What's a tool you discovered through Product Hunt that you now use every day?
I'll start.
Supabase. Found it here three years ago. Thought it was just another backend. Now I can't imagine building without it.
Here's what it does for us at Rankfender:
Auth that doesn't make you crazy. We have users across 120+ countries. Supabase handles sign-ups, logins, password resets, magic links, OAuth with Google and GitHub. It just works. We didn't have to build any of it.
The database is Postgres. Not a proprietary thing. Not a limited version. Full Postgres. That means we can use Row Level Security, write complex joins, run migrations. No vendor lock-in. If we ever left Supabase, we could take our database with us.
Realtime subscriptions. RAIVE needs to watch for new AI citations constantly. Supabase's realtime feature lets us push updates to the dashboard the moment we detect a change. No polling. No wasted API calls. Just instant updates.
Storage that doesn't suck. User uploads, generated reports, screenshots from the proofreader — all stored in Supabase storage. CDN-backed. Easy to query. Cheap.
The dashboard is actually useful. We can browse tables, run SQL queries, manage users, all from the browser. We barely touch the command line for database stuff. That saves hours.
Edge functions. We run some of our content generation logic on Supabase Edge Functions. They're fast, cheap, and close to our users. No managing servers.
Built-in analytics. We track which features people use, where they drop off, what's slow. Supabase logs it all.
The best part? We started on the free tier. 500 MB database, 2 GB bandwidth, enough to build the MVP. By the time we needed to scale, we already knew the platform inside out. No migration nightmare.
We're now on a paid plan. But the upgrade path was smooth. No surprises. No rewrites.
What's yours? What tool did you find here that you now depend on every day?
Imed Radhouani
Founder & CTO – Rankfender
rankfender.com
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SurfPal – it shows me how much time I waste on the internet :D
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@busmark_w_nika hahaha ! I wish Product Hunt had the "reactions" button with smileys :D !!
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@imed_radhouani Like those from Facebook or LinkedIn? :D
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@busmark_w_nika Maybe those of Product Hunt :D !
@Product Hunt please add this feature !!!
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@imed_radhouani Hopefully, they will hear us :D
Probably PostHog. I first came across it through Product Hunt, and now it’s one of those tools I open almost daily because having analytics, session replay, and feature flags in one place is just very practical.
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@farrukh_butt1 PostHog is a good one. The all-in-one thing is underrated. Most analytics tools give you numbers but no context. Session replay shows you what people actually did. Feature flags let you test before committing. Having all of that in one place changes how you ship.
A friend runs it on their SaaS. The session replays caught onboarding friction they would have never seen in the metrics. People were clicking buttons, filling forms, then leaving. The numbers looked fine. The replays showed they were confused. That's the kind of insight you don't get from a dashboard.
For me, it has to be Raycast. I found it here a while ago and it completely changed my workflow. It's like a Swiss Army knife developers, everything from clipboard history to custom API scripts is just a keystroke away. It's the benchmark I use when thinking about great UX for developer tools. Once you go Raycast, you can't go back to a standard launcher.
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@emre_yilmaz_easyparser Raycast is a good one. The clipboard history alone makes it worth it. Stores images, not just text. Didn't know I needed that until I had it.
The custom scripts are where it gets powerful. Pulling data from an API into your notes with one keystroke changes how fast you can act on information.
Once you get used to it, every other launcher feels slow.
Supabase for me too. I am building my app Ad Optimiser on it right now. Started on the free tier a few months ago and haven't looked back. Auth was up in an afternoon, real Postgres means I can actually write proper SQL queries. Still on the free tier but hitting the limits now so upgrading imminently. Syncing Google Ads, Meta and Microsoft Ads data for multiple accounts every night is starting to push it. Says a lot that I got this far without paying a penny