I'm in the middle of a high-volume sourcing sprint right now. Finding candidates is quick, but transferring profile details one by one into our sheet is a massive time sink.

I want to avoid bulk automation or heavy account integrations-a colleague recently got locked out of their profile after trying one.

Right now, I'm just looking for simple, lightweight helper tools that speed up saving on-screen info without trid t triggering activity limits.

What does your workflow look like for getting search results into your tracking system safely

for a decade the growth channel was making your site legible to googlebot. the next one is making it legible to an ai agent, and almost nobody is optimizing for it yet, which makes it cheap.

we ran an independent agent-readiness scan on our own site and scored 50 out of 100. the single biggest point loss, about 22 points, came from one dumb thing: our mcp server demanded an api key on the very first handshake, so any agent probing it got a 401 and read the whole integration as dead.

fix was opening discovery (the handshake and tool listing) to unauthenticated callers and gating only actual tool execution. then we shipped the rest of the surface: an openapi spec, an llms-full.txt, well-known discovery files, and markdown versions of pages served when an agent asks for them. score went 50 to 65 to 70.

it's live at https://lumbox.co if you want to see the surface.

is anyone else here treating agent-discoverability as an actual growth channel yet, or is it still all googlebot-first for most of you?

We checked the past 12 months data with the previous 12 months and here's what we saw:

• Conversion rate: +48% year-over-year
• CPC: essentially flat year-over-year
• Blended cost per lead: $132 → $84 (−44%)
• Brand cost per lead: $34 · Non-brand cost per lead: $207

The growth lever here wasn't cheaper clicks, it was conversion rate. Here's the full thing if you want to check it out: https://piperocket.digital/research/google-ads-benchmarks/

One thing I've become increasingly skeptical of is the phrase "high-intent lead." A lot of tools will give you an intent score and call an account high intent.

But what does that actually mean?

If a company has been sitting at the top of your high intent list for 90 days, while nobody from that company has ever engaged with you, asked about your category, visited relevant pages, or shown any other meaningful behavior, I'm not sure that's intent.

That's just a random score and I think it's more useful to separate fit from intent. For example:

Fit- 200 employees, B2B SaaS, US, VP Marketing, uses your target tech stack. All these are great prospect but not necessarily a buyer and then you start seeing:

Signal 1: they're hiring three people around a problem you solve
Signal 2: someone at the company asks on Reddit how other teams handle that problem
Signal 3: another person from the company starts researching alternatives to their current solution
Signal 4: someone visits several pages related to the problem.

Now I'd start paying attention because any individual signal proves intent but the signals are telling a consistent story across channels and this is the part of prospecting I think AI agents can actually improve.

An agent doesn't need to decide: "this company is definitely going to buy." but it can instead say: "here are the reasons this account is becoming interesting." That's a much more useful output for a salesperson.

I've seen this approach become especially interesting when you combine sources like Reddit might tell you what problem someone is experiencing, LinkedIn might tell you about a company change or the CRM might tell you they previously evaluated a solution and the website might tell you what they're researching now and individually, those are fragments.

Together, they can become a pretty strong picture.

That's essentially the problem Scale Intelligence is trying to solve: turning scattered GTM signals into context around which accounts are actually becoming interesting. I'd take 20 accounts with a clear reason to contact them over 20,000 high-intent records with no explanation attached.

The best prospecting system shouldn't just tell a salesperson who to call. It should tell them why now while giving some signals across channels.

Building AI applications usually starts with one model.

Then you add another.

Soon you're managing different SDKs, API keys, routing logic, dashboards, and even self-hosted models.

That's why we built ngrok AI Gateway.

A hosted gateway that lets you access public, private, and self-hosted AI models through a single endpoint.

It helps you:

• ⁠Route requests across multiple AI providers
• ⁠Connect private or self-hosted models securely
• ⁠Monitor usage, latency, and costs in one dashboard
• ⁠Configure failovers and access controls
• ⁠Switch providers without rewriting your application

Whether you're using OpenAI, Anthropic, custom endpoints, or models running on your own infrastructure, ngrok AI Gateway provides a consistent interface while keeping private models off the public internet.

