Connect with the Product Hunt community

Looq 1.2 adds Live Rendering. Edit a Markdown file, hit save, and the Quick Look preview updates on its own. No closing and reopening.

The key part: it doesn't flash. Code blocks keep their highlighting, Mermaid diagrams stay put, and only the parts you changed get re-rendered. Old content stays on screen until the new version is ready, then swaps in one frame.

Let me start from the creator s perspective:
I personally don t have a product (apart from hiring people for creative work or offering personal consultations).

But as a creator, I constantly share content, insights, and information, value that helps me build trust (for free). Based on that perceived expertise, people eventually decide to work with me (a paid service).

Last month, I did something that felt slightly insane.

I took our product description, fed it into ChatGPT, and asked it to build a competitor. Not a parody. A real competitor. Better features, better positioning, better everything. I told it to be ruthless.

It did!

The output was polished. Confident. Structured like a real go-to-market plan. It named features we don t have. It positioned itself against us. It looked like a threat on paper.

Hey everyone,

So we just hit the reviews section on Product Hunt and I'm genuinely curious what you think. If you've actually used ClickSay, we'd love to hear what's working for you and what's not.

With the advent of clawdbots, it's as if we've all lost our inhibitions and "put our lives completely in their hands."

I'm all for delegating work, but not giving them too much personal/sensitive stuff to handle.

Launched Lokuma Design Agent today.

Now I want to ask something more practical:

what s a design skill you wish your AI tool had, but still doesn t?

I've never seen a space move as fast as AI-narrated audiobooks. Platform policies shift every few months. Here's where things stand right now, as best I can tell.

Google Play Books

• Accepts AI-narrated audiobooks

• Requires disclosure that the narration is AI-generated

• Has been the most welcoming platform for AI narration since 2023

• Quality bar exists, but it's focused on audio clarity, not "humanness"

If you re still sitting on your launch, this is the push.

YC made a special exception for this community: one or more companies that launch tomorrow will get a YC interview and potentially funding. A YC partner will review every eligible launch.

There are so many launches on Product Hunt every day. How do you decide which ones are worth clicking into?

What s your #1 filter or shortcut?

TL;DR: Anthropic refused to sign a contract with the Pentagon that would have allowed the U.S. military to use all of its models without restrictions. Anthropic insisted on an exception, and brace yourself, that its models cannot be used: 1) for mass surveillance of citizens, 2) for autonomous killing. Now the administration is threatening that if the founder of Anthropic doesn't change his mind by a certain date, they will come after him.

Google, OpenAI, and Musk (Grok) have all signed the contract.

Following Sam Altman's announcement over the past few hours, people have been speaking out massively about cancelling their OpenAI subscriptions and subscribing to Claude.

Hey all,

I wrote a forum post not long ago on marketing as one of the rising in importance hires for all startups. This is all the things we've done, with some results and free resources.

I am a Computer Science student doing research into how solopreneurs and small startups create new apps and what their stack looks like. Particularly, I'm interested in how you handle things like authentication, billing, and permissions/authorization in your apps.

Let me know what you're working on below and how you're going about it -- I'd love to connect for some quick calls to learn about your product and talk about your process in building it!

Last week Garry Tan (CEO of Y Combinator) shared his entire Claude Code setup on GitHub and called it "god mode."

He's sleeping 4 hours a night. Running 10 AI workers across 3 projects simultaneously. And openly saying he rebuilt a startup that once took $10M and 10 people. Alone, with agents.

It may feel like you ve considered everything:
product page, positioning, network support, social media content even day planning.

We thought we did too.

As usual, Y Combinator came up with segments that are worth investing:

1. Cursor for Product Managers
2. AI-Native Hedge Funds
3. AI-Native Agencies
4. Stablecoin Financial Services
5. AI for Government
6. Modern Metal Mills
7. AI Guidance for Physical Work 8. Large Spatial Models 9. Infra for Government Fraud Hunters 10. Make LLMs Easy to Train

New AI models pop up every week. Some developer tools like @Cursor, @Zed, and @Kilo Code let you choose between different models, while more opinionated products like @Amp and @Tonkotsu default to 1 model.

Curious what the community recommends for coding tasks? Any preferences?

I recently saw a marketer with 10k+ followers launch and finish 6th with 348 upvotes. They followed a proper pre-launch and post-launch plan, did everything right, and still the outcome felt unpredictable.

Now I m launching @Curatora next week.

I m not a marketer. I have a little over 1k followers. Of course, asking for support helps. But I also keep hearing that a large part of the Product Hunt community shows up mainly for their own launch, then goes quiet until the next one.

That makes me wonder: how much of success here is strategy, and how much is timing and network effect?

Laravel just shipped a new laravel.com with a bold headline:

The clean stack for Artisans and agents.

Laravel has always been opinionated and seems like a solid option in this AI era. Has anyone made the switch since they started working with coding agents?

First of all, a huge thank you to everyone who supported MCPCore's launch yesterday. Your upvotes, comments, and feedback truly mean a lot.

I want to be upfront about something: I won't be using this space to push promotions, ask you to sign up, or post any marketing-style content here. This is your community, and I want to respect that.

tldr: yes. Shoutouts are one of the simplest distribution levers on Product Hunt.

Shoutouts are meant to pay it forward and highlight the tools that helped you build. But beyond goodwill, they create durable distribution for your product on Product Hunt and across LLM driven discovery.

When you shout out a product during launch, it becomes a founder review on that product s page. Founder reviews sit above regular reviews and include a link to both your profile and your product. That means your product is now attached to every future visit to that product s review page, long after launch day. For example, check out @timliao s shoutout of @Framer or @guymanzur s shoutout of @Base44

Hey PH community. Yesterday we launched ClawSecure and landed #2 Product of the Day

ClawSecure is the free security scanner for OpenClaw AI agent skills. But I'm not here to pitch. I just want to share real traffic numbers and what I actually learned from our Product Hunt launch, so it's useful for other makers planning theirs

According to @RevenueCat 's State of Subscription Apps 2026 report, "hard paywalls convert 5x better than freemium, but with significantly wider variance."

Day 35 download-to-paid, freemium vs. hard paywall

Does access method impact download-to-paid conversion within 35 days?

Today, Clay is becoming Mesh.

It's more than a name change. It's a commitment to a much broader vision.

As the world shifts, relationships have become both harder to maintain and more precious than ever. For the first time, we can actually map, understand, and activate networks at scale  dynamically, intelligently, and in real time.

In a mesh, nothing is truly isolated and nothing valuable is ever lost. That idea sits at the center of everything we're building. Because the future of relationships isn't about managing contacts. It's about understanding the shape of your entire network  and knowing how to move through it, grow it, and shape it.

You'll start to see Mesh roll out across our product, brand, and experiences starting today and over the coming weeks.

In a discussion forum with @monatruong_murror , we talked about how AI can help us learn things that aren t naturally familiar to us, like programming.

The biggest challenge was/is:
Getting AI to guide you toward a solution, instead of just giving you the answer.

People are tired of AI tools that start with a blank canvas.

The feedback we saw again and again: