PRODUCTHUNT: 😼 Skill issue

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Happy Sunday, gang. Welcome back to another packed edition of The Roundup. As per usual, we’ve got standout launches from the week (include a build-your-own SWE agent kit that claims to beat Devin), the rundown on the Pieter Levels/Google drama, and a spotlight on Supabase. Let’s get into it. — Sanjana and Aaron

Weekly

Leaderboard highlights

	1. Raycast Notes — Fast, light, and frictionless note-taking Raycast’s newest launch, Notes, lets you organize your thoughts anywhere on your Mac. You can bring it up with the stroke of a key and use it to track to-do’s, save meeting notes, capture and quickly search ideas. It’s also fully keyboard accessible and markdown enabled.	▲ 884
	2. AI Linter — Customize your code review with natural language Squire's linter reviews your code based on the instructions you give it. By doing so you can standardize how your team codes and effectively set up and forget your reviews so you can focus on building.	▲ 129
	3. SWE-Kit — Build your own Devin like software engineering agent SWE-Kit is a headless IDE with AI tools for building custom coding agents with the LLM of your choice. Its makers claim it scored 48% on a benchmark test for coding agents, compared to Devin’s ~14% score. (But we haven’t independently tested it!)	▲ 1353
	4. PaperGen — Write long-form papers with citations, charts, and more PaperGen stands out from the sea of AI essay generators with two features: its context-aware citations and its “humanize” button, which apparently makes AI-generated prose undetectable to monitors. It can also generate charts and other visuals to accompany your essay.	▲ 721
	5. Butter Scenes — If Miro, Mentimeter and Pitch had a baby 🔥 Butter Scenes lets you create engaging workshops with an easy-to-use slide builder that combines presentation, interaction and whiteboarding tools. It’s designed to help mitigate the struggle of bouncing between separate tools while presenting, and integrates into popular video platforms like Zoom and Google Meet.	▲ 620
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OVERHEARD IN THE COMMUNITY

Levels v. Google

X, formerly known as Twitter (and yes, I’ll keep reminding you), is still the place for unexpected drama. One minute, you’re tossing out a funny tweet, and the next, you’re at the center of an incident in the maker world.

Last week, for example, Pieter Levels, the most recognized Indie Maker around, tweeted his frustrations with Google Gemini—too many pop-ups, portals, libraries, and the like. Fed up, he decided to skip Google and go with xAI. All pretty standard, right? Just a tweet about product gripes.

Then a Google DeepMind engineer jumps in with a quick “skill issue.” Normally, that’d be a funny jab, but it didn’t sit well with Levels or his 500k+ followers. Things spiraled. The engineer doubled down, then eventually deleted the tweet. It finally started to settle when Logan Kilpatrick, product lead for Google AI, stepped in to address Pieter’s complaints and got to work clearing up those messy pop-ups and other frustrations.

Our take: We don’t have much of a take on this. It’s the usual Twitter banter gone bad story but in this case it ended up well. Honestly, Google may even come out of this looking better than before after Logan’s response. All's well that ends well.

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OUTLIERS ON THE SITE

Track your dopamine and find VCs

A spotlight on launches that are a bit off-the-beaten track.

OpenVC Map: Google Maps for finding VCs.

OpenVC map lets you browse 1400+ investors directly on different city maps. You can filter by thesis or check size and build a shortlist or submit your deck directly through the platform.

Elqi: Track your dopamine and monitor your screentime.

Elqi estimates your dopamine levels by tracking your screentime and scrolling patterns. It makes you complete cognitive exercises (like deep breathing or puzzles) before you open connected apps.

Melies: Transform ideas into feature-length films.

Melies bills itself as an all-in-one film studio that lets you storyboard and produce feature-length films with cutting edge AI tools. It integrates GPT-4 and Claude for screenwriting, Flux for image generation, Runway/Kling/Luma for video generation, ElevenLab for sound, and so on.

NEW ARTICLES ON THE SITE

The case for Supabase

(This is an excerpt from this week’s edition of The Breakpoint, our developer tools newsletter.)

Product Hunt users love Supabase; it’s currently the #5 most shouted-out tool by top makers on the site. Given the platform’s prominence in the modern developer’s toolbox, we thought it would be helpful to get a bit more granular about why people love Supabase so much. Why choose Supabase over another BaaS tool? What’s to like (or not to like) about it?

So, we sent out a survey to top makers who shouted-out the platform and asked them to say a bit more. Consider this article the first in a series of product explorations intended to help the community understand how and why developers choose to use the tools they do.

What did you use Supabase for?

“We used Supabase for our database and real-time functionality, specifically to enable live streaming data updates to our data table in Manaflow. This setup allows us to handle dynamic data effectively and keeps our users up-to-date with the latest insights without needing to reload or refresh.” — Ka Ling Wu, CEO and Co-founder of Upsolve AI, which provides customer-facing analytics as a service.

Why did you choose Supabase over competitors (and which competitors did you consider)?

“Supabase quickly caught our attention as an affordable and highly versatile solution. While Firebase was an option, our project required a relational database capable of handling complex joins, making PostgreSQL — and therefore Supabase — the clear choice. Right from the start, we found the admin dashboard intuitive and easy to work with, and both the Supabase community and internal support have been a huge plus.” — Team at Fixtured (#4 Product of the Day), a comprehensive sports calendar that covers over 50 competitions across major sports leagues.

Read the full article here.

That’s all for this week! As usual, hit us up at content@producthunt.co with any feedback.

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