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Coinbase CEO launched a crypto charity 💰
"When I first read the Satoshi Nakamoto white paper for bitcoin, I realized it represented an opportunity to bring economic freedom to people all over the world." - Brian Armstrong
Nearly half the world's population lives in poverty, according to UNICEF, and 1.3 billion people live on less than $1.25 per day. Giving to charity isn't easy, so we put together a list of 12 Apps To Help You Give Back:
💸 GiveCrypto.org, founded by Coinbase CEO, Brian Armstrong, is a fund that aims to reduce poverty in the world by donating crypto to areas in need. Cryptocurrencies make it easy to move money internationally, so your donations can get to the people who need it the most. You can donate to the fund, and help them meet their $10 million goal.
🖥️ Donate Your Tab lets you mine crypto in your browser and donate your proceeds to charity. All your time on Twitter and Netflix will pay off.
📦 Charity Box forces you to donate something every month by charging your card when you miss the donation deadline. You can even donate clothes, food, electronics, and toys.
📈 Effective Altruism Fund is like a mutual fund, but for charitable giving. Expert fund managers put in hundreds of hours of research and analysis to decide where your money should go for maximum impact.
Nearly half the world's population lives in poverty, according to UNICEF, and 1.3 billion people live on less than $1.25 per day. Giving to charity isn't easy, so we put together a list of 12 Apps To Help You Give Back:
🖥️ Donate Your Tab lets you mine crypto in your browser and donate your proceeds to charity. All your time on Twitter and Netflix will pay off.
📦 Charity Box forces you to donate something every month by charging your card when you miss the donation deadline. You can even donate clothes, food, electronics, and toys.
📈 Effective Altruism Fund is like a mutual fund, but for charitable giving. Expert fund managers put in hundreds of hours of research and analysis to decide where your money should go for maximum impact.
"The world isn't ready for this kind of progress"
"The world just isn’t ready for this kind of progress." – Ryan G
"Segway's track record of building 'so-sexy-you-have-to-fight-off-the-admirers' personal mobility vehicles continues unabated." – Dan K
We'll be the first to admit that the NEW Segway Drift W1's look a bit dorky. They're a little like motor-powered Heelys, those sneakers with wheels in the heel that exploded in 2008.
It's silly to ignore Segway and their never-ending quest to solve personal mobility and the "last-mile-problem." Segway was acquired by Beijing-based transportation robotics startup Ninebot in 2015, which raised $180M from Sequoia Capital, Xiaomi, Intel, and more.
Fun fact: The Segway-Ninebot amalgam designs and manufactures every scooter used by scooter-sharing startups Bird and Lime. Both startups have exploded in popularity across the US, each raising $350M+ to bring dockless electric scooters to a sidewalk near you. Segway is everywhere.
Everybody is trying to improve short-distance travel. The world's first flying car launched two weeks ago with a review from Casey Neistat, and Elon Musk's Boring Company wants to build tunnels that criss-cross cities to cut down community time. The city of Chicago just signed a $1B contract with the company. 🕳️
If you're intimidated by Segway's latest creation, Paris-based Flaneurz are clip-on rollerskates that attach to any pair of sneakers. Give them a try. 👟🔥
Amazon’s latest $1 BILLION acquisition 💊
Amazon had a MASSIVE day yesterday.
First, they announced the acquisition of an online pharmacy for a cool billion dollars. Boston-based Pillpack delivers organized packages for your prescriptions in a nifty container.
Walgreens CEO Stefano Pessina was "coincidentally" speaking with Wall St analysts when the acquisition was announced. When asked if he was concerned: "Pharmacy is much more complex than just delivering certain pills."
Walgreens stock immediately tanked 10%, Rite Aid tanked 16%, and CVS followed suit at 9%. Not a good sign. 🙄
This isn't Jeff Bezos's first move into healthcare: Amazon recently announced a multi-billion dollar partnership with JPMorgan Chase and Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway to cut out middlemen for their combined 1,000,000 employees who are insured by one of the three giants or their subsidiaries.
That's not all: Amazon also launched Amazon Logistics, a last-mile delivery program to let anyone deliver packages (and get paid) to officially compete with UPS and FedEx.
It's not a terribly surprising announcement: Fedex operates similarly, with each delivery truck owned and operated by independent contractors.
The big question: When will Amazon roll out their drone delivery in mass?
RIP Web Apps ⚰️
Web apps are sooooo 2016.
Now you can turn your favorite web apps into desktop apps for Mac, Windows, and GNU/Linux with Web2Desk.
Launched yesterday with 600+ upvotes, it supports Intercom, Grammarly, Telegram, Twitter, Asana, Airtable, and really anything else. Try it today.
Web2Desk isn't the only tool that Apple should have built years ago:
🎩 Alfred: Will make you never use your mouse again. Alfred user, David, says: "Alfred is the bee's knees.. the cat's pajamas.. understand? Download it. Get the Powerpack. Do it. Do it now."
⚡️ aText: It's like text-replacement, but super easy to modify, with the ability to add custom fields. Accelerate your typing.
🖥 Magnet & BetterSnapTool: Use keyboard shortcuts to move/resize windows around the screen. Both of these are amazing.
⌨ Keyboard Maestro: Conduct your Mac like a pro. Arun says: "Keyboard Maestro is crazy awesome. I have been using for an year now for a ton of automation and hotkeys."
⌨ Keyboard Maestro: Conduct your Mac like a pro. Arun says: "Keyboard Maestro is crazy awesome. I have been using for an year now for a ton of automation and hotkeys."
