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The future of home fitness: VR?
Are summer bodies built in spring quarantines? We sure hope so. 💪
The only problem is, after a few weeks of the stay at home fitness regime, the Zoom workouts are starting to lose their shine. Luckily for us, there’s a new game in town.
Supernatural just launched on Oculus Quest and was made by kinesiologists and game designers to make sure maxing out your workout feels more like an adventure than a chore. It’s like a HIIT class hidden inside a level of your favorite game, with an expansive music catalogue. It pairs with your smartphone and heart rate monitor to become like a coach in your pocket.
Supernatural was created by Chris Milk, the co-founder and CEO of Within. Milk started his career directing music videos for artists. As time went on, he became interested in VR and started blending together his past experiences in media and music. With Supernatural, the aim was to make working out feel more like an escape from the ordinary.
“Virtual reality allows us to make home exercise fundamentally fun,” says Milk.
The PH community seems on board for it, too.
“I'm not a gamer so I've had no reason to purchase VR devices, even though I find it interesting from a tech POV. But this is clearly a use case I can get into for VR.” - Lonny
Although VR workouts are on the rise, a lot of traditional VR games also make you work up a sweat. 😅
You can use YUR to track your VR movement data on any device, on any game you’re playing. YUR will give you calorie estimates, let you track fitness goals and see how far you’ve come with historical tracking.
Are summer bodies built in spring quarantines? We sure hope so. 💪
The only problem is, after a few weeks of the stay at home fitness regime, the Zoom workouts are starting to lose their shine. Luckily for us, there’s a new game in town.
Supernatural just launched on Oculus Quest and was made by kinesiologists and game designers to make sure maxing out your workout feels more like an adventure than a chore. It’s like a HIIT class hidden inside a level of your favorite game, with an expansive music catalogue. It pairs with your smartphone and heart rate monitor to become like a coach in your pocket.
Supernatural was created by Chris Milk, the co-founder and CEO of Within. Milk started his career directing music videos for artists. As time went on, he became interested in VR and started blending together his past experiences in media and music. With Supernatural, the aim was to make working out feel more like an escape from the ordinary.
“Virtual reality allows us to make home exercise fundamentally fun,” says Milk.
The PH community seems on board for it, too.
“I'm not a gamer so I've had no reason to purchase VR devices, even though I find it interesting from a tech POV. But this is clearly a use case I can get into for VR.” - Lonny
Although VR workouts are on the rise, a lot of traditional VR games also make you work up a sweat. 😅
You can use YUR to track your VR movement data on any device, on any game you’re playing. YUR will give you calorie estimates, let you track fitness goals and see how far you’ve come with historical tracking.
The crystal ball of e-comm trends 🔮
Today’s Daily Digest was crafted by Product Hunt and sponsored by our friends at within.co.
There’s never been a better time to launch an e-commerce venture, but it’s hard to predict what businesses are actually thriving in the wake of COVID-19.
Our friends at WITHIN are experts at seeing the future when it comes to e-commerce and retail, and they created a dashboard based on real-time industry data.
WITHIN is a performance branding company that’s worked with brands like Nike, Budweiser and Spanx. They source revenue, ad spend and conversion data from their client roster anonymously to identify trends and set founders up to succeed.
Since advertising is critical to early success, founders can also claim a Google and Facebook ad account audit to make sure your budget is driving results.
If you’re not as into dashboards, you can join the WITHIN team for free to get the insights directly. They host a live show twice a week. Drop in and find out how COVID19 will impact your business, plus get a sense of what’s happening in retail, fashion and omni-channel e-commerce.
There’s never been a better time to launch an e-commerce venture, but it’s hard to predict what businesses are actually thriving in the wake of COVID-19.
Our friends at WITHIN are experts at seeing the future when it comes to e-commerce and retail, and they created a dashboard based on real-time industry data.
WITHIN is a performance branding company that’s worked with brands like Nike, Budweiser and Spanx. They source revenue, ad spend and conversion data from their client roster anonymously to identify trends and set founders up to succeed.
Since advertising is critical to early success, founders can also claim a Google and Facebook ad account audit to make sure your budget is driving results.
If you’re not as into dashboards, you can join the WITHIN team for free to get the insights directly. They host a live show twice a week. Drop in and find out how COVID19 will impact your business, plus get a sense of what’s happening in retail, fashion and omni-channel e-commerce.
