The 5 most upvoted products of 2021
We spent all of last week counting down the top 25 most upvoted products of 2021 in our Daily Digest newsletters here.
Without any further ado, your top five:
5. Lucky Carrot is an employee engagement platform that enables peer-to-peer recognition (with redeemable carrots) and promotes company values.
“Like your powerful insights on employee interactions…, predicting possible turnover. Great to bring visibility to employee relationships. Your "Interaction Graph" is supercool 🤩.” arakelyan
4. Typedream is a website builder with a Notion-like interface for making any website look good with minimal effort.
“Man, such a great match between how my brain structures and how websites render. Love it.” Daniel Shein
3. RobinWho comes from investing app Qooore, which wanted to release a product that (hilariously) weans you from making money on the stock market.
“Finally, a product that won't let me get to the moon with all my $DOGE. Having a job to attend and debts to pay, there's no time to get rich.” Jay June
2. Tango automatically creates step-by-step how-to guides as you complete your work, with screenshots, links, and descriptions.
“Awesome stuff! Superfast way to document processes — and even faster for the viewer since it focuses on the important highlights. Better than video for sharing step-by-step workflows!” Mark Lamb
1. Sprig (formerly UserLeap) is a product research platform that lets you run microsurveys within your product, record interviews, and test design concepts.
“Recruiting and creating authentic context are my two most significant pain points when doing user research; I'm thrilled to see a product that seems to address both 🎉” Josh T
Until next year!
With remote work still on the rise, we’re expecting to see more tools to enable digital nomads this year. Enter Insured Nomads.
The team launched World Explorer, an insurance plan that combines remote work support with travel medical insurance for those on short-term trips abroad. Taking modern insurance a step further, maker Andrew Jernigan also shared that later this month, they’re “announcing how payment can be made with cryptocurrency.”
Your agents stopped answering and started doing
Your agents call tools, write to databases and move money, so a wrong answer is now a wrong action, which is a considerably worse meeting. Arcjet runs policy before every LLM call, tool call, query and API request: prompt injection, sensitive data, bots, rate limits, spend quotas, and your own rules in Rego on top. It reads the OpenTelemetry you already emit, so switching it on is one environment variable, no code changes and nothing to deploy. Each check also reads the earlier steps in the same workflow, so an agent's tenth action gets judged against the first nine and not on its own. JavaScript, Python and Go SDKs all at 1.0, agent framework guards included, free tier to start on.
Leaderboard highlights
A huge thanks to all of you — the makers, early adopters, and product lovers in the community — for so many amazing highlights in what was another wild year. We can’t wait to see what you’ve got for us in 2022. We’ve got plenty coming for you, too.
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