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.

10 years ago, when I started in marketing, I had never heard of Product Hunt.

Today I m here and honestly, I feel like a newcomer trying to find my way among people who build and launch world-class products. What I genuinely love so far is how open and supportive this community feels. It s a beautiful ecosystem to witness.

Claude is genuinely impressive, but it doesn t remove the need to understand programming fundamentals. You still need to know how systems connect, where data lives, how state is managed, what environments are (dev vs staging vs production), how deployments work, and how things actually run (& fail) in the real world.

For developers, Claude is an incredible accelerator. For non-programmers, it can feel magical at first, but at some point, real engineering knowledge becomes unavoidable.

This is something I ll find out in just a short while, one week from now (Jan 28), as I m about to re-launch a digital detox app. If you want, follow, maybe you will be on watch of my steps and activities

However, that s not the main point of this post.

As Techcrunch mentioned... OpenAI will start testing targeted ads in ChatGPT for free, and $8/month Go users in the U.S., while higher-tier subscriptions remain ad-free.

Ads will appear at the bottom of conversations, can be dismissed, and won t influence ChatGPT s answers or involve selling user data. The move aims to generate revenue while keeping free access, and may also encourage some users to upgrade to paid tiers.

Many people who want to achieve the Product of the Day badge prefer to schedule their product for a less busy day (aka, when there is less competition), but also less site traffic and product testing.

You may lose a little promotional opportunity this way.

$300 MRR is actually surprisingly hard to reach if you don't have an existing distribution built. It took me 6 (quite difficult) months to get here.

Here's how I did it:

I've been contributing to discussions every single day for over 3 years now, and sometimes it's really hard.

One day, I have a great time coming up with topics, and then there are those days when I just stare at the screen and can't type. But I always manage to find a way.

In a notable shift in the AI landscape, Apple and Google have announced a multi-year collaboration under which Apple s next generation of Apple Foundation Models will be based on Google s Gemini models and cloud technology.

According to the joint statement, these models will help power upcoming Apple Intelligence features, including a more personalized Siri, expected later this year.

Whenever I browse product launches, I somehow subconsciously judge not only the product itself and its quality, but also the quality that is reflected in the effort the makers put into preparing it.

It may sound insignificant, but in my case, these things also make a significant difference:

• Icon GIF at the launch it enlivens the overall impression and is dynamic

• Quality graphics and video

• First, a properly filled-out comment

• Photos in the makers' profiles (it's less trustworthy for me when there's only the letter "J" or something similar)

• Whether any of my contacts or acquaintances on the platform reacted to the launch

We often see launch posts, milestones, and success stories.
What we don t see as much are honest breakdowns of products that quietly stalled or failed.

I feel there s a lot of learning hidden there about timing, assumptions, and trade-offs.

Hello,

I ve been working on a passion project I called Sapling (use.sapling.mobi) on and off since 2016.

I have spent the last 12 months improving it because I kept seeing small charities lose huge chunks of their donations to complex platforms that take high fees or guilt-trip donors into "tipping" the software. It felt wrong, so I decided to build a cleaner, simpler alternative.

Today, I read in the news that OpenAI is considering "expanding its data footprint" and possibly buying Pinterest, as there is a lot of data on it just for the sake of users finding inspiration (which can be key for purchase decision making and understanding personas Pinterest has 600M+ users).

I also take into account how Pinterest started to resent the proliferation of AI content there users do not like it so much (as far as I know, OpenAI also wants to have its own social network, and Sora curation is a bit reminiscent of that)

Yesterday, I came across a job posting from a specific SF company that offered Yesterday I came across a job posting from a specific SF company that offered a salary of 250k 1M (including equity), but realistically, I don't think they have that money; they're just grinding to satisfy investors and succumb to too much hustle culture.

Requirement: be available on-site from 9 AM to 9 PM 6 days a week in the office (and I bet even Sunday would be dedicated to meeting some team members in "free time"). In addition, they were willing to hire those who would relocate to SF.

Maybe this post will help makers understand how much people are willing to spend, what products are useful to them, and what the main motive for buying is.

I personally try to keep track of how much and what I spend. Before I invest in something, I consider:

• what will be the return on it (i.e. whether I will earn something by buying/investing in a product),

• whether it will be profitable for me in the long term,

• whether it will save me time.

Hi Product Hunt!

I m Matt, founder of ClickBid and now Sapling a free fundraising platform built specifically for small or brand-new nonprofits (especially 501(c)(3)s with no staff).

I started ClickBid 23 years ago as a freelance gig and have worked with thousands of charities across the world. I've learned that tech provides opportunity but success is helping charities feel comfortable and supported when using it.

With AI, it seems to be everything possible:

Everybody is a builder, maker, marketer, founder, (vibe)coder/developer.