... renovated and launched DevDiary , a free VSCode Extension that tracks your dev routine locally and generates a complete Programmer Profile that judges your habits badly. Two things are missing nowadays about VSCode

... indie hacker forums, and startup graveyards you'll never find manually. What we built: An AI that acts like 100 researchers working in parallel. Give us your idea in plain English, and in 4 minutes we'll surface: Direct competitors (obvious ones) Indirect threats (the not-so-obvious ones) Failed startups in your space (learn from their mistakes) The ACTUAL keywords your customers use (spoiler: it's not what you think) The kicker

... Okibi is actually my second YC company, back in 2021 I got into YC the browser I built called SigmaOS. As the title of this post already says, the first time I got into YC I got kicked out after couple weeks, and had to become a permanent resident of Paraguay to get reinstated Even with the craziness of getting kicked

... founder of SigmaOS and now Okibi an agent that builds agents for you, launching today. We're currently going through YC for the second time, but the first time around wasn t exactly smooth. In fact, we got kicked out and then fought our way back in. Here's the full story. Browsers Weren t Built for Work In 2021, we started building SigmaOS because modern work had outgrown the browser. You had Slack, Notion, Figma, Google Docs ... ... surreal Codecademy was how I learned to code. Two days later, it all fell apart. I woke up to messages from Saurav about passports and residencies. I didn t get it. Then I checked my email. YC had to kick

... Possible platforms where you can launch have been discussed here several times. Of course, it brings benefits for SEO (backlinks), visibility (more content, awareness),... But how do you view crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo ? What is your strategy for going to such a platform, and how does the preparation for them differ from ProductHunt? I would be happy if you share your experiences or launched projects on these platforms. Personally, I have always seen them as a means ... ... call) :D Have you ever met with a scenario where makers boosted their own launch with money so it looked like they had already been donated? (to push that things) Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @borja_diazroig  Kickstarter

... Last month we kicked things off with a high-level recap of our Product of the Month launch - and you had so many questions that we went back to document every tactic in full. Today, here s the in-depth playbook : the exact strategies, experiments, and community-powered tests that took Chronicle to #1 on Product Hunt and over 1,000 upvotes within 24 hours. 1. The Spark: one tweet On June 6, Andrej Karpathy casually spoke about Cursor ... ... replies, retweets and DMs to harvest the language your audience actually uses. 2. Rapid-fire experiments We never waited for launch day. Instead, we treated our entire buildup as a real-time lab: Email CTA swaps ( Try Chronicle Pro vs

... hardware and smart home simplicity. I know hardware isn't at the top of Product Hunt's minds, but I'd still love to join the community! Last year, we brought our first product, InvisOutlet Pro , to life through Kickstarter (raised $160K+) and shipped to over 800 backers. That journey taught me a lot about building in public, obsessing over design, and shipping quality hardware. Now we re launching on Product Hunt later this month (July 29) , fully available ... ... invisible things that quietly make your space smarter I think you'll like what we re building. Happy to be here and excited to support your launches too! We'll also be launching our second product, InvisOutlet Aura , on Kickstarter

... everyone! I'm a new maker (Co-Founder) of Intecular , a smart home tech company gearing up for our first Product Hunt launch on July 29. We've previously launched on Kickstarter , though I've had some mixed feedback about launching on Product Hunt. I'd love your input on a few areas that I could use some clarity: Product Hunt seems to be somewhat on/off about hardware. For featured products, it seems like hardware is somewhat rare. Any thoughts ... ... succeed using this platform? We waited to consider launching on Product Hunt until the product was fully available, after fulfilling all prior Kickstarter

... Ford quote) because they don't realize that other design possibilities exist... but this is motivated me to I set off to make the thinnest wallet finder in the market - stuffed with cool tech that is launching soon on @kickstarter with over 1400 followers already signed up for the launch! https://www.kickstarter.com/proj... (Sign up for 30% off with our Early Bird special - MSRP $49.95) One of the added features that I didn't expect to make big waves ... ... lifetime solution. Nowadays if you make wallets and don't offer RFID it's like you are denying a huge chuck of the marketshare of potential customers. I witnessed this first hand over a decade as my competitors

... Public launch directly on Product Hunt vs going on Product Hunt a bit later. I am looking to compare and learn from experiences of others. PH launch is a must - so question is only about the timing. To me, launching directly on PH looks good as it's a very good community and the feedbacks can really help sharpen your product roadmap. I haven't yet launched on PH but planning to launch directly as a public launch. Looking ... ... Real users, authentic feedback, and momentum right out of the gate. The key is to treat it like a full launch not a teaser. If your product is ready for real-world use, PH can be the spark that kicks

... Weekends are for side projects! Share what you're going to be building or an idea you're kicking around. And then give some feedback to a fellow Maker! Comment from Graeme(@graeme_fulton): @harvanshchaudhary  haha I mean you can reuse any part of it, if it doesn't go anywhere beyond a bit of fun, you still have all the API stuff to reuse for anything, so why not Comment from Jordan(@jordansvision): For the past couple ... ... Thanks. My experience with @Replit was pretty good. I had built simple landing pages before now, but this is the first end-to-end app I built on the platform. Comment from Olive(@gx3): @jakecrump  Sounds cool. Been kicking

