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Delete your family using Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence is getting ready to replace Photoshop.
Just launched today out of MIT, Deep Angel can erase people, animals, vehicles, and more from photographs in seconds. It's insanely powerful and perfect for cleaning up your next vacation pictures.
If you'd prefer a manual image remover, try out TouchRetouch – you can manually remove items right from iOS or Android. There's also a native "eraser" built directly into Snapchat. 👻
Deep Angel isn't the only AI tool for creatives to launch recently. Lyrebird lets you impersonate anybody's voice using less than a minute of sample audio. It's sorta like Photoshop, but for audio.
You can speak as Donald Trump, Morgan Freeman, or anybody. The team went through Y Combinator last year and is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Redpoint, and SV Angel. No #fakenews. 😳
Just launched today out of MIT, Deep Angel can erase people, animals, vehicles, and more from photographs in seconds. It's insanely powerful and perfect for cleaning up your next vacation pictures.
If you'd prefer a manual image remover, try out TouchRetouch – you can manually remove items right from iOS or Android. There's also a native "eraser" built directly into Snapchat. 👻
Deep Angel isn't the only AI tool for creatives to launch recently. Lyrebird lets you impersonate anybody's voice using less than a minute of sample audio. It's sorta like Photoshop, but for audio.
You can speak as Donald Trump, Morgan Freeman, or anybody. The team went through Y Combinator last year and is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Redpoint, and SV Angel. No #fakenews. 😳
"This is EVERYTHING." 😂
"Omg... I can use OG Paint again!" –Dani Olympi
"This is a flash from the past. Reminds me of the days of sitting in the laundry room playing computer games on our family PC." –Gabriel Lewis
You can now run Windows 95 on your Mac, PC, or Linux. It's exactly how you remember it, complete with Wordpad, MS Paint, and Minesweeper.
From the maker, Felix Rieseberg: "This only works by accident and was mostly a joke. I myself am surprised at how well this worked." 😂
Nostalgia is a powerful tool for connecting with your audience. It’s one of the reasons for Pokemon GO’s massive success and why Netflix’s retro show, Stranger Things, was so well-received by 80’s babies.
So, we went back in time on Product Hunt to pull out some of our favorite nostalgic products:
👾 The Internet Arcade 900+ classic arcade games (no quarters required)
💻 Cathode is the vintage terminal you've always wanted
📺 My 90's TV lets you relive TV shows from your childhood
🎶 The Nostalgia Machine plays your favorite tunes by year
🔊 Endangered Sounds Museum plays nostalgic sounds from the past
👌 The Restart Page is Geek nostalgia at its finest
🐶 Hatchi is a virtual Tamagochi-like pet to take care of
📱 Great Apps Timeline shows how today's great apps evolved over time
Lastly, the Time Machine lets you jump back in time and re-discover the best products on Product Hunt. 🙂
"This is a flash from the past. Reminds me of the days of sitting in the laundry room playing computer games on our family PC." –Gabriel Lewis
You can now run Windows 95 on your Mac, PC, or Linux. It's exactly how you remember it, complete with Wordpad, MS Paint, and Minesweeper.
From the maker, Felix Rieseberg: "This only works by accident and was mostly a joke. I myself am surprised at how well this worked." 😂
Nostalgia is a powerful tool for connecting with your audience. It’s one of the reasons for Pokemon GO’s massive success and why Netflix’s retro show, Stranger Things, was so well-received by 80’s babies.
So, we went back in time on Product Hunt to pull out some of our favorite nostalgic products:
👾 The Internet Arcade 900+ classic arcade games (no quarters required)
💻 Cathode is the vintage terminal you've always wanted
📺 My 90's TV lets you relive TV shows from your childhood
🎶 The Nostalgia Machine plays your favorite tunes by year
🔊 Endangered Sounds Museum plays nostalgic sounds from the past
👌 The Restart Page is Geek nostalgia at its finest
🐶 Hatchi is a virtual Tamagochi-like pet to take care of
📱 Great Apps Timeline shows how today's great apps evolved over time
Lastly, the Time Machine lets you jump back in time and re-discover the best products on Product Hunt. 🙂
The most frustrating GIF 📡
Your phone's GPS might be the hidden feature nobody talks about. While Uber and Lyft snagged the headlines and VC dollars, a wave of productivity apps are here to make life a little better.
