Michael Ludden

Michael Ludden

zero.xyzzero.xyz
VP of Marketing @ ZERO.XYZ

About

Technical product marketing leader with a builder first mindset. Specializing in developer tools, AI, sales-led & product-led (PLG) motions & Empowering teams that build exceptional products to find product-market fit.

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Top 5 Launch
Top 5 Launch
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Maker History

  • zero.xyz
    zero.xyzGive your AI agent access to ~8k tools, APIs and services
    May 2026
  • cto.new
    cto.newCompletely free AI code agent
  • 🎉
    Joined Product HuntOctober 6th, 2015

Forums

We got #3!

Excited that we made the #3 spot via just word of mouth, no paid marketing. If you have any questions after trying https://zero.xyz (it's free! tell your agent to install the CLI!) with the $5 welcome gift, ask 'em here!

Thanks for all the support, we finished #3!

Thank you to everyone who upvoted, left thoughtful comments and engaged with our launch on social media!
We're delighted to be finishing Trophy 1.0 at #3 with 323 points!
We're collating all the questions and feedback and integrating it into our roadmap and plan to share product updates in this forum as we launch them each month.

We also have a few more launches planned for the coming months so stay tuned...

Michael Ludden

5mo ago

cto bench - The ground truth code agent benchmark

Most AI benchmarks are built backwards. Someone sits down, dreams up hard problems, and then measures how well agents solve them. The results are interesting, sure. But they don't always tell you what matters: how agents perform on the actual work that's sitting in your queue. That's why we built cto.bench. Instead of hypothetical tasks, we're building our benchmark from real work. Every data point on cto bench comes directly from how cto.new users are actually using our platform.
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