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Golden Kitty Voting Announcement 🚨
All last week, you nominated your favorite products of 2020 across 21 CATegories. We tallied up thousands of nominations and have narrowed down the finalists.
Below are the first five categories open for voting (keep an eye out in your inbox every day this week as we announce more finalists).
⛱ Remote Work Tools
👀 Side Projects
🛠 Hardware
🙀 WTF
🛍 E-commerce
Voting starts today and closes Friday, January 22 at 11:59pm PT. Upvote your favorites here.
Look out for tomorrow’s newsletter where we’ll be sharing the finalists for the next batch of categories (Design-Tools, Audio and Voice, No-Code, Mobile-App and Privacy). In addition to lots of love from the PH community, winners will receive a prize package with custom swag and a golden kitty trophy. 😸
ICYMI we are also hosting our first-ever virtual awards ceremony on January 28, where host Casey Newton will be announcing this year's Golden Kitty winners live. Spaces are limited so reserve your spot now. Register here. 👈
This year's Golden Kitty Awards is brought in partnership with our friends at Welcome, Zendesk for Startups and Capsule.
Below are the first five categories open for voting (keep an eye out in your inbox every day this week as we announce more finalists).
⛱ Remote Work Tools
👀 Side Projects
🛠 Hardware
🙀 WTF
🛍 E-commerce
Voting starts today and closes Friday, January 22 at 11:59pm PT. Upvote your favorites here.
Look out for tomorrow’s newsletter where we’ll be sharing the finalists for the next batch of categories (Design-Tools, Audio and Voice, No-Code, Mobile-App and Privacy). In addition to lots of love from the PH community, winners will receive a prize package with custom swag and a golden kitty trophy. 😸
ICYMI we are also hosting our first-ever virtual awards ceremony on January 28, where host Casey Newton will be announcing this year's Golden Kitty winners live. Spaces are limited so reserve your spot now. Register here. 👈
This year's Golden Kitty Awards is brought in partnership with our friends at Welcome, Zendesk for Startups and Capsule.
Join our first ever Virtual Awards Show ✨
You're invited to our first-ever Virtual Award Ceremony on January 28.
It’s going to be a fun event hosted by the wonderfully witty tech writer and founder Casey Newton. Casey will be announcing Golden Kitty winners live at the show, as well as discussing 2020 trends while looking ahead at tech predictions for 2021. Bonus: It’s all free! 💸
What to expect: Exclusive winner announcements, interviews with Ryan Hoover, Josh Buckley, and special guests, chances to meet Casey Newton and network with past winners, other makers, and industry experts from the global Product Hunt community.
We’re excited to work with Welcome on this event, as their platform allows us to create a virtual award setting with networking capabilities to mirror in-person events. We'll even have our classic IRL meetup traditions of photo booths and swag giveaways, all in this virtual setting.
Spaces are limited so reserve your spot now. Register here. 👈
This year's Golden Kitty Awards is brought in partnership with our friends at Welcome, Zendesk for Startups and Capsule.
You're invited to our first-ever Virtual Award Ceremony on January 28.
It’s going to be a fun event hosted by the wonderfully witty tech writer and founder Casey Newton. Casey will be announcing Golden Kitty winners live at the show, as well as discussing 2020 trends while looking ahead at tech predictions for 2021. Bonus: It’s all free! 💸
What to expect: Exclusive winner announcements, interviews with Ryan Hoover, Josh Buckley, and special guests, chances to meet Casey Newton and network with past winners, other makers, and industry experts from the global Product Hunt community.
We’re excited to work with Welcome on this event, as their platform allows us to create a virtual award setting with networking capabilities to mirror in-person events. We'll even have our classic IRL meetup traditions of photo booths and swag giveaways, all in this virtual setting.
Spaces are limited so reserve your spot now. Register here. 👈
This year's Golden Kitty Awards is brought in partnership with our friends at Welcome, Zendesk for Startups and Capsule.
$140M for no-code
Yesterday, Webflow announced it had raised a $140M series B funding round, led by Accel and Silversmith.