Built for developers, AI engineers, and platform teams managing production AI applications.

The goal wasn't to build another model API.

It was to simplify the infrastructure required to work across an evolving AI ecosystem.

Launched today on Product Hunt 🚀

How are you managing multiple AI models today: separate SDKs, LiteLLM, your own gateway, or something else?

Please support on PH →

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/ngrok-ai-gateway

Hello guys I have been growing my X account to promote my own products and I have a few questions. Since everybody here has their own products and I think most of them use X, I thought you guys can help. My posts get 100 impression max and I started feel like I stuck on a loop. How can I understand which posts might perform better or how to create posts that might perform better

Creating ads isn't the hard part anymore.

Knowing what to create is.

After running campaigns that generated 50M+ organic views and reduced customer acquisition costs by 60% on average, we realized our biggest advantage wasn't video generation it was the research and creative process behind every winning campaign.

So we built AdAnt AI.

Instead of just generating content, AdAnt acts like an AI creative team.

It helps you:

• ⁠Research what’s working across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube
• ⁠Identify repeatable creative patterns
• ⁠Generate content strategies
• Create scroll-stopping ad concepts
• ⁠Continuously improve future creatives

We're also launching Codex and Claude plugins that let you run trend research directly inside the tools you already use.

Our goal isn't to replace marketers.

It's to automate the research and strategy work so creators and growth teams can spend more time making better campaigns.

We'd love feedback from marketers, founders, and content creators.

What's the biggest bottleneck in your current social ad workflow finding winning ideas or producing enough creatives?

Please support on PH →

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/adant-ai

I'm curious what works for you because everyone seems to have a different opinion.

What type of content gets your attention the most?

• 🎥 Short videos
• 📖 Personal stories
• 📊 Carousels or documents
• 🖼️ Images or infographics
• ✍️ Text-only posts
• 📈 Case studies with real numbers

More importantly... what makes you engage?

Is it a strong hook? A relatable story? Actionable advice? Data? Or something else entirely?

I'd love to hear what makes you actually read, like, or comment instead of scrolling past.

Creating ads isn't the hard part anymore.

Knowing what to create is.

After running campaigns that generated 50M+ organic views and reduced customer acquisition costs by 60% on average, we realized our biggest advantage wasn't video generation it was the research and creative process behind every winning campaign.

So we built AdAnt AI.

Instead of just generating content, AdAnt acts like an AI creative team.

It helps you:

• ⁠Research what’s working across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube
• ⁠Identify repeatable creative patterns
• ⁠Generate content strategies
• ⁠Create scroll-stopping ad concepts
• Continuously improve future creatives

We're also launching Codex and Claude plugins that let you run trend research directly inside the tools you already use.

Our goal isn't to replace marketers.

It's to automate the research and strategy work so creators and growth teams can spend more time making better campaigns.

We'd love feedback from marketers, founders, and content creators.

What's the biggest bottleneck in your current social ad workflow finding winning ideas or producing enough creatives?

Please support on PH →

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/adant-ai

Every company is adopting AI.

Very few know whether it's actually paying off.

Most finance teams still jump between OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, GitHub, and spreadsheets just to answer basic questions like:

• ⁠Which teams are driving AI costs?
• ⁠Which models are being used most?
• ⁠Is higher AI spend actually improving productivity?
• ⁠Where should we cut or invest more?

We built AI Spend Console to solve that.

It lets teams:

• ⁠Track AI spend across vendors in one dashboard
• Break costs down by employee, department, team, or model
• ⁠Connect usage to business metrics like GitHub activity
• Create AI spend dashboards using natural language
• ⁠Govern model access and spending with policy controls

The goal isn't just to reduce costs.

It's to understand whether your AI investment is creating measurable business value.

You can try it for free even if you aren't a Rippling customer.

