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Medium’s latest update 👏👏👏
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Today, we are ending the upvote[1]. That’s right, the archaic binary upvote system is being replaced with claps, the latest technology to demonstrate love on the internet.
Also starting today, New Medium. Check it out. 👏👏👏
Lots of you have already seen the recent branding updates – and the claps – but its more than a superficial change. Medium explains what they’re all about:
“The more claps you give a locked post, the more share of your membership fee that author will get.”
That’s right, Medium created an emoji-based economy for content creators to earn money. The more claps you give, the more money writers earn from Medium’s newish subscription membership.
P.S. If you are not interested in making money from your work, nothing changes. Medium remains free and open.
[1] Just kidding. Upvotes are staying. Go exercise your freedom to ⬆️.
Also starting today, New Medium. Check it out. 👏👏👏
Lots of you have already seen the recent branding updates – and the claps – but its more than a superficial change. Medium explains what they’re all about:
“The more claps you give a locked post, the more share of your membership fee that author will get.”
That’s right, Medium created an emoji-based economy for content creators to earn money. The more claps you give, the more money writers earn from Medium’s newish subscription membership.
P.S. If you are not interested in making money from your work, nothing changes. Medium remains free and open.
[1] Just kidding. Upvotes are staying. Go exercise your freedom to ⬆️.
Inside Scoop on YC S17 Demo Day 🤑🚀
Today is the largest Demo Day in Y Combinator's 12.5 year history, with 124 companies presenting over the the two days of product launches. Many of these companies have recently launched on Product Hunt.
• YC's youngest ever founders launched Slik.ai
• Learn to code on the go with the beautiful Py app
• Get superpowers right inside GCal with Meetingbird
• Manage your money with your partner via Honeydue
• Get a full CS education for FREE through Lambda School
• Rent modern furniture for yourself & your startup on Feather
Follow the YC S17 Collection as new companies will be added throughout the day. 🚀
• YC's youngest ever founders launched Slik.ai
• Learn to code on the go with the beautiful Py app
• Get superpowers right inside GCal with Meetingbird
• Manage your money with your partner via Honeydue
• Get a full CS education for FREE through Lambda School
• Rent modern furniture for yourself & your startup on Feather
Follow the YC S17 Collection as new companies will be added throughout the day. 🚀
How to watch the solar eclipse today 🌔🐱
Today is a very special day. It is Monday, the beginning of the work week. It's also the first time a total solar eclipse will be visible from the North American continent since the invention of the iPhone, fidget spinner, and internet. How to watch:
The safest most informative way of watching the spectacle is through the Exploratorium's Total Solar Eclipse app, including expert commentary and live HD video.
If you insist on "experiencing" the rare spectacle with people, this site will show you all the eclipse viewing events in your area.
The Totality app will tell you when, where, and what you’ll see.
If you missed it, sign up to get notified when this beautiful Eclipse product will be available (totally unrelated to astronomy).
Safety Warning: Do not let the Sun look directly into your cat during the solar eclipse.
The safest most informative way of watching the spectacle is through the Exploratorium's Total Solar Eclipse app, including expert commentary and live HD video.
If you insist on "experiencing" the rare spectacle with people, this site will show you all the eclipse viewing events in your area.
The Totality app will tell you when, where, and what you’ll see.
If you missed it, sign up to get notified when this beautiful Eclipse product will be available (totally unrelated to astronomy).
Safety Warning: Do not let the Sun look directly into your cat during the solar eclipse.
Bored Elon Musk Launches Seed Fund 🌱💰
A message from serial inventor Bored Elon Musk:
Every single day, I receive emails from people asking for help with their inventions and products. I typically ignore these requests because I'm very busy building extremely unnecessary technologies that temporarily alleviate my boredom. But I've come to realize that I'm just one human and I can only scale my time and knowledge so much. It's time to give back to the universe.
With that in mind, I'm mildly excited to share that I'm opening up my wallet and investing in all of you through the Bored Elon Seed Fund.
I'm calling for the world's greatest and worst product builders to pitch me directly on Twitter. One week from today, I will select the best three submissions and their respective creators to receive an early stage investment of five million seedlings of Kentucky Bluegrass in exchange for 0% of their company.
Should your invention be selected, not only will you receive enough resources to cover roughly 325 square meters of dirt, but you'll be joining a community.
Let's make the universe a better place. Together.
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Tips: Get creative! Go through Bored Elon's timeline for inspiration. Make sure to link to the newsletter and include #PitchBoredElon in your tweet.
Example Pitch: "Coffee cup lids that change color when you've ACTUALLY sealed them." 💡
Every single day, I receive emails from people asking for help with their inventions and products. I typically ignore these requests because I'm very busy building extremely unnecessary technologies that temporarily alleviate my boredom. But I've come to realize that I'm just one human and I can only scale my time and knowledge so much. It's time to give back to the universe.