Webflow first launched on Product Hunt 7 years ago achieving ~800 upvotes. The top comment on the page asserting: "This looks like it beats all other products in this space." - Artur.
Cofounders Vlad, Bryant and Sergie have been on a wild journey since then, with the Product Hunt community following closely along. Subsequent launches have included Webflow Ecommerce, Webflow Interactions, and Webflow University, achieving thousands of community upvotes.
The no-code/low-code movement has been on its own wild ride during this time with tons of new products entering the space and big tech getting in on the action. We talked about Google and Amazon entering the race in more detail last year.
We've even hosted our own no-code festivals. Let us know if you'd like us to host another in 2021!
For the first time last year, no-code had it's own category in the Golden Kitty Awards with Makerpad taking first place (Webflow Ecommerce came in third). Don't forget to nominate your favorite no-code tool launched in 2020, for its chance to win the category in this years Golden Kitty Awards.
Webflow first launched on Product Hunt 7 years ago achieving ~800 upvotes. The top comment on the page asserting: "This looks like it beats all other products in this space." - Artur.
Cofounders Vlad, Bryant and Sergie have been on a wild journey since then, with the Product Hunt community following closely along. Subsequent launches have included Webflow Ecommerce, Webflow Interactions, and Webflow University, achieving thousands of community upvotes.
The no-code/low-code movement has been on its own wild ride during this time with tons of new products entering the space and big tech getting in on the action. We talked about Google and Amazon entering the race in more detail last year.
We've even hosted our own no-code festivals. Let us know if you'd like us to host another in 2021!
For the first time last year, no-code had it's own category in the Golden Kitty Awards with Makerpad taking first place (Webflow Ecommerce came in third). Don't forget to nominate your favorite no-code tool launched in 2020, for its chance to win the category in this years Golden Kitty Awards.
Noted. 📝
This writer loves to take notes. Handwritten notes. Digital notes. Mental notes. You get it. Not exactly a shocking revelation for a writer to admit. It's the where, how and why we take our notes that has the maker community most interested.
In our complicated world of endless items to remember, to-do lists to check-off, lessons to learn, and feelings to work through, note-taking isn't just about scrawling in old jotters. There are tons of note-taking products ranging from simple, laser focussed apps to full-on brain replacements.
We took a look at 10 community favorites launched in the last 12 months:
🧠 Roam Research: A popular note-taking tool for networked thought
♦ Obsidian: A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files
🙏 Supernotes: A collaborative note-taking app
📔 Focus Task: Open-source mac menubar app for deep work
▶️ Tubenote: Take notes watching YouTube tutorials
📃 Paperd: Collect inspiration, take notes and share check-lists
📝 Collected Notes: A simple note-taking and blogging platform
👛 NoteBag: Note-taking app you can use entirely from your keyboard
🐈 Tiddlywink: The open source non-linear notebook
🗂 Remnote: Non-linear note taking and flash cards by and for students
There are many more note-taking tools out there. Baris recently asked the community; "What note-taking app do you use?" While a few oldies-but-goodies stand out in the answers, some of the newer additions are breaking through.
Add your favorite, there can never be too many to test out. 📝
In our complicated world of endless items to remember, to-do lists to check-off, lessons to learn, and feelings to work through, note-taking isn't just about scrawling in old jotters. There are tons of note-taking products ranging from simple, laser focussed apps to full-on brain replacements.
We took a look at 10 community favorites launched in the last 12 months:
🧠 Roam Research: A popular note-taking tool for networked thought
♦ Obsidian: A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files
🙏 Supernotes: A collaborative note-taking app
📔 Focus Task: Open-source mac menubar app for deep work
▶️ Tubenote: Take notes watching YouTube tutorials
📃 Paperd: Collect inspiration, take notes and share check-lists
📝 Collected Notes: A simple note-taking and blogging platform
👛 NoteBag: Note-taking app you can use entirely from your keyboard
🐈 Tiddlywink: The open source non-linear notebook
🗂 Remnote: Non-linear note taking and flash cards by and for students
There are many more note-taking tools out there. Baris recently asked the community; "What note-taking app do you use?" While a few oldies-but-goodies stand out in the answers, some of the newer additions are breaking through.
