Some Of Our Favorite Product Hunt Hacks
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April 18, 2016
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The Best Of Product Hunt
If you’re having builder’s block – a developer’s version of writer’s block – just look at Product Hunt. You might see a dev who built an anti-app that lets you summon almost anything you want (including helicopters) via text. You might see an AI-based lawyer app.
We see developers who are consistently shipping ideas that demonstrate their creativity and commitment to shipping. Here are a few of our favorite ships.
Locent
When you fire off that email to your customers, you hope they open it. But in a wash of emails destined for the “Promotions” tab, or worse – the SPAM folder, your message can get lost. Locent built a Mailchimp-esque marketing platform powered by text. Your messages get delivered straight to your customers. Matt Joseph, the founder of Locent, says that customers who opt into the text programs are likely to “be more loyal, more impulsive and faster-moving than email subscribers.”
Magic
Magic is what it sounds like – magic. Your phone is essentially a wand. You can order just about anything via text. After Justin Kan,, founder of JustinTV, took the app for what’d we’d call a “stress test” he procured a curated playlist of trap music, a helicopter, and bought a Ducati all from his phone via text, with no app — the power of magic.
Shuffle
If someone created a profile of you, based solely on your text message and phone call history what would it look like? Odds are it’d be a little disjointed. Disparate areas of your life all coalesce together in your phone. That can get messy.
Shuffle lets you create numbers for each pocket of your life. Now that person from Craigslist that you’re selling a computer to doesn’t have your real number. They’ve got your Shuffle Craigslist number that forwards to your phone. Shuffle helps you keep things orderly while keeping all that activity centralized in your phone.
Kanye Texts
“My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live” – Kanye West.
Kanye can’t hide in anonymity after all the absolutely bananas things he’s said on Twitter, on national television, and on mics he stole from Taylor Swift. Luckily, you can hide out behind a Twilio-phone number to take cover from your friend’s impending rage when they get a randomly generated Kanye quote sent via text..
Christopher Drake and Matt Whiteoak challenged themselves to build something fun, with minimal software skills. They came up with Kanye Texts and the world has had a little more Yeezy in it ever since.
Let Us Know What You Build
What are some of your favorite Product Hunt hacks? Did you build something rad? Shoot us a tweet (or email the author) and let us know.
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