Building AppLensy: what makes a software comparison worth trusting?
Hi Product Hunt, Carlos from Power CM Software here. We are building AppLensy, a software catalogue with official sources and source-check dates.
The public version currently has four products: LibreOffice, Notion, Obsidian and Visual Studio Code. Visitors can filter listings and compare up to four products by details such as platform and pricing model. Product owners can submit information for editorial review.
One question we are working through is how to make the comparison useful while coverage is small. Showing a source and a check date gives readers something concrete to verify, but it does not replace checking the vendor documentation for their own requirements.
You can inspect the current catalogue here: https://applensy.com/discover
I'll build your go-to-market strategy for free. Drop your project below 👇
I'm a solo founder building a GTM tool (Marketing co-pilot) for early-stage projects. To stress-test it, I need real projects not fake data.
Here's the deal:
Tell me about your project in the comments:
Landing page link
What problem does it solve?
Who is it for?
Where are you right now (idea / built / launched)?
TexLite: Lightweight self-hosted collaborative LaTeX editor and Overleaf alternative
A lightweight self-hosted alternative to Overleaf for small, trusted research teams. Use your existing LaTeX distribution, with no heavyweight service stack. https://github.com/SWUFE-DB-Grou...
What the writing workflow includes
Projects with folders, ZIP import/export, tags, sharing, ownership transfer, archiving, and a private per-user citation library.
CodeMirror editing with LaTeX/BibTeX highlighting, folding, completion, optional Vim mode, formatting, spelling/grammar assistance, search/replace, and source/PDF SyncTeX navigation.
Yjs-based collaborative source editing, active-session presence, comments anchored to source text, replies, resolution, and permissions that let reviewers comment without changing source.
latexmk compilation with selectable engines, project settings, structured diagnostics, cached successful PDFs, downloadable artifacts, and optional project-level latexmkrc.
Per-project history and owner-only Git/GitHub backup. Git is optional and is checked only when its integration is used.
Launching today: Owain, daily sexual health tracking for men
hey everyone, launching owain today. it's a native iOS app that tracks what actually affects your sexual health through a 90-second daily check-in.
you log morning erection quality, libido, energy, sleep, stress, alcohol, training. the app computes a Sexual Health Index from three sub-scores (Function, Recovery, Load) and generates weekly AI observations that cite your actual data points.
What matters most when choosing a private messaging app?
Building a private messaging app has made us think a lot about what privacy actually means to everyday users.
Encryption is obviously important, but we ve found that privacy goes beyond encryption alone. Things like requiring a phone number, collecting unnecessary data, showing ads, or making privacy features difficult to use can also shape how private a messaging experience feels.
While building Rackon, we ve tried to approach this by combining end-to-end encrypted communication with an ad-free experience, minimal data collection, and the option to connect through a unique ID instead of sharing a phone number.
We recently reached a milestone by bringing Rackon to the App Store, and it has made us even more interested in how other Makers think about this problem.
I built an interactive monument book — is the patron concept clear?
I ve been experimenting with an interactive digital book built around famous monuments.
Each monument has its own plate with historical details and a magnifier-style exploration experience.
I also added a concept called a patron, where one person or company can be associated with a specific monument plate.
CallChatSyn - an AI voice/chat agent so a missed call doesn't become a missed customer
Hey everyone, solo builder here.
I kept losing small-business leads to voicemail: someone calls after hours or during a busy shift, gets voicemail, and just calls the next business on the list instead. CallChatSyn is an AI voice + chat agent that answers those calls and messages instantly, handling FAQs, order status, and appointment booking, so a missed call doesn't have to mean a missed customer.
An app created while unemployed
Hi everyone! My app launch is happening on May 14th at 12:01 AM PT.
I m not sure if the forum rules allow for self-promotion, so I ll share the story behind the app without a link: what it is, when I built it, and why.
I created Bendida TimeBox during the hardest period of my life a time of debt, unemployment, frozen bank accounts, illness, and other struggles. I was looking for a way to stay strong and keep moving toward my dreams without breaking, but most apps out there didn't help.
It feels like most apps are built for 'straight-A' snobs who have perfect lives and can plan every minute of their day. I m not that person, and neither are the people I know. I needed a different approach. I developed this app and improved it step-by-step, releasing over 50 updates on Google Play. I spent exactly $66 on marketing before I completely ran out of money. Now, I m looking for organic ways to grow.
Turn an agent report into scoped work — try Brain Scanner’s free beta
An agent finds a bug. The useful next step is a clear task you can follow through to evidence.
I m Kevin, building Brain Scanner for developers working with coding agents. Its Reports and Queues connect that handoff: open a published report, inspect a linked bug, add it to the work queue, and follow the recorded fix and evidence.
Try the interactive example at https://brainscanner.dev:
1. Open Reports and select the example report.
<p>T We shipped a way to tell whether our AI's advice actually did anything

I'm building an AI chief of staff for founder-operators people running real businesses where every decision still routes through one person. This week we shipped something I'd been putting off for months, because I suspected the answer would be embarrassing.