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The weather is getting colder and you want to be productive while you chomp on your pumpkin bread this weekend. We’re diving into an app called Kinnu today, which might help you learn stuff (like AI from Google DeepMind’s Head of Product) better.

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• Import any website and convert it into a Figma design with html.to.design.
• Solve these puzzles without touching the screen.
• mirrord lets devs plug their local process into their cloud cluster without disrupting it.
• Ten days until Halloween! Here are spooky animations and design assets for your projects.

Tbh founder Nikita Bier is back with Gas, a new social app that de-throned TikTok and BeReal. Read more below.

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• SecondFounder is a Kanban-style marketplace that helps you find co-founders and buy and sell side projects. 
• For all the Arc Browser die-hard stans, this Boost Kit offers a collection of tools to change a website's theme and inject new features by copying & pasting code snippets. 
• Lyft launched Parking to help you find and reserve the best parking spots around town.
• Designers, check out this free and open-source Figma plugin that lets you rename all your layers in one click.

The makers of Teleport HQ are celebrating a milestone of 120,000 users today and launching their low-code website builder.

Yes, it’s another website builder, but the seed-funded, Romania-based startup is getting noticed for its differentiating features. Though not fully no-code (CEO Paul Brie says users will need “a minimal set of HTML/CSS knowledge to fully enjoy it”), Teleport is attracting makers in search of a strong visual front-end development experience and easier code exports.

On the visual builder side, users note being impressed with Teleports “very intuitive interface.” Maker Vlad Nicula explains that although Teleport is doing catchup on features compared to Webflow, the new platform with has “real flexbox/grid layouts and zooming in and out of the page is a superior UX. Responsive layouts, especially fluid layout designs, are easier to view… ”

As for generating code, users who prefer to create in Figma can use the plugin to convert designs to 9 different javascript frameworks.

One user notes that while the tool still needs improvement, they see huge potential for its growth. “...Always missed exporting React. Now I can just sketch fast in Figma… but I prefer to build fresh in Teleport to minimize glitches. We'll ditch Figma completely at some point. Code to code directly.”

If “low-code” scared you away, this might help: One user pointed out that Teleport has integrated free code downloads into the product. Brie notes that the startup is working on a progressive approach to help non-technicals ramp up.

And for those of you making open-source software, Teleport includes open-source code generators too.

Are you as bullish on Teleport HQ as its early adopters? There’s one way to find out...

The convenience of ordering your food online may be unmatched, but most food ordering platforms are preparing for tough times ahead.

LunchBox, the all-in-one online ordering and guest engagement system that markets itself as a data-driven anti-Grubhub, launched its second iteration today, following some post-pandemic scrutiny. Founder Nabeel Alamgir, a Forbes 30 under 30 honoree, called it the company’s “biggest leap forward.”

LunchBox first launched on the cusp of the pandemic and gained well-known clientele like Clean Juice and NYC-chain Bareburger, where Alamgir once served as a busboy and later its CMO.

The startup faced layoffing off about a third of its team earlier this year. But LunchBox isn’t alone as many question the post-pandemic future of food tech companies. DoorDash and Uber Eats have both come under scrutiny for their unprofitable business models, and investors are getting frustrated. Startups like ChowNow are also grappling with the consequences. VC funding in food tech is down 21.5%, and deals have declined by 33%.

Alamgir isn’t afraid to admit some missteps. Following layoffs, he told Business Insider, “We are all drunk on VC capital… Everyone was playing the same game, which is growth at all costs."

Initial response from the community on today’s launch has been strong. “All in one ordering” now includes a customer marketing CRM, robust reporting, catering, order aggregation, and a “Starbucks level” loyalty program. With the latter, restaurants can increase their customer base and reward them with birthday rewards, in-store rewards, and bankable points.

A month ago, LunchBox also launched Open, a tool that gives restaurants access to major integration partners like Toast and Doordash for ordering, processing, POS, and delivery features. In June, LunchBox Essential launched to offer mom-and-pop restaurants a commission-free online ordering system.

With all of these offerings, Alamgir and team hope to empower restaurants to elevate their digital experience and grow revenue. Do you think LunchBox’s approach will set them apart in the food tech space?

Play a game of Fortnite or answer to your responsibilities? If you pick the former, you are seen, and help is also on the way.

