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Our ultra-fast Daily: Three takes on new products. Yesterday’s top ten launches. That’s it.
Microsoft’s new app for the blind 👀
Microsoft’s new app makes the visual world accessible to the blind. The app is a talking camera that uses AI to identify people and things around you, described in audio. It can:
- Recognize peoples’ facial expressions
- Read nutritional facts
- Identify a $20 bill
- Voice-dictate your Twitter timeline
Watch the video. It’s impressive. 👏
The app, creatively named, Seeing AI, is reminiscent of one of the most popular hunts from 2015: Be My Eyes, an app to “lend” your eyes to the blind. For those fortunate to have unimpaired sight, visit this site for your daily dose of empathy.
- Recognize peoples’ facial expressions
- Read nutritional facts
- Identify a $20 bill
- Voice-dictate your Twitter timeline
Watch the video. It’s impressive. 👏
The app, creatively named, Seeing AI, is reminiscent of one of the most popular hunts from 2015: Be My Eyes, an app to “lend” your eyes to the blind. For those fortunate to have unimpaired sight, visit this site for your daily dose of empathy.
PSA: Spotify’s new site might embarrass you 😜
Stockholm-based Spotify has been viewed as the underdog in the music-streaming industry, competing for ears alongside Google, Amazon, Apple, and TIDAL but it’s arguably the most innovative as evidenced by its latest data-driven project, Spotify.me.
Now can you review and share your (most embarrassing) music preferences and vices. Spotify knows:
😍 Your favorite artist
🕓 What time of day you’re head bobbing
💃 Even the average BPM of the music you listen to
Get your Spotify.me and browse hundreds of other Spotify-powered apps, including a spiritual successor to turntable.fm and a “Tinder for songs”.
Now can you review and share your (most embarrassing) music preferences and vices. Spotify knows:
😍 Your favorite artist
🕓 What time of day you’re head bobbing
💃 Even the average BPM of the music you listen to
Get your Spotify.me and browse hundreds of other Spotify-powered apps, including a spiritual successor to turntable.fm and a “Tinder for songs”.
Sorry about the tabs 😕
On Friday we took the unprecedented step of linking to every single top product for every day of the month. We tried to link responsibly – the subject line of the newsletter read: "Warning: Lots of cool products" – but it wasn't enough.
An onslaught of too many tabs horror stories proceeded. Browsers were crashing. We tried to push the limits of interesting products, and we're sorry for that.
Fortunately, we found the cure to tab hoarding. You should also clear your browsing data periodically and consider spreading the open-tab load between Chrome, and multiple Rad Browsers. 🌐✌️
An onslaught of too many tabs horror stories proceeded. Browsers were crashing. We tried to push the limits of interesting products, and we're sorry for that.
Fortunately, we found the cure to tab hoarding. You should also clear your browsing data periodically and consider spreading the open-tab load between Chrome, and multiple Rad Browsers. 🌐✌️
Warning: Lots of cool products ⚠️
June, the month when Bitcoin and Ethereum took off, was full of hundreds of awesome product launches. Here's a detailed recap of the top product from every day of the month.
June 1: New Skype – Now with Stories 💁
June 2: Adobe Scan – Photoshop diversification 📠
June 3: Boolean – Ask users yes/no questions. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
June 4: FontJoy – Magical font technology 🎩
June 5: Feather – Unrelated to birds. Check it out 👀
June 6: Apple ARKit – 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
June 7: Sony Digital Paper – Paper reinvented 📄
June 8: SiteStacks – Find the tech stack of any site 🛠
June 9: Morning Routine – Win the morning 💪
June 10: Your Summer Rewind by Spotify – ☀️🎉🎵
June 11: Logolix – Free logos for startups 🅿️
June 12: RealEye – Eye track user engagement 👁
June 13: Topol.io – Beautiful HTML Emails 📧
June 14: Promo – "Promotional" (marketing videos) 🎥
June 15: Headspace – Meditation! (everyone's doing it) 🙏
June 16: Estimapp – See how much it costs to make an app 💰
June 17: Chill N’ Sound – Netflix and chill for sounds 🎶
June 18: CoolHue – Cool colors 🎨
June 19: Flymble – Nearly free flights ✈️
June 20: Roadmap – Plan everything out 🤓
June 21: Flawless – 👌
June 22: Paperplane – Unrelated to paper airplane 🙃
June 23: Holo – Arguably the coolest product 😎
June 24: UX Flow Wireframe Prototyping – Excellent 💻
June 25: Responder – Outline webpage grids 📐
June 26: AR Measure – The tape measure, disrupted. 💥
June 27: Normal Software – Software for normals 👫
June 28: API List – There's an API for everything 🌐
June 29: Landbot.io – The bot revolution has begun 🤖
June 30: Runway – Eric Ries’ latest product for startups 🦄
Check out the exact same list with more sentences on Medium.
