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🔭 There’s so much good content - if you just know where to look 🔭
Content discovery is fundamentally broken.
I came to this conclusion when I moved from North Carolina to attend Stanford.
We like to think that education happens inside a classroom, but mine occurred in a group chat. I discovered the writings of Paul Graham, Nir Eyal and Eugene Wei through blue hyperlinks sent by new friends. I started reading Stratechery (which to this day, I still don’t know how to pronounce).
As my content diet evolved, my mental models did too. Tim Urban helped me appreciate how little time I had left to spend with my parents... so I began to treat them with a little more kindness and grace. John Gottman gave me language to navigate conflict… so I deepened connections with those that I love.
I developed healthier, happier & more effective ways of thinking.
Upon graduating, I realized that I had always had access to this information in North Carolina. I just didn’t know where to find it or who to ask.
The Ivory Tower wasn’t heavily guarded. I just needed a map to find it.
There’s so much good content - if you just know where to look. At Faves, we’re on a mission to help people find it. Our model? Expert-curated content from people you trust.
Want to learn about algorithms 🤖? Give the Head of Product at Tiktok a follow. Maybe you’re interested in AR 🕹️? Google AR Lead Marily Nika shares videos about innovations in her field. Perhaps you want to grow your newsletter 📜 ? Follow Substack authors Sahil Bloom, David Mattin or Ali Abouelatta to learn their tips and tricks.
If we’ve done our job, Faves will feel like a group chat with some of the smartest people in the world. We can’t wait to see what you think.
Warmly,
Tyler Maloney
Founder & CEO of Faves
PS: I want to give a huge shoutout to @kevin for hunting our product. The Faves team has been looking forward to launching on Product Hunt for months!
@kylekrzeski Thanks so much Kyle, we worked on it quite a bit! Credit goes out to @mrxyfir. Appreciate the feedback as well, we'll make sure to consider that
@kylekrzeski Indeed. They first acquired my telephone number and then appeared the message that it was only for iOS. Not really cool. Obviously, wish the best for the project
@kylekrzeski@marco_cardile really sorry about this! We can delete your number if you want. Otherwise we’ll text you when we launch Android. Just let me know!
When I started using Faves, I didn't think I needed yet another place for discovering and sharing content. After a couple of weeks, I stand corrected. Fun to use, and I always discover valuable things I would otherwise have missed. So everybody join and multiply the fun :-)
Faves is amazing! Tyler and team have made it so easy to find great content. I learn more in five minutes on Faves than I do in hours spent anywhere else. 🧠 💪
From a new poet that I am now obsessed with to daily pictures of the cosmos, I'm finding all new content that had never made it into any of my many feeds. I love this discovery experience of Faves and I love hearing the voices of the people who share.
Faves has become my go-to source for ideas, news, and commentary from some of the most interesting people in the world. Never thought I'd find a better version of Twitter, but Faves is that 10x over! Product also improves almost every day (if not more often).
Hey @chrismessina ! Excited to see you here.
Individual curators post content they like to Faves. From a rights perspective, it's no different than posting a tweet or TikTok to your Instagram story or sharing it in a text message.
@tyler_confrey_maloney ok, I think I get it... so I can post other people's public social content? But the creators aren't involved themselves in the platform... so it's kind of like social bookmarks?
@chrismessina in many ways Faves is a social, multimedia version of Pocket.
Here's how I think about the opportunity: When you see a piece of content you love, you want to share it with people. Right now this occurs on messaging platforms but the experience kind of sucks because iMessage, Whatsapp and DMs are built for messaging - not content sharing.
We want to be the place where this sharing and discussion occurs. We're trying to win the behavior by building a better core experience for sharing and discussing content.
Sharing: All the content plays in app (you're not constantly clicking to TikTok/Instagram/Twitter), you can create a "story" around the link, and all the posts are algorithmically ordered for you so you can quickly find the good stuff your friends recommend.
Discussing: We think audio can be a much better way to discuss content than text. So we're leaning into shortform, async audio and enabling creativity in commenting. We'll be launching audio filters, audio GIFs (letting you insert a 2 second clip from The Office into your comment) over the next month.
Our go-to-market is tech leaders but we see this becoming much more social over time.
Happy to chat if you want to hear more! We're closing our seed next week.
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