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Infinite Objects’s slogan is “we print video.”

Like you, we didn’t know video was printable, but Infinite Objects has a clear-cut vision. 👀

“Our idea is simple, yet radical: we think video should be valued the same way prints, posters, and photography have been for centuries. We're doing this by permanently 'printing' digital (video) content on a physical object," - Infinite Objects Founder Joe Saavedra

The result is a Harry Potter-esque collection of digital artwork that moves. 💯

How it works: Each “infinite object” holds up to 24 hours of video playing in a perpetual loop, ultimately delivering the same experience as an art print or photograph. The permanent video can never be updated, which is what makes Infinite Objects different from other digital art display startups like Electric Objects (now defunct), Meural, Aura Frame and Joy. The video prints have no connectivity or app to hook up to; to turn your artwork on, you simply take it out of the box.

The idea was born out of a partnership between GIPHY and the design firm Planeta — the founding team wanted to explore “how creating physical expressions for digital content could redefine how we sell, buy, experience, and value video content.”

The initial collection of video prints features work from visual artists like Allison Bagg, Peter Burr, and Sara Ludy, who have created limited-edition pieces for the digital frames. Right now, each work is priced at $399.

Would you buy a video print?

Name the word that doesn’t belong: candle, blanket, book, bath, tea, wine, software. 

I bet that wasn't too hard. 😉

When you think tech products you don’t normally think cozy, but we want to thank PH member Nichole DeMeré for making us question why not. She recently asked the community, “What products make you feel warm and fuzzy?“ We’ve gotten some...unexpected answers. Enjoy the rest of your fall with a new apprecation for the hominess of Trello.

A few of our favorite “warm and fuzzy” products:

😌 Headspace for meditating

“Headspace is one of my favorite apps, as well as the first one that comes to mind when someone says “warm and fuzzy.” The illustrations are perfect for making you feel relaxed and at ease. I not only love the the UX, but the product is extremely helpful. Often we’re so busy that we forget to take some time to reset.“ - Matt

✍️ Taskade for taking notes and chatting with teammates

“Love the sheep logo, pastel colors, and wallpaper backgrounds in the app.” - Evan

🎵 Spotify.me for your music habits

“Spotify is the best, always makes me feel at home” - Eric

🙌 Trello for organizing

“I've been always in love with Trello. I just love it's smooth and never-changing interface and UX. Simple and solid - just all genius things are. Their Kawaii mascot Taco makes the emotions even stronger.” - Alexander

Check out the full list here (or add your favorite *cozy* product!). 👈

In the fall of 2017, Maker Brad Dwyer made an AR app that solves Suduko puzzles using your iPhone’s camera. The premise of the “game” was simple — all you had to do is point your phone’s camera at a physical Sudoku grid and the phone would automatically fill out the blank squares. Game over.

“This is like ordering food and watching someone else eat it” - Josef 

The launch came a few months after Apple’s iOS 11 release, when ARKit was still in its infancy. Flash forward two years, and Brad is still focused on bringing physical games to digital life with AR.

His latest launch is called BoardBoss, and it’s an app that uses computer vision to understand different board games. It them solves them using augmented reality.

“When we released Magic Sudoku - ARkit, the biggest question was ‘doesn’t this ruin the game?‘ — and yeah, it kind of did. With BoardBoss we are making sure to focus on adding features to games that *enhance* the experience for players.“ - Brad

The first release supports Boggle, so give it a whirl and tell us what you think. Brad says that chess with AR could be the next game he tackles.

For more AR games, try these:

🚂 Conduct AR! is an augmented reality railroad action game

👀 HeadSquare is a multiplayer AR ball game

😅 HexaDrive is an endless runner game with AR

🏀 AR Solo Basketball app turns anywhere into a basketball court

🛠 Crafter: AR Build Battle lets you make things in AR for your friends to guess

🚘 Room Racer is a miniature AR racing game

💪 HoloGrid is a monster AR battle

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

Fresh off of its Series C, collaborative analytics platform Mode has a new product launch today. It’s called Helix, and it’s an instant, responsive data engine that combines modern business intelligence and interactive data science. 📈

Since the company launched in 2014, data-driven organizations like Lyft, Twitch, and Invision have used Mode’s streamlined, code-first analytics workflow. In the past, companies have had to choose between two paths — traditional business intelligence tools for the average user and data science applications for more technical workflows. Starting today, Mode is bringing both into a single platform.