Cast your vote for Makers Festival
It’s time to cast your vote for Makers Festival WFH edition. 😻
Over the past few years, we’ve hosted festivals to encourage makers to build and launch products in a sprint. It’s a bit like a hackathon, but 100% online and open to everyone in the world, not just engineers. The theme for this WFH edition was work that focuses on relief efforts (in any form) for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Surprising no one, the PH community pulled through with some amazing products. We received over 90 submissions, with more than 500 makers participating in this round. Vote for your favorites before April 24th at 11pm PST.
Here’s a little sample of some the launches you can vote for:
📚 Goodnight Zoom is connecting isolated seniors with children for remote storytime
🚫 Cancel Corona is collecting donations for 5 critical areas to support the relief effort
😊 Quarantine Together helps you create community and meet new people virtually
📱 The Awareness Chatbot is a COVID-19 chatbot for self-assessment and testing info
🙊 Chat Party let’s you host video chat parties without audio
There are many more creative products to choose from, so take a look and support a maker with your vote.
Over the past few years, we’ve hosted festivals to encourage makers to build and launch products in a sprint. It’s a bit like a hackathon, but 100% online and open to everyone in the world, not just engineers. The theme for this WFH edition was work that focuses on relief efforts (in any form) for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Surprising no one, the PH community pulled through with some amazing products. We received over 90 submissions, with more than 500 makers participating in this round. Vote for your favorites before April 24th at 11pm PST.
Here’s a little sample of some the launches you can vote for:
📚 Goodnight Zoom is connecting isolated seniors with children for remote storytime
🚫 Cancel Corona is collecting donations for 5 critical areas to support the relief effort
😊 Quarantine Together helps you create community and meet new people virtually
📱 The Awareness Chatbot is a COVID-19 chatbot for self-assessment and testing info
🙊 Chat Party let’s you host video chat parties without audio
There are many more creative products to choose from, so take a look and support a maker with your vote.
The tooth fairy goes tech
Pearlii — a medtech startup that uses AI image processing to scan photos of your teeth — launched last weekend with the mission of making basic dental care available to all.
Pearlii founder, Dr Kyle Turner, was born in rural Australia, and grew up with “shocking” teeth. He actually used another “s” word to describe them, but you get the picture. 💩
“We were very poor, and when you’re fighting to get food on the table, dental checks are a pretty low priority,” Kyle said.
The improvements in phone cameras have made teledentistry viable as diagnostic tool to flag dental problems. Users are asked to open wide and take 5 photos, and Pearlii’s AI tech scans the pics to find abnormalities and make recommendations.
Currently in beta, Pearlii aims to provide everyone who needs it with a free, fast dental check-up at home. Rather than charging for the dental checkups, the revenue comes through referrals, like booking your dental appointment through the app.
Pearlii isn’t the only tooth fairy in the PH community either.
Toothpic app let’s you check your smile with a dentist by taking a few selfies, and Lumio recently launched a retractable, virus killing, electric toothbrush on Kickstarter.
Pearlii founder, Dr Kyle Turner, was born in rural Australia, and grew up with “shocking” teeth. He actually used another “s” word to describe them, but you get the picture. 💩
“We were very poor, and when you’re fighting to get food on the table, dental checks are a pretty low priority,” Kyle said.
The improvements in phone cameras have made teledentistry viable as diagnostic tool to flag dental problems. Users are asked to open wide and take 5 photos, and Pearlii’s AI tech scans the pics to find abnormalities and make recommendations.
Currently in beta, Pearlii aims to provide everyone who needs it with a free, fast dental check-up at home. Rather than charging for the dental checkups, the revenue comes through referrals, like booking your dental appointment through the app.
Pearlii isn’t the only tooth fairy in the PH community either.
Toothpic app let’s you check your smile with a dentist by taking a few selfies, and Lumio recently launched a retractable, virus killing, electric toothbrush on Kickstarter.
New from the co-founders of Instagram
Instagram founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger have reunited for their first launch since leaving Facebook, and they are coding for a cause.
Rt.live is a COVID19 tracker, focused on measuring a key statistic about how fast the virus is growing.
The value they track, Rt, is the average number of people infected by someone carrying the virus. If the Rt number is above 1 in any particular state, community spread is active and accelerating fast, so extra precautions are needed. If the number is below 1, it’s a positive sign that transmission is down and aggressive measures are starting to curb the growth.
You can see the state by state curves over a monthly timeline to help visualize the spread and get a more accurate picture on where things stand today.
Right now, Georgia has the highest Rt in the U.S. at a 1.5, whereas New York has dropped down to a 0.54 with a previous peak at 4.47. This data is extremely useful in understanding if stay-at-home orders are having an impact, and help inspire people to do their part.
