The historical number one on the AI product list on Product Hunt is about to be refreshed.
Wordware, a project for building AI applications using natural language, has received over 6,800 votes and is currently ranked first in the annual list, more than 2,000 votes ahead of the second place. Looking back, the project with a higher upvote was Notion 2.0 in 2018.
Is this a disruptive product like Notion?
When the product was launched, PH CEO suspected that they were cheating and sent an email warning:
First email:
Note, we are seeing some suspicious voting activity on the hardware some of our systems are booting up (you may see a slight reduction in vote counts). Are you or someone on your behalf buying upvotes? If so, can you get it stopped?
If not, don't worry, our system will remove it. It's imperative to keep the game fair.
Overall, congratulations on the launch - it looks like there’s a lot of community interest! Looking forward to the demo on Monday.
Four minutes later, the second email:
I spoke too early... Looks like you guys are going viral! 😂
Level 1 Viral Spread: Crashes your website.
Secondary Virality: Crashing Product Hunt.
Not long after, PH CEO and Wordware founder embraced each other warmly:
How did they do it without violating PH regulations and without hanging around in the PH community for a long time?
01 Viral product brings 4 million users
An AI Agent that analyzes the personality of an account based on the content of its tweets (X) has recently become popular on Twitter because of its sharp comments.
It has been online for 8 days and has attracted 4.26 million users.
This Twitter Agent even made Wordware, the website that built the agent, popular. The product received a mediocre response when it was initially released on Product Hunt, but after the Twitter agent became a big hit on Twitter, it boosted PH's performance. Currently, it has more than 6,800 likes on Product Hunt, becoming the most popular product of the week.
Wordware is an application building platform for an integrated development environment (IDE), which allows anyone to build complex AI agents and applications through natural language programming. As AI guru Andrej Karpathy said before, "the most popular programming language is English", and Wordware is the best example of this sentence. By using words to build your own AI agent, everyone can become an AI developer.
02 The Twitter AI Agent that became popular because of its complaints
This Twitter AI Agent is actually a sideline product built by Wordware's developers using their own platform. Users only need to submit their Twitter account. After the AI Agent reads all your tweets, it will use large language models such as ChatGPT to analyze your personality and then create a web page with the analysis results.
The analysis results include a lot of information about you, such as your strengths and weaknesses (Strengths, Weaknesses), your attitude towards life, your attitude towards money, your health, your favorite person, your biggest goal, your favorite animal, your career situation, etc.
For example, the analysis of Musk:
The language of the analysis results is consistent with the user's content, and the Chinese in the picture is the result of web page translation.
52 years old, male entrepreneur, rocket, Tesla, Mars, controversial, outspoken, internet celebrity, it can be said that these words all fit the description.
For example, Sam Altman's analysis results:
AI evangelist, world savior, prophet, how should I put it, it feels really accurate.
We found a well-known Chinese Twitter account, @岚夕, and the Agent’s analysis results were automatically converted to Chinese:
However, if you want to see the full analysis results, you need to pay an additional $2.99 to unlock it.
The core logic of this Agent product is actually very simple: prompt words + Twitter API + AI, focusing on sharp complaints, curiosity and fun, hitting the largest Twitter user group: 18-29 years old.
The website became very popular on the 7th of this month, with traffic exceeding 1 million on that day. The founder shared that the entire growth was mainly due to the fact that they changed a prompt on the Wordware platform: Respond in the language that most tweets are written in.
Founder Filip believes that although Twitter AI Agent is a side project, it has generated huge value in terms of search engine optimization, brand awareness, a large number of qualified sales leads, revenue, etc.
It is precisely because of this popularity that the Wordware product has become well-known and has become PH's hot product of the week.
03 Allow people who don’t know code to develop their own AI applications
What kind of product is Wordware?
Borrowing a sentence from the public account "Zifei AI":
Imagine that you can build a powerful AI Agent to automatically complete complex tasks, improve your work efficiency, and even create new business models by simply describing your needs in clear language, just like writing a Notion document. This is the future that Wordware brings to you.