Add your favorite, there can never be too many to test out. 📝
The Anti-Zoom
At Product Hunt, we try to limit the number of team meetings we host each week. As a distributed team across 7 timezones, we love to utilize asynchronous communication tools like Loom to help keep connected without getting Zoom fatigue.
Don't get us wrong, we haven't eradicated meetings entirely and they serve an important purpose, but we try to avoid *pointless meetings.* By pointless, we mean those that could have easily been an email or async update.
Luckily we're not the only ones who like to work this way. There are tons of great tools out there aiming to make async even more accessible.
Here are a few recent launches that could help reduce the number of Zoom calls your team needs each week:
💬 Bubbles: Capture screen recordings with audio or text conversation
🍇 Grapevine: Short one-way video updates to replace a daily standup call
🦸🏼♀️ SuperNormal: Send synchronous video updates with AI summaries
🤚 All Hands: Record and send frequent video updates to your team on Slack
🌎 Remote Workly: Async video meetings with searchable transcriptions
🗣 RealTalk: Async video updates for remote teams
If you do find yourself stuck on a pointless meeting, you can always fake a bad connection to make your excuses and follow up async after. 😉
Don't get us wrong, we haven't eradicated meetings entirely and they serve an important purpose, but we try to avoid *pointless meetings.* By pointless, we mean those that could have easily been an email or async update.
Luckily we're not the only ones who like to work this way. There are tons of great tools out there aiming to make async even more accessible.
Here are a few recent launches that could help reduce the number of Zoom calls your team needs each week:
💬 Bubbles: Capture screen recordings with audio or text conversation
🍇 Grapevine: Short one-way video updates to replace a daily standup call
🦸🏼♀️ SuperNormal: Send synchronous video updates with AI summaries
🤚 All Hands: Record and send frequent video updates to your team on Slack
🌎 Remote Workly: Async video meetings with searchable transcriptions
🗣 RealTalk: Async video updates for remote teams
If you do find yourself stuck on a pointless meeting, you can always fake a bad connection to make your excuses and follow up async after. 😉
The Annual Golden Kitty Awards are back
It's January, and that means it's time for the Annual Golden Kitty Awards!
The Golden Kitty Awards is an annual celebration of products, makers, and community members. This year we have 23 categories up for grabs, with winners of each receiving a coveted Golden Kitty trophy.
How it works: Pick your fav products across each category (the full list of categories is listed here). You can pick from any upvoted product in 2020.
You can nominate products starting TODAY until Friday, January 15th at 11:59 a.m. PT. Voting will open on Monday, January 18, as we announce the finalists in daily category drops throughout the week.
This is our 6th year running the Golden Kitty Awards, and for the first time ever, on January 28 we're hosting a live virtual awards ceremony, hosted by tech royalty, Casey Newton.
Join us for the live winner announcements, networking opportunities, special guests, and more. The first 100 to register will be able to claim an official Golden Kitty 2020 T-shirt. 🏆
Who should be a finalist? Nominate your favorites.
The Golden Kitties are brought in partnership with our friends at Welcome, Zendesk for Startups and Capsule.
The Golden Kitty Awards is an annual celebration of products, makers, and community members. This year we have 23 categories up for grabs, with winners of each receiving a coveted Golden Kitty trophy.
How it works: Pick your fav products across each category (the full list of categories is listed here). You can pick from any upvoted product in 2020.
You can nominate products starting TODAY until Friday, January 15th at 11:59 a.m. PT. Voting will open on Monday, January 18, as we announce the finalists in daily category drops throughout the week.
This is our 6th year running the Golden Kitty Awards, and for the first time ever, on January 28 we're hosting a live virtual awards ceremony, hosted by tech royalty, Casey Newton.
Join us for the live winner announcements, networking opportunities, special guests, and more. The first 100 to register will be able to claim an official Golden Kitty 2020 T-shirt. 🏆
Who should be a finalist? Nominate your favorites.
The Golden Kitties are brought in partnership with our friends at Welcome, Zendesk for Startups and Capsule.