June 1: New Skype – Now with Stories 💁
June 2: Adobe Scan – Photoshop diversification 📠
June 3: Boolean – Ask users yes/no questions. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
June 4: FontJoy – Magical font technology 🎩
June 5: Feather – Unrelated to birds. Check it out 👀
June 6: Apple ARKit – 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
June 7: Sony Digital Paper – Paper reinvented 📄
June 8: SiteStacks – Find the tech stack of any site 🛠
June 9: Morning Routine – Win the morning 💪
June 10: Your Summer Rewind by Spotify – ☀️🎉🎵
June 11: Logolix – Free logos for startups 🅿️
June 12: RealEye – Eye track user engagement 👁
June 13: Topol.io – Beautiful HTML Emails 📧
June 14: Promo – "Promotional" (marketing videos) 🎥
June 15: Headspace – Meditation! (everyone's doing it) 🙏
June 16: Estimapp – See how much it costs to make an app 💰
June 17: Chill N’ Sound – Netflix and chill for sounds 🎶
June 18: CoolHue – Cool colors 🎨
June 19: Flymble – Nearly free flights ✈️
June 20: Roadmap – Plan everything out 🤓
June 21: Flawless – 👌
June 22: Paperplane – Unrelated to paper airplane 🙃
June 23: Holo – Arguably the coolest product 😎
June 24: UX Flow Wireframe Prototyping – Excellent 💻
June 25: Responder – Outline webpage grids 📐
June 26: AR Measure – The tape measure, disrupted. 💥
June 27: Normal Software – Software for normals 👫
June 28: API List – There's an API for everything 🌐
June 29: Landbot.io – The bot revolution has begun 🤖
June 30: Runway – Eric Ries’ latest product for startups 🦄
Check out the exact same list with more sentences on Medium.
Best. Landing. Page. Ever. (Part 2)
In May we wrote about an app called Peek, calling it "the best landing page ever," which we stand by at the time, but clearly we spoke too soon.
Twitter reactions to a new app called Muzzle:
Kate: "Brilliant demonstration, and genius app. I've been needing this thing, even if my notifications aren't QUITE as embarrassing."
Ben: "Best landing page everrrr"
Andreas: "Best. Landing. Page. Ever."
Ryan: "Best landing page demo I’ve seen this year"
Muzzle silences embarrassing notifications while screensharing. You can download it here and save yourself from future face-palms in front of your coworkers.
Twitter reactions to a new app called Muzzle:
Kate: "Brilliant demonstration, and genius app. I've been needing this thing, even if my notifications aren't QUITE as embarrassing."
Ben: "Best landing page everrrr"
Andreas: "Best. Landing. Page. Ever."
Ryan: "Best landing page demo I’ve seen this year"
Muzzle silences embarrassing notifications while screensharing. You can download it here and save yourself from future face-palms in front of your coworkers.
40+ Newsletters you (might) love 💌
What's one newsletter that you love so much you can't miss an issue? The question started taking off a few days ago. Here are the top newsletter recommendations so far:
🏆 The Hustle is the most recommended from the list. Ryan Hoover says: "The Hustle has a great tone and isn't afraid to be brutally honest about what's happening in tech."
👔 Stratechery: Daily email analysis on tech business and strategy, by Ben Thompson. The Exponent Podcast is a good compliment to it.
📝 The Journal: Kevin Rose sends out a highly curated newsletter each month with great recs and insider knowledge. Michael Neth says: "It's the only email newsletter I make sure to open as soon as I get it."
🙋 theSkimm: A daily summary of current events in your inbox. Hunter Walk recently wrote a post that highlights its potential, and says the company has "(waaaaay more) than five million active readers" (majority of which are female, almost all U.S.-based).
Check out the 40+ newsletters you might want to subscribe to.
P.S. We recently added a page that shows every Product Hunt Digest since the history of time. producthunt.com/newsletter
🏆 The Hustle is the most recommended from the list. Ryan Hoover says: "The Hustle has a great tone and isn't afraid to be brutally honest about what's happening in tech."
👔 Stratechery: Daily email analysis on tech business and strategy, by Ben Thompson. The Exponent Podcast is a good compliment to it.
📝 The Journal: Kevin Rose sends out a highly curated newsletter each month with great recs and insider knowledge. Michael Neth says: "It's the only email newsletter I make sure to open as soon as I get it."
🙋 theSkimm: A daily summary of current events in your inbox. Hunter Walk recently wrote a post that highlights its potential, and says the company has "(waaaaay more) than five million active readers" (majority of which are female, almost all U.S.-based).
Check out the 40+ newsletters you might want to subscribe to.
P.S. We recently added a page that shows every Product Hunt Digest since the history of time. producthunt.com/newsletter
LIVE Chat with Jony Ive today 🍎☁️
We're incredibly proud to host a very special guest. At 10am PST, the greatest designer of our time will be on Product Hunt Live today.
Ask a question early. 👈
(Not) Jony Ive joins the likes of Bored Elon Musk, Startup L. Jackson, Slack, and other tech-Twitter greats to answer the community's questions.
