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Heyday — Automatically organize content - without learning a new app
Heyday’s browser extension automatically saves web pages you visit and pulls in content from your apps. Then, it uses AI to resurface that content alongside Google results, overlay it on articles, and curate it into a knowledge base that fills itself.
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Love this @samdebrule! It seems like Heyday can help a ton when wanting to go deep on a topic.
@valsopi It will definitely be able to help when you go deep down a rabbit hole!
Heyday was an easy sell: effortless bookmarks and contextual serendipity. I switched over from MyMind and haven't looked back. Looking forward to more functionality! Congrats on the launch, @samdebrule & @samiur1204!
@samiur1204 @lordranzo Thank you Lorzeno - please keep the feedback coming so we can make it even better for you!
👋 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.
@nickabouzeid @samdebrule @samiur1204 - waving madly from Boston - woo hoo and BRAVO Team Heyday for launching on Product Hunt!! ♥
My brain can’t be bothered to collect and organize information as I consume it… it’s just not wired that way. Heyday has been amazing at being my AI assistant, never letting me forget or lose track of information I’ve already checked out. It’s definitely making me more intentional about what I’m digging into as well.
@danielzarick Thanks Daniel! We hope to continue to make Heyday better for you
Incredible!!! Congrats @samiur1204 and team!! 🥳 Looks absolutely awesome, can't wait to get started!! 🤯 .
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Congrats on the launch! How does this relate to or interact with Chrome Journeys?
@chrismessina Thanks Chris! I'd say we're solving quite different problems: Chrome Journeys helps you retrace old browsing/searching sessions, whereas Heyday's job is to resurface content relevant to you, regardless of how you got to it. Concretely:
1. Chrome Journeys won't resurface articles/PDFs/etc. that you navigated to outside of search. Example, searching from DAOs, it won't bring up content that a coworker or friend may have shared with you that you directly navigated to.
2. Chrome Journeys is strictly web/public content. Heyday indexes content from private sources, like Slack, Dropbox, Google, Evernote and soon, Notion.
3. Outside of simple sessions, Heyday also proactively shows you relevant context to whatever you're ready. Backlinks from other articles, slack messages or emails that reference the content, or even top tweets.
@samiur1204 @dtran320 Thanks so much David!!! Inspired by yours and Flow Club's too!
I've been waiting for something like Heyday for years - I love that it passively combs my history and contextualizes for me. In my case I look at a lot of papers, and I'm always going, "where did I see that?". With Heyday I can quickly find it.
One other interesting feature is that over time it tends to surface related links, so it's possible to get the next-adjacent tip as well, so your browsing history becomes sort of like a secret weapon.
Follows of @Visakanv on twitter will know what I mean here :)
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!
@samiur1204 @shapiro @blakebemal @samdebrule Guys! I am so freakin proud of you! This is awesome. I use Heyday every day. Congrats on your launch and I cannot wait to see what you have next.
@samdebrule This is inspiring story, to see how perseverance can help get through the struggles. Thanks for sharing !
@shaunnestor thank you Shaun! Any areas of improvement you'd like for us to focus on most?
@samiur1204 @shapiro @blakebemal @samdebrule Awesome tool and great features. Great work. Congratulations for the launch
Love the product. You got a lot of the UX right I think. I had been wanting to build something like this and evolve it into a shared knowledge base with premium features etc.
I was going to call it Meta and even got a nice domain for the product a couple of years ago. But then Zuck got in the way ! :P
@vishalchandra Thanks so much Vishal, so glad to hear that you're enjoying it
@vishalchandra Thank you Vishal! What kind of premium features did you have in mind??
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 :)
@ravivyas84 Noted on the Instapaper integration request Ravi! Bookmarks be gone!!
This looks really great! Before embarking on a trial, ?makers can you clarify if the AI magic works for other languages than English? I tend to browse across 4 different languages.
@redevries Thanks Rene. Unfortunately, the AI magic is currently trained on English only. What languages would you like us to support?
@redevries Hi Rene! It "works," but pretty poorly if I'm honest. Our machine learning is exclusively trained on a corpus of English text right now.
Congrats on the launch, @samdebrule! I've tried dozens of research, bookmark and notetaking apps, but Heyday is the first one that actually felt close to having a second brain. Will follow your progress going forward :)
@samdebrule @henningsillerud Thanks Henning! So happy to hear that you've been getting a lot out of Heyday that you normally wouldn't. What would you say is the biggest difference between what else you've tried and Heyday?
Congrats on the PH launch!
I've always been someone with countless tabs open but have been using Heyday over the past 6 months to help with my research/curation of my newsletter and it has been a lifesaver. I can now comfortably close these tabs knowing that when the time is right it'll resurface and nudge me in the right direction.
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