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“I'm a tab hoarder” - everyone, always.

Yesterday, a nifty new Chrome extension called Qlearly launched on Product Hunt to help you collect bookmarks for different projects and categories. It's sort of like Trello for managing your tabs, and the community was preeeetty excited about it:

“I use Qlearly every day to save podcasts and free design resources for interfacer. It has defs made my life easy.” - Ben

“Works like a Kanban board so it's super easy to use” - Cathleen

“Once you go Qlearly, you never go back 😆 (true story)” - Eduardo

This made us wonder what other browser extensions are currently loved by the masses, so we posed a simple question on Twitter: “What are your fav browser extensions?”

Some recommendations:

Lolli lets you earn bitcoin when you shop on the internet 🛍

Loom helps you create videos in a snap using screen, mic, and camera recording for Chrome. 📹

Video Speed Controller does what it sounds like...speeds up any video in your browser. 📼

Honey scours the web for the best coupon codes before you buy something online 🤑

Pocket (acquired by Mozilla) lets you bookmark interesting articles to read later 📚

Vookmark is like Pocket but for videos — it lets you bookmark videos to watch later 👀

Grammarly will fix you’re tyops and grammer ✅

FYI works like magic to help you find your documents (and was a runner up for this year's Life Hack Golden Kitty Award) ✨

Ghostery was upvoted by 1.3K people and makes internet browsing faster 👻

Snoopie uncovers what's tracking you around the web 🔎

PixelBlock blocks email trackers for you 💌

Aaaand keep your eyes out for a new browser extension from yours truly 😼

PSA: The milkman is making a comeback. 🥛

But instead of fresh milk, he'll be serving up deodorant, mouthwash, ice cream, shampoo, etc. in reusable containers — and then circling back to pick them up when you're done.

This week, a solid lineup of big-name consumer brands — Procter & Gamble, Nestlé, PepsiCo, Unilever and Danone — banded together to pilot a new reusable packaging subscription service called Loop. The mission? Phase out single-use plastics.

How it works: Like with Amazon, you create an account online, add items to a virtual basket and checkout. But on top of payment for your items you'll pay a fully refundable deposit for each package too (which will range from $1 to $10). Then, your items will be delivered in a tote bag, which a delivery person will come back later to retrieve with your used packaging. The packaging is then sent to a cleaning facility and recycled for another customer. ♻️

Some reactions on Product Hunt:

“Prediction time: Amazon will buy them or recreate if it's mildly popular.” - Antoine

“I could easily see this having some kind of discount for reusing the same containers” - Alex

“With all the deliveries we get from online shopping these days, packaging is getting ridiculously wasteful. This is a brilliant solution” - Tim

The subscription system will start out in New York and Paris later this year, but if you don't live in one of those cities you can still join the #zerowaste movement. Here's few suggestions:

Get JUST Water (backed by Will Smith!). It's a paper-based bottle made from sugarcane with a 74% smaller carbon footprint than standard plastic bottles. 💦

Eliminate your cup altogether with GO Cubes. It's chewable coffee. ☕️

Buy eco-friendly sunglasses like Joplins. They're made from bamboo fibers — which are 100% sustainable. 😎

Use Moo's recycled business cards made from cotton t-shirts. ♻️

Avoid plastic straws with ELO's reusable smart straw. 🥤

Happy belated Data Privacy Day!

Apple rang in the holiday with a FaceTime bug that lets you eavesdrop on the person you're calling before they pick up. It was also reported that dismissing an incoming FaceTime call by pressing the power or volume button gives the caller a live video of the recipient's front-facing camera.

As of last night, Apple disabled Group FaceTime and said the glitch will be fixed in a software update later this week. Until then, it's probably a good idea to disable FaceTime in your phone's settings.

Obviously, the bug is a pretty serious issue for any iOS user and comes at a bad time for Apple. Apple has been very public about its pro-privacy stance in recent months — especially as its rivals (like Facebook) suffered from data breaches. For example, this tweet — sent hours before the bug was reported — hasn’t aged well:



The company is also expected to report its Q1 earnings today after cutting its revenue forecast (for the first time in 16 years!) earlier this month.

If you've got the privacy blues like we do today — here are 10 apps that launched in 2018 making privacy a priority:

🚀 1.1.1.1. by Cloudflare is a privacy-first consumer DNS service that will speed up your internet

🔒 DuckDuckGo's mobile app and browser extension give you encrypted private browsing that blocks trackers

📈 Simple Analytics gives you the analytics you need without invading your user's privacy

👀 Mozilla Facebook Container is a Firefox extension that keeps your Facebook data isolated...to Facebook

🤫 ShareUrl lets you share accounts (think Netflix, Hulu, etc.) without giving out your password

🔑 Cryptee is an encrypted home for your private photos, files, docs, and notes

💪 Outline (made my Alphabet) lets you build your own VPN

👻 Ghostery's new AI tool will block ads and stops trackers for you

💌 Burner Emails gives you fake email addresses to avoid spammers

🔐 Google Titan is a 2FA device that protects you against hackers

When you think back on the breakout startups of 2018, you think scooters.