With that in mind, I'm mildly excited to share that I'm opening up my wallet and investing in all of you through the Bored Elon Seed Fund.
I'm calling for the world's greatest and worst product builders to pitch me directly on Twitter. One week from today, I will select the best three submissions and their respective creators to receive an early stage investment of five million seedlings of Kentucky Bluegrass in exchange for 0% of their company.
Should your invention be selected, not only will you receive enough resources to cover roughly 325 square meters of dirt, but you'll be joining a community.
Let's make the universe a better place. Together.
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Tips: Get creative! Go through Bored Elon's timeline for inspiration. Make sure to link to the newsletter and include #PitchBoredElon in your tweet.
Example Pitch: "Coffee cup lids that change color when you've ACTUALLY sealed them." 💡
VIP Access to Superhuman (from Rapportive team) 📧⚡️
The team behind Rapportive has been quietly working on a new email app that’s used by the likes of Justin Kan, Naval Ravikant, and Paul Buchheit (who created Gmail).
Superhuman is blazingly fast (there’s a keyboard shortcut for everything) and includes features like undo send (thank goodness!), follow-up reminders (#lifehack), scheduled messages (super useful for event reminders), and read statuses (so you can spy on people 🙊). It also brings full contact profiles into your inbox and uses AI to highlight your most important emails first.
Rapportive kickstarted the Gmail extension ecosystem, and in 2012, was acquired by LinkedIn. The band’s back together now, with the goal to create the best email client of all time. The Product Hunt community is getting a first look, sign up here.
Superhuman is blazingly fast (there’s a keyboard shortcut for everything) and includes features like undo send (thank goodness!), follow-up reminders (#lifehack), scheduled messages (super useful for event reminders), and read statuses (so you can spy on people 🙊). It also brings full contact profiles into your inbox and uses AI to highlight your most important emails first.
Rapportive kickstarted the Gmail extension ecosystem, and in 2012, was acquired by LinkedIn. The band’s back together now, with the goal to create the best email client of all time. The Product Hunt community is getting a first look, sign up here.
Open-source alternatives to Medium, Twitter, Slack, GitHub, Trello + more! 😻
Open-source software is free to use and free to alter. It promotes collaboration and led to some of the most important projects across the web, such as Linux, MySQL, Firefox, and WordPress.
For almost every paid product there is a free open-source alternative:
👻 Ghost is an open-source alternative to Medium
📋 Telform is an alternative to TypeForm
💻 Gitlab is an alternative to Github
🛠 WeKan is an alternative to Trello
🍭 Mattermost & Riot are open-source Slack competitors
Lets not forget Mastodon, the open-source Twitter alternative.
For alternatives to Evernote, IFTTT, Basecamp, Buffer, and more check out Stek.io co-founder Erwin Blom's Open Source Alternatives collection.
For almost every paid product there is a free open-source alternative:
👻 Ghost is an open-source alternative to Medium
📋 Telform is an alternative to TypeForm
💻 Gitlab is an alternative to Github
🛠 WeKan is an alternative to Trello
🍭 Mattermost & Riot are open-source Slack competitors
Lets not forget Mastodon, the open-source Twitter alternative.
For alternatives to Evernote, IFTTT, Basecamp, Buffer, and more check out Stek.io co-founder Erwin Blom's Open Source Alternatives collection.
"Yelp for VCs" 👀
"Really important and necessary service for a startup world."
"I love that you're bringing transparency to a process that desperately needs it!"
"Great timing for this product."
"Yelp for VCs."
These are some of the community's thoughts on Know Your VC.
What is it? A platform where founders anonymously (or not) review investors. 1st reaction: highly needed. 2nd reaction: uh-oh! The team of five is taking measures to maintain credibility by personally vetting contributors.
While controversial, Know Your VC’s mission is to bring transparency to the startup world. Get to know investors from Benchmark, General Catalyst, Greylock, and other Silicon Valley firms. And founders, if you have something to share, write your own review.
For the rest of us, sign up and browse freely. ✨
"I love that you're bringing transparency to a process that desperately needs it!"
"Great timing for this product."
"Yelp for VCs."
These are some of the community's thoughts on Know Your VC.
What is it? A platform where founders anonymously (or not) review investors. 1st reaction: highly needed. 2nd reaction: uh-oh! The team of five is taking measures to maintain credibility by personally vetting contributors.
While controversial, Know Your VC’s mission is to bring transparency to the startup world. Get to know investors from Benchmark, General Catalyst, Greylock, and other Silicon Valley firms. And founders, if you have something to share, write your own review.
