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The most popular categories in this year’s Golden Kitty Awards
Voting has officially wrapped up for the 2023 Golden Kitty Awards. You and many others cast your votes for your favorite products across 18 different categories.
The winners will be announced tomorrow, January 23. In the meantime, let’s take a sneak peek behind the scenes.
Every year, we have some new and some old categories depending on what’s hot in the tech world at the time, and it’s always interesting to see how you, the community, responded.
Here’s how the votes were spread out across some of the top categories:
In third place, we have Mobile Apps, a category that has become synonymous with the Golden Kitty Awards over the years. A whopping 6,940 votes were cast for 12 different apps, including apps like Bear 2, Character AI, and clearspace.
Coming in at second place is No Code. This category is all about the products that help anyone be a maker regardless of coding ability. The community cast 8,305 votes across a range of products like Bento, Tally 2.0, and SlashPage.
Finally, in first place is 🥁…. Product of the Year. The category of categories. 9,660 votes were cast to decide which product walks away with the coveted Product of the Year title and all the bragging rights that go with it. Votes were cast across products like Notion AI, Threads, and GPT-4.
Overall, there were a staggering 93,000+ votes cast across the whole 18 categories. Make sure to check back in tomorrow when we will announce the winners. In the meantime, if you want a refresher on previous years, check out the Hall of Fame.
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