What are you obsessed about?
Ryan Hoover
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I've always been curious about emerging behaviors and nascent trends. That's one of the inspirations for starting Product Hunt.
What niche topic are you obsessed about right now and why?
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Joshua Dance@joshdance
Summer Bod 2020
Trying to recreate holographic effects using CSS.
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DALL-E 2 and AI generated images. This is mind blowing technology and it’s only getting better. I don’t think it’s crazy to think in 15-20 years you could have it generate a completely original sitcom from a text prompt. “An episode of Seinfeld where Jerry is losing gigs to a robot comedian”.
CharmVerse
Lean Out
Waste streams. More specifically envisioning a world without waste (wwow). It will require a sea change in how we think of the products we consume, but I see more and more people tapping into the concept of "circularity" in commerce. It's grown in recent months and I see that trend continuing.
I am excited at the future of PropTech where the buildings—homes and offices and commercial property are designed for data-informed people—people as individuals and as communities. A lot of work is happening in Europe in this category—I guess *synthesis* is the foundation for civic design and proptech.
Kind of obsessed with this new Jelly Donut flavor ice cream by Jeni’s. Oh, and learning every FCPX shortcut my brain can retain.
The Twenty Minute VC
Open source intelligence: https://www.bellingcat.com/resou...
There’s a need for new, modern tools. And probably a chance to grow the market by 100x.
We seem to be in a bit of crypto winter, but I'm still obsessed with NFTs and their potential to transform ownership in the digital world.
Also with Apple's AR glasses rumored to drop next year, been trying to learn everything I can about the space, from how to create 3D objects, recording 3D video, and brainstorming what a digital layer to the physical world will look like.
60 Second Feedback
Cultured meat, also referred to as 'lab grown meat'. Over the last five years I've definitely been obsessing over this topic!
I'm focusing on innovating brand identity design software. I feel that this market is very much neglected and not much has changed, people are still doing PDF brand presentations like they did 20 years ago and sending final artwork files over email.
We are working on Bravemark (www.bravemark.co) to do just this. Brand identity. designers should have a better way to handoff their assets and present their work.
I'm obsessed with translating inspirational, fluffy talk into actionable steps. Kind of like if Shia Labeouf wrote TL;DR book summaries.
There's so much information available to us now. The problem isn't gathering enough knowledge or wisdom, it's how you apply it.
https://todotemplates.com
Memberships and subscriptions as a constantly growing and expanding business model (not only in the tech world).
The Membership Economy model works for both organizations and individuals. Executives and investors see that the model succeeds because it reduces uncertainty in their revenue. When done correctly, membership appeals to the members, too, because membership provides recognition, stability, and convenience while connecting people to one another.
Building better workplace relationships. It's key to cohesion, productivity and innovation but most workplaces don't prioritise it. Even though they most likely measure it in some way. And say it's important.
I'm working on a system for teams to make a habit of getting to know and understand each other better.
You can check out the progress on https://www.ourketchup.com
Headroom
We see a big trend of remote workers watching summaries of meetings later, rather than attending meetings live, and saving 1-2 hours a day.
Our video conferencing and meeting tool makes that easy, supporting sync and async meetings, with automatically generated summaries 10% of the meeting duration. AI measures everyone's engagement in real-time (body-language, gestures, emotions, spoken words, app activity etc.) and highlights the moments that participants were most engaged. Replay, highlights, transcript, notes, action items are all stored in the cloud default private, searchable and shareable - making meeting information useful.
If you want to choose which meetings you attend live, and which you flip around to work for you, check it out https://www.producthunt.com/prod...
Code selling https://git.market is coming soon, better be on the wait list!
I build a life management system for every day to help people take back control of their life and well-being.
It all started with a personal productivity framework that I perfected for years solving my own need—just due to the fact that no existing tool or service offers a proper productivity suite for personal use.
Nowadays, life is too fast. It takes significant efforts to handle the load. And working from home with kids running around doesn’t make things better—it leads to decreased overall physical and mental well-being. Many people have given up planning and just go with the flow, not even trying to live a better, more fulfilled, and healthier life.
A new survey finds the average adult loses a staggering 26 days per year to "wasted time". That is enough time to master a new skill! The same survey shows that 56% of adults are aware they need to practice better time management.
The problem is existing personal productivity tools do not help. They are outdated and limited to just two narrow niches: calendars and to-dos. The problem is especially pronounced when we talk about organizing family life or group activities with friends.
I build a completely new paradigm in personal productivity—nothing like people used before—and create a new "life management" sector that didn't exist before.
AgeTech ... Because it's the biggest market you don't know about, and as demographics quickly change it's going to command attention.
Cursor Chat Anywhere
I'm interested in the QUIC protocol released last year and the new protocols built on top of it (like HTTP/3 and WebTransport).
As developers know, the TCP-based world has been around for a long time. But when it was invented, we didn't have 5G and fiber optic networks yet.
So I started build framework called YoMo (https://github.com/yomorun/yomo) for developers who wanna introduce new technologies to their next cool apps.
Beside that, I built free tools like:
- https://webtransport.day , a free & public WebTransport echo service, seems the first one on the earth 🌎
- https://geoping.gg , a free online tool to inspecting the detail of network latency from end user anywhere
Real time collaboration, how it helps people from anywhere to build low latency applications, I am very obsessed 🥷🏻
Zero-Knowledge Proof platforms like https://www.risczero.com
Recommender Systems, counteracting bias and making them generally more fair but specifically how they will evolve with the acceleration of web3 and the creator economy.
MyNFT.fyi
I'm working on a new way to allows a group of people to buy together an NFT. Instead of reflecting the shared ownership with ERC20 (as all current platforms), it is reflected as an ERC721 which provides an easy way to track the users ownership.
Here is the website: https://thecollectorsnft.xyz/
Here is a short article: https://mirror.xyz/thecollectors...
Here is gitbook: https://the-collectors.gitbook.i...
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