⏰ WakeMeHere is a location-based alarm app that'll make sure you don't miss your stop on the commute. Trust us – waking up in an unfamiliar subway stop is about as fun as realizing the above GIF loops. 😂
🎨 GPS-A-Sketch lets you turn your run, bike ride, or walk into a giant Etch-A-Sketch. Draw all over your city.
📍 Visits lets you find places that you might have forgotten by automatically keeping track of all the places you’ve been to. Similar to Moves, which was acquired by Facebook in 2014.
✅ Anon Tasks and SKreminder remind you of tasks to do while you're at any specific location. Perfect for remembering to catch up with your old friends, running errands, or eating at that one burger place your friend recommended.
💬 Holo and WallaMe are apps that let you leave geofenced messages, discoverable only when your friends travel to that exact location.
🚖 Joyride is like HQ Trivia but for your Uber ride. Answer a number of questions during your ride. Win and your ride is free!
What are your favorite location-based apps? Let us know. 🤗
⏰ WakeMeHere is a location-based alarm app that'll make sure you don't miss your stop on the commute. Trust us – waking up in an unfamiliar subway stop is about as fun as realizing the above GIF loops. 😂
🎨 GPS-A-Sketch lets you turn your run, bike ride, or walk into a giant Etch-A-Sketch. Draw all over your city.
📍 Visits lets you find places that you might have forgotten by automatically keeping track of all the places you’ve been to. Similar to Moves, which was acquired by Facebook in 2014.
✅ Anon Tasks and SKreminder remind you of tasks to do while you're at any specific location. Perfect for remembering to catch up with your old friends, running errands, or eating at that one burger place your friend recommended.
💬 Holo and WallaMe are apps that let you leave geofenced messages, discoverable only when your friends travel to that exact location.
🚖 Joyride is like HQ Trivia but for your Uber ride. Answer a number of questions during your ride. Win and your ride is free!
What are your favorite location-based apps? Let us know. 🤗
HubSpot's shiny new tool for your growth team 🏆
Selling products to businesses is difficult. Every business is organized differently, titles are confusing, and decision makers rarely step forward.
Building customer personas – research documents about your "ideal customer" – can help, but they're difficult to make and even harder to share internally.
HubSpot is here to help, with their new Make My Persona tool. It guides you through the process with leading questions, then generates a sharable doc highlighting important details about your audience. Launched last Friday with 1000+ upvotes as the #1 Product of the Day.
Give it a shot. The landing page is a beaut too. 🏆
If you're building a startup, check out HubSpot for Startups, also recently upvoted to #1 product of the day with 750+ upvotes. You'll get a massive 90% discount on their marketing and CRM software to kick off your new product.
They've partnered with 1500+ startups out of Y Combinator, Techstars, 500 Startups, and more. Sign up today. 🚀
Today’s Daily Digest was crafted by Product Hunt (we are HubSpot users!) and sponsored by our friends at HubSpot. Psst! They're hiring. 😊
Building customer personas – research documents about your "ideal customer" – can help, but they're difficult to make and even harder to share internally.
HubSpot is here to help, with their new Make My Persona tool. It guides you through the process with leading questions, then generates a sharable doc highlighting important details about your audience. Launched last Friday with 1000+ upvotes as the #1 Product of the Day.
Give it a shot. The landing page is a beaut too. 🏆
If you're building a startup, check out HubSpot for Startups, also recently upvoted to #1 product of the day with 750+ upvotes. You'll get a massive 90% discount on their marketing and CRM software to kick off your new product.
They've partnered with 1500+ startups out of Y Combinator, Techstars, 500 Startups, and more. Sign up today. 🚀
Today’s Daily Digest was crafted by Product Hunt (we are HubSpot users!) and sponsored by our friends at HubSpot. Psst! They're hiring. 😊
20 🔥 startups out of Y Combinator’s latest batch
Y Combinator is the most competitive startup accelerator. Thousands of teams apply every batch. Less than 1% get in.
YC's two-part Demo Day wrapped up yesterday. Over 100 founders took to the stage, pitching a room packed with investors and journalists at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.
We’ve put together a collection of some of the most compelling startups in Y Combinator’s Summer 2018 batch, from wild AR apps to genetically-engineered hangover cures:
💅 INKHUNTER lets you test tattoos in Augmented Reality, then book an appointment directly in the app.
👙 EVA is a bra that detects breast cancer indicators.
🙏 Goodly, MentalHappy, and Kinside let companies offer non-traditional benefits like student loan repayment, custom care packages for tough times, and child care benefits to their employees.
