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Despite the price swings and frequent comparisons to tulips, Bitcoin and the blockchain is here to stay. Microsoft is now selling Blockchain-as-a-Service and Robinhood's new cryptocurrency trading platform has 1,000,000+ users waiting for access.

Many of these currencies don't have world-changing use cases yet, but the first wave of blockchain Beanie Babies has definitely arrived.

🌷 Design and trade tulips on the blockchain. Powered by the same browser-based software as CryptoKitties, you can now breed your own unique digital tulips on the Ethereum blockchain. Tastefully ironic.

🐶 Breedable dogs on the blockchain. Chinese tech giant Baidu launched CryptoDoggies, a near close of the adorable, collectible CryptoKitties whose transactions almost broke Ethereum this summer.

📸 Famous celebrities on the blockchain. Elon Musk, Angelina Jolie, Kanye West, and Vitalik Buterin are all available for sale... well, sort of. Crypto trading cards of your favorite celebs are here.

🦌 Alpacas on the blockchain. Adopt, breed, and feed adorable alpaca that live directly on the blockchain. From the comments: "My GF always wanted her own alpaca and her birthday is coming up. Perfect timing!" 😂

🦎 Pokémon on the blockchain. Every Pokémon Go fan wanted to battle their captured monsters: now you can. CryptoFighters are trainable, collectible warriors that live in the Ethereum blockchain.

Not sure how blockchains work? Here's a beautiful visual demonstration of the technology behind Bitcoin, Ethereum, and more. ⛓️📦

Every day at Product Hunt, we celebrate the accomplishments of diverse makers, from indie developers hacking on a side project in Paris to venture-backed startups in the States.

Building anything is tough. The fear of failure, the long nights and weekends, and endless frustration. It's both unavoidable and laudable.

Today, we're launching Maker Stories: a weekly series highlighting makers from the Product Hunt community from around the world, sharing their backstory, struggles, and favorite emoji. 🤗

As a special launch day treat, we’re releasing the first batch Netflix-style so you can binge the first three stories on your morning commute:

🇮🇹 An ex-Adobe engineer moved to Italy to build a to-do list for your entire life. We talked with Kaitlyn, founder of Simply.Digital, about straying from a conventional career path.

😻 Build your business on the internet’s love of cats. Belgium's Bregt Colpaert has built his livelihood with small feline art and fashion pieces that don't come from a factory.

🛠️ Build any software, no code required. Meet Emmanuel, a Harvard Business School graduate whose development platform lets anyone build web apps without a single line of code. It's like magic.

Want a sneak peek into our upcoming interviews? Subscribe here. 👊

Cryptocurrency prices continue to fall, with Bitcoin prices hovering around $8,000 from a high of $18,000 over the summer.

Instead of buying a Lamborghini with their #profits, former cryptocurrency millionaires and their cryptokitties are sitting at home, hodling, praying.

For many, this is a wake-up call to take financial responsibility. Former Google Ventures partner Chris Hutchins just launched Grove, a human-powered financial planner for your life. The onboarding is beauuuuuutiful.

Instead of hunting through the internet, you can actually talk with the advisors at Grove on the phone (revolutionary!) and put together a plan.

There's also Earny, a magical personal assistant that automatically gets you money back when prices drop at Amazon, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, and others. They've raised over $10M to help you save. 🔥

Stop paying for subscriptions you never use. This powerful subscription canceller will find, monitor, and make it easy to cancel useless services.

Billshark's another 💰-saving app, hated by cable companies. Sign up and they'll negotiate your internet and TV bill for you. Sorry, Comcast. 😬

Be like the money cat, and your Lamborghini will come.

Yesterday, as the world watched, an entire generation of space admirers discovered the future.

SpaceX successfully launched the most powerful rocket in the world, the result of hundreds of thousands of engineering hours. Synchronized aerial acrobatics amazed as two, 350-foot rockets landed perfectly in sync.

The payload? Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster, which blasted David Bowie’s “Life on Mars?” into space, hurling toward Mars. And yes, the GIF is real.

Elon's been busy, launching autonomous semi-trucks, boring hats for his Boring Company, and controversial flamethrowers. 🔥

The Falcon Heavy is actually a precursor to SpaceX's BFR, an absolutely massive rocket built to bring an entire city of colonists to Mars. 👀

In honor of SpaceX's accomplishments, try landing your very own Falcon 9 rocket with this deliciously retro video game. It's surprisingly addictive.

"Hey @rrhoover, when are we getting @ProductHunt Android app?" –Mubaris, an Android user

Good news, Mubaris! We’ve been working hard on a shiny new Product Hunt mobile app, rebuilt from scratch.

The new app is wicked fast, simplified with a focus on products, and (by popular demand) available on both iOS AND Android. We’re aiming to win a Golden Kitty (and a selfie with Justin Timberlake) this year.

If you’d like early access to the app, sign up here. We’re also giving away Philz Coffee swag to the most helpful and engaged beta testers. 😺

Come visit the home of many of your favorite products (and TV show): Silicon Valley.