In the next few weeks we'll also be hosting:
• Brian Armstrong, Co-Founder & CEO of Coinbase
• Rachel Horwitz, Partner at Spark Capital
• Hunter Walk, Partner at Homebrew
• Allison Esposito, Founder of Tech Ladies
Ask a question early. 👈
(Not) Jony Ive joins the likes of Bored Elon Musk, Startup L. Jackson, Slack, and other tech-Twitter greats to answer the community's questions.
In the next few weeks we'll also be hosting:
• Brian Armstrong, Co-Founder & CEO of Coinbase
• Rachel Horwitz, Partner at Spark Capital
• Hunter Walk, Partner at Homebrew
• Allison Esposito, Founder of Tech Ladies
The real game-changer in iOS11 👀🚀
The iPhone 8 will be great, but iOS 11 is going to blow your mind. 😳
iOS 11 introduces a customizable control panel, screen recording, playable GIFs in Photos, and iCloud versions of Venmo and Dropbox. But the real game-changer is ARKit.
Developers have been playing with it for a few weeks since its debut at WWDC and we’re starting to see practical use cases (like an AR measuring tape, upvoted by more than 1,400 people) to Elon Musk-level “sci-fi” (like a SpaceX rocket landing in someone's backyard).
You can see all these videos on Made With ARKit, and we recommend you follow the @MadeWithARKit Twitter account. 🔥🔥
Here’s what you need to know: ARKit lets developers make apps that blend virtual objects with your environment. As the first demo apps show, the technology is powerful and will be an accelerant toward our AR and mixed reality future.
iOS 11 drops to the public in September. We asked Robert Scoble for his thoughts. He said: “195 million users in September is why ARKit matters.” In a few months, Apple will have the biggest AR platform on Day 1.
iOS 11 introduces a customizable control panel, screen recording, playable GIFs in Photos, and iCloud versions of Venmo and Dropbox. But the real game-changer is ARKit.
Developers have been playing with it for a few weeks since its debut at WWDC and we’re starting to see practical use cases (like an AR measuring tape, upvoted by more than 1,400 people) to Elon Musk-level “sci-fi” (like a SpaceX rocket landing in someone's backyard).
You can see all these videos on Made With ARKit, and we recommend you follow the @MadeWithARKit Twitter account. 🔥🔥
Here’s what you need to know: ARKit lets developers make apps that blend virtual objects with your environment. As the first demo apps show, the technology is powerful and will be an accelerant toward our AR and mixed reality future.
iOS 11 drops to the public in September. We asked Robert Scoble for his thoughts. He said: “195 million users in September is why ARKit matters.” In a few months, Apple will have the biggest AR platform on Day 1.
Best Startup Books 📚🦄
The 7 best startup books tweet turned into 20+ recommendations. By the end of this email your Summer reading list will be all taken care of.
Peter Thiel's Zero to One is the most recommended startup book by the community. It's an interesting read even for those that aren't into startups, and it really makes you think about what it takes for innovation to occur and how it happens.
The 2nd most recommended book will teach you how to run a lean startup, while the 3rd most recommended book by Nir Eyal (and a contributing writer) breaks down how to build habit-forming products.
Other great books on the list include: Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston, Intercom's new book about growing a startup, and it's about time the (just hunted) Venture Hacks Bible was on Product Hunt. ✌️
Peter Thiel's Zero to One is the most recommended startup book by the community. It's an interesting read even for those that aren't into startups, and it really makes you think about what it takes for innovation to occur and how it happens.
The 2nd most recommended book will teach you how to run a lean startup, while the 3rd most recommended book by Nir Eyal (and a contributing writer) breaks down how to build habit-forming products.
Other great books on the list include: Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston, Intercom's new book about growing a startup, and it's about time the (just hunted) Venture Hacks Bible was on Product Hunt. ✌️
The best Twitter app (not built by Twitter) 🐥
Tweeten is the new must-have Twitter app. Similar to TweetDeck's column interface, Tweeten helps your keep track of everything that's happening in real-time, with a few notable features that stand out:
• Emoji Picker: Quickly search and add any emoji right from the app
• GIF Download: Save any GIF with one click (GIF search coming)
• Old @Replies: That's right, get the old reply-style back
• Advanced Search: Search for "kitten filter:periscope" to find videos containing adorable kittens (along with dozens of other useful search tips to try)
Download Tweeten and show us your column setup, we'll RT from @ProductHunt our favorite ones! 😜
• Emoji Picker: Quickly search and add any emoji right from the app
• GIF Download: Save any GIF with one click (GIF search coming)
• Old @Replies: That's right, get the old reply-style back
• Advanced Search: Search for "kitten filter:periscope" to find videos containing adorable kittens (along with dozens of other useful search tips to try)
Download Tweeten and show us your column setup, we'll RT from @ProductHunt our favorite ones! 😜
