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Slack just launched Google Hangout's best feature 👀
Say goodbye to Google Hangouts. Slack just rolled out Screen Sharing for Calls! Reaction: :champagne: :partyparrot: :tada:
From Slack Product Manager Chris Luquetta-Fish:
We’re very excited to add Screen Sharing to Calls in Slack so that you can share your screen with your teammates to collaborate and get work done.
Some of you have touched on a similar question: As Slack continues to expand into team collaboration products, what does this mean for developers building on the platform? Will Slack release a competitor to Dropbox? Trello? Intercom?
Check out Chris' response.
From Slack Product Manager Chris Luquetta-Fish:
We’re very excited to add Screen Sharing to Calls in Slack so that you can share your screen with your teammates to collaborate and get work done.
Some of you have touched on a similar question: As Slack continues to expand into team collaboration products, what does this mean for developers building on the platform? Will Slack release a competitor to Dropbox? Trello? Intercom?
Check out Chris' response.
21 Free Design Tools For Startups
Creating a well-designed site or product usually isn’t cheap, especially in a world without Geocities (RIP ). While there’s no substitute for hiring a great designer, there are ways to build something beautiful, without having to cut down on avocados.
Check out 21 of our favorite free design resources. A special thanks to Airbnb, Facebook, and Google for quite a few of these products.
Check out 21 of our favorite free design resources. A special thanks to Airbnb, Facebook, and Google for quite a few of these products.
BREAKING: New app from HBO's Silicon Valley 🌭
Last night Silicon Valley's Jian-Yang launched his new app, Not Hotdog, a disruptive app that uses AI and neural networks to identify hotdogs. Despite this impressive feat of technical brilliance, Jian-Yang wants nothing to do with it. Here's his comment on Product Hunt:
"It is very good and I don't want to work on it any more. You can hire someone else."
The real question: How long before Zuck adds hotdog recognition to Instagram? 🤔
"It is very good and I don't want to work on it any more. You can hire someone else."
The real question: How long before Zuck adds hotdog recognition to Instagram? 🤔
There's an API for everything.
An API (Application Programming Interface, if anyone asks) is a set of routines and protocols for building apps. Companies are launching APIs left and right. Today, there's an API for just about everything.
Here are some helpful ones:
• RapidAPI: Discover, test and connect to the world's top APIs
• RAML is the simplest way to design APIs
• Dash gives you offline access to 150+ API documentation sets
• Sheetsu turns Google Spreadsheets into an API
• Cloud Vision is Google's image recognition API for developers
• Every Developer helps you evaluate an API before you start coding
• Zapier's Developer Platform will connect you to 750+ apps overnight
If you'd like to start understand the interfaces that connect our world, Introduction to APIs is a free eBook in the Kindle store!
Here are some helpful ones:
• RapidAPI: Discover, test and connect to the world's top APIs
• RAML is the simplest way to design APIs
• Dash gives you offline access to 150+ API documentation sets
• Sheetsu turns Google Spreadsheets into an API
• Cloud Vision is Google's image recognition API for developers
• Every Developer helps you evaluate an API before you start coding
• Zapier's Developer Platform will connect you to 750+ apps overnight
If you'd like to start understand the interfaces that connect our world, Introduction to APIs is a free eBook in the Kindle store!
What's the one app you can't live without? 🤔
A few days ago Emily asked Product Hunt:
What's the one app you can't live without?
Some of the usual suspects were recommended, including this popular Stockholm-based music streaming service, an emoji-friendly chatroom for your team, and this writing platform for sharing your open letters.
A few others recommended gems you may not have heard of: Alfred is the ultimate productivity tool for the Mac. Workflowy is a handy notebook for lists (we love lists). And Musical.ly is a fun app that all the teens use now days. 🎶
If you were stuck on a desert island and could only bring one app with you, which one would be your "Wilson"? 🤔
What's the one app you can't live without?
Some of the usual suspects were recommended, including this popular Stockholm-based music streaming service, an emoji-friendly chatroom for your team, and this writing platform for sharing your open letters.
A few others recommended gems you may not have heard of: Alfred is the ultimate productivity tool for the Mac. Workflowy is a handy notebook for lists (we love lists). And Musical.ly is a fun app that all the teens use now days. 🎶
If you were stuck on a desert island and could only bring one app with you, which one would be your "Wilson"? 🤔
Startup Graveyard ⚰️
Over the weekend a new project launched, gathering a lot of (well-deserved) attention: Startup Graveyard.
The site's mission is to help entrepreneurs avoid the same mistakes of failed startups, increasing transparency and acknowledging the risks startups take when building something new.
Unlike similar projects that have come before it, Startup Graveyard is different, in that it shows you the reasons why popular startups didn't work out and had to shut down. Look through Homejoy, Secret, 99Dresses, 37Coins, finance startups, eCommerce startups, and more. There's a lot to learn here.
The site's mission is to help entrepreneurs avoid the same mistakes of failed startups, increasing transparency and acknowledging the risks startups take when building something new.
Unlike similar projects that have come before it, Startup Graveyard is different, in that it shows you the reasons why popular startups didn't work out and had to shut down. Look through Homejoy, Secret, 99Dresses, 37Coins, finance startups, eCommerce startups, and more. There's a lot to learn here.