Bird ($415M raised) turned one in September, announced 10 million rides taken and is reportedly worth north of $2B. Lime announced it surpassed 11.5 million rides last fall, and is expected to take in $400M in a new round this year (also valuing the company at about $2B). In November, Ford bought scooter company Spin for around $100 million.

But what's in store for 2019? Some predictions for breakout companies this year:

Notion is a powerful note-taking app that does it all when it comes to productivity (think the best features of Dropbox, Excel and Google Docs). 🗒

“Notion has done a great job of building a cult-like following by over delivering on the product side. I'm really excited to see what they do this year and beyond.” - Chika

Netlify ($44.1M raised) makes it super easy to deploy websites — and is definitely another one to watch. 🙌

“The fact that anyone can spin up a web app (with serverless functions and authentication) in minutes is super powerful. Plus they recently raised quite a bit of money. If they could make data storage as simple as they've made everything else, they'd be 💯” - Parker

Niantic Labs is the studio behind Pokémon GO. In 2018 the company rekindled its first game, Ingress. But we're all waiting with bated breath for their highly anticipated Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. 🧙

“I would bet on big comebacks from MagicLeap and NianticLabs. 'Harry Potter Go' will definitely be a hit.” - Benjamin

Lambda School ($48.1M raised) is a coding bootcamp that you pay for with a cut of your future salary — and it's already made some noise in 2019. Earlier this month, the company announced a $30M round, and said it plans to train 3,000 students this year. 🎓

This company is also up to something. 😉

What other startups should you keep an eye on in 2019? See what else the community had to say. 👀

If you want to add your own predictions, tell us here. 🔮

About a month ago, Postmates debuted Serve, a cute last-mile delivery rover that looks like a mix of WALL-E and a Minion. 🤖Serve is expected to roll out to “key markets” this year, starting with Los Angeles.

But of course, when new tech throws out the word “delivery,” Amazon is obviously going to get involved. So it wasn't surprising yesterday when Amazon took the hood off its own on-demand delivery robot called Scout.

Scout is about the size of a hamper or a cooler, and rides on six wheels at walking pace. Only six devices are currently rolled out in Snohomish County, Washington.

Some early reactions from the Product Hunt community:

“Wonder how my package will arrive next day at that speed ” - Aaron

“The implementation of lasers inside the visor will surely eliminate all other food robot delivery competition.” - Andy

“What about thieves?” - Stefano

It's worth noting that both of these devices look a lot like the delivery robots from Starship, a robotics firm founded in 2014 by the co-founders of Skype.

Regardless, the war of the sidewalk bots is undoubtedly heating up — and rightfully so. These little rovers may make up 85 percent of last-mile deliveries by 2025. Unless the drones get there first.

Yesterday, a new startup called One Health made headlines with a fresh $5 million seed round from Andreessen Horowitz, Lerer Hippeau and Y Combinator. Contrary to what its name might suggest, One Health is not just another healthcare startup. Its mission is to help your dog fight cancer. 🐶

Brandless also had some pet-related news yesterday: the company is expanding beyond it's $3 price point to launch a line of dog (or cat!) Frisbees, collars and freeze-dried treats for $9. Pssst: They're competing with Amazon.

Both announcements point to the fact that pet tech is booming.

Need more evidence? BarkBox ($81.7M raised) reportedly delivers its pet-themed boxes to over 600,000 subscribers each month. And let's not forget that on-demand dog walking service Wag raised $300 million from SoftBank last year. Shortly after that, Wag's biggest competitor — Rover — raised a $155 million round ($310.9M total) .

Basically, when it comes to our beloved furry friends, the potential to make $$$ is high.

What else will pet owners pay for?

🐾 Custom socks with prints of your dog

🛏 Casper dog beds

🍗 A pet meal subscription service that delivers fresh food

🐩 Dog collars and leashes that are easy to clean

😁 Chew toys to help your dog brush its teeth

🐕 Handmade stuffed copies of your pet

Not a pet owner? Maybe forward this email to your doggo-obsessed friend.

TFW when someone says “tax prep.” 🙄

Luckily, there’s an easy solution that will make you feel 🙂: FreshBooks.

FreshBooks ($75.1M raised) is a popular accounting tool that caters to the self-employed and their teams — i.e. a lot of you.

Some things you can do with FreshBooks:

🙌 Whip up invoices and get paid quickly
💸 Record expenses and bill them back to clients to recoup costs
⏰ Track and bill time by line, project or hour
🚀 Send proposals and estimates to help you win new business

AND on top of all of this, the company just introduced a new suite of industry standard double-entry accounting features. 👀

You: “But what does double-entry even mean?”

