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A second record in a row with 1,292 upvotes on the week 41 board, Clarno on top with 39 from the free section, a new guide to 12 launch tactics you can automate with AI, our first long YouTube video on where to launch in 2026, and a Busabase setup guide. Week 23 on Nick Launches.
Read full articleA directory submission checklist for new product launches: define success first, pick directories that match your audience, prepare one listing kit, verify every live listing and measure what it brings.
Read full articleWhy founders look for a Product Hunt alternative, nine launch platforms compared on launch window, free tier, link type and monthly visitors, and how to pick the one that fits the product you are shipping.
Read full articleA record 1,219 upvotes on the week 40 board, Zinn Hub at #1 with 51 of them, a free 19-page SEO playbook, two new guides on Resources, and Nick Launches on six platforms. Week 22 on Nick Launches, plus what ten years of GitHub stars say about going solo.
Read full articleThe questions people already send to support, sales and reviews are a free content brief. Where to find them, how to triage them, and how to write the answer.
Read full articleOpus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol and Luna landed in the same 24 hours and both cut prices, Claude got a marketplace, open-weight models now run most tokens, and the week 39 board broke last week's tie with 917 upvotes. Week 21 on Nick Launches, plus what ten years of GitHub stars say about going solo.
Read full articleSeven years leading teams: 21,000 commits, one star. One year solo: 116 stars. What changed, and the 20 repos that made it into my daily stack.
Read full article204 products submitted, 103 live, 843 upvotes for the second week running, and the /tools/ workspace finally shipped with Site Audit free for everyone. Week 20 on Nick Launches, plus the waitlist for AI Visibility, Rankings and Auto Blogs.
Read full articleA practical checklist for judging startup directories in 2026: which ones pass real dofollow authority, which are dead pages, and why category match now matters for AI citations too.
Read full articleA practical playbook for indie founders: how to find the people already describing your problem on Reddit, in forums and in niche communities, and win your first 100 customers before you spend a dollar on ads.
Read full article227 products submitted, 97 live, 843 upvotes cast, and Mark Zschiegner shipped four launches in a single week, one of which won the board outright. Two free listings finished one vote off the top. Week 19 on Nick Launches, plus the Auto growth and distribution tools landing this week.
Read full article1,095 upvotes in a week for the first time, Dante ran away with the board on 29, Vectr4 beat every paid launch but one on a free listing, and all three Pro launches built for coding agents. Week 18 on Nick Launches, plus the launch post that did 121,460 impressions and a new account that did 150,721 on its first day.
Read full articleSubmissions climbed back to 245, GhostPrompter took 22 upvotes without paying for a slot, and last week's dollar-board builder returned with three launches including the $199 Ultimate. Week 17 on Nick Launches, plus the post that found Lyra its next 25 users.
Read full articleProduct Hunt concentrates every launch into one crowded day. NxGn Tools runs weekly launch cycles capped at 70 published tools, which changes what a founder without an audience has to do to be seen.
Read full articleSubmissions fell from 309 to 200 and upvotes still went up. Week 16 on Nick Launches, plus the two posts that broke every reach record on the account and what one line in a comment was worth.
Read full articleCompetitor research usually stops at features and pricing. Traffic and its sources tell you which products the market is actually rewarding, which small ones are moving, and what users are searching for before you write a line of code.
Read full articleThe AI ecosystem does not have a tool shortage. It has a discovery problem. Why search, social feeds and giant directories fail, and what better AI tool discovery actually looks like.
Read full articleSEO stopped being a campaign and became an operations job. What an automation workflow actually covers, from topic discovery to optimizing, where the human still has to decide, and a checklist for evaluating platforms that claim to run the loop.
Read full articleHow startup directories help SaaS products gain lasting visibility, relevant backlinks, referral traffic, search discovery and customer trust.
Read full articleThe featured board nearly doubled to 22 launches while total upvotes stayed flat, so a free listing on 16 votes finished ahead of eighteen of them. Week 15 on Nick Launches, plus an honest account of our Product Hunt day.
