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Product Hunt Weekly Digest
March 31st, 2024

YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED

šŸ—£ļøOpenAI is testing a new model that recreates a personā€™s voice from a 15s recording. Product Hunt is one of the first to gain access to this model. Say ā€œHere kitty kitty kittyā€ now to activate it.

šŸ‰Lego created a 3,745-piece DND set to celebrate the game's 50th anniversary.

šŸŖ½DoorDash is piloting fast-food delivery by drone.

šŸŽApple announced its next WWDC is on June 10. Get ready for some AI updates!

šŸ”¼ Grok 1.5 will be available next week and Grok 2 is on the way, per Elonā€™s tweet.

šŸ‘‹ Amazon launched an app to upload your palm to pay across the stores it owns.

āœļøYahooā€™s Creator Program will let lifestyle writers publish under Yahoo News.

PRODUCT HIGHLIGHT
Goodbye Siri, Hello Martin?

Most of iOS users would agree ā€” Siri sucks. YC President & CEO Garry Tan blames Appleā€™s closed system, recently tweeting that Siri's failure is due to "the sin of self preferencing and closed systems."

K, so how about an assistant that uses multiple LLMs?

Enter Martin, a new AI butler and iOS app. Martin not only comes with a delightfully posh British accent, he integrates with all the tools you already use, like your search engine, calendars, and emails.

The makers demoed a few promising features in Martinā€™s launch last week, including letting you cc Martin into your email thread to schedule meetings for you, instead of bouncing back and forth between tools. Heā€™ll also notice events on your calendar and preemptively help you prep for them, like finding you a restaurant for your dinner meeting and sending you popular menu items ahead of time.

One huge benefit to Martin is that heā€™s easily reachable by text, email, and voice. Martinā€™s founders shouted out Deepgram for helping make Martin's voice capabilities fast and accurate. They also noted using AI models Claude-3 and GPT-4 Turbo.

And yes, YC is putting its money and support where its mouth is. Martin is YC-backed; a part of the Summer 2023 cohort.

As for Siri, ā€œsheā€ might not be along much longer ā€” at least, not by name. Researchers from Apple are working on getting their assistant to work without needing a trigger phrase like ā€œSiri.ā€

Donā€™t worry, old girl. We wonā€™t forget you.

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    TOOLS TO START YOUR WEEK

    PRODUCTIVITYĀ 

    • Calcul.io is a website and math playground for when you need to calculate something too complex for Google Search but too simple for a spreadsheet.
    • Overview gives Microsoft Teams users a dashboard to see chats, channels, files, statuses, and more.

    DEV TOOLSĀ 

    • FlakyText.dev helps you manage flaky tests including letting you mute them without code changes.
    • Daytona is an open-source dev environments manager that automates your setup in one command.

    DESIGNĀ 

    • Creatie is an all-in-one product design tool to go from prototyping to design to handoff.
    • Weavely lets you design and publish forms directly in Figma.

    FUNĀ