Product Hunt launches on August 26, 2026

x1 finished #1 with 506 upvotes, ahead of Expertise AI and PostHog Desktop. Here are the day's 40 top launches with 4,068 upvotes between them, across 24 categories, Productivity the busiest with 4.

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  1. x1

    1. x1

    506 upvotes

    Lovable for iPhone apps go from idea to App Store

    X1 is an AI app builder that takes you from an idea to an iPhone app you can publish on the App Store. Instead of trying to generate the entire app from one prompt, X1 guides you step by step. It asks focused questions, designs each…

    iOS3 makers
  2. Expertise AI

    2. Expertise AI

    347 upvotes

    Turn your GTM skills into recurring revenue

    Expertise AI is where GTM experts monetize their playbooks as protected Al skills. Each expert gets a storefront where businesses demo and install these skills on a subscription, and gets paid every time one runs.

    Marketing1 maker
  3. PostHog Desktop

    3. PostHog Desktop

    357 upvotes

    The product editor for product builders

    A multiplayer workspace for you, your team, and your agents – with your product data as context, and PostHog tools to ship and measure. Build and edit your product | Run a fleet of agents | Turn product signals into PRs.

  4. ChatCut Desktop

    4. ChatCut Desktop

    280 upvotes

    Video editor built for humans & AI. Edit with GPT & Claude.

    Introducing ChatCut Desktop, the AI video editor built for humans and agents to edit together. Use ChatCut’s built-in agent, or connect ChatGPT/Codex or Claude Code. Say how you want your video edited and watch them happen on a fully…

    Marketing1 maker
  5. MCP-Builder.ai

    5. MCP-Builder.ai

    174 upvotes

    The fastest way to connect your data with your AI Tools.

    Build a hosted and secured MCP Server in minutes. Think of MCP-Builder.ai as Lovable for MCP connectors. Describe what you want to connect and it builds, hosts and secures your MCP Server for you. No deployment, infrastructure or security…

    Developer Toolsmcp-builder.ai1 maker, 1 with an email
  6. Tellie Prompter 1.5

    6. Tellie Prompter 1.5

    144 upvotes

    The teleprompter that knows what you haven't said

    Most teleprompters make you follow them. Tellie follows you. It listens to the words you actually say, so you can pause, skip, improvise, or go off script without losing your place. Now Tellie 1.5 knows what you haven’t said yet, too. It…

  7. OpenComputer

    7. OpenComputer

    137 upvotes

    Firebase for Agents

    Introducing OpenComputer Deploy your agent as a function. Get a computer for it. - a real Linux machine per session - ffmpeg, chromium, git, install anything - durable: hibernate + resume - your keys never enter the runtime The cloud of…

    Software Engineeringopencomputer.dev1 maker, 1 with an email
  8. Termy

    8. Termy

    123 upvotes

    Learn languages from games, videos, and websites

    Termy turns the games, videos, and websites you love into language practice. Press one shortcut and it finds the difficult words on your screen, explains them in context, and saves them with the exact moment you discovered them—without…

    Educationtermy.ai1 maker, 1 with an email
  9. Mac mini

    9. Mac mini

    121 upvotes

    Now with M6 and M5 Pro chips

    Mac mini now comes with M6 and M5 Pro, bringing faster performance, Apple Intelligence, Wi-Fi 7, and faster storage to Apple's compact 5-inch desktop. Built for coding, creating, and getting work done.

    Productivitymacmini.ai
  10. ify

    10. ify

    119 upvotes

    Resolution AI that works on top of your existing helpdesk

    Most AI support tools ask you to rip out your helpdesk first. Ify works on top of Freshdesk, Zendesk, Salesforce, or HubSpot and gets to work across email, chat, WhatsApp, Slack, and more. The part that usually stalls an AI support…

    Email1 maker
  11. Evidence Core

    11. Evidence Core

    110 upvotes

    Build live analytics with coding agents

    Evidence Core is an open source framework for building business intelligence applications with coding agents. Build your entire business intelligence platform as a repo of files, and deploy it anywhere, for free. Metrics, dashboards…

  12. Lore Machine

    12. Lore Machine

    109 upvotes

    Substack For World Builders

    There's a new creator in town: The World Builder. Armed with the most advanced visualization technology known to man, World Builders conjure multimedia universes one serialized story at a time. But Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube weren't…

    Comics & Graphic Novels1 maker
  13. Screenify Studio

    13. Screenify Studio

    105 upvotes

    Polished product demos on Mac recorded by an AI agent

    Screenify Studio is a Mac screen recorder that turns rough recordings into polished product demos — without the editing tax. Describe a demo in plain English and an AI drives a real browser to record it, then adds cinematic 3D camera…

