We re officially in nominees season for the Orbit Awards: AI Workflow Automation.

We're blown away by the support, engagement, and thoughtful questions from this community. Hitting #1 and getting featured in the PH Daily newsletter to 1M+ subscribers - none of that happens without you.

We've read every comment and wanted to highlight some of the feedback that's shaping our roadmap:

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Since I haven't been able to meet my work goals very well in the last few quarters, I now plan to approach them more systematically and not push myself too hard on work goals, as that ultimately led to problems that made my plan less sustainable.

So here is my structure and list:

Trace tends to show up where workflows get complex. The parts of work that involve reasoning, coordination, and follow ups instead of simple triggers.

If you are using Trace, we want to hear how. What kind of workflow is it handling for you? What problem finally felt manageable once Trace was in the mix?

It's a year since the last Pagecord launch on Product Hunt and, wow, a lot has changed!

I'm going to launch the latest version next week. I'd love your support!

Wordware tends to appeal to people who want more control over how AI logic flows through their work. Less magic, more intention.

If Wordware is something you rely on, share how you are using it. What workflow did you build that felt worth keeping?

Airtop often shows up when workflows need to interact with real interfaces, not just APIs. The kind of automation that feels closer to how humans actually work.

If Airtop is doing real work for you, tell us what that looks like. What task did it finally take off your plate?

Gumloop often replaces the custom but fragile scripts people were maintaining themselves. It gives structure to workflows that used to live half in code and half in someone s head.

If you are using Gumloop, share what it is doing for you now. What workflow did you finally stop babysitting?

Lindy usually earns its place by handling the kind of work that is repetitive, interrupt driven, and easy to forget. The stuff that eats time quietly.

If Lindy is part of your workflow, tell us how. What does it handle for you automatically? What do you no longer have to remember?

Relay shows up when workflows start to feel brittle and you want something more intentional than a chain of rules. It is often about coordination, not just automation.

If Relay is part of how your work moves forward, tell us what it is responsible for. What does it orchestrate? What used to fall through the cracks?

Yesterday, I had an unpleasant experience. For a few minutes, I lost my LinkedIn community of several thousand people (TL;DR: I was falsely accused of using suspicious software).

Fortunately, I got my account back but it was a strong reminder that we don t own platforms, nor our profiles on them.

I spend most of my time on these two things:
1) observing products on the main page and upvoting/commenting on them

2) talking with people within comments under my forums

The second one is the one where I notice some things that I lack and see possible improvements, namely:

Every feed today claims to be better curated or more relevant.
But most of them still measure success by how long you stay.

I ve caught myself opening Twitter or YouTube to check one specific thing, then resurfacing 30 45 minutes later,

wondering where the time went.

Curious how this plays out for others here.
When you open a feed for a quick check, how long do you actually stay?
And does it usually feel worth it after?

A tagline is the first piece of content a user will see about your product on the leaderboard. It's so important that you get it right. You should be able to get a really solid idea of what your product is just by reading a handful of words.

In the spirit of forever optimising our taglines, I wanted to do a little experiment:

A short one today, but packed with milestones:

We just hit 350,000 prompts improved, 25,000 users, and launched 5 new Quality-of-Life updates:

1. The lack of a service that creates hyper-personalized, gamified English courses (in the Duolingo format) for narrow professional niches (e.g., for a barista in a vegan coffee shop or a startup founder.

2. Automating cross-posting of an indie hacker's technical content across multiple platforms (Twitter, LinkedIn, Product Hunt) while adhering to each platform's best practices.

Hi all - I've built @Mnexium AI and I thought the fastest way to get folks to try was it to build a chat plug-in for websites. I am providing free keys (however much usage it may be) to anyone who is willing to try it.

The plug-in can be found on NPM https://www.npmjs.com/package/@m...

npm install @mnexium/chat

GitScrum was built by engineers who got tired of pretending this was sustainable.

Dark Mode Isn't a Theme, It's a Philosophy

Fifty-four IDE color schemes. Dracula, Nord, Tokyo Night, Catppuccin, Monokai Pro. Not because it's trendy, but because developers are viscerally attached to their environments. Switching from VSCode to a project management tool shouldn't feel like stepping into fluorescent-lit corporate purgatory.

This debate often gets framed as Should researchers use AI for literature reviews?

I think the real question is different.

Is it ethical to spend hundreds of researcher hours on mechanical work when that time could be spent advancing actual knowledge?

Think about a researcher spending an entire weekend searching papers, skimming irrelevant abstracts, copying citations, and fixing references. That s not insight or discovery. That s overhead.

One of the coolest parts of my job is getting a front-row seat to how @marianaprazeres thinks about AI.
Memory feels table stakes in AI right now. But for @Meet-Ting, it s not just a log of the past - it s a living system that shapes how people schedule, work, and want to spend their week.
It s not just logistics - it s patterns around energy, priorities, and relationships over time.

Here are a few things we learned while designing and testing agent memory in production:

For teams using Taskade, it often becomes the place where planning turns into action. Tasks, automations, and AI features all living in the same loop instead of scattered across tools.

If Taskade is part of how you run work, tell us how. What workflow did you set up that stuck? What changed once it was in place?

For a lot of people, Zapier is the quiet backbone. The thing connecting tools you do not want to think about connecting yourself.

If Zapier has been doing invisible work for you, this is the moment to surface it. What automations are still running months later? What would be annoying to rebuild from scratch?

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.

Hey everyone,

After launching Intrascope and finishing Top 10 Product of the Day, we wanted to open a quick discussion.

The biggest takeaway for us wasn t the ranking, but the conversations. We talked to teams who are already using AI daily and are struggling with scattered tools, separate API keys, lost context, and costs growing without visibility.

That s exactly why we built Intrascope: a shared AI workspace where teams bring their own API keys, work with shared context and Manifests, and keep usage and costs predictable.