Hi, hi! It’s Monday and it’s Earth Day! I’ve got a great climate product to tell you about.
But ICYMI: Makers worldwide are hosting their own Product Hunt meetups on May 2nd. RSVP to one in your city or even host your own.
The headlines:
🧑⚖️ The US House has passed a bill that could potentially ban TikTok.
🚗 Tesla has come up with a quick fix for recalled cars and it’s riveting.
💗 Tinder is adding a “Share my date” feature but it’s not what you think.
Imagine making money and helping small businesses go solar at the same time.
That’s how I would sum up Climatize, a new platform that’s like Republic or Wefunder but for solar projects. In other words, you can scroll the SEC-registered platform for solar projects that you want to invest in.
Climatize came about when co-founder Will Wiseman, who was working to develop solar panels, noticed that small to medium-sized solar projects struggled to raise funding, even though they qualified for grants. Now Climatize lets anyone with a US bank account scroll such projects and invest in them with as little as $10.
Examples on Climatize’s site include anything from a family-owned farm in South Carolina to a second-hand car dealership that wants to go solar and has already received part of what it needs in the form of a grant from the USDA.
The makers, who were recognized in Forbes 30 under 30, say that investors can gain up to a 10% return on their investment. And I love that — not because I’m a green money monster but because, as the makers also note, traditional activism has lacked tangible change over the last decade plus. Many of us who care about climate change watch our food consumption, shop sustainably, etc., and yet still Earth Days come and go and we feel limited by our impact.
Climatize takes advantage of the momentum that’s already growing in renewable energy (1 trillion dollars is projected to be spent on solar energy adoption) and aims to catalyze it. So, if you’d like to help more people go solar, check it out.
Our picks
- Sounds Right lets nature earn royalties for its sounds on Spotify.
- Hey.new prevents spam by adding a layer on top of your email address.
- Sonnet is an end-to-end AI meeting assistant with a fully automated CRM.
Makers Corner
- ServBay sets up a local web dev environment on your computer.
- Chatbot Arena lets you compare features, pricing, and capabilities of chatbots.
- Tjime is a calendar tool specifically designed to help avoid burnout.
Leaderboard Liftoff
Supabase clenched the latest Product of the Week badge. (We still 😻 you too, Cal.com).
Looking for a beautiful component library to help build your app? Shadcn UI has made its way onto the list of the top 20 products shouted-out this month. Here’s what a few makers had to say:
“The best way to create the cleanest UI in seconds.”
AutoRepurpose, YouTube vid to threads generator 🎥
“...Allowing us to build a clean and efficient UI.”
Ticket Hero, Event ticket price comparisons 🎫
“Unmatched in facilitating the creation of beautiful, user-friendly interfaces.”
PowerNote, AI day-summarizer 📝
New Yorkers and Tourists: The Official MTA App got an overhaul, with real-time arrival info, live bus tracking, multi-modal trip planning, accessibility info, and more.
Congrats to the team, including Jessica Crabbe, who noted: “Now we just need to keep iterating and get higher in the app store rankings!”
I can’t be the only one thrilled to see that kind of thinking behind U.S. public transit systems. Drop the team some support.