Most of the best writing was *not* created in the past year. Yet our feeds are dominated by the past 24 hours. Read Something Wonderful is an antidote to recency bias, an access point to writing that has stood the test of time.
Hey Product Hunt!
I'm Ben, one of the co-founders of the reading app Matter. We started Matter because what we read has a profound impact on how we see the world.
One of the weird things about the internet is its extreme recency bias. Most of what we get served is from the past 24 hours - even though most of the best writing is much older than that.
We're stuck in a cycle of ephemeral content consumption, what David Perell calls the "Never-Ending Now."
In the three years of building Matter, we've come across so many timeless blog posts and essays, some of them quite obscure, surfaced by our wonderful community of readers. It's been a real treasure trove for us.
We want to share that treasure with the world. So today, we're excited to launch Read Something Wonderful - a site dedicated to timeless internet writing.
A big thank you to the folks who shared their favorites for this project: David Perell, Tamara Winter, Devon Zuegel, Kevin Kelly, Byrne Hobart, Adam Grant, Anna Gat, Calvin French-Owen, Nadia Asparouhova, Jason Crawford, Sam Bowman, Andy Matuschak, Craig Mod, David King, Katherine Boyle, Molly Mielke, Erik Torenberg, Dom Cooke, John Luttig, Brie Wolfson, Dan Shipper, Nathan Bashez, Dwarkesh Patel.
About Read Something Wonderful on Product Hunt
“Timeless internet writing”
Read Something Wonderful launched on Product Hunt on June 7th, 2023 and earned 140 upvotes and 29 comments, placing #11 on the daily leaderboard. Most of the best writing was *not* created in the past year. Yet our feeds are dominated by the past 24 hours. Read Something Wonderful is an antidote to recency bias, an access point to writing that has stood the test of time.
On the analytics side, Read Something Wonderful competes within Newsletters and Online Learning — topics that collectively have 15.5k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Read Something Wonderful performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Read Something Wonderful?
Read Something Wonderful was hunted by Ben Springwater. 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.
Reviews
Read Something Wonderful has received 2 reviews on Product Hunt with an average rating of 5.00/5. Read all reviews on Product Hunt.
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