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Using your phone is fun. Really fun. Too much fun.

Apple's upcoming iOS 12 will come with a suite of tools to curb your smartphone addiction, but luckily, startups everywhere have beaten Apple to the market to help your addiction:

🤖 NoPhone is a nifty Android launch client that only lets you open two apps at once. It even comes with a task list to keep you focused.

⚡ Light Phone, which crowdfunded more than $1.75M, is an actual phone designed to be used as little as possible. No apps, no games. It only works for actual phone calls and ports directly into your pre-existing phone number.

💮 Moment tracks exactly how long you've spent in-app automatically.

😠 Go F*cking Work is a Chrome extension that makes you do that.

This past month was filled with hundreds of product launches, from companies big and small. Y Combinator relaunched their free online Startup School to fund startups worldwide, Stripe launched a tool to create your own debit card, and you too can Make OS X Great Again. 🍎

Tools built for the Product Hunt community are all the rage:
🔍 Preview Hunt lets you preview your post page before launch
🚫 Hunted or Nah is an extension that checks if a site has been hunted
✔️ We launched Makers, an online community to help you get stuff done

If you're feeling nostalgic about what technology was like a long time ago, time travel to the best of January, February, March, April, May, or June.

As for the the most upvoted product of the year, it's a close race between Robinhood's cryptocurrency trading platform, Google's slightly creepy AI that pretends to be human, and a productivity tool from a small startup. 👀

Yesterday, Slack swallowed their biggest competitor: HipChat.

Instead of attempting to compete with Slack, an estimated $5B behemoth in the office communication space, parent company Atlassian agreed to:

• discontinue HipChat and Stride, their inter-company messaging tools, and sell all related intellectual property to Slack.
• help all HipChat users transition over to Slack.
• invest a "small but symbolically important" in Slack.

Slack, in return, will more deeply integrate Atlassian's other products, like task-management tool Trello and bug-tracker JIRA.

Even if you've never tried Slack (or spend all day in it), we've compiled a list of the community's favorite Slack Bots, or apps that live inside Slack, just for you:

🎨 Make your Slack pretty with custom, with Slack Themes
💌 Crush your inbox directly inside Slack, with Astrobot for Slack
😂 Turn your teammates into Slack stickers, with My Slack Emoji
🔍 Search for the best custom Slack emoji, with Slackmoji
💪 Get in shape with this robot personal trainer, with Slackbot Workout

Check out the full list of Slack Bot Fun. 🤖

Facebook had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

After a quarterly earnings report and call with Wall St analysts, their stock price dropped ~20% in after-hours trading. As of right now (7AM PT), their stock is trading at $176 (down 18% from yesterday).

Over $100B in value disappeared in an insight. Some context: that's like the entirety of General Motors, Ford and Target... combined. The drop most of Facebook's recent stock growth, returning to prices from April.

With their recent product efforts and direction, this isn't a huge surprise. Efforts to curb "viral news" will negatively affect a company whose primary revenue stream is attention. Product changes that improve user privacy (largely caused by the EU's GDPR and the post-election Cambridge Analytica scandal) will hurt Facebook's ability to charge companies big dollars to specifically target ads, and adding new employees to moderate content will hurt their bottom line.

At the same time, Facebook's doubling-down on increasing "time well spent" in the app with their newest feature: Watch Parties. Their hope: investments in features like these will increase Facebook's growth in the long-run, even if it means having some bad quarters.

You'll be able to watch videos on Facebook with your friends remotely... in other words, it's the feature that Netflix should have built years ago. 😂

Psst! If you're still dying to watch Netflix with your buddies, maker Stephan Boyer built a Chrome extension to sync up your Netflix streams remotely. 🙌

Earlier this year we quietly launched a private beta of a new project, a place for makers to share and help each other achieve their goals. After gathering feedback and beta testing, we’re pulling back the curtain and inviting you to the party. It looks like this:
 
We hope you find this useful for sharing your most ambitious goals (congrats Gil for submitting your new app! 👏) or more mundane achievements (hope you’re enjoying your newly grown garlic plants, Ayrton 😂). Makers is a friendly place to connect with and help fellow makers from around the world.

We also created Spaces for bloggers, podcasters, teen makers, women in tech, and book worms. We’ll be adding more Spaces soon and if you’d like to host your own, let us know.

To ensure we scale the community at a healthy pace, we’re adding new people to the waitlist daily. Sign up here (first come, first serve!). 😊

Last week, we did a deep dive into cryptocollectibles, unique digital crypto-assets that live on the blockchain.