😋 The Buttermilk Company lets you make fresh Indian food in under 5 minutes, delivered to your front door.
🤳 #ME is a new virtual world. It's like a new version of Second Life or a real version of The Oasis from Ready Player One.
🚗 Grabb-It puts ads directly in your Uber's windows. We just did a deep-dive into the wave of startups built to help Uber drivers earn more.
🛴 Grin is a new decentralized scooter company out of Latin America.
🍺 ZBiotics is genetically engineered to prevent hangovers. Similar to Morning Recovery, which was founded by an ex-Tesla engineer last year.
Check out the full collection of YC's Summer '18 launches. 🚀
YC's two-part Demo Day wrapped up yesterday. Over 100 founders took to the stage, pitching a room packed with investors and journalists at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.
We’ve put together a collection of some of the most compelling startups in Y Combinator’s Summer 2018 batch, from wild AR apps to genetically-engineered hangover cures:
💅 INKHUNTER lets you test tattoos in Augmented Reality, then book an appointment directly in the app.
👙 EVA is a bra that detects breast cancer indicators.
🙏 Goodly, MentalHappy, and Kinside let companies offer non-traditional benefits like student loan repayment, custom care packages for tough times, and child care benefits to their employees.
😋 The Buttermilk Company lets you make fresh Indian food in under 5 minutes, delivered to your front door.
🤳 #ME is a new virtual world. It's like a new version of Second Life or a real version of The Oasis from Ready Player One.
🚗 Grabb-It puts ads directly in your Uber's windows. We just did a deep-dive into the wave of startups built to help Uber drivers earn more.
🛴 Grin is a new decentralized scooter company out of Latin America.
🍺 ZBiotics is genetically engineered to prevent hangovers. Similar to Morning Recovery, which was founded by an ex-Tesla engineer last year.
Check out the full collection of YC's Summer '18 launches. 🚀
Your next Uber is free 🚗
Your next Uber could be covered in ads... and free. 🚗
Grabb-It just launched out of Y Combinator's summer batch to turn ride-sharing cars into digital billboards, with outward-facing screens that install over the backseat window. Advertisers will target ads based on the car's location, which means your ride home on Friday night could soon be pushing hangover cures (like this one).
In exchange, drivers get paid to rent their windows to advertisers. Riders won't notice much of a difference, except for the glaring LED screens before and after their ride.
But give it enough time, and soon your Uber rides might start getting cheaper as drivers subsidize driving costs with advertising revenue. If ads become profitable enough, your next ride could even be free.
If you think we're crazy, WaiveCar already rents electric cars with the first two hours free, subsidized by the large ads around the entire car.
This isn't the only company building services to support ride-sharing drivers:
🛍️ Cargo lets drivers sell snacks, gum, chargers, and headphones directly in their car from a display case that sits on the center armrest. Most drivers make an extra $100/mo. Cargo even partners with up-and-coming CPG brands to get you free samples. Hiring for 6+ positions in NY.
📺 Vugo places small televisions on the back of headrests. Riders watch ads, and drivers get paid. Hiring for 2+ positions in NY.
🚗 Wrapify pays drivers to wrap their cars with advertisements. For every mile driven, drivers get paid a flat fee. Hiring for sales.
Grabb-It just launched out of Y Combinator's summer batch to turn ride-sharing cars into digital billboards, with outward-facing screens that install over the backseat window. Advertisers will target ads based on the car's location, which means your ride home on Friday night could soon be pushing hangover cures (like this one).
In exchange, drivers get paid to rent their windows to advertisers. Riders won't notice much of a difference, except for the glaring LED screens before and after their ride.
But give it enough time, and soon your Uber rides might start getting cheaper as drivers subsidize driving costs with advertising revenue. If ads become profitable enough, your next ride could even be free.
If you think we're crazy, WaiveCar already rents electric cars with the first two hours free, subsidized by the large ads around the entire car.
This isn't the only company building services to support ride-sharing drivers:
🛍️ Cargo lets drivers sell snacks, gum, chargers, and headphones directly in their car from a display case that sits on the center armrest. Most drivers make an extra $100/mo. Cargo even partners with up-and-coming CPG brands to get you free samples. Hiring for 6+ positions in NY.
📺 Vugo places small televisions on the back of headrests. Riders watch ads, and drivers get paid. Hiring for 2+ positions in NY.
🚗 Wrapify pays drivers to wrap their cars with advertisements. For every mile driven, drivers get paid a flat fee. Hiring for sales.
