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Golden Kitty Award nominee, Robinhood, just announced their big expansion into crypto, soon to offer Bitcoin and Ether transactions inside the popular stock trading app starting in February. We all knew it was coming but we didn't think it would look like this:

"The designer was definitely pumping the Tron soundtrack on repeat while working on this." – Ken

"RIP Coinbase" is intentionally hyperbolic but with crypto's popularity literally off the charts and Coinbase rumored to have made over $1 billion in revenue in 2017 (charging 1.5% to 4% in transaction fees), Robinhood's zero-commission approach is going to be very popular.

Since the announcement 24 hours ago, 397,982 (!!!) people signed. Reserve your spot now and while you’re waiting for you invite, check out the Golden Kitty Award nominees in the crypto/blockchain CATegory. Voting ends this Sunday!

We have to accept that email isn't going away. Y Combinator backed Front, a shared inbox for teams, just raised a $66 million Series B from Sequoia and DFJ, and the round came about in just 5 days.

Mathilde Collin, co-founder and CEO of Front, told TechCrunch: "I decided that I wanted to raise money, I scheduled 11 partner meetings over a single week. At the end of the week, I had term sheets from all investors but one." 😮

We've seen a host of email apps come an go since Mailbox was acquired by Dropbox (and shut down later). Companies like Polymail, Spark, Airmail, Canary Mail, Boxy, have each come up with a unique design and approach to email.

Notably, Superhuman by the former Rapportive team, remains one of the most compelling products in the space with 54,000+ people subscribers to its upcoming launch on Product Hunt.

Front's massive funding round may have seemingly come out of nowhere, but it was evident the company was up something great since their move from France to Silicon Valley. In December, the company was included in AngelList's YC Startups that are Aggressively Hiring collection, as well as the 20 Female Founded Startups to join in 2018, as recommended by investors. It's not too late to join them.

P.S. Front CEO Mathilde Collin's Equity Calculator is nominated for a Side Project of the Year. 🏆😸

Big Twitter news! COO and board member Anthony Noto has left the company to become the CEO of social finance startup, SoFi.

The news made the rounds across Wall Street and Silicon Valley, and kickstarted two equally important discussions: Jack Dorsey's duel CEO role at Twitter/Square, and tracking Twitter bio changes. 🤓

Jack Dorsey: Excellent Live Chat guest. 2017 Golden Kitty Award nominee for excellence in hardware. 280 character limit disrupter. Featured on the Product Hunt book cover. He's doing juuust fine.

Tracking changes in Twitter bios: Here's how to do that:

1. First, sign up to Spoonbill.

2. Spoonbill looks at all the people you follow and checks for changes you should know about (new bio, new job? new location, a big move?).

3. Changes are recorded, select which ones you want to know about.

4. Every morning (or every week), Spoonbill send you an email with all the changes (that looks like the screenshot Hunter Walk tweeted above).

Get Spoonbill and never miss another career move again. 🕵️

The 3rd Annual Golden Kitty Awards are here, a celebration of all the amazing products, makers, and community members.

This year we have 14 CATegories, including additions highlighting two big tech trends from 2017: augmented reality and crypto/blockchain, as well as:

🌟 Product of the Year
📱 Mobile App of the Year
🛠 Hardware of the Year
😍 Consumer Product of the Year
🏢 B2B Product of the Year
💥 Breakout Product of the Year
🌚 Side Project of the Year
🤖 Bot of the Year
🙀 WTF Product of the Year
⚡️ Lifehack of the Year
🖥 Developer Tool of the Year
🖌 Design Tool of the Year
💻 Maker of the Year
🤗 Community Member of the Year

Check out the complete list and upvote your favorites. 🏆😽

Voting starts today and closes Sunday January 28th at 12pm PST. The winners will be crowned with a one of a kind Golden Kitty trophy a week from today.

Irrespective of made up awards, big thanks goes out to the Product Hunt community and makers around the world launching new projects every day. It’s a great time to be a maker. ✌️

TFW your phone hits 20% battery: 😟

TFW your phone hits 10% battery: 😩

Apple, what are you doing to my 🔋 ⁉️

Your phone hits 5% battery: WOOHOO! 🎉 Now you can chat with fellow battery-deprived fellows on Die With Me, a new app with a sadistic name that just launched out of Belgium.

If you're the kind of person that sneaks home from the party once your phone hits 50% battery, this app isn't for you. But you might love this new product from Elon Musk.

For everyone else...

Nobody expected the launch of the Nintendo Labo yesterday, a DIY cardboard creativity kit powered by the Nintendo Switch.

The assortment of Switch games is each powered by a cut-out cardboard "toy-con." The launch video featured a fishing pole, drivable cardboard RC cars, and a playable piano.

There's even a wearable suit where you can play as an Iron Man-esque robot, exploring virtual worlds (and destroying a building or two). 🙀

Nintendo's successes have always attracted non-gamers into virtual worlds, whether that was the explosion of Pokemon Go last summer or the launch of traditional Nintendo games like Super Mario, Animal Crossing, or Miitomo on iOS and Android over the past year.

Wall Street has noticed: their stock has doubled in the last year. 📈🔥

For those of you that don’t have a Switch (yet), here are more than 900 classic games from Street Fighter to Paperboy that you can play in your browser for free (no cardboard required).

Our lives are spent in calendars and to-do lists. They're inescapable.

Instead of jumping between apps every day, here are some powerful calendars that integrate directly with your to-do list. Sorry, Apple.

📑 Planyway brings your Google Calendar directly inside Trello, so you can schedule work around your meetings (GIF explainer above).

📆 Plan is a beautiful calendar and task scheduler that integrates with JIRA, Zendesk, Salesforce, and Github to boost your productivity.

🐦 Meetingbird is the supercharged Sunrise replacement we've all been waiting for. Schedule all of your meetings in seconds. ✨

🤔 During is an unreleased calendar app by an early GitHub employee (subscribe along with 8,000+ others).

"The next big thing always starts out as a toy." – Chris Dixon

Augmented Reality's first "killer app" was Pokemon Go, inspiring tens of millions to try to catch 'em all. Over the Christmas break, a wave of blockchain-powered Cryptokitties slowed the Ethereum network to a crawl selling for over $100,000. Delight and fun drives adoption.

Machine Learning's killer toy has arrived. With one selfie you can find your historical art doppelgänger in seconds using Google's new app.

The results are spot-on (and sometimes hilarious):

We've compiled a list of our favorite look-alikes. Tweet us your painted twin. We’ll retweet the best all day today from @ProductHunt. 🐣