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Our ultra-fast Daily: Three takes on new products. Yesterday’s top ten launches. That’s it.
🍎 Apple launched a social video app.
🤖 Elon introduced a new startup to turn us all into cyborgs.
🛠 Stripe created a platform to help makers start a company.
😘 Giphy continued to make GIFs cool.
✏️ Google flexed its AI doodling technology.
🙀 This Y Combinator backed company freaked everyone out.
💰 Earn launched their crypto-powered LinkedIn InMail competitor.
🌭 HBO's Silicon Valley released a much-needed hotdog app.
🖌 A small team in the Ukraine built a handy tool for designers.
...and many more.
Today we're releasing our second book*, celebrating the most upvoted products from 2017. It's free to download.
*ICYMI, download our first book on How to Build a Career in Tech or share with a friend.
🔐 1Password is better than storing your passwords on a post-it note. “I swapped my low-tech spreadsheet for 1Password and OMG I have not looked back.” — Kate
😱 Have I Been Pwned? will inform you if one of your accounts was compromised. “Great service to keep tabs on vulnerabilities that may impact you.” — Hayden
💬 Signal is a chat app with end-to-end encryption to prevent snoops from spying on your messages. “It's widely considered the safest messaging service.” — Lachlan
🔍 Marshal scans Dropbox, Google Drive, and other cloud storage services to identify and remove sensitive information such as social security numbers and credit card numbers. “It is a great addition to my productivity app list and I have been using a beta...” — Om Malik
💳 Privacy.com is the Snapchat of credit cards, generating a new (potentially ephemeral) credit card for every transaction. “Super awesome idea in this era of security breaches.” — Carla
🐻 Tunnel Bear offers VPN software to browse the web securely. Most importantly, it has an adorable mascot. “Amazing interface, incredible support team PLUS they're passionate about improving privacy and security globally which is key.” — Emily
What's missing? Share your favorites and explore 20+ other tools that might save your butt. 😅
We polled the Product Hunt community with a simple question: “Why do you use Product Hunt?” 🤔
Many visit the site to get inspiration, connect with others in tech, and discover products that can make life just a little better. Many also use Product Hunt to stay up-to-date on what’s happening in tech, to follow trends and learn what's happening in this rapidly changing industry.
For the past few months, we've been building with the Product Hunt community (via Ship) a new app that delivers the most interesting and important tech stories of the day, from major product announcements to stories about your favorite makers.
Unlike most apps, Sip delivers stories once a day at five o’clock so you can stay focused on being productive throughout the day.
Check out the app and share your thoughts with us. Happy sipping. 😊
Whether you've got terrible grammar or have a tab hoarding problem (you know exactly what we’re talking about), you’ll find something on the list below built just for you. 🤗
📑 The Great Suspender clears inactive tabs to save your laptop.
👻 Ghostery shows you which companies track your every move.
📝 Grammarly will help you write sentences more good and save you from embarrasing errors.
🤑 Honey automatically applies the best coupon codes at checkout.
🕵️♂️ Wappalyzer identifies the stack of any website you visit.
Firefox lovers, don't be sad: here's a Firefox extension that will let you use any Chrome extension. No more FOMO 🙏
If you're planning on cutting down your coffee consumptions, this email isn't for you. Bright innovators are continuing to work on new ways of consuming the magical bean that gives your startup fuel. Here are some of the latest coffee products for you. 😽
👨 Turn Zuckerberg (or any image) into coffee with the Ripple Maker
☕ Keep your coffee in your pocket with GO CUBES
📚 Learn the science behind the bean with How To Make Coffee
🍼 Sip on Soylent's nutritious coffee-based Coffiest breakfast
🔍 Find the best coffee shops to work from (WiFi passwords too)
If you'd rather sleep (than be realllllly awake), mega-popular meditation app Calm launched an insomnia cure that smells amazing. 😌
Black Mirror is real, and it's backed by Y Combinator. 👀
Meet Molly, a startup that's building an AI-version of you. It's already live with Gary V, Michael Seibel (President of Y Combinator), and 100s more.
Molly learns from everything you've ever done or typed on the internet, so it can answer questions for you using machine learning.
Molly was launched by a small, talented team including last year’s Golden Kitty award winner and long-time community member, Chris Messina.
You'll soon be able to ask the best founders and investors anything. Since Molly is like a "download" of one's brain, it can answer questions 24/7... even from those that are no longer alive. Freaky.
Get early access and reserve your name on Molly by signing up here. 😎
In honor of Black History Month, we’d like to spotlight 21 great products built by black makers shared by the Product Hunt community:
📦 Shopify's Arrive automatically syncs with all of your online purchases, so you never lose an delivery again from any site.
📝 Learn the best UI, UX, and design principles from expert operators at Airbnb, Facebook, Spotify, and more.
😂 It's like Netflix, but for instant giggles with stand-up comedy acts.
👩💻 Break into tech masterfully, with inspirational tips and tactics to snag your first internship or job.
👔 POCIT Jobs curates jobs specifically from companies committed to building diverse teams.
Whose products should we add to the collection? Send us your favorite products from black makers on Twitter. 🐣
Americans spend 15 billion hours every year shopping for groceries. All of those people would rather be doing something else.
This isn't a new idea: a dot-com called Webvan raised a Series A from Sequoia and Benchmark and 1996, and went public a few years later. 5 years later, Webvan went bankrupt and became the face of the Dot-com crash, along with other good startup ideas that came too early. 😳
Fast forward to today: Sequoia-backed Instacart just announced a $200M new funding round, valuing the company at $4.2 unicorns. 🦄
Instacart isn't the only food delivery startup out there:
🤖 Meet Kiwibot, food delivery robots for college campuses. They're also adorable, and already delivering food autonomously at Berkeley in SF.
🚌 There's Robomart, a self-driving grocery store that wants to bring fresh produce directly to your door. Launched to much fanfare at CES.
🎰 Bodega, the controversial vending machine, is still delivering all of your non-perishables with automated corner stores in your apartment building.
🥕 YC-backed Farmstead is delivering better groceries for busy people (delivered in under 60 minutes), including on-demand Lacroix.
If all of this is making you hungry, here's some augmented reality food to help tide you over until breakfast. 👀
It’s Valentine’s Day and we’ve prepared a few products for every situation. Choose the scenario that best fits you:
Scenario A: You have a date with your long-term SO. 🙂
Scenario B: You've been set up on a blind date. 😬
Scenario C: You're in a long distance relationship and love Netflix... 🍿
Scenario D: You hate Valentine's Day. 💔
Last minute gift ideas: engrave your love on the blockchain (really!), or make the perfect Spotify-powered mixtape for your boo.
Every SpaceX launch builds the foundation for the next. 2010's Falcon 9 rocket was perfected and combined into the Falcon Heavy. The data collected from last week's launch will power the BF rocket, taking our entire species to Mars and beyond. 🚀
It's essential to build with the future in mind. So, we've partnered with DigitalOcean to help you grow, with free (exclusive!) cloud infrastructure credit to scale your app in the cloud. Boom.
DigitalOcean isn't your typical cloud. With add-on storage and security, you can run your entire application directly on their cloud without worrying about growing too quickly (like after your Product Hunt launch). 😅
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