RIP McDonalds. Robot hamburgers are here 🍔
Robot hamburgers have arrived, and they're delicious. 🤖😋
We stopped by the brand-new Creator restaurant in San Francisco, home of the (almost!) completely automated hamburger-making robot.
Tomatoes, pickles, onions, cheese, and sauces are all stacked above a conveyor built. Toppings are sliced and immediately dropped onto brioche buns. Ketchup, mustard, mayo – drizzled down to the millileter. Shredded cheese is shared and heated in a rotating drum as the patties are cooked at the end of the conveyor belt. The patties are grilled to optimal medium-rare perfection tracked by 11 different sensors.
Needless to say, it was delicious and only $5.50.
The best part: you can watch your burger travel down the conveyor belt. It's like a massive Rube Goldberg machine.
Of course companies like Creator make people nervous. Will robots take our jobs (this site will let you know if your job is safe)? Some think so. Others see companies like Creator in service of human labor, empowering people rather than replacing them. Creator has 20+ employees for the 40-seat restaurant, helping feed the burger-making machine and interact with customers.
Creator isn't the only robot-powered culinary establishment. Cafe X just raised a $9.4M Series A led by Jason Calacanis and Craft Ventures to build and operates robot baristas all around San Francisco.
Our vision of a full robot kitchen is far, farrrr away. In the meantime, here's your glimpse into the future of food. 🍔
We stopped by the brand-new Creator restaurant in San Francisco, home of the (almost!) completely automated hamburger-making robot.
Tomatoes, pickles, onions, cheese, and sauces are all stacked above a conveyor built. Toppings are sliced and immediately dropped onto brioche buns. Ketchup, mustard, mayo – drizzled down to the millileter. Shredded cheese is shared and heated in a rotating drum as the patties are cooked at the end of the conveyor belt. The patties are grilled to optimal medium-rare perfection tracked by 11 different sensors.
Needless to say, it was delicious and only $5.50.
The best part: you can watch your burger travel down the conveyor belt. It's like a massive Rube Goldberg machine.
Of course companies like Creator make people nervous. Will robots take our jobs (this site will let you know if your job is safe)? Some think so. Others see companies like Creator in service of human labor, empowering people rather than replacing them. Creator has 20+ employees for the 40-seat restaurant, helping feed the burger-making machine and interact with customers.
Creator isn't the only robot-powered culinary establishment. Cafe X just raised a $9.4M Series A led by Jason Calacanis and Craft Ventures to build and operates robot baristas all around San Francisco.
Our vision of a full robot kitchen is far, farrrr away. In the meantime, here's your glimpse into the future of food. 🍔
Everyone’s copying HQ Trivia
"The next big thing will start out looking like a toy." – Chris Dixon, a16z
We have our new toy: mobile-first game shows, led by summer blockbuster HQ Trivia which let millions compete in real-time trivia contests for actual cash. They've since raised $15M and partnered with Nike and Warner Brothers for sponsored games.
10+ competitors have already popped up to compete with sports trivia, online charades, and payouts in crypto. Facebook even spun up a competitor: fb.gg.
But... cash is boring. Burritos are more fun.
Just launched Wednesday, Burrito Time gives away 10 burritos to the first 10 people that open a push notification sent randomly every day. Simple, fun, filling, and guac is included at no extra charge. 🥑
If you don't win, you can still grab a digital burrito pouch for all of your belongings. Don't let your friends take a bite. 😂
We have our new toy: mobile-first game shows, led by summer blockbuster HQ Trivia which let millions compete in real-time trivia contests for actual cash. They've since raised $15M and partnered with Nike and Warner Brothers for sponsored games.
10+ competitors have already popped up to compete with sports trivia, online charades, and payouts in crypto. Facebook even spun up a competitor: fb.gg.
But... cash is boring. Burritos are more fun.
Just launched Wednesday, Burrito Time gives away 10 burritos to the first 10 people that open a push notification sent randomly every day. Simple, fun, filling, and guac is included at no extra charge. 🥑
If you don't win, you can still grab a digital burrito pouch for all of your belongings. Don't let your friends take a bite. 😂
Coinbase is taking on... Facebook?
Big launch from Coinbase yesterday: Coinbase Wallet, your portal into the world of decentralized applications (dapps).
Dapps are typically hard to set up: you first need to download a browser extension like MetaMask, then create a wallet, then buy Ethereum or Bitcoin somewhere, and thennnn transfer it into your MetaMask wallet.
