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Tech-Twitter was all about the new version of Dispo this weekend, David Dobrik's camera app that elicits nostalgic feelings associated with using a disposable camera.

The app launched on Product Hunt last year, originally called Disposable, with the latest version being released this weekend in beta and requiring an invite to access on Testflight.

So what is it? Dispo is a camera app for iPhone with a pretty bold design that's meant to mimic the delayed gratification of getting photos developed, while not actually needing to get anything printed out.

After taking your snaps, you have to wait for the rolls to develop before you can see them in the app. For anyone that remembers the thrill of getting your vacation photos developed IRL, you'll get the anticipation that builds here. Unlike getting your negatives back from the drugstore, however, on Dispo, the photos look great even if you’ve taken a crappy shot - meaning you don't need to be a photography student to share a cool-looking snap.

The biggest new addition to the latest drop is shared rolls. Think of it like a collaborative photo album that develops new pics every morning at 9 am. Nobody, even the photographer, can see the photos until then. This social element is interesting and draws comparisons to IG and other image-based social networks.

Could Dispo become the next Instagram? The jury's out for now but we're excited to test it out and join some of your rolls.

Today we are welcoming the latest member of the Product Hunt team: Ashley Higgins. Ashley is joining to lead the product vision and company-wide execution as we bring Product Hunt into its next chapter. 💯

Ashley is a talented product leader who has spent a decade building consumer products at scale at companies like Reddit, Clearbit, and SEGA. She was the first mobile PM at Reddit, responsible for shipping their iOS and Android apps (on Product Hunt!). She then went on to found their search & discovery team to help users navigate the vast swathes of Reddit. We know her skills in growing community-led products will be instrumental in evolving Product Hunt over the coming years.

Ashley has been quietly working with the team for the last few months on some exciting new initiatives (more to share soon!). This is going to be a big year for the Product Hunt community. We have a lot of work to do, and that means we are set to double our team this year. Please take a look at our current open roles and apply if you're interested in being part of our growing team.

Please join us in welcoming Ashley to the team! 🚀🌕😸

In our remote-first world, getting to know teammates and building a strong sense of company culture can feel challenging.

Here are 7 tools that launched on Product Hunt in the last 12 months that aim to strengthen connections at work, and foster team happiness:

🥕 Lucky Carrot: Peer to peer recognition through virtual carrot gifting

🐼 Bored for Slack: Play social games with your coworkers on Slack

⭐️ Kucha: Employee engagement platform for creative teams to track team happiness

🍩 Donut Remote: Pair with a teammate at random for a casual chat. (We're donut users and love the excuse to chat with our remote teammates.)

🐕 Kona: A Slack assistant to check-in on emotions and build team trust

🤖 OldRobo: Peer recognition platform using gamification to increase engagement

💁‍♂️ Axel: A virtual assistant on Slack to check team happiness and set productivity rituals

We're seeing a new wave of products emerge as makers build tools and products to elevate their Clubhouse experience.

Level-up your Clubhouse with these 7 tools:

ClubLink offers a free link shortener that creates social sharing images for Clubhouse events.

Clubhype is similar to ClubLink, creating short links with social image previews for events.

Host Notes for Clubhouse allows you to find upcoming Clubhouse events, RSVP, view the meeting agenda, review past events, see referenced articles, and get summaries.

Shorten.Club lets you keep all of your links and notes in one place to easily share them with your Clubhouse community.

Chpic lets you create a colorful ring for your profile picture on Clubhouse.

Comet Events for Clubhouse offers similar functionality to Host Notes. Create an event landing page and calendar for your Clubhouse community to RSVP and share notes.

Clubhouse Bio Editor lets you edit your Clubhouse bio comfortably from your browser.

As the Clubhouse community continues to grow, it will be interesting to see if the functionality from any of these independent tools gets added into the product natively. We'll be watching along with curiosity. 👀

To help keep healthy minds and bodies as we start the second month of the year, we've taken a look at some wellbeing focused products, launched over the last 6 months.

🏋️‍♂️ Overfit provides a one on one trainer for accountability, paired with AI for personalized and unlimited data-driven workouts.

📝 JOI 2.0 is a pocket self-care assistant that helps you stay positive and avoid negativity through keeping a mood journal in a simple and funny way.

🚣🏾 Aviron Rower, the rowing machine meets Peloton.

🏃WorkoutMe pairs you with a partner to get through simple exercises to make those daily goals achievable.

🤳Plicly wants to help correct your posture to help decrease back and neck pain with real-time coaching. Less slouching whilst doom scrolling Twitter.

😴 Pzizz 5.0 helps to quiet your mind, fall asleep, stay asleep, by using a mix of music, voiceover and sound effects designed with the latest clinical research.

🌈 Trip wants to take users on a self-guided journey when responsibly using psychedelics. Blending modern neuroscience with psychology.

🧘Stretch Club can help you move your muscles, either as a mid-afternoon energizer or post-work cool down. Select from a curated list of routines and follow along with custom illustrations.

This is of course just a snapshot. To view more products in this space, view the health and wellness topic.

Work-life balance matters. Possibly even more so when working from home as the lines between work and home-life can start to blur together.

Here are some tools to help restore some balance in this remote-work climate:

WFH Care Package is designed for remote workers to boost morale and alleviate stress.

GrowApp is a self-care assistant for life balance and personal growth.

SanerJobs curate jobs ranked by a work-life balance score.

Trill is an anonymous mental health support community.

Sleeply utilizes Prayana techniques and sleep sounds to help you fall asleep.

CalmJobs list jobs from companies that care about their employees.s.

Doropomo is an inverted Pomodoro focused on a true work-life balance.

Remote Health is global health insurance for remote teams and individuals.

Zenbox For Remote Teams is an anxiety-free shared inbox for multiple inboxes and channels.

Skyrocket Your Team is an epic online escape room for remote teams.

On Sunday night, Elon Musk confessed on Clubhouse the secret to being a meme-king on Twitter was to use 'meme-dealers.'

No sooner was this uttered, than young maker Bereket got to work preparing for a Product Hunt launch to help everyone become an Elon Musk style meme-dealer.

Of course, there are many tools to help you source or make your own memes. Here's a short selection that have launched on Product Hunt over the years:

Kapwing: Collaborative platform for creating GIFs and memes

Me-me: Search dank and funny memes

Frinkiac: Make memes from your favorite Simpsons episode

Meta-meme: A marketplace to buy, sell and collect rare memes

Meme Factory: A decentralized meme marketplace and registry

Mehmz: Make memes with your friends

Now you too can become a 'dealer of memes'.

Today's newsletter was crafted by us and sponsored by our friends at Duuoo Teams.

Earlier this week, the team at Duuoo dropped their latest tool to help facilitate better team communications, Duuoo Teams.

“We’ve taken everything we've learned about helping teams have great 1-on-1 conversations and put it into a team context.

Science shows that team collaboration and team support are crucial levers to raise the sense of belonging, motivation, and psychological well-being.

(Duuoo Teams) offers an effective way to engage with your team, hold 1-on-1 and team dialogues, track progress and build a culture of open communication and transparency.” - Founder Duuoo, Magnus Stawicki Blak

With Duuoo Teams you can:

🗣 Have more effective 1-on-1 and team dialogues of all kinds
💯 Work in an iterative and agile way
🙌 Set and track individual and team OKRs
🙋‍♀️ Give and request feedback

Here’s what some early adopters had to say:

“We have used Duuoo for a year or so now and absolutely love it! It gives my manager and me a chance to chat about things that might otherwise not pop up.” - Rebecca

“It really is a game-changer for running effective 1 on 1s. Can't wait to try out their OKR system!” - Matthew

“Guiding such conversations using talking points provided by different experts seems like a really good approach” - Nadia

We've all been in a meeting that could have been an email. But what about those Zoom calls, or classes, that make you wish the ground would open up and swallow you whole? Luckily, Kevin has built a tool to save you from another unnecessary meeting.

Freezing Cam lets you freeze your webcam during video calls on purpose. You can also fake a stuttering webcam or even play a video instead of your webcam.

The community is already finding some pretty unique use-cases for it:

"Love it! Finally, I m going to eat my favorite ice cream in virtual class without my teacher noticing ahah" - Marion

"LOL, students are going to love this."- Ryan

"Finally I can pick my nose mid zoom." - Jason

Freezcam gives us some Bufferi-ng vibes, where you can pretend to lose connection on your Zoom call. A couple of older products that can come in handy to get you out of tricky meetings; cop-out will help you skip the meeting altogether with a handy excuse, or callback will preschedule a fake call so you can pretend to be pulled away by an important client or issue. 😈

For some more practical products to help eliminate pointless meetings with asynchronous options, we covered a few new products last month or check-out our list from last year.

OnlyFans for X is the new Uber for X. Whether you're into building bespoke spreadsheets, tweets, niche communities, or investing, there's an OnlyFans model for you.

Monetizing side projects and passion plays have been amplified by our largely socially distant new world prompting people to explore alternative ways to safely make a living from home.

The rise of paid newsletters through products like Substack and Ghost, and more recently with Twitter's acquisition of Revue are another example of how content creators can monetise their audience.

Of course there are many more tools to help creators monetize their passion. Check these out:

Current pays you to stream your favorite content.

Buy Me A Coffee gives your audience a way to thank you for creating content.

Cent is a network for Universal Creative Income featuring lots of amazing artists to support.

LiveKlass is an on-demand virtual classroom platform.

Glow offers a no-code way for indie podcasts to make $ through memberships.

Drip is a Patreon competitor by Kickstarter built to back creators.

Curious Fictions is a Patreon for professional authors and writers.

Flattr is an automatic way for creators to make money from their online content.

Supercast makes podcast monetization simple by adding a paid membership to your podcast.