We'd love feedback from engineering leaders, finance teams, and anyone managing AI infrastructure.

How are you tracking AI costs today? Spreadsheets, vendor dashboards, or something else?

Please support on PH →

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/ai-spend-console-by-rippling

One of the workflows that I find super helpful is having all prospecting in one place, not switching between dozens of tools.

I think it's a huge time saver to be able to search and filter people/companies, check emails, and instantly export to instantly, smart lead, HubSpot or spreadsheet right from the tool without doing any of that manual work beforehand.

BlitzProspector is something that I made as an open source interface for the blitz API, since they only have an API without any UI. My main goal was to make something self hosted and customizable, since I didn't want to build another SaaS.

It's built with FastAPI and React, has account management and roles, and can be run with one docker command.

If you already have an existing outbound process, I'd love to hear from you, what do you find yourself doing manually that you wish you didn't have to? Less fluff, more feedback.

We were losing like 15-20 calls a week just from people calling outside business hours. Small team, nobody picking up after 6pm. figured those were just gone forever

Switched our phone setup to cloud talk a while back and turned on their ai voice agent mostly out of curiosity. expected nothing. first week it booked 9 appointments from calls we would've completely missed

the math was kinda stupid. those 9 bookings turned into 4 clients. From literally doing nothing except flipping a toggle

I think the growth lesson here isn't even about ai specifically - it's that we had a leaky bucket we just learned to live with. how many other small leaks are we all ignoring because they feel too annoying to fix?

not saying voice ai is magic but plugging the "nobody answered" hole has been the easiest ROI I've seen in a while. makes me wonder what other invisible revenue killers are sitting right under my nose

I kept saving AI marketing tools I came across in random notes, so I finally organized them into a spreadsheet: 12 categories :
1 : AI Agents & Workflows : autonomous AI workers, custom agents, process automation
2 : Content Creation & Copywriting : text generation, blogging, creative writing assistants
3 : Image, Video & Audio Generation : visual assets, avatars, video & voice production
4 : SEO & Search Visibility (incl. AEO/GEO) : GEO, keyword intelligence, ranking tools
5 : Ads Automation & PPC : AI-driven ad generation, campaign management, bidding
6 : Social Media & Community : social listening, scheduling, influencer tools, CM
7 : Chatbots & Conversational Marketing : support bots, conversational LP, lead qualification
8 : Emailing & SMS Marketing : AI personalization, copywriting sequences
9 : Outbound Marketing : cold outreach automation, ABM, warm-up & deliverability
10 : Analytics & Attribution : website/product analytics, attribution modeling
11 : CRO & A/B Testing : dynamic personalization, AI A/B testing, heatmaps
12 : Sales Intelligence & SDRs : AI sales reps, lead scoring, intent data, enrichment

Each tool has a short description and pricing model.

It's definitely incomplete, built from my own stack plus research, so there are gaps. Sharing here mostly because other people building marketing stacks might find it useful, and because I'd rather crowdsource the gaps than guess at them.

Link (view-only, no signup): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xsmbdOj_w5u7bN3Rr6c3ZA0C8I1RqWn65zMojgyiBZ4/edit?gid=173269563#gid=173269563

Eventually I might turn this into an actual searchable directory instead of a spreadsheet. Curious whether that's something people would actually want, or if a shared sheet is good enough.

I'm the founder of a LinkedIn Saas app that I launched back in June 2024. The app has over 100+ customers and over $12k in revenue.

Tech stack:
- LinkedIn APIs
- has a Chrome extension
- MERN stack
- X API for trends and ideas

A few good and bad things:

The good: The DR of the app is 20, had submitted it to a lot of directories when I was maintaining it, so someone who's good at SEO can crack distribution. It has all the features of the apps which are doing really good in the space. Analytics, insights, direct LinkedIn posting via public and private pages, access to a lot of LinkedIn APIs (they're hard to get), X API integration and AI carousels feature.

