Product Hunt Daily Digest
April 25th, 2024

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Here’s the headlines: 

🤖 Elon is closing in on $6 billion in funding for his AI startup. 

🛜 The FCC has officially voted to restore net neutrality. 

🦺 Sam Altman and other AI leaders will serve on a government AI safety board.

“Build it, and they will come,” right? Ya, after you figure out distribution and marketing, which is actually kind of hard. Sure, you built a great product, but how do you convince people to use it? 

Here are eight new products that can help you get your first customers: 

Pitching: Are sales pitches not going the way you hoped? PaddleBoat helps you sharpen up your sales techniques by letting you practice with realistic, AI-powered potential customers. 

Prospecting: Great, but where do you find customers to pitch to? Persana uses AI to help you get intel and info on leads, organize it, and automate messaging to prospects. 

Personalization: Almost no one likes a cold email unless it's done really well. Vidyard lets you create personalized video messages for your outreach at scale. 

Demoing: For launch day and decks, HylaSnap lets you create launch-worthy assets just by screenshotting. You can add colorful backgrounds, effects, and even device mockups.

Distributing: Exemplary launched a new tool that uses AI to help you quickly create social-media-ready clips. Upload your video and create engaging social clips with dynamic layouts, captions, B-roll, and more. 

Inbound: Got a blog? It’s a great way to tell your story, but Storipress Prophet can help make sure your readers are actually turning into leads by keeping up on who’s reading what and why. 

Converting: So people are visiting your site, but how do you turn them into customers? SalesPopup intelligently shows users recent real transactions to build trust. Simply customize the popup, copy the script, and you’re ready to go.

So there you have it — eight new tools to help you market your next big thing. At the least, they should settle your go-to-market nerves if you’re building over the weekend like me.

OUR PICKS 

Resume Photo AI uses AI to generate professional headshots, which is perfect for LinkedIn. 

Moodset helps you track and improve your mood with the power of good music. 

Hyra is an immersive reading app built for the Apple Vision Pro. 

MAKER’S CORNER 

Langfuse 2.0 is an open-source AI platform for perfecting your LLM before releasing it. 

CopyCopter creates viral TikTok and YouTube Shorts videos with just a single prompt. 

Meeting Muse helps your team identify ineffective meetings so you can make them more meaningful.

BEYOND THE FOLD 
Palette is a social app for organizing, sharing, and curating all of your interests in one place.

We’re not surprised Stripe has kept a steady place in our top 10 of most shouted-out products. 

Stripe does everything from enabling subscription payments for an app that transforms 3D models into lifelike visualizations, to powering a chatbot that makers can install on their sites to collect payments. 

This week, Stripe made a ton of announcements, from enabling crypto payments again to allowing customers to use its financial stack without its payments product. We’ll watch their shoutouts, but expect their spot on the charts to look something like this 📈 with these updates.

If starting a new month and potentially missing an anniversary or birthday makes you *shudder* like me, you might be interested in a perennial calendar — a calendar that applies to every year. Every Year is a digital remaking of the perennial calendar. Parker Ehret built it when he noticed his wife would get upset when someone’s birthday would show up on the calendar with too little notice.