Make the bots pay

Plus, five AI tools you may have missed

WELCOME

Happy Tuesday, legends. Welcome back to another edition of The Frontier — our weekly newsletter covering the best new AI launches on Product Hunt. .

TOP LAUNCHES

Create your own world

TOP LAUNCHES

EX-4D takes any ordinary video clip and carves out its hidden 3D geometry and motion over time. Upload a clip, let it reconstruct depth, mesh and textures, then pan around, zoom in or shift your perspective as if you shot it in VR.

VISEAL turns photos into everyday language chats using agentic AI. Snap a scene and get back-and-forth dialogues that spring from your world. Learn words you actually need, not textbook scraps.

Phase hooks into Figma and turns your designs into fully interactive prototypes with real code export. Build complex user flows, simultaneous interactions and export React components without wrestling plugins.

Browse Anything adds a chat bar to any webpage so you can type “summarize this”, “find all email links” or “compare those prices” and get instant answers without endless scrolling or copy-pasting.

Lazy 2.0 gives you one keystroke to grab context from any window, email, PDF, tweet or video, and drop it into a live chat where you can riff on your own notes without ever leaving flow.

WHAT’S HOT

No more free for all

The shift: Cloudflare just flipped the script on AI scrapers. With its new Pay-per-Crawl feature, websites can now charge bots to access their content. No payment, no page.

The play: It's a direct shot at the “free-for-all” era of web scraping. Your site, your rules. AI companies that once hoovered up data without blinking now have to ask nicely—and open their wallets.

Why it matters: This turns AI models from silent lurkers into paying customers. If it catches on, the internet becomes less of a buffet and more of a cover charge.

The snag: It only works if the biggest bots actually comply. And let’s be honest, the same folks who "accidentally" scraped private medical data aren’t exactly known for playing fair.

TRENDING DISCUSSIONS

Gabe Perez dropped a hands-on review of Fieldy, the wearable “IRL Granola” that aims to rescue scattered ADHD brains from forgotten to-dos and living-room chaos. He strapped it on under his shirt for a week, using its always-on voice capture, Google Calendar sync and Apple Watch reminders to turn conversations into task lists and day highlights.

Pros include spotless reminders, three-day battery life, slick app design and seamless Google integration. Cons crop up in the form factor—plastic shell, visible status light under thin shirts—and glitches in voice context (it sometimes picks up bystanders or can’t handle multilingual chats).

So here’s the real test: would you welcome a buzz-and-blink sidekick around your neck, or stick to good old apps and let your brain do the heavy lifting?

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