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It’s almost tax season! 👻💸

We can hear you groaning, but it doesn’t have to be that way — especially if you use Pilot.

Pilot is a bookkeeping and tax prep company built for startups and e-commerce businesses. Today, they handle the bookkeeping for hundreds of millions of dollars of transactions per month and have raised $59 million from notable investors (including Stripe).

"The Pilot team was an invaluable resource to us at every stage of the company: they helped set everything up for us in the early days, and they’ve really helped us look around corners because they’re experts at high-growth tech startups." - Nick Bushak, CTO of Gem

The way they see it is: you could try to find a fax machine to get your business taxes done by your uncle’s old college roommate or you could try something more modern.

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🤖Their team is assisted by powerful software that helps with the most error-prone pieces of bookkeeping so that your books are incredibly accurate. This means that the team spends less time clicking around in QuickBooks and more time providing a top-notch experience for you.

📈Whether you’re two people in a garage or a 200-employee company, Pilot works and grows with you. This might also be why they count hundreds of YC companies as customers.

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ICYMI: We’re testing out a new format for the newsletter, taking a look at the week’s big/small/weird/creative/futuristic product launches, along with a few other things you may have missed on Product Hunt.

Predictions 🔮

Native email marketing software will become a prerequisite for any company that helps you run a business.

On Tuesday, Shopify launched an email marketing tool designed to help merchants create, manage and track campaigns natively inside Shopify.

“Our goal at Shopify is to make entrepreneurship more accessible, and that includes making marketing a lot more approachable.“ - Shopify Product Manager Jacinthe Richard

And then Square launched a drag and drop email marketing tool yesterday. The software lets you design custom email, set up automated campaigns, and see how your marketing efforts affect your bottom line (from your Square Dashboard).

“Yesterday Shopify now Square. I wonder what Mailchimp thinks about this” - Ozgur

We’re curious what Mailchimp thinks too. Don’t forget that Squarespace launched it own built-in, beautifully-designed email campaign software last year.

Life Hacks ✍️

Thinking of starting a scooter company? Use this to do it without raising capital.

The “IMDB of podcasts” just debuted on Product Hunt. The idea is to help you find all of the podcast appearances of your favorite people in a superrr simple way (and it was built with no code!).

This tool will create funny and easy-to-remember passwords for you based on your “memorable insights.“

Remote Work 👀

Owl Labs made a smart 360-degree meeting room camera and speaker system that supports bigger meeting rooms. 

“While sitting in the center of a table, it uses vision and voice recognition to automatically shift the camera to focus on whoever is speaking. The result is a fully immersive experience for those who can’t be physically on-site, making everyone feel like they are in the same room.” - Owl Labs co-founder and CTO Mark Schnittman

It’s the only device of its kind on the market today. 

Sex Tech 💕

We expect to see more and more products focus on sex and intimacy. This week, Coral launched with a mix of curated science, stories and practical exercises created by experts.

“We deliver a unique experience that will show you how to have a better and more fulfilling sex life using the latest evidence-based research accompanied by guided solo and partner exercises to take your pleasure up to 11.” - Coral founder and CEO Isherna Walsh

This year, we also saw Ferly and Dipsea launch in this space.

The Weird and Wacky 😜

Database of Nachos is exactly what it sounds like — a map of the U.S. with a comprehensive list of restaurants that serve nachos. You’re welcome.

Quiver is like Airbnb but for surfboards. You can rent surfboards in over twenty countries or start making $$$ by renting your board out to the surfing community.

Big Tech 💻

Adobe just launched a ton of new products, and we broke down their new TikTok tool in more detail on Monday. They also launched an AI-powered camera, their first augmented reality creation app and Photoshop for iPad.

Microsoft’s big announcement this week came in the form of their new Office app. It combines Word, Excel and PowerPoint into one.

Some other stuff from this week...

A new place for cooking #inspo from a celebrity. A modern dictionary worth reading. A discussion on the meditation apps that work. And a podcast on bootstrapping nine businesses to millions.

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Allen Walton has been in the surveillance space for nearly a decade. He’s the founder of SpyGuy, an online security store he launched in 2014 after reading Tim Ferriss’s The 4-Hour Workweek. The business now makes over seven figures selling products like spy cameras, GPS trackers, covert audio recorders, bug detectors and, most recently, a hidden camera finder. 🔎

Yesterday, Allen launched Scout, the first product he’s made in-house. Scout is a hidden camera finder for anyone who’s concerned about being spied on in private spaces (like in Airbnbs, hotels and public restrooms).

“Over time, I've watched as more and more stories hit the news about hidden cameras being found in private places - and those are just the ones that were found. Since I've been in the industry so long, I know just how prevalent these things are, how people are using them, and how people are really concerned about being filmed without their consent.” - Allen

While most media advice will tell you to scan WiFi networks or buy a radio frequency detector in order to find hidden cameras, Scout looks for the lens itself. But Allen isn’t knocking the use of hidden cameras — he does sell those on his website too, after all. 🤔

“Hidden cameras (and other spy tools) can be great tools when used legally. I've had law enforcement, private investigators, business owners, concerned parents, concerned children of the elderly.... they can be used to catch abuse, theft, and even save lives. Putting them in private areas is illegal, though, and Scout helps find those cameras.” - Allen

For the most part, comments on Scout have illuminated how much people have immediately fallen for the product. In fact, it’s filling a real need. A recent survey found that 58% of Airbnb guests are worried about hidden cameras inside Airbnbs and more than 1 in 10 Airbnb guests have discovered a hidden camera in their rental.

