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A pandemic truth: dating is not the same. When the entire dating pool pivots from IRL to TXT, there are bound to be some lasting effects.

According to Tinder data, March 29th was the biggest day in the apps history with over 3 billion swipes. Tinder may be one of the leaders in digital dating, but there are plenty of apps experimenting with new ways to find your love. 🌹

💖 League Live is virtual speed dating with a twist. Go on 3 dates in 6 minutes with users in your area that match your preferences.

💖 XO Dating Games has built-in games and icebreakers to combat initial awkwardness.

💖 Flutter Dating is a fast-paced dating app that only works on Sundays.

💖 Hinge Labs is more of a crash course on dating, designed to be deleted once you've found your match.

💖 Facebook Dating is an alternative for the app-shy generation, it’s focused on ‘meaningful relationships’ so you match when you have things in common, like interests, events or groups.

If you’ve already found your partner, there’s an app for you too. Tuned by Facebook is a place where you can create a memory box, exchange music, and share your moods with your partner to keep you in sync. Or try Cocoon, a YC-backed startup founded by two former Facebook employees.

We had to cancel our regular team offsite for Product Hunt this year, so we’ve been looking for fun ideas for a remote retreat. Since the social part of our retreats are the best bit, boring apps have no place here. 🙅

Here’s a preview of some quirky remote apps and games we're exploring:

• Brightful Meeting Games introduces icebreaking games to “super serious” business meetings

• Buzzfeed Quiz Party to test the team's knowledge on important things like, “Which Nicholas Cage character are you?’” and “What’s your British name?”

• MerryMint brings IRL activities online. Hire a magician for a magic lesson, invite a chef to teach how to make the perfect pancake, or get a mixologist to spice up your Friday happy hours

• Goat 2 Meeting sends an invite to a real goat or llama to join your video call (photo above)

• Moonshot is a virtual escape room. Join your team on an important space mission where you must escape. You can play this one with up to 100 people

We’re looking forward to a highly productive year following this retreat. 😆

Taking care of each other is important, and taking care of ourselves can sometimes come in second. When you can, remember to take a moment for yourself.

To help with that, we’ve spotted some new health and wellness apps to add to your homescreen.

We all know about Calm and Headspace, so we'd like to highlight a few lesser known apps you might want to add to your daily routine:

• Calmaria is a breathing app with an enviable aesthetic, the aim is to reduce anxiety and promote focus.

• Medito is a free-forever meditation app that was made by a non-profit that believes meditation should be ad free and available to everyone.

• TooDeep is an anonymous peer-to-peer support platform that uses audio notes to relieve anxiety.

Since physical health and mental health are so connected, adding some novelty to your fitness regime can help you max out both. Fresh workouts to add to your mix:

• Krew made an AI-augmented livestream workout platform that's guided by physiotherapists and nutritionists.

• Shark.Health created a Netflix-like experience for workout videos with the popular videos at the top.

• Tonal also launched an at home app that’s worth a look, with workout videos and habit tracking in one spot.

However you do it, take care of you. 💪

RIP conference room white-boarding sessions. The future of collaborative design is remote, and now you can create publish-worthy prototypes from home with no-code.

There are a lot of fresh prototyping tools these days, and the PH community has a lot of thoughts.

On Framer for web: “What I like most about Framer is that it’s also helping move the design process closer to "production" by giving designers better, more powerful tools for prototyping. This is much different than the typical workflow on Figma/ Sketch where you’re primarily working with static screens that are animated with basic transitions to create prototypes.” - Jason.

On Inspireframe “Very cool app for prototyping high converting landing pages. Easy to use, it enables you to materialize a landing page idea in a few minutes.” - Lucian.

On Bravo Studio “Love that this is fixing the main issue I have with these no code app builders, it allows you full control of the UI.” - Ben.

On ProtoPie “The main difference is Protopie won't make you jump off a building when you get syntax errors or find an API bug.”- Shuen.

And once your prototype is ready for feedback, give MarkUp or Maze a try. 🙌

Black Lives Matter. Period.

Product Hunt is a global community of people from all ethnicities, colors, genders and backgrounds connected through a shared love of products and technology. We hurt when people in our community hurt, and today, we like many of you, are hurting.

In today's email we want to celebrate Black makers from within our community. Here’s a small sample of the awesome products built by Black makers over the last few years:

🖤 Nappy - Beautiful high-res photos of black and brown people for free

🖤 While at Home - Stay up to date on all available resources during the COVID-19 pandemic

🖤 Calendly - Simply book meetings without the back and forth

🖤 People of Color in Tech - Join a growing community of People Of Colour working in tech and startups

🖤 Dream Big Hustle Hard - The millennial woman's guide to success in tech by Abadesi

🖤 The Bootstrapped VC - The official podcast of Backstage Capital hosted by Arlan Hamilton

🖤 Indie Hackers - Work together to build profitable businesses & side projects

🖤 Blacks Who Design - Highlighting inspiring Black designers

Let’s support more Black makers, together as a community. If you’re Black and made something you’re proud of, let us know on Twitter.

Lastly, if you have the means consider donating to Minnesota Freedom Fund, ACLU Foundation, The Bail Project, or many of the other organizations fighting for equality. You can do so on Every.org, a non-profit that makes it easy (and social).

The jam sesh goes digital with Collab, an app to create music together remotely.

Tip your coffee cup to the R&D team at Facebook who also created this and needs to CatchUp on some sleep this weekend.

TikTok has been busy capturing creators, and this feels a bit like their duet feature. On TikTok duets you need to invite someone to join you, but on Collab you can mix your video with others on the platform at will.

