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Another day, another at-home gym. Yesterday, Tempo launched on Product Hunt as an “all-in-one fitness studio” where you can work out with trainers who can see when you make a mistake (so they can fix it).

Tempo joins the growing amount of startups that are using things like 3D sensors and AI along with mirrors and screens to help you work out. There’s already the big players — like Peloton and Mirror — but there’s also newcomers like Tonal (a machine learning gym), Next! Fitness (a way for users to work out with smart mirrors in a a physical gym) and Zenia (an AI-powered yoga assistant).

“Tempo's main offering is democratizing the guidance, motivation, and accountability that makes personal training effective,” Tempo Maker Moawia Eldeeb wrote on Product Hunt.

With Tempo, it’s more about form. In fact, Tempo devices come with Microsoft’s Azure Kinect (advanced AI sensors) built-in to watch you as you complete your reps. The machine looks less like a mirror and more like an armoire, and it offers a variety of classes from yoga to strength training to HIIT.

Tempo is priced close (but slightly cheaper) to what a Peloton bike costs — the machine will cost you $1,995 and then you’ll pay another $39/month subscription for content.

When asked what makes Tempo stand out in the increasingly crowded at-home fitness market, Eldeeb said that, “Tempo tracks your strength by monitoring your form, reps, and weights being used as you exercise giving you accurate metrics. Tempo also comes with all the weights, dumbells and barbell required for most strength and HIIT classes.”  

Tempo also just announced that it raised a $17.5 million Series A, which it will use for marketing, retail distribution, R&D and content production. 💪

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“My personal rude awakening was when years at an unforgiving private equity job had me looking and feeling old and tired beyond my years. I tried all kinds of expensive skincare products to no avail. I never saw a real difference until I tried products that were tailor made for my skin.”  — Proven co-founder Ming Zhao

Yesterday, beauty startup Proven debuted on Product Hunt with a splash. The company was founded by Ming and her co-founder Amy Yuan, a computational physicist from Stanford, in response to the skincare industry’s lack of innovation. Like Ming, Amy was frustrated with her own skin, so she built her own AI-powered database to analyze scientific students against consumer reviews. Today, the database has expanded to 20 million consumer students and 4,000 scientific papers — all on skin. 👀

How it works: Proven collects 47 different pieces of information about you through it’s “Skin Genome Quiz,” which includes things like your gene expressions, environment, lifestyle and skin concerns. Then, using AI, Proven combs through its database of scientific papers, reviews and dermatology expertise to make a product recommendation. The company even updates your formulas as the seasons change.

So...no more acne in high school? Or college? Or ever? Maybe. A sampling of the reviews on Product Hunt indicate that Proven knows their stuff:

“I've love Proven since my first jar. Exactly what my skin needs. I've got an oily T-zone and dry cheeks.” - Nancy

“Proven uses AI where and how it needs to be used. No BS here.” - Camilla

“I use this product every day and it is insanely amazing. I can't believe how well it works.” - Lisa

“I've been using Proven for the last year and my skin really cleared up. Made the mistake of switching off for the last few weeks and now I'm breaking out again. I've learned my lesson - stick with Proven.” - Stella

P.S. They’re giving members of the Product Hunt community a discount if you want to try it out. 👈

It was just reported that Venmo is testing a new feature that would let adults create a debit card for their kids that’s connected to their account. It makes sense; giving teens an allowance is common, and more and more people aren’t carrying around cash. A digital allowance could also help parents send their kids money in a pinch, since more than half of U.S. children now have a smartphone.

A look at the digital debit card market for teens:

Current is the, ahem, current leader in this space. We saw them launch three years ago to “bring allowances into the digital age.”

At the time, Current founder and CEO Stuart Sopp wrote that the idea behind the tool was to teach teens financial literacy and give parents more control around how children spend their money in a society where “allowances remain firmly footed in the past.” The Current Student Account launched with two components: a Visa-branded debit card and an app that gave families a way to mutually decide how money would be earned and spent. The company currently has over 800,000 accounts and raised a $20 million Series B last year.

