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Facebook enters the hottest social space 🔥
The demand for "group FaceTime" is strong, as evidenced by a flood of new social video apps entering the market. Of course, Facebook is paying attention. Yesterday, Messenger launched Group Video Chats, a highly requested feature in this newly competitive space.
Houseparty is red hot around college campuses, more than 1 million people downloaded Fam in less than a month, Sean Parker’s making moves with Airtime, Sequoia’s placing a bet on Tribe, and everyone’s wondering what Evan Spiegel will do following Snapchat’s introduction of Group Messaging. With VR on the horizon, what will be the ultimate form-factor for virtually chilling with friends? 🤔
Explore more live-chilling apps in this collection.
Houseparty is red hot around college campuses, more than 1 million people downloaded Fam in less than a month, Sean Parker’s making moves with Airtime, Sequoia’s placing a bet on Tribe, and everyone’s wondering what Evan Spiegel will do following Snapchat’s introduction of Group Messaging. With VR on the horizon, what will be the ultimate form-factor for virtually chilling with friends? 🤔
Explore more live-chilling apps in this collection.
The best products of the year 🏆😻
The 2nd annual Golden Kitty Awards have come to an end. 15 categories, 200+ products, and 2 weeks of pure excitement from the community — it was a lot of fun! Time to announce the winners. 😸
Gboard took home Tech Product of the Year. Congrats to Bri Connelly and the Google team, the daily dance videos were awesome. 💃
Tesla's Solar Roof won the Breakthrough award, while the Model S P100D was voted Sexiest product. Two Golden Kitties for Elon Musk.
Other app of the year winners include Franz (Desktop), Momento (iMessage), Tinycards by Duolingo (Mobile), Toby (Chrome), and Leaf was voted this year's best Hardware product. 🍁😊
On Friday we introduced the nominees for two new (non-voting) data-driven categories. The Maker of the Year Golden Kitty goes to Mubashar Iqbal and Community Member of the Year is Chris Messina.
Congrats to all the nominees for building some of 2016's best products. See all of this year's winners, including the runner-ups, on Medium.
Gboard took home Tech Product of the Year. Congrats to Bri Connelly and the Google team, the daily dance videos were awesome. 💃
Tesla's Solar Roof won the Breakthrough award, while the Model S P100D was voted Sexiest product. Two Golden Kitties for Elon Musk.
Other app of the year winners include Franz (Desktop), Momento (iMessage), Tinycards by Duolingo (Mobile), Toby (Chrome), and Leaf was voted this year's best Hardware product. 🍁😊
On Friday we introduced the nominees for two new (non-voting) data-driven categories. The Maker of the Year Golden Kitty goes to Mubashar Iqbal and Community Member of the Year is Chris Messina.
Congrats to all the nominees for building some of 2016's best products. See all of this year's winners, including the runner-ups, on Medium.
Maker and Community Member of the Year 🏆😺
Today, we’d like to announce the Golden Kitty Award nominees for Maker and Community Member of the year, a celebration of a few of the people that made 2016 awesome. This year we took a data-driven approach in selecting the people that received the most upvotes for things they made or hunted, in addition to other factors. Here they are:
Maker of the Year: Lucy Guo, Mikael Cho, Moritz Kobrna, Mubashar Iqbal, Seth Louey.
Community Member of the Year: Chris Messina, Gabriel Lewis, Jack Dweck, Jack Smith, Kevin William David.
The winners will be announced together with the 13 product categories on Monday morning. Voting ends this Sunday at 7pm PST.
Maker of the Year: Lucy Guo, Mikael Cho, Moritz Kobrna, Mubashar Iqbal, Seth Louey.
Community Member of the Year: Chris Messina, Gabriel Lewis, Jack Dweck, Jack Smith, Kevin William David.
The winners will be announced together with the 13 product categories on Monday morning. Voting ends this Sunday at 7pm PST.
The Force is strong with these products.
The first stand-alone Star Wars film hits theater tonight! The reviews are in, and the Force is strong with this one.
Be sure to install the Star Wars Spoiler Blocker if you're not going to see Rogue One on opening night. If you want to be the coolest person at work/school, create your own Star Wars Intro crawl right MEOW. 😸
For more, follow the Star Wars Topic to stay up to date as Rogue One-related products come out.
Be sure to install the Star Wars Spoiler Blocker if you're not going to see Rogue One on opening night. If you want to be the coolest person at work/school, create your own Star Wars Intro crawl right MEOW. 😸
For more, follow the Star Wars Topic to stay up to date as Rogue One-related products come out.
Learn to code in Napa (for free) 🍷🤓
Skill up and wine down. You and your friends could win a weekend getaway at a rustic luxury estate in Napa Valley, California. Also included is an interactive General Assembly workshop of your choice in coding, data, design, or marketing, taught against a picturesque backdrop.
Enter by Sunday, January 8 and you could win:
🍳 Welcome breakfast at General Assembly San Francisco.
🏪 Two nights at a Mediterranean-inspired estate in Napa Valley, CA
🤓 A GA workshop of your choice for in-demand skills
Enter by Sunday, January 8 and you could win:
🍳 Welcome breakfast at General Assembly San Francisco.