Habits Garden is a gamified habit tracker to fight procrastination. Maker Marc Lou created it to “turn your habits into a game so you're excited to get things done.” You can complete daily quests to earn in-app rewards, grow a garden by sticking to your goals, and compete with friends for the weekly leaderboard. The more you use the app, the more you can unlock flowers for your garden and solidify healthy habits.

If you’re just looking for a new game, that’s cool too. Here are a mix of both personal growth-driven and fictitious games to make use of your time:

The popular party game, Among Us, is coming to the VR world. Will you find the imposter with Meta’s new Quest Pro headset?

Synergy is a workplace tool that uses game mechanics like kudos, points, leaderboards, and badges, to engage and empower your team.

Dodge UFOs, space cars, trucks, and buses with Galaxy Cross Road.

Figure is a daily logic puzzle game and is “sort of like Bejeweled meets Wordle.”

Travel the world with Mario Kart Tour 3.0.

What do you want to see made into a game next?

Obsidian 1.0 launched yesterday with a whole new look.

If you’re new here, Obsidian is a personal knowledge base and note-taking tool that works on local Markdown files. It first beta launched in 2020, and received a Golden Kitty nomination in productivity, and then won the 2021 Golden Kitty for the mobile app category. With nearly 4,000 upvotes across its first two launches and a strong social media following, Obsidian’s existing features and UI were already highly favored.

The makers introduced a complete redesign to Obsidian for its beta graduation. The team describes the new Obsidian as more robust, accessible, and easier to theme. They’ve also prioritized using more native OS features for menus, windows, and other details.

As co-founder Erica Xu puts it, the 1.0 version is a “new way to browse your second brain,” with a new tabs feature throughout Obsidian’s UI. For an alternate tab-viewing experience, you can turn any tab group into a “tab stack.” The per-tab history also changes how users browse their vaults — each tab maintains its own history for navigation.

“Obsidian is one of my favorite apps of all time. Been using it for over a year and it is now a solid version 1 even though it's been working great for the last year in very workable betas,” said one user in the comments.

The makers have also shared a product roadmap; up next on the agenda is a Canvas view that lets you create mind maps, flow charts, org charts, moodboards, family trees and more.

The takeaway? Keep developing your product — your users will thank you for it.

From Meta’s new $1,500 headset to Elon Musk’s “Burnt Hair” perfume, it’s been an action-packed week. Microsoft joined the mix with its annual 3-day Ignite conference — here’s the biggest news from Day 1:

Microsoft’s committed to making OpenAI’s tech accessible with a new design app powered by DALL-E 2. Microsoft Designer is a free, AI-powered graphic design app that helps you design high quality social media posts, digital postcards, and more. Mohit Anand, a Product Manager at Microsoft, launched Designer on Product Hunt and said that its purpose is to “empower anyone to create designs with ease, using the power of AI.”

“With ‘start from scratch’ within Designer, you can simply describe an image you want to see, and the app does the work for you to create something totally unique,” said Liat Ben-Zur, Corporate Vice President, Product Marketing

Designer also uses AI to make template suggestions as you build out a presentation in PowerPoint, and the team plans to eventually integrate Designer into Microsoft Edge. We wonder how Canva users will feel about this. 👀

For lovers of both the Apple ecosystem and Xbox, Apple Music is now available on Xbox consoles. Next year, Apple Music and Apple TV will launch across Windows. iCloud is also coming to Microsoft devices — the new iCloud for Windows app will enable Apple users to see their iPhone pictures and videos on the Photos app in Windows. This is the crossover we knew we needed.

In hardware, the Surface Laptop 5, Surface Pro 9, and Surface Studio 2+ are also on the way.

But Designer’s use of DALL-E will likely continue to be the show stealer this Ignite. Early adopters so far are excited and discovering the product’s capabilities, like a Send to Phone feature.

“Keen observer!” responded Mohit Anand. “You can just send your created design to your phone with a simple scan of QR code :) Hope you like it.” He also notes users can access the product “Soon!... Just add your email… and we'll let you know when you've got access. 😊”

If you’ve ever tried your hand at eCommerce or moved your business online, you know making a sale isn’t as simple as listing an item.