RIP Calendly 🤔
Scheduling meetings is a hassle. The back and forth inbox tennis is a time suck. Yet there is still a societal question mark about the etiquette of sending scheduling links like Calendly.
Serial maker, Derrick Reimer, outlines the issue as placing too much burden on the recipient:
"There are a hundred and one scheduling tools to help you avoid the awkward dance of finding a time to meet. While most of them are convenient for the person sending a link to book a time with them, are they actually convenient for the person receiving the link?"
The question of "to Calendly" or "not to Calendly" has been doing the rounds on social for some time. It's become one of those polarizing, you either hate it or you love it, products.
SavvyCal, launched by Derrick yesterday, aims to bridge the gap between convenience and etiquette, by allowing the recipient to overlay their own calendar onto the sender's available times. This more equally spreads the convenience of time selection.
Early reviews from the community are in, and so far, are very positive:
"The almost unwritten taboo of scheduling links has led to me apologetically asking if people are okay with me sending one. That is, of course, until I saw Derrick had launched SavvyCal." - James
"The ranked availability and personalized links are seriously a game-changer." - Corey
"We moved our team onto SavvyCal within a few weeks and haven't looked back." - Rob
"Very well-thought UX. Calendly may indeed have some problems now that you're here." - Bogdan
Serial maker, Derrick Reimer, outlines the issue as placing too much burden on the recipient:
"There are a hundred and one scheduling tools to help you avoid the awkward dance of finding a time to meet. While most of them are convenient for the person sending a link to book a time with them, are they actually convenient for the person receiving the link?"
The question of "to Calendly" or "not to Calendly" has been doing the rounds on social for some time. It's become one of those polarizing, you either hate it or you love it, products.
SavvyCal, launched by Derrick yesterday, aims to bridge the gap between convenience and etiquette, by allowing the recipient to overlay their own calendar onto the sender's available times. This more equally spreads the convenience of time selection.
Early reviews from the community are in, and so far, are very positive:
"The almost unwritten taboo of scheduling links has led to me apologetically asking if people are okay with me sending one. That is, of course, until I saw Derrick had launched SavvyCal." - James
"The ranked availability and personalized links are seriously a game-changer." - Corey
"We moved our team onto SavvyCal within a few weeks and haven't looked back." - Rob
"Very well-thought UX. Calendly may indeed have some problems now that you're here." - Bogdan
A new App Store
Today’s Daily Digest was crafted by us and sponsored by our friends at monday.com.
ICYMI: Last October monday.com launched its version of the App Store, the monday apps marketplace. With over 100,000 paying customers, this is no small pond to showcase your app’s capabilities.
monday.com invites you to integrate your product as a monday app and showcase it in the marketplace.
If you’re not familiar with monday.com Work OS (Operating System), it is a leading platform for companies to connect their teams and manage their projects, processes, and everyday work. We’ve written about them in more detail here.
Companies that use SaaS solutions work with an average of 34 integrated applications, making app marketplaces an interesting growth channel for product companies in their earlier stages.
We’re always in support of product discovery and helping companies reach their first audiences. Being among the first apps showcased in the store can offer a greater level of exposure in this newly created marketplace.
As a special thanks to the community, monday.com is offering the first 5 apps submitted by the Product Hunt community a shiny new iPhone. ✨
ICYMI: Last October monday.com launched its version of the App Store, the monday apps marketplace. With over 100,000 paying customers, this is no small pond to showcase your app’s capabilities.
monday.com invites you to integrate your product as a monday app and showcase it in the marketplace.
If you’re not familiar with monday.com Work OS (Operating System), it is a leading platform for companies to connect their teams and manage their projects, processes, and everyday work. We’ve written about them in more detail here.
Companies that use SaaS solutions work with an average of 34 integrated applications, making app marketplaces an interesting growth channel for product companies in their earlier stages.
We’re always in support of product discovery and helping companies reach their first audiences. Being among the first apps showcased in the store can offer a greater level of exposure in this newly created marketplace.
