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Our ultra-fast Daily: Three takes on new products. Yesterday’s top ten launches. That’s it.
Apple is taking on Snapchat 😮
Apple's annual massive launch party developer conference kicked off yesterday, with huuuuuge updates to every Apple operating system.
First up, iOS 12 was completely revamped, including:
👦 Memoji, Tim Cook's answer to Snapchat's Bitmoji. Completely customizable, and you can control them with your face using the same tech that powers Animoji and Face ID. See GIF above for examples.
🌘 A new Do Not Disturb mode that will tell you exactly how long you spend on Twitter and remind you to take breaks. Use at your own risk.
⚡ Actual speed improvements. Apps should load 2x as fast.
📹 Group FaceTime for up to 32 people, resembling the wildly popular app, Houseparty, which boldly launched their Mac app yesterday.
😮 ARKit 2, with a built-in Augmented Reality ruler.
Next, your Mac's operating system is all new with macOS Mojave. We were hoping they would call it macOS Burning Man:
🔖 Automatically organize files with Stacks.
📸 Take more screenshots with less effort.
🛍️ Completely redesigned Mac App Store.
Oh, and the actual best part: there is now Dark Mode for your Mac. It is the best thing since Apple released space grey evvverryyything.
Apple launch in 3... 2...
Calenders blocked off. LaCroix purchased. Credit card ready.
The tech industry's Superbowl is today. Apple's WWDC kicks off at 10AM, with Tim Cook taking the stage in San Jose to inspire the world with new iDevices and space grey accessories.
Here's what we're expecting / hoping / praying to see:
🦊 New Animoji, and potentially Animoji directly inside Facetime.
😳 A tool to build apps for iPhones, iPads, and Macs... all at once. This would drastically increase the number of apps in the Apple Mac Store.
💻 New MacBook Pro, MacBook, and iMac. Maybe even an improved keyboard to help with recent complaints about the butterfly keyboards.
🚫 Improved Do Not Disturb controls to help curb your phone addiction. Apps like Moment and Feedless are already focusing on this problem.
🔌 The all-in-one wireless charger for iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods. You know, the one they announced last September. 🤔
📸 ARKit 2.0, a new toolkit for developers to build in Augmented Reality.
💿 Software upgrades for the Apple TV, Apple Watch, and HomePod.
The live event kicks off at 10AM PT / 1PM ET. Watch it here. ✌️
Don't buy a second iPhone. Use this instead 📝
The most important part of launching an app is taking a picture of an iPhone running your app using a different iPhone.
Easy! For those who own two iPhones and a picture-perfect desk. 😂
Harder for the rest of us. Fortunately, we've compiled a list of the 18 Best Device Mockup Generators. Upload screenshots of your app, and these magical apps will do the rest for you.
Notable mention: ScreenSpace lets you build 3D product videos for your mobile or desktop app. You can even customize the camera angles. Take a peek at the header GIF for a preview. ✨
If you’re still building your app, these prototyping tools might be useful:
📝 PixelSnap lets you measure every pixel on your screen. You can say goodbye to CMD + Shift + 4, and there's a secret Product Hunt discount hidden in the comment section.
👻 Spirit is an adorable ghost mascot bundled with a powerful animation tool for the web. Over 1300+ upvotes!
🖥️ The Modern Web Design Process is exactly what it sounds like. Learn from the experts in this free ebook.
Check out the rest of the Prototyping collection on Product Hunt. 😽
How to get a free Macbook
Evvvvverrybody loves their Mac. Even Obama.
Not everybody loves paying for a Mac. We have a solution. 😽
We've partnered all of your favorite newsletters so you can win a brand new $2400 Macbook Pro for all of your cat GIFing needs.
After you win, you can download all of these 39 Must-Have Mac apps, as determined by the Product Hunt community:
🔍 Alfred lets you run your entire computer via your keyboard.
✂️ Jumpcut gives you copy-pasting super powers.
🚀 Rocket will insert Slack-style emojis everywhere.
✨ Popclip is like a Swiss Army Knife for your cursor.
The winner of the Macbook Pro will also receive more Product Hunt stickers and t-shirts than they know what to do with. 🤗
“Weren’t chatbots so last year?”
Your inbox is out to get you. It's secretly conspiring to hide all of your most important emails in a pile of privacy policy updates and URGENT SALES! from that shoe store you visited a few years ago.
Time to fight back. Today, we're launching the Product Hunt Messenger Bot - the best way to keep up to date with all things PH.
It slowly learns exactly what kinds of products you love, so you don't have to spend your morning clicking through pages and pages of emails.
