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Our ultra-fast Daily: Three takes on new products. Yesterday’s top ten launches. That’s it.

Android co-founder launches stunning iPhone competitor
Android co-founder Andy Rubin just revealed his incredibly ambitious project: to create a phone that is better than what Samsung and (6 months later) Apple can come up with. Meet, the Essential Phone.

It's a high-end masterpiece. With an edge-to-edge display that wraps around the camera, no home button, and no headphone jack technology, Andy Rubin is brining you the latest innovations in the smartphone industry. The phone is made out of a titanium body, a ceramic build, and no logo. If it blows up there will be nobody to blame. Brilliant.

The most interesting part is Andy Rubin's vision: a phone (and an entire device ecosystem) that connect to each other seamlessly. Learn more by watching Andy Rubin's Code Conference interview.
Best. Landing Page. Ever.
Every so often a true gem comes along, for something very specific. Peek is one of those products, and it has the one of the best landing pages we’ve seen this year. It's clearly well designed, and the copy is brilliant.

The first thing you'll notice is in big bold letters: "Insert attractive marketing jargon." You'll navigate through the different sections, learn more about the product, appreciate the team's obvious design skills (and laugh quite a bit).

By the end, both marketers and engineers will wish they were as bold as the makers of Peek.
Learn to code by playing games 🃏🛠
What would you say if we told you there is no app on the market that tells you if code is Java or Not Java? Please build.

It's never too early to learn how to code. These days, elementary school kids are earning street cred building and launching apps. This (long) weekend, sit down with your kid, little cousin, or younger sibling and let them know that being a rocket surgeon is just a distraction on their way to a promising career as an engineer.

Get started with Littlecodr, an insanely fun card game that teaches kids the basics of code, Code Cards, a card game that lets anyone learn how to code (which you can now print for FREE), and Code Kingdoms, inspiring kids to learn coding by gaming.


There is also code:deck, a standard playing card deck with different coding languages.
NSFW
The workplace: a perfectly safe place to peek at NSFW products. So look over your shoulder, then the other shoulder, and...

• Download Nudifier to create faux nude photos
• Use Rumuki to get a prenup for sex tapes & home videos
• Add FartScroll.js to make your company website better
• Animate your photos with Lumyer (cannot be unseen)

For more shenanigans, check out the full NSFW collection on Product Hunt.
Launching a groundbreaking new feature 🚀
Today we're launching a groundbreaking new feature that could not have been possible without the work Thomas Edison, Alan Turing, Tim Berners-Lee, and Marc Andreessen. We call it: All-Time Leaderboard.

The concept is simple: every day product questions are asked and recommendations are given. We're now using advanced machine learning and numerical sorting techniques to surface questions with the most recommendations first. The result is profound in its simplicity.

What we have learned so far:

[202] "What's one app you use a lot, that most people don't know about?" has the most product recommendations of all-time.

[176] People. Love. Chrome Extensions.

[127] Some people would rather die if these apps didn't exist.

[96] Menu bar apps are a direct gateway to our soles.

[95] People actually pay for software on the internet.

The mysterious [numbers] above are outputs from the advanced numerical sorting techniques. ONLY the A.I. truly knows what they mean.
Must-have apps for product managers ⚡️🔮
The job of a Product Manager is to help your team build the right product for your users, and ship it on time. How PMs do that varies in every organization, but the tools of the trade remain the same all around.

• ProductPlan will help you visualize and share the product roadmap
• One Big Thing will keep you focused on the biggest task on hand
• Typeform is a simple way to generate user surveys
• Pinpoint is a helpful tool for marking up screenshots on iOS
• CloudApp lets you annotate screenshots & GIFs from the menubar

P.S. Intercom's hugely popular book on product management is a must.
Quora Video could take on YouTube 🎥👀
“Everything on mobile is being redefined by video. The question is whether older apps get with the times or get left behind.” –Josh Constine

Yesterday, Quora announced an experimental beta of native video support for their app. Authors in the beta group will be able to record videos on mobile from their iOS and Android devices. Video answers will be sorted by how useful they are to the community, and could steal away some How-To video content from YouTube.

With Justin Kan's popular Whale app and other paid-to-answer video apps like YAM  and Tumbleweed coming out, the space is heating up. For more product recommendations on any topic, Ask Product Hunt. 😉
The best free resources for startups 🦄🛠
Hiten Shah's collection of Free Stuff For Startups is one of the all-time best resources for helping startups get started. Hiten has been updating it regularly with products like FounderKit, Culture Codes, and Logo Dust, and it's the most followed collection on Product Hunt.

Hiten is now turning the question over to you: What do you think are the best free resources for startups? 

You can add your recommendation here, and explore the 25+ free startup resources recommended by community members so far. 
Audio-based articles are on the rise 📈🔊
Recently, we've been seeing quite a few new products based around a similar concept: audio-based articles. The latest one, Medium Audio Stories, was just introduced as part of Medium's paid membership offering (and it looks pretty awesome).

Listening to audiobooks has clearly caught on, but is the shorter-form audio-based article format something people want? 

You can listen to articles with Pocket Listen, listen to Medium articles (for free), or listen to startup focused Medium articles with this app. Other approaches include human-narration, a reading/listening hybrid, and hiring a TaskRabbit to read your Twitter timeline bedside, every night.

Check out the products community members recommend for listening to articles.
Everything Google launched in I/O 🍭📱🚀
Sundar Pichai kicked off Google I/O 2017 by announcing that as of this week, the number of active Android devices reached 2 Billion. (Android is like the iOS for people outside San Francisco)

The company announced a bunch of innovative new services, like Google Lens, a standalone VR headset for Daydream, and an old-school photo album which everyone in the audience received (really). They also launched a new version of Google Photos with lots of cool new AI based features. The app's 500M monthly active users will be pleased.

The most exciting announcement has to be the new Google Assistant. The marquee feature of the Pixel phone is now available to everybody, including people with iPhone technology. It's like having a Google Home right in your pocket, for free.

Check out everything Google launched on Day 1 of Google I/O here.