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Klout is back. Check your #influencer score.
Last week, Twitter had a real life Purge. Influencers everywhere lost thousands of followers as Twitter removed accounts flagged as bots.
Company accounts were hit particularly hard. The Coffee Bean's follower count dropped by ~22% (almost 52,000 followers!). Twitter's Twitter account (which is @twitter) lost 7.7M followers. It's getting harder every day to determine whose Twitter accounts have real followers.
SparkScore calculates the true influence of any Twitter account using the number of likes, retweets, and followers an account racks up. Calculate your company account's score, or compete with your friends with your personal Twitter account's rating right here. 😏
Company accounts were hit particularly hard. The Coffee Bean's follower count dropped by ~22% (almost 52,000 followers!). Twitter's Twitter account (which is @twitter) lost 7.7M followers. It's getting harder every day to determine whose Twitter accounts have real followers.
SparkScore calculates the true influence of any Twitter account using the number of likes, retweets, and followers an account racks up. Calculate your company account's score, or compete with your friends with your personal Twitter account's rating right here. 😏
"Urgent" email for your boss
Subject: Product Hunt hooked us up
To: Your boss
From: You and your team
Hi {{Your Boss's Name}}!
TechCrunch's Disrupt SF conference is coming up in September, and Product Hunt just hooked us up with a special extra 15% discount on Early Bird tickets.
Barista robots, decentralized scooters, self-driving cars, and automated food delivery bots – San Francisco is a melting pot of of cutting-edge tech.
Dara Khosrowshahi (Uber CEO), Reid Hoffman (Greylock), Cyan Bannister (Founders Fund), Brian Armstrong (Coinbase CEO), Whitney Wolfe Herd (Bumble), Sophia Amoruso (Girlboss), and dozens more will be answering questions and meeting with attendees.
This will help me succeed in my role because {{of a super convincing reason}}. We have to move quickly: the discount expires July 25th.
What do you think? Link to sign up is here.
-{{Your Name}} {{Your Favorite Emoji}}
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We get it. Conference tickets, hotels, and flights are expensive... so we've partnered with TechCrunch got you a killer discount on tickets to their upcoming conference in San Francisco.
We also pre-wrote the email you should send to your boss to get the conference expensed. Our little secret.
The Product Hunt team will be there too. See you soon 👋
Today’s Daily Digest was crafted by Product Hunt (we are TechCrunch users!) and sponsored by our friends at TechCrunch. 😊
To: Your boss
From: You and your team
Hi {{Your Boss's Name}}!
TechCrunch's Disrupt SF conference is coming up in September, and Product Hunt just hooked us up with a special extra 15% discount on Early Bird tickets.
Barista robots, decentralized scooters, self-driving cars, and automated food delivery bots – San Francisco is a melting pot of of cutting-edge tech.
Dara Khosrowshahi (Uber CEO), Reid Hoffman (Greylock), Cyan Bannister (Founders Fund), Brian Armstrong (Coinbase CEO), Whitney Wolfe Herd (Bumble), Sophia Amoruso (Girlboss), and dozens more will be answering questions and meeting with attendees.
This will help me succeed in my role because {{of a super convincing reason}}. We have to move quickly: the discount expires July 25th.
What do you think? Link to sign up is here.
-{{Your Name}} {{Your Favorite Emoji}}
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We get it. Conference tickets, hotels, and flights are expensive... so we've partnered with TechCrunch got you a killer discount on tickets to their upcoming conference in San Francisco.
We also pre-wrote the email you should send to your boss to get the conference expensed. Our little secret.
The Product Hunt team will be there too. See you soon 👋
Today’s Daily Digest was crafted by Product Hunt (we are TechCrunch users!) and sponsored by our friends at TechCrunch. 😊
We know you want to start a vlog 📸
Becoming a streamer is the new “starting a blog.”
Vlogs are on the rise, and creators are finally able to monetize their work through platforms like Patreon that allow fans financially support their favorite creators. They've already raised $100M+ from Thrive Capital and Index Ventures and paid out $200M+ to producers.
But, getting started is hard. Software can be confusing. Equipment can cost thousands of dollars, and for some projects, you'll need more than one device to stream all of your various platforms: YouTube, Facebook, Twitter's Periscope, Twitch.
Cinamaker is the first app that lets you stream to all of your favorite platforms, allowing creators to connect up to four iPhones, along with 8 audio sources, controlled all from one iPad.