“Can't wait to use it in my check-in ritual at all Airbnb's moving forward.” - Jesse

“In this case, the hidden camera finder is a super compelling product for those who are traveling the world, especially as cameras become smaller and more obscure.” - Nick

“Thanks for helping women fight the creep factor while traveling.” - Ellen

Settle a debate for us — is it pronounced “GIF” or “JIF”?

We love GIFs at Product Hunt (duh). For us, it’s always fun to see creative, wacky and sometimes *mischievous* GIF projects launch, making the internet a better place.

Makers delivered last week. Mischief Managed lets you goof off at work with looped GIFs, so you can play work activities like coding, Excel, etc. on your monitor to make it look like you’re working. Maker Sukhpal Saini made the project in 24 hours, complete with a clever Harry Potter-esque landing page.

“My boss has never been happier with my work.” - Daman

Startup GIFs also launched last week, bringing us a collection of lighthearted, startup-themed GIFs to use in Slack channels. These GIFs are veryyyyy relatable.

Some other fun GIF tools we love:

💯 Gifski for converting videos into high-quality GIFs

📈 Data GIF Maker by Google turns boring data into GIFs

👏 GIPHY capture lets you make GIFs by screenrecording

📕 Print a Gif turns any gif into a printable flip book

🙌 Gifrun creates GIFs from YouTube, Facebook and Instagram

📸 Easy GIF Maker lets you quickly make GIFs for photography

🔎 GIFme lets you search and send GIFs through your Mac menu bar

Adobe is riding the TikTok wave.

Starting today, Premiere Rush — Adobe’s tool for video dabblers — will support sharing videos directly to TikTok. 🤳

Some background: Adobe launched Rush, a cross-device video editing app last October to make it super easy to share online video content. The app automatically syncs all projects and edits to the cloud, as it’s geared towards making quick, high quality content. The TikTok partnership comes by way of the company’s new SDK, which is going live with five other content creation apps. In addition to Rush, you can now post videos directly to TikTok from AI app Fuse.it, animation app Plotaverse, gaming capture app Medal and the GIF editor PicsArt.

TikTok users now get all of Rush’s built-in editing features, including auto-ducking, transitions, color filters, timelapse and slo-mo. They can also share any video creations to all social channels, including TikTok, straight from the app.

“We built Rush for content creators who want to shoot, edit and share wherever they are. With Rush, all your video projects sync across all your devices and you can make a complete edit on your phone if you want to. Rush was no small feat to build! We combined technologies from Adobe Premiere, After Effects and Audition into a new, easy to use interface” - Adobe Senior User Experience Design Lead Johannes Eckert

The TikTok partnership is well-timed, as the fast-growing app is quickly becoming the next big creative platform. The app itself now has over 800 million monthly active users, even though 500 million of those users use Douyin, the Chinese-language version of TikTok. With TikTok’s growth, we’re seeing a rise in TikTok-related products built on Product Hunt. In the past two weeks alone, we’ve seen Makers build a TikTok client for web and multiple analytics tools that let you detect influencers and track their stats.

At Adobe’s MAX conference today, the company also debuted a free AI-powered Photoshop camera app, Photoshop for iPad and its first augmented reality creation app.

Our experiment from last Friday continues!

ICYMI: Instead of a deep dive on one particular product (our usual style), we’re recapping the week’s big/small/weird/creative/futuristic product launches, along with a few other things you may have missed on Product Hunt. We hope you dig it, and please share your honest feedback here!

 Big Tech 💻

Apple made its big AirPods announcement on Monday, dropping the second-generation earbuds. We covered what’s new and initial impressions here.

Spotify also had a big launch this week with its new standalone app for kids, appropriately named “Spotify Kids.” The company is starting with a beta test in Ireland before rolling the app out more widely, but the vision is to “create an entirely new generation of music listeners.”

Random Hacks ✍️

Weglot launched this week to translate your website instantly (no code required). The product has been in development for three years (it started as a Wordpress plugin and later a Shopify app) and already has 50,000 users.

If you’re writing content on the internet, Hyperlink will send you a push notification when your link gets clicked. It’s a super simple (but useful!) product created by ex-Googler Siggi Simonarson that helps small businesses learn if their posting is worth while.

Sendy just debuted on Product Hunt to...pay you for reading newsletters. How it works: you earn points for opening emails and cash out for gift cards or cryptocurrency. The product lets marketers directly reward engaged subscribers (especially as newsletters continue their resurgence).

“What is the hourly rate? LOL” - Max

Hardware 👀

DJI announced the smallest Mavic drone yet (starting at $399). It’s actually so small and light that users won’t have to register the drone with the Federal Aviation Administration. 

