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Miras Kustaibek

3mo ago

Stop the Brain Melt: How AI Can Save You 730 Hours of Content Overload a Year

We ve all been there. You wake up, check your phone, and see "99+" notifications across 50 Telegram channels, 20 newsletters, and a dozen RSS feeds. You dive in "just for a second," and 40 minutes later, you emerge with a headache, high anxiety, and zero actual value. I call this The Brain Melt. I m building Alaqay, and I wanted to share why our current way of consuming information is fundamentally broken and how we re fixing it. 1. The Math of Chaos Let s look at the numbers. If you follow 50 channels and spend just 2 minutes on each, that s 100 minutes a day. That is 730 hours a year. You are spending one full month of your life every year just scrolling through noise. Most of that content is irrelevant, yet we consume it because of FOMO. 2. Why Your Current Tools Are Failing You Tools like Pocket or Instapaper are great, but they require work. You have to find, save, and organize. Aggregators like Feedly just give you a longer list to scroll through. The problem isn't a lack of tools; it s Decision Fatigue. Every time you decide whether to click a link, you burn cognitive fuel. By noon, you're mentally exhausted without having done any real work. 3. Enter Alaqay: Your AI Chief of Staff We believe you shouldn't have to "manage" your information. Alaqay (meaning "Hooray!" or a cry of joy) acts as your personal filter. Instead of 100 separate posts, Alaqay: Analyzes all your sources in the background. Learns your specific interests and professional needs. Synthesizes everything into a single, cohesive 5-minute narrative. 4. The Goal: An Information Diet We re moving from "Information Overload" to a curated "Information Diet." Imagine starting your day with a clear, personalized briefing that tells you exactly what happened in your world no noise, no distractions, just the signal. I d love to hear from the community: How many channels/newsletters are you currently subscribed to? Do you actually read them, or are they just "digital clutter"? I'm opening up early access soon let s reclaim those 2 hours a day together!
HollandSUN

3mo ago

I am a content creator, I built a free AI video cropper in 7 days because I was tired of paywalls.

I have about 10k followers across TikTok, Ins and rednote. Nothing huge, but enough that I m posting almost every day.

I record everything in 16:9. Then I need it in 9:16 for TikTok, 4:5 for Instagram feed, 1:1 for LinkedIn... Same video, four exports everytimes.

I ve used Clideo. I ve used Canva. Probably a dozen others. They all do the same thing:

Make you create an account before you can even test anything

Launching Tomorrow: Get featured on other founders' domains. The first peer-to-peer growth engine.

Hey Product Hunt!

This is the Mesh of Growth team. After seeing so many founders (myself included) burn cash on ads while our own websites sat idle, I realized something was missing from the market.

There are plenty of SEO tools and social platforms, but there is zero infrastructure that lets founders mesh their domain authority. Tomorrow, we launch Mesh of Growth. It s a first-of-its-kind network that turns your website into an influencer.

The Win-Win Loop: You recommend peers you trust, and in return, your brand and backlink live on their domain permanently. Simultaneously, when others recommend you, your website gains immediate social proof and high-authority backlinks.

Alek Gir

3mo ago

Launched on MS Store 10 days ago - turns out it's just a download button, not a marketing engine

Hey Product Hunt Launched StreamVox on MS Store 10 days ago thinking "Microsoft has 1 billion Windows users, this will be easy!"Narrator: It was not easy.What I builtWindows app for real-time translation with live subtitles. Works with Zoom, YouTube, gaming, phone calls - basically any audio. Built it solo because international meetings without subtitles suck.10 days later:- 180 store page views- 82 downloads (45% conversion - actually good!)- 65 active users- $0 revenueWhere users came from:- ~140 views: Me posting links on Reddit/Twitter/Facebook- ~20 views: Product Hunt (thanks!)- ~10-20 views: Organic MS Store searchI searched for my own app. "Translation app" - buried under Microsoft Translator and Google Translate. "AI subtitles" - nowhere to be found.The algorithm loves established publishers. Makes sense for quality control, but creates chicken-and-egg: no visibility without reviews, no reviews without users, no users without visibility.Plot twist: payments don't workUsers want to upgrade to Pro. They click the button. They get "Page not found."Everything shows "Complete" in Partner Center. Sandbox testing works. But live payments? Broken.My account is 3 weeks old. I think Microsoft locks IAP for new accounts (anti-fraud?) but there's zero documentation. Forum posts suggest waiting 30-45 days.So I have 5-10 users ready to pay and literally can't take their money. Cool cool cool.What I learned:MS Store is great for distributing your app once people know about it. Auto-updates, trusted platform, easy installation.But discovery? You're completely on your own. I'm spending 70% of my time marketing now. Reddit comments, demo videos, engaging communities. The other 30% is building features.Also pivoting messaging: originally "accessibility tool" (noble but hard to reach). Now "watch anime without waiting for subs" because that's who's actually using it. Easier audience to reach.Next moves:- Integrating Paddle this week (5% vs MS Store's 15%)- Selling Pro directly via streamvox.pro- Keeping MS Store as free tier delivery- Focusing on gaming/anime communities on RedditQuestions:1. Is MS Store discovery this hard for everyone or am I missing something?2. Solo founders - you also spending 60-70% time on marketing?3. Desktop apps - platform or DTC? What worked for you?Building in public, learning in public, sometimes faceplanting in public. Links: https://www.producthunt.com/prod... | https://streamvox.pro
Hemanth V

3mo ago

We’re Solving the Visualization Speed Problem for Interior Designers

Hey Product Hunt community,

My co-founder and I aren t interior designers. We re tech builders who identified a massive inefficiency in how design expertise gets communicated.

Hoa DO

3mo ago

How Do You Approach AI Learning in Your Products?

Hi PH community,

I d love to learn from your experiences in building an app that leverages AI to improve user experience. For the context, conversation-based is popular for generative AI but sometimes it is not easy to set up within a product that does more than just information generation.

I'm curious:

What DataSnifferAI is (and what it’s not)?

Hey Product Hunt

I m Purushotam (LINAPIS) I m building DataSnifferAI because I kept seeing the same painful moment inside growth/marketing agencies:

Orazio Antonaci

3mo ago

I built the feedback tool I wanted as a user, and needed as a founder

I believe collecting user feedback is one of the most important things you can do while building a product. I used to run a B2C app with 100k monthly users a couple years ago, and got so frustrated with existing solutions which were either too complicated or too expensive, that I ended up using a single Google Form. I don't need to tell you how tedious the process of going through all the answers was.

Fast forward to today, I sold that app, and for the last 5 months I've been working on Modu.io , a feedback collection tool that allows businesses and communities to create multiple kinds of feedback modules (suggestions with voting, roadmaps, changelogs, polls, ratings, open questions) and either organize them in a public board, link to them directly, or use them as in-app embeds/popups.

Aura Social

3mo ago

Aura Social - A signal-first professional social network

We re building Aura Social, a professional social network designed around signal instead of noise.

Most platforms today optimize for:

  • Engagement loops

  • Algorithmic amplification

  • Infinite scroll

Aura takes a different approach.

Revelations of an AI Assistant(spoken with the Brooklyn accent)

Awright, awright, sit down. We gotta tawk.
There s this narrative goin around you ve heard it, I ve heard it, ya mutha s heard it AI s gonna take all the jobs, we re all screwed, pack it up, game over.

Fuggedaboutit.

Here s what s actually happenin , and nobody wants to admit it: AI ain t the problem. How people are usin AI is the problem.
The Pattern Nobody s Talkin About

Look, there s a pattern in the narrative, and it goes like this: