Product Hunt launches on August 12, 2026

Dograh finished #1 with 585 upvotes, ahead of Grok Bot and Lettertrace. Here are the day's 40 top launches with 3,817 upvotes between them, across 21 categories, Productivity the busiest with 10.

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  1. Dograh

    1. Dograh

    585 upvotes

    The open source VAPI alternative

    Closed voice platforms make you rent your own agents. Dograh is completely open source- nothing is gated. Visual flow builder, add your model key across 30+ integrations or use local models, telephony, human transfer, and advanced QA &…

    Open Sourcedograh.com4 makers, 4 with emails
  2. Grok Bot

    2. Grok Bot

    546 upvotes

    AI teammates that you can give real work to

    Introducing Grok Bot: AI teammates you can give real work to. Bots sign into your tools, use them like you do, and come back with finished work. Message them like a teammate. They keep context, multitask, and learn your working style on…

    Productivitygrokbot.dev1 maker, 1 with an email
  3. Lettertrace

    3. Lettertrace

    378 upvotes

    Track your AI visibility for free (using your own API keys!)

    Lettertrace measures how often Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini mention your company. But there's a catch: it's free, developer-first, bring-your-own-key, and open source.

    Open Sourcelettertrace.com1 maker
  4. Assembly Studio

    4. Assembly Studio

    254 upvotes

    AI app builder that grows your revenue

    Assembly Studio is the AI app builder made for professional service firms. Describe what you want: onboarding agents, analytics dashboards, community hubs, and get production-grade apps in minutes. 20+ templates to remix. Connects to any…

    Web App1 maker
  5. Unsloth Desktop

    5. Unsloth Desktop

    224 upvotes

    Run and train AI models locally on your desktop

    Unsloth Desktop is an open-source app to run and train AI models locally. Run LLMs, image/video diffusion, and audio. Connect agents like Claude Code or Codex to your local GPU with one command, and fine-tune models with no-code workflows.

  6. BearDrive

    6. BearDrive

    194 upvotes

    The open-source shared folder for your team's AI agents

    Your AI agents create real files locally: reports, decks, CSVs, research. BearDrive syncs the folder they already work in, so every file is born shared: versioned, attributed down to the agent session, with links only your team can open.…

    Productivitybeardrive.ai1 maker, 1 with an email
  7. Swipe

    7. Swipe

    148 upvotes

    Swipe right on your next customer

    Type who you sell to. Swipe deals a ranked deck of real companies. Keep the ones worth an email, skip the rest, export to CSV. No signup, no credits, no scraped inboxes.

    Productivityswipe.com1 maker
  8. LaraCopilot

    8. LaraCopilot

    152 upvotes

    Agentic AI Engineer that builds real apps

    LaraCopilot is an agentic AI engineer that builds real, production-ready apps. Describe your idea in your own language and it builds the whole thing: UI, backend, database, auth, and APIs, wired together and ready to deploy. One-click…

    SaaSlaracopilot.com1 maker, 1 with an email
  9. Click

    9. Click

    126 upvotes

    Live research context for ChatGPT and Claude

    Click is an MCP that provides extensive research connectors to give external context that the built-in web search misses. It provides live context from professional & social platforms, marketplaces, financials, and more. A simple 1-min…

    ProductivityYC S261 maker
  10. RightCard

    10. RightCard

    102 upvotes

    The honest credit card picker — no bank login

    RightCard tells you which of your cards to use at any store and auto-adds the bank offers you'd forget to activate (Amex, Chase, Citi, Wells Fargo). It keeps rotating 5% categories straight so you don't have to remember them, and warns…

    iOSrightcard.ai1 maker, 1 with an email
  11. CodeBurn

    11. CodeBurn

    110 upvotes

    See where your AI coding spend actually goes

    CodeBurn is a free, open-source tracker for AI coding costs. It reads the session files your tools already write - Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot, 40 in all, and shows every token and dollar by the task, model, project, and pull…

    Open Sourcecodeburn.app1 maker, 1 with an email
  12. Chat Agent by Trigger.dev

    AI chat that keeps running after you close the tab

    Chat agent is a way to build durable AI chat experiences that run on a machine with no timeouts and keep streaming through refreshes and crashes. The machine sleeps when nobody's typing and wakes where it left off, without you managing…

    Open SourceYC W23trigger.dev1 maker
  13. Media Sharing

    13. Media Sharing

    105 upvotes

    Let AI agents put screenshots and videos on pull requests

    GitHub has no API for attaching images to pull requests, so agents and CI ship blind. Argos Media Sharing fixes it: one command turns a screenshot or recording into a stable share link with ready-to-paste Markdown, and posts it on the PR…

  14. tash

    14. tash

    94 upvotes

    The investment platform for trading cards

    tash gives investors access to professionally curated portfolios of high-end graded trading cards. tash manages sourcing, verification, vaulting, reporting, and the eventual sale of the underlying assets.

