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There are many ways you can annoy a developer. The one that probably strikes a chord the most is reporting a bug they can’t reproduce. As frustrating as bugs can be, “the login doesn’t work” is simply not a valid explanation. What’s not working? What happens when you log in? Do you see an error page?

Brevy tries to bring some peace and clarity among product, design, and engineering teams. The app lets you record your screen from your browser so you can report visual issues easier. Sounds familiar? “This pitch might remind you of Loom, and yes, we are similar. But Brevy makes four major improvements,” one of the makers argues.

Brevy automatically includes console logs and technical information in your recordings. If a video is not necessary, you can opt to annotate an element directly in your browser so the rest of the team can take a look. Annotating also works for recorded videos – you can leave comments specifically tied to a region in your video to give more context. Finally, any errors can be pushed directly to your issue tracking tools like Jira or project management apps like ClickUp and Asana.

This is Brevy’s second time launching – it debuted its Beta a year ago, which was less focused on video and more on leaving feedback on web pages. With this public launch, the product seems to be geared towards product teams collaborating on feedback, in contrast to Loom, which we see teams use for various different use cases.

The team will be around to answer questions so jump in and add yours here.

Nothing messes up your Friday like realizing it’s only Thursday. Add a never-ending to-do list and you’ve got yourself the perfect panic-induced end of the week that not even coffee can fix. Fortunately, we’ve got plenty of makers working on products to get us out of that productivity slump.

Here’s a list of ten recently launched, popular productivity apps that might’ve slipped under your radar.

Magical lets you automate tasks by moving data between tabs. You can populate messages, sheets, and forms without the time-consuming copy-paste.

Reclaim is a Google Calendar add-on that integrates with all of your task management apps to automatically find the best time for your to-dos, recurring events, 1:1s, and breaks.

stagetimer.io is a countdown timer that you can control from any device.

Lazy Search by SigmaOS acts like a search engine for your browser to help you find what you’re looking for in tabs, bookmarks, searches, and commands.

Acapela helps you get to Inbox Zero across all of your collaboration apps, like Slack, Notion, GitHub, Figma, Jira, and Linear.

Muse lets you work with visuals, text, and ink on freeform spatial boards.

Summari is a web and mobile app that summarizes long text articles into bullet points.

Join one of 200+ Flow Club Lounge live co-working sessions to get work done thanks to a silly little mind-trick called social accountability.

The Aroma API integrates your calendar, CRM, project management, and communication tools to standardize the data so you can update and migrate it from one software to another.

Communicate with your Woice by recording and sending audio notes to your co-workers.

Depending on where you are in the world, it might be getting toastier outside. If you’ve been working remotely long enough, it’s likely the FOMO will get to you. Seeing others soak in the vitamin D outside your window could even (dare we say it) make you wish you went into the office.

You might want to try Feeting.app before making any rash decisions. The app helps you take any of your meetings outside, while you’re walking. The audio-only, hands-free meetings come with your own AI assistant that automatically summarizes things like important topics, follow-ups, actions, sentiment, and speaking times. The team calls the technology “Feeting Gems™.”

The app works in different types of environments, whether that’s a peaceful forest, the loud streets of NYC, or windy Chicago. “We try to block all background noise and with Voice Isolation,” one of the makers shares.

There’s also a certain level of gamification embedded into the experience. You can join your colleagues in different challenges and see how much carbon dioxide your team’s saving by walking. The app syncs with Apple Health and Google Fit to help see your progress over time. With every 1,000 steps you “feet” together with your team, everyone earns ƒ0,10, which you can spend on sustainable products.

Since you’re already moving your body, you might want to check out some other ways to get rewarded for it. Fitmint, for instance, is a Web3 fitness and lifestyle mobile app with inbuilt NFT gaming which lets you earn rewards in cryptocurrency by simply working out.

Apart from spending too much time indoors, what other challenges do you see working from home? Join the conversation.

It’s the day after Apple’s WWDC, one of the biggest tech conferences of the year where the company announces its latest, shiniest software (and sometimes hardware) releases. Or, in other words, it’s like Christmas Day for developers.

The announcements created quite a bit of buzz, maybe even more than usual. Some folks are arguing that certain new features are trying to monopolize individual markets and existing stand-alone products like Buy Now, Pay Later apps, whiteboards, and password managers. Here are some of the highlights.

