Heyday — Automatically organize content - without learning a new app

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!

Hey - looks really interesting! Is there any tracking available for browsing on other devices like on iOS for example?

Amazing product! Amazing tool! Heyday definitely brings order in daily actions! ^_^ Congrats on the launch! ^_^ Can you tell me please, the extension is just for Chrome, right? :))

Congrats on the launch! How does this relate to or interact with Chrome Journeys?

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.

Awesome take on accessing saved content. I have a lot of that 😅 didn't find if import options are available. Can I import content from other apps?

👋 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.

My co-founder @samdebrule and I will be answering your questions for the next 24 hours! Feel free to ask about our product, our process for gathering feedback, how we acquire users, our plans for the future, — or anything really!

This is a very interesting product @samiur1204 @samdebrule. This is a very convenient way to remember all the research you have done in the past for a topic. My only suggestions here are: - Please, move away from the .xyz domain. There are some corporate firewalls that block this domain by default. I saw that the heyday.com and heyday.co are taken already, but I think with a good strategy you could partner with Robert Rankin Walker https://www.linkedin.com/in/robe... https://www.heyday.com/rrw Who knows? Nothing beats hustle, and you already know that. - Are you planning a Safari extension as well or only for Google Chrome ? - If you are thinking to reach a global audience, my recommendation is to add more payments methods, based on the location of the user. I know it's very early for this, but take account of this in the future, especially in the EU where mobile payments methods are very diverse. If you are using Stripe for this app, you should save this guide (using Heyday) https://stripe.com/blog/european... from @sophiesak23 Anyways, congratulations on the launch. This will save a lot of time for people. cc @joshk @briannekimmel

This. Looks. Slick! Particularly in the age of information overload when we forget what we read so fast. Love the resurfacing part - repetition makes the game 👌

Do you have any plans to integrate with PKM platforms like Obsidian in the future? The current main issue with PKMs is figuring out how/when to surface notes. If this could surface not just the things I've read but the notes I've written etc, I'd pay so much money for this.

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 :)

Hey all 🙏🏻 TL:DR: a lot of potential in the future with powerful integration to collect info online you might have missed. Like an virtual assistant. I have tested out Heyday The coolest overall feature is the ability to remember everything you do online. Like browsing, Google searches, twitter etc So who am I? Someone who uses Roam research for second brain, analog notebooks, raindrop.io, Readwise highlights. One might say that I love to collect knowledge and digital treasures 😆 I love the idea that heyday collects the info I don’t see and think about. So I can reevaluate it later. That’s whats powerful to me. Because I’m very selective….but also well knowing I can’t collect all because it requires too much attention. Heyday also use a daily highlight feature…..Like readwises “daily highlight” feature….which I love to evaluate my notes. This way you can go through interesting (and unseen) info you might have missed and tag it. The use case for me is to collect information to grow and have a treasure chest of knowledge. I can only see Heyday become better and better. With even Sharper A.I and Also better integrations etc. And a cross social media (I know they just implemented Twitter which is 🔥) I’m not paid to write this btw. Just a few thoughts + I want to share my feedback. If you have any questions about my workflow….then hit me up on Twitter @dudehere.

Your privacy policy takes ownership of a LOT of personal data. Do you plan to sell or license this data?

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 :)

This looks amazing. Definitely trying it out. Have you thought about solving knowledge mgmt use-cases within an organisation? I would love to have something like HeyDay for knowledge workers within our organisation who can all have relevant documents/artifacts around a topic in one place.

Incredible!!! Congrats @samiur1204 and team!! 🥳 Looks absolutely awesome, can't wait to get started!! 🤯 .

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 :)

Congrats on the launch, @samdebrule! Heyday looks awesome. Will be trying it out next time I'm diving into a new topic on the web 👌

I generally think this productivity market is too crowded, but this is really cool! I think if y'all could add in the ability to highlight specific parts of websites or articles to save the most important content that would make this replace my knowledge base on Notion.

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.