While You Were Out
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Details
- External ID
- 1274118
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- While You Were Out
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- News, Newsletters, Artificial Intelligence
Description
A free news show for people who don't have time for the news. At 6 AM and 5 PM CT it picks the 5 biggest stories, checks each against 2+ established outlets, and turns them into a 90-second video, podcast and email with our AI anchor, Max Morrow.
Enrichment
- Niche
- news curation and media intelligence
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- quick verified news digests for readers
- Manually corrected
- False
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 97 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #50 of 98 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 347 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Moment 24 · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- DailyChat · ph · 2026-10-01 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- NewsBite · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- 3 Scrambled News Headlines · hn · 2026-08-16 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Read60 · ph · 2026-10-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Insights - Read news in 60 words · ph · 2026-10-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- news · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
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