As part of iOS 16, Apple introduces Safety Check, meant to protect people in abusive environments by allowing them to revoke access to passwords and apps. Focus Mode is leveling up, allowing users to customize their lock screen and create more boundaries to only display certain content. Notifications will also roll in from the bottom to keep them from obscuring your photo. iMessage is getting a makeover, too. This includes marking text threads as unread, unsending messages, and an edit button. Twitter, we’re looking at you. 👀

The new M2 MacBook Air sports a 13.6’’ display with a notch, MagSafe, a 1080p camera, and fast charging. The all-new M2 chip debuts with a CPU 18% faster than its predecessor, 20B transistors, 50% more memory bandwidth than the M1, and 24GB of unified memory. In addition to silver and space gray, it now comes in a dark blue called “midnight,” and a light gold titled “starlight.” Soon enough you’ll also be able to upgrade to the new macOS Ventura.

For the health fanatics out there, watchOS 9 introduces more customizable watch faces, an enhanced Workout app, sleep stages, a first-of-its-kind (FDA approved) atrial fibrillation history feature, and an all-new Medications app.

Other key announcements include the iPadOS 16 with Freeform, a Miro-like whiteboard tool, a major update to CarPlay that allows for deeper integration with your vehicle, Apple’s fitness app coming to all iPhone users (even if you don’t have a watch), and the new macOS will allow you to use your iPhone’s camera as a webcam.

What are you most excited about? Let us know.

Every year, Wikipedia runs an annual fundraising campaign imploring you to ensure the future of free information. Despite the urgency, Wikipedia is actually doing pretty well, but regardless a product that suggests it could help fund the internet's favorite free encyclopedia piqued our interest.

Yep is a new search engine built by the team at Ahrefs, a company that helps you improve your search engine ranking with a toolkit of products and resources. Ahref tools are powered by big data, collected by its very own crawler.

“We crawl the entire web 24/7 (much like search engines do) storing petabytes of information about live websites — how they link to each other and what keywords they rank for…” explains the website In fact, Ahref processes so much data, they spun up their own data centers too.

So what’s a company to do with all that information and infrastructure. Why not start a search engine? One that doesn’t rely on Google or Bing APIs, as many do.

Amazingly, Ahrefs is able to do so with $60M of its own money after bootstrapping and re-investing its revenue. That’s a ton of money but Ukrainian founder, Dmytro Gerasymenko, is betting big on the same “content creators [that] made Google rich.”

More than three years ago, Gerasymenko introduced his new search engine concept, noting in a blog that Google “convinced us to write, produce and publish content on its behalf without paying a dime.” He questioned why Google never took up YouTube’s revenue share model after acquiring the company back in 2006.

Look at featured snippets on Google. Though they provide easy (sometimes incorrect) answers for search users, they take away traffic — and therefore revenue — from the creators and small businesses who are pulling together all that information.

So Yep's biggest differentiator is that it will share 90% of its ad revenue with content creators. The logistics of how this works aren't clear yet, but we’re looking forward to a bootstrapped startup throwing its hat in the search ring.

If you’ve been observant enough, you might’ve noticed we recently added a new topic on Product Hunt. We’re talking about Notion. A lot of you get excited whenever a cool new Notion-related product launches. This new page will allow you to search through those much easier.

To celebrate that, we’ve put together a round-up of some recent products that caught our eye. And because it’s Friday and we know you’re tired (same), we’ll break it down into a couple different categories to make it easier for you to pick your next Notion add-on.

📝 Personal productivity

Slashy allows you to create custom commands like adding drawings, video, or audio recordings.

This Digital Bookshelf stores and categorizes all the content you read, watch and listen to.

Track everything health-related (like workouts, vitamins, and macros) using the Health Hub OS.

🤖 Automation tools

API MAKER helps you create your own API using databases created in Notion.

Notion Pack for Coda lets you use Coda to create charts from Notion data and send emails through Coda from a contact list stored in Notion.

The Notion Automation Hub pulls together 100+ pre-built automations for common workflows and use-cases.

🗃 Project management

Nora allows you to track the progress you’re making on projects and auto-estimate due dates, and get suggestions on what to do next.

Side Project OS gives you the tools to act on those ideas that are filling your notebooks by helping you strategize and define an MVP.

The Notion Web Designer Hub allows you to manage your freelance projects, from lead stage to project completion.

What’s your favorite Notion-related product you recently discovered?

Budgeting for a holiday? Make a spreadsheet. Need a pro/con list? You could try a spreadsheet. Life falling apart? Spreadsheet. As this maker would put it, “we all always end up back in spreadsheets.” Sounds poetic.

We’ve seen slides get a makeover and plenty of products reimagining the traditional document experience. There’s still a lot that can be done with how the good ol’ spreadsheet fundamentally works and integrates with current technology.

