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AI Notetakers
Richard White
CEO and Founder of Fathom (YC W21)
AI notetakers (AKA AI Meeting Assistants) aren’t just a nice-to-have anymore— they're an essential tool for anyone jumping between meetings.
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Online banking
Immad Akhund
CEO and founder of Mercury
I’ve been a founder for the better part of twenty years now across multiple startups in different industries. And when seemingly basic startup infrastructure turns out to be cumbersome, it creates a real drag on a business. This was my experience when attempting to transfer funds to hundreds of game developers in my days at Heyzap.
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AI Databases
Davit Buniatyan
Founder and CEO of @Activeloop
As AI continues to advance, the databases that support these technologies must evolve just as rapidly. After decades of evolution, the days of the "one size fits all" databases are over, as the impressively long list of 400+ databases here would suggest.
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Security & compliance tools
Christina Cacioppo
CEO & Co-founder, Vanta
Before I founded Vanta in 2018, very few startups had a SOC 2, the most commonly accepted standard for demonstrating security. That’s because preparing for a SOC 2 was a time-consuming, expensive, and very manual process (think lots of spreadsheets and screenshots). If you were a founder of a growing startup and you had to choose between building new features or implementing a security program, you’d likely go with the former.
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AI Infrastructure Tools
Kwindla Kramer
CEO of Daily.co
The generative AI landscape is evolving rapidly. New AI models, new platforms, new techniques for building AI applications, and new ideas are emerging every week. Any “best of” list will need to be updated regularly!
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Hiring software
Max Kolysh
CEO of Dover
If you’ve run hiring or conducted interviews at your company, you likely used an Applicant Tracking System (ATS). Simply put, an ATS is a database for your candidates, kind of like a CRM for recruiting.
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Notion Templates
Ben Lang
next play
Notion templates have played an outsized role in my life. I joined the Notion team many years ago thanks to Notion templates. My wife and I were featured on the front page of the New York Times thanks to my Notion template. I’ve worked and met with hundreds of Notion creators who’ve had their lives changed thanks to Notion templates. The best part, I originally discovered Notion on Product Hunt. Truly full circle.
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Data analysis tools
Barry McCardel
CEO and co-founder at Hex
By now, I’ll assume everyone has heard the trope, “data is the new oil”. As someone who actually spent time in the oil and gas industry, I can tell you confidently that this is a terrible analogy. Oil is extremely dangerous, difficult to transport, and you have to burn it to get value. Data is invisible, floats around over wires, and you push buttons on your computer to do math with it.
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Video conferencing
Rajiv Ayyangar
CEO at Product Hunt
Before Product Hunt, I spent several years building a competitor to Zoom (not successful, but quite rewarding). I’m left with a healthy appreciation for how difficult these tools are to build - in fact, they may be one of the most complex, unreliable tools that we use on a daily basis. On the surface, video chat seems simple, but under the hood there are a myriad of adaptations and tradeoffs that are being made every few milliseconds in response to network and device conditions. Speed matters. Reliability matters. Resolution matters. It’s like the internet itself - dive a bit under the surface and there be dragons.
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Best SEO tools
Nate Matherson
CEO at Positional
I fell in love with content marketing and search engine optimization (SEO) a decade ago. Truthfully, I found SEO out of necessity. At my first company, we desperately needed to increase our top-of-funnel awareness, but customer acquisition costs were stubbornly high, given our industry.
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