Filip, co-founder of Wordware, said:
Imagine the potential if every employee could implement their best AI idea for the company. With Wordware, you can test hundreds of AI tools per quarter to drive innovation and efficiency.
The two founders, Filip Kozera and Robert, met in Cambridge and became friends because of their shared interests in machine learning and large language models. They were also interested in a future where AI could change the industry.
The two started working with some early large-scale language models, such as BERT and GPT-2. Robert was one of the early engineers at FiveAI, which was later acquired by Bosch. His previous startups raised more than $10 million in funding.
They believe that in the future, artificial intelligence will be seamlessly integrated into daily business operations, driving efficiency, improvement, and growth. Therefore, its mission is to provide enterprises with the tools and insights they need to fully realize the potential of artificial intelligence. One of the core concepts is to involve domain experts in the development of artificial intelligence applications, and another key principle is that humans must be involved.
Applications built on Wordware are "WordApps" because they can be built using natural language. The core belief is that domain experts, not engineers, know what a good large language model (LLM) output looks like. For example, lawyers building a legal SaaS need to be deeply involved in the process, and working directly in the code base or communicating back and forth with engineers is not the right way.
Build the interface
In addition to this Twitter Agent, the Wordware website also provides some other Agent templates, which you can use directly to develop some applications.
For users who want to develop AI applications or agents, Wordware is different in the following ways:
Notion-like intuitive interface: drag and drop to complete your workflow, no problem even without programming experience
Professional technical support: loop, branch or structured generation, convenient use of various judgment statements, and custom code.
Integration of various large language models: Wordware supports various large language models, including GPT, Claude, Llama, Gemini, etc.
Default multimodality: Seamlessly integrate text, images, audio, and video in the agent, making it easier to generate videos or pictures from text.
One-click deployment: Provides one-click deployment function to easily deploy the built agent in the cloud.
Some user-developed WordApps displayed on the official website
The core of Wordware is to lower the threshold for application development, allowing more people who do not understand code to develop the applications they want according to their own needs.
After all, everyone has a product dream of their own.
Official website: https://www.wordware.ai/
04 The expected explosion of AI applications has not yet arrived, but don’t worry
In 2024, it seems that everyone is waiting for AI's super-app or killer-app, and many developers are even a little desperate about it.
For example, a developer on Twitter expressed pessimism:
Everyone is waiting for WeChat, TikTok, Toutiao, and even Didi Chuxing in the AI era, and seems to think that they should be born this year.
Everyone feels that the current applications of chatbots, AI chat companions, tarot cards, etc. are really too simple!
But AI guru Andrej Karpathy doesn’t think so. He believes that the current AI application ecosystem is very similar to the early days of iOS:
My perspective on this changed a bit at a recent Sequoia event, where they compared it to iOS. The first three years or so of the App Store were filled with all these fancy apps. I think with new things, it takes a while for people to digest it, figure out what it is and what it isn't, and package it into a product.
The App Store has been online for more than a year, and many of the dazzling apps are no longer available.
In 2007, the first iPhone was born.
In 2008, the App Store was launched.
In 2009, iPhone OS 3.0 was updated, and the App Store had been online for eight months, with 25,000 apps and a cumulative download volume of 800 million times.
In 2010, WeChat had not yet been born, the Alipay app was not yet popular, and apps like Pinduoduo and Meituan had not yet appeared.
From 2010 to 2013, the apps that dominated the charts for a long time were mobile phone managers, video playback tools, and wifi connection assistants. Today, these are all built-in functions of the system. They solved temporary needs, but also made their own contributions to the prosperity of the application ecosystem.
If we compare the development of AI, ChatGPT was born in 2022, and now we are still at the time when flashlights, mobile phone managers, and even lock screen assistants and Tom Cats are popular.
For this reason, platforms like Wordware allow ordinary people to develop their own AI applications without any barriers.
In other words, perhaps, as Karpathy said, "the hottest programming language in the future is English."
In an era where everyone can develop their own applications, the explosion of AI applications will come sooner or later.
