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Welcome to the Forward Thinking Roundup! This is a weekly email where I summarize everything there is to know in the Forward Thinking universe from the last week. In today’s newsletter, we’ll be reviewing:
5 potential venture scale products that launched last week on Product Hunt
5 posts I published in the last week
7 podcasts published in the last week
A posts for first time founders
Highlighting the benefits of being a paying subscribers of FTF
Are you ready to roll? Ok, let’s get into it!
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Top 3 potential venture scale products from Product Hunt last week
Clash - Clash is building the first Creator-Founded social network, empowering short form video creators through innovative monetization options, inclusive communities, and fun, creator inspired features
The creator market is on a tear, and it feels like so much VC attention is going into the Passion/Creator economy.
There aren’t any social networks currently built focused on creator monetization w/ their fans. If they can replicate features of these apps while bring in revenue to its users, this could explode
As TikTok has its woes in the US, this leaves open room for new players to enter the space at scale and fill the void.
Kiroku- Kiroku is a note-taking app that uses AI to help you complete your dental notes in half the time.
When I go to the dentist, there always seems to be a heavy emphasis on note taking, and this usually is repetitive. Perfect for AI.
This is a very boring market. Which means there aren’t 22 years olds trying to build apps for it left and right. There is likely lower competition.
With the success of Quip, we know that theres is VC appetite for the dental market. It isn’t the same end user but it’s in the same overall market, which could lead VCs to be easier to invest.
Zesture - Control your Music, Movies and Slides with Hand Gestures.
We know the VR/VR evolution is coming, yet we think these will be built with new devices. This shows that we can take a step in that direction with devices you’re currently on.
It’s creating a new behavior, for the better. Changing behavior will be important for society to move to AR. Zesture could be one of the early companies to help pioneer this behavior change
I personally would use this. Being able to change apps or songs im listening to with a gesture allows me to not mess up my current workflow. I think other would agree.
Honorable mentions
Oyper - It’s a plugin that helps users to find items that they can buy during watching youtube video.
Trove - Trove automatically finds you the credit cards that earn you the most rewards based on your unique spending habits.
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For everyone
Three Reason’s Why COVID-19 Wan’t VRs Moment - It’s easy to bash on VR and thinking it’s always too early. Here is a more critical view of where VR is on the adoption curve.
How Not to Spend $100,000 - Last year, my company got a $100,000 investment, and we spent it all in less than 6 months. Here are my learnings from that.
Ignore Feedback From Friends About Your Ideas - When you get a great idea, son’t share it with your friends, or else you may not get what you’re looking for.
For Paying Subscribers
25 Startups In The S20 Batch of Y Combinator - A list of 25 publicly launched companies that are in the current batch of Y Combinator.
The Follow Feature As a Utility - Clubhouse is using the follow feature in a way that has never been used before. What does this mean for the future of social?
Last week’s Forward Thinking Founders podcast:
254 - Francesco Di Lorenzo & Fabrizio Rinaldi (Mailbrew) on Building An Information Diet
253 - Matt Shumer (OthersideAI) On The Power of GPT-3 and email clients
252 - Matt Johnson (Taskable) On Building A Task Manager for Task Managers
251 - Alyssa Atkins (Lilia) On Freezing your Eggs
250 - Anish Agnihotri (Gen Z Mafia) on Making Friends Online And Creating
249 - Anton Viborniy (ApiWay) On Building a Better Business Model for Integrations
248 - Michael Aubry (Storycreator) On balancing building and selling
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Outsourcing your product development? Prepare to die - Here’s a post on the consequences founders face when they outsource their product development.
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