#7 Pulling hydrogen directly from seawater: no filtering needed 💧
#7 Pulling hydrogen directly from seawater: no filtering needed 💧
#7 2023 | Sparkmate
Happy Wednesday from your (favorite? 😇) engineering and venture building team!
Here’s what we’ve put together for your weekly Spark News:
Learn from real stories of profitable products made with no code 👾
Personalize your news feed with Waverly 📰
Google on launching ChatGPT’s rival: Bard 😅
Pulling hydrogen directly from seawater: no filtering needed 💧
Morgan is on a mission to connect with our European friends 🏢
💙 NEWS FROM OUR MATESLearn from real stories of profitable products made with no code 👾
Building outstanding products that are profitable or attract acquisition don’t have to be complex - and our mate Katt Risen is here to show you how through No-Code Exits. From developing her own no code tool, being acquired, and tweeting about it to get tons of DMs, she wanted to share more stories of how other founders have done it, and how you can too!
No-Code Exits includes all the real stories and interviews with founders on the products they built with no code. You’ll find success stories and their stack, one-liners, type of product, business model, the commitment they put into it (full time/side project?) and whether they’ve been acquired (a lot has been!). Go ahead and check it out - it might inspire you to build your own!
🤸♀️ FUN PRODUCT WE LOVEPersonalize your news feed with Waverly 📰
It’s about time AI comes into helping us read through content we know we’ll love - not for photos or videos like Instagram or TikTok, but more for real news - with text.
So Waverly is essentially a mash of TikTok and ChatGPT:
“Your very own recipe for your feed, in your words.”
Features:
🚨 Cut through the noise
Get a customized feed that lets you track industries, trends and markets. Read articles that matter from sources you would not find elsewhere.
Their AI learns from the links you share and from the feedback you give. By analyzing 10,000 sources, including specialized publications, blogs, and newsletters, Waverly lets you focus on what is important rather than what is popular.❌ Remove distractions
Enjoy a mobile discovery experience that helps you stay focused.
Waverly’s distraction-free reader shows you the article, without anything superfluous. Their fully transparent recommendation algorithm lets you write the recipe for your ideal feed.✅ Get work done
Highlight, annotate and summarize articles directly from your mobile device. Use Waverly to create inspiring content, track what's important, or nurture engaged learning communities.
Attach your work wherever you need it: to emails, your CRM, documents, etc.Track trends that matter
Share inspiring content (with special share designs ready for Linkedin, Instagram, etc!)
Who it’s for: Anyone looking to remove distractions from reading what they need to!
Price: FREE ⭐️ until you need more of their features, in which case starts at CAD$8.99 / month!
💭 TECH FOOD FOR THOUGHTGoogle on launching ChatGPT’s rival: Bard 😅
As ChatGPT takes the world by storm, and threatens Google’s search engine dominance, CEO Sundar Pichai decided to bring their not-quite-ready-yet AI called Bard out to market …and has only been receiving heat from the Google teams:
“Dear Sundar, the Bard launch and the layoffs were rushed, botched, and myopic. Please return to taking a long-term outlook,” 😬
The shares of Google parent Alphabet has also plunged by around 7% so far - at one point losing $100 billion in market value in a single day. Which teaches us a big lesson:
“Firing 12k people rises the stock by 3%, one rushed AI presentation drops it by 8%,”
Make sure your products work and bring real value!
🌱 TECH FOR SUSTAINABILITYPulling hydrogen directly from seawater: no filtering needed 💧
As we move away from the use of fossil fuels and other non-renewable sources, more are looking at something we are most abundant in: seawater. And researchers at the University of Adelaide announced their latest finding to make clean hydrogen fuel from seawater without pre-treatments.
Through electrolysis, from a non-precious and cheap catalyst (cobalt oxide with chromium oxide on its surface) in a commercial electrolyser, they could split natural seawater into oxygen and hydrogen with almost 100% efficiency to produce green hydrogen. Exciting times to help make this more accessible to all in the near future!
💥 WHAT’S ON @ SPARKMATEMorgan is on a mission to connect with our European friends.
Guess who's coming to Europe? Our CEO, Morgan! That's right, he's taking a break from Hong Kong and the rest of APAC to visit our teams and mates in Paris and Bucharest. If you're in either of those cities and want to grab a coffee, hit him up! Morgan is always down to chat with members of the Sparkmate mafia, and he'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback on what we're up to.
You can get in touch with him directly to schedule a meetup. Don't miss this chance to connect with him before he flies back!
Exciting things are happening every day ⚡️ Follow us on social media to stay tuned!