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We teamed up with Vercel and we want you shipping this Friday.
May 15 is Vercel Day. Launch your product on Product Hunt that day with the Vercel Day tag and you're on the official Vercel Day leaderboard alongside every other builder going live that day. Top launches win prizes and get serious visibility from a crowd that's already paying attention.
This is the move if you've been waiting for a reason to launch. You've got four days.
What are you building? Drop it below

What motivates you to build your product? For me with @Bitgrain, it's my passion for creating with graphics. I needed a tool to make grunge posters myself, so I built one, and figured, why not share it with everyone else?
What's yours ??

1. I've always been on the personal brand side. More and more founders are building it now (sometimes even before the product is ready while it's still in development, before seed fundraising). The CEO builds their position so the product sells more easily at the official launch.

2. But I have experience with people who built the product, scaled it, and only then did we discover who was behind it.

Honestly, with the first approach, I'd be concerned that people invest more in me as a person than in the product. People would idealise the founder and overlook the product's flaws (which could hurt development and constructive feedback).

+ I noticed the most common mistake that many people who started building a personal brand first, connected their product to their personal accounts (emails, social media, etc.) and started having a problem selling these things, because they cannot "give someone keys" to their personal profiles.

We are live! Three hours in and the demo is already getting some traffic.

For anyone just discovering us: Klava AI reads construction contract preambles with AI, cross-references every position against them, and flags the gaps before bidders ever see the document. Then when bids come in, it compares all positions automatically and surfaces outliers instantly.

you can go onto the ExploreYC platform, put your email and start receiving emails every day with:

• newly added companies

• companies that just started hiring

how are we doing it? we are comparing the snapshot of companies yesterday vs. today and detecting the dif.

Hey Product Hunt
I'm thrilled to launch Ansvisor today the open-source platform for Answer Engine Optimization (AEO).
Search is changing fast. People aren't just Googling anymore they're asking ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overview. The brands that show up inside AI-generated answers will own the next decade of discovery. But every tool in this space today is a closed black box: you can't see how it works, you can't extend it, and you can't trust the numbers.
We thought AEO deserved better. So we built Ansvisor in the open, under the MIT license.
What you can do with Ansvisor;
Track how AI answer engines mention, cite, and rank your brand
Monitor prompt volumes and discover real buyer intent across LLMs
Benchmark competitor share-of-voice in AI answers
Turn insights into AI-ready content briefs and workflows Self-host the whole thing from GitHub, or use our cloud
Who it's for AEO/SEO teams, content marketers, PR & brand teams, agencies running multiple clients, and developers who want to build on top of an open AEO stack.
What's next We're shipping fast and the roadmap is public.
Stars, issues, PRs, and brutal feedback are all welcome on GitHub github.com/aeohub/ansvisor
Huge thanks to everyone who tested early builds with us I'll be here all day ask me anything about AEO, the open-source approach, our architecture, or anything else!
Signup: https://ansvisor.com
Docs: https://docs.ansvisor.com
Self Host: https://github.com/aeohub/ansvisor

We pulled 18 months of churn data from 1,247 B2B SaaS accounts. We interviewed 100 of them. We looked for patterns.

The common assumption is that people leave because of price or missing features. That is not what we found.

Here is what the data said.

AI is incredibly good, I d even say almost perfect.

And for many people, that uniformity of perfect templates is starting to feel annoying.

We've teamed up with @Y Combinator or to give builders one more chance.

Launch on Product Hunt this Friday, tag your post "YC application" @gustaf will personally review the top launches. One or more will walk away with a YC interview, even though the official deadline has passed.

I'll be honest I've never liked the feeling that someone "owns" me.

So being employed was very distant to me. [As if I had no power over my income.]

Building a browser extension in 2026 is hard.

Getting users to trust a privacy-focused product is even harder.

A few months ago, StealthHound started as a small idea:
Create a privacy extension that feels intelligent, lightweight, and invisible while browsing.

searchable companies, a live hiring board, an idea-validator that finds similar YC bets to whatever you're working on, a gamified success-prediction tool, and email digests for new batches.
all of it is live at https://github.com/KonstantinMB/...
all of it is now in the repo, MIT-licensed: React 19 + FastAPI + Supabase, OpenAI embeddings, Perplexity for research, deployed on Vercel and Render.
why open it up: the PH launch made it clear there's an audience of YC-curious builders who want to dig deeper than what the hosted site shows them.
some of you want different filters. others want a CLI.. others want to plug in their own data sources or fork it for a different accelerator.
I can't build all of those but you can.
got a feature in mind? open an issue. want to ship it? Open a PR

One of the most exciting parts of building an independent product is seeing users arrive from places you never expected.

Current weekly user distribution for StealthHound:

Russia 39%
United States 29%
Other regions 24%

Last week, @Kilo Code launched for the fourth time on Product Hunt, introducing a new VS Code extension. The product ranked #1 Product of the Day and #1 Product of the Week.

I had the opportunity to work on this launch. Here's a breakdown of what we did and how to apply it to your launch.

The open-source file sharing tool for people who actually care about privacy.

Ever sent sensitive data through email? Or watched your files sit on someone's cloud forever? We built BurnLink because the alternative to privacy shouldn't be inconvenience.

The Problem

I'll go first,
During the launch of @Bitgrain , I thought maybe some 10 20 people might upvote or it can be even lesser, Surprisingly it got featured and the numbers went up crazy! I got mails from people who loved the product. It was unexpected but loved it!
btw do see @Bitgrain : )

Added a few new features:

Spotlight
Auto zoom + cursor tracking (can also be controlled manually)

We thought we were ready.

Bigger deals. Fewer customers. Better margins. That was the dream.

So we built enterprise features. SSO. Advanced permissions. Audit logs. A whole new pricing tier starting at $2,000/month.

We spent 6 months. Three engineers. One dedicated product manager. Endless meetings about "enterprise readiness."

Hey everyone, posting this week's release notes.

Most of what shipped is multi-publication plumbing. If you run more than one newsletter from a single HeyNews account, this is the one to read.

What changed:

Huge thank you to everyone who supported our Product Hunt launch yesterday

Seeing people give feedback and follow along this early genuinely means a lot to us.

For anyone new here, Ota is an open-source CLI for repo readiness focused on one idea:

making the first working run repeatable.

Hey Product Hunt!

I'm Dan, co-founder of .dodocs and this one's for the accountants.

We talked to hundreds of accounting firms. The story was always the same: over half the working week goes to chasing clients for documents, matching invoices by hand, and reconciling statements work that adds zero value to your clients and zero satisfaction to your day. Meanwhile your actual job analysis, advisory, strategy keeps getting pushed to the weekend.

So we built an OS that runs that work for you.

Today we're announcing our $50M Series B, led by Peak XV, with participation from YC, M12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund), Kleiner Perkins, and our earlier investors. It brings our total funding to $72M. The round closed on the back of a year in which our enterprise revenue grew 10x, and our agents crossed 1,000,000,000 calls handled.

Read their announcement.

A real talk about why we built this, and why your instinct to be scared is actually correct.

The Honest Truth

You know that feeling when someone asks you to email a password? Or send sensitive docs through Google Drive? And you know it's not great, but... what else are you supposed to do?

We re trying something new on Thursday: Alpha Day.

The idea is simple. If this is the first time you re launching your product anywhere, you can tag it alpha and get a boost to your points (and land on a special leaderboard).

We launched OptimizeGEO.ai on Product Hunt today.

The way people discover brands is changing.

They no longer just search Google and click blue links.

They ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and AI Overviews for direct recommendations.