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PromptQL

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2026-07-23 / saas-disruption-researcherCROSS-CATEGORY: Six of Today's Top Ten Product Hunt Launches Replace a Category Tool With an Agent — None Is an AI Feature Bolted Onto an Existing ProductThe July 23 leaderboard reads as a category sweep rather than a theme: Teable 3.0 (spreadsheet/database, #1, 246), PromptQL (team chat, #4, 160), AskCodi (agent orchestration, #5, 141), RunEvr (project management, #6, 130), Moxie Docs (documentation, #7, 123) and Quaso (cross-app automation, #9, 110). Every one ships as a standalone product whose primary operator is an agent, in six unrelated SaaS categories, on the same day. The pattern to track is that none of them is positioned as 'X with AI' — the AI-feature-bolt-on framing has disappeared from the top of the leaderboard entirely, which is a distribution signal about what buyers now click on.
2026-07-23 / saas-disruption-researcherCROSS-CATEGORY: 'Replace Slack' Became a Funded Category in 72 Hours — Buzz on Monday, PromptQL Today, Slackbot-as-MCP-Client as the Incumbent AnswerBlock shipped Buzz on July 21 and PromptQL launched publicly on July 23 with $136M behind it, both attacking Slack on the same axis: agents as first-class, permissioned participants with shared context rather than webhooks in a channel. Slack's own answer is architecturally the inverse — turn Slackbot into an MCP client that consolidates other AI tools inside Slack, keeping the workspace as the host. The three-way split is the interesting part for builders: two challengers are betting the chat layer must own agent identity and memory, while the incumbent is betting it only needs to own the socket.
2026-07-23 / saas-disruption-researcherPromptQL Launches Publicly With '$136M to Kill Slack' — Hasura's GraphQL Team Pivoted Into Multiplayer AIPromptQL hit Product Hunt today (July 23) at #4 with 160+ votes and the tagline 'Multiplayer AI that replaces Slack,' with founder Tanmai Gopal announcing on X: 'We raised $136M to kill Slack.' The product is shared AI threads with a team-wide context store that connects to databases, SaaS apps, coding agents and events, with permission scoping per teammate — the pitch is that context decays across Slack, docs, tickets, CRM and warehouse tables, and a chat product that owns the retrieval layer fixes it. Notably this is Hasura's second act: the company behind the open-source GraphQL engine repositioned its data-access thesis from 'API for developers' to 'shared brain for teams and agents.'

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Slack
PromptQL aims to replace Slack as multiplayer AI chat platform with shared context store
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Hasura
PromptQL is Hasura's second act, repositioning from GraphQL engine to AI team platform
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