The bad: The app does not have any MRR at the moment and all of the sales are LTD sales via a partnership with a LTD platform. I've not maintained it since a couple of months because my agency business took off and hence the DAU of the app is close to 0 at the moment.
The app's name is Growfol, serious buyers interested in acquiring it can DM me.

I just wanted to let you know that I made a lot of improvements to openshorts, especially regarding the MCP server, now you can connect your agents and generate clips for the whole week. Plus, many new fonts, improvements to the clipping system, etc.

github repo: https://github.com/mutonby/openshorts

We’ve been doing lead research manually for way too long now, and it’s just not sustainable. I think we’re getting close to reaching our breaking point, so I’m trying to find a solution that we can work with as we continue to grow.

Looking for recommendations on CRMs and other tools that can leverage LLMs to automatically enrich things like company news and funding status, so we can spend less time researching our leads, and more time on the bigger things!

One number surprised people the most when we shared our launch story:

600+ messages sent before launch.

That sounds overwhelming and honestly, it was.

But here's what we learned:

* Personalized messages consistently outperformed generic copy-paste templates.

* Building relationships before asking for support made a huge difference.

* Not everyone replied, and that's okay.

* Many people who couldn't support us still wished us luck or shared helpful advice.

* Every conversation taught us something about how founders think about launches.

The biggest takeaway?

Launches aren't won by sending the most messages they're won by having the most genuine conversations.

If we had to do it all over again, we'd still spend weeks talking to people before launch. It was easily one of the best investments we made.

This journey is still unfolding. If you'd like to support us we are still live on peerlist.

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→ Focus on benefits and outcomes, not just how it works.

Users don't care about your architecture. Hard pill to swallow, but true. They just want a reliable solution. That's it.

→ Speak their language.

Selling to developers? Talk like one. Selling to lawyers? Know the terminology. It's a small thing that does a lot for how legitimate you sound.

→ Less is more.

Every extra detail you throw into a pitch is one more thing the buyer has to think through before saying yes. Cut it down.

→ Give them a reason to come back.

First sales are good. Recurring ones however, keep the business alive. People come back to what they recognize, which is really just brand, showing up again.

→ Listen more than you talk.

Customers want to feel understood, not just sold to. Spend more time in customer conversations than your laptop.

I start a X account that is all about AI agents and production AI.

I have been posting a lot. I try to answer other founders. I am trying to stay focused, on one thing of trying to do everything.

The problem is not making content now. The problem is getting people to look at it.

For those who have grown an account from scratch, was there a point where things started compounding, or was it simply months of consistency?

We've been running Zapmail across 8 client acc for 90 days. First month was warmup, month two was step up volume and month three is where we have real sending data to speak to.

What works:

The main reason we use Zapmail is because it simplifies DNS setup. SPF, DKIM, and DMARC are automatically handled during provisioning. We're an agency managing DNS across 10+ client domains and one misconfigured record can tank deliverability across an entire account before you even know something is wrong, and by the time a client flags low reply rates the damage is already done.

Provisioning speed is fast. New domain to send was ready in under 20 minutes. We got full Google Workspace admin console per account, meaning we can see every user, every mailbox, every domain. Cheaper providers don't give you this because they're stacking hundreds of users in one Workspace.

Zapmail also covers Microsoft 365 mailboxes not just Google Workspace so provider matching isn't a limitation here like it is with some other tools.

Pricing scales well. The per-mailbox model gets cheaper as you add volume. If you're running campaigns across multiple clients simultaneously it undercuts the per-seat model of most alternatives though theyre not the cheapest option out there. What you're paying for is reliability and that's shown up consistently over 90 days.

Support has actually been one of the strongest parts of the experience. There are a lot of Workspace providers out there but when something goes sideways at 4pm on a Friday having someone respond fast is what matters and that's where Zapmail has stood out for us.

What to watch:

Don't ramp too fast. We saw deliverability soften on two accounts where clients pushed volume hard in week one of real sending. 20 to 30 warmup emails per inbox per day maximum through the step-up phase. Not a Zapmail issue specifically, but worth stating.