As per TechCrunch, “Kevin has been writing and publishing open-source data analysis notebooks on how to calculate Rt on a daily basis. We wanted to take that work and visualize it so anyone can see how their state is doing at curbing the spread,” says founder, Krieger. You can check out their Rt.live modeling on Github.
This launch is quite a departure from the founders’ photography roots, but the virality they experienced at Instagram inspired them to apply concepts from growth modeling to the cause.
“As states decide whether and how to open back up, they’ll have to manage their infection rate carefully, and we hope dashboards like rt.live will be helpful in doing so” Krieger says. From
From symptom trackers, to trend watching, to crowdsourcing for a cure, we’ve seen some incredible products launch in the wake of COVID19.
Rt.live is a COVID19 tracker, focused on measuring a key statistic about how fast the virus is growing.
The value they track, Rt, is the average number of people infected by someone carrying the virus. If the Rt number is above 1 in any particular state, community spread is active and accelerating fast, so extra precautions are needed. If the number is below 1, it’s a positive sign that transmission is down and aggressive measures are starting to curb the growth.
You can see the state by state curves over a monthly timeline to help visualize the spread and get a more accurate picture on where things stand today.
Right now, Georgia has the highest Rt in the U.S. at a 1.5, whereas New York has dropped down to a 0.54 with a previous peak at 4.47. This data is extremely useful in understanding if stay-at-home orders are having an impact, and help inspire people to do their part.
As per TechCrunch, “Kevin has been writing and publishing open-source data analysis notebooks on how to calculate Rt on a daily basis. We wanted to take that work and visualize it so anyone can see how their state is doing at curbing the spread,” says founder, Krieger. You can check out their Rt.live modeling on Github.
This launch is quite a departure from the founders’ photography roots, but the virality they experienced at Instagram inspired them to apply concepts from growth modeling to the cause.
“As states decide whether and how to open back up, they’ll have to manage their infection rate carefully, and we hope dashboards like rt.live will be helpful in doing so” Krieger says. From
From symptom trackers, to trend watching, to crowdsourcing for a cure, we’ve seen some incredible products launch in the wake of COVID19.
Creative ways to cure remoteliness
Feeling pretty lonely these days, hbu? Lucky for us, makers have been tackling the biggest downside to remote work.
Pragli created a virtual office, where you can customize your own avatar and interact with your colleagues. You can use your avatar to give visual cues about what you’re up to through the day. If you’re at your desk, in a meeting, in the zone, or taking a break, it gives your team a better understanding of how to interact with you.
Here’s what the PH community thinks so far:
“These avatars seem like a great way to indicate that you're around, without having to be on camera all day.” - Ramy
“Only complaint is that I can't make my avatar look more like Joe Exotic - it's close though.” - Timothy
If you’re less into offices and more into making avatars that look like Joe, check out Facemoji Camera.
Another launch that hit our radar is Moodline. You can use the app to track your moods over time so you can manage them better. Find patterns in your moods, and use data to improve 💪
“It's an important time to learn how to manage our moods as humans” - Tristan
“Really useful and I enjoy the soft appearance” - Margaret
If you’re missing your colleagues, why not plan something creative to do together?
You could host an art party where you can draw with your team! NYC Draws just launched free virtual drawing lessons and coloring pages.
How have you been feeling about working remotely lately? Share your thoughts will fellow makers.
Pragli created a virtual office, where you can customize your own avatar and interact with your colleagues. You can use your avatar to give visual cues about what you’re up to through the day. If you’re at your desk, in a meeting, in the zone, or taking a break, it gives your team a better understanding of how to interact with you.
Here’s what the PH community thinks so far:
“These avatars seem like a great way to indicate that you're around, without having to be on camera all day.” - Ramy
“Only complaint is that I can't make my avatar look more like Joe Exotic - it's close though.” - Timothy
If you’re less into offices and more into making avatars that look like Joe, check out Facemoji Camera.
Another launch that hit our radar is Moodline. You can use the app to track your moods over time so you can manage them better. Find patterns in your moods, and use data to improve 💪
“It's an important time to learn how to manage our moods as humans” - Tristan
“Really useful and I enjoy the soft appearance” - Margaret
If you’re missing your colleagues, why not plan something creative to do together?
You could host an art party where you can draw with your team! NYC Draws just launched free virtual drawing lessons and coloring pages.
How have you been feeling about working remotely lately? Share your thoughts will fellow makers.
New iPhone, who dis 🤔
Apple just announced the release of a bargain bin iPhone you may actually want. Why? The compelling $399 price tag for the iPhone SE 2nd Gen is backed by a boatload of features normally reserved for a numbered launch.
