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So excited to introduce...
Fabric for iOS.
A self-organizing digital mind that fits in your pocket.
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brb, making the world's juiciest file browser
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So excited to introduce...
ScreenshotAI.
📸Automatically turn your phone screenshots into smart, searchable notes.
Just connect your iOS screenshots folder.
Every time you capture a new screenshot, ScreenshotAI will automatically analyse, understand and make it searchable
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What if your screenshots folder didn't have to be a shapeless mountain of files?
We've built a personal search engine with AI that recognises what you save, lets you add commentary and remembers where you saved the image from
(So you can actually find your files again)
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So excited to introduce...
Assistant 💬
Copilot for everything you've ever seen or saved.
Don't waste time scrolling through files & screenshots.
Connect your apps, and just ask.
Sound ON + rt
invite link 👇
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Google have changed their search results design, but it's not good news...
Why Google's new search results design is a dark pattern
(a thread) 👇
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doing my bit for humanity by building an AI assistant that you can pet when it's been a good boi
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Meet... Fabric.
Your new home on the internet
🌐 All your bookmarks, ideas, and files in one collaborative internet drive and AI search engine.
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The Brexit mantra:
"No detail" is better than a bad detail
@mrjamesob
This is James O'Brien's reaction to the government's plan to prorogue parliament to stop the rebel MPs' plans to stop a no-deal Brexit.
@mrjamesob
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#prorogation
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The latest Google search UI redesign sneakily tries to hack that behaviour by subverting how we quickly scan to see if something is an ad or a genuine result.
Where once only adverts had an icon to differentiate them, now there are favicons in the same slot on all other results
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a radical thing we started doing a few months ago:
every new Fabric user can book 15 mins in my calendar to give direct feedback… and it’s honestly the highlight of my week.
it means that every monday I learn a dozen ways that we can improve, how a bunch of people are using
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Excited to introduce...
@fabricinternet
A collaborative internet drive and AI search engine for your digital world 🌎
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Ever been stuck when travelling, unable to 👺 get SMS codes to unlock an account (e.g. Stripe, Gmail, your bank, Coinbase etc)?
I'm building an app to solve this!
✅ Get SMS codes to your 📩 email/another number when you travel.
What services would you want to use this with?
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freshly baked at Fabric HQ:
✨ Magic capture ✨
Just hold CMD+Alt and hover anything on the internet to save it instantly
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Humans are self-training machines, and in the context of the internet, we've trained ourselves to ignore the intrusive adverts which increasingly clutter our screens.
If something looks vaguely like an advert, we don't even look at it – a behaviour known as 'banner blindness'.
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Why do this?
By putting something visually similar in every slot which previously signalled an ad, it becomes impossible for a user to tell them apart without taking care and effort.
Google can still say they label adverts, but that info is now buried under more visual noise.
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The acid test for any two competing socioeconomic systems is which side needs to build a wall to keep people from escaping? That’s the bad one!
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The real outcome?
Increased advert density in search – ads can now be scattered at various positions in the results, and Google can substantially boost the number of paid results per page... without it being obvious.
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The best Christmas gift? Closing a $1M pre-seed investment as a UK first-time founder just before the end of the year 🥳🎅🎄
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Connecting ideas together is at the heart of all thinking.
Note-taking apps like
@RoamResearch
changed the game with bi-directional linking.
...But what if the ideas connected themselves?
I can now highlight any text in a note or PDF, and explore related ideas across all my
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In this one example, where I just searched 'socks' 🤷♂️ the ratio of adverts to text results was ~3:4
Considering that Google once differentiated itself with a clear, minimal UI, it seems that user experience is taking a hit here in pursuit of deeper monetisation of search results
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screenshots should be so much more than just dumb images, lost in a folder.
in our latest Fabric update, we've added "screenshot memory".
now every screenshot remembers where it was captured from, links back to it, and is searchable by its source:
🌞 In the latest version, we introduce "screenshot memory" – where every screenshot remembers where it was captured from and links back to the source.
Now when you save a great idea or piece of content, you can always find your way back to the original.
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Google claims that the new format "puts a site’s brand front & center".
But if that was the rationale...
...wouldn't it ALSO make sense to do the same for adverts too – who are paying money specifically for brand awareness? 🤔
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We're live on Product Hunt!
Your support would mean the world to me ❤️
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I'll finish with how a few shots of how the ad format used to look for comparison
/end
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Very hyped to introduce...
Fabric for your browser.
— AI rediscovery of your notes and files as you browse 🌍
— Make lasting notes on websites
— Instantly save content from the web to your intelligent library
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saving a thought has never been so smooooooth
introducing
✨ instant notes ✨
just hit a shortcut and save a note from anywhere on your computer, instantly
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@levelsio
I also think handmade content will get bundled with showing the process, to "prove" it was made by a human
Like showing a timelapse video of doing a drawing instead of just showing the final result
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ok, ok... hear me out on this...
