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Our ultra-fast Daily: Three takes on new products. Yesterday’s top ten launches. That’s it.
Apple’s best-designed product
We consider some products as "premium" based on the quality of their design and aesthetics, like the Essential Phone, Microsoft Surface Studio, and everything with an logo on it (particularly Magic Mouse).
For software, a premium design can help your product stand out in a crowded space (email clients), or put you head and shoulders above the rest (Robinhood).
Here are 44 well-designed products recommended by the community, including slick productivity apps like:
✅ Things: Award-winning (gorgeous and expensive) task manager
🐻 Bear: A beautiful Evernote alternative (people love Bear)
💪 Todoist: The world's most powerful to-do list
🅿️ Paste: Clipboard manager for Mac that Apple should have made
💶 CurrencyX: A simple, beautiful currency converter
Check out the full-list and add your recommendation. For further reading we refer you to our most beautiful emojis thread. 🦋🌈🥑💖
For software, a premium design can help your product stand out in a crowded space (email clients), or put you head and shoulders above the rest (Robinhood).
Here are 44 well-designed products recommended by the community, including slick productivity apps like:
✅ Things: Award-winning (gorgeous and expensive) task manager
🐻 Bear: A beautiful Evernote alternative (people love Bear)
💪 Todoist: The world's most powerful to-do list
🅿️ Paste: Clipboard manager for Mac that Apple should have made
💶 CurrencyX: A simple, beautiful currency converter
Check out the full-list and add your recommendation. For further reading we refer you to our most beautiful emojis thread. 🦋🌈🥑💖
Our new competitor. 🅿️
Over the weekend, Basecamp designer Tara Mann tweeted: “Quick mock for a really dumb app I wish existed.... CAN I PARK HERE OR NOT?”
It went viral. Clearly she's onto something.
Given the competitive nature of this hypothetical parking app with our very own Parking App, we've reached out to Tara to see if she had any intentions of building the product. She said: “It's funny that people even cared about it, I was totally joking at first.”
Despite our best efforts to prevent this untimely competitor, Tara seems set on building the Parking App (if enough people want it to happen).
Subscribe to Tara's Upcoming Page if you want the Parking App.
P.S. If you're interesting in working on this, DM @TaraMann.
It went viral. Clearly she's onto something.
Given the competitive nature of this hypothetical parking app with our very own Parking App, we've reached out to Tara to see if she had any intentions of building the product. She said: “It's funny that people even cared about it, I was totally joking at first.”
Despite our best efforts to prevent this untimely competitor, Tara seems set on building the Parking App (if enough people want it to happen).
Subscribe to Tara's Upcoming Page if you want the Parking App.
P.S. If you're interesting in working on this, DM @TaraMann.
Free shirts! Be brutally honest. 👕📮
Last week we launched one of our biggest Product Hunt updates, including badges, descriptions, product reviews (and offered t-shirts to the most popular ones). Unlike comments, reviews are categorized by sentiment, and include both positive and critical feedback for makers to work on.
From the thousands of submissions, here are snippets of the most helpful reviews so far (click the name for the full review).
• Brendan Hersh on Carrd: The most amazing web building platform I've seen to date – and trust me, I've tried everything.
• Jack Dweck on Apple AirPods: The best Apple product since the iPhone. I don't go anywhere without my AirPods.
• Eugine Dychko on Crello: Really easy to use, lots of free templates. Would be great to include presentation templates.
• Roxanne Girouard on Taffy (a new dating app): I totally enjoy that I can chat with the person before my photo is totally clear.
• Evan Zimmerman on CryptoLadder: It's a fun app! Best way to casually update yourself on the crypto market I've seen so far.
More Free Product Hunt Shirts 😻
Many of the most upvoted products have yet to be reviewed by the community. As a small incentive, we'll send shirts to 10 of the most helpful reviews that are added today. 👕📮
Get started by browsing through the most upvoted products of 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017, or log in and revisit products you've upvoted in the past.
From the thousands of submissions, here are snippets of the most helpful reviews so far (click the name for the full review).
• Brendan Hersh on Carrd: The most amazing web building platform I've seen to date – and trust me, I've tried everything.
• Jack Dweck on Apple AirPods: The best Apple product since the iPhone. I don't go anywhere without my AirPods.
• Eugine Dychko on Crello: Really easy to use, lots of free templates. Would be great to include presentation templates.
• Roxanne Girouard on Taffy (a new dating app): I totally enjoy that I can chat with the person before my photo is totally clear.
• Evan Zimmerman on CryptoLadder: It's a fun app! Best way to casually update yourself on the crypto market I've seen so far.