Out of the 12 featured products, the most popular was a "simple explainer for the blockchain." Oops. 😅

So we've compiled the best tools to answer: "WTH is the Blockchain?":

👀 Blockchain Demo is a visual explanation of the blockchain
🎙️ Blockchain Curated covers the best crypto articles in a podcast
✍️ Token Daily covers all the breaking crypto happenings in a newsletter
🎒 Cryptoeconomics will teach you about token economics
👶 My First Bitcoin is a children's book about crypto from Square

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into smaller manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” – Mark Twain

We built Ship to help you get started on your own startup, because not every project should need a massive engineering team to launch.

We just partnered with our friends at Stripe to secure up to $50,000 fee-free Stripe processing, available to our annual Ship subscribers.

Product Hunt runs on Stripe, and you can too. You'll also get access to the full suite of Ship tools, including:

🖥️ Landing pages: Create a lovely landing page in 60 seconds.
🔖 Surveys: Gather feedback from your users to deliver targeted emails.
💌 Email campaigns: Broadcast product updates & chat with your users.

You'll also get immediate access to Stripe Atlas, which will get your startup incorporated and legally compliant from anywhere, and up to $7,500 in free Amazon Web Services credits to host your project.

Claim your up to $50,000 fee-free Stripe processing. ⛵

Last December, cats on the blockchain broke Ethereum. Cryptokitties (which exist as unique, digital cryptocollectibles) exploded in popularity, causing Ethereum transaction fees to skyrocket. Oops. 😸

The digital collectible space is heating up, especially as digital (fake) celebrities like Lil Miquela start to infiltrate your Instagram feed and larger companies like Snapchat, Apple, and Facebook begin to fight to control your access into virtual realities and your accompanying digital identity.

NIFTYgallery just launched today to help anybody organize their digital cryptocollectibles. Share your collections on #socialmedia with your followers or on Discord with all of your buddies.

They're not the only ones. Y Combinator-backed OpenSea is a full-fledged buying, selling, and trading platform for blockchain-based collectibles. They've raised $2M+ to let you trade CryptoKitties, CryptoCelebrities, CryptoPunks, CryptoTulips, CryptoFighters, CryptoDoggies, and many more. 😻🤳😠🌷👊🐶

There’s even a tool to make it easy for you to create your own cryptocollectible.

If all of this is confusing,, here's a beautiful visual demonstration of the technology behind Bitcoin, Ethereum, and more. ⛓️📦

When was the last time you opened iTunes on purpose?

It's been years for us too. It's ok. Just don't tell Jony (🍎's Chief Design Officer).

Apple's OS X has fallen behind, with some annoying flaws (like software update notifications) and missing, much-needed features.

Fortunately, this app is here to Make OS X Great Again by fixing everything that make Apple computers annoying:

🛠️ Auto-blocking software update notifications
🎵 Stop iTunes from opening when you plug in your iPhone
🖥️ "Minimize all windows" shortcuts for when you get overwhelmed
📁 A folder that stores all of your screenshots

Give it a shot. But seriously, don't tell Jony. 😳

This isn't the only Must-Have Mac App:

📸 Screenie: drag screenshots right from your menu bar.
📑 Magnet: a window manager for Mac, with keyboard shortcuts.
☕ Caffeine: keep your Mac from falling asleep.
🚀 Rocket: Slack-style emoji everywhere on your Mac.
🙇‍♂️ Focus: block distracting websites everywhere.
⌨️ Cheatsheet: discover all of the best keyboard shortcuts.

Check out the full list of Must-Have Mac Apps. 🍎

You too can buy a Ferrari. And a vintage Porsche, and an '88 Lamborghini.

Investments in vintage cars have outperformed gold, the S&P500, and NYC real estate since 2012. It's like bitcoin, except nobody can steal your hard-earned investments before you cash out.

The one issue? Buying vintage cars is really hard. You first have to find a private seller, travel to inspect the car, then transport it back on a special big-rig truck to a temperature-controlled, covered garage so its pristine paint job isn't soiled by pesky pigeons. Ufffff. 😫

Oh, and each car costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. We have a solution so you can get your very own Porsche. 😎

Rally Rd lets anyone invest in classic cars for as little as $50. Today, they're launching public trading markets so you can trade classic cars just like stocks. Get your own shares today.

How does it work? The Rally Rd team places each classic car in a single legal entity, then sells shares in the entity... which is the equivalent of buying portions of the car itself. They've already sold shares in 8 cars, like an '83 Ferrari 512 BBi and a '55 Porsche 365 Speedster. 🚗⚡

They're not the only team securitizing expensive assets. Y Combinator-backed Arthena lets you invest in a portfolio of fine art, and Republic (part of the AngelList family) lets anyone become an angel investor and invest in startups.