A few reactions to Helix:

“Changed my life. I was able to visualize more than 4.6M rows of data for the first time.”

“Helix is saving us weeks of development time because we can build new dashboards quicker than ever before.”

“Marketers, PMs, and executives are also discovering new opportunities and asking new questions.”

“We average hundreds of thousands of customer interactions a day, looking at interactions per city over the course of a month quickly became unworkably slow. Helix cuts this work in half - effectively doubling our productivity.”

Why it matters: In a recent survey conducted by Mode, 49% of respondents said the most inefficient part of working with data is making large datasets more manageable. Because Helix enables visual analysis on query results up to 10GB, data scientists and analysts can drastically reduce the need for repetitive aggregations and filters when writing queries. This helps data scientists uncover insights they wouldn’t have found otherwise. 👀

Helix also eliminates the need for analysts to spend time on unpredictable follow-up questions from business stakeholders. Mode customers with early access to Helix found a 36% drop in the number of data experts who said “answering follow-up questions from colleagues” was one of the most inefficient parts of their day. 💯

It’s Monday morning, you’ve had your first cup of coffee, and you’re starting to get in the zone. Just as you reach a flow state, you get a Slack notification.

Can you do that thing for that person and also can you do it ASAP? That’d be greeeeat. 

We’ve all been there. 👆

Today, Shoulder Tap launched to combat these interruptions. The tool lets you manage requests for your time in Slack, turning random “shoulder taps” into a queue. It also gives team members visibility into how many people are looking for your help at any given moment, as well as what’s being asked of you. If there’s something you can help a teammate out with, you can pull a request from their queue.

The service runs $10/month for “unlimited taps.”

Shoulder Tap joins a long list of tools that aim to make you more productive on Slack, especially as we shift to a more remote workforce. 💬

There’s  Donut for getting matched with a new “coffee” buddy each week on Slack. Humble uses Slack to help eliminate meetings. Halp is a Slack-first ticketing internal help desk. Gyroscope Team Dashboard promotes team wellness through Slack. Abot also promotes team wellness, and lets employees give anonymous feedback via Slack.

We want to send you to Jackson Hole, or “J-Hole” as the billionaires in Silicon Valley call it. BTW, this trip will cost you nothing and you can enter to win here.

Courtesy of our friends at 1440, Conde Nast and Men’s Health (among others), this free trip to Jackson Hole includes four days and three nights at the Teton Mountain Lodge (or a comparable hotel) and up to $1,500 towards airfare. Think mountains, skiing and white water rafting. 🏔

After you win, try all of these travel apps to make the most of your trip. You can use things like:

👋 Friend Theory for connecting with people while you travel
🎒 Bounce for storing your luggage
😋 What to Eat In for discovering local food

“This is one of those awesome products that really makes you think about what's possible without code.” - Ben

Today, Dwellito launched on Product Hunt with a marketplace of modular homes that ship straight to your house. The idea touches on similar themes to Y Combinator-backed Rent the Backyard, a startup we wrote about back in July that builds a studio apartment in your backyard and lets you rent it out. 🏠

What’s cool about Dwellito is that it was built from no code tools, including Webflow, Google Sheets, Zapier and Airtable. The marketplace includes 40 architect-grade prefab designs which you can buy pre-assembled or DIY. From there, you can use the modular home however you like, whether it be for a rental, a studio or a suite.

The idea of kit homes actually started in the early 1900s, when Sears offered homes for parts (10,000 parts, actually) in its catalog. Sort of like Ikea on steroids, the items shipped to the customer and were put together completely from scratch. From 1908 to the 1940s, Sears sold about 70,000 (!!) kit homes in about 270 different styles, from Colonial to Tudor to bungalows.

In recent years, tiny houses have taken off, marketed as housing solutions for overpopulated cities and the homelessness. They’re also good for the environment - a new study found that tiny home downsizers reduce their environmental footprint by an average of 45 percent. Notably, Amazon’s prefab tiny house went viral earlier this year for its low price of $7,000. Buying a backyard guest house from the internet seems like a savvy way to make some extra cash in the age of Airbnb, which is actually how Dwellito got its start.

“About 1.5 years ago, I wanted to build a guest house in my backyard to rent on airbnb. Side note: In Phoenix, a rental could pay the entire mortgage of the main house. I got frustrated with the number of online companies that were out of business, not servicing my state, or weren’t clear about pricing. I created a notion doc that compared all of the prefab models that I had found. My other homeowner friends said the list was incredibly helpful and they were considering to buy one themselves. I started to get the good vibes that it could be a business,” Dwellito Maker Caleb Barclay wrote in a blog post.