More Free Product Hunt Shirts 😻
Many of the most upvoted products have yet to be reviewed by the community. As a small incentive, we'll send shirts to 10 of the most helpful reviews that are added today. 👕📮
Get started by browsing through the most upvoted products of 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017, or log in and revisit products you've upvoted in the past.
We're pivoting to a dating site 💞
Here at Product Hunt, we've always prided ourselves on making mutual matches. Starting today, we've pivoting to a dating site.
Introducing: producthunt.com/date 💞
We want to help you discover true love, regardless of age, or when the product was hunted. Many of you who have recently joined may have never seen Tinder for Uber or Uber for Tinder, both of which can be found in the Tinder for X collection (along with other fun apps).
To be clear, this shift isn't just about finding Netflix collaborators. We want to help you find your new favorite products, from Chrome extension flings, to committed relationships with calendar apps and email clients. These may have come through in 2015, 2016, or last month. Today you'll discover these missed connections from years past.
Introducing: producthunt.com/date 💞
We want to help you discover true love, regardless of age, or when the product was hunted. Many of you who have recently joined may have never seen Tinder for Uber or Uber for Tinder, both of which can be found in the Tinder for X collection (along with other fun apps).
To be clear, this shift isn't just about finding Netflix collaborators. We want to help you find your new favorite products, from Chrome extension flings, to committed relationships with calendar apps and email clients. These may have come through in 2015, 2016, or last month. Today you'll discover these missed connections from years past.
The Butt Case Explained 📱🍑
Renowned artist Allen Hirsch, who has painted the likes of Bill Clinton and multiple TIME covers, conceived of the idea for HandL to solve his own problem: using his phone while holding a paintbrush.
Last week we caught up with Allen in his New York City studio, where he showed us the design process for his latest creation: The Butt Case.
“Touching the buttocks has been one of the most pleasant tactile experiences I have known. It is ergonomic, soft and comfortable to rest one’s hand against. I began the search for the perfect material for this; scouring stores, and running my hands over every kind of product and surface. I finally found something containing a particular mix of semi-liquid silicone and knew it felt right.” – Allen
One of HandL’s goals is to bring us back in touch with touch, which is the most fundamental and honest form of communication. This case wants to make touching our phones feel like an extension of our bodies.
Allen is on Product Hunt today. Ask him about HandL, the Butt Case, his artwork, and you may also know him from a recent New York Times documentary about his monkey 🐒 (nytimes.com/benjamin).
Last week we caught up with Allen in his New York City studio, where he showed us the design process for his latest creation: The Butt Case.
“Touching the buttocks has been one of the most pleasant tactile experiences I have known. It is ergonomic, soft and comfortable to rest one’s hand against. I began the search for the perfect material for this; scouring stores, and running my hands over every kind of product and surface. I finally found something containing a particular mix of semi-liquid silicone and knew it felt right.” – Allen
One of HandL’s goals is to bring us back in touch with touch, which is the most fundamental and honest form of communication. This case wants to make touching our phones feel like an extension of our bodies.
Allen is on Product Hunt today. Ask him about HandL, the Butt Case, his artwork, and you may also know him from a recent New York Times documentary about his monkey 🐒 (nytimes.com/benjamin).
Casey Neistat's new app! (get early access) 📱👀
When Casey Neistat and the Beme team were acquired by CNN they shut down their photo-sharing app and started exploring what the future of news would look like. Today we get a sneak peak of what they’ve been working on.
Beme Panels is bridging the gap between traditional news coverage and user-generated content. Hear (and see!) real people share their opinions from around the world, in short video format.
Casey and team are growing the community slowly leading up to a public launch. Sign up here for early access.
Beme Panels is bridging the gap between traditional news coverage and user-generated content. Hear (and see!) real people share their opinions from around the world, in short video format.
Casey and team are growing the community slowly leading up to a public launch. Sign up here for early access.