Rye launched today, following a $14 million seed funding round led by a16z, to enable developers to build eCommerce directly in native digital experiences. Rye is co-founded by Justin Kan (Twitch co-founder), with former Reddit engineers Arjun Bhargava and Saurabh Sharma serving as CEO and CTO, respectively. Others on the team include Scribd co-founder Tikhon Bernstam, former head of Zynga Robin Chan, and Jamie Quint, former head of growth at Notion.

“After weeks of researching the market and talking to brands and sellers, my co-founders and I started to sketch together what the future of eCommerce should look like: an open and free network that could hold the collection of all products — where any brand can plug in their inventory, and any seller could pull from,” said Bhargava.

Rye will use a native token ($RYE) to offer lower transaction costs and make Rye a strong competitor to Amazon and Shopify, betting on $RYE’s valuation increasing in the long run to make up the difference. According to Kan, the ability to help merchants sell more inventory with no additional cost is part of what reeled him into the venture. Developers and merchants can also unlock USDC cashback rewards and more. Eventually, the Rye API will be fully decentralized on the Solana blockchain, and Bhargava and his team plan to introduce wallet creation for shoppers, NFT drops, and coupons.

One of Rye’s areas of focus is allowing sellers to retain their relationship with customers and get higher quality customer data. They can also retrieve data from 390M+ products, including those on Shopify and Amazon, and connect to affiliate programs, which are meant to make it easy for companies to get paid out, whether selling through influencers or directly.

For shoppers, Rye minimizes the hassle of being redirected to another merchant. According to the team, 46% of shoppers bounce when redirected to a merchant page. Instead, end-users can checkout directly from your app using any credit card. One-click checkout flashbacks?

Justin Kan, co-founder of Rye and Twitch, is hosting an AMA today. Ask him about Rye, entrepreneurship, or crypto, and learn what makes his new venture different from other eCommerce platforms.

Sitting at a computer all day gets monotonous and overwhelming real fast. Productivity flies out the window. Work piles up. Panic ensues.

Like many of us, maker Dmitry Pushkarev felt fatigued by the end of his workday. So, Sidekick Browser 2.0 was born. Despite having a successful first launch in 2020, Pushkarev wanted to offer more. He noticed an increasing number of people with ADHD were extending their kudos to Sidekick as a browser that “fits their special traits.” That inspired V2 of Sidekick; “regaining focus” for users became Pushkarev and his team’s “north star.”

“As Sidekick helps people with concentration disorders, we believe it will also benefit others who live in a world where attention is the most valuable currency,” said Pushkarev.

The new version of Sidekick is equipped with features like workspaces, focus mode, multi-accounts, synchronization, and more. You can turn your most-used sites into apps and keep them in your browser’s sidebar, and declutter your tabs. The “workspaces” feature separates your work apps, sessions, and docs from your personal ones. With focus mode, you can mute notifications and automatically sync your status to apps like Slack and Messenger.

Since neurodivergent folks typically face discrimination and stigmas in the workplace, we love to see makers trying to create a level playing field for everyone. Skeema (another browser tool) and the all new Spark (for email) are just a few other examples of productivity tools that can help neurodivergent and neurotypical adults alike.

Remember when you could sit through a one-hour vlog? Those were the good days.

Many of us now look for more ways to skim content and find shorter alternatives, either because of time or the inability to focus for that long. The numbers don’t lie either — Gen Z’s attention span is 8 seconds, compared to a millennial’s 12 seconds. 😬

While working as a software engineer at Amazon, maker Marin Smiljanic noticed it was increasingly difficult to sit through hours of training videos and even harder to find the exact moments when a topic was covered. That inspired the creation of Omnisearch, a tool that uses context-aware AI to find anything inside your audio, video, image, and word files.

With his co-founder, Matej Ferencevic, Smiljanic built on the 2021 release of Omnisearch with more limited search ability. Today’s version lets you find both spoken and visual mention of an object; if you search ‘banana,’ you’ll find video frames where the word is spoken and frames containing an actual banana. It can also search for people and characters within images and videos.

The Omnisearch API lets makers integrate Omnisearch into their websites or apps, which enables users to skim through various types of content. Smiljanic and Ferencevic target makers of online learning services, citing the low attention spans of students and the difficulty of searching for a topic within a lecture as reasons why Omnisearch could grow their user base.

As attention spans get shorter and schedules get busier, could tools like Omnisearch become an important part of website and product building? If you made it this far, let the makers know how you feel in the comments.