TikTok for reading

Hello, hi! Aaron here with today’s daily digest. If you’re an early riser, you might have noticed a strange, blurred launch on the homepage. That’s our new embargoed launch feature, which shows a countdown before a launch goes live. 

Anyway, here’s some headlines: 

🚶 Wiz, the cybersecurity start-up, has walked away from Google’s $23B offer.

💬 Telegram is planning to launch its very own app store after it hit 950M users.

📱 Slack has announced a suite of new work-based widgets for iOS.

Product Hunt is hosting our next AI demo night event in San Francisco. Join us tonight in the Solaris AI offices for a fun night of demos, drinks, pizza, and networking. The theme is all about Meta’s latest AI model, Llama 405b.

Want to demo? Integrate 405b into your product and launch on the homepage now. The top 405b products will be selected to demo in front of everyone. Don’t worry; it won’t count towards the six-month launch limit.

Arguably, the biggest benefit to the Internet is having instant access to a huge amount of information. You can find almost anything, like tutorials, essays, research documents, podcasts, and newsletters, with a quick Google Search.

On the flip side, this can become quickly overwhelming. I mean, how many newsletters have you subscribed to, and how many of them do you open on a regular basis? If you’re anything like me, you might be ashamed to check. That’s where an app like Volv comes in. 

Originally launched a few years ago, Volv is kind of like TikTok, but for reading—it’s a social news app that gives you the most interesting, viral, and breaking news in one place through nine-second stories. It even got pre-seed funding from Snap, the company behind Snapchat. 

After 50 million story swipes, the team behind Volv made a pretty big discovery — their users are using Volv in lieu of traditional social media to actively discover new content and newsletters that they wouldn’t have read otherwise. Which leads us to today with the team launching Creator Channels — a new way for writers to publish on the platform. 

The new platform allows newsletter and publication writers to claim their profiles and begin publishing to Volv’s audience. It comes with Volv Enterprise, a suite of AI tools aimed at helping writers go “intelligently viral,” with an AI summarization tool that converts your piece into a nine-second read and an AI recommendation tool to push your content to readers interested in your niche. 

If you want to try Volv, the team is offering free access for a month using a special launch day code. 

DEVELOPER TOOLS 

Revideo is an open-source framework for programmatic video editing. It lets you create video templates in Typescript and render them via an API.

RTVI-AI is a new open standard for real-time voice and video inferences. It allows you to build an AI-voice chat app from scratch using just twenty-one lines of Javascript code. 

MAKER TOOLS 

StakeWeb helps you improve the organic traffic of your entire domain portfolio and monetize unused and unsold domains automatically.

NotShipped is a site for sharing and discovering un-launched startups. You can publish your own or gain inspiration from what others didn’t launch. 

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