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Tyler Maloney
🔭 There’s so much good content - if you just know where to look 🔭 Content discovery is fundamentally broken. I came to this conclusion when I moved from North Carolina to attend Stanford. We like to think that education happens inside a classroom, but mine occurred in a group chat. I discovered the writings of Paul Graham, Nir Eyal and Eugene Wei through blue hyperlinks sent by new friends. I started reading Stratechery (which to this day, I still don’t know how to pronounce). As my content diet evolved, my mental models did too. Tim Urban helped me appreciate how little time I had left to spend with my parents... so I began to treat them with a little more kindness and grace. John Gottman gave me language to navigate conflict… so I deepened connections with those that I love. I developed healthier, happier & more effective ways of thinking. Upon graduating, I realized that I had always had access to this information in North Carolina. I just didn’t know where to find it or who to ask. The Ivory Tower wasn’t heavily guarded. I just needed a map to find it. There’s so much good content - if you just know where to look. At Faves, we’re on a mission to help people find it. Our model? Expert-curated content from people you trust. Want to learn about algorithms 🤖? Give the Head of Product at Tiktok a follow. Maybe you’re interested in AR 🕹️? Google AR Lead Marily Nika shares videos about innovations in her field. Perhaps you want to grow your newsletter 📜 ? Follow Substack authors Sahil Bloom, David Mattin or Ali Abouelatta to learn their tips and tricks. If we’ve done our job, Faves will feel like a group chat with some of the smartest people in the world. We can’t wait to see what you think. Warmly, Tyler Maloney Founder & CEO of Faves PS: I want to give a huge shoutout to @kevin for hunting our product. The Faves team has been looking forward to launching on Product Hunt for months!
Kyle
Great landing page! My only criticism would be that you should probably make it clear that it's only for iOS right now
Hamza Alsamraee
@kylekrzeski Thanks so much Kyle, we worked on it quite a bit! Credit goes out to @mrxyfir. Appreciate the feedback as well, we'll make sure to consider that
Jacob Freels
@kylekrzeski @hamza_alsamraee I think our talented designer @jbutts deserves most of the credit :)
Tyler Maloney
@kylekrzeski and I'll take the blame for not making that more clear : ) sorry Kyle!
Marco Cardile
@kylekrzeski Indeed. They first acquired my telephone number and then appeared the message that it was only for iOS. Not really cool. Obviously, wish the best for the project
Tyler Maloney
@kylekrzeski @marco_cardile really sorry about this! We can delete your number if you want. Otherwise we’ll text you when we launch Android. Just let me know!
Ayoola John
I love Faves! I use Faves daily to discover all kinds of cool content. Congrats on the launch 🥳
Hamza Alsamraee
@ayoolajohn_ Thank you for your early buy-in!
David Bauer
When I started using Faves, I didn't think I needed yet another place for discovering and sharing content. After a couple of weeks, I stand corrected. Fun to use, and I always discover valuable things I would otherwise have missed. So everybody join and multiply the fun :-)
Hamza Alsamraee
@davidbauer Been loving your posts lately, you're a master curator!
Nick deWilde
Congrats on the launch! What’s the feature on Faves’ roadmap that you’re most excited about?
Tyler Maloney
@ndewilde we’re launching audio filters and audio GIFs that will unlock a whole new medium for creativity in our audio comments 🔊🔊🔊
Jane Dong
Love that this aggregates what experts are reading / watching :) Congrats on the launch!!
Tyler Maloney
@jane_dong1 thanks Jane!!!
Olumide Longe
Faves is an amazing product. I use it to easily share meaningful content from across the internet to anyone.
Tyler Maloney
@longe_tl you’re one of my favorite curators!
Alvaro Stolowicz
Frist app I open in the mornings - a lot of good content in one place!
Tyler Maloney
@alvaro_sto so awesome to hear!
Deb Liu
I learn something new every day on Faves - articles I missed, tweets from interesting people, and rich discussion.
Joshua Butts
@debliu I'm glad you've found it so useful. Thanks!
