Heyday - Automatically organize content - without learning a new app

Good to see you PH community! I’m Sam, co-founder of Heyday. Samiur and I will be answering your questions for the next 24 hours. Please send ☕️ if you don’t hear from us for a while! Like @samiur1204 mentioned, in 6 months we went from idea > beta > FastCompany feature > 150 paying subscribers > today’s launch. Below, I’ve shared some important lessons that have guided us to today’s launch. I hope they’ll be helpful to you as you work on your own projects. But first, we are NOT an overnight success. We struggled for 4 years with our previous company (Journal) before shutting it down to start Heyday. 50,000+ people tried it, but few stuck around. It was a worse version of more popular, better-funded tools. We started Heyday with ground rules: 1. If it’s not differentiated, it’s not worth building 2. Only work on what we're uniquely capable of making 3. Fun is mandatory We saw firsthand the knowledge management market underserving consumers Today's tools require behavior change and constant input. That’s okay for productivity junkies but the rest of us are stuck w/ 100 open tabs. We developed a unique POV Knowledge management tools should be easy/fast to set up, layer on top of existing workflows, and require little manual input. You know how easy Honey makes it to save money or Grammarly makes it to write well? That's how easy it should be to get organized. We spoke with 100+ previous users We talked them through the problem as we understood it. We Shared (ugly) mocks to gauge excitement. We asked them to play with (embarrassingly) early versions of Heyday and share feedback. We required all new users to do a 30min call with us We added a Calendly scheduling step to our waitlist signup. We took notes to develop value prop messaging according to @shapiro’s Demand Curve program (highly recommend). We used that messaging to guide product development. We figured out where our target users hang out online Our customers love reading substack newsletters like @blakebemal's Carbonated (https://carbonated.substack.com/) and a few more. We reached out and offered to sponsor the newsletters. Then, we got lucky... JR Raphael, a writer from Fast Company, spotted Heyday in The Land of Random newsletter. He reached out and asked if he could write about Heyday (obviously, yes!) Unsolicited press and our product metrics made us confident about launching on PH Writers from Fast Company and Morning Brew wrote about Heyday without prompting from us. Samiur mentioned our metrics earlier! It was a grind to work for years on a product that didn’t catch on But we learned so much from the process. We’re launching today to celebrate turning those lessons into the quick progress we've made with Heyday. That’s the Heyday story. We’d love to meet you and hear about yours in the comments!

👋 Hey Product Hunt fam! Thanks for hunting us @nickabouzeid! I’m Samiur, co-founder of Heyday. About a year ago, I had to shut down the last product I shared with the PH community 😕. We had built an app that was undifferentiated from Notion and other great apps in the knowledge management space. And after years of work, most users who tried it didn’t stick around. But in the process of building it, we stumbled upon a group of users who felt underserved by popular knowledge management tools. They told us they wanted to be more organized, but didn’t have the time/energy/patience to set up tools and keep updating them. As someone who has ADHD, I’ve felt the same way for most of my career. And as a Machine Learning engineer, I was drawn toward using automation to free people up from repetitive, uncreative tasks. My co-founder Sam and I, along with our teammates Gwen, Mikael, and Mark, started Heyday to help. In just 6 months, we’ve iterated from idea to beta to early product-market fit with 150+ paying customers, a ~10% trial > subscriber conversion rate, 57% DAU/MAU, and ~3% monthly churn. Today, we’re excited to share Heyday with you so that we can improve it with the help of your feedback! 🙀 The problem Our brains weren't built to handle the volume of information on the internet. Today’s knowledge management tools try to help, but only if we change our workflows and update them constantly. People like me, who aren’t productivity junkies, opt-out. We try to stay organized by keeping 100+ browser tabs open, dumping links in Google Docs, and texting ourselves content to remember. But it’s impossible to keep up. 😻 The solution Knowledge management tools should automatically save our content, sort it for us, and layer it on top of our existing workflow. Why you’ll be thrilled you started using Heyday:

• Boost your memory with enhanced Google searches that resurface past research - so you don’t waste 20 minutes searching for articles you read in the past, but forgot to save.
• Save hours during research with a knowledge base that updates itself so you can be more knowledgeable about topics, without having to remember to bookmark every. single. useful. resource.
• Understand new subjects faster with context that overlays articles as you read - so dozens of open tabs don’t kill your attention & focus.
• Break down walls between your apps with integrations - to see pages you’ve visited and content from your apps all alongside Google search results.

My co-founder @samdebrule and I will be answering your questions for the next 24 hours! Feel free to ask about our product, our process for gathering feedback, how we acquire users, our plans for the future, — or anything really!

Congratulations!!! So excited for the team. What are some new features you’re building in the next few months?

Wow, I just tried the product and I'm amazed with it. What kind of sorcery is this ?

I have always wanted ... a bookmarks killer ... a second brain to remember every thing I have searched for as I scour the internet for research and information, where I don't need to save and organise my bookmarks in folders.. or save links in Instapaper or my task manager to remember them later .. and here it is.. HeyDay! I love they already integrate Twitter, Evernote and Pocket.. hope to see the Instapaper plugin soon :)

Congrats on the launch, Awesome Product :).

Hey - looks really interesting! Is there any tracking available for browsing on other devices like on iOS for example?

Congrats on the launch guys! Super excited to see where you take this!🚀

Great job guys. Can't wait for the notion integration :) PS: always been a fan of @samdebrule 's machine learnings newsletter. Really rooting for you here!

Congrats on the launch! How does this relate to or interact with Chrome Journeys?