  14. HEVN U.S.

    14. HEVN U.S.

    104 upvotes

    Hold USD and pay globally through U.S. sponsor banks

    HEVN U.S. Accounts give eligible companies in 100+ countries access to USD banking through U.S. sponsor banks. Receive USD via Fedwire, hold USD, pay U.S. counterparties locally, and settle supported SWIFT payments from one platform.…

    Fintech1 maker
  15. Playcall

    15. Playcall

    96 upvotes

    The open-source AI alternative to Gong

    Playcall is the open-source alternative to Gong, built for AI-native GTM teams. Score every call against your playbook and the buyer context your rep was talking to. Works with MEDDPICC, BANT, SPIN, or upload your playbook and let AI…

    Salesplaycall.ai1 maker
  16. EasySwitch

    16. EasySwitch

    102 upvotes

    One mouse, keyboard and second screen for all your computers

    Existing tools make you choose. Software KVMs (Synergy, Deskflow, Mouse Without Borders) share your mouse and keyboard but carry no video. Second-screen apps (Duet, spacedesk, Luna) turn a spare machine into a monitor but share no input.…

    Mac1 maker
  17. LoupeKit

    17. LoupeKit

    103 upvotes

    See what any page is built with and how much of it is AI

    A developer's inspector for the page you already have open. It names the technologies behind it and shows the evidence for each, extracts the palette, fonts and assets, and scores how much of the page reads as raw AI output. It reads one…

    Browser Extensionsloupekit.com1 maker, 1 with an email
  18. Arena Agent Mode with GitHub

    Get real work done, moving from idea to shipping in minutes

    For a coding agent to be truly useful, it needs to live where the work is: on GitHub. By integrating directly with GitHub and reusing the underlying infrastructure of Agent Mode, we’ve created a seamless experience that allows you to…

  19. Warren

    19. Warren

    87 upvotes

    Infrastructure for coding-agent workloads

    Warren runs agent harnesses as isolated, observable workloads on infrastructure you control. It owns the workspace, limits, live events, recovery, and Git delivery.

    Open Sourcewarren.io1 maker, 1 with an email
  20. DeployHermes

    20. DeployHermes

    82 upvotes

    Hire persistent Hermes agents with roles, memory + skills

    Hire persistent Hermes AI bots with a role, model, memory and skills. One click to a private runtime — missions, integrations, and receipts on every run. Integrate this with your Claude Code, Codex, and let the agents manage your bots and…

  21. Knack MCP Server

    21. Knack MCP Server

    79 upvotes

    The HIPAA-compliant backend for AI builders

    AI tools like Lovable, Base44, or Claude Code can get a healthcare app up and running quickly. The backend is where healthcare gets complicated. Once PHI is involved, you need compliant data storage, record retention, and a signed BAA.…

  22. BaudBuddy

    22. BaudBuddy

    80 upvotes

    A native macOS serial terminal with a file server built in

    A native macOS terminal for serial, Bluetooth LE, Telnet and RFC 2217 consoles — with a TFTP/HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/SFTP server built in for firmware. Adapters by name, real break signals, byte-exact logs. No account, no analytics, no cloud.

    Mac1 maker
  23. Basedash for Grok Bot

    23. Basedash for Grok Bot

    80 upvotes

    Company data answers, right inside Grok Bot

    Basedash for Grok Bot sends questions to governed company data and brings the answer back into your agent. Open Plugins, add Basedash, sign in with OAuth, then ask “Which accounts drove this quarter’s NRR change?” or list the sources you…

    Data & AnalyticsYC S20basedash.com1 maker, 1 with an email
  24. TaskShell 2.0

    24. TaskShell 2.0

    76 upvotes

    Agent-first task management for more agentic productivity

    Manage your tasks together with your agents for complete agentic productivity. Ask to add a relevant todo as a task from your conversation mid-session, ask what's due for this week, what's most important, ask for help to plan your work…

    Productivitytaskshell.app1 maker
  25. choclift for iPad

    25. choclift for iPad

    81 upvotes

    A touch-bar to control your Mac from your iPad

    choclift now turns your iPad into a beautifully simple touch companion for your Mac...and it feels like pure magic. Launch apps, run Apple Shortcuts, open websites, and add your favorite emojis to any text with a single tap, all from one…

    iPadchoclift.com1 maker, 1 with an email
  26. Message Album

    26. Message Album

    68 upvotes

    Save one iMessage conversation as a private offline album

    A native Mac app that exports one Messages conversation at a time into a searchable, iMessage-style offline website with the photos, videos and voice notes stored on your Mac. Reads your library without changing it. No account, no cloud…

    Macmessagealbum.com1 maker, 1 with an email
  27. ReWeaver AI DriftDetector

    Drift score for any GitHub repo

    The code works. That was never the question. Paste any public GitHub repo and get its Production Drift Ratio (PDR) in seconds: one number for how far it sits from production-ready, plus a drift history where every point is a real scan…

