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.
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.
Happy Monday, makers. X, formally Twitter, is having a sale of Twitter memorabilia. Some expected stuff like giant hashtags and Twitter birds is for sale, and there are more unusual things like an indoor barn from Montana.
Happy Monday Makers. ICYMI, a 15 year old from France built an open-source, DIY phone that costs only €30. Both the hardware and the software are open-source and it’s built with a 3D printer.
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The Twitter bird we love and adore is no more. Elon has decided to ax the iconic brand in favor of “X.” A callback to his PayPal days. The logo has already changed, and there are likely more updates on the way, but what isn’t known is what tweets are going to be called.
Welcome to Monday. Threads is continuing on its journey to gather as many users as possible and it doesn’t look to be slowing down anytime soon. The Twitter rival now has one-fifth of Twitter’s weekly active users. Do you think Threads will take the crown, or is it a hype train?
ICYMI OpenAI announced last week that everyone’s favorite LLM, GPT4 is now generally available. Existing OpenAI API developers can access GPT-4 now. New developers will have access later this month. Availability limits will also increase based on computing availability.
If you were using Twitter over the weekend, you probably came across the error “Rate limit exceeded.” Turns out Twitter users were hit by a limit on the number of tweets they can see per day. According to Elon, this is to combat massive scraping attempts. Regardless, we are honored to be one of your Twitter rations.
