AI products and features in review for the week...

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1. So what’s the product goss this week?

Spotify AI plans tell you the tunes you want before you do…

While there are lot’s of weird & pointless AI products being built in the world, Spotify have added a not so useless one.

Spotify Premium customers with get access to the AI Playlist Beta tool.

The tool is themed, so you can ask it things like ‘play some tunes cause I’m about to tear my hair out after this meeting’ & it might blast out some heavy metal (I wonder if it learns your mood overtime). It plans to get smarter so you can ask around colour, animals, activities etc.

I think sentiment is where AI features in existing products thrive and where it builds loyalty. If you feel like something like Spotify understands you well amongst volume, you’ll probably never leave the product.

OpenTable is adding your first name for the savage review you might have left for that restaurant you hated….

OpenTable has decided transparency in their reviews is really important and profile details will be more visible. OpenTable aims to build a community for diners to discover new restaurants and by default, what other, legitimate diners are saying is super important.

This is supposed to help combat fake reviews. While some of that might be true, it might also stop people leaving a review from a safety point of view so I would be interested to know if this affects OpenTable in the long term.

2. Products I procrastinated with this week…

This week (and abit), I thought I would talk about some AI Startups everyones hyping about. If we’re really honest, some ideas are really questionable. That’s probably an opinion.

But there are some incredibly exciting things happening in this space. So here are 3 AI Product reviews…

Airchat - A social walkie talkie

Basically Clubhouse reinvented with AI. (If you remember the weird Clubhouse era during Covid).

Twitter has this with Spaces and I imagine if Airchat gets more traction then Elon will whip this up or do another money to burn buyout.

ChatPRD - An on-demand Chief Product Officer that writes & improves your PRDs (one for the product people)

Quite honestly, I hate the term PRD or historically what they are so let’s call this a product strategy builder.

How do I feel about AI doing this for product people? I think it’s literally your job to come up with a creative way to visualise your product execution and it’s value proposition. I don’t think you, as a product person need to babysit your developers by creating these type of detailed documents because your entire team should be able build better processes around this. I think this has a danger of creating poor thinkers and if we need aids, ChatGPT might play that role well enough (essentially what this is tbf)

Wondercraft AI - Canva for audio, build your written content into audio formats.

I love this. It can help you craft a podcast script, clones your voice and automates the content. Recording podcasts & courses is actually a tedious task. It’s fun at first (like everything tbh) but consistency needs some automation support. So for solo creators, I think these types of AI aids will really help steer content.

3. Product gems that made me howl…

Having ideas & building them before talking to a customer is always a red flag…

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