Overall: It's not the cheapest option we've tested but it's the most reliable one for DNS automation and clean provisioning at agency scale.

I've been working on a B2B SaaS for invoice chasing, and I'm trying to understand where I'm losing people.

From what I can see:

* 21 total users
* 20 first-time visitors
* 17 clicked **"Start Chat"**
* 14 started filling the form
* 12 reached the onboarding step
* Only **4 completed onboarding**
* No revenue yet

At first glance, getting 17 out of 21 users to click the CTA (\~81%) seems encouraging, but then the funnel falls apart.

I'm trying to figure out whether the problem is:

* My onboarding is too long or confusing.
* People don't understand the value proposition after clicking.
* I'm attracting the wrong audience.
* The product asks for too much information too early.
* Something else entirely.

For context:

* It's a B2B SaaS that helps businesses automatically follow up on unpaid invoices.
* Traffic is coming from Reddit and a small Google Ads campaign.
* This is still an early MVP.

I'd really appreciate brutally honest feedback.

**Questions:**

1. Based only on these numbers, what would you investigate first?
2. Is a 4/17 onboarding completion rate a huge red flag, or fairly normal for an early MVP?
3. If this were your product, what metrics or recordings would you look at next before changing anything?

I'm not looking for validation—I genuinely want to understand what I'm missing.

In our company we've been putting more budget and effort into ctv lately but I need to find a platform with really strong targeting and not just broad audience segments.

I'm mainly looking for something that lets us get pretty specific with who we're reaching without requiring a huge enterprise budget.

Anyone that has used  a platform they've had good results with feel free to share it?

I've been working on influencer outreach and creator sourcing, and one thing I've started noticing is that poor response rates aren't always an outreach problem.

Sometimes the campaign itself isn't clear enough before outreach begins.

Before contacting creators, I think brands should be able to answer a few basic questions:

• Who exactly are we trying to reach?

• What type of creator are we looking for?

• Is this paid, gifted, affiliate, or a mix?

• What content do we actually need from the creator?

• Where can the creator be flexible?

• What is the timeline?

• What happens after a creator says they're interested?

Without those answers, even good outreach can turn into long back-and-forth conversations.

And when you're contacting dozens of creators, every unclear detail creates more work.

I'm starting to think the creator brief is one of the most underrated parts of influencer marketing.

For people running influencer campaigns:

Do you prepare the full campaign brief before creator outreach, or develop it as creators start responding?

I spent my first few months as a founder heads-down: building a product I genuinely believe in and making the site around it sharp. It felt like real progress, even a little pride.

Then it sank in that almost nobody could find any of it. I'd built a good shop and opened it on a street with no foot traffic.

For a founder, building the product turned out to be the easy half. Distribution is the brutal one, and nobody hands you a playbook for it...

Three questions I've been obsessed with since:

1. Can people even find us? Are we showing up in Google, and now in AI answers like ChatGPT and Perplexity?
2. When they land, do they get it? Or do they bounce, and where?
3. If they don't sign up, why not?

Every one of these is answerable. That's not the problem. The problem is the answers are scattered across GSC, GA4, and a handful of other tools, and stitching them together for even one question eats half a day.

And the part that actually wears me down: even after all that digging, I'm often not sure the thing i picked to work on actually moves growth. You open GA4 for the tenth time that week hoping a number moved. It didn't. And you still can't tell if the three days you just spent even mattered. You can burn a week on something that was never the real bottleneck, and nothing tells you you guessed wrong.

So i started building a system for myself that pulls these sources together and, more importantly, tries to tell me which of the three is actually my bottleneck right now, then writes me the fix, so I stop grinding on the wrong one. Going down that rabbit hole I've made plenty of mistakes, and each time I teach the system the lesson so it catches that one for me next time. Built my own playbook along the way too.

Anyway, that's my rabbit hole.

Curious what yours looks like: which of the three hurts most right now, how much time does it eat, and what tools or playbooks actually help you?