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AI changed the self-hosting equation. Customization: prompt instead of an engineering sprint. Maintenance: automated. Migration: handled. The "you can't manage it yourself" argument just stopped being true. #AgenticAI #SelfHosted #SaaSAlternatives #Automation #DigitalTransformation

I came back to code because AI made it possible for me to build at a level I couldn't before. I'm not coding despite being CEO of YC. I'm coding because this is the most important technological shift since the internet and I'd be an idiot to experience it from the bleachers. I'm 45, running the most important startup institution in the world, and I can ship production software at 2am. That's not a distraction from the job. That is the job understood correctly.

@r0ck3t23 Exactly why we exist 🙂

Mark Cuban just described the largest wealth transfer of the AI era. Almost nobody understood what he said. Cuban: “There are 33 million companies in this country. Aren’t going to have AI budgets. Aren’t going to have AI experts.” Not tech startups. The shoe store. The regional trucking outfit. The accounting firm with 12 employees. The businesses that actually run the physical economy. They know AI is coming. They have no idea what to do with it. Cuban: “You’ve got the head of Microsoft saying software is dead because everything’s going to be customized to your unique utilization.” Software is dead. The SaaS era ran on one rule. Build a generic product. Force millions of companies to bend their workflows around it. Charge rent forever. AI ends the contract. The business stops bending to the software. The intelligence bends to the business. But customized by whom. The third-generation manufacturer cannot tell Claude from Gemini. The county hospital is staring at a reactor asking where the light switch is. Cuban: “Who’s going to do it for them?” That question is worth more than the frontier models themselves. Hundreds of billions are being burned to build the foundation. The smartest engineers alive are locked in a bloodbath over who owns the base layer. Let them fight. Let them burn the capital. Let them drive the cost of raw intelligence toward zero. Because the wealth does not collect where the brain is built. It collects where the brain meets the business. Every ambitious kid in college right now thinks survival means a seat at OpenAI or Anthropic. Cuban is staring at the other 99 percent of the economy. Learn the models. Then learn the messy, unglamorous reality of how a 50-person company actually operates. Walk through the door. Understand their problems. Wire the intelligence directly into their revenue. That is not a job title. That is an entire economic class being born. You do not need to build the brain. You need to build the nervous system. The biggest winners of the electricity era were not the engineers who built the generators. They were the ones who walked into dark factories and showed the owners where to plug in. 33 million companies are standing in the dark right now. Silicon Valley is racing to build the god. The fortunes will belong to whoever teaches him a trade.

@EricSimons It’s a struggle to maintain vibecoded apps. TBH, it’s hard. But that's where @FoundingDev could be very useful. We're building an eco-system for all your vibecoded SaaS. Build your internal tools in accordance to best standards and don’t worry about maintaining.

2 major security breaches in the last 24h Both caused by companies whose SOC2 was approved by Delve In post-Mythos world, critically important to only buy from (and even sign up for free with) vendors that have trustworthy & stringent security

@DesignByMaeL @ProductHunt Thanks for the feedback it’s optional. The land on what they are used to “the dashboard” and then they can access mcp keys via the settings.

@FoundingDev @ProductHunt Re checked your flow feels like having both prompt + dashboard paths might make the first step slightly unclear for new users. Curious do people hesitate choosing where to start?

Onform by @FoundingDev is live on @ProductHunt today 🎉 Unlimited forms. Unlimited responses. MCP-native so you can build and manage everything directly from Claude Desktop in plain language — no dashboard needed. Form building finally feels like it's caught up with how we actually work now.😉 Would love your support today 🙏 Link 👇 #ProductHunt #BuildInPublic

#CyberSecurity #IncidentResponse #DataBreach #TechLeadership

Vercel had a security breach. Does your team know what to do if it happens to you? Most don't. No plan. No team. No playbook. An Incident Response Plan is the difference between a contained incident and a company-killing crisis. Here's what it is and how to build one 👇 founding.dev/blog/develop-i…

Before buying any software, ask: "What happens to our data if we stop paying?" If the answer makes you uncomfortable — that's useful information. The @FoundingDev model gives you access to your data from the get go. #SaaSAlternatives #DataOwnership #OpenSource #SelfHosted #DigitalTransformation

Your SaaS stack costs more than a car payment. Unlike the car — when you stop paying, you don't even get to keep the keys. $99,600/year for software you'll never own. There's a better model. #SaaS #B2B #BuildInPublic

We say a big thank you to everyone who supported us on @ProductHunt Launch day. From becoming no 7, to getting our first customer for Onform from the launch. We appreciate every bit of your support. #ProductHunt #Onform

In addition we got our first paying customer from @ProductHunt Launch today - 4 days after the launch. Our least prepared launch, moved from no 24 to 7, Thanks to everyone that supported, now the target is next 10. Any advice?

@ZohaibShei66296 @ProductHunt + we had < 16 hours to prepare for it. Thanks to everyone of you for your support.

@FoundingDev @ProductHunt Proof that you don’t need a huge audience to get traction, just the right platform at the right time.

Got our first 30 users thanks to @ProductHunt🧡 👀500+ unique visitors 🏅#7 Product of the Day 💪Featured in the newsletter to 1M+ subs Onform by @FoundingDev enables you build forms right from Claude through our MCP! Still buzzing. Honestly, thank U 🙏 #ProductHunt #SaaS

@DesignByMaeL @ProductHunt Yes we are open, but there’s a dashboard you can use to create forms as well, the prompt to form is for convenience.

The no dashboard approach is bold but it creates a specific kind of Logic Leakage. When everything is managed through plain language in Claude the user loses the visual mental map of their data structure. If the AI misinterprets a single prompt the integrity of the entire form logic can break without the user noticing until the data starts coming in wrong. I specialize in Surgical UX Audits to find exactly these types of hidden friction points. In a text-native tool like Onform, the interface is the conversation itself and thats where most conversion-killing friction lives. I’d love to do a deep dive audit to ensure your prompt-to-form logic is bulletproof. Are you open to a professional review to make sure your PH users dont get lost in the chat-only flow?

Our mission @FoundingDev is to help companies build, deploy and manage their complex SaaS tools & compliant workflows. We make it possible by providing a vast ecosystem of pre-built and production ready SaaS templates that replace your expensive and bloated SaaS tools. Today we launched Onform to replace expensive TypeForm and JotForm subscriptions. Please support us on Product Hunt LINK 👇 #saas #ai #software #producthunt

@GeorgiosPag @ProductHunt @orynth Taking notes 📝

@FoundingDev @ProductHunt Your welcome. I was wondering whether you would be interested in listing your project on a free Product Hunt alternative called @orynth?

@bootstrappedceo @ProductHunt Thank you! Yes please would love all the support we can get.

@FoundingDev @ProductHunt congratulations on shipping this on product hunt....looks great! I have upvoted and can tell my two members to do so.... can you dm!

@GeorgiosPag @ProductHunt Thanks.

@FoundingDev @ProductHunt Onform is awesome! Build and manage forms just by talking to your AI—no coding, no hassle, just fast, conversational form creation.