This successor to the iPhone SE is actually long overdue, the first version launched back in 2016 and was later discontinued. The iPhone SE 2nd Gen signals a big move by Apple to offer more accessible products.
Let’s talk about what’s under the hood:
📱Same A13 Bionic Chip as the iPhone 11 and 11 Pro
🤳Portrait mode enabled
📸Standard 12-megapixel wide camera
🙅♀️No night mode on this camera
🔋Same battery life as the iPhone 8
👖Pocket-sized
👆Touch ID
🔋Wireless charging
Pre-orders for the 2nd Gen start this Friday, April 17th. Here’s what the PH community is saying so far:
“Have been looking forward to this for a while. Essentially 80% of 11 pro quality at 40% of price. However, it's still a phablet.” - Robert Loustau
“For this price, go for a used iPhone X” - Ruben
“I like the small screen for privacy, battery life and video 4k” - Fajar
Not an iPhone fan but want a phone on a budget? Check out Light Phone II. More into the throwback phones? The "matrix phone" by Nokia might curb your interest 🍌
We want your thoughts on the iPhone SE 2nd Gen.
This successor to the iPhone SE is actually long overdue, the first version launched back in 2016 and was later discontinued. The iPhone SE 2nd Gen signals a big move by Apple to offer more accessible products.
Let’s talk about what’s under the hood:
📱Same A13 Bionic Chip as the iPhone 11 and 11 Pro
🤳Portrait mode enabled
📸Standard 12-megapixel wide camera
🙅♀️No night mode on this camera
🔋Same battery life as the iPhone 8
👖Pocket-sized
👆Touch ID
🔋Wireless charging
Pre-orders for the 2nd Gen start this Friday, April 17th. Here’s what the PH community is saying so far:
“Have been looking forward to this for a while. Essentially 80% of 11 pro quality at 40% of price. However, it's still a phablet.” - Robert Loustau
“For this price, go for a used iPhone X” - Ruben
“I like the small screen for privacy, battery life and video 4k” - Fajar
Not an iPhone fan but want a phone on a budget? Check out Light Phone II. More into the throwback phones? The "matrix phone" by Nokia might curb your interest 🍌
We want your thoughts on the iPhone SE 2nd Gen.
Netflix’s next big competitor?
Today NBCUniversal entered the streaming war to compete with Netflix, Disney+, Amazon, Hulu, and many other incumbents.
They're calling it Peacock, named after their colorful logo. If you're an Xfinity X1 or Flex customer, you can now stream 30 Rock, The Tonight Show, Parks and Recreation, Law and Order, and most importantly, The Office.
As much as we all love The Office, it’s hard to get excited about yet another streaming service. So, we’d like to highlight a few lockdown-friendly alternatives you may not know about:
Pluto streams over 250 channels and 1,000's of movies for free.
Rheo is the TikTok of internet videos.
Blackpills produces original TV shows, 100% free to watch.
Quibi delivers quick-bite original content.
Thripy will transport you across the world, even when you’re in lock down.
Neverthink TV aggregates the best “TV of the internet”
Today NBCUniversal entered the streaming war to compete with Netflix, Disney+, Amazon, Hulu, and many other incumbents.
They're calling it Peacock, named after their colorful logo. If you're an Xfinity X1 or Flex customer, you can now stream 30 Rock, The Tonight Show, Parks and Recreation, Law and Order, and most importantly, The Office.
As much as we all love The Office, it’s hard to get excited about yet another streaming service. So, we’d like to highlight a few lockdown-friendly alternatives you may not know about:
Pluto streams over 250 channels and 1,000's of movies for free.
Rheo is the TikTok of internet videos.
Blackpills produces original TV shows, 100% free to watch.
Quibi delivers quick-bite original content.
Thripy will transport you across the world, even when you’re in lock down.
Neverthink TV aggregates the best “TV of the internet”
You probably need a haircut
As most of the world remains indoors (for good reason), we’ve seen the Maker community rally to relieve cabin fever and loneliness with a wave of new virtual-friendly products and services.
If you read the digest two weeks ago, you will remember YUR, a virtual watch that tracks your health stats when playing games in VR. We also covered Instagram’s exploration into co-watching parties.
While we’re all in lockdown together, we wanted to share a few more recent launches we can all enjoy together online.
🏡 Airbnb recently joined the trend by moving Experiences online, connecting hosts to new audiences remotely. You can book a magician to teach you magic tricks, learn how to cook with a Moroccan family, or even train with an Olympic athlete.