For the rest of us, sign up and browse freely. ✨
Watch SpaceX launch a rocket into space 🚀✨
Today we're at NASA for the SpaceX launch! Follow along on Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat (p.s. Snap is alive) for a behind the scenes look leading up to the launch. We'll be streaming the big spectacle ~2 feet away from the 🚀 on Facebook Live around 9:30am PT.
Now lets talk about the key breakthrough SpaceX is working on.
There is nothing routine about launching rockets into space. It’s even harder to bring them back safely. SpaceX has push the boundaries of what we thought was possible.
"Going to Mars" may be the ultimate goal, but the fundamental breakthrough SpaceX is working on is taking place right before our eyes. With each launch, SpaceX is slowly pushing the limit to what is possible. Remember, it was only 4 years ago when the company was uploading YouTube videos titled "Grasshopper vs. Cows". 🐄
“If one can figure out how to effectively reuse rockets just like airplanes, the cost of access to space will be reduced by as much as a factor of a hundred. A fully reusable vehicle has never been done before. That really is the fundamental breakthrough needed to revolutionize access to space.” – Elon Musk
In June, SpaceX completed two Falcon 9 landings in 48 hours. We're finally on a path to seeing full reusability in the rocket business, the key to going to Mars and everything else.
Practice! You can test your skills landing Elon's rocket as you wait for the actual launch to start. 😬💥
Now lets talk about the key breakthrough SpaceX is working on.
There is nothing routine about launching rockets into space. It’s even harder to bring them back safely. SpaceX has push the boundaries of what we thought was possible.
"Going to Mars" may be the ultimate goal, but the fundamental breakthrough SpaceX is working on is taking place right before our eyes. With each launch, SpaceX is slowly pushing the limit to what is possible. Remember, it was only 4 years ago when the company was uploading YouTube videos titled "Grasshopper vs. Cows". 🐄
“If one can figure out how to effectively reuse rockets just like airplanes, the cost of access to space will be reduced by as much as a factor of a hundred. A fully reusable vehicle has never been done before. That really is the fundamental breakthrough needed to revolutionize access to space.” – Elon Musk
In June, SpaceX completed two Falcon 9 landings in 48 hours. We're finally on a path to seeing full reusability in the rocket business, the key to going to Mars and everything else.
Practice! You can test your skills landing Elon's rocket as you wait for the actual launch to start. 😬💥
Apps to launch when boredom strikes 💥📱💡
You made it to Friday. Congrats! Today we'll be talking about a very serious topic: apps to launch when you're bored. Instead of highlighting the usual candidates like Twitter, Facebook, Parking, and Instasnap we'd like to share a few lesser known procrastination apps.
📰 For news, check out Nuzzel. The app pulls together the most shared articles from your Twitter and Facebook feeds to ensure you’re always up-to-date on the latest Uber news.
🎙 If you like podcasts, Breaker will help you discover new content by showing you recent episodes your friends have listened to. Meanwhile, Laughable shows you all the podcasts your favorite comedians have been on.
📊 Take a minute to try Progress, an app that tracks your body's transformation over time, and 60 Seconds Everyday is the faster way to record a daily journal. Both will leave you with memories that last a lifetime.
🤔 What's your go-to app when boredom strikes? Share with the community on Ask Product Hunt.
📰 For news, check out Nuzzel. The app pulls together the most shared articles from your Twitter and Facebook feeds to ensure you’re always up-to-date on the latest Uber news.
🎙 If you like podcasts, Breaker will help you discover new content by showing you recent episodes your friends have listened to. Meanwhile, Laughable shows you all the podcasts your favorite comedians have been on.
📊 Take a minute to try Progress, an app that tracks your body's transformation over time, and 60 Seconds Everyday is the faster way to record a daily journal. Both will leave you with memories that last a lifetime.
🤔 What's your go-to app when boredom strikes? Share with the community on Ask Product Hunt.
Facebook is taking on Netflix! 💥😲
Facebook is combining their video expertise and aspirations to capture your attention every minute with a new platform for discovering and watching shows. Yes, Facebook TV is finally here. 🎉
Director of Product Daniel Danker says: “Watch is personalized to help you discover new shows, organized around what your friends and communities are watching.” In other words, Watch is competing head-on against Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and cable TV, offering a more social experience for its 2 BILLION+ users. Your move, Twitter. 😉
The quest to capture cord-cutters’ demand for quality content continues. And now Disney is entering the game, having just announced it’s pulling its movies from Netflix and building its own streaming service. Grab your popcorn. 🍿👀
Director of Product Daniel Danker says: “Watch is personalized to help you discover new shows, organized around what your friends and communities are watching.” In other words, Watch is competing head-on against Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and cable TV, offering a more social experience for its 2 BILLION+ users. Your move, Twitter. 😉
The quest to capture cord-cutters’ demand for quality content continues. And now Disney is entering the game, having just announced it’s pulling its movies from Netflix and building its own streaming service. Grab your popcorn. 🍿👀
