BlackBerry is so back

gm legends. It’s Sunday.

This week, BlackBerry becomes relevant again, it’s time to get dressed, why the basic spreadsheet is unkillable, and how to get your product seen by Vercel. Plus, five of our favorite launches from the past week.

You’re killing it, legend. Enjoy the read.

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

Did you know BlackBerry is still around? (We’ll give you a moment to confirm this isn’t April 1.) Not only that, but it’s thriving. Its stock price has almost tripled since January, and last week it raised revenue projections.

What’s behind the BlackBerry boom? It’s not phones, sadly. Those only exist in the time capsule in your backyard (or on eBay). It’s the company’s QNX operating system, which it sells to car makers and machinery companies, who then build software on top of it. QNX is probably never going to be like the App Store because it’s not consumer-focused, but there is a nascent developer community forming. 

If this update got your hopes up that your BlackBerry Bold was getting resurrected, we apologize. Let us make it up to you with this.

Swipe, swipe, wait. Repeat. Die alone.

The dating app game can get old, but to paraphrase a powerful maxim: Maybe it’s you.

If so, step 1 is getting better profile pics. And to do that, you might just need a better wardrobe. Two new apps this week help you find the right clothes for you (for the right price):

• Outfyt runs you through a quick quiz to get your style and budget, then puts together three complete outfits you can buy. It was built by a college student, so it’s made to be affordable.
• AuraClick takes a different approach. You upload a photo, and it tells you the style that’s most flattering for your body type and skintone.

by Max Musing of Basedash

Every few years, someone declares the spreadsheet dead. Notion was going to kill it, then Airtable, then a hundred AI tools, and now agents are supposedly going to make it obsolete too.

But Excel is 40 years old and still runs most of the actual decisions at most actual companies. I'd bet it outlasts almost everything launching on this site this year, including a lot of stuff I love.

My theory on why: the spreadsheet got a few things exactly right and never had to walk them back.

• Instant feedback. You type, you see the result, no build step, no waiting.
• The grid is a universal format. Everyone already knows how to read one.
• It's a blank canvas. It doesn't assume what you're doing, so it never gets in your way.

The newer tools usually beat it on one axis (collaboration, AI, visualization) but lose on flexibility or familiarity, so people keep one foot in the spreadsheet anyway. I see this constantly. Teams have a slick tool for the dashboard nobody opens and a messy .xlsx where the real work happens.

So I've mostly stopped trying to replace it. We just launched Basedash for Excel (check it out!), which reads an .xlsx and builds dashboards from it, then lets you export back out to a spreadsheet. Working with the format instead of against it felt like the only honest bet.

But I could be wrong. Maybe agents really do make the manual grid feel as dated as a fax machine in a few years.

We’ve been doing a lot of leaderboard collaborations of late. 

Last week, Vercel Day returned by popular demand. The best launches from Vercel Day got $30K in Vercel credits, with one getting a pitch to Vercel Ventures (and a place in the newsletter, of course):

• MakersClaw is a “hire an AI agent” tool that remembers what you told it and then gets to work on Slack, Teams, and Telegram.
• Edgee Turbo Models lets you run open-source models in Claude Code, giving you more speed while retaining quality.
• GitHits beta 0.9 helps your AI agent find open-source code beyond the limits of the local repository.
• LLM Gateway Chat is for LLM power users who are constantly switching between models.
• Revyl shows mobile teams how their apps really behave on cloud devices.

If you're shipping on Vercel and want a shot at Vercel credits and a chance to pitch, get ready. Another Vercel Day is coming soon.