REVEALED: Amazon's Echo Show 👀
A few weeks ago Amazon released the Echo Look, its new Alexa-powered device that watches you get dressed.
Today, Amazon revealed its rumored touchscreen assistant, appropriately named the Echo Show. Now you can ask:
"Alexa, show my calendar"
"Alexa, see who's at the front door"
"Alexa, spy on my children"
We're most excited about the opportunities this creates for makers. The Alexa Skill store is about to get even more interesting (pro tip: follow the Alexa Skills topic). 🙌
Today, Amazon revealed its rumored touchscreen assistant, appropriately named the Echo Show. Now you can ask:
"Alexa, show my calendar"
"Alexa, see who's at the front door"
"Alexa, spy on my children"
We're most excited about the opportunities this creates for makers. The Alexa Skill store is about to get even more interesting (pro tip: follow the Alexa Skills topic). 🙌
John Oliver crashed the FCC website 😅 📈
Once again, John Oliver and the team at Last Week Tonight crashed the FCC website. Here's how they did it:
When net neutrality rules were under threat three years ago, Last Week Tonight (then, relatively unknown) directed people to a simple FCC website and urged them to leave a comment in support of Title II and strong net neutrality protections (which help startups like you and me stay competitive by requiring ISPs to treat all internet traffic equally).
People's voices were heard and the plan succeeded. Until now, when net neutrality is under threat again. Enter: gofccyourself.com.
Today, the once simple process of going to the FCC's website turned into a 16 second explainer GIF (feature or bug, see here). So Last Week Tonight bought the URL gofccyourself.com – which redirects to the part of the FCC's website for showing your support for net neutrality.
The only problem: The FCC's website crashed (again) from all the traffic.
When net neutrality rules were under threat three years ago, Last Week Tonight (then, relatively unknown) directed people to a simple FCC website and urged them to leave a comment in support of Title II and strong net neutrality protections (which help startups like you and me stay competitive by requiring ISPs to treat all internet traffic equally).
People's voices were heard and the plan succeeded. Until now, when net neutrality is under threat again. Enter: gofccyourself.com.
Today, the once simple process of going to the FCC's website turned into a 16 second explainer GIF (feature or bug, see here). So Last Week Tonight bought the URL gofccyourself.com – which redirects to the part of the FCC's website for showing your support for net neutrality.
The only problem: The FCC's website crashed (again) from all the traffic.
Must-Have Chrome Extensions 😎
The most recommended Chrome Extension is Grammarly. Get it. It will help you write more good and save you from embarrassing errors.
What are some of the other must-have Chrome Extensions? 🤔 Over 130+ were recommended by the community in one Ask Product Hunt question. Here are some of the best:
• The Great Suspender clears inactive tabs to reduce memory usage
• Honey automatically applies the best coupon code at checkout
• Ghostery shows you which companies track you on websites
• Privacy creates a new virtual credit card to protect you from fraud
What are some of the other must-have Chrome Extensions? 🤔 Over 130+ were recommended by the community in one Ask Product Hunt question. Here are some of the best:
• The Great Suspender clears inactive tabs to reduce memory usage
• Honey automatically applies the best coupon code at checkout
• Ghostery shows you which companies track you on websites
• Privacy creates a new virtual credit card to protect you from fraud
Apple to get rid of emoji keyboard in 2018
A world without emoji. Imagine that. How will we communicate our feelings and express emotions when the written word is all we've got.
Apple is not getting rid of emoji (that was a thinking exercise), but take a second to think of how indispensable emojis have become. We're seeing the modern "universal language" evolve right before our eyes, with new additions, style changes, and new emoji apps coming out every day.
There's an emoji URL shortener, emoji analysis for your tweets, emojilytics for all tweets in real-time, emoji domain-registration, and even an emoji-based programming language.
Today, we're excited to have Emojipedia founder Jeremy Burge join us on Product Hunt Live. Jeremy is also the creator of World Emoji Day, and is a member of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee (the people who decide which new emojis get added).
Ask Jeremy anything today at 10 AM PST. Before that, you can watch Jeremy's recent TED Talk, or get your question in early if you find the secret Emoji Request Hotline.
P.S. All new emoji requests should be in the form of a question (party parrot, please?)
Apple is not getting rid of emoji (that was a thinking exercise), but take a second to think of how indispensable emojis have become. We're seeing the modern "universal language" evolve right before our eyes, with new additions, style changes, and new emoji apps coming out every day.
There's an emoji URL shortener, emoji analysis for your tweets, emojilytics for all tweets in real-time, emoji domain-registration, and even an emoji-based programming language.
Today, we're excited to have Emojipedia founder Jeremy Burge join us on Product Hunt Live. Jeremy is also the creator of World Emoji Day, and is a member of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee (the people who decide which new emojis get added).
Ask Jeremy anything today at 10 AM PST. Before that, you can watch Jeremy's recent TED Talk, or get your question in early if you find the secret Emoji Request Hotline.
P.S. All new emoji requests should be in the form of a question (party parrot, please?)