Would you buy a tiny house on the internet? Take our poll. 👈

“Knowable is building the first platform for audio-first learning. Great courses with top instructors, delivered screen-free, so you can learn when and how you want. So excited by this idea and team — folks from NPR, Washington Post, and Masterclass — that I’m part of the first course on building a startup.“ - Alexis Ohanian

Knowable launched on Product Hunt yesterday with a novel idea — it’s like Masterclass, but just with audio. The idea is to tap into the set of podcast listeners who want to learn new skills in their ears versus watching a video. 🎧

“Our team loves podcasts and audiobooks, but neither format is made specifically for education, and neither takes advantage of the smart devices they’re delivered through (both are static, one-way experiences). Meanwhile, most online courses are delivered through video, which limits when and how you can learn” - Knowable co-founder Warren Shaeffer

Instead, Knowable combines the “listenability of podcasts, the authority of audiobooks and the structure of online courses” for a new way to learn. The platform is launching with six eight-hour courses to start — you can learn the skills it takes to launch a startup, start a podcast, sleep better, speak with confidence, become a climate change hero or invest in real estate. The classes also include a downloadable textbook and summary notes that get delivered to your inbox after each lesson. There’s no ads and each course will run you $100.



Some early reactions:

“My wife gave me a Masterclass two years ago that I've yet to 'watch' because I don't want to sit in front of my computer for 10 hours. This format is a great shift.” - Matt

“Knowable is a great idea combined with great execution. The courses are extremely well-planned, well-hosted, and well-produced.” - Adam

“I have really enjoyed Knowable audio class on start-ups. As a founder of a real estate tech platform I wish I had this info earlier. It would have saved me and my team a lot of time and money.” - Ryan

Knowable also raised a $3.75 million seed round from Andreessen Horowitz, Upfront, First Round and Initialized. The market is reportedly ripe for a startup like Knowable, with 32% of Americans listening to podcasts monthly and the e-learning industry projected to grow to $300 billion in the face of steep costs for higher education.

Let us know what you think of Knowable here. 👈

P.S. Members of the PH community get 20% off their first course (use the code producthunt).

AI is coming for VCs, per a new app called AngelFace.

The app started as a facial recognition tool to help retail stores catch shoplifters, but was rejected by investors. Instead, Makers Tosh Velaga and Igor Nefedov pivoted and created a project that identifies whether or not someone is a venture capitalist from a quick photo of their face.

The duo scraped VC pics from Google Images and Signal, a directory for sourcing investors. The idea behind the app is to make it easier to spot VCs in the wild, which is a nice idea for budding entrepreneurs, but could create a paparazzi effect for investors.

Would you use AngelFace to track down a VC? We want to know.

Right now, AngelFace is focused on investors in Silicon Valley. If you live outside of the Bay Area, there are other (slightly less aggressive) ways to get in touch with VCs. A few options:

👀 Glassdollar is a tool that helps you find VCs based on your startup

👀 Investor Hunt is an AI-powered database of over 40K investors

👀 Angel Database is a huge database of over 13K angel investors

A fun social experiment: Ask anybody, anything. More specifically, you can ask celebrities, politicians, friends or public figures anything on a virtual “public stage,” and then people vote to get the question answered.

A new app called hear, hear! is putting this “power in numbers” idea into practice. Unlike traditional AMAs, the app lets the public start conversations with famous people versus the other way around. So far, hear, hear! users have asked things like what advice Elon Musk would give his 25-year-old self and what Eminem’s favorite Italian dish is.

Similar to traditional AMAs, you can then take a Q&A into a designated space on the app (a “room”) to make it more interactive. You can also use a “private room” with a unique password for things like internal meetings and town halls.

According to Maker, Jasper Hauser, the hear, hear! team came up with, designed and built the app under 10 weeks. The app itself is similar to Reddit and Twitter, but a little more playful.

Early reactions were mixed:

“Great new concept! Love the style direction, something new and very refreshing” - Noud 

“Love the Twitter integration for easily connecting with my existing network” - Lachlan

“The problem with asking 'everyone a question' is that you'll get 'everyone's answer' which isn't always the best solution” - Lee

Users can also ask and vote on questions anonymously, which is a slippery slope, and reminiscent of apps like YOLO, Koo and And Be Honest.

If you have questions for the PH team, maybe try asking us on hear, hear! 😉