Stephen Mostrom
Faves is amazing! Tyler and team have made it so easy to find great content. I learn more in five minutes on Faves than I do in hours spent anywhere else. 🧠 💪
Hamza Alsamraee
@stephen_mostrom That's the biggest compliment we can get, thanks Stephen!
Kim Schreiber
From a new poet that I am now obsessed with to daily pictures of the cosmos, I'm finding all new content that had never made it into any of my many feeds. I love this discovery experience of Faves and I love hearing the voices of the people who share.
Hamza Alsamraee
@kim_schreiber Thanks Kim, this is the experience we strive to give every day!
Janel
I'm really loving Faves - great way to discover thoughtful content from other curators!
Hamza Alsamraee
@janelsgm Thanks Janel, that's exactly why we built it!
JohnMark Pero
Love this product, it's leveled up my information diet. Excited to watch it grow!
Emma Boumans
@johnmark_pero Thank you for your support! Glad to be adding value to your daily content intake. We are excited to grow too!
Tyler Maloney
@johnmark_pero pumped to hear that 🙌
Joshua Butts
@johnmark_pero Thanks. I love the audio comments too for getting some of the best informational insights.
Tim Brown
Faves has become my go-to source for ideas, news, and commentary from some of the most interesting people in the world. Never thought I'd find a better version of Twitter, but Faves is that 10x over! Product also improves almost every day (if not more often).
Tyler Maloney
@tim_brown15 hey you're the other guy from that group text!!
Chris Messina
Top Hunter
I don't get it. Where does the content come from? Does Faves have permission to publish this content?
Tyler Maloney
Hey @chrismessina ! Excited to see you here. Individual curators post content they like to Faves. From a rights perspective, it's no different than posting a tweet or TikTok to your Instagram story or sharing it in a text message.
Swasan
@chrismessina @tyler_confrey_maloney But why you are asking for phone nos? why not emails
Tyler Maloney
@chrismessina @swkumar good question. We had email verification before but deliverability became a real hassle.
Chris Messina
Top Hunter
@tyler_confrey_maloney ok, I think I get it... so I can post other people's public social content? But the creators aren't involved themselves in the platform... so it's kind of like social bookmarks?
Tyler Maloney
@chrismessina in many ways Faves is a social, multimedia version of Pocket. Here's how I think about the opportunity: When you see a piece of content you love, you want to share it with people. Right now this occurs on messaging platforms but the experience kind of sucks because iMessage, Whatsapp and DMs are built for messaging - not content sharing. We want to be the place where this sharing and discussion occurs. We're trying to win the behavior by building a better core experience for sharing and discussing content. Sharing: All the content plays in app (you're not constantly clicking to TikTok/Instagram/Twitter), you can create a "story" around the link, and all the posts are algorithmically ordered for you so you can quickly find the good stuff your friends recommend. Discussing: We think audio can be a much better way to discuss content than text. So we're leaning into shortform, async audio and enabling creativity in commenting. We'll be launching audio filters, audio GIFs (letting you insert a 2 second clip from The Office into your comment) over the next month. Our go-to-market is tech leaders but we see this becoming much more social over time. Happy to chat if you want to hear more! We're closing our seed next week.
Oladoyin Oladapo
Faves is super insightful and fun. Love how much I’m learning.
Tyler Maloney
@oladoyin_oladapo1 🙌 🙌 🙌
Michael Houck
Have been loving Faves! Find myself on it multiple times a day
Hamza Alsamraee
@michael_houck1 Glad you're enjoying it Michael
Arielle Nissenblatt
Huge fan of Faves!!
Tyler Maloney
@arielle_niss Thanks for buying in so early : )
Ryan O'Donnell
Awesome job Tyler! Looks great :)
Tyler Maloney
@ryanpatrick323 Thanks! Just saw you applied for verification. Will do that this weekend!
Marco Lorenzon
Have loved using faves! Really helps cut through the noise and highlights the best information out there
Hamza Alsamraee
@m_lorenzon Really appreciate your comment Marco, and thanks for your early buy-in!