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✨ Happy Sunday ✨

Wassup, legends! Welcome back to another edition of the Roundup — our weekly Product Hunt ICYMI. This week, we've got Raycast's newest launch (to ensure you never get caught up context-switching again), an article about how to figure out your users' painpoints, and a BIG announcement for anyone interested in shaping tech history. Let's dive in.

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Leaderboard highlights

Raycast Focus — Stay in flow by blocking distracting apps and websitesRaycast Focus aims to help you stay productive by reducing context switching. You set a goal, choose a duration, and pick which apps and websites to block.

SaaS Blueprint — Understand your business through the eyes of a VCSaaS Blueprint aims to give you a sense of how an investor would perceive your business. You can look at benchmarking data for key metrics compared to top quartile peers, and better understand how to raise VC funding.

Clemta — Run your business in one place: formation, tax, bookkeeping!Clemta pitches itself as an all-in-one platform to start and manage your business. It offers automated bookkeeping and tax filing, among other ops-related features.

DryMerge — AI agents that work for you 24/7DryMerge’s AI agents connect to your apps and automate tasks. You can describe your task in a chat and DryMerge will build a custom agent to automate it in the background.

Browser Use — We enable AI to control your browserYou can use Browser Use to visit sites and extract links, answer messages on Whatsapp, apply for jobs and more. Just type pip install browser-use and you’ll be on your way.

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You prompt your LLMs, why not your speech-to-text?

AssemblyAI’s Universal-3 Pro introduces a new class of promptable speech models—built for real-world Voice AI. It handles domain-specific language, multiple languages, accents, and noisy audio with ease.

Unlike traditional ASR, Universal-3 Pro lets developers guide accuracy with prompts, combining the reliability of speech recognition with the controllability of LLMs—so you’re not stuck fixing transcripts after the fact.

AssemblyAI is opening free access throughout February, and the Product Hunt community is among the first to try what promptable ASR can do.

👉 Try Universal-3 Pro for free

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Overheard in the community

The Golden Kitty Awards are back!

🚨 The 2024 Golden Kitty Awards are here! 🚨

Notion, Tesla, OpenAI, Apple—what do they all have in common? They’ve claimed a Golden Kitty, and now it’s your turn to help decide who joins them.

With 17 categories (think Developer Tools, No Code, Data Security) and an honorary Maker of the Year award. This is your chance to celebrate the products and creators that defined 2024.

Voting runs January 20–26 — don’t miss your chance to shape this year’s Hall of Fame.

Vote starting tomorrow on Product Hunt.

New articles on the site

Why you should build tiny viral apps

By Zubin Koticha

TLDR: we built a little consumer app in a day. It went viral, bringing us leads, but more importantly, it allowed us to become users of our own product, Dawn.

Everyone in SaaS should be trying this.

How we did it👇

A Small Viral Experiment:

A few weeks ago, we realized we had a little problem.

We're building Dawn, analytics for AI products, especially conversational ones. But we aren't a conversational AI product.

This can be a disadvantage. So a few weeks ago, we started looking to fix this.

Inspired by Wordware's amazing Twitter roast app, we came up with a plan.

We'd build a small conversational AI app (called ChatGPTPrank), hook it up to Dawn for analytics, and make it go viral. After finalizing the app, we posted it on Twitter, Reddit, + Hackernews - and it went viral almost immediately, getting us tons of inbound leads.

The best part: The whole thing took < two hours...

Read the full article here

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