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Vercel Day returns to the leaderboard Friday, September 25! This time, top launches could head straight to Vercel's Ship SF.

The mission: ship a sharp, polished web product built on Vercel. If it s ready, don't let it sit on localhost.

Product Hunt has teamed up with OpenAI Developers to launch the GPT-6 Astra Challenge!
@OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra is built for complex, multi-step work from software engineering and research to workflows that require judgment and follow-through.
Build something useful with Astra, launch it on Product Hunt, and compete for API credits and ChatGPT Pro subscriptions.
If you re already building with Astra, this is a chance to share what you ve made and put it in front of a wider audience. You can schedule your launch for Friday, September 18.
Here's everything you need to get started:

• Schedule your launch: https://www.producthunt.com/cont...

• GPT-6 Astra Challenge Launch Guide: https://producthunt.s.gy/forum-a...

• GPT-6 Astra Model Guide: https://developers.openai.com/ap...

• GPT-6 Astra API Docs: https://developers.openai.com/ap...

• OpenAI Demo Showcase: https://developers.openai.com/sh...

• OpenAI Discord: https://discord.gg/openai

This is the perfect time to actually build on those crazy ideas you've been sitting on.... or resurrect one of your "ongoing" side projects.

For me, I finish the tasks I didn t complete during the week, then try to get ahead on a few things.

And I always finish my weekend by preparing my tasks for the next week.

I know some founders completely disconnect on weekends, but I ve never really managed to do that

What about you? Do you work on weekends or completely switch off?

For solo makers, wearing every hat is almost unavoidable - developer, marketer, support, product and often designer too.

AI makes this even easier now. You can generate UI pretty quickly, but a lot of products end up relying on consistent, polished AI-generated solutions rather than something truly unique or thoughtfully designed for their specific product.

So I m curious:

Do you design the UI/UX yourself when building solo?

We just shipped the Inbox.

The Inbox is one place for localization work that needs a human.

Making a product is one big challenge. But shifting your mindset from building to marketing it might be an even bigger one.
As makers, we spend so much time improving the product. Then comes the question: How do we get people to discover it - and ultimately turn that attention into real customers and sales?
I'm not sure traditional approaches like email marketing and constantly posting on social media are enough anymore. The way people discover products is changing.
So I'm curious:

How do you approach marketing your product?
And for the marketers here:
What would you consider a modern marketing approach in 2026-2027? What would you advise an early-stage founder to focus on?
I'd love to hear different perspectives...

Be honest, even just for a second

Do you ever think that AI might eventually take over the world?

Two months ago I asked here how people stay aware of what their agents are doing, and @getosmo replied with something that has been quietly rearranging my roadmap since.

I had been treating "can you undo it" as the line for when an agent should stop and ask. He took that apart. Irreversibility over-fires and under-fires, he said. It over-fires on things that cannot be undone but that nobody cares about, like the agent writing a log line. It under-fires on the ones that really hurt: a mass email to 50k users, or a migration you can only roll back after downtime. "Reversible on paper, ruinous in practice."

I m not really a person who likes sharing my everyday life online =)
That s one of the reasons I m really happy to be part of the Product Hunt community.

I like being able to stay in touch with like-minded people and have everyday conversations about things we re building, learning, and interested in.
But I understand that social media is a big part of today s lifestyle, and it s absolutely great that it gives people a way to connect, share, and find each other.

So, I m curious:

Do you have social media as a maker?

In my 4 or 5 years of working at startups, I ve noticed that people always have a problem when they are told about changes:

free version jumped to a trial with a subscription or lifetime purchase

subscription and lifetime purchase prices increased

I think a pitch deck is almost like a passport for a startup =)

It needs to contain all the important information about the business, but at the same time, it has to be presented in the right, clear, and aesthetic way.

I m realizing how difficult that balance actually is...

Too much information - nobody wants to read it.
Too little - the business isn't clear.
Too much design - the message gets lost.
Too little - it becomes just another boring document.
So, I have a lot of questions =D

We're relaunching omadesign on Product Hunt tomorrow, Saturday Sep 26, at 12:01 AM PT.

