> So what does work?

I would add hardware products to that list. While they also have become somewhat easier and cheaper to create, the threshold is still much higher than for software and SaaS products.

An asterisk to this: SEA competition is way fiercer than people in the west give it credit for.

There's more and more product that I wish existed, and one search in AliExpress returns me what I exactly wanted plus some more. 5 years ago the product just existed and quality was meh, nowadays it's pretty much on par.

I had to recently look for camera gear, and the amount of adapters or quirky tripods is just great. Ulanzi for instance is a pretty well known brand at this point.

This. I got more spam than actual users when I launched on Product Hunt. Pretty sure majority of people on PH are just there to promote their own services and products.

Looks like he renamed it to "4 Counts | Wrist Tempo", but the screenshots are still using "Lagree Buddy".

I’ve been thinking about this as well. Instead of making websites, maybe people will make something else, like some future version of MCP tools/servers? E.g. a restaurant could have an “MCP tool” for checking opening hours, reserving a table, etc.

I hope none of this happens and web stays readable and indexable.

I sure hope it stays readable, but it seems like it would only become more indexable with machine friendly formats.

Same. Websites won't disappear but may become niche or something of the past. Why create a new UI for your new service when you can plug into a "universal" personal agent AI.

So I can get reliable answers.

Why create a fancy infrastructure for for this new universal thing, when the old thing already does it more reliably and with less steps?

Been down for ~50 minutes now and there's no information other than the automated notice on their status page.

FYI, they (oddly enough) communicate mostly through Discord, and they have said they are investigating the issue at 10:30am UTC - 13 minutes after the first user reports.

Frankly I prefer that than a green tick and "All Systems Operational"

yellow: "volcano has erupted under the datacenter and it's being flooded with lava. engineers are investigating"

red: "datacenter has been subject to multiple nuclear strikes. next update in 30 min"

Could that be due to contractual clauses for uptime in SLAs?

True, that happens far too often.

From the footer:

“Instantly create your dream vacation with Duebase AI, where AI-driven precision meets personal preferences. Tailor-made travel plans crafted just for you, effortlessly.”

Did you pivot?

Looks like OP still does that: https://hackernews.hn/submitted?id=superproton

If we want to be charitable their previous website may have served as a template.

Well, at least this one made it to the front page!

If you want to build AI assistants for automating tasks, check out https://nelly.is.

Would love to see how Nelly [0] performs on this benchmark.

[0] https://nelly.is

Very cool. The benchmark can be found here if you want to take a look at it: https://github.com/Halluminate/WebBench

I’m working on Nelly, a no-code AI agent platform for building, using and (soon) sharing AI assistants.

It’s currently in beta for macOS but I’m waiting for Anthropic to extend my rate-limits before I announce it here on HN.

https://nelly.is

I understand your concern, but it is very hard nowadays to find a totally unique name that's any good. I did a lot of research on many different names before settling with "Pine". "Pine" was not used by any competing payments or cryptocurrency apps and didn't yield any well-known products or services at the time when I searched for it. However, there are a hand full of apps using the name "Pine" on the App Store, and there's also the Pine64 project and so on. Googling "Pine" now will bring up a new game on kickstarter. But none has made "Pine" into a big trademark yet.

And after all, "pine" has always been the name of a tree.