🚀 Personalized product launches based on your preferences
💌 Early access to our Daily Digest every morning
😻 Kitten and cat GIFs for every occasion
We spent months agonizing over every last cat GIF to make your experience purrrrrrfect. Say hello, we're waiting. 😽
Has your email been sold? 😳
Legitimate, engaged email audiences are like liquid gold. The Skimm raised $12M from Google Ventures for their uber-popular daily newsletter, and Inside.com writes dozens of industry-specific news roundups every morning. The AngelList Weekly goes out to 4.5M+ users. 🚀
When there is gold, there are robbers. Email lists are stolen and resold every day, with no way for you to know.
Until now! Bruno has spent years collecting email lists, so you can answer the question: Have I Been Sold? 👀
The project was inspired by a similar site that lets you check if your passwords have been leaked. Over 5 billion passwords catalogued.
If you're running a site or startup with users in the EU, check out the ultimate list of 12 GDPR Compliance Tools. Compliance is key, and protecting user data is the first step.
Build an app with a spreadsheet. No code required.
New technologies become easier to use over time as programs, platforms, and plug-ins are built.
Once upon a time, rooms of accountants would manually update spreadsheets, sketched on chalkboards. If one input changed, they would recalculate every other cell. Now, we get computers to do it for us and check Twitter all at the same time.
Spreadsheets are starting to eat the web development world. Sheetbase was #1 on Product Hunt yesterday, a tool that converts Google Sheets into programmable databases for your websites or apps.
It's pretty nifty: it combines Google's free spreadsheet software with JavaScript frameworks into a free database.
Sheetbase isn't the only spreadsheet-powered web development tool:
🛠️ Sheetsu turns Google Sheets into a programmable API
📊 Tabledo will update your website using data from your spreadsheets
💻 Sheet 2 Site lets you generate an entire website from one Sheet
📦 Airtable Blocks let you run entire programs inside spreadsheet cells
Airbnb, Netflix both launched a custom font 📝
Little known fact: your favorite fonts aren't free.
You can now design your own font too:
The owners of your favorite fonts – Garamond, Times New Roman, Georgia – charge businesses who use their font on their website, app, and advertisements.
Instead of paying millions of dollars for licenses, tech companies are starting to design their own fonts.
Airbnb launched their own font earlier this week: Airbnb Cereal, in homage of the Obama and McCain themed cereal boxes that co-founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia sold in order to bootstrap Airbnb.
It's free for anyone to download: try it out now. 😋
Airbnb isn't alone: Netflix launched Netflix Sans earlier this year, and both Apple and Samsung use custom default fonts.
You can now design your own font too:
📝 Fontself lets you design custom fonts in Photoshop.
✍️ Calligraphr converts your handwriting into a font.
🖋️ FontJoy generates smart font pairings in one click.
And of another font catches your fancy, use WhatTheFont to snap a pic and it’ll find the closest match. It’s like Shazam for typography nerds. 🤓
5 BIG launches from Tinder, Airbnb, Coinbase, and more 🚀
Boy meets girl. Girl meets boy. A magical first date turns into a lifetime of dinners, inside jokes, and shared cat pictures.
Tinder just launched a new feature to help you meet your neighbor, the barista down the street, and other lovely people nearby.
Tinder Places matches you with people who hang out at the same spots that you do. Instead of starting every single Tinder conversation with Aziz Ansari's line from Master of None, you'll have a unique ice breaker and your first-date spot already lined up.
Tinder Places is powered by Foursquare’s API, live in Australia and Chile, worldwide soon. Check it out. 😘
That wasn't the only big launch of the day:
📈 Coinbase just launched another trading platform, Coinbase Pro, as a formal rebrand of GDAX. They also acquired year-old exchange Paradex.
🏘️ Airbnb quietly launched Airbnb Stories, which is exactly what it sounds like. See if it lives up to Snapchat's legacy.
🔍 Google completely revamped Google Trends, which graphs the popularity of every topic, story, and meme.
📝 InVision launched a sneek peak of their new InVision Studio Platform, which is like an App Store for designers.
#1 in the App Store right now 👀
The App Store has a new world champion: Tik Tok.
The karaoke-esque, music-sharing app has been downloaded over 45,000,000 times in the first three months of 2018. That's more downloads than Snapchat, Spotify, and Gmail... combined. 😮
Tik Tok originally launched in China as a lip-syncing app named Douyin with built-in video effects and poweful social network.
It reminds us of when we spent all weekend playing with Mac Photo Booth effects.
Tik Tok was developed by Bytedance, which coincidentally acquired Musical.ly for $1B last year. The apps are basically identical. Musical.ly, Douyin, and Tik Tok now have a combined 100,000,000 monthly active users around the world.
Social is hard. Today many scaredy-cat investors are too afraid to invest in anything competing head-on with Facebook. Rock on, Tik Tok. 👏
P.S. Musical.ly cofounder and co-CEO Alex Zhu may have the best Product Hunt username there is. 😬