Once your track “slaps” and you’re ready to release it, turn that content into cash. Starting next week, Instagram is rolling out ads in IGTV and planning to share new that revenue directly with creators.

Getting back to the music, we’ve seen some cool indie app releases this week too.

Mixroom lets artists share out their unfinished music and song drafts that didn’t make the cut. It’s an unfiltered music haven for fans and artists who don’t always want the polished goods.

Helio is an open-source composition software where you visualize the music as you create it.

Seems like the pandemic is giving life back to music. ✌️

Ring ring, anybody there? Facebook’s R&D team dropped a new app this week. On Tuesday they released CatchUp which is an audio-only app that shows you who’s around to chat instantly, a bit like a voice-only chat room.

The big use case for the app is eliminating phone tag. It’s easy to jump in and out of calls with family or friends for up to 8 people. We’ve seen a lot of video calling apps launch recently including Messenger Rooms, so it’s an interesting pivot to voice-only to address video fatigue. Now you don’t have to be camera-ready, and it’s a bit easier to multitask if you are just hoping for a quick social session.

Since video fatigue is definitely a real thing, we wanted to dig deeper into this audio-only trend.

Walkie is a like a CatchUp for your colleagues, you can drop voice notes for your remote coworkers in real time.

About a year ago, an audio-based social platform called Lyrc launched. You can use Lyrc a bit like a mix of CatchUp and Walkie to capture and share audio-only moments with friends and family.

Currently launched around the same time and it’s a voice-only community where you can create a playlist of your stories, songs and voice notes.

If the phone call is coming back, does that mean radio is next? Another throwback app, Drive & Listen, is a trip. You can digitally drive around global cities and listen to their local radio stations to feel like you’re really there.

Keeping the auto theme going, Roadtrip is building a social music-listening app with audio voiceovers.

Consumer audio is getting interesting. 🔊

It’s time to unleash Crew Dragon. Later today if weather permits, a test mission known as Demo-2 will send NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space Station.

The plan is to blast off at 4:33 PM EDT today and dock at the ISS at 11:40 AM EDT tomorrow.

Crew Dragon is a crewed spacecraft that was made to fly astronauts on round trips to space, and it’s launched into orbit by SpaceX’s reusable two-stage Falcon 9 rocket. If the Demo-2 test is deemed a success, they plan to certify the spacecraft as operational and launch a three-man, one-woman crew this fall.

Now seems like the perfect time to try and land Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket yourself, from the comfort of your browser. Not so easy to do, right?

This occasion marks a new era in spaceflight, where our dreams of being a space tourist aside Elon could hypothetically be realized. NASA expects the Commercial Crew Program will one day launch private citizens as well as professional astronauts, allowing private sector development both on the ground and in space.

A remote escape room conveniently called Moonshot has us living our destiny today. It’s a space-themed challenge that you can join over video conference with your colleagues to get into the launch spirit.

And one more Elon-themed product to check out: If Elon were your dad, what would your name be? Find out here.

Crew Dragon, assemble! You can watch Nasa’s livestream here. 🐉

Don’t educate, entertain. That’s the ethos that won MasterClass another $100 million in Series E funding last week. This new raise puts the company at an $800 million valuation, and they reportedly will be upping production to one new class a week.

MasterClass has excelled at partnering up with hard to reach celebrities and niche experts, with classes from Natalie Portman to Serena Williams.

Just two years ago Masterclass launched for iOS, and now they have their sights set on VR.

“Imagine if you could take Steph Curry’s class in AR, and see where to position your feet. Or a class in VR with Jerry Seinfeld, and learn how to read the audience in the room,” says CEO David Rogier in an interview with TechCrunch.

It seems celebrity-led content is doing especially well during the pandemic. It’s been a perfect storm for Cameo, as celebrities have been cooped up in the house and their fans are in dire need of entertainment. They’ve seen talent sign-ups increase since 160% since the beginning of March, with an 83% increase in bookings according to an interview in Fast Company.

Makes you think how you can apply this secret sauce to startups. Although having the same access to talent is tricky without the budget, we’ve already seen companies applying a mix of industry influence and online learning in unique ways.

Take Wrong Project that launched yesterday. They are curating content from known industry creators into bite-sized think pieces. Online learning and ecommerce are becoming even more integrated too, so why not pair up with an influencer to launch a course on top of your Shopify store or use Knowable to create an audio course.

We hope you still read PH when you’re famous. 👋

Life finds a way. And so do weddings, as it turns out. 👰

During the pandemic many weddings have been put on hold indefinitely. We’ve also seen some sweet stories of couples reimagining their dream day to fit our current reality.

There’s now a community for virtual weddings planning to get you ready to celebrate your big day online.

“I got engaged last year and started planning our wedding. Unfortunately, along with thousands of others, we had to cancel our wedding due to CoVid-19. The sinking feeling of wasted time, money & energy crept in,” says the maker Micah Cohen.

If you’re planning an online ceremony, it’s a toolkit for everything you need to make it happen. Laws around virtual weddings have been changing too. In New York State, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order to make video marriages legally binding, and several other states have since followed suit. Since many couples have faced financial hardship during the crisis, it’s got them wondering if an online wedding could actually be the answer.

Virtual weddings aren’t the only way to mark the occasion either. We spotted a couple celebrating their special day in a very PH way.

“Today was my original wedding date. Like many other brides, our wedding was affected due to COVID-19. We turned our original wedding date into our business launch date!” - says the maker, Erica Halpern.

With their expertise in dentistry, they launched Bride Brite, an at home alternative to teeth whitening treatments at the dental office. They locked down top product of the day yesterday on PH. 👏

Launch day or wedding day, we’d like to make a toast to couples taking matters into their own hands to make happy memories. 🥂