The NEW Product Hunt (Get a FREE t-shirt) 😻🚀
Psst! We just made some big updates to Product Hunt. 🚀
As the community's matured, Product Hunt has evolved from a list of links to a community-curated database of products. Today we're introducing:
🏆 Badges
✏️ Descriptions
😻 Reviews
🔗 Around the Web
🐤 Social Links
✌️ Jobs
Our goal is to make product pages more useful for makers and the community, to help people discover and decide what products to download and buy. Check it out and let us know what you think. ✨
P.S. Free Swag! As a part of the launch, we'd like to have some fun and award the best reviewers some kitty swag. Here's how to participate: Search Product Hunt for your favorite apps or products. Submit a review (you'll see a shiny new “Reviews” section on the product pages) and share it with your friends on Twitter with the hashtag, #PHreview. At the end of the week we'll ship t-shirts to the most popular reviews (so be thoughtful!). 😻
As the community's matured, Product Hunt has evolved from a list of links to a community-curated database of products. Today we're introducing:
🏆 Badges
✏️ Descriptions
😻 Reviews
🔗 Around the Web
🐤 Social Links
✌️ Jobs
Our goal is to make product pages more useful for makers and the community, to help people discover and decide what products to download and buy. Check it out and let us know what you think. ✨
P.S. Free Swag! As a part of the launch, we'd like to have some fun and award the best reviewers some kitty swag. Here's how to participate: Search Product Hunt for your favorite apps or products. Submit a review (you'll see a shiny new “Reviews” section on the product pages) and share it with your friends on Twitter with the hashtag, #PHreview. At the end of the week we'll ship t-shirts to the most popular reviews (so be thoughtful!). 😻
Wanna go to Europe? 🤔
We want to send you to Europe, for free! And you get to bring a friend (who will love you for eternity). Enter to win.😻
This free trip to Prague (for two) includes a 5-day stay in a boutique hotel, a luxurious cruise on the Vltava River, a Bohemian Brewery Tour, and more Product Hunt stickers and shirts than you'll know what to do with. See the full-list here.
P.S. You can still win a free trip to Paris. 🇫🇷
This free trip to Prague (for two) includes a 5-day stay in a boutique hotel, a luxurious cruise on the Vltava River, a Bohemian Brewery Tour, and more Product Hunt stickers and shirts than you'll know what to do with. See the full-list here.
P.S. You can still win a free trip to Paris. 🇫🇷
RIP Instagram.
Kids today will never know the thrill of dropping off a fresh camera roll at the local CVS and waiting 3 gut wrenching days to find out if your selfies turned out okay.
We now have the technology to experience the '90s in the present with an innovative new app is called Gudak Cam. Look through the peep hole, take a bunch of photos (24 to be exact), and wait 3 days until you can see them (while they'e being 'developed').
Brendon from Anchor says:
"I find that having a limited amount of photos I can take in a "roll" makes me more selective about the moments I intend to capture, and waiting multiple days to see them means I don't spend time in my Photos app checking."
The app has almost entirely 5 star reviews in the App Store and the photos come out looking pretty cool as well (see examples). Share your photos early next week after your first roll is developed. 😜
We now have the technology to experience the '90s in the present with an innovative new app is called Gudak Cam. Look through the peep hole, take a bunch of photos (24 to be exact), and wait 3 days until you can see them (while they'e being 'developed').
Brendon from Anchor says:
"I find that having a limited amount of photos I can take in a "roll" makes me more selective about the moments I intend to capture, and waiting multiple days to see them means I don't spend time in my Photos app checking."
The app has almost entirely 5 star reviews in the App Store and the photos come out looking pretty cool as well (see examples). Share your photos early next week after your first roll is developed. 😜
What happened to Vine, Sunrise, and Mailbox? RIP. 💐⚰
Startups come and go. Very few last for decades. Some shut down when the founders call it quits. Others get acquired and subsequently killed by their adoptive parents. Few pivot into something great.
Product Graveyard commemorates the most memorable products that have gone away. The site is well-designed and informative, recognizing each startup’s cause of death, lifespan, notable achievements, and last known residence.
For example, Sunrise’s honorable grave reads:
👶 Born February 2013 and it died in August 2016
☠ Got killed by its adoptive parent who merge it into Outlook
🔮 Known for great UI, simple to use, and 3rd party services
🏠 Last know residence: OS X, Windows, iOS, Android, and Web
Product Graveyard has hundreds of products you can honor and learn from. If any are missing, submit a short 'autopsy' for the team to add, and share a eulogy (a fun story) in the PH comments and company page.
Product Graveyard commemorates the most memorable products that have gone away. The site is well-designed and informative, recognizing each startup’s cause of death, lifespan, notable achievements, and last known residence.
For example, Sunrise’s honorable grave reads:
👶 Born February 2013 and it died in August 2016
☠ Got killed by its adoptive parent who merge it into Outlook
🔮 Known for great UI, simple to use, and 3rd party services
🏠 Last know residence: OS X, Windows, iOS, Android, and Web
Product Graveyard has hundreds of products you can honor and learn from. If any are missing, submit a short 'autopsy' for the team to add, and share a eulogy (a fun story) in the PH comments and company page.