“Double-entry” means there are always two entries for each accounting transaction: credit and debit. For example, if you buy a new laptop for your business, the double-entry system will track the purchase as a credit for the cost and a debit for the new asset you now own. Ultimately, FreshBooks’ new features will help you and your accountant keep your business going.

What the Product Hunt community thinks of FreshBooks:

“Love FreshBooks. Was instrumental in helping our startup operate in the early days.” - Alec L.

“In my opinion, if you don't have a proficiency in accounting, systems like FreshBooks are great.” - Mike K.

“No matter if you're a self-employed person looking for an accounting solution or a small/medium enterprise co-operating with you accountant, FreshBooks makes accounting much easier to handle.” - Matt P.

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

What if you could code without coding at all?

This is the idea behind STUDIO, a new design tool that launched on Product Hunt yesterday. According to maker Yutaka Ishii, the inspiration for STUDIO comes from wanting to shake up the fragmented design process. The tool lets designers skip developer hand-off, subsequent feedback loops and hours of coding, and instead focus on the best part of web design: designing.

How it works: STUDIO lets you instantly render designs into fully responsive webpages. And it differs from design tools like Figma and Sketch in that you can actually publish your website design without translating it into code.

Some reactions from the community:

“Very interesting product, web design will be changed” — Asia

“I’ve been using the beta for a few months now and it gives you all the controls you need to make your site very customizable while getting pages published FAST” - Caleb

“It can significantly reduce the cost of thinking, designing, and spreading to the world. It is now an indispensable tool for me” - Takahiro

The most requested feature from the community? A CMS. But The STUDIO team confirmed that they're planning to release a visual CMS later this year.

We're seeing an uptick in the amount of projects launching that are *code free.* Which makes us happy — it's never been easier to be a maker and put something out into the world. Some of our recent favorites:

Checkout Page is a code-free way to sell anything with Stripe 💸

Appcues lets you build onboarding flow from start to finish without code 👍

Carrd lets you build simple, one-page sites for pretty much anything 🖥

Webflow is a website builder made for designers 🚀

Airtable is a coding platform for non-techies 😍

Zapier can connect and automate over 500 web apps 👏

Searching for a new job is hard — i.e. it's a lotttt of time spent googling. 🔎

Recently, we've seen a a wave of projects pop up looking to solve this problem. Let's call it the rise of the niche job board.

Instead of a one size fits all search tool, these job boards cater to a specific group of people. Whether you're looking for a tech job in Africa or a gig with your old team, there's a job board for you. We rounded up a few of our favorites that might help you make your next move:

Tech Ladies was designed with diversity and inclusion in mind from the beginning, and 50,000 women already use it 💁

Remote OK is a huge job board for remote-friendly jobs 🌎

Frontend Jobs is for — you guessed it — frontend developers 💻

First Dev Job is for developers looking to land their first job 👀

Just Junior Jobs is specifically for junior-level positions, and perfect for people fresh out of college or grad school 🎓

RemoteIndian Job Board is a remote job board for devs based in India 🇮🇳

Wellpaid is a contract-only job board for roles in tech ✍️

Relocate will help you find a job that sponsors relocation to 10 different countries ✈️

HiTechJobs CA is for those looking for a tech job in Canada 🇨🇦

Nicheboard launched on Product Hunt last week to help you find your niche job board 🙌

And we'd be remiss if we didn't plug our own job board for makers here — it's full of startups building pretty amazing products 😉

The 4th annual Golden Kitty Awards have come to an end. You nominated 12,000 products across 22 categories, casting tens of thousands of upvotes to select the winners.

So without further ado, here are the 2018 Golden Kitty winners in each of the 22 product categories.

🌟 Product of the Year: Tik Tok

📱 Mobile App of the Year: Shortcuts

🛠 Hardware Product of the Year: Apple Watch Series 4

😎 AR Product of the Year: Wanna Nails

🌍 Social Impact Product of the Year: Matter

🏡 Smart Home Product of the Year: Google Home Hub

🌚 Side Project Product of the Year: MacBook Alarm

🔐 Privacy Focused Product of the Year: 1.1.1.1 by Cloudflare

🐈 Made with the ProductHunt API: Maker.rocks

⚡ ️Lifehack Product of the Year: History Search

💪 Health & Fitness Product of the Year: RocketBody

📚 Founder Book of the Year: MAKE Book

💰 Fintech Product of the Year: BUY ME A COFFEE

🌈 Diversity Product of the Year: Diversify Tech

🤖 AI & Machine Learning Product of the Year: OneSoil Map

🔉 Audio & Voice Product of the Year: Krisp

⛓ Crypto Product of the Year: Coinbase Wallet

🖋 Design Tool of the Year: Draftium

🖥 Dev Tool of the Year: Prettier

🙀 WTF Product of the Year: Die With Me

Check out the winners, runner ups and honorable mentions in all 22 categories here. We also gave out two data-driven (non-voting) awards for Community Member of the Year and Maker of the Year.

Congrats to all makers for building awesome things in 2018. 😺