Shoot eye-opening documentaries, vlog like LIVE Chat guest Casey Neistat, or even produce your own news network like Cheddar. 🧀
Vlogs are on the rise, and creators are finally able to monetize their work through platforms like Patreon that allow fans financially support their favorite creators. They've already raised $100M+ from Thrive Capital and Index Ventures and paid out $200M+ to producers.
But, getting started is hard. Software can be confusing. Equipment can cost thousands of dollars, and for some projects, you'll need more than one device to stream all of your various platforms: YouTube, Facebook, Twitter's Periscope, Twitch.
Cinamaker is the first app that lets you stream to all of your favorite platforms, allowing creators to connect up to four iPhones, along with 8 audio sources, controlled all from one iPad.
Shoot eye-opening documentaries, vlog like LIVE Chat guest Casey Neistat, or even produce your own news network like Cheddar. 🧀
Pixel-perfect evvverryyything 👾
Pixel art is the bomb, but it's painstakingly difficult to make yourself.
PixaTool is here to instantly convert your pictures into pixel art. Perfect for A E S T H E T I C S on Instagram, designing custom artwork for your apartment, or even building retro video games.
If you want to get a real-time preview of your pixel-art photography, this Pixel Art Camera will let you take deliciously retro pictures. 📸
For the artists, this Pixel Art Studio from Microsoft is like Photoshop but specifically for pixels. Design your own 8-bit world without busywork. 📝
Stick-figure artists will HATE this! 😠
Machine learning isn't just about making programs more efficient. 🤨
The team behind the Kapwing (the modern meme maker) just launched Cartoonify, a magic algorithm that cartoonifies a photo into a drawing that any stick-figure artist would be proud of. Try it out.
This isn't the only AI-powered tool built for creatives:
📝 The AI built into Google's Quick Draw will try to guess what you're drawing in real-time. It's scarily accurate.
👀 Use with caution: you can now clone anybody's voice (to make them say anything). It's like Photoshop, but for audio.
🎨 Google's Arts & Culture app will find your doppelganger from tens of thousands of famous paintings using just a selfie.
😂 Your SO will LOL at this: AI for generating only the best memes.
While many of these tools are completely silly, they’re a good illustration (pun intended) of the future of art and tech’s influence on culture. When will AI create the first billboard top 100 hit? Will CGI models replace real models (we’re already seeing a trend toward digital celebrities)? The future is weird.
You have one unread message 👀
Once upon a time, Twitter didn’t have DMs.
It was a simple tool to broadcast your breakfast choices to the world, but there was no way to discuss your avocado toast choices in private. Naturally, as the community grew and people started to form real relationships, there was strong demand to chat in private.
Twitter mirrored every other large social network. Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, reddit and most community platforms make messaging a core part of the product. People want to communicate with friends.
Today, we’re introducing Chat to make it easy for the Product Hunt community to connect outside the public comment section.
While simple, it's quite robust. You can start a:
🔒 Private 1-on-1 chat. Message a friend, move a public conversation to private, or talk with the maker of a product directly.
🤐 Private group chat. Bring together your best side-project buddies and friends to problem-solve together.
🤗 Public group chat. Makers, use this to start a conversation with your users or beta testers. We designed this to be lightweight and easier to jump into than Slack and other heavier messaging apps.
It’s often said that every social network eventually adds messaging… well, now you can include Product Hunt on that list. Give it a shot. 😅
Is this the next iPad? 👀
Our favorite technologies are becoming more accessible. Years ago, stationary desktops were quickly replaced by plastic white MacBooks that took over college campuses and offices around the world.
Today’s Daily Digest was crafted by Product Hunt and sponsored by our friends at Hewlett Packard. 😊
Then came the iPad in 2010, and sleek devices replaced our beloved MacBook with data connections, Angry Birds, and an entire suite of productivity tools. Tim Cook famously runs Apple on the road from an iPad Pro and his iPhone. 🤯
HP just launched a new laptop-hybrid blend, the ENVY x2, as the next step in our never-ending march towards our phones:
😮 Insanely light, with the same touchscreen glass as your iPhone.
🔋 22 hour battery life. Yes, you read that correctly.
📡 4G LTE coverage, so no more awkwardly asking for the Wifi password.
It actually runs on the same Qualcomm chip that powers every flagship Android phone on the market today. Neato. Get yours today.