Fintech startups like Kard and Revolut also have plans to launch their own teen debit cards, joining startups like Current and U.S.-based Step. 💸

Over the weekend, Binned Art launched with a novel approach to selling art. The curated marketplace lets artists sell their work anonymously (mostly to recoup the cost of art supplies) and helps patrons buy affordable, original art.

“As a fellow painter, I kept on cluttering my studio with unsold works. While I worked on refining my style and finding my artistic voice, I wished I could sell some paintings under a pseudonym to make room for more.” — Maker Adrian del Mar wrote on Product Hunt.

How it works: Instead of using galleries to sell art, any artist can submit their art (mostly paintings and drawings) to the marketplace. The prices of the painting are based exclusively on the size of the painting, and artists can calculate the accurate price to sell their work using a built-in calculator.

Ultimately, the idea is to help early-career artists refine their style while making money, and simultaneously help more people be able to afford original art.

More alternatives for purchasing *unique* art:

📹 Infinite Objects lets you “print video”

🖼 Art Bloom sources canvas prints from independent artists

👀 RARE Art helps you find limited edition digital art

💸 Artmood lets you buy or rent original art

🙌 Otis lets you invest in original art for as little as $25

“My first thought was DANG, April came early... Looks very cool and a godsend for accessibility.“

No, this is not an April Fool’s joke — it’s a tool that *actually* lets you control your computer with head movements. Hawkeye Access for Mac launched today and gives you the ability to rotate your head to move your computer cursor. You can also make facial expressions to click, drag, and scroll around your screen, powered by your iPhone’s TrueDepth camera.

The launch follows Hawkeye Access for iOS, which was built last year. 📱

Maker Matt Moss wrote a little bit more about the tool on Product Hunt:

“Access for Mac is a big step up over traditional hands-free controls. It's easy to learn, incredibly powerful, and cheap. I can't wait to see how this helps people with motor impairments use their Macs, from browsing the web to playing games to editing videos.“

Some early reviews from the PH community:

“Hawkeye Access for Mac empowers all of us to explore, build, and play on computers through hands-free control. Regardless of whether or not you have motor impairments, Hawkeye feels magical to use.” - Hunter

“It's so great to see what can be achieved with just a phone today.” - Owen

It appears people will pay for, well, water. It was just announced that Liquid Death, the company that uses inventive, heavy metal-influenced packaging to sell canned water, raised $9 million from investors. 💦

A little history: We first noticed Liquid Death about a year ago when the canned water brand debuted on Product Hunt. The company cans mountain water from the Austrian Alps in response to fears around contaminated water and pollution, and uses aluminum cans for its water (sold at $18.99 for a 12-pack) since it’s vastly more recyclable than plastic bottles. Since then, the brand has utilized the tagline “Death to Plastic” to promote a sustainable cause — for every can sold, Liquid Death will donate 5 cents to help clean up plastic pollution.

As for the reason behind Liquid Death’s punk rock branding, founder Mike Cessario says that he simply wanted to make a healthy product that was provocative.

“In my past life as an ad agency creative director, I was always perplexed by the strict rules that brands and CPG products create for themselves,” Cessario wrote on Product Hunt. “Why is it completely ok for a horror movie product to have blood and gore and profanity and make $250 million? Or why can a rapper like Eminem make some of the all-time highest grossing music products filled with controversial awesomeness? But then CPG products, like beverages, all have to play by 1950's rules and be safe, boring, corporate, functional, rational, and appeal to absolutely everyone? All we wanted to do with Liquid Death was to make a CPG product that gets to play by entertainment product rules. Why not? There's a reason why people have such a deep passion and love for entertainment products, probably more so than almost anything else. And more specifically, we wanted to make a healthy product that is provocative and hilarious in a world where only unhealthy brands like energy drinks, soda, beer, candy, and fast food get to have all the fun.“

