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Who remembers Sunrise? ☀️📅

If you don't, it was a beloved calendar app bought by Microsoft for $100M in 2015. In 2016, Microsoft shut down Sunrise, and absorbed some of its features into Outlook.

If you were a bereaved Sunrise user — good news. The former Sunrise CEO Pierre Valade just launched his next product.

The app is called Jumbo, and it touts itself as “your privacy assistant.” How it works: The app lets you simply and easily clean up your social profiles. You can automatically adjust 30 Facebook privacy settings, delete old Tweets and make new ones ephemeral, clean old Google searches and erase your Amazon Alexa requests. 👀

Some initial reactions on Product Hunt:

“This service is so needed. I hope it helps bring attention to something we should all be concerned about.” - Yann

“PLEASE do jumbo for e-mail. PLEASE” - Daniel

With privacy being the topic of the year, it seems Jumbo is coming at the right time. But the app definitely poses a threat to big tech companies, which make money by gathering and leveraging user data to deliver targeted ads. Though Jumbo is still living and breathing today, time will tell if big tech finds a way to shut it down.

Next up for Jumbo? The company is working on a privacy feature for Twitter that lets you manage your settings. It's also planning to help you manage your privacy on Instagram and Tinder.

“Long-term, we simply want to build the best privacy assistant, which works for you (and not anyone else). I think of this as your digital agent, similar to a lawyer in the real world, who represents you and make decisions in your favor, because it's incentivized to do so (ie: you will pay for it at some point).” - Pierre

For now, it's free to use.

Jumbo joins a growing list of apps designed to help users take control of their privacy on the internet. Vanish provides step-by-step instructions for controlling your social media presence. DeleteHub and Cardigan are tools for deleting old Tweets. And Facebook even has its own ”Clear History” feature, which lets you erase data Facebook has collected on you.

YouTube is getting into interactive programming.

The Google-owned company is now investing in choose-your-own-adventure-style shows, similar to Netflix's Black Mirror: Bandersnatch. YouTube has already experimented with interactive advertising, but interactive storytelling will be a first. It also puts the company in direct competition with Netflix. 📺

Netflix launched its interactive storytelling unit back in 2017 with several kids titles. Some initial reactions on Product Hunt:

“This could be a great feature for Netflix if they can keep content fresh. Obviously not as fresh for younger kids, but for older kids and adults they'll need to have regular interactive content” - Smokie

“An alternate ending for House of Cards would be awesome! Don't forget about us adults who are paying the subscription fee, Netflix” - Jordan

But Netflix's first big success with the format was Bandersnatch. Since the interactive style proved so popular with adults, Netflix is now reportedly doubling down on creating interactive shows.

But while high-end interactive programming could give Netflix an advantage in the streaming market (which includes Apple, Amazon, Hulu, HBO and Disney), it seems others want a piece of the pie.

Beyond YouTube, Walmart has also invested $250M in a venture with interactive storytelling platform Eko. We could also see Amazon carving out a niche in audio-only interactive content or perhaps Facebook will help everyone make their own interactive shows. 🔮

But big tech isn't alone in changing how stories are told in video. There's also Firework for watching short-form videos on mobile, Dreams for watching TV on your phone and PlutoTV for live-streaming (acquired for $340M).

Yesterday, Alphabet's drone delivery company Wing announced it's launching one of the world's first drone delivery services in Canberra, Australia following regulatory approval. ✈️📦

How it works: Customers place an order for popular items — like food, coffee and medicine — through Wing’s app. Minutes later, a drone arrives with the goods at their doorstep. 100 homes have access to start.

Perhaps Wing took inspiration from Sliceline, the pizza drone from HBO’s Silicon Valley. 😉

Wing has reportedly been testing a pilot program (pun intended) for 18 months and has already made over 3K deliveries.

Wing's Australia launch also marks a significant achievement for Alphabet — beating Amazon to market. Jeff Bezos predicted his company would be making drone deliveries by 2018, but there hasn't been a commercial launch yet.

Beyond Amazon, a few others are throwing their hat into the last-mile delivery ring. In 2016, 7-Eleven partnered with drone maker Flirtey to deliver items from its store and UPS teamed up with drone startup Matternet this year to deliver medical supplies through the air. On the ground, there's also Serve from Postmates, SameDay Bot from FedEx, Starship, Robomart and Scout.

Over the last three weeks, we've seen nearly 1K Makers from all over the world take part in the Product Hunt Makers Festival to create awesome products — all without code.

