Nicholas Gehle, Psy.D., M.B.A.

A small but very nice update from the murmur corner of the internet:

A week after launch on Product Hunt, murmur got the ElevenLabs startup grant! Given that it's built around practicing awkward, important, and often slightly dreadful phone calls out loud, this feels especially fitting.

Just wanted to say thank you again to everyone here who supported the launch, upvoted it, commented, or gave it a try. Product Hunt gave the app a real push early on, and this is one of those moments that makes the whole thing feel a bit more real.

The grant should help me keep improving the voice side of the experience and give the app a bit more room to grow without immediately putting the brakes on everything.

Honestly launched this past Monday and we ended up Top 4 with 350+ upvotes and 40+ comments. It doesn t feel real, because:
1. The support we received from hundreds of strangers across the internet was incredible, and we are beyond grateful for it.
2. We didn t plan this launch. At all.

We ve been so deep in building the product that we kept pushing our launch back again and again and again. All of a sudden, on Monday we woke up to dozens of Congrats on the launch! messages. In our pre-coffee, foggy brained states we were really confused as to why. But then it hit us: we forgot to change our launch date.
To make matters worse, we didn t have any of the essentials: No hunter, no maker comment, no demo video (added in midday). There was just a placeholder of v0 materials we already iterated upon internally countless times. Our logo was even outdated, and the link to our product and website was nowhere to be found in the comments. Not one upvote or comment came from anyone we knew within the first hours of launching.
Because our day wasn t crazy enough, the website broke, so most businesses couldn t fill out our interest form properly, and our consumer facing Chrome extension encountered a huge bug where users couldn t use our product after installing it.
A situation like this usually means guaranteed failure, yet to our surprise, we climbed to a Top 5 position on the leaderboard and were swarmed with PH notifications all day. Even outside of Product Hunt we were being battered with notifications.
We re extremely thankful for the outcome, especially considering the circumstances. This is not a scenario that happens often, but it proved something vital to us:
Even with a shell of a launch, we re making something people want.

We always believed finding real, trustworthy reviews online mattered. But this experience made it clear it s not just important, it s necessary. As AI-generated content continues to blur the line between real and fake, the need for verified, authentic opinions is clear. That s the mission we re pursuing with Honestly.

We ve been getting this request a lot, so we re taking it seriously.

We re currently exploring a free tier for Embedful and have already started the initial steps to integrate it. The goal is simple: make it easier for more people to try creating and sharing dashboards, charts, tables, and counters without friction. At the same time, we want to be thoughtful about how this impacts the product long-term.