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.

All Golden Kitty Winners

We asked 34 customers what Viktor does for them. Not one said chatbot.

They kept using words like colleague, coworker, team member. One CEO called it the glue holding their e-commerce business together, which is a lot, but also… you see why. It lives in Slack and plugs into 3,000+ tools, so instead of jumping between tabs, you just ask for the thing. Pull Stripe against HubSpot, check Sentry alerts, spin up a campaign brief, build a landing page, send a report upstairs. It all happens there.

It has already hit top 5 on Product Hunt with 130 comments, is SOC 2 certified, and your data does not train models.

One user said it was the first time AI felt like a real coworker, which is either exciting or slightly concerning depending on your week.