But beyond branding, people genuinely seem to love canned water. A few reviews from the PH community:

“Amazing design and idea. Can't believe it has taken this long to get canned water to be a thing in the mainstream.” - Ally 

“I figured its just water in a can but I'm hooked, love this stuff.” -  Laurence

With the new funding, the company plans to expand into more physical stores, starting with Whole Foods next month. 👀

It was only three months ago that we wrote about Chroma Stories, an Instagram competitor built by the lead developers behind Instagram Stories and Boomerang. The group behind the app — former Instagram and Facebook employees Alex Li, Joshua Harris and John Barnett — left their jobs to start Chroma Stories, which was warmly received by the PH community.

“Great templates to start from, motion controls make photos come to life, fast and easy to use.” - Soleio

“I have been using the app since it was first released. Recommended by someone connected to the founders. It works great, it has tons of new options compared to the standard tools avail on Instagram. If you post to Instagram Stories often or do so for work, get this app. You will look like a pro.“ - Andrew

Yesterday, the startup announced that it was acquired by Twitter. 🐦

The terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but Chroma Stories is shutting down, effective immediately. The company wrote in a statement that they “look forward to continuing our mission at a larger scale — with one of the most important services in the world.”

It’s worth noting that Twitter, known for words rather than visuals, isn’t yet a part of the Stories revolution (which has definitely arrived). Given the Chroma team’s background, this could mark the beginning of a more visual future for Twitter. Don’t worry, we’re closely tracking any hint of a “Twitter Stories” launch. 👀

If you spend any amount of time on the internet, you’ve probably seen a TikTok video by now. That doesn’t necessarily mean you use TikTok. More and more people are aware of TikTok because it’s super easy to share TikTok videos on other social media platforms, like Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

In fact, according to a study from Business Insider, only 11% of Gen Z internet users say they check TikTok Daily, but many people say they don’t need to open the app to feel like they’re “using“ it. Is this a genius organic marketing strategy? Maybe.

Something in the same vein launched on Product Hunt today — it’s called Pikaso and it turns tweets into Instagram-friendly screenshots.

“I created this tool for people who like to share their tweets on Instagram. It's much easier than taking screenshots and manually cropping them and the generated image looks more professional and clutter-free.” — Pikaso Maker Soheil Rashidi

Soheil seems to be filling a need; people on Product Hunt are already asking for the ability to turn Tweets for Instagram Stories and a feature that supports Twitter threads. We’ll be on the lookout for more tools that transcend the borders of social media sites.

In the meantime, some other wacky things you can do with your tweets:

🙌Print a tweet on anything with PrintMeBot

🖼Get a framed poster of tweets with Framed Tweets

💥Get wooden laser etched tweets with Laser Tweets

Over the weekend, engineers across the world took to Twitter in the name of salary transparency, sharing how much money they make annually with the hashtag #KnowYourWorth. 👀

The trend seems to have started with Slack developer Zac Sweers, who shared his education, years of professional experience, title, location, and compensation (including equity) like this:


As hundreds of engineers followed suit, there were very mixed reactions. Some people felt empowered, while others were disheartened by the hefty salaries that tech workers make at big tech companies in San Francisco and New York. But for underrepresented groups, this brief Twitter movement may have worked the way Sweers intended it to.

“I’ve seen an outpouring of gratitude, particularly from women, for folks sharing,” he wrote on Twitter. “Even in cases where they have reservations about the approach of efficacy, there’s an appreciation that those sharing are trying to be an ally.”

Today, a resource called Know Your Worth launched on Product Hunt that aggregates all of the data collected from the Twitter experiment. You can search salaries by country and city, and even see how much remote engineers make.

For more salary resources, check out LinkedIn Salary, Founder Salary Calculator and SalaryOrEquity. 💸