Sip by Product Hunt - Daily tappable tech news and stories.

A few months ago I had the pleasure of talking to dozens of Product Hunt users. One common remark was how Product Hunt is part of their daily news routine. Internally, we knew this as well via our data and push notification metrics. When something significant happens in tech (e.g., acquisitions or big product launches) we often send out a push notification linking back to the related product's page. Admittedly, this page doesn't always best explain what happened at that moment. Today we're launching a new experimental app called Sip. Sip delivers daily tappable tech news and stories. Every weekday it surfaces the most interesting and important tech stories of the day, from breaking news to profiles on favorite tech products. While allowing makers and the community to remain productive by having a single daily digest to review on your own time. Let us know what you think. I look forward to your feedback as we continue to improve Sip. P.S. Sip is built alongside the awesome Product Hunt community using Ship, our toolkit for makers. If you would like early access to future Sip betas, and provide feedback directly to me, you can join the group here. P.S.S. We’re also releasing a huge update to the Product Hunt mobile app, soon available on iOS and Android. If you’d like early access, subscribe here.

It's been so fun to play with various builds over the past few months, @chadwhitaker has done an incredible job. We're excited to build new types of content to help improve your daily news routine and draw attention to under-reported stories and products that deserve it. What kind of news stories would you like to see most? What types of stories and products deserve attention? We'd love to hear from you (and hope you enjoy Sip)!

@rrhoover First you ship Ship, now you ship Sip. What's next? Slip? Snip? Hoping it's not Strip!

I have been part of the beta and I love Sip! The short news stories just take a few minutes to read and I'm up to speed. I love how the app works and Sip is an app I'll keep on my iPhone.

Pros:

Popular news in just a few minutes

Cons:

Not at the moment

I have been using Sip for a while now, but never received any notifications - that's probably because it's being officially launched only today. Let's see how this goes!

Pros:

Great design and love the concept! The idea of notifications for tech news is wonderful and I cannot wait to see how this comes out!

Cons:

Never received any notifications (news) all during the beta period.

This is a cool idea. On the face of it, it looks like what I wanted Quartz to be. Out of curiosity, how tied in to PH is this? Will it only include news if the company/product has been on PH? And will it surface less mainstream news from smaller companies/makers that have been on PH? P.S really like the branding 👍

This is amazing. Now I’ll have time for tech, anime and my Nintendo. ... Don’t judge me.

Great work to both @chadwhitaker and the Product Hunt team! I loved having the ability to share my thoughts with Chad during the beta builds and look forward to seeing what comes from Sip in the next few months. For now, I will just wait for the stories to roll in 🙌🏻

Congrats on the launch guys! I liked how you used the top right corner space to solve the progress bar on iPhone X — just one thing though: an incomplete red bar in that area is a mental trigger for low battery, for me, as well as a lot of people I believe. Might be better to not use the Sip red shade for that bar :)

Love it, the Instagram Stories format is perfect for this kind of content! Humble feature request: while reading a story, swipe down to dismiss (IG-style)