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Happy Tuesday! I hope everyone had an awesome Memorial Day Weekend.

Check out our subscribers’ section, Trending Tools, for the hottest list of tools and upcoming startups. For The Biggest Thing, we’re learning more about Duolingo’s first Chief Design Officer this week. We also get a sneak preview at Productpickle’s launch of ChatPLG.ai, AI that collaborates with you to strengthen your product while coaching you to become an elite PLG expert. We learn a couple of tricks for managing browser tabs in this week’s Product Tip. We’ve got a handful of great Snapshots from the past week on the internet, including a First Round’s 4 Levels of PMF. And this week’s video is a tutorial on how to create an Open AI Vision app.

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This week:

• 🔥 Trending: Uizard, Hue Mint, Findr 2.0, Captions.ai, and more

• 🧐 The Biggest Thing: Duolingo hires their first CDO

• 🥒 Product Pickle: Launching ChatPLG.ai

• 💡 Product Tips: Managing your Chrome tabs

• 🔗 Snapshots: First Round releases “The 4 Levels of PMF”

• 🍿 Video of the Week: Building a no-code OpenAI Vision app

🔥 TRENDING TOOLS

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🧐 THE BIGGEST THING

Duolingo promotes Ryan Sims to be its first Chief Design Officer

tldr: Duolingo has promoted Ryan Sims to its newly created role of Chief Design Officer, highlighting the company's focus on design innovation and user experience.

Key Points:

• New Role: Ryan Sims, previously VP of Design, is now Duolingo's first Chief Design Officer.

• Background: Sims joined Duolingo in 2022 and has been instrumental in leading design initiatives that enhance the app's user experience.

• Experience: Before Duolingo, Sims held design leadership roles at Airbnb and R/GA, bringing extensive expertise to his new position.

Why this matters:

I had a rare opportunity to collaborate with Duolingo in 2020-2021 while at CMB. We had the same investors. I was impressed by their obsession with testing and experimentation at the time. Their onboarding, gamification, and product loops are best-in-class examples for B2C startups.

So, it’s important news that they just hired their first CDO. Duolingo’s promotion of Ryan Sims to Chief Design Officer underscores the company’s commitment to elevating design as a core component of its strategy. With Sims' extensive background and proven track record, Duolingo aims to enhance its user experience further, making language learning even more engaging and effective for its global user base.

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🥒 PRODUCT PICKLE

Weekly anecdotes from the front lines

ChatPLG First Look 👀

The official soft launch of my most recent project, ChatPLG.ai! 👏 

I plan to launch on Product Hunt and other platforms in the upcoming days, but I wanted to share this exciting news with subscribers first.

I created ChatPLG, an on-demand Product-Led Growth expert who will help you craft winning PLG strategies and strengthen your product.

After years of studying user activation, monetization, and growth, I created ChatPLG to offer entrepreneurs and startup founders unique value that doesn’t exist in today’s market. I wanted to put something useful into the world that isn’t just another ebook. There are many PLG resources, but this is the first free GPT of its kind, and I think there is already a case to be made that this is the most advanced product co-pilot available.

How does it work?

ChatPLG will fast-track your strategy. Use it as a boilerplate to bootstrap docs and revise existing products and features. ChatPLG is also a great general product coach and brainstorming buddy.

With ChatPLG, you can:

1. ♟️ Craft Winning PLG Strategy

2. 📈 Common PLG Metrics

3. ✨ Solve My Impossible Problem

4. 💯 Product Led Growth Scorecard

5. 💡 Identify Aha Moment

6. ⏳ Reduce Time-to-Value

7. 🚧 Common PLG Pitfalls

8. 🔨 Implement PLG

9. 🙋 PLG Organizational Change

10. 🚀 Product Led Growth Strategies

I've been sitting on this idea for a while and am thrilled to offer it for free.

I would LOVE to hear how ChatPLG works for you, where I could improve it, and when it sounds like a lame generic chatbot. Tell your friends about it! Give it a test drive, and let me know what you think!

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💡  PRODUCT TIPS

Tips for managing Chrome tabs

Before you ask, yes, I tried Arc, but I’m not sold.

Here are the two ways I manage my tabs in Chrome:

1. Workona

2. Chrome Groups

Workona

I’ve been using Workona for several years. When managing multiple workspaces, using Workona is a no-brainer!

Workona includes a Chrome extension, making saving and organizing resources easy.

Chrome Tab Groups

More recently, I’ve been also using Chrome Groups

You can group tabs to keep related pages together in one workspace. To create a tab group, just right-click any tab and select Add tab to new group.

Here is my current view with Workona pinned and my Chrome group tabs across the top:

🔗 SNAPSHOTS

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