It’s great to see you again Product Hunt fam!
I’m Samiur, one of the co-founders of Heyday.
Nearly two years ago, we launched our Chrome extension on PH and won Product of the Month.
After the launch, we grew to hundreds of paying customers at 57% DAU/MAU, and ~3% monthly churn. We even raised a Seed round and hired 4 teammates.
We thought we were on our way to a Series A.
Then the world changed.
OpenAI made it easy for developers to build world-class AI into their apps. And just like that, a horizontal productivity tool differentiated through its AI, like Heyday, wouldn’t be able to compete.
We realized that the most successful products in this new world would be those that specialize for the needs of a specific persona, the way Github Copilot does for engineers.
To survive, we selected executive coaches as our target users (my co-founder @samdebrule shares the story behind this decision in his maker comment) and refashioned our product to solve their specific needs.
To help coaches, we needed to understand their data/context and fit in seamlessly with their workflow. We’ve made coaches ecstatic with what we built (~50% conversion from trial to paid), and in the process, we stumbled upon a feature set that has organically been helpful to non-coaches who do a ton of research.
Our goal is the same as it was when we first launched Heyday on PH two years ago - build an AI copilot that serves all knowledge workers. Today, we think we’ll get there by building product experiences that serve specific personas one by one.
And that’s why we’re excited to share Heyday with you today. We hope to learn from you as you use it - and your persona might be the one that makes the most sense for us to serve next.
🙀 The problem
Our brains weren't built to handle the volume of information on the internet. Modern AI tools like OpenAI try to help, but they aren’t trained to solve the specific needs of your job, don’t have access to your context/data, and require a lot of manual work (and know-how) to bend it to your will.
😻 The solution
Productivity tools should easily pull in our context/data, seamlessly integrate into our workflow, and be tuned to the specific needs of our jobs.
What you’ll love about Heyday:
- Summarize key points and find answers that draw from all of YOUR emails, documents, notes, and articles
- Get specific advice from within your collections of research (e.g. Ask your “Startup Growth Loops” topic to suggest changes that will help you grow it and increase engagement)
- Eliminate writer’s block with original first drafts of content drawn automatically from your conversations and research, emailed to you weekly
- Capture meaningful moments from your calls with summarized key points, next steps, and follow-up questions pulled out of your Zoom calls.
My co-founder Sam and I will be answering your questions for the next 24 hours.
Ask us about Heyday, our process for gathering feedback, our plans for the future — anything!