Since last Friday's launch we've shipped 0.5.1 through 0.5.9: Lua plugins, cloud sharing and review, responsive layouts with prototypes and HTML export, chroma key plus 30 raster filters and effects, editable gradients and compound paths, a screen-wide eyedropper, and a pile of bug fixes. I'm shipping new features daily, and 0.6.0 is right behind it.

How do you all come up with a name when you're launching something new?

For me naming is always the hardest part. I've named around 30 products so far and this is roughly my flow:

- One sentence on what the product actually does, not the feature list. Most of my names come out of that sentence

- Then names from anywhere. One of my apps basically stands in for you, so it became Kagemusha, a Japanese word for a double. Short, and no AI or Pro stuck on the end

In every community, we naturally find people we love to communicate with, interact with, or simply follow.

From my very first day on Product Hunt, some people became little lighthouses for me here.

The moment I signed up, I noticed @busmark_w_nika and her threads. She became one of those people I always enjoy following here.

Then came @amraniyasser and @bengeekly .
And that was only my first day =D

Genie, our AI Analyst, can already tell you what changed in your numbers. It's never been able to tell you why, because the why almost never lives in Databox.

Revenue drops 8%, and the real reason is a stalled deal in HubSpot, a pricing objection buried in a Slack thread, or a support ticket nobody flagged. Right now, finding that out means leaving your dashboard, opening three other tools, and piecing it together yourself. Every time.

Next week, we're launching MCP Connectors. Connect your CRM, Slack, support desk, or any MCP server, and your AI Analyst gets that same context, right inside the conversation. Ask why a number moved, and it points to the actual deal or thread behind it, not just the number.

WP Bones 2.1.0 is out the bones CLI that ships inside every plugin gets sturdier

Runs from any folder. php my-plugin/bones used to stop with a TypeError anywhere but the plugin root. Now it works, custom commands included.

AI can generate a useful landing page in seconds, but real-world revisions are rarely finished in one prompt. Regenerating the whole page for a small update destroys previous styling tweaks, hallucinated CSS classes creep in, and teams face review fatigue.

HtmlDrag provides a deterministic iterative refinement loop: load existing HTML as an immutable baseline, scope AI edits strictly to target DOM subtrees, guard surrounding components, and verify DOM integrity before saving version checkpoints. When fine-tuning requires visual judgment, switch directly to the visual editor for component locking, tag cleanup, and clean HTML export.

And again the pricing plan =D

Let s discuss the serious side of product growth.

At first, it seems easy: set some prices, create a few plans, and start selling your product.

But when the time actually comes, a ton of questions appear...

If you like the idea of bringing the best design tools, inspiration and people into one place, I'd truly appreciate your support

An upvote helps Designeer reach more builders and designers.
I'll be working really hard to improve and make Designeer big :)
Link : https://www.producthunt.com/prod...

WP Bones 2.0.10 is out a safety release for bones, the CLI every WP Bones plugin carries, after I audited it line by line

deploy checks where it deploys. php bones deploy .. used to delete every plugin beside yours, and then yours. Now the plugin, its parents and anything inside it are refused, and an unrelated folder needs --force.

I was looking at @Higgsfield and other AI video tools recently.

You can now create an ad without organizing a real shoot. Higgsfield also has tools specifically built to generate product ads from existing assets. A normal shoot means finding a location, people, equipment, then filming and editing everything. Now you can test different versions before doing any of that.

I don't think real shoots are going away, but I can see brands doing a lot less of them.

When would you still choose a real shoot over AI?

I recently saw a reel where a girl was recording a Skill with Claude to find newly posted real-estate apartments every day.

She had specific filters - location, price, etc. and Claude would go through the new listings, find the ones that matched, collect all the relevant information, and create a spreadsheet with the results every day.

When I was reading TechCrunch today, I came across Jensen Huang s (NVIDIA CEO) view that AI safety should be handled by companies through engineering and market pressure, rather than through new regulation.

In my opinion, the power of consumers and the public is sometimes simply not strong enough to counterbalance large technology companies. That s why I believe governments sometimes need to step in and establish rules and regulations.

WP Bones 2.0.9 is out a small one, about numbers that had quietly stopped agreeing

bones version keeps its hands off your dependencies. On an npm 6 lockfile (lockfileVersion: 1) it bumped your plugin and the first package in the tree. Now only your plugin's own entry moves.