ChatGPT knows your type

gm legends. It’s Sunday Funday.

We’ll talk about how ChatGPT’s browser’s memory works, play Hot-or-Not but for apps, give our new review system a 5-star review, reintroduce you to a Product Hunt launch of yore, and share the most popular new products this week.

Grab a coffee, kick off your shoes, and let’s get into it. 

P.S. Launching soon? We’d love to hear about it → editorial@producthunt.co 🫶

As we wrote last month after Google integrated Gemini straight into Chrome, “it’s not enough to have a web browser these days. You need a browser on cocaine—or, at least, the middle two letters: AI.”

That’s all great if you’re Google, of course, but what if you’re a lowly AI startup without a browser of your very own? 

You build one.

This week, OpenAI launched its long-awaited browser, ChatGPT Atlas.

The Chromium-based browser tries to do Chrome one better by tucking a ChatGPT sidebar onto every webpage. Like Gemini in Chrome, it’s also agentic. So go ahead and ask it to book that flight to Tora Bora…or was that Bora Bora? Whatever—it can probably figure out which one you meant because it also has memory. The browser learns about you from your conversations and the sites you visit.

Before you get all freaked out that your browser is stalking you, OpenAI says “memories in Atlas are completely optional” and that they’re deleted whenever you delete your browser history.

But, just in case, maybe don’t go replacing your therapist just yet. 

Here’s the updated rundown of agentic AI browsers:

• Google inserted Gemini into Chrome in September
• Perplexity came out with Comet in August
• Firefox makes room for multiple chatbots; its most recent update includes Microsoft Copilot (which also integrates with Microsoft Edge)
• Opera released its “fully agentic” Neon browser in March
• Atlassian-owned Dia remains in beta
• Safari is adding agents via the Apple Intelligence system

Product Hunt is making it waaaay easier to review products. And not just in that “I’ll give the Uber driver 5 stars even though the air conditioning didn’t work and he was blasting polka music” kind of way.

Our new In-Depth Reviews use AI-generated questions to go beyond the star system and get at what’s really working (or needs work) with a product. This information is crucial for developers and community members alike, helping them separate noise from signal so they can figure out what to spend their time on.

Don’t worry, the community will still bring curious, honest and occasionally even painful feedback. Now it just has better tools to do that with.

Alex Cloudstar asks: “Do you think early users care about design or just function?”

Most commentators think function wins every time. Users want to know if it fills their need, and they don’t need it to look pretty. But. There’s a caveat. The design can’t be bad. As Curtis writes, “If the design makes it confusing or slows them down, they’ll drop it fast.”

And. There’s another caveat. Different early adopters want different things. Peter says that if you’re building for users from less-technical backgrounds, start thinking about design early.

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