Your users are too nice

gm legends, happy Friday.

Vercel Day is coming Tuesday, someone built a phone that enforces your bedtime, and the most encouraging thing your early users said might be the most expensive feedback you've received.

SOME BIG NEWS

Vercel Day is coming

We're partnering with Vercel to bring Vercel Day to the leaderboard on Tuesday, June 16th. Launch that day, add the tag "vercel-day" to your launch, and your startup gets a shot at a direct pitch to Vercel Ventures plus over $30k in Vercel credits.

Start building now, schedule for June 16th, and tag it vercel-day. That's the whole entry.

Schedule your launch

Social media has a bedtime now

HyperSleep locks your social apps automatically at bedtime and uses multi-sensor detection to verify you actually slept before unlocking them. Roddy built it after noticing the obvious flaw in every other screen-time app: you have to turn it on at the exact moment you're most likely to ignore it.

🔥 Our Take: Every app in this category tells you how much you're scrolling and hopes you feel bad enough to stop. HyperSleep just removes the option. It activates itself, which is the only thing that makes it different from a setting you'd disable at 1am. Whether that's empowering or oppressive probably depends on how your last few nights went.

Set the lock

If your AI product has an onboarding step that says "tell us about your business" — your users are lying to you. Not maliciously. They just write whatever sounds good in the moment, skip half the fields, and click next.

Brandfetch's Brand Context API gives you structured brand data for 50M+ brands in a single call: voice,mission, positioning, audience, competitors, all of it. Pre-fill your onboarding before the user types a word.

Ground your AI features so they stop hallucinating about the brands your LLM barely knows. It's the scraping pipeline most teams never get around to building, already built. 100 free calls, no credit card.

Try the API

Skip the boring parts

Clutch Alarm monitors live matches and sends a full-screen alert — loud enough to get past silent mode — when a goal is scored or a game becomes a one-goal finish. For European fans watching World Cup matches that kick off at 3am, the pitch is obvious.

🔥 Our Take: The World Cup started yesterday. The group stage runs through the next few weeks, and a lot of the interesting matches are on at hours that make sense in one timezone and not in another. Clutch Alarm is the right product at the right moment. Originally built for the NBA, it covers football now too.

Set the alarm

FROM THE FORUMS

Polite feedback will sink you

Farrukh Butt (@farrukh_butt1) posted a pointed claim in the general forum: "I'd definitely try it" is the most expensive phrase in early-stage startups. Not because it's hostile — because it costs the person saying it nothing.

The thread converged quickly on behavioral signals as the only honest data: pre-orders, workarounds, cold traffic conversions, unprompted follow-up. Nipun Taneja put it plainly: "behavior can't lie to spare your feelings." Words can.

"The polite 'I'd definitely use this' is the most expensive feedback there is." That line stopped the thread for a moment. Then everyone said yes.

Read the signs

June 12th, 2026