This year’s Product Hunt Golden Kitty Awards are a love letter to AI—and developers are eating good. From code assistants to synthetic video wizards, tools that blend human creativity with machine speed dominated the rankings. Let’s break down the winners (and why your workflow needs them yesterday).
Top Dog: Cursor
The AI Pair Programmer That Just Gets You
Forget clunky IDEs. Cursor, crowned Product of the Year, is where coding meets conversation. Developers rave about its “AI intern” vibe—think real-time code fixes, instant documentation, and eerily accurate autocomplete. PH’s CTO put it bluntly: “We’re not programming anymore; we’re giving feedback.” Translation? Cursor turns 1x engineers into 10x wizards.
Runner-Up Spotlight:
- Supabase: The “anti-Oracle” database now powers 1/3 of YC startups.
- OpenAI o1: This LLM pauses to think before answering—like a philosopher with a GPU.
The Game-Changers
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Design Tools: Figma AI automated tedious tasks (goodbye, padding adjustments) and sparked a meme: “Your Figma file just designed itself.”
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No-Code: Notion Sites lets you spin up websites from docs. Perfect for portfolios, landing pages, or passive-aggressive team wikis.
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Data Security: Supabase AI Assistant turned boring database babysitting into “Hey, query my data like you’re ChatGPT.”
The Dark Horses
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Audio: ElevenLabs made voice clones so realistic, your mom might mistake AI-you for the real deal.
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Video: OpenAI’s Sora generates movie-grade scenes from text. Hollywood’s sweating.
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Hardware: Qura Ring 4—because tracking your sleep with jewelry is so 2024.
The Big Takeaway
AI didn’t just join the toolbox—it rewrote the rules. Non-coders build apps. Designers automate grunt work. And developers? They’re basically AI whisperers now.
As Product Hunt’s trends show: Tools that amplify humans (instead of replacing them) win.