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This newsletter was brought to you byElevenLabsGood Morning! Today is the day. You voted. We tallied, and the 2023 Golden Kitty Awards winners have been announcedā¦
But first, the news:Ā
š¬ Telegram is rolling out view-once voice and video messages.Ā
š§ Apple will pay 10% more to artists who use spatial audio in their tracks.Ā
š¹ļø A new PokĆ©mon-style game is in the works ā with guns.
The votes are in. Here are your winners
Earlier this month, you had your say on the best products of 2023. The community voted in earnest across 18 different categories for the products that impressed them the most last year.Ā
Now, we've crowned the 2023 Golden Kitty Award Winners!
The winners here will go down in history in our Hall of Fame, digitally etched alongside history-making products like Stripe and Figma. Theyāll also get to take home a coveted Golden Kitty trophy and all the bragging rights that go with it.
Without further ado, the Golden Kitty Award winners areā¦
AI Features: Notion AI
AI Infra: Langfuse
AI Model: GPT-4
AI Product: Dora AI (Alpha)
Design Tools: Jitter 1.0Ā
Developer Tools: ResendĀ
Finance Tech: ArcĀ
Marketing & Sales: D-ID
Mobile App: Hevy
No Code: Bento
Open Source: Novu
Personal Productivity: HeptabaseĀ
Productivity for Teams: Fusebase
Web3 & Crypto: Clustr
Data & Data Privacy: Dashboards by Equals
Bootstrapped & Small Teams: Tally 2.0Ā
Community & Social: Threads by MetaĀ
Maker of the Year: Marc Lou
Community Member of the Year: Elly Cho
The big one? I canāt help it. I just love the suspenseā¦
So weāre justā¦ talking to software now?
ElevenLabs has been the go-to for voice for a while. Now they've turned that expertise into agents that actually get things done. You set one up, it talks like a real person, listens, responds, and helps handle the task ā support calls, bookings, whatever the job is. Not a demo, not a "press 1 for sales" situation. It's ready to deploy. Feels like one of those shifts where the interface quietly changes. Less typing, less clicking, more just saying what needs to happen and letting it play out.
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