car auction buyers are smart with money but most still track everything in spreadsheets or notebooks. they check vin history on one site, estimate repairs in their head, compare prices manually. takes time and easy to miss something.

i built topfuel auto to help with that. ai checks the photos for damage, decodes the vin, estimates repair costs. all in one place so they can make faster decisions and catch problems before bidding.

anyone else building tools to upgrade how a specific industry works? curious how you got your first users to change their habits.

Over the past few days, I ve been trying to understand what helped the most successful launches stand out.

In general, here s what I noticed they tend to share:

• Their Product Hunt page had at least 500 followers.

• The product was in overall good condition (I mean, already had some level of reputation, really good marketing).

• Many were hunted by well-established, well-known hunters on the platform.

• Every comment received a response.

• The visuals were strong there was almost always a video or demo featured at the beginning of the carousel.

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?