Ask HN: How will today's election affect the products you will build next year?

In the sense the external environment can influence business decisions, or even change the nature of a business... maybe. At a strategic level.

Depends on what you do.

To determine how much what you do might depend on external factors, there's no harm in doing a PEST analysis [1] once in a while. Perhaps combine it with some other tools, mind tools really that can help spark or focus reflective thinking.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEST_analysis

Project wise probably little, though I'm sure hiring will be affected by economic conditions set by economic policy. More materially, I'm a less productive coder when I'm filled with anxiety and dread from headlines everyday.

What differences in policy? I haven't heard from either side that sounds like coherent policy, unless "we must win" describes a policy.

In any case the outcome will almost certainly have no affect on any of my plans.

Short of some unexpected major disaster resulting from it (such as civil unrest), I don't see how the results of the election would affect my business or product plans.