Product Hunt Weekly Digest
February 4th, 2024

💰 Reddit is rumored to IPO – with a valuation of at least $5 billion.

🏡 Mark Zuckerberg is apparently building a doomsday bunker in Hawaii. 

💸 Amazon has opted to drop the $1.4 billion deal to acquire iRobot. 

🎵 Universal Music Group is planning to pull its song catalog from TikTok.

🧠 Elon’s brain-tech company, Neuralink, has installed its first implant.

🍎 Apple has already sold over 200,000 units of the Vision Pro. 

Picture it: You’re hosting a dinner party, and you want to bake a cheesecake for dessert. Usually you’d google a recipe, click on a few links, and scroll to the bottom, hoping you have all the ingredients listed. It’s the default way of browsing the web. You probably don’t think twice about it. 

But the folks at The Browser Company did. Hot off the heels of securing not one but three 2023 Golden Kitty Award nominations, the team behind Arc launched Arc Search, a totally reimagined way of browsing the web. 

Once you open Arc Search, your keyboard will automatically pop up. There are no text fields to click. You just start typing. Say you wanted to read the highlights of the Chief’s game. Type in your search, and the app will scour the web – reading six different links. That’s where things get different. 

Rather than returning a search query with an endless list of links like you’re accustomed to, Arc Search will instead grab all the relevant information, like the final score, MVP, and additional commentary, and build you a website based on it so you can read the most important parts of your search result.

Of course, if you prefer the traditional method, you can opt for that by tapping the search query to use Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, or Ecosia – whichever is set as your default. 

Arc Search also aims to improve the mobile browsing experience with features like automatic tab cleanup, ad-blocking, pop-up blocking, and more. It’s currently available on iPhone and is free to download.

✍️ AI Poetry: Who says AI can’t inspire? A maker decided to combine his love of AI and poetry by building an alarm clock that uses ChatGPT to generate and display a new poem every minute so that you can feel inspired all day long. It’s currently on Kickstarter.

✈️ Concorde 2.0: Remember the Concorde? It’s been over 20 years since we as a species had commercial supersonic air travel. That wait might soon end. NASA unveiled the X-59, a supersonic jet that solves the biggest issue: the boom.

PRODUCTIVITY 

• This new phone brings back the Blackberry keyboard in a more minimal fashion. 
• Elqi aims to end phone addiction through conscious intervention at key times. 

DEV TOOLS 

• Cyclops is an open-source tool that simplifies software deployment.
• Pixeebot uses AI to automatically review your code and make suggestions.

DESIGN 

• Linearity Move makes it easier to animate your static designs.
• This tool generates pricing pages using React and Tailwind CSS.

FUN

• LFG lets you discover, share, and curate interesting places to see. 
• Very Disco is like an IMDB but for your favorite podcast moments.