"Kudos to the Airbnb team and the hosts for creating an online experience to the people staying home and enjoy the experiences.” –Divyansh Patel
💇🏻♀️You probably need a haircut offers guided haircuts from hairstylists remotely. Alternatively, you could use Snap Camera to cover your shaggy head at your next Zoom birthday party.
“This is such a neat idea! I gave it a go yesterday and cut my husband’s hair and beard with the guidance of an amazing hairstylist.”–Aiman Batool
🎥 Vemos launched making it easy to watch movies with your friends and family. This free, open-source browser extension brings Zoom-like features to streaming services including Netflix, Amazon Prime, YouTube, Hulu, and Disney+.
"This is a great piece of work by @nolaneo, highly recommend checking it out during this insane time in the world.”–Des Traynor
📚Goodnight Zoom connects isolated seniors to families with children so they can read bed-time stories together.
“This is the most heartwarming idea I have ever seen! This is such a uniting platform - in current times more than ever.”–Anastasia Orgaz
As most of the world remains indoors (for good reason), we’ve seen the Maker community rally to relieve cabin fever and loneliness with a wave of new virtual-friendly products and services.
If you read the digest two weeks ago, you will remember YUR, a virtual watch that tracks your health stats when playing games in VR. We also covered Instagram’s exploration into co-watching parties.
While we’re all in lockdown together, we wanted to share a few more recent launches we can all enjoy together online.
🏡 Airbnb recently joined the trend by moving Experiences online, connecting hosts to new audiences remotely. You can book a magician to teach you magic tricks, learn how to cook with a Moroccan family, or even train with an Olympic athlete.
"Kudos to the Airbnb team and the hosts for creating an online experience to the people staying home and enjoy the experiences.” –Divyansh Patel
💇🏻♀️You probably need a haircut offers guided haircuts from hairstylists remotely. Alternatively, you could use Snap Camera to cover your shaggy head at your next Zoom birthday party.
“This is such a neat idea! I gave it a go yesterday and cut my husband’s hair and beard with the guidance of an amazing hairstylist.”–Aiman Batool
🎥 Vemos launched making it easy to watch movies with your friends and family. This free, open-source browser extension brings Zoom-like features to streaming services including Netflix, Amazon Prime, YouTube, Hulu, and Disney+.
"This is a great piece of work by @nolaneo, highly recommend checking it out during this insane time in the world.”–Des Traynor
📚Goodnight Zoom connects isolated seniors to families with children so they can read bed-time stories together.
“This is the most heartwarming idea I have ever seen! This is such a uniting platform - in current times more than ever.”–Anastasia Orgaz
The browser extension used by nearly 1M people
Ever made a joke during a remote meeting only to be met with awkward silence from your muted colleagues? 😬 We’ve been there and based on this Tweet from Product Hunt's former CTO and remote working advocate, Andreas Klinger, we're not the only ones.
Enter Nod. This browser extension adds quick reactions to Google Meet so you can see in real time how your friends, students or colleagues are feeling while muted. Nod attempts to recreate the subtle physical cues we all give IRL.
Founder Jamie Carr explained that the app came from an internal team need to better aid communications on remote calls, and with nearly 1M users in only 2 weeks, his team was not alone in this need.
“I built this little extension to help my team at HomeHero better communicate in larger meetings, where most of the participants were muted. Like many, we found ourselves adjusting to working remotely, and Nod was built to help us replicate some of the things that we missed in our face-to-face meetings.
I first posted this on the chrome store just two weeks ago, and since then, the tool has reached close to a million users. While it has found itself inside teams at Netflix, Pinterest and the NY Times, many of the 900,000+ users have been schools, universities and other educators who have been forced into a new world of online learning.”
Let us know what you think.
Enter Nod. This browser extension adds quick reactions to Google Meet so you can see in real time how your friends, students or colleagues are feeling while muted. Nod attempts to recreate the subtle physical cues we all give IRL.
Founder Jamie Carr explained that the app came from an internal team need to better aid communications on remote calls, and with nearly 1M users in only 2 weeks, his team was not alone in this need.
“I built this little extension to help my team at HomeHero better communicate in larger meetings, where most of the participants were muted. Like many, we found ourselves adjusting to working remotely, and Nod was built to help us replicate some of the things that we missed in our face-to-face meetings.
I first posted this on the chrome store just two weeks ago, and since then, the tool has reached close to a million users. While it has found itself inside teams at Netflix, Pinterest and the NY Times, many of the 900,000+ users have been schools, universities and other educators who have been forced into a new world of online learning.”
Let us know what you think.
