackers will submit their projects and vote on their favorite one (they can't vote on their own).
The top project will get hunted on @Product Hunt by me! If you want to follow along, come back to this thread in an hour or so and the submissions will start rolling in.
I've been noticing something lately. We went from using AI as a tool to letting AI become the default for almost everything: writing, deciding, planning, even reflecting.
Need to write an email? AI. Need to make a decision? Ask AI. Need to understand how you feel about something? Believe it or not, AI.
The problem isn't the technology. The problem is that we're quietly outsourcing the one thing that makes us valuable: our ability to think for ourselves.
No-code has come a long way but I still don't feel it's an entire code replacement yet, especially when it comes to mobile apps. I want to be proved wrong though, what's the best no code builder for apps that you've used?
One thing I've learned while building a SaaS is that it's easy to make decisions based on what you think users need.
The difficult part is accepting that you're sometimes wrong.
We had several ideas that seemed obvious during development, but after talking to real users, the conversations went in a completely different direction.
Instead of asking for more features, many people cared more about clarity.
Today I celebrate a big milestone. 365 days in a row active on Product Hunt. Honestly, quite a number given how many things happened in my life this year, it feels like I could write a book about it.
But consistency takes effort. Here are 3 things that helped me:
Lately, it feels like even the smallest project comes with an unwritten rule that you need 15 dependencies, Docker containers, Tailwind plugins, and a complex deployment pipeline before you even render a <div>.
My recent experience was when I wanted to build a simple 3D browser runner game over the weekend. I started with the "recommended" modern web setup and immediately got buried in conflicting bundler configs, SSR hydration errors on canvas components, and package bloat. So I ended up tearing half of it out, switching to a lightweight editor (Zed), drafting the math directly in AI Studio, and keeping the game loop isolated in a barebones Vite canvas before wrapping it in Next.js just for hosting. The moment I stripped away the modern boilerplate, the project actually moved fast.
What s a part of modern web dev or startup tech stacks that you think has become completely over-engineered for 90% of use cases?
There are two lines on OpenAI s GPT-5.6 model page that are easy to miss if you call the model by its alias.
The first: the plain gpt-5.6 alias routes to GPT-5.6 Sol. If your code asks for gpt-5.6 because it looked like the sensible default, you re paying Sol rates: $4 per million input tokens, $20 per million output.
The second: Sol s pricing is labelled promotional, available at least through November 21, 2026 . The page doesn t say what it becomes after that.
Take an ordinary feature: 100,000 requests a month at 1,200 tokens in and 300 out. That s $480 of input plus $600 of output, so $1,080 a month, on a price that s only promised until the 21st.
