Hello, Aaron here, back from my vacation — shoutout to the Cracker Barrel founder, you have my heart. Today, I’m writing about a maker who was swamped with information and decided to solve his own problem by building a new product. But first…
Some headlines:
🔐 Disney+ is cracking down on password-sharing in June.
🐦 X warns that you might lose followers as it cracks down on bots.
💸 Alphabet (Google) is weighing acquiring Hubspot, which has a market value of $35B.
Marketing, when you boil it down, is an information game. It’s all about taking large swathes of potentially complex information and breaking it down into digestible and shareable pieces of content and distributing it almost anywhere you have potential customers.
Anyone with experience in marketing knows it’s difficult, especially when you’re a solo founder. Vignesh Warer found that out when he launched Keep It Shot, a tool that renames your screenshots. Shortly after being tweeted about by the Product Hunt social team, Vignesh was swamped with emails from users requesting pricing information, sending bug reports, providing feedback, and more over the course of three days.
Massive interest in your product is obviously a good thing, but when you’re a solo founder, it can quickly become unsustainable, especially when you want to focus on building. So Vigenesh got to work building a solution, and thus, Brain Mimic was born.
Brain Mimic is a browser extension that lets you quickly generate custom content inspired by your data by letting you select and save it to a database. From there it will use large language models (LLMs) to quickly generate a bite-sized response using the content you’ve saved.
Imagine someone is requesting pricing information. Rather than formulating a new reply for each request, you can hit the ‘mimic me’ button and the extension will get to work analyzing the question, understanding your tone, and crafting the appropriate information into a digestible response — ready to be sent.
It also lets you take the more traditional route by generating a response with a custom prompt, which allows you to add even more context and, according to the maker, can increase your writing speed by up to 10x.
It’s not just for emails, either. It can be used on any site with text forms like X, Slack, Reddit, etc. As someone with an overflowing inbox after a week of vacation, this has made my day.
Surprising no one, the most popular product amongst makers in the Product Hunt community for building are OpenAI’s models, from GPT-3.5 to GPT-4 Turbo. In fact, OpenAI’s LLMs have 4x as many shoutouts as the next popular LLM, Google’s Claude 3.
Here are a few notable products using OpenAI’s models:
💁♂️Martin, an AI butler, like Jarvis
🖥️AI Regex, an AI-driven regular expression generator
🧱Velt, a full stack component library to make your products collaborative through an API
