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.
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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'v
Time is too short to read low quality content. Thank you Matter for helping us find the best stuff.
Really awesome idea and product! I love the scrolling aspect. It's exciting as you scroll because you know you are bound to come across something interesting that you didn't know you had to read before that very second.
The team behind this product deserves a round of applause for such a successful launch. The enthusiasm and positive feedback speak for themselves.
This is great and very needed! Excited to dive into these recommendations. Congrats on the launch 🚀
Check the similar products section on this page, or browse the category pages linked in the tags above. Each category page shows all products for a given year, sorted by engagement.
A measure of community engagement at launch. Higher means more people noticed and interacted with the product. It's a traction signal, not a quality rating.
Discussion threads divided by interest score. Above 0.30 is strong. Below 0.15 suggests the product got clicks but not conversation.
Categories come from the product's launch tags. Most products appear in 2-3 categories. The primary category is listed first.