The Weird and Wacky 😜

Helvetica got a fresh look except it’s terrifying. GANimal launched to let you put your pets face on other animals.

Predictions 🔮

Toothbrush maker Quip launched a sleek refillable floss line. We predict it will not remind us to floss more.

Some other stuff from this week...

An article on why now is the time to be a maker in generative media. A discussion on Twitter’s move to stop political advertising. A debate on commercial flights to space. And a podcast on why work doesn’t have to be a crazy place with the CTO of Basecamp.

It’s Halloween! So of course it’s time for some culturally relevant #content. 🎃

Today we found a tool that calculates the chances of human survival against vampires. It also gives a nice overview on the concept of “vampirism.” If vampires aren’t your thing (and you happen to be a designer), try this for creating monster Sketch symbols and Figma components. Beware: the monsters are more cute than scary.

If you’re going trick-or-treating tonight, use this Halloween candy map for finding the best candy in the neighborhood (no one likes raisins on Halloween). If you’re staying in, maybe a scary movie is in order? 👻

And of course, we’ve got you covered if you still don’t know what you’re going to be for Halloween. Lapa Studios lets you print last-minute paper masks at home; you can go as an alligator, an anteater, a barn owl, or a dire wolf.

Today’s Daily Digest was crafted by Product Hunt and sponsored by our friends at monday.com. 

Over the last few months, we’ve shared how monday.com‘s ($234 million raised and valued at $1.9 billion) work management tool is uniquely designed to help teams collaborate, communicate and keep in sync. To date, 90,000 teams worldwide — including companies like Discovery Channel, Carlsberg Group, Philips, and Fiverr — use monday.com to get work done. 💯

Earlier this year, the company expanded their offering to include automations, eliminating repetitive to-dos in the process. 

How it works: monday.com’s automations allow you to put your most repetitive tasks on auto-pilot. Common use cases include notifying someone every time a task is completed, sending an email when reviewing requests, creating a calendar invite for meetings  and sending reminders to the team so deadlines aren’t missed. monday.com takes these tasks among many others off your hands, so you can be more productive on work that really needs your time and attention. 🙌

More features: monday.com also works as a central hub for your projects through its automations for third party tools. You can integrate directly with your calendar, email, and Slack, or explore more integrations with tools like Zapier and Integromat.

There is a 14-day free trial (no commitment needed), so you can see for yourself why more than 90,000 teams worldwide are using monday.com

Apple just launched their highly anticipated AirPods Pro. 👂

Here’s what’s new: The second-generation earbuds have noise-canceling features (similar to the Beats Solo Pro headphones) and a flexible in-ear design with three different sets of tips (to fit more ears). The AirPods Pro also support a “transparency mode” that lets users hear their surrounding environment.

The premium earbuds come with audio sharing, which lets users sync up to a second pair of AirPods — to listen to a song or watch a movie — by simply bringing the second set of buds close to an iPhone or iPad. There’s also a hands-free “Hey Siri” to play a song, increase the volume, make a call or get directions. 👏

Would you buy them?

A few initial impressions from the community:

“I think these look good, an upgrade from the standard model we've had for a while. Noise cancellation will be fantastic. Only disappointment (and a big one) is the battery life. Less than the non-pro version.“ - Max

“Being able to actually fit them to your ears is going to be key. Love it.” - Joshua

“Apple wants us to insert these into our heads and never remove them. The age of ‘Her’ is upon us." - Chris

The new AirPods will hit stores tomorrow for $249 (the current AirPods cost $159).

If you're not into them, you could also try the Powerbeats Pro, the Surface Earbuds or Google’s Pixel Buds.

The final season of Silicon Valley premiered last night, and in classic form, the title sequence was updated to reflect tech’s ever-shifting culture. 👀

When the series premiered in 2014, showrunners Mike Judge and Alec Berg worked with the LA-based design firm  yU+co to create the title sequence. Over the years, the 10-second clip has been updated to include the rise and fall of a Napster balloon, Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp and Oculus, Amazon drones delivering champagne bottles, Soylent trucks, Tesla semi-trucks, a Lyft balloon inflating and colliding with an Uber balloon, and the Facebook logo briefly turning into Cyrillic alphabet to spell out “ГДÇЭБФФЖ" (a cheeky nod to the Facebook scandal around the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election). 

Over the weekend, HBO rolled out a title sequence generator so everyone can get in on the fun. The website lets you put two words (your name, your company, whatever) into the title sequence, which then show up in big red letters where the show’s name usually is. You can then download your creation as an image or a video (see ours above).

This isn’t the first time Silicon Valley (the show) has nailed it’s content marketing. Two years ago, Jian-Yang joined Product Hunt to launch Not Hotdog, an app that can tell hotdogs from...not hotdogs. The app was based off of a subplot in the show, where the character Jian-Yang managed to get $200,000 in funding for his “Shazam for food” app called SeeFood. Last year, the show made real pizza deliveries based on a fake app called “Sliceline.” The pizza was delicious. 🍕