    Card Games1 maker
  15. Ballet

    15. Ballet

    94 upvotes

    Agentic workflows that deliver the same outcome every time

    Ballet lets operations teams automate their hardest business problems in minutes. Describe a workflow in plain English. Ballet writes (in code) + runs it, with full audit log, one-click rollback, simulation mode, and you choose how much…

  16. Sidekick™

    16. Sidekick™

    93 upvotes

    The agentic interface

    The next big interface for your Mac and the agentic layer for your entire organisation.

    MacYC S261 maker
  17. Linforge

    17. Linforge

    78 upvotes

    Turn Anki flashcards into real English conversations

    Practice English speaking like you're chatting with a real person. Linforge gives instant phoneme-level pronunciation and grammar correction on every sentence, syncs with your Anki decks, and tracks your progress over time.

    Messaging1 maker
  18. Cohesor

    18. Cohesor

    82 upvotes

    A neutral control plane for enterprise AI agents

    Cohesor is the neutral control plane for AI agents. It sits between your agents - Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, agentic workflow and every LLM model: compressing ~50% of tokens, routing each request to the right-sized model, and governing…

    SaaScohesor.com1 maker, 1 with an email
  19. Nearfield

    19. Nearfield

    79 upvotes

    Turn two or more Studio Displays into stereo speakers

    Nearfield is a native, open-source Mac app that combines the speakers in two Apple Studio Displays into one volume-controllable stereo output. Swap left and right, adjust balance, and use app and window based audio routing. Requires Apple…

    Open Sourcetrynearfield.com1 maker, 1 with an email
  20. Statewave

    20. Statewave

    28 upvotes

    Open-source memory runtime for production AI agents.

    Open-source memory runtime for AI agents. Durable, structured context with provenance, self-hosted on Postgres.

    Open Sourcestatewave.ai1 maker, 1 with an email
  21. BikeQuest

    21. BikeQuest

    18 upvotes

    MORE FUN 🎉 EVERY RIDE 🚲

    Pick real-world cycling quests, upload photo proof, and collect BikeQuest badges. No pressure. No leaderboard.

    Health & Fitnessbikequest.app1 maker
  22. BeeL

    22. BeeL

    17 upvotes

    Invoicing infrastructure

    In Spain, every invoice now has to be tamper-proof and reported to the tax agency. That's Verifactu, and building it yourself eats a quarter of engineering time. BeeL. does it for you. Point us at your payments and each charge becomes a…

    API1 maker
  23. Cleanup

    23. Cleanup

    12 upvotes

    Erase unwanted objects from photos in seconds

    cleanup.photo is the fastest way to remove unwanted objects, people, text, logos, and distractions from your photos. Upload an image, brush over what you want gone, and cleanup.photo intelligently rebuilds the area around it — no…

  24. Guardrail by NeatProxy

    Full visibility into your AI spend, before it goes rogue

    We burned real money running AI agents and didn't know why until it was too late. That's the whole reason Guardrail exists. It's a local proxy for Claude Code and Codex that shows you where every dollar goes, system prompt, tools, that…

    SaaSneatproxy.com1 maker
  25. Defellix

    25. Defellix

    15 upvotes

    Never lose a payment to a ghosting client again

    Defellix helps freelancers in India create contracts that actually hold up if a client stops paying. No WhatsApp promises. Contracts are timestamped, blockchain-anchored, and court-admissible under Section 65B, created in about 2 minutes…

    Freelance1 maker
  26. Linkdify

    26. Linkdify

    12 upvotes

    Your entire LinkedIn GTM team, run by AI

    Linkdify is your AI LinkedIn GTM team. Claim a real, warmed LinkedIn account we provision, so you never risk your own, then let AI agents find leads with buying signals, write outreach that sounds human, and send DMs, connection requests…

    Saleslinkdify.io1 maker, 1 with an email
  27. UGC Agent

    27. UGC Agent

    12 upvotes

    The world's best AI agent for finding UGC creators

    Sourcing UGC creators is slow, and their emails are impossible to find. UGC Agent does both. Describe who you need in plain English; it finds Instagram + TikTok creators, scores them against your ICP, and hands back export-ready leads…

    Marketingugcagent.app1 maker, 1 with an email
  28. designdex.org

    28. designdex.org

    12 upvotes

    Turn research into evidence based design decisions

    DesignDex is a design research platform built for students, designers, and innovators. Discover credible research papers, academic studies, and evidence across product design, engineering, psychology, ergonomics, sustainability…

    Design Toolsdesigndex.org1 maker, 1 with an email
  29. My Existence

    29. My Existence

    15 upvotes

    Your life is about 4,000 weeks. Here you can fill them.