🏪 Two nights at a Mediterranean-inspired estate in Napa Valley, CA
🤓 A GA workshop of your choice for in-demand skills
Snapchat Groups are here! 👻🎉
Snapchat just released its most requested feature: Groups. Now you can exchange selfies and make plans with up to 16 friends, and it all disappears within 24 hours, just like regular snaps.
Group chat is a highly competitive space, with new apps like Houseparty making a strong claim at the top of the App Store charts, following a recent $50M raise from Sequoia reported by the WSJ. But if anyone can own the Group domain, it's Snap.
Add ProductHuntTeam so we can group chat.
Group chat is a highly competitive space, with new apps like Houseparty making a strong claim at the top of the App Store charts, following a recent $50M raise from Sequoia reported by the WSJ. But if anyone can own the Group domain, it's Snap.
Add ProductHuntTeam so we can group chat.
Netflix launched a new thing this weekend...
Over the weekend Netflix launched a new app for Google's VR headset, Daydream. Continue your binge from the comfort of a Netflix's virtual living room and enormous TV screen. 📺
Virtual Reality headsets like Gear VR and Daydream may not be in the same league as the HTC Vive or Oculus Rift, but make for an excellent passive viewing experience. For under $100 you can watch your favorite movies and shows from your own virtual IMAX Theater.
With startups like Wolfprint 3D creating realistic avatars of people and multiplayer 3D movie theaters like CINEVR, we're not far away from going to the movies with friends from all across the world, virtually.
Companies are even bringing native advertising to virtual reality. 😅
Virtual Reality headsets like Gear VR and Daydream may not be in the same league as the HTC Vive or Oculus Rift, but make for an excellent passive viewing experience. For under $100 you can watch your favorite movies and shows from your own virtual IMAX Theater.
With startups like Wolfprint 3D creating realistic avatars of people and multiplayer 3D movie theaters like CINEVR, we're not far away from going to the movies with friends from all across the world, virtually.
Companies are even bringing native advertising to virtual reality. 😅
Your nine best Instagram photos of 2016 📷🎉
Last year's most viral product is back. With the click of a button, 2016BestNine generates a shareable collage of your 9 most liked Instagram pics of the year (some of which you probably forgot).
You can also browse the most popular moments from your friends, celebs, and favorite beverage brands like the time...
• Kevin Systrom met Hillary and the Pope this year 😮
• LaCroix built a LaCroix home for a cat 🐱
• Snoop Dogg smoked something NSFW 🍃
• Chris Messina ate an entire hashtag cake 🍰
Add your 2016BestNine to the thread here and we’ll share them throughout the day on Twitter.
You can also browse the most popular moments from your friends, celebs, and favorite beverage brands like the time...
• Kevin Systrom met Hillary and the Pope this year 😮
• LaCroix built a LaCroix home for a cat 🐱
• Snoop Dogg smoked something NSFW 🍃
• Chris Messina ate an entire hashtag cake 🍰
Add your 2016BestNine to the thread here and we’ll share them throughout the day on Twitter.
Secret is back! Sort of. 👥📝
Secret co-founder David Byttow is bringing anonymity back into the spotlight with IO, a new lightweight writing tool that allows you to publish your thoughts anonymously, or as yourself (by logging in via Twitter).
The controversial anonymous app, Secret, may have elicited naughty quips, but IO is designed for deeper thoughts, focused on the words, not the person that wrote them.
Oh, and as a writing tool, it's stunning, with cool features built-in like a Hemingway assistant, slash commands, and ambience sounds.👌
The controversial anonymous app, Secret, may have elicited naughty quips, but IO is designed for deeper thoughts, focused on the words, not the person that wrote them.
Oh, and as a writing tool, it's stunning, with cool features built-in like a Hemingway assistant, slash commands, and ambience sounds.👌
Snapchat playing cards are a thing 🃏
The holiday season is upon us! There's no better way to compliment all the festivities with the #fam than with a good card game. Some of our favorites:
🦄 Disrupt Cards: The funniest card game to hit Silicon Valley
😏 The Voting Game: A party game for discovering who your friends are
👻 Snapchat Playing Cards: Official playing cards by Snap
🍊 Trumped Up Cards: Reid Hoffman's satirical game turned 😱😐
🚀 Control: Strategic game where you escape a rupture in spacetime
🙀 Exploding Kittens: If you're into card games, kittens, and explosions
For more, here are 8 Games To Keep You Entertained During the Holidays (order soon so they'll get to you in time).
🦄 Disrupt Cards: The funniest card game to hit Silicon Valley
😏 The Voting Game: A party game for discovering who your friends are
👻 Snapchat Playing Cards: Official playing cards by Snap
🍊 Trumped Up Cards: Reid Hoffman's satirical game turned 😱😐
🚀 Control: Strategic game where you escape a rupture in spacetime
🙀 Exploding Kittens: If you're into card games, kittens, and explosions
For more, here are 8 Games To Keep You Entertained During the Holidays (order soon so they'll get to you in time).
