Product Hunt's August 17-23 leaderboard was heavy on tools that put AI into work founders already do: marketing, media, sales, workflows, and code.
Astute
Astute launched a B2B new media platform for finding and running creator partnerships. It helps companies identify the newsletters, podcasts, Substacks, and other channels their buyers follow, then manages the partnership workflow. It gives startups a way to test creator distribution without building the research and payout process from scratch.
Website: tryastute.com
X: @join_astute
Clipto MCP
Clipto MCP lets Claude, ChatGPT, and other agents search the contents of local video, audio, photos, and documents. A creator can describe the footage needed for a script, find every meeting where a topic was discussed, or generate a rough cut without manually scrubbing a large library. Processing stays on the files already stored on the computer.
Website: clipto.com
X: @Clipto
Clara AI SDR
Clara turns inbound website traffic into live sales conversations. It answers questions, qualifies visitors, gives product demos, handles objections, books meetings, and can alert a human rep through Slack or Microsoft Teams. Teams train it on product docs, pitch decks, FAQs, and sales content, then connect it to their CRM.
Website: clarasdr.ai
X: @bhavyasree
Taku AI
Taku packages AI skills, agents, and workflows into desktop apps that people can copy, run, and remix. Users can start with a setup made by another creator or describe a goal and have Taku assemble the tools. Creators can publish their own setups as reusable apps.
Website: taku.ai
X: @taku_ai
Origin by Cursor
Origin is Cursor's new code hosting platform. Developers can create repositories, browse and edit code, open and review pull requests, manage access, and sync selected GitHub repositories without leaving Cursor. The launch puts repository work alongside the coding agents that operate on it.
Website: cursor.com/origin
X: @cursor_ai
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