🚀 Rocket will insert Slack-style emojis everywhere. This is the most essential app you will ever download.
Too stressed to pick a subject line
"Everyone should meditate for 10 minutes a day. If you're too busy for that, meditate for 20 minutes a day." –Blocktower Capital's Ari Paul
"Life hack: 10 minutes of compassion-focused meditation in the morning instead of checking Twitter or the news." –WSJ's Christopher Mims
For many, meditation reduces anxiety, stress, and that never-ending loop where you open every app on your phone. But it isn't easy to get into a meditation habit, so we put together a list of the 17 Best Meditation Apps to get started:
🌊 Calm, Apple's 2017 App of the Year, curates the best guided meditation. They also launched Sleep Mist to help you doze off at night. They're also hiring for 10+ positions.
🌳 Oak teaches you how to meditate, no app required. Built by Digg founder and now VC, Kevin Rose.
🎧 SelfMonk is an AirPod-first meditation app. Just tell Siri you're ready to relax, and SelfMonk kicks into action.
🤖 Trixie is a meditiation chatbot that reacts to your emotions.
The Tesla of Headphones 🚗
May 22nd: Consumer Reports publishes a damning report about the Tesla Model 3's braking distance. "There are big flaws." 😬😮
May 29th: Elon Musk pushes a software update to the Model 3, and the braking issue is immediately fixed. It's like magic. 🚗✨
Our cars now get software upgrades. Why don't your headphones?
Now they do. We've teamed up with our friends at Pioneer to get you an early access discount to the new Rayz Pro, the world's smartest headphones built for the Apple ecosystem:
🙉 Smart noise cancelling to drown out anything
⏯️ Auto-pause when you remove your earbuds, just like AirPods
🔘 Customizable button to open your favorite app, mute calls, etc.
Best part: the Rayz Pro get software updates with new features, so you can avoid that awkward thing where your headphones go out of date with Apple's every release cycle. Get a pair now with code KITTY25 for $25 off. 😻🎧
Facebook quietly launched a magazine 🤔
Last week, Facebook announced they were taking on YouTube, Twitch, HQ Trivia, Netflix, and China's Tik Tok.
Now Zuckerberg and team are launching original content. Meet Grow by Facebook, a new business magazine for business leaders. Most innovative: it's available in print. 😮
Facebook isn’t the only big tech company to expand to print: Airbnb recently launched Airbnbmag, a print magazine featuring stories from around the world for its millions of properties. Tech's favorite stock image curator Unsplash also launched a coffee table book.
Psst! We also published a book on How To Break Into Tech, featuring advice from Arianna Huffington, Jack Dorsey, and more. 📚
10 Products from LGBTQIA Makers 🏳️🌈
In honor of San Francisco's Pride Festival this weekend, we'd like to honor 10 great products made by LGBTQIA makers beloved by the Product Hunt community and curated by Kiki Schirr:
🤖 Josh.ai lets you control and automate your home from anywhere.
👩❤️💋👩 Her is the largest social network for lesbian, bisexual and queer people.
🏘️ Misterbnb lets gay men feel safe and secure when traveling abroad.
Whose products should Kiki add to her collection? Send us your favorite products from LGBTQIA makers on Twitter. 🐣
Instagram launches a YouTube competitor 📺
Facebook is taking on... YouTube? And Twitch? and HQ Trivia? 🤔
Two weeks ago, Zuckerberg launched Facebook Gaming, a streaming platform for creators. Streamers will be able to directly charge users for exclusive Fortnite #content, a direct shot at Amazon-owned Twitch. On Tuesday, they launched an extra feature-set built for live game shows like HQ Trivia directly on Facebook.
Just yesterday, Instagram launched IGTV, a new app dedicated to long-form videos. It's a mix of YouTube, Netflix, and China's Tik Tok, the #1 most downloaded app in the App Store globally.
If Snapchat wants to be the future of communication, Instagram is hoping to be the future of television:
🔴 You'll be able to subscribe to your favorite channels and creators directly inside Instagram or in the new IGTV app. Lele Pons, former Vine star King Bach, and Fortnite streamer Ninja have already signed up.
🕓 Videos are capped to one hour, just like really any TV show. Anybody can start their own channel.
🙅♂️ No ads... just yet. We don't expect this to last: just this week, auto-play video ads started to appear in Messenger.
Clearly Instagram has expanded beyond its initial photo-filter product, now reaching 1 BILLION users every month. What do you think about IGTV? Share your thoughts.
A new anonymous app built by high school women
A group of high school female makers built Trill to save the Internet.
Social media is ironically isolating. Between manicured feeds of Instagram #selfies and angry rants on Twitter, it's harder than ever to find welcoming communities. Group chats are the new Facebook, with entire communities shifting to Telegram and other chat apps.
Everybody deserves a place connect with others to discuss the same anxieties, frustrations, and worries you probably won’t post to LinkedIn.
Trill is a supportive anonymous community of over 13,000 people to date. While anonymous-based apps are incredibly difficult to moderate (remember Secret?), they’ve found early success in countries with restrictive speech or cultures and within the worldwide LGBTQ+ community, who often can’t safely discuss their sexuality.
The team of four includes a three-time WWDC scholar, who raised a small seed round to bring Trill to the world. Check it out.
This isn't the only app to launch in the space:
📹 Huddle is a video peer-to-peer support community.
🚀 Startups Anonymous is a confession board for startup employees
🙏 YC's Leap lets women in tech talk about anything they want
Psst! Trill is hiring an iOS developer for this upcoming summer.