Coinbase's new wallet makes this entire process easier, with a built-in browser for dapps like Peepeth and 0x Protocol. There's even a built-in messenger for chatting with your friends.
Coinbase also just acquired Distributed Systems, a small startup focused on building a worldwide identity standard for dapps called the Clear Protocol. Their goal: to let you log into dapps with one click, just like logging into a site with Google or Facebook's authorization keys. Coinbase President Asiff Hirji called it “a step towards reclaiming personal privacy.”
This further explains why David Marcus, an exec at Facebook, announced his departure from Coinbase’s board. Coinbase could become Facebook’s biggest competitor.
The truth is, barely anyone uses dapps. Tools like DappRadar report the number of active users on the most popular decentralized apps that run on the blockchain. Some of the most popular dapps have dozens (yes, dozens) of users. Of course, it’s early days and Coinbase Wallet is an attempt to make dapps more accessible. That said, there’s certainly interest in the space.
Open-sourced Twitter-alternative Mastodon claims 170,000+ users, who join community-owned and operated servers that run the same open-sourced software (no blockchain required). With no ads (or algorithmic feed!), the site promises to allow users to "put social media back in your hands."
Ready to decentralize? Here's are 10+ dapps to test. ⛓️🚀
Dapps are typically hard to set up: you first need to download a browser extension like MetaMask, then create a wallet, then buy Ethereum or Bitcoin somewhere, and thennnn transfer it into your MetaMask wallet.
Coinbase's new wallet makes this entire process easier, with a built-in browser for dapps like Peepeth and 0x Protocol. There's even a built-in messenger for chatting with your friends.
Coinbase also just acquired Distributed Systems, a small startup focused on building a worldwide identity standard for dapps called the Clear Protocol. Their goal: to let you log into dapps with one click, just like logging into a site with Google or Facebook's authorization keys. Coinbase President Asiff Hirji called it “a step towards reclaiming personal privacy.”
This further explains why David Marcus, an exec at Facebook, announced his departure from Coinbase’s board. Coinbase could become Facebook’s biggest competitor.
The truth is, barely anyone uses dapps. Tools like DappRadar report the number of active users on the most popular decentralized apps that run on the blockchain. Some of the most popular dapps have dozens (yes, dozens) of users. Of course, it’s early days and Coinbase Wallet is an attempt to make dapps more accessible. That said, there’s certainly interest in the space.
Open-sourced Twitter-alternative Mastodon claims 170,000+ users, who join community-owned and operated servers that run the same open-sourced software (no blockchain required). With no ads (or algorithmic feed!), the site promises to allow users to "put social media back in your hands."
Ready to decentralize? Here's are 10+ dapps to test. ⛓️🚀
"Pecking customers to death like ducks." 🦆😬
Apple is now a dongle company.
The startup that used to tease Microsoft for "pecking customers to death like ducks" with extra fees now sells 23 different dongles. 23! 😮
Worst part: they keep breaking. Frayed iPhone and MacBook charging cables litter drawers around the world.
An experimental, unbreakable iPhone charger has arrived, and it actually pivots when you want to lay your phone vertically. See above GIF.
We’re still waiting for Apple’s all-in-one, wireless charging pad. A little startup based in St. Louis is selling one now, but it only works with your phone.
Don't worry Android lovers: there's a magic magnetic charger that plugs into literally any device. It pulls away in a moment, just like the old Apple MagSafe chargers that Tim Cook killed off earlier this year.
Apple accessories are a massive business – the trillion dollar company's revenue from audio equipment, Apple TVs, and dongles doubled in the past three years to ~$10B. We're rooting for the little guys. 💪
The startup that used to tease Microsoft for "pecking customers to death like ducks" with extra fees now sells 23 different dongles. 23! 😮
Worst part: they keep breaking. Frayed iPhone and MacBook charging cables litter drawers around the world.
An experimental, unbreakable iPhone charger has arrived, and it actually pivots when you want to lay your phone vertically. See above GIF.
We’re still waiting for Apple’s all-in-one, wireless charging pad. A little startup based in St. Louis is selling one now, but it only works with your phone.
Don't worry Android lovers: there's a magic magnetic charger that plugs into literally any device. It pulls away in a moment, just like the old Apple MagSafe chargers that Tim Cook killed off earlier this year.
Apple accessories are a massive business – the trillion dollar company's revenue from audio equipment, Apple TVs, and dongles doubled in the past three years to ~$10B. We're rooting for the little guys. 💪