How to add Stories to your site like Zuckerberg ✨
A year ago, we hit peak Stories. Insta took "inspiration" from Snap and Zuck started rolling Stories into every Facebook app. People theorized that Microsoft was going to add Stories to Excel. Wild times.
Creative makers took notice. On April 1st, a few long-time Product Hunt community members shared their latest creation...
"For a few years now Mike and I have been dreaming of this day. We've seen the trends, we've watched from the sidelines, always waiting for the right moment for our big release. Today, for no specific calendar related reason, we're launching Stories as a Service (SaaS for short)."
Stories as a Service made it easy to add Stories to your website with just one line of code. BUT, it wasn't real. 🙈
Fast forward to today, a new maker from Paris emerges to carry the Stories torch. This time, it's not a joke.
Try Cereals makes it super easy to create stories in your browser. It's actually quite brilliant. Use it to summarize the news (like our app, Sip), create a tutorial for new site visitors, or simply tell stories.
Give it a try and share your stories in the Product Hunt discussion. 😊
Creative makers took notice. On April 1st, a few long-time Product Hunt community members shared their latest creation...
"For a few years now Mike and I have been dreaming of this day. We've seen the trends, we've watched from the sidelines, always waiting for the right moment for our big release. Today, for no specific calendar related reason, we're launching Stories as a Service (SaaS for short)."
Stories as a Service made it easy to add Stories to your website with just one line of code. BUT, it wasn't real. 🙈
Fast forward to today, a new maker from Paris emerges to carry the Stories torch. This time, it's not a joke.
Try Cereals makes it super easy to create stories in your browser. It's actually quite brilliant. Use it to summarize the news (like our app, Sip), create a tutorial for new site visitors, or simply tell stories.
Give it a try and share your stories in the Product Hunt discussion. 😊
Win a $2,000 Virtual Reality Bundle 👀
Ready Player One might be coming sooner than you think.
The Oculus Rift is arguably the best virtual reality headset on the market today, with hundreds of games and experiences available from your favorite game designers. Most VR headsets require you to stand still – the Rift can actually track your body as you move around the room.
Unfortunately, the Rift needs a powerful gaming PC to work. 👎
So, we're giving away a $2000 Oculus Rift Bundle:
😮 An Acer Aspire Gaming PC (including a GTX 1060 graphics card)
👁️ Oculus Rift VR headset
🖥️ ASUS gaming monitor
⌨️ Mechanical keyboard and mouse
Come join The Oasis – enter to win today. 👈
Psst! Yes, the PC can also play Fortnite, PUBG, League of Legends, Overwatch, and all the rest of your favorite esports games.
Build an app, no code required 🤓
Everyone has a startup idea but not everyone can build it. Learning to code takes time and even if you’re a programmer, coding sometimes isn’t the most efficient way to get started.
✨ Marvel for Keynote helps you turn your slides into interactive prototypes. Perfect for getting some design feedback, or showing off to customers.
🖥️ Mason is the world's first frontend-as-a-service platform. Mason lets you build everything about your front-end with an easy drag-and-drop interface, and seamlessly connect it to your backend.
📝 Carrd is a powerful single-page website generator, built by loved community member AJ.
🤖 Lobe allows you to build machine learning models with a visual interface. Teach your model to understand handwriting, emotions, music, and more.
📊 Sheetbase lets you build a website or app, powered by Google Sheets. Business model on one sheet, website on the other. You could build the next big thing with nothing more than a Chromebook.
What's your favorite no-code tool? Let us know. 🤗
Fun fact: Product Hunt started as an email newsletter, built in 20 minutes with no code. Here's a list of tools build your next idea, no code required:
✨ Marvel for Keynote helps you turn your slides into interactive prototypes. Perfect for getting some design feedback, or showing off to customers.
🖥️ Mason is the world's first frontend-as-a-service platform. Mason lets you build everything about your front-end with an easy drag-and-drop interface, and seamlessly connect it to your backend.
📝 Carrd is a powerful single-page website generator, built by loved community member AJ.
🤖 Lobe allows you to build machine learning models with a visual interface. Teach your model to understand handwriting, emotions, music, and more.
📊 Sheetbase lets you build a website or app, powered by Google Sheets. Business model on one sheet, website on the other. You could build the next big thing with nothing more than a Chromebook.
What's your favorite no-code tool? Let us know. 🤗
