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July 2nd, 2025
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Dare to stand out a little

gm legends, happy Wednesday.

Here’s the midweek arsenal: a phone that dares to be transparent instead of blending in; a one-keystroke clip tool that turns any screen into your personal brain dump; and a browser-based video editor you drive by typing your own commands.

Grab your mug, fire up these tools, and own the day.

P.S. Launching soon? We’d love to hear about it → editorial@producthunt.co 🫶

Not Just Another Brick

Nothing Phone 3 keeps the quirky see-through back and Glyph lights you love, upgrades to sharper cameras, longer battery life and a snappier processor, all wrapped in that oddly hypnotic design language.

šŸ”„ Our Take: The Nothing phone has stood out in a sea of space grey bricks for a few years now with its quirky design. This third iteration doubles down on the weird see-through vibe and gives you legit camera upgrades, but you’ll still field sideways glances when you pull it out in public, it’s eye-catching but that is part of the charm.

Edit With Words

Tailored Labs runs in your browser. Drop in raw footage or record clips, then type instructions like trim dead air, add a lower third or find highlights and watch a rough edit appear.

šŸ”„ Our Take: Video editing used to eat up my weekend, scrubbing through every second. Now I type ā€œtrim silenceā€ and get back a rough cut in moments. It still misses a clip now and then, but swapping hours of timeline torture for quick text commands feels like a win.

Instant Brain Snapshots

Lazy 2.0 gives you one keystroke to grab context from any window, email, PDF, tweet or video, and drop it into a live chat where you can riff on your own notes without ever leaving flow.

šŸ”„ Our Take: Quick as it is, Lazy forces you to face your backlog sooner. Some mornings I open the app and find twenty random clips I barely remember grabbing. Still, catching a lightning-fast idea before it vanishes beats scrambling through tabs later.

YC cheat code

Mike Stachowiak, a three-time founder and YC alum who backed early bets like Zapier and Clever, jumped into the forums offering free, no-catch pitch-deck feedback for founders gearing up to raise. He’ll tear into your deck’s story from an investor’s POV and in return asks just a few quick questions about your fund-raising wins and pain points. This thread is your chance to get brutal, battle-tested advice straight from someone who’s been both sides of the table.

So the bigger question: when was the last time you let an investor rip apart your slide deck before your real pitch?

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