Enter Equals. The app takes all of the useful functionality of a spreadsheet and adds built-in connections to any data warehouse, modern versioning, and collaboration. You can use it to connect to any of your databases, like Stripe transactions or Quickbooks data. Every data pull is versioned and restorable so you don’t have to worry about any underlying data changing.

One of the makers behind Equals, Bobby Pinero, who spent over 7 years as Intercom’s CFO, shares that he’s seen “folks using Equals to automate and share forecasts, operating models, cohorts, funnels, sales plans, and burn models.”

Others also seem to be excited about the launch. “I think Equals is the fastest I’ve ever moved from ‘oh that’s interesting’ to ‘take my money,’” Austen Allred (BloomTech’s co-founder) shared on Twitter.

A few other products are tackling spreadsheets in interesting ways. Rows and Grist, to name a few. We did a deeper dive into this a while back. Check it out here.

“We should hang out sometime!” Never happens. 🙃

Don’t worry, we’re guilty of it too. Keeping in touch with people you care about is hard work and unless you’re making an active effort, nearly impossible.

Amato and Sparkbook both launched yesterday with this very issue in mind.

Amato lets you import contacts from your address book and set reminders so you don’t forget to call or visit them. You can then add the Amato widget to your home screen and check the status at a glance or update it after a call or visit.

The maker shares where the inspiration for Amato came from: “I love my grandma. I really do. Unfortunately, I see and talk to her very rarely - mostly on holidays and birthdays. Usually, I'm just too busy and totally forget to call her…”

What’s different about Sparkbook is its shuffle option. After you’ve chosen your favorite contacts, you can shuffle through them to choose who to reach out to next. You can also send pre-written texts to spark conversations and leave notes to pick up where you left off.

While you’re at it, document some of the memories you make along the way with Qote Beta. The mobile app allows you to collect quotes and create albums for specific events like trips or parties. For each album, you can invite friends to browse through everything.

What happens when hundreds of thousands of products are launched or hunted over the span of eight years on Product Hunt? Well, for one thing, a standout community of ideators and makers is born.

Also, discovering new products gets a little hard to navigate.

We’ve watched products go from MVPs, hackathon submissions, and side projects to businesses, unicorns, and bootstrapped success stories since Product Hunt launched in 2013. We all love following along, but have had a hard time doing so.

“Just look at Framer — the team has dropped over thirty launches in less than a decade! ...We knew we needed to make some changes…“ shared Product Hunt CEO, Ashley Higgins.

So we did, and today we get to be a little bit meta as we launch Product Hubs on Product Hunt.

We’ve rolled up all the information that’s needed to learn about a product’s journey, from launches to reviews, into one hub. Now you can follow products and receive updates whenever your favorite launches something new. This feature was created for product stans and makers who build in public.

“Product Hunt shouldn’t just be where you launch your product, but where you can build a community,” shared Product Hunt PM, Michael Silber.

Product Hubs are a big change to how the platform is structured. “We had to restart it several times before reaching these results” noted Head of Design Julie Chabin, and “Migrating a lot of data related to the post to the product without breaking the models and bringing the site down was a significant challenge,” shared Engineering Lead Vlad Vladimirov.

We’re just getting started though and Product Hunt makers would love to get your feedback.

A new #lifehack has been making the rounds on the interwebs recently. You might’ve read it, too. It’s selectively bolding certain parts of the beginning of words to be able to read faster. It looks funny, something kind of like this, but it seems to work.

The science behind it? Turns out the bottleneck while reading is our eyes and not our brain. Reading this way helps our brain “autocomplete” the rest of the word after only seeing the first few characters, speeding up the process.

That’s how Jiffy Reader was born. Jiffy is an open-source browser extension that applies that technique when you’re browsing articles. “The way that Jiffy Reader works is by taking a certain part of every or some of the words and changing the font weight. For example, in our default settings, we take the first half of every word and make it bolder. This allows for a more seamless reading experience,” the makers shared.

Tools like these (Bionic Reading was one of the first to draw buzz) work by guiding your eyes over the page using fixation points. This encourages a smoother reading experience while maintaining comprehension of the words.

If you want to put this bionic reading extension to the test, here are some recent (play)books to check out.

📘 The Founders offers a look at the origin of PayPal and its founding team—including Elon Musk, David Sacks, Amy Rowe Klement, Peter Thiel, Julie Anderson, Max Levchin, and Reid Hoffman.

📗 Become a Nocoder is a collection of resources for learning no-code, including terminology, building guide, tools, and platforms.

📙 Product-Led Growth Book explains the strategy and execution behind product-led growth.

📕 Maze x ADPList Scaling Research Playbook showcases real-life examples and key principles for product teams to run their own research and make informed product decisions at scale.