Read full articleYour launch got no signups. Four checks, in order, to work out whether nobody found it or nobody wanted it, and what to do about each.
Read full articleA guest post on what happens after launch day: writing every submission answer once, posting URLs you can measure, and checking which directory listings actually link back.
Read full articleWhat AI assistants extract from product pages, why they get small products wrong, and the steps that make any product readable by AI. From PeerPush's crawler data.
Read full articleWhere to launch your startup in 2026, compared honestly: four launch venues and one catalog that also measures whether anyone noticed. With current DR data and the do-follow conditions each one buries.
Read full articleA free launch outranked twelve of the thirteen featured. A pixel-art solar system took #2 on Product Hunt and its buyers ignored the pricing model it was built around. Week 14 on Nick Launches, plus 20% off everything until midnight.
Read full articleYour weekly roundup of fresh launches shaping how we work and build: the full 13-launch featured board led by Free AI Website Audit, the free weekly winners, 855 upvotes cast, the builders to watch, and three things that shipped on Nick Launches this week.
Read full articleA real walkthrough of auditing a site's AI visibility from the terminal: measuring mentions in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Mode over MCP, and acting on what came back.
Read full articleYour weekly roundup of fresh launches shaping how we work and build: the full 17-launch featured board led by FreeScan.app, the free weekly winners, 881 upvotes cast, the builders to watch, and everything new on Nick Launches this week.
Read full articleYour weekly roundup of fresh launches shaping how we work and build: the full 17-launch featured board led by BetterDB, the free weekly winners, 919 upvotes cast, and the builders to watch.
Read full articleWeek ten on Nick Launches: 819 live products, domain rating at 63, and the exact backlink playbook that got it there — plus three prospecting tools worth bookmarking.
Read full articleWeek nine on Nick Launches: a quieter launch week, 744 live products, and domain rating at 61. Fewer clicks came in, but the ones that did stayed. AI search sends less traffic and better traffic, and that split is the whole story.
Read full articleWeek eight on Nick Launches: 667 live products, domain rating at 60, and a timeline that kept circling one truth all week. Shipping got easy. Getting found is the job now, and nobody is teaching that part.
Read full articleWeek seven on Nick Launches: 79 launches, domain rating at 57, and a timeline that circled one gap all week. You can build something cool, even something needed, and still get zero users because nobody found it.
Read full articleWeek six on Nick Launches: 462 live products, 977 newsletter subscribers, and a timeline that spent the whole week on one question, how do you get a brand-new product found in 2026 with SEO and GEO together.
Read full articleWeek five on Nick Launches: 364 live products, 766 newsletter subscribers, and a timeline that spent the whole week arguing about one thing, when a product is actually ready to launch.
Read full articleWeek four on Nick Launches: a quieter directory week, traffic still compounding, and a timeline full of founders telling us where they're actually stuck, and what they shipped.
Read full articleWeek three on Nick Launches: the build came together (Launch Guides, a builder toolkit, a faster static site), and founders told us what really moves a launch.
Read full articleWeek two on Nick Launches: 158 live products, 253 signups, 223 newsletter subs, and 85 launches that went live this week.
Read full articleWe now do the manual directory submission grind for you. Add it to any launch, or attach it to a product you already shipped. 20% off with DIRECTORY20 through May 31.
Read full articleFirst week of Nick Launches: 76 live products, 138 signups, 128 newsletter subs, the Find Users tool, and a new self-host guide for Hermes Agent.
Read full articleA hands-on tour of 7 open-source AI agent frameworks: Agent Zero, OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, ZeroClaw, NanoClaw, Evolver, EvoAgentX. What each one does and when to pick it.
April 21, 2026 AI digest: Salesforce drops 'Headless 360' with no browser required, plus OpenAI scales Codex to enterprises and launches GPT-Rosalind for life sciences.
Read full articleApril 20, 2026 AI digest: Claude Opus 4.7's new tokenizer inflates tokens by 1.0x to 1.35x at the same price, llm-openrouter 0.6 ships a refresh command, and Datasette lands in Google Sheets.
