... most important and challenging experiences you ll have as a founder is fundraising. I pitched VCs across London and San Francisco. Some spent 15 seconds on my deck. Some took the call just to diligence a competitor. One told me to ask for more money. Oh, and I found out your pitch is probably being recorded and run through AI. This is the high-impact version of all of those lessons to save you time, energy, and emotional damage. Please ... ... eyes light up. Notice when someone leans in. Pay attention to which anecdotes connect universally, and which ones don t. Sometimes VCs see patterns you don t. They ve seen hundreds or thousands of pitches. They might notice a competitor

... when you want to bring your Granola notes into Claude or ChatGPT, you can now use Granola

... Matter of Sorts in 2020. I also like the warmer background tone for the app itself. Comment from Aima Atigari(@aima): Looks really good. Comment from Umar Khan(@ufkhan97): Agree the typeface and darker green are nice. I use granola almost everyday and the logo is a surprising change to me. I really dig the old logo but maybe this change will grow on me like granola

... Granola for iOS: take Granola

... build for teams. That s where the revenue and moats are. On the other, some of the best products in recent years started by winning over individuals first and only later layering on team features. A great example is @Granola : They nailed their single-player use case (taking notes) before expanding into Granola

... Raycast just shipped a new release introducing Auto Transcribe , powered by @Granola , and two new AI experiments: Auto Models and Bring Your Own Models . Read the release note What do you think of this new release? Personally super pumped by Auto Models: "Let AI choose the best model for the job at hand." We had a previous thread on which models to use, and it feels like this experiment just fixes it. Comment from Gabe Perez(@gabe): @jakecrump ... ... using Raycast sooo much more... and I already love Granola

... reality forgetting things often or getting easily distracted has been a tough one for me that no amount of calendar reminders, notes, stickies, post-its, and alarms can solve. So when Fieldy launched calling themselves an IRL Granola targeted for ADHD folks to help them remember, I knew I had to try it out. Note: I did Hunt Fieldy but I paid for the product myself. I was not sponsored for this review. I was gifted a yearly subscription however ... ... first impression of the actual device was that the plastic finish felt a little underwhelming, especially if you re used to the polish of Apple or Nothing devices. This made me want to hide the device vs

... effort to get an initial structure off the ground. This capability is what made me really feel Den was an AI-first comms platform. I'm curious if they're going to add fast voice input and Granola-style meeting notes (like Notion recently introduced). I could totally see both of those being a distraction. On the other hand, both of those would help generate a lot of really sticky content for the platform. All in all, I'm intrigued ...

... tested so many AI Note takers as of late. @Fathom , @Fireflies.ai , BuildBetter, @Grain , and even Google's Transcribing feature. They're all pretty good but lately @Granola has been winning me over. BuildBetter is really good for teams, has a nice chat function that lets you chat across all your meetings and get good insight from your team members, calls, clients, etc. But for personal, and individual notes - Granola

... founders, and we went around sharing tools we're using now. Posting my notes for our community here - would love to know what else people are using! Voice AI toolkit: - Vapi - Pipecat (open source) Meeting notes without a bot: - Granola Fast voice input (stop typing!) - Wispr Flow - Aqua -  (newer, has contextual awareness) Agentic coding assistants: - Cursor - Windsurf (getting tons of traction, especially w/ early startups) - Devin - has way fewer reviews and shoutouts (reviews by startups) on Product Hunt ... ... ideas for SEO rich topics and campaign ideas. Takes out all the weight of deep research. Comment from Reid Kimball(@reid_kimball): Great list! I ve heard of some and some are new I want to check out like Granola

... discover some new products I hadn't seen before. I'm also just a big fan of desktop apps over web apps. I find it a lot easier to stay focused when I'm flipping between apps vs flipping between tabs. These are the apps in my dock: @Google Chrome - Pretty basic. I've really been considering switching over to @Horse though. @Slack - The de facto option. @Superhuman - Maybe the fastest I've become a fan of a product ... ... apps that stood out to me for great design. Especially the small dots for calendar events in a micro-reading. Edward Tufte would have been proud. What do you think about Notion Calendar/Cron? I still have to try out Granola