Our showcase last week had over 120 products, ranging from simple (but effective) calculators to open source libraries to Tinder for brains. 🧠

So without further ado, here are the winners and runners up across the festival's six categories.

Thank you to all of our community members who voted, and to our good friends over at Coda.

Tools for teams 🛠

Winner

Feature Monkey is a feedback tracker that helps you build features for your customers using AI and no code. Made by Gautham.

Runners Up

Implementation Tracker helps catch development implementation choices early, and course correct where necessary. Made by Wira and Sam.

Remote HQ will teach you how to hire global employees for your remote team. Made by Dominic.

Life Hacks ⚡️

Winner

Wardrobe Genie helps you to choose what to wear everyday (and can even tell your laundry times!). Made by Merbil.

Runners Up

Master your life is a life-changing board to organize your mind. Made by Florian.

Project Work lets solo entrepreneurs work with others. Made by Johnny.

Health and Wellness 💕

Winner

Remetea helps you find the perfect tea to drink based on how you’re feeling. Made by Dianna.

Runners Up

Done With Life measures you burnout and gives you recommendations on how to move forward. Made by Madison.

FriskyList helps you discover body-safe sex toys and sex-positive products. Made by Alex.

Social Impact 😇

Winner

Product Accessibility Checklist helps to make your product delightful and usable for everyone. Made by Valia and Lisa.

Runners Up

Food Still Good helps you Marie Kondo your fridge and help save the planet with a food tracking app. Made by Sally.

Braille Buildies is an interactive app that demystifies Braille. Made by Kathy.

Tiny Apps 💡

Winner

The Books by Women is a crowdsourced and curated list of books written by women. Made by Kalina.

Runners Up

Tiny Chat Bot is a simple no code chatbot engine built with Coda. Made by Paul.

ShopperGram makes your Instagram content shoppable. Made by Najmuzzaman, Adam, Aamna and Prakhar.

Everything Else 🤔

Winner

MirrorMirror helps you to make the right choice with quick and simple A/B user testing. Made by Matt and Vincent.

Runners Up

Freelance Calculator teaches you how much to charge for your services. Made by Marina and Anita.

Request for Product is a crowdsourced directory of product ideas people wish exist. Made by Sharath.

Maker In Chief 🏆

Emoodji is your personal mood tracker. Made by Kevin.

“We loved the creative representation of the PANAS scale in this Coda doc. The combination of mobile friendly quiz, randomized gifs, historical tracking, and automated reminders is an awesome example of how to make a doc as powerful as an app. Congrats!” - Evan Davies, Head of Solutions & Partnerships at Coda

Congratulations to all the Makers in the Festival, and thank you to everyone who participated. We hope to see you all at our next one - stay tuned!

Yesterday, Snap debuted “Snap Games,” its new platform that lets you play live multiplayer games, at its first-ever partner event in Los Angeles.

The first game is called “Bitmoji Party,” a Mario Party-syle game where your Bitmoji avatar competes with up to seven friends in a series of mini games (like staying balanced on a giant record as a DJ scratches).

The games platform comes after Snapchat's 2017 acquisition of PrettyGreat, an Australian game company founded by the creator of Fruit Ninja.

Some initial reactions to Snap Games on Product Hunt:

“Every communication app that hits significant scale seems to eventually adopt games, including Facebook, Messenger, LINE, WeChat, and more recently Houseparty with their first title, Heads Up.” - Ryan

“Does it feel like MySpace to anyone else or was I the only one that played those games?“ - Marcus

Indeed, the new gaming platform comes as Snap finds new ways to generate revenue. These games will be free to play but users will opt-in to watching six-second unskippable ads that reward them with in-game power ups.

According to Snap's own metrics, it has 186 million daily active users — with 90 percent of 13-24 year olds in the U.S. using Snapchat. The company also stated yesterday that their advertising reaches more users in that demographic than Facebook or Instagram. And with a long-standing emphasis on privacy, Snap may be positioning itself to excel in an area where its biggest social competitor does not.

While Snap's 2018 redesign was a bit of a disaster, Snap Games marks a return to its roots — the app is fun again.

Something worth noting: Snap shares rose 1.1% yesterday.

Snap also launched a redesigned in-app camera aimed at creators who design their own AR lenses. Snap also said that its Stories product would soon become available for developers to use in their own apps. Tinder and Houseparty have already agreed to include Stories in their products.

RIP Google Inbox.

If you didn't hear the news, Google Inbox — Google's beloved email client that launched back in 2014, shut down yesterday. This means that if you're a Google Inbox user, you're now being forced to switch to Gmail.

Google announced it would be sunsetting Google Inbox last September, and needless, to say people have been upset.

