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gm legends. It’s Sunday.

This week, a $65M Series B for a product that makes open models easier to use, say hello to your chatty new AI voice assistant, an app that gets your kids to do stuff, and three forum posts to help you build. Plus, five of our favorite launches from the past week.

We see you, legend. Enjoy the read.

P.S. Launching soon? We’d love to hear about it → editorial@producthunt.co 🫶

Ollama, a tool that lets devs easily run open models on their Macs and PCs, just raised $65M in a Series B. 

The tool first popped up on Product Hunt’s radar back in 2023 when founder and CEO Jeff Morgan shared the launch. The idea was simple: Running open models like Qwen and Mistral required lots of setup and installation. Why not create a tool that did all the setup in a few clicks?

Now there are even more open models popping up. If that’s your thing, we’ve got two July launches to show you: 

• LongCat 2.0: “an MIT-licensed 1.6T-parameter MoE model with ~48B active parameters, 1M context, LongCat Sparse Attention, and post-training for coding and agentic workflows”
• FUTO Swipe: “a family of small, open models for accurate swipe typing. It includes a layout-agnostic encoder, a layout-specific decoder, and a lightweight context language model."

Hello. Who dis? AI agents don’t just live inside the chat anymore. They want to talk to you. Here are five recent launches in the AI voice agent space: 

• Toyo saw a bunch of AI assistants that could read text, but none that you could just hop on a phone call with. Toyo will call you to chat about today’s agenda.
• Asmi also picks up the phone, first to call you and see what needs doing — and then to ring the plumber, the dentist, and that one guy who owes you money.
• Fini launched an AI customer support agent last year, then saw it was only as good as its sources — many of which were stale and needed revisions from the team. So Fini launched Knowledge Atlas, “a self-learning knowledge base that updates itself.” 
• Tyto is for people building their own voice agents. It helps you figure out when and how bad audio is causing breakdowns in agents’ outputs so you can make them more durable for the noisiest of real-world situations.
• Relay is a fast way to create an AI receptionist that knows your business. When it gets stumped, it brings in a human — and remembers the answer for next time. 

by Pricus Estudio of Crony

Like many of you, getting my kids to transition between activities, like leaving the park or finishing screen time, was a daily battle. To a toddler, "5 more minutes" means absolutely nothing.

So, I vibe-coded a solution.

Instead of a stressful ticking clock, I built a visual timer just for our family. A tiny character walks across a path of colorful blocks. When the path fills up, time is up.

The result? My kids started racing the character to get dressed or brush their teeth. It turned daily friction into a game.

After seeing the peace it brought to our home, I spent the last few weeks polishing it into a real product.

We love a good trip to the forums. Here are three of the best from this week:

• How Google’s new “platform properties” feature in Search Console helps you track the performance of your social and video posts. Read the post.

• How to promote a product without sounding like a salesperson. Read the post. 

• A playbook for creating an agent that heals itself when things go wrong. Read the post.