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At Product Hunt, we re on a mission to help builders find users and help users find the best new products.

We ve been at it for over a decade, and we ve accumulated a ton of data, but we ve rarely shared it with the outside world. Until now.

Because building products has become much more accessible thanks to AI, the bar has had to rise a bit, or at least the expectations have become stricter.

I built my own tool  SafeLimit, but personally, I wouldn t launch it on Product Hunt yet because it s still very basic and doesn t even have a website.

I m curious how other makers approach this.

The more features a product has, the harder it becomes to explain it without overwhelming a new user.

Do you:

guide users step by step
give them a simple starting task
let them explore everything themselves
use videos/tutorials
hide most features until they need them
or something completely different?

Hey Product Hunt!

Murmell is now live!

I was thinking about this because it sounds like such a small product decision, but I don t think it actually is.

Someone signs up with Google. Six months later they are on their iPhone and tap Sign in with Apple. Same person, different identity provider. And if they use Hide My Email, you may not even get the same email address.

So what should the product do?

Creating a new account feels wrong because now their history, billing, settings, or subscription can end up split across two profiles. But automatically linking accounts based on email also feels risky, because now you are assuming that matching email addresses are enough proof that both identities belong to the same person. And then Apple makes it even messier because the emails may not match at all.

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?

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?

What s in the recent tab of your AI conversations?
Doesn t matter if it s about work, coding, planning, writing, or something completely random...

Just curious what everyone is actually talking to AI about =D

Mine was about applying late to Y Combinator for Fall 2026.

To be honest, I posted the question in p/yc and got rejected there =D

Road to 1,000,000 Votap users Day 76 | Current: 1463

I had Claude Code running behind a notes window. It reached a permission prompt and sat there while I kept working. I was on the same Mac the whole time.

That felt worse than missing a finished task. I was not away. The terminal was simply not where my attention was.

I got curious whether "launch on the weekend" is actually good advice or just a myth people repeat. So I pulled every Product Hunt launch from Jan 1 to Sep 1, 2026, 4,962 launches across 244 days, and looked at how many points it actually took to hit #1, top 3, and top 5 on each day of the week.

Some of it confirmed the myth. Some of it didn't.

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 ve recently launched an Android application and I m working on improving the streaming experience. I m particularly interested in reducing buffering and handling different network speeds more efficiently.

For developers who have worked on video-based apps, which tools or services would you recommend for adaptive bitrate streaming, CDN delivery, video encoding, and performance monitoring? I d like to choose a setup that can remain reliable as the user base grows.

Product Hunt now flags comments that are AI-generated. Honestly, I think this is a good thing.

I am attaching a screenshot below that shows how AI comments are marked.

PH Community!

Last week we built us a tool to see exactly what our LLM calls cost.

Small maker update: Local Music Organizer 1.1.19 is now out.

The biggest change is a major update to the Live Spectrum Player, but there s also a lot of work under the hood around large library performance, Library Index restore, Health Check, File Maintenance, and reliability.

I also fixed an annoying edge case where Music.app could repeatedly open Locate for a missing local file.

The user manual has been completely reworked as well it s now a much more detailed, illustrated guide covering the current workflows, controls, safety boundaries, and the intended way to work with large local/offline Music.app libraries.

When you're a first-time founder/maker, and you're the only person using your own product, you probably overlook important things. That's why you need to test the product with as many people as possible.

The problem is that time is limited. You have to decide not only how many people will test it, but also who those people should be.

Hello guys,

first thank you for all the support in the launches, btw we are live today so let's support !

I've always struggled with promoting my own work. It always felt a little awkward because I grew up in an environment where drawing attention to yourself wasn't really encouraged.

That's not exactly ideal when you're trying to build a business, and even less so when marketing is literally how you make a living. :D

The large AI labs (Anthropic, OpenAI, Grok, Gemini, etc) are constantly releasing new versions and improvements.

People on social media often advocate for one specific model claiming that it performs tasks better than others.

Quick update for anyone who followed the Open Wearables launch.

We just published the second edition of our Wearables Integration Playbook. It's the written version of what we learned building the platform and seeing it run in production.

One thing I keep struggling with is prioritizing.

There are always too many things that feel important.

And I think solo makers have the same problem as teams - just with all the voices in the head =D

In a team everyone can have a different priority, the designer might want to polish the UI, developers want to fix backend issues, marketing wants to improve the landing page...

Strong claim, hear me out.

Every founder update reads the same now. "excited to share," emoji bullets, fake vulnerability about the rollercoaster. doesn't matter if it's real or not, it all sounds identical.

Noticed this hard while hiring. read every dm myself for a growth role. most were obviously ai-generated, same tone, zero thought put in. the ones that stood out were rough, specific, clearly written by someone who actually looked at the problem first.

Think the same thing's eating founder credibility. people used to trust a post because it sounded like someone actually figured something out.

@Kilo Code is launching today a fully native plugin for @JetBrains.

Installation, model choice, pricing, team setup... Here's everything you want to know about it.