PS1 inspired onboarding for (sound on)
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@TheAnnaGat
@AgnesCallard
yeah agree, the piece inadvertently makes an argument against new experiences on the whole: ‘something may not change you, so why bother’
the short answer is… you don’t know until you try
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In the context of Google results, often we skim past ad search results because they are the least likely to be relevant on the page (they're having to pay to be there, after all...)
But what happens if you can't tell which is which anymore?
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@MsHelicat
Problem and solution, side by side on one Times front page.
Happy birthday
#Bitcoin
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I did something very similar:
1) saved up some money freelancing
2) flew to bali where I could have a year of breathing room to focus 🧘
3) did nothing but build startup experiments for a year (learning to code along the way)
If I was just out of school or university and wanting to bootstrap my own startup today, I'd do the exact same thing I did 10 years ago:
✈️ Fly to Bangkok
Sleep for $5/night, eat for $3/day = spend ~$240/mo
$3,000 of savings will give you 1 year of runway
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@levelsio
The last 20 years of the Internet have basically consisted of unbundling Craigslist
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Cutting back on alcohol or given it up? ❌🍷
Whether for fitness, productivity or just as a challenge, I’ve built a product for this!
Zero Percent is a hub for non / minimal-drinkers - with a habit tracker bot 📈, community chat 👨👩👧👦 & crowdsourced venue map📍
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"what inspired this?"
the answer:
So excited to introduce...
ScreenshotAI.
📸Automatically turn your phone screenshots into smart, searchable notes.
Just connect your iOS screenshots folder.
Every time you capture a new screenshot, ScreenshotAI will automatically analyse, understand and make it searchable
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@OriolVinyalsML
Perhaps optimal in terms of speed - when dizziness, pain, range of motion etc aren’t factored into reward function and constraints
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Launching something new today on Product Hunt! 🎉
ScreenshotAI:
Turn your phone screenshots into smart, searchable notes.
Just connect your iOS screenshots folder. It runs on autopilot.
Check it out here👇
Would ❤️ your support :)
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invite link here:
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@rex_woodbury
sloth is the meta-sin, and almost every business is built on it:
instagram: validation with less effort
tinder: meet people without leaving your house
doordash: ready-to-eat food without the work
chatgpt: thought & research done for you
stripe: payment integration w/o effort
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so one user uploaded...
wait for it...
80k bookmarks
didn't see that coming (nor did our infra)
☀️ New update! (Sound on)
Easily import all your bookmarks from any of 6 major apps (including any folders or tags).
Supported apps:
- Raindrop
- Pocket
- Chrome
- Safari
- Edge
- Firefox
Just export from the app of your choice and upload into Fabric and we'll turn them into
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ok, be honest... how many of your notes and bookmarks do you actually look at after saving them?
well... meet Recap
a personal AI email roundup of all your latest notes, bookmarks and files
daily, weekly or monthly, with helpful summaries for each
☀️ New update!
Introducing...
⏪ Recap –
A personal generated newsletter of all your recently saved PDFs, links, images and notes, sent to your email.
No more saving stuff to "read later", only to never look at it again.
Get your "read later" content sent regularly to
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My last day in Bali is over so I’m going somewhere new 😅
AND I’m setting myself a challenge!
I’m going to attempt to design an app during my flight to London.
🚨 The mission:
To go from rough idea to a high-fidelity design, all before I touch down in London 🇬🇧
Let’s go ✈️
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@shawnxu
The bigger the city, the faster people walk!
As city size increases, speed does too - roughly as N^{0.1}, where N is city population. …
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What if Figma was a social network...
🚢 Shipped today on – real-time world building: turn your spaces into absolutely *whatever* you want with images
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@levelsio
what’s great about interviews is you can keep asking why and understand the person and their motivations
- feedback forms are great for honest feedback but also lacks a lot of context
(we do both, and also have a discord for ongoing chat with users)
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almost 15k people have signed up to try Fabric since we launched in April – pretty blown away 🥹
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What if your file explorer worked like your mind?
...Where things weren't just put into artificial folders, but were connected by meaning instead.
Introducing...
✨ Fabric smart suggestions, powered by LLMs ✨
Move between your related content and data, automatically connected
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@ANoffsinger
I think it ends up being a bit similar to looking at someone else's code – you have to untangle how they built it
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@Riley_Bruce
@AdityaJayan
@levie
The 'embarrassing MVP' logic was for digital not physical products:
Digital products can be updated with virtually 0 distribution cost.
Physical products have manufacture and physical logistics, which is why it's uniquely important to get a physical product right first time.
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🚢 Shipped today on – real-time multiplayer terraforming, so teams can make islands totally their own ✨
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@RachelRCarlson
It's rarely framed like this in developed economies, but this maps perfectly to the S-shaped curve of 'poverty traps' that Duflo and Banerjee talk about.
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real people are busy, messy and have lives to live – they shouldn't be filing, labelling, sorting.
organizing information is a job for machines – and LLMs make it finally possible to delegate it to them.
this is what we're building with
@fabricinternet
...more soon
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@liron
@MartyBent
this doesn’t describe a 51% attack at all, merely how successful attackers might double-spend their money.
entirely skips over the part where the attackers need to acquire computing resources to outrun a probabilistic hashing race with the world’s biggest computing network.