  28. macadress

    28. macadress

    67 upvotes

    MAC address intelligence for apps, networks and AI agents

    Look beyond the vendor name. Understand MAC addresses with IEEE block data, device-category clues, privacy-randomization signals and plain-English reasoning. Use it through the free lookup, JSON API, bulk databases, log extractor, MCP or…

    Web Appmacadress.com1 maker
  29. Othor AI 2.0

    29. Othor AI 2.0

    37 upvotes

    Your AI Head of Intelligence

    BI assumes you have an analyst, a warehouse, and time. Leaders have none. Othor inverts it: connect a source, and agents start analyzing on their own. 10 new features, including Data Integration Agents (100+ sources, no migration)…

    Analytics1 maker
  30. Gemzy

    30. Gemzy

    17 upvotes

    YOUR JEWELRY. TAKEN SERIOUSLY.

    The prompt-free AI jewelry photography studio for brands. Turn one product photo into on-model campaigns, product visuals and ready-to-publish content, in under 60 seconds. Free to start, with a 3-day free trial on Pro. Available on iOS…

    Android1 maker
  31. Rimplo

    31. Rimplo

    16 upvotes

    Revenue Agents that monitor churn, upsell, and deal risk.

    Built for GTM teams, Rimplo's Revenue Agents run across your CRM, billing, support, and product data, then tell your team which accounts are at risk, where expansion is hiding, and what's slowing your open deals.

    Sales1 maker
  32. Hatano

    32. Hatano

    15 upvotes

    The app blocker you can't outsmart, only outwalk

    Most blockers ask for willpower: timers, delays, guilt. Hatano asks for movement. Pick the apps that steal your time; they stay locked at the system level until you hit your daily step or workout goal, verified by Apple Health. The shield…

  33. Settl

    33. Settl

    12 upvotes

    Speak naturally and split expenses instantly

    Just scan your bills and/or say what you spent with who in any language. Settl AI agent splits it. We have iOS, Android apps, and MCP for your other agents to directly connect to. We maintain the ledger, handle the forex, and give you…

    Money1 maker
  34. freehire

    34. freehire

    16 upvotes

    The open-source job search that covers every board

    Job search is broken — every platform is a walled garden with its own exclusive listings. FreeHire is a search engine for jobs: it indexes 3M+ live jobs from 98 ATS platforms and other aggregators into one fast, deduplicated search. Open…

    Hiring1 maker
  35. plym

    35. plym

    9 upvotes

    Open source CMS for ridiculous speed, auto-SEO & GEO

    plym is an open source CMS that serves content to both agents and humans, at ridiculous ⚡️ speed. Agents get raw markdown: <80% fewer tokens, cleaner context. Humans get, well, a human page. It's heavily optimised for speed, SEO and AI…

    Open Sourceplym.com1 maker, 1 with an email
  36. Context Goblin

    36. Context Goblin

    9 upvotes

    Code review that knows what your PR breaks in other repos

    Context Goblin reviews pull requests. Register a second repo and it maps how your services are wired together, so the reviewer sees everything downstream that has an opinion about the change. You pick the reviewers with customizable…

    Developer Toolscontextgoblin.com
  37. Orbis: Learn Geopolitics

    Like Duolingo but for Geopolitics

    Orbis is a mobile app for learning geopolitics and world history in short lessons. The idea is simple. The news tell you what happened but rarely why it matters or how it got there, and most history apps hand you dates and trivia. Orbis…

    Android1 maker
  38. YappJam

    38. YappJam

    9 upvotes

    Jam with your mates with Multiplayer AI

    Start a live session with your mates using YappJam. One workspace, one agent, one build, in a video call where connection, ideas, knowledge and inspiration flow. It runs on the AI agents you already use directly in the shared workspace…

    Meetingsyappjam.com1 maker, 1 with an email
  39. E-Warmup

    39. E-Warmup

    9 upvotes

    AI-powered email warmup to fix deliverability & reputation

    E-Warmup is an AI-powered email warmup tool that builds sender reputation and fixes deliverability on autopilot. Instead of generic filler, it warms up your inbox using your real outreach content, in 30+ languages. With realistic AI read…

    Email1 maker
  40. LinkRadar Lite

    40. LinkRadar Lite

    9 upvotes

    Find the backlink gaps your competitors already fill, free

    Type your domain. LinkRadar Lite pulls the keywords you rank for and your closest competitors, then scores real publishers from a 225,000+ catalogue against them, with live prices and how far under market each one sits. No signup, no…

    Marketing1 maker

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Questions

What was #1 on Product Hunt on August 26, 2026?
x1 ("Lovable for iPhone apps go from idea to App Store"), with 506 upvotes. Expertise AI (#2) and PostHog Desktop (#3) followed.
How many launches are listed here?
40: the top of the day's leaderboard, ranked launches first. Junior has 39 makers on file for them, 10 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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