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Launch triage

Ship-today, beta, or vaporware — every launch labeled by what you can actually use now.

5-minute briefs

What it does, who it's for, what it costs, one honest concern. Done.

Worth-your-credits verdicts

The only question that matters: should you spend time on this one?

Launch hunts & briefs

What shipped, triaged.

Analysis

Product Hunt vs Hacker News vs BetaList vs Indie Hackers: Where to Actually Launch an AI Tool in 2026

Four platforms, four audiences, four different rules for what gets rewarded. What each one wants, what it costs, and the order that actually works.

2026-07-16 · 9 min read
Analysis

Product Hunt vs There's An AI For That vs Futurepedia: Where to Actually Find New AI Tools

A launch stage, a task search engine and a curated catalog walk into your bookmarks bar. What each one actually surfaces, what each misses, and how to run all three.

2026-07-09 · 7 min read
Roundups

The AI Launches That Mattered in June 2026

A category-level look at June 2026's AI launch activity — what actually moved in agents, video, coding, and voice, and which patterns separate signal from launch theater.

2026-07-02 · 5 min read
Analysis

Waitlist Culture: Why AI Tools Launch Before They Exist

Why the AI industry launches landing pages instead of products, what a waitlist actually signals, and a decoder table for telling capacity constraints from vaporware.

2026-06-28 · 5 min read
Frameworks

7 Red Flags in AI Product Launches (Learned the Hard Way)

Waitlist theater, cherry-picked demos, GPT-wrapper tells, hidden pricing — seven launch red flags collected from a year of evaluating AI tools, with the fast checks for each.

2026-06-25 · 6 min read
Frameworks

How to Evaluate an AI Tool Launch in 10 Minutes

A fast triage framework for sorting new AI tools into ship-today, beta-in-disguise, and vaporware — plus the red flags that save you from wasting a signup.

2026-06-22 · 6 min read

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