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Product Hunt 4 weeks ago 3
Lead Sparker launched an Oriane API that monitors Instagram and TikTok to capture untagged mentions, earned reach, competitor playbooks, and live trends for lead generation. The tool is offered free, with no signup required. Users can generate a brand-colored deck with their CTA and send it as a PDF based on what the API finds.
Fortune 18
Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke said employees are using AI to produce unreviewed “slop grenades” that shift extra review work onto others. The survey cited estimates workslop revision costs 3.4 hours per month on average. The focus is shifting from AI as default to tighter review and more careful use to prevent low-quality outputs from reaching coworkers.
Product Hunt 4 weeks ago 9
Polishory launched as a tool that reviews a public website URL on desktop and mobile and returns design feedback without requiring code changes. It launched today. The result is new score-and-recommendation testing for layout, typography, and spacing based on screenshot-backed notes.
Product Hunt 4 weeks ago 7
AI Class by Kanary launched an RPG-style class generator that reads a user’s Codex and Claude Code logs. It analyzes 30 days of real activity to assign one of 16 classes using six work stats. The tool aggregates logs locally, sends only totals, and lets users paste one prompt into their agent for a free, no-install card.
Product Hunt 4 weeks ago 20
SmartCheck launches as a photo-based counting tool that estimates materials, parts, products, and crops by detecting similar objects from examples.
Product Hunt 4 weeks ago 45
TypeDash lets users control their desktop and dictate actions by voice, including opening apps, searching the web and YouTube, finding files, and running voice shortcuts. The page lists 11 followers for the launch. Speech recognition runs locally with an optional “ChatGPT Cleanup” feature.
The New Stack 4 weeks ago 44 ● 7 sources
AI coding tools are keeping many developers working longer and self-reporting dependence-like behavior, and managers are reinforcing it by rewarding the heaviest users. The report surveyed over 300 developers who use AI at least once a week, and 43% stayed until home time but couldn’t stop using AI. As a result, breaks, meals, and bedtime get delayed, code is shipped that developers don’t fully understand, and other developers feel pressure to mimic the rewarded “hustle” pattern.
Tech.eu 4 weeks ago 33 ● 2 sources
Magentic raised $18 million in Series A funding to build AI agents that automate industrial procurement and operations as multi-agent digital workers. The round was led by Felicis and includes existing investors Sequoia Capital and The Westly Group. The company will use the funding to accelerate its AI agents, expand into more procurement and supply-chain workflows, and fund research on AI that can handle complex optimization problems.
posthog.com 4 weeks ago 34
PostHog’s self-driving team describes internal “loops” that turn agent and user feedback into triage reports and automatically opened pull requests. One example shows an MCP tool missing_tool complaint leading to PR #90832 being opened 8 minutes later and merged on 17:27, then landing in production by 18:56 on August 28 (AI-related engineering). These loops change how work is done by shifting detection, dedupe, and root-cause work away from humans while letting engineers review, steer, and ensure the fixes actually hold.
Product Hunt 4 weeks ago 46
PostSider launched as a social media publishing platform for humans and AI agents that can schedule and publish content across 30+ platforms from one place. It lets users connect Claude, Codex, Cursor, or their own agent via MCP, REST API, or an SDK. The workflow shifts from juggling multiple tools to using a single calendar plus analytics, teams, approvals, and automation in one system.
The Verge 4 weeks ago 38
Lunacy launched Nova, a platform for building AI-powered music plugins and selling them to other creators. It started with 10 available plugins. It will later add Nova Builder so anyone can create their own plugins or remix existing ones.
Product Hunt 4 weeks ago 24
Proto-Mind launches as a Mac app that brings AI chats, websites, and documents into one workspace. It is listed with 13 followers on launch day. It adds parallel task running, model/account selection per chat, and voice control with editable long-term memory.
Tech.eu 1 month ago 27
Nearby Computing secured a €680,000 investment from SETT to scale its NearbyOne cloud-to-edge orchestration control plane. The funding is part of a €1.4 million financing operation. It will be used to grow the company and expand NearbyOne’s single-platform management, policy automation, and edge resilience across distributed environments and AI stacks.
Product Hunt 1 month ago 4
Ringo is presented as a Slack app that proactively identifies tasks, suggests solutions, and automates workflows. It is listed under “AI Workflow Automation” among Slack launches. As a result, teams can use it to coordinate work and run parts of their processes inside Slack rather than manually managing requests.
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17 October 2026
Microsoft used today’s announcement to zoom in on what matters in scaling: not just raw capability, but the plumbing behind it. The company revealed MAI-Base-2, a 2T-parameter base model designed to be converted into full LLMs with additional training. Per Microsoft, only 80B parameters activate per prompt, and the training run ate 50T tokens over 38 days using 16,000 Nvidia GB200 GPUs. The headline claim: MAI-Base-2 is up to 12× more hardware-efficient than its predecessors, a metric that will matter to anyone trying to keep inference costs from swallowing margin.
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