Data analysis tools
By now, I’ll assume everyone has heard the trope, “data is the new oil”. As someone who actually spent time in the oil and gas industry, I can tell you confidently that this is a terrible analogy. Oil is extremely dangerous, difficult to transport, and you have to burn it to get value. Data is invisible, floats around over wires, and you push buttons on your computer to do math with it.
Barry McCardel
CEO and co-founder at Hex
Video conferencing
Before Product Hunt, I spent several years building a competitor to Zoom (not successful, but quite rewarding). I’m left with a healthy appreciation for how difficult these tools are to build - in fact, they may be one of the most complex, unreliable tools that we use on a daily basis. On the surface, video chat seems simple, but under the hood there are a myriad of adaptations and tradeoffs that are being made every few milliseconds in response to network and device conditions. Speed matters. Reliability matters. Resolution matters. It’s like the internet itself - dive a bit under the surface and there be dragons.
Rajiv Ayyangar
CEO at Product Hunt