Data superpowers

Happy Hump Day! Aaron here, I'm back from a few short days of riding rollercoasters and ready to dive into today's homepage, but before that…

The headlines: 

🍎 Apple’s Design Award nominees for 2024 are out. Did your fav app make the list? 

🤖 A former OpenAI board member explained why Sam Altman was fired last year.

📧 Microsoft has launched a beta version of its Copilot assistant in Telegram.

🔢 Apparently AI models have favorite numbers just like humans do.

Everyone seems to know that you need to dig into data fast to make the best decisions. 

Yet, for all the talk in business about how “data is king,” data isn’t often readily accessible to some of the most important people in an organization. Ops teams, marketers, PMs, founders, and even business analysts hit a roadblock when it comes to pulling the information they need. Quick questions don’t get answered, and deep dives are projects in themselves. 

Hex has been growing in popularity amongst data teams for its flexibility and collaborative workspace. It helps them explore data fast, run data science projects, or build interactive data apps. With its recent launch, Hex brings the same powers to people who don’t live in SQL or Python. 

Data for your whole team: Hex is an analytics platform with tools for everyone to explore, build, and share, no matter their technical skill set. Hex’s data notebook-style interface is built to be flexible. People across a company can use SQL, Python, no-code tools, and AI prompts — all together on a single canvas. It supports real-time collaboration with features like version control and diffs to track changes. 

True story: Hex has changed our workflows here at Product Hunt. Our team used native integrations to swiftly and securely connect to our data. Then, we generated category reports that the Content Team manipulates and filters daily to surface trends in our newsletters without help from a technical person. We can also use self-serve lists to localize our event communications in minutes.

Beyond Product Hunt, Hex’s other customers include Reddit, Notion, Anthropic, and Brex, to name a few.

If empowering your team to answer its questions with data sounds as crucial as it was for us...

OUR PICKS 

The Weekendest is a real-time NYC subway app for iOS

Fryderyk is an AI-powered companion to help with making music. 

Trip Tunes uses AI to generate Apple Music playlists for your next road trip. 

MAKER’S CORNER

Visme Forms is a visual form builder designed to get better user research. 

HeroKit lets you create eye-catching visuals for your no-code projects. 

Closely is an all-in-one tool built for a more seamless sales experience.

SHOUTOUTS

Developer delight: PostHog is the fourth most shouted-out developer tool. It’s an open-source platform for analytics, session recording, feature-flagging, and more. 

Recent props: The founders of Waxwing, an AI marketing assistant, said, “Analytics is the backbone for continuous improvement of our Product; it is not possible without PostHog.”

We all know that the path to building and launching our ideas is a hard one. It’s a long, arduous process with no guarantee of success. 

That’s why we’re partnering with Buildspace to give you access to a free, six-week program where you can start any idea from zero, build it, and get your first 100 users by the end.

If that sounds like something you’d be interested in, apply here. Applying through our special link guarantees you access.