The Roundup
Everything you missed this past week on Product Hunt: Top products, spicy community discourse, key trends on the site, and long-form pieces we’ve recently published.
Hope your weekend was great. I can't help but wonder what the people at Wikipedia were thinking this weekend while considering this indecent proposal. 🤔
But here's some better/actual good news.
- Google vs Duolingo is on. But does the tutoring tool have a sassy bird mascot?
- Tinder lets friends view profiles. Can’t ship a partner without early feedback.
- The Information’s 50 Most Promising Startups is here. 🚧 We 👀 beehiiv!
- Skip to Stripe's news.
We’re trying something new and have rounded up even more tech news – only the best from last week, from our own #tech-news Slack channel at Product Hunt.
- Disney made a real WALL-E: Hello, new fren. 🥺
- Prada is building spacesuits for NASA. Astronauts are about to be dripped.
- Personal flight is here: It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a “jet ski in the sky.”
- Visualize how transformers work. A slick site to understand LLMs.
- Atlassian is acquiring Loom for $975 million. Props to this community for being early adopters.
Spacesuits are cool. We all know that. But they can always get cooler.
Prada has partnered with NASA to build spacesuits for the next moon mission in 2025. Don’t know about you, but I’m looking forward to the Paris Fashion Week reveal.
Want to tap into the minds of the developers you’re building your product for? You may be surprised to learn a few things that contradict what you’ve heard.
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Amazon is stepping up its rivalry with Microsoft, Meta, Google, and more by agreeing to potentially invest $4 billion in Anthropic, the makers of ChatGPT competitor Claude. Could we see a new Claude-powered Alexa soon?
ATT Twitter users: Have you started calling it ‘X’? According to a recent poll, 79% of X users in the US say they are aware of the change, but 69% of them still refer to the platform as Twitter and to posts as “tweets.” What about you?
Good morning, and welcome to Monday! A new week means new launches. If you’re wondering how to get the best out of your launch, make sure to book our community hours session this week, where the Product Hunt team will be on hand to answer any questions you may have.
Good morning to everyone except the weatherman. While those in Western Europe brace for heatwaves, it’s pouring in Spain and Portugal — and torrential rain in the Nevada desert has left around 70,000 Burning Man attendees stranded in the mud. Maybe the tech elite stuck at Burning Man can take this as a field test for their new ‘California Forever’ utopia. Note for the blueprints: Add stormwater management to wildfire protection plans.
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Happy Monday, makers. Let’s smash this week. Photoshop’s Generative Fill has been impressing internet surfers for a while now by creating dreamy landscapes, parallel worlds, and unreal scenarios, but we think we found the best use yet.
