Product Hunt launches on August 20, 2026
HyNote for Mac finished #1 with 348 upvotes, ahead of Grok 4.6 and Checksum AI. Here are the day's 40 top launches with 3,304 upvotes between them, across 19 categories, Productivity the busiest with 7.
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1. HyNote for Mac
348 upvotesFree local transcription that is 100% Private
Solving the three biggest pain points in meeting software: privacy, friction, and cost. By running speech-to-text entirely on-device, your confidential discussions never leave your hardware, ensuring total data privacy. It operates…

2. Grok 4.6
302 upvotesFrontier Intelligence for Long-Running Agents
Continuous reasoning meets real-world execution. Grok 4.6 brings major upgrades to agentic workflows, software engineering, and interactive web application generation—at an unchanged, cost-efficient rate of $2 / $6 per 1M tokens. Build…
Android1 maker
3. Checksum AI
203 upvotesYour coding agent’s testing buddy
Checksum is an AI-native continuous testing platform for engineering teams shipping faster than manual QA can keep up. It generates, runs, and auto-heals end-to-end and API tests on every pull request, all as standard Playwright code in…
API1 maker
4. The New Calendly
207 upvotesHandle all of the work before, during, and after meetings
Meet Calendly Notetaker and Callie AI assistant: two new AI products built to handle the work before, during, and after meetings. Meetings are essential, but the work around them adds up fast. 😅 That's why we're launching an evolved…
Android1 maker
5. MeetStream AI
181 upvotesUnified API & Infra for AI Meeting Agents
Agent-first infrastructure for meetings. One API to capture 50+ real-time data points from Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams, with built-in voice infrastructure so your agent joins as a participant, listens, speaks, and acts while the call is…
API1 maker
6. Prized
161 upvotesLet non-engineers build secure internal tools
Prized lets ops, support, and finance teams build and ship secure internal tools with AI. Company data pre-connected and scoped, an audit trail on every access, one-click deploy behind your company sign-in.

7. Hermai Brand API
147 upvotesWhite label your B2B SaaS with every customer's brand
A customer signs up with a work email or domain. You get back the logo, colors, description, and a ready to apply theme. Built for B2B SaaS so every customer's account looks like theirs from the first login. Free for 1,000 brands a month…
Design Tools1 maker
8. Lifelong
136 upvotesYour whole family’s health in one place.
Lifelong is the family health app built around the household, not just one person. Keep records, medications, symptoms, appointments, activity and sleep together for everyone you care about. Connect the wearables you already use, keep the…
9. MiniMax Design
139 upvotesYour own agent team for open-ended creation
MiniMax Design is a desktop app that wraps MiniMax H3 in a full production workflow. Describe the video, and agents handle the brief, stills, H3 clips, music, and edit on one canvas. Skills, a 3D director stage, and ComfyUI nodes stay…

10. Aloud
122 upvotesTurn spoken feedback into tasks your coding agent can run
Feedback is easier said than written. Aloud records your voice, your screen and a live transcript together while you talk through your app – pointing at things, changing your mind. Then one press: it rewrites the transcript into what you…

11. Glasp for Firefox
112 upvotesHighlight and summarize any page, PDF, or video in Firefox
Glasp is now on Firefox. Highlight web articles, PDFs, and YouTube transcripts in four colors, add notes and tags, and summarize any page or video with ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. Everything lands in one searchable library and exports to…
Browser Extensions1 maker12. Shape
112 upvotesThe agentic IDE for designers and programmers
Shape is the agentic IDE for designers and programmers. Design, code, Git, and AI chat in one desktop app. Download for Windows.
Design Tools1 maker
13. bitdrift.ai
107 upvotesThe world’s first agentic mobile observability platform
bitdrift AI is the world’s first agentic mobile observability platform: a real-time, full-fidelity observability system that lets AI agents query mobile user behavior and act on it autonomously. It's built on the bitdrift Public API and…

