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Prefactor ("Evaluate your AI Agents in real-time", 280 votes) and Cekura ("The self-improvement loop for voice agents", 202 votes) took the top slots. Viktor.com ("An AI coworker that actually does the work") pulled 666 votes, more than anything else on the board, and ranked #10. Twenty-four hours after a board full of AI-native SaaS replacements, the top flipped to the tooling that keeps those replacements from silently failing. (Product Hunt)
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On Latent Space July 28, OpenAI core product engineering lead Akshay Nathan said Codex and ChatGPT Work combined reached 10 million users within two weeks of the July 9 launch, with monthly actives up more than 10x since January 2026. The number that should reframe your produc...
July 22's board is plumbing, not apps: Kastra (199 votes) sells runtime authorization for Claude, Cursor, Codex, and OpenClaw with policy enforcement against prompt injection and unauthorized tool calls, while box (183 votes) sells Ubuntu VMs with SSH for agents at $0.036/hr (...
HubSpot beat Q2 revenue at $912M, up 20%. Beat EPS at $3.26 against $3.02 expected. Its Data Agent is at 16,000 customers, up 80% quarter over quarter. Its Customer Agent resolves 72% of tickets without escalation. The stock had its largest one-day drop in 12 years on the NYSE...
Block launched Buzz on July 21. Free desktop app for macOS, Windows, Linux. Built on the Nostr protocol with cryptographic identities. Dorsey described it as "model-agnostic, decentralised, self-sovereign and open source," created explicitly "to reduce our dependency on slack...
Zendesk made Forethought AI agents a paid add-on for autonomous resolution plus predictive routing. That mirrors Salesforce's $2 Help Agent and Intercom's Fin. The category is shifting off seats and onto per-resolution pricing across the board. If you sell support tooling, the...
HubSpot: $0.50 per resolved conversation, $1 per qualified lead (launching April 14). Zendesk: $1.50-$2.00 per automated resolution. Intercom: $0.99 per resolution. Three of the top five CRM/support platforms independently converged on resolution-based pricing in the same quar...
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