Product Hunt — once Silicon Valley's darling platform for launching groundbreaking apps and tech products — finds itself at an intriguing crossroads. After analyzing data from 76,822 launches on Product Hunt from 2015 to 2021, some compelling insights emerge.

We're excited to introduce Deep Analysis, the latest version of our AI-powered analytics agent. At a high level, this new capability of Dot is designed to go beyond simple data retrieval and step into a new realm of AI-driven deep analysis.

Our journey with Dot, an AI agent designed to help business stakeholders tackle data-related questions on Slack, has been quite the adventure. Here, I want to share some of the things we've learned over the past 1.5 years.

1. What is a Semantic Layer?

The possibilities of LLMs expand well-beyond generating great copies, stories, essays and programs; it can be framed as a powerful general problem solver.