😸 Something's above you

gm legends, happy Monday.

A rocket scientist found a way to monetize the seconds between your keystrokes, something is flying overhead and you didn't know, and Vercel Day is tomorrow — last chance to get on the board.

Vercel Day is Tuesday, June 16th. Schedule your launch today, add the tag "vercel-day," and you're in the running for a direct pitch to Vercel Ventures plus $30k in Vercel credits.

Vercel Drop hit #1 on Saturday. The community is paying attention this week. If you've been waiting to launch, this is the window.

Last day to get on the board.

Tinfoil Pigeons shows every aircraft flying over your postcode on a retro radar display — tap any blip to see the plane, route, and altitude in real time. Chris Ward, who works in AI and audio production, built it.

🔥 Our Take: FlightRadar24 already does this, for free, with more data. Tinfoil Pigeons is not competing with that. It shows only what's directly above you, on a display that looks like it belongs in a 1960s air traffic control room. That's not a data product. It's a toy — and naming it Tinfoil Pigeons is exactly the kind of thing a person does when they're building something because they wanted it, not because they modeled the market.

They kept using words like colleague, coworker, team member. One CEO called it the glue holding their e-commerce business together, which is a lot, but also… you see why. It lives in Slack and plugs into 3,000+ tools, so instead of jumping between tabs, you just ask for the thing. Pull Stripe against HubSpot, check Sentry alerts, spin up a campaign brief, build a landing page, send a report upstairs. It all happens there.

One user said it was the first time AI felt like a real coworker, which is either exciting or slightly concerning depending on your week.

Kickbacks.ai puts a small sponsored message in your terminal's status line while Claude Code thinks, and sends you 50% of the ad revenue. It was built by Andrew McCalip, whose job title on Product Hunt is "full time rocket scientist."

🔥 Our Take: Screen savers filled idle monitor time for thirty years and paid nobody. Kickbacks flips that. Your attention while waiting has value, and right now it goes to the void. IdleDev launched the same day with the same pitch. Two products, one day — that usually means someone actually did the math on whether the CPMs work out.

Wasil Abdal (@wasil_abdal) opened the general forum with a confession: he's been manually copying data from three dashboards into a spreadsheet every Friday for six months. Twenty-five minutes, every week, that he's kept not automating.

The thread filled up with everyone's version of the same thing. Most answers landed in the ten-to-thirty-minute range — the zone where a task is annoying enough to notice but not painful enough to fix.

"A 2-hour task gets automated immediately because it's painful. A 10-minute task survives forever because it's easy enough to tolerate." — Varun Mishra, landing the point the whole thread was circling.