Read full articleApril 19, 2026 AI news: KIMI K2.6 announced, Qwen 3.6 rivals Claude on M5 Max, Simon Willison diffs Claude system prompts, and ChatGPT diagnoses a rare disorder.
Read full articleApril 18, 2026 AI news: Qwen 3.6 takes over r/LocalLLaMA, GPT image generation 2 hits 1042 pts, OpenAI ships Codex for everything, and the danger of modern open source.
Read full articleApril 17, 2026 AI news: Claude requires ID + facial scan, OpenAI ships Codex for (almost) everything, GPT-Rosalind for life sciences, and ternary Bonsai at 1.58 bits.
Read full articleApril 16, 2026 AI news: Qwen3.6-35B-A3B drops, OpenAI evolves Agents SDK with Cloudflare, 1-bit Bonsai runs at 290MB, and a €54K Firebase billing nightmare.
Read full articleApril 15, 2026 AI news: Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview goes live, Meta signs $21B CoreWeave deal, Intel joins Musk's $25B Terafab, and the dev trust gap.
Read full articleSet up a fully local, private AI assistant on macOS using Ollama and open source models. No API keys, no subscriptions, no cloud required. Complete guide for developers.
Read full articleLearn how to use MiniMax M2 via API or run it locally with vLLM. Covers benchmarks, hardware requirements, tool calling, and agentic workflow tips.
Read full articleA basic guide to SEO for beginners. Learn how Google crawls, indexes, and ranks pages, plus a simple checklist you can follow to grow search traffic.
Set up Polar.sh payments in your Node.js backend with checkout sessions, webhook handling, and subscription management.
Read full articleCode Wiki turns any public repo into a continuously updated wiki with linked explanations, always-current diagrams, and a Gemini-powered chat grounded in your codebase. Here’s how to use it to onboard faster, refactor safer, and ship with AI.
Read full articleA developer-first walkthrough of GPT-5.2's launch: benchmark gains, long-context and vision upgrades, tool-calling reliability, pricing, and how to ship with the new API SKUs.
Read full articleDiscover HRM, a brain-inspired recurrent architecture that achieves exceptional algorithmic reasoning with only 27M parameters and 1,000 training examples. Perfect for Edge AI deployment.
Read full articleA practical overview of Raptor mini (Copilot preview model): what we know about context window, speed, and when it helps with multi-file edits.
Read full articleDiscover Cocoon, the Confidential Compute Open Network built on TON blockchain. Learn how developers can access low-cost, privacy-focused GPU compute for AI inference with full data encryption.
Read full articleA practical comparison of CrewAI, LangGraph, AutoGen, LangChain, and OpenAI Swarm, with notes on orchestration style, state handling, and when each one fits.
Read full articleAn overview of MAKER and Massively Decomposed Agentic Processes (MDAPs), including the million-step Towers of Hanoi result and what it suggests about agent reliability.
Read full articleHands-on tutorial: use GitHub's SpecKit with the Codex VS Code extension to scaffold, plan, and implement a local Flashcards app. Includes commands, slash-workflows, and a public repo structure.
Read full articleLearn how to resize images, convert formats (PNG to JPG, JPG to WEBP), and create PDFs directly from your terminal using Warp's AI Agent. No need for external image resizer tools or Photoshop.
Read full articleSolve the frustrating "Couldn't fetch sitemap" error in Google Search Console for Next.js. Complete guide with trailing slash fix, middleware configuration, and sitemap troubleshooting steps.
Read full articleLearn how to build AI agents with OpenAI's Agent Builder. Create a travel assistant using visual workflows, no coding required. Step-by-step tutorial with ChatGPT AgentKit.
Read full articleEncountering the 'AWSAmplifyDomainRole cannot be found' error? This guide provides a step-by-step solution, including how to recreate the role in AWS and prevent future issues.
Read full articleSix years on VS Code, one year with Cursor. 2025 comparison of AI chat, Edit mode, model choice (incl. OpenRouter), project onboarding, and pricing.
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