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Fabric is live on Product Hunt! 🥳
Fabric is a self-organising workspace for all your content and data. Search across your digital world with AI.
Check it out here👇
Your support would mean the world to me ❤️
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☀️ We just launched our first fully interactive widget in Fabric:
Spotify!
You can now add songs, playlists, albums, podcasts, and play, share and discuss them all, right there.
Just paste the link into Fabric.
🎧 Sound on :)
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Screenshots are the universal media format.
Capture the state of any app => bring it anywhere.
No restrictions + combines text, media and layout.
The only flaw... they quickly pile up and are impossible to find again.
What if your screenshots folder didn't have to be a shapeless mountain of files?
We've built a personal search engine with AI that recognises what you save, lets you add commentary and remembers where you saved the image from
(So you can actually find your files again)
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The live thread:
A personal experiment: I'm building 20 startups in a year ⚡️
Stay tuned!
Each startup will be added to this thread 👇👇👇
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@jasonyuandesign
I wonder how often people ignore this realisation because of the sunk cost that it took to get there
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Ever wished that who you could discover the most relevant people at a coworking space? 🔍 Done with leaving meeting people to random chance?🎲
I'm building an app to solve this!
✅ Hyper-local discovery for meeting nomad coworkers around you 🤝
How would you like this to work?
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@harryhurst
Maybe 🏝
An audio hangout for remote teams to get back the flow and serendipity of working in person.
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@danielgross
Lisbon: cheap, has a startup scene, surf spots nearby, good weather, food and vibes ✌️
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how our mobile app launch content did on different platforms:
twitter:
163k views → 13k engagements → 2.2k signups → $4k in sales 🥳
linkedin:
1.3k views → 11 likes (lol)
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@realpauleverton
@QwQiao
100% this – when the item is bit-for-bit identical, it is by definition fungible, regardless of whether a non-fungible token is later created.
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We're excited for you to try it :)
And we're featured on Product Hunt today, your support would mean a lot ❤️
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I created a micro web design agency with a friend!
Because my plate wasn’t full enough with 😅
Site custom built entirely in
@webflow
...took this as my first proper chance to play around with it (turns out it's pretty great).
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@isosteph
I found this hilarious coming from industrial design to tech - that ideas like talking to your users could be at all radical 😂
Presenter: "understand who you're building for"
*Audience bursts into applause*
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If you, like me, are a digital hoarder, or feel like you waste too much time organising when you should be creating, this is a tool for you.
Find anything exactly when you need it, in your own words.
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opening up our company discord was the best thing we ever did
building as a village >> building privately
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Solo entrepreneurs 💼 and makers! ⚒
Do you find it hard to manage your time working solo? ⏰
Do you ever feel isolated or wish you had people to share your challenges with?🤯
I'm working on something to solve this!
Work side-by-side in curated mini-teams of solo workers 👨👩👧👦
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If you need this as much as me,
join the waitlist here →
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@levelsio
Ace Hotel, The Hoxton, Labs, Look Mum No Hands, Attendant are some of my favourite free spaces with good coffee
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What if you could write notes *ON TOP* of the internet?
We spend so much time on the internet gathering info...
So why can't we leave notes on top of websites?
Well... we've been building this.
Make notes on top of any website, attached to any content in the page.
Share them
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@stevenpeniche
@brujaai
we really value the direct personal touch, otherwise we might as well do a feedback form!
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@alexisohanian
I think some get lured into the aesthetic trap of “playing startup” but it’s almost entirely a distraction from what matters
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@patio11
The thing that always has blown my mind as an industrial designer: the mismatch between material lifespan (plastic ~= 1000 years) and product lifespan (often <1 year).
We make products which 1000X outlast their use.
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@garybasin
People seem miss that the yield/interest has to come from *somewhere*, and it’s not just a mysterious property of a given crypto
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is now on
@ProductHunt
Ship! 🚀
Want to discover people around you by their skills and experience 🌎 ?
I'm collecting details ready for an early trial!
Sign up to get early access and be one of the first to try it: 🤫
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@zeynep
Companies like Facebook cannot offer users real consent because even FB simply can't manage or even ever know all the ways that seemingly innocuous pieces of data can be combined into something entirely new. This has consequences at scale (or even at an individual level)
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Fabric micro-feature – save tweets and profiles to your library direct from Twitter's UI
(shipped yesterday and already can't imagine Twitter without it)
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@KennethCassel
rather than new bigger ideas, I’d expect a proliferation of smaller/solo startups, as the lower costs make smaller returns sustainable
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anddd... we're featured on Product Hunt!
would ❤️ your support :)
Very hyped to introduce...
Fabric for your browser.
— AI rediscovery of your notes and files as you browse 🌍
— Make lasting notes on websites
— Instantly save content from the web to your intelligent library
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