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Over the past week you all nominated your favorite products of 2018 across 22 CATegories. We tallied up over 12,000 nominations. Here are the finalists:

🌟 Product of the Year
📱 Mobile App
🛠 Hardware
😎 Augmented Reality
🌚 Side Project
👀 Lifehack
🖋 Design Tool
🖥 Dev Tool
🙀 WTF
🗣 Audio and Voice
🌈 Diversity and Inclusion
👾 AI and Machine Learning
💪 Health and Fitness App
🏠 Smart Home
📚 Founder Books
💰 Fintech
🔐 Privacy-Focused
🐈 Made with Product Hunt API
🌍 Social Impact
💻 Maker of the Year
🤗 Community Member of the Year

To pick our finalists for ‘Community Member of the Year’ and ‘Maker of the Year’ we pulled data from all of 2018 and created a model to compare individuals against a number of metrics including (but not limited to) their Maker goals, comments, upvotes and product launches.

Check out the complete list and upvote your favorites 😻🏆

Voting starts today and closes Tuesday January 15th at 6pm PT. The winners will be revealed on Thursday January 17th!

Note: We host these awards every year to throw the spotlight on unique projects and people. That said, we’re very grateful to the entire Product Hunt community and all makers around the world who are launching projects every day. Here’s to makers everywhere — we salute you. 🙌

Yesterday, we asked the community: “What's an app that has changed your life recently?”

We weren't prepared for the responses. Add your thoughts! 💬