14. Berd
108 upvotesWeird, playful desktop app for building with AI agents
Berd is for people doing real work with AI agents inside a desktop workspace: engineers, product designers, and other builders who need a persistent agent companion that can use projects, skills, extensions, automations, model providers…
Macberd.xyz
15. NobodyWho
106 upvotesRun AI models on any device
NobodyWho is an inference engine for running LLMs fully on-device, built on llama.cpp. Open-source, free, no API keys, no cloud calls. We support Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, React Native, Python, and Godot. Includes type-safe tool calling…

16. Zoho Cliq 7.0
94 upvotesUninterrupted work
Connect the dots and do uninterrupted work with our latest features and enhancements. Build no-code bots, experience inclusive collaboration with sign language mode for meetings and WCAG compliance, and focus on the little things that…
Productivity1 maker
17. Roveri
89 upvotesA riding journal for iPhone every ride, painted on a map
One tap records the route, speed, elevation and the weather of every ride, painted on a map. Rides add up into seasons you can re-open — and an atlas of every road you've ever ridden. A journal, not a navigator. Free to start; iPhone, iOS…

18. Peach Co-Pilot
92 upvotesWhatsApp Sidekick for busy professionals
The hosted WhatsApp MCP server for standard WhatsApp Business App users. Give Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or Zed tools to read, search, and draft messages securely.
Productivity1 maker

20. ProtoNote
87 upvotesShare AI-built prototypes, get feedback pinned to the page
Drop in an HTML prototype, image, or PDF and get a shareable link. Reviewers leave notes pinned to the exact spot on the page. No account required, just a name. Use the Claude connector to turn anything you build into a ProtoNote right…

21. Cloudways Managed AI Agents
84 upvotesSkip the setup and run OpenClaw & Hermes, fully managed
AI agents like OpenClaw and Hermes are easy to run, but hard to host well. Cloudways Managed AI Agents runs OpenClaw or Hermes on isolated, secured infrastructure with validated updates that keep your agent stable. Bring your LLM key and…
Productivity7 makers
22. NXS by Aliensense
39 upvotesA sensor board that gets your robot running in minutes
NXS is a plug-and-play sensor board for robots – it handles the wiring and driver setup automatically, so cameras and sensors are streaming usable data in minutes instead of weeks. It connects over GMSL or CAN-FD and works with the…

23. Stateshift
28 upvotesRewire Your Anxiety in 15 Days
Stateshift is designed to guide you through practices that address the root cause of anxiety, not just the surface level symptoms. Within just 15 days of practice, you can learn to regulate your anxiety so that you can spend time with…

24. Bookmarx
28 upvotesMake your X bookmarks useful again
Your X bookmarks are full of useful things you probably forgot about. Bookmarx helps you use them. Connect X once and keep bookmarking as usual. Bookmarx automatically syncs your saves, summarizes and organizes them, lets you search or…

25. Rubric
20 upvotesUX expertise your agent can call
Coding agents ship UI fast, but they design from vibes. Rubric gives them a source: 554 curated UX rules with severity, evidence and a concrete fix, served over MCP. One corpus, two moments. Before you build, your agent pulls prescriptive…
26. Dehurdle
17 upvotesWin the meeting before it starts.
Most important conversations go wrong because we practice on real people. Dehurdle lets you practice tough conversations out loud with realistic AI characters that talk, interrupt, and challenge you in real time. • Practice salary talks…

27. Tidy Folders
16 upvotesFolders & text highlights for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini & more
Tidy finally organizes your AI chats in one folder library, across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek and Grok. Highlight key answers in long threads and each one becomes a link back to the exact spot. Save regular bookmarks in the same…
28. Makers Page
14 upvotesRanked by streak, not revenue.
Most directories rank you by revenue you can screenshot. makers.page ranks you by a streak you can't fake: show up and check in daily to stay on the leaderboard. Free listing includes a public page, dofollow backlink, and sitemap…