“My heart goes out to the millions of bereaved Google customers. Remember that we're all in this together.” - Ron Amadeo

Every single person I know who uses Google Inbox is using it until the bitter end, ignoring the nags, hoping it won't die” - Owen Williams

For some context, this is how people felt about Google Inbox when it launched:

“Can't remember ever being more excited to share a Google product with the world. Has completely changed how I use email.” - Ken

“Can't upvote any harder. Combines a lot of my favorite Google Now / Gmail Labs features into a much better package.“ - Ece

Google Inbox rethought how an inbox should work (like a to-do list), and a lot of its pioneering features are now deployed across Gmail. But if you're a bereaved Inbox fan and not ready to hop on the Gmail train, here are some alternatives you can check out:

Spike presents email as chats 🗣

Spark has smart filters and customizable designs ⚡️

Consider keeps you calm 😌

Zero sorts by relevance and importance 💌

June.ai wants to replace the inbox with AI 👀

Superhuman is super fast email 🚀

You can pay your respects to Inbox at the Google Cemetery, along with all other dead Google products.

We love a ~weird~ product launch, and Sleep Pod delivered last week.

The $110 “blanket” is basically a baby swaddle for adults. Sleep Pod maker Matt Mundt is a former Apple and Harley Davidson designer on a mission to solve a personal problem: insomnia.

How it works: Sleep Pod is designed to feel like a hug. It uses a four-way stretched material that's designed to feel breathable, but that applies a gentle pressure to your body when you're snuggled inside. That pressure will reportedly help you reduce anxiety and fall asleep faster.

Some initial reactions on Product Hunt:

“I've wanted to try a weighted blanket, but I don’t find it practical to store and move a large, heavy blanket so this solution is much more appealing” - Liza

“This looks somewhat claustrophobic” - Aleksander

Getting swaddled like a baby not your thing? Here are some alternatives that might help you catch some more 💤:

👀 Gravity is a weighted blanket for sleep

👫 Dualsleep is a dual-temperature duvet for couples

🛏 The Bed Tent is a bed for introverts

🤤 Mini Pillow is a pillow that lets you sleep anywhere

🙌 Dreem Coach is a library of programs to improve your sleep

💡 Casper Glow is a magic light for better sleep

🎶 Can't Sleep is AI music designed for sleep

👂 Sleepbuds are tiny earbuds for when you're sleeping

😌 Beditations are guided meditations to improve sleep

No one — with the possible exception of finance experts — looks at their equity package and thinks, “Yep, makes sense.” In startupland, equity can seem like a lottery ticket.

It's definitely not something to rely on or a replacement for your salary, and that can be confusing. So to help clarify, our fam at AngelList put together a short glossary of terms you're likely to see in your offer. Things like “four-year monthly vest” and “strike price” and “preference stack” and “one-year cliff.”

And we (of course) went down the rabbit hole looking for some great equity-related products as well.

Equity Calculator helps you figure out how much your equity is worth 💸

SalaryOrEquity quantifies equity as an approximate salary 👀

TLDR Options guesstimates the value of your equity visually🤔

Startup Economics helps you understand how funding events will effect your startup 💵

OptionPlan helps founders design a stock option plan with benchmarks for every role 🙌

Earlier this week, Mage, a marketplace app for Magic: The Gathering (colloquially known as Magic) cards, launched on Product Hunt. If you're not familiar with Magic (though it was released in 1993) — it's a strategy card game where players battle each other as wizards, or “planeswalkers.” Today, it's the largest trading card game in the world with 35 million (!) players.

How it works: The Mage app uses computer vision and machine learning to scan, recognize and price every single Magic card.

Some initial feedback from the Product Hunt community:

“I wouldn't have my collection categorized if it wasn't for this app.” - Javier

“Useful app for staying up to date with Magic News, deckbrewing in the couch and fast and easy card buying” - Michael

We've started to see more and more of these products — niche digital marketplaces — crop up as alternatives to eBay. There's Bump for limited-release streetwear from brands like Supreme and Kidizen for used children's clothes. One of the earliest examples of this is GOAT, a secondary online marketplace for buying and reselling sneakers, which launched back in 2015. Earlier this year, Foot Locker invested $100M in the company.

It's not hard to imagine Mage having similar success. The average Mage customer spends about $120/month on Magic cards, and Mage takes a 10 percent cut of each purchase.

They're also set up to tap into an even broader market of collectables. Next up? According to Mage's founders, they're interested in expanding with Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh and Dragon Ball Z, along with baseball cards, stamps, coins and wine.