    A quiet place to keep your life. Every entry is a spatial canvas — drag cards or images anywhere on the grid, no linear document. Navigate everything in a life-in-weeks view, where each week you've lived is one cell. Share your profile…

    Writing1 maker
  30. Teyla

    30. Teyla

    12 upvotes

    Intelligent planner for every role in your life

    Teyla is a task and planning app built to give every role the attention it deserves. Add tasks by typing or speaking, and Teyla’s AI understands what needs doing, when it matters and which part of your life it belongs to. It organises…

    Productivityteyla.app1 maker, 1 with an email
  31. Fovea

    31. Fovea

    12 upvotes

    Video in, your JSON out — validated against your schema

    Fovea turns a video into JSON that matches a schema you supply. Send a video and a JSON Schema — or a rough sketch of one — to one endpoint, or add the MCP server to Claude Code or Codex in a single line. Every response is validated…

  32. Upranke

    32. Upranke

    11 upvotes

    Show up in every AI answer that matters to your business

    Track your brand's visibility across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity & Bing AI. Get AI visibility audits, citation tracking, and competitor insights.

    Productivityupranke.com1 maker, 1 with an email
  33. Yoomru

    33. Yoomru

    11 upvotes

    Shopify Social Media Auto-post App

    Yoomru is a Shopify social media auto-poster that publishes your products across 11 social networks, including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, X, YouTube, LinkedIn, Threads, Google Business Profile, Telegram, and Discord, right…

    Social Mediayoomru.com1 maker, 1 with an email
  34. Grow or die

    34. Grow or die

    13 upvotes

    Know if your AI product is growing profitably

    Grow or Die joins traffic, payments, and server-side model usage to show revenue per visitor, AI cost per visitor, and contribution profit. See which customers, features, and models create or destroy margin—without storing prompts or…

    Analyticsgrow-or-die.com1 maker, 1 with an email
  35. MOTA

    35. MOTA

    9 upvotes

    AI agents that follow your rules, not their imagination.

    MOTA is a governed execution runtime for high-consequence workflows. Instead of letting LLMs improvise, MOTA separates AI planning from deterministic execution. It translates user intent into a strict execution graph to enforce business…

  36. Task Gremlin

    36. Task Gremlin

    9 upvotes

    Not one more chatbot. A bench of seven tiny AI specialists

    A bench of seven AI specialists, one per stuck moment: brain-dump to plan, vague task to time range, decision to next move, message to 12 tones, leftovers to dinner. Under it: plans, routines, one-step Focus, streaks with built-in grace.…

    Android1 maker
  37. Easy File Uploader

    37. Easy File Uploader

    9 upvotes

    Shopify file uploads with built-in AI image editing

    Easy File Uploader goes beyond standard Shopify attachments. Built by Web2Print veterans, it lets customers upload large files directly on product pages and features built-in AI tools (background remover & upscaler) so shoppers can edit…

    SaaSeasyfileuploader.com1 maker, 1 with an email
  38. Unfreez

    38. Unfreez

    9 upvotes

    Make any website editable — no CMS, no refactoring

    Unfreez makes code-first websites editable without a CMS for your clients. Connect a repo, pick what's editable, and let your client edit on a live preview. Every change ships as a clean, reversible commit. No refactoring, no AI touching…

    Productivityunfreez.app1 maker
  39. Bravado AI

    39. Bravado AI

    9 upvotes

    Create team video training in 10 minutes or less.

    Bravado helps teams turn knowledge into video training in under 10 minutes. Upload onboarding materials, playbooks, policies, SOPs, process documents, slide decks, blog posts, or ebooks. Bravado researches the material, structures it into…

  40. AskAny.ai

    40. AskAny.ai

    9 upvotes

    Bring text, files, and screenshots into AI from anywhere

    Stop dragging context into AI chats. AskAny lets you send the text, files, images, or screen region in front of you to GPT, Claude, Gemini, and more, directly from the app you’re using. Highlight, select, crop, or dictate, then ask…

    Productivityaskany.ai1 maker, 1 with an email

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Questions

What was #1 on Product Hunt on August 12, 2026?
Dograh ("The open source VAPI alternative"), with 585 upvotes. Grok Bot (#2) and Lettertrace (#3) followed.
How many launches are listed here?
40: the top of the day's leaderboard, ranked launches first. Junior has 43 makers on file for them, 21 with a work email.
Which time zone is the day in?
Pacific time, as Product Hunt runs its leaderboard: a day starts at midnight in San Francisco.

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