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The Leaderboard
August 12th, 2025
From prompt to app
Build, Remember, Play

gm legends, happy Tuesday.

Here’s today’s lineup: v0 turns a single prompt into a full stack app with UI, auth, database and a one click deploy; Recall lets you chat with your own sources so answers come with receipts; Rosebud takes a sentence and spits out a playable browser game you can tweak and share.

P.S. Building something new? Tell us about it → editorial@producthunt.co 🫶

Repo, Not Demo

v0 App by Vercel turns a plain sentence into a running full stack app. It drafts UI you can edit, wires routes, sets up auth and a database, adds common integrations, and deploys to Vercel. You keep the code and keep moving.

🔥 Our Take: The best builder is boring in the right way. Give me a repo that opens, pages that load, auth that works, and seed data I can tweak. If this gets you to a first pull request before the caffeine fades, that is speed worth keeping.

Memory You Can Talk To

Recall lets you chat with the stuff you actually consume. YouTube, podcasts, TikToks, PDFs, notes and more. Build a library from sources you trust, bulk import by the thousand, ask a question, get an answer with receipts you can click. Your stash, searchable and on demand.

🔥 Our Take: Digitizing memory is the move. When the source matters, vague chat is not enough. This turns scattered tabs, quotes and journals into a version of you who actually remembers where that stat came from. Curate a little so it does not become a junk drawer and you finally get recall without the guesswork.

Type It, Play It

Rosebud runs in your browser. Write a sentence and it spits out a playable game. Pick 2D or 3D, tweak code and art in the same tab, remix templates, then share a link. No installs. No engine setup.

🔥 Our Take: The inner child in me who wanted to build Halo levels in five minutes is screaming. The fact I can have an idea for a game, log in, drop a sentence into an AI, and bam start playing around is mind-blowing. Finally, I can act on all those wacky ideas I had as a kid cooped up with my Xbox 360.

Apple vs Everyone

Nika wants to know: “Any chance Apple wins the AI battle?”

In other words, can a late starter outmaneuver model-first rivals or does the window close before Siri grows up?

The thread splits three ways. One camp says Apple does not need to win models if it wins devices. On-device inference across a billion iPhones, Watches and AirPods is a moat you can actually hold. Another says hesitation is the risk. Iteration in AI moves fast and vibes do not fix a stale assistant. The last camp punts on the scoreboard. Apple can buy, partner or build on open source and still ship the version that normal people adopt.

TL;DR: Apple does not have to beat OpenAI on leaderboards. If the assistant finally gets things done inside the ecosystem, that feels like a win.

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