As a special thanks to the community, monday.com is offering the first 5 apps submitted by the Product Hunt community a shiny new iPhone. ✨
Will this AI replace designers?
OpenAI's latest experiment just dropped called DALL·E, a sort of GPT-3 for images. DALL·E is a trained neural network that creates images from text captions.
The adorable name is a portmanteau of the artist Salvador Dali and Pixar's WALL-E. A fun nod to the surreal artistic output the AI can create through mashups of textual prompts.
DALL·E is described by OpenAI as being capable of a diverse set of outputs including anthropomorphising animals and objects, as illustrated with the cute dog-owning daikon below:
DALL·E can also combine unrelated objects to create real-looking outputs like these avocado chairs. Some of which wouldn't look out of place in a startup office IMO.
These are just a couple of examples OpenAI has shared about DALL·E so far, with real-world applications still somewhat unknown.
You'll be pleased to hear we're not replacing our human design team with AI.
As with GPT-3 we're intrigued to see what will happen next with DALL·E. Since its launch in July, we've seen tons of interesting products launch leveraging GPT-3.
We can't wait to see what you can build utilizing DALL·E.
The adorable name is a portmanteau of the artist Salvador Dali and Pixar's WALL-E. A fun nod to the surreal artistic output the AI can create through mashups of textual prompts.
DALL·E is described by OpenAI as being capable of a diverse set of outputs including anthropomorphising animals and objects, as illustrated with the cute dog-owning daikon below:
DALL·E can also combine unrelated objects to create real-looking outputs like these avocado chairs. Some of which wouldn't look out of place in a startup office IMO.
These are just a couple of examples OpenAI has shared about DALL·E so far, with real-world applications still somewhat unknown.
You'll be pleased to hear we're not replacing our human design team with AI.
As with GPT-3 we're intrigued to see what will happen next with DALL·E. Since its launch in July, we've seen tons of interesting products launch leveraging GPT-3.
We can't wait to see what you can build utilizing DALL·E.
When Slack has a case of the Mondays...
When Slack went down on the first back-to-work Monday of 2021, the memes followed suit. Y'all are hilarious on social and honestly, we love to see it.
The short outage also sparked questions about what to do when your internal communications system breaks down in our remote-first world. Twitter DM? Group SMS? WhatsApp? Zoom Chat? Carrier pigeon?
We turned to Twitter to crowdsource your favorite Slack alternatives. Here are some of your top picks:
Telegram: Privacy focused group communications platform
Twist: Team communications tool from the team at Doist
Zulip: Open-source team chat with threading
Discord: Group chat built with gamers in mind
Rocket Chat: Open-source Slack alternative
Slenke: Team communications and project management
Signal: Encryption powered messaging focussed on privacy
Mattermost: An open source, self-hosted Slack-alternative
Basecamp: Project management and messaging tool by DHH and Jason Fried
For some newer alternatives, here are 3 products just entering the race:
Rake: Combining internal messaging with stakeholder communications
Taskade: Remote work hub for messaging, project management and more
Vizy: Like Slack, if it were video/audio first
A lot of you also answered with our favorite solution to a Slack outage... just take a nap. 😴
The short outage also sparked questions about what to do when your internal communications system breaks down in our remote-first world. Twitter DM? Group SMS? WhatsApp? Zoom Chat? Carrier pigeon?
We turned to Twitter to crowdsource your favorite Slack alternatives. Here are some of your top picks:
Telegram: Privacy focused group communications platform
Twist: Team communications tool from the team at Doist
Zulip: Open-source team chat with threading
Discord: Group chat built with gamers in mind
Rocket Chat: Open-source Slack alternative
Slenke: Team communications and project management
Signal: Encryption powered messaging focussed on privacy
Mattermost: An open source, self-hosted Slack-alternative
Basecamp: Project management and messaging tool by DHH and Jason Fried
For some newer alternatives, here are 3 products just entering the race:
Rake: Combining internal messaging with stakeholder communications
Taskade: Remote work hub for messaging, project management and more
Vizy: Like Slack, if it were video/audio first
A lot of you also answered with our favorite solution to a Slack outage... just take a nap. 😴
