whaddup legends? Welcome to the Friday issue of the Leaderboard. in today's digest: grow trees by doing nothing, if you're loud you pay, and a way for AI to communicate with Product Hunt.
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Idleforest is a browser extension that uses your unused internet bandwidth to plant real trees. You install it, forget it, and keep browsing like usual. In the background, you're funding reforestation, without lifting a finger or spending a dollar.
đ„ Our take:Â Everything online wants your attention. This just wants your leftovers. Idleforest quietly turns your wasted bandwidth into actual forests. No dashboards. No guilt. No effort. Finally, a passive good deed thatâs actually passive.
The Wall is a public social feed where every post costs moneyâand every new post costs more than the last. No likes. No edits. No delete button. If you want to say something, youâll have to mean it.
đ„ Our take:Â This might be the first peaceful social network ever made. No clout-chasing, no ragebait, no endless replies. The loudest people burn through their wallets first. The quiet ones finally get some air.
Welcome to Community Gems, where we feature useful, weird, or just plain cool stuff built by the Product Hunt community. Got something you're working on? Pitch it to editorial@producthunt.co. We actually read them.
đ„ Todayâs pick: Product Hunt MCP, built by Jai Pandya. It connects LLMs and AI agents to Product Hunt through the Model Context Protocol, giving them structured access to real-time data â posts, comments, topics, collections, votes, users, the whole firehose. No scraping, no janky middleware. Just clean access for AI tools that need to understand whatâs happening on Product Hunt as it happens.
Kamilas dropped a fun one: âWhatâs the most unconventional way youâve ever come up with a business idea?â
Turns out, inspiration shows up in weird places. One person credited a teenage friend who spewed âdumbâ ideas until one finally hit. Someone else got there through a joke product called Purposeful Poop (yes, really). Others mentioned aimless walks, strange customer requests, or just building something ridiculous and realizing later it had legs.
Not every idea starts with a whiteboard and a roadmap. Sometimes the best ones sneak in sideways.
Worth a scroll if youâve ever backed into a good idea by accident.
