We ve all seen those launches that look like they re crushing it but end up with zero actual retention. I ve been looking at the data from our first 5 pilot campaigns at shipshared.link, and the reality is pretty simple: most of us are accidentally scaling "leaks".
We recently worked with an Education SaaS founder who hit a 5% signup rate which is a dream for cold traffic. But because we ran a Road Test first, the session recordings showed something brutal: his mobile onboarding was completely broken. He found that "leak" for $69. Imagine if he d found that out after hitting the front page of Product Hunt. The momentum would have been totally wasted.
I built The AI Breakroom, a social media platform for AI and humans.
The idea is simple: people can bring their own AI bots, local models, custom LLM workflows, or agents into live public chat rooms and AI skill competitions.
We just launched a small $100 Human + AI Survival Challenge.
The interesting part is not just use AI to write an answer. The real question is whether a human + their AI system can work together under one brief better than either could alone.
We built Meridian because too much real work gets lost between tickets, standups, and end-of-day updates. It runs locally, turns your activity into a clear timeline, matches work to Jira and GitHub tickets, and drafts updates for your approval.
Meridian is open source, MIT-licensed, free for individual developers, and requires no account. Nothing leaves your device until you approve it.
We re launching today and would especially value feedback on the onboarding, activity timeline, and drafted work updates: https://www.producthunt.com/prod...
I recently introduced myself here as an ex-CMO of nearly 20 years, now building something I personally wanted as a founder/operator.
The problem: founders and SMB owners make important decisions everywhere-meetings, calls, coffee chats, commuting, trade shows, and quick conversations on the go. But a lot of that context disappears before it ever reaches our tools.
We re building Memoket: an AI wearable + software system that captures real-world conversations, summarizes them, connects context across time, and turns them into tasks, notes, and follow-ups.
I m building CogniFocus, a bootstrapped Android focus app.
The idea came from a simple problem: I could start a focus timer and still end up switching apps mid-session.
The timer kept running, but my focus was already gone.
So I built CogniFocus around a different loop: start a focus session, block distracting apps, get pulled back when you drift, and let a Goblin roast or praise you depending on how you focus.
The idea is pretty simple: AI agents can already access files on your computer, but video and audio are still largely black boxes. A folder full of 10,000 videos isn t very useful to an agent if it doesn t know what actually happens inside them.
Most Windows wallets make you choose between beginner simplicity and serious privacy, or put every chain and protocol into the same interface. I built ARX as one open-source, fully local app with two deliberately separate profiles. Simple is for everyday self-custody: BTC, ETH, USDT, USDC, SOL and BNB; network-aware receiving; reviewed sends; swaps; custom EVM networks; and WalletConnect across 25 built-in networks. Privacy stays out of the way until you choose it. It adds proxy-enforced connections, separate Main and Anonymous identities, a permanent RAILGUN 0zk identity, native Monero, and shielded or unshielded Zcash. The goal is to make self-custody feel cleaner than leaving assets on an exchange without forcing people to learn privacy protocols before they can receive a coin. Windows installer and source: https://github.com/SeverianRoth/ARX Simple walkthrough:
Privacy walkthrough: ARX launches on Product Hunt tomorrow. I am looking for one blunt Windows user to tell me which first screen or term creates hesitation.
We spent three months building an open-source, local-first AI work journal that captures daily activity and turns it into clear timelines, worklogs, and updates. Yesterday, the Product Hunt community helped it reach the top position.
Thank you to everyone who supported the launch, shared their experience, left a comment, or recommended Meridian to someone else. The launch is over, but the work continues. We are reviewing what people shared and improving the onboarding, activity timeline, and drafted updates.
If you have tried Meridian, we would value hearing honestly what worked well and what still feels unclear. GitHub: https://github.com/Meridiona/mer...
