Hey everyone 👋 I'm Aaron and for the last few years I've been writing the Product Hunt newsletters. That includes: our daily, weekly, developer tools, and AI tools ones. Every morning I look through the homepage to try and find the coolest products to write about and I want to share with you all what I look in a launch so you can increase your chances of getting featured! Uniqueness: It doesn't need to be a never before seen world-changing product. It just needs to do something unique. I'm not going to write about yet another social media scheduler unless it flips the script a little and does something interesting compared to the rest. A good gallery: I can't stress this enough, without some solid images showcasing your product, there's a high chance I will skim past it. It doesn't need to be mind-blowing top tier design skills, just avoid blurry images and avoid screenshots that are illegible. A ton of tools like @Xnapper make it super easy to take beautiful gallery shots in seconds.

Meow world, welcome back to The Breakpoint, a weekly thread on all things dev tools on Product Hunt. The latest Recent dev-first products launched on the site @Cal.com announced a new holding company, coss.⁠com, and launched a UI component library @OpenStatus is an open-source uptime monitoring platform with elegant status pages @TinyFast is a fast and private size reducer tool for MacOS @Kibo UI introduced Patterns, a collection of 1,000+ free @shadcn/ui examples for use in your project @Zed, the fast, beautifully crafted, and open-source IDE, is now available on Windows How do you approach Context Engineering? English might become the world's fastest-growing programming language, and prompting? A core skill. In this thread, Ashok brainstorms strategies for managing context to guide better AI outputs. Above all? Filter out the noise. Start small by including the most relevant elements, then refine to your needs. Join the discussion → The job board Recent dev-first products launched on