We’re giving away a free trip to San Francisco and tickets to the Habit Summit. Join Stanford professor and Hooked author Nir Eyal, the Product Lead for Google Photos, Netflix’s former VP of Growth, and other accomplished speakers sharing their tips for building engaging products. The package also includes:

✈️ $700 towards domestic round trip tickets.

🏘️ $500 Airbnb gift card for your stay in SF.

💻 A Microsoft Surface Pro from Microsoft, handy for taking notes (or browsing Product Hunt) on the go.

Put your name in the hat and if you win, remember to wear layers. 🎫

The Super Bowl is on Sunday. Soon enough, we'll huddle around chips, drinks, and bitter rivalries to watch our favorite teams.

Here are a few apps and products for an awesome Sunday:

🍺 Nobody RSVPs to Facebook Events: here's an app that literally only asks your friends if they want a beer.

🎵 Crowdsource the music at the party with this turntable.fm-style app powered by Spotify.

🔈 Listen at your perfect volume: scan any TV with Tunity and listen to your TV's audio directly from your phone.

🙈 Spoilers are the worst. Here's a chrome extension that blocks all sports from your Twitter feed. You're welcome.

📺 Or, if you don't care about football, rewatch your favorite super bowl commercials from the beginning of time. Wwhhaaaatttsssuuupppppp!

"There’s something special when an online community meets in real life. Bonds formed over a mutual interest become cemented as you put a face to a Twitter or Product Hunt handle." – Erik Torenberg

We agree. Last week, we hosted 1,000+ Product Hunters at our Official San Francisco meetup, complete with a LED ping pong table, free-flowing LaCroix and Philz, and VR games. The pictures look dope.

We even gave away a CryptoKitty, one of the infamous blockchain-based digital cats that broke Ethereum this summer. 👀

Want to host your own Product Hunt meetup in your city? Let us know! We'd love to help with some sweet Product Hunt swag. 👕😻

Our meetup wouldn't have been possible without our awesome friends at:

🕵️‍♂️ Google Play — If you’re building an Android app you should know about Google Play’s Start on Android program which can help you recruit early beta testers, get direct UI/UX feedback from Google experts, potential Play store featuring, and $20k in Google Cloud and Firebase credits. Learn more here.

👥 Zendesk — Used by Airbnb, Slack and Peloton, this well-known support platform just launched a new program, offering a year of free services for startups that are just getting off the ground. Details here.

⌨️ Grammarly — Grammarly helps make your writing be more clear, effective, and error-free wherever you type. Their secret discount on their Premium plan.

🔍 Algolia— We’ve been using Algolia to power Product Hunt’s search for years. It’s awesome.

🗣️ Intercom— We’re big fans of Intercom and use it to chat with the Product Hunt community every day.

📦 Omni— Rent and store anything with Omni. We even rented a karaoke machine using their new peer-to-peer rental platform. It was glorious.

💬 Spoke— TFW your run out of LaCroix in the office: 😭. Spoke helps team’s manage office requests all within Slack.

Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Barack Obama all want you to learn to code and build products. Even will.i.am is taking coding classes.

Fortunately, it’s never been easier to learn from home in your undies. We've teamed up with our friends at StackSocial to offer premium access to the Complete Learn to Code Bundle, which includes:

🖥️ Dive into web development with courses for Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, and Javascript. You'll even learn to build your own social network with a dedicated walkthrough.

📊 Play with your data with a practical MySQL database development course for beginners.

☁️ Build programs in the cloud with a hands-on, from-scratch course on cloud development.

🛠️ Learn powerful programming languages like AngularJS, ReactJS, Flux, Facebook's open-sourced programming architecture for building web applications.

Be like Will and learn to code with this package for $54 (normally $1,400). Looking forward to seeing your projects launch on Product Hunt. 😺

Back in the day, tech was all about function. Today, a e s t h e t i c s are an important consideration and differentiator for consumers (example: the brown Microsoft Zune vs. Apple iPod). Here are a few fashionable products you might appreciate:

😯 Self-lacing shoes are real. Nike's newest Back to the Future inspired sneakers can actually lace themselves, with a proprietary internal cable system built with fishing line.

🐣 Tattoos of your favorite tweets. Now you can read inspiring tweets from Kanye on your arm.

👓 Protect your vision at work. These non-prescription glasses from Felix Gray protect your vision from the screens you stare at all day.

📈 Went viral in San Francisco. Allbirds, the offical shoe for Silicon Valley VC's, recently raised $10M and introduced their super comfy wool loungers. They also make small shoes for small babies.

👟 Y Combinator backed sneakers. We just unboxed a pair at Product Hunt HQ, and the Atoms team is giving away free pairs to their earliest supporters. They're mad comfy. 🤗

📚 3,000 Years of fashion in one place. Google's Cultural Institute worked with 180+ museums, schools, and fashion institutes to organize 30,000+ fashion pieces and 450+ exhibits spanning three millennia in one searchable online archive. It's incredible.

Community member Ashley Laurel's been collecting the coolest and wackiest (like this LED cat clutch) fashion tech products. Check it out.