29. Velvet UI
12 upvotesNative-feeling sheets and toasts for React
Velvet UI is a headless React library for sheets and toasts that feel at home on every device. Browser-native WAAPI animations and custom physics power fluid dragging, scrolling, snapping, touch gestures, trackpad swipes, mouse-wheel…

30. Tucan
12 upvotesNo streaks. A quiet dot grid for daily habits.
Most habit apps punish you when you miss a day. Tucan doesn't. It's a binary tracker: done or not. The hero is a monochrome dot grid of your history. One tap, works offline. Miss a day and the hole just sits there. Nothing resets. I built…
iOS1 maker
31. Hatchable
12 upvotesBuild real apps with your AI. We make them work.
Point your agent at Hatchable, whatever it builds just works and you get a live URL. Hatchable is a complete cloud with hosting, database, login, email, cron, custom domains and more. Everything your AI agent needs to build real apps, in…
32. Dungeons & Dilutions — a fundraising RPG
11 upvotesRoll a d20 to raise $2M. The VCs are the monsters.
You're a founder who just landed in San Francisco: $40,000, an air mattress, and 26 weeks to close a $2M seed round. Meetings are the combat. 15 investor types, each with its own encounter - the AI Doomer Fund asks your p(doom) before…
Venture Capital1 maker
33. Arcadely
10 upvotesFree browser games instantly, no download or signup needed
Arcadely is free browser gaming with zero friction: no downloads, no accounts, no app store. Click a link and you're playing arcade, puzzle, word, and casual games, with leaderboards if you're competitive. Two things make it different…

34. Quick Metadata Remover
9 upvotesProtect your privacy with one simple drop
Quick Metadata Remover removes hidden metadata from your photos, including EXIF, IPTC, XMP, GPS data, and comments. Just drag and drop your photos or an entire folder, confirm, and remove metadata in seconds. Your file names and folder…
Productivity1 maker
35. ShortenItUp
10 upvotesCuts your meetings in half, not just records them
Most meeting tools record what went wrong. ShortenItUp prevents it. It joins your call, keeps everyone on the agenda with real-time off-topic nudges, and checks whether a meeting even needs to happen - before it starts. Tasks get…

36. Fiamo
10 upvotesOne tiny real-life quest a day. Then it tells you to leave.
Fiamo gives everyone on Earth the same tiny real-life quest each day - like giving a stranger an honest compliment, or eating one meal without your phone. Mark it done, watch a live counter of everyone doing today's quest with you, then…
Health & Fitness1 maker37. Rentnation
6 upvotesA richup like browser monopoly game
Build your property empire in RentNation, a free multiplayer property trading game. Play with up to 8 friends in your browser — no download, no account.
Board Games1 maker
38. GYFT
9 upvotesFind the right Framer template, faster
GYFT is a curated, search-first platform for discovering high-quality Framer templates from independent creators. Search by keyword and filter by industry, style, price, or creator, explore live previews, and find the right starting point…
Web Design1 maker39. Starko Turn support into growth
10 upvotesWe help products grow on their own
Starko is an omnichannel customer support software and AI helpdesk platform. Unify WhatsApp, Instagram, email, and Slack into a single customer service platform with AI-powered automation, knowledge base software, and ticketing system.…
Customer Communication1 maker
40. Embent
9 upvotesPaste your URL, get an AI agent that answers from your site
Embent is an AI agent for your website. It answers visitors only from your own pages — with citations under every answer — captures leads, says "I don't know" instead of inventing, and logs every question it couldn't answer so you know…
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Questions
- What was #1 on Product Hunt on August 20, 2026?
- HyNote for Mac ("Free local transcription that is 100% Private"), with 348 upvotes. Grok 4.6 (#2) and Checksum AI (#3) followed.
- How many launches are listed here?
- 40: the top of the day's leaderboard, ranked launches first. Junior has 46 makers on file for them, 14 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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