... endless video tutorials and pre recorded content that doesn t feel personal or actionable. With Uniskill learners can connect instantly with verified experts for one on one or small group sessions. Think of it as a fast human centered alternative to traditional e learning We re launching the MVP on September 2 2025 and will be running a Kickstarter

... tools, platforms, or strategies have you used to launch or scale a project on a $0 budget? From no-cost marketing tactics to open-source software or scrappy growth hacks, spill the beans! Here are a few questions to kick things off: What s the best free tool you ve used to build or promote your product? How did you validate your idea without spending money? Any creative ways to get early users or feedback on a tight budget? Looking ... ... forward to learning from this awesome community! Let s inspire each other to bootstrap smarter. Comment from D-Devil NightRaid(@d_devil_nightraid): Bits programming knowledge ChatGPT VS

... made... A cover page A table of contents And 10 tabs open with random advice. It's not your fault. Writing a full business plan (and pitch deck) from scratch is HARD. And here's the real kicker: You don't even know yet if your idea is good enough. You could spend months building... only to find out it s not what the market wanted. That's why smart founders validate first before they build. I'm building something ... ... make that journey faster and smarter: BrandClover Instantly research your market for your idea Analyze competitors

... Graphite , Merrill, held a super insightful AMA this week touching on code reviews, dev tools, and AI - You're doing code reviews wrong - AMA w/ CEO of Graphite @mattisssa - Artem is the maker of @Shorty and kicked off a conversation on @Lovable 's product forum about the importance of promotion - Lovable but for Promotion? @onbing - Yan is the founder of UIPaaS and, along with joining many different threads, was brave enough to offer up his upcoming product for roasting - Landing ... ... Page Roast: 48 Hours Only @movitalis_david_manda - David is the CEO of @Movitalis and kicked

... ICYMI: @levelsio shipped a flight simulator game last week. It's pretty fun, it's got some low poly / minecraft-esque graphics, pretty good physics, a turbo boost, and even PvP. The kicker is he built it, at least the version one anyway entirely by prompting @Cursor . It got me thinking about a question that a ton of people have tried to answer in the past few years; What does the future look like for someone getting into development ... ... gabe): Personally feel that the way people break into development will change and the expectations of developers will change. People will now be able to learn alongside AI tools and discover a new passion for dev work this way vs

... procrastination won this round. Right now, I m thinking about dipping my toes back into building another startup venture, and I m curious when you have a new idea, where do you start executing? With my previous startup, we kicked things off by picking a name and brand colors, then writing a super detailed business plan (which, if I m being honest, we barely looked at once things got moving). This time around, I m considering a different approach. Would ... ... time between building and launching as much as possible learned this the hard way. Comment from Evak Chan(@evakk): For me, I would first conduct a simple market research and competitive analysis to see its feasibility and see what alternatives

... common misconception among makers is that simply submitting a product here is enough to drive traffic and kick-start it. Comment from ShahZaib(@shahza1bmushtaq): @evakk Yes, I am glad you understand better than most makers. Comment from Evak Chan(@evakk): I think that only with thorough preparation can the product drive traffic on Product Hunt and have a real chance of acquiring genuine users ...

... Happy Monday from Product Hunt! Kicking off this week strong, what are you all building or working on refining? What kind of blockers are you running into? Comment from Rabii Luena(@rbluena): Building Kalenda AI. A chrome extension to sync between your google calendar and google task. Ability to attach tasks to a google event. Also users can be able to see tasks from other users in real time. Comment from Puja from Draftly.so(@puja_duseja): Building a community ... ... able to connect that data to understand pain points. Especially since in my past, support and marketing have worked closely to identify opportunities for improvement/ads, and being able to have all of that in ONE tool would be great versus

... best tools in the market, and because our users love the product so much, word of mouth has started to take off. Focusing on product primarily instead of marketing meant that it would take much longer for growth to kick in. But because we have 100s of happy customers and they keep on recommending us, growth is starting to ramp up. We're also constantly experimenting with our marketing. We've tried dozens of things, from shitposting on Twitter ... ... month but less than 10% of them upgrade. So we'll be focusing more on customer success too. We're going to get much more aggressive with our marketing. We'll be: going toe to toe with our competitors

... would like to know which micro/macro platforms you folks use to launch your products. I have heard about - Smoothie ( web3 alternative of PH ) - Reddit - Hacker News - Beta Testing If you are part of specific Slack, or WhatsApp communities of early adopters, do share. Context - We've just launched on App Store and are looking to launch on platforms to get initial traction. Edit 1 ( I'm adding all the suggestions shared in the comments ) 1 - Beta list - https://betalist.com ... ... Sumo - https://appsumo.com/ 3 - Life Timo - https://lifetimo.com/ 4 - Stack Social - https://stacksocial.com/ 5 - Rugless - https://rugless.com/ 6 - Betafy 7 - Betpage.co 8 - Show HN 9 - Submit Juice 10 - IndieHackers 11 - https://getmakerlog.com/ 12 - Kickstarter