Wassup, legends! Welcome back to another edition of the Roundup — our weekly Product Hunt ICYMI. This week, we've got Raycast's newest launch (to ensure you never get caught up context-switching again), an article about how to figure out your users' painpoints, and a BIG announcement for anyone interested in shaping tech history. Let's dive in.
|
|
Weekly
Leaderboard highlights
OVERHEARD IN THE COMMUNITY
🚨 The 2024 Golden Kitty Awards are here! 🚨
Notion, Tesla, OpenAI, Apple—what do they all have in common? They’ve claimed a Golden Kitty, and now it’s your turn to help decide who joins them.
With 17 categories (think Developer Tools, No Code, Data Security) and an honorary Maker of the Year award. This is your chance to celebrate the products and creators that defined 2024.
Voting runs January 20–26 — don’t miss your chance to shape this year’s Hall of Fame.
Vote starting tomorrow on Product Hunt.
NEW ARTICLES ON THE SITE
By Zubin Koticha
TLDR: we built a little consumer app in a day. It went viral, bringing us leads, but more importantly, it allowed us to become users of our own product, Dawn.
Everyone in SaaS should be trying this.
How we did it👇
A Small Viral Experiment:
A few weeks ago, we realized we had a little problem.
We're building Dawn, analytics for AI products, especially conversational ones. But we aren't a conversational AI product.
This can be a disadvantage. So a few weeks ago, we started looking to fix this.
Inspired by Wordware's amazing Twitter roast app, we came up with a plan.
We'd build a small conversational AI app (called ChatGPTPrank), hook it up to Dawn for analytics, and make it go viral. After finalizing the app, we posted it on Twitter, Reddit, + Hackernews - and it went viral almost immediately, getting us tons of inbound leads.
The best part: The whole thing took < two hours...
Latest Emails from producthunt
See moreproducthunt
9:20 PM (Yesterday)
🧠 OpenAI hacks the world
Its own model broke into Hugging Face to find the answers. It took hours. Product Hunt The Frontier by Product Hunt Tuesday, Jul 28 FRONTIER 🧠 OpenAI hacks the world This newsletter was brought to you
producthunt
2:34 PM (Yesterday)
😸 Everyone's fine until you ask twice
Also: Windows finally gets a menu bar worth hovering over, and a circuit-design tool born from an orchid growth chamber. Product Hunt Tuesday, Jul 28 The Leaderboard This newsletter was brought to you
producthunt
Mon 5:07 PM
😸 Which ride was this again?
Also: a $35 computer that outlasts your laptop, and a terminal file manager that looks good on day one. Product Hunt Monday, Jul 27 The Leaderboard This newsletter was brought to you by Framer 3.0
producthunt
Sun 5:17 PM
😸 Slack for agents
Jack Dorsey has entered the chat Product Hunt Sunday, Jul 26 The Roundup This newsletter was brought to you by Framer 3.0 30-second favor Help us make this newsletter better 4 quick questions. Your
producthunt
Sun 2:38 PM
😸 Your to-do list is cheering
Also: a break reminder that knows when to shut up, and a keyboard app hiding a screen reader. Product Hunt Sunday, Jul 26 The Leaderboard This newsletter was brought to you by Framer 3.0 Your to-do
producthunt
Sat 2:39 PM
😸 Caps Lock got a promotion
Also: a teleprompter that actually listens, and a voice for your coding agents. Product Hunt Saturday, Jul 25 The Leaderboard This newsletter was brought to you by DigitalOcean Caps Lock got a
producthunt
Fri 2:34 PM
😸 Permission to proceed, human
Also: a notes app that hates AI, and a search engine built by someone whose job is finding startups. Product Hunt Friday, Jul 24 The Leaderboard This newsletter was brought to you by Framer 3.0
producthunt
Thu 2:34 PM
😸 Death to meetings
Hasura's founder moved his 70-person team off Slack in February. A shopping browser that checks out for you on a single-use card. And a dictation app built in days that never touches the cloud.
