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Sidelong
Turn everything you learn into writing worth reading
Sidelong is a writing platform for people who publish. Save the articles, books, videos, and podcasts that spark ideas, and Sidelong surfaces them beside your draft while you write. Ask it to research a topic and get a fully cited report in minutes. Then publish to Substack, Beehiiv, a free hosted blog, your newsletter, or straight to X and LinkedIn. Every word on the page is yours.
Hey Product Hunt! I'm Christian, and I built Sidelong because my reading kept vanishing.
I'd read books, save articles, watch talks, listen to podcasts. Then I'd sit down to write my newsletter with a blank page and a vague memory that someone, somewhere, said something perfect about this exact topic.
Sidelong is the writing platform I wanted instead:
- Save anything with the Chrome extension: articles, YouTube, podcasts, tweets, newsletters. Kindle highlights import too, covers included.
- Every save gets a summary and key insights, and all of it becomes searchable.
- When you write, your library shows up beside the draft. Relevant highlights and quotes surface as you type, and citing one takes a click.
- Ask Sidelong to research a topic and a fully cited report lands in your library minutes later.
- Publish wherever your readers are: clean export to Substack or Beehiiv, a free hosted blog, built-in newsletter sending, or post straight to X and LinkedIn.
One thing Sidelong will never do is write your posts. It hands you material; every word on the page is yours. No AI slop ever.
Writing and publishing are free forever, and every account starts with a 14 day trial of the full toolkit.
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About Sidelong on Product Hunt
“Turn everything you learn into writing worth reading”
Sidelong was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #103 on the daily leaderboard. Sidelong is a writing platform for people who publish. Save the articles, books, videos, and podcasts that spark ideas, and Sidelong surfaces them beside your draft while you write. Ask it to research a topic and get a fully cited report in minutes. Then publish to Substack, Beehiiv, a free hosted blog, your newsletter, or straight to X and LinkedIn. Every word on the page is yours.
Sidelong was featured in Productivity (659.6k followers) and Writing (59.3k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 169.2k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Sidelong?
Sidelong was hunted by Christian Hatch. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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