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Good Morning! Today is the day. You voted. We tallied, and the 2023 Golden Kitty Awards winners have been announced…

But first, the news: 

💬 Telegram is rolling out view-once voice and video messages. 

🎧 Apple will pay 10% more to artists who use spatial audio in their tracks. 

🕹️ A new Pokémon-style game is in the works – with guns.

Earlier this month, you had your say on the best products of 2023. The community voted in earnest across 18 different categories for the products that impressed them the most last year. 

Now, we've crowned the 2023 Golden Kitty Award Winners!

The winners here will go down in history in our Hall of Fame, digitally etched alongside history-making products like Stripe and Figma. They’ll also get to take home a coveted Golden Kitty trophy and all the bragging rights that go with it.

Without further ado, the Golden Kitty Award winners are…

AI Features: Notion AI

AI Infra: Langfuse

AI Model: GPT-4

AI Product: Dora AI (Alpha)

Design Tools: Jitter 1.0 

Developer Tools: Resend 

Finance Tech: Arc 

Marketing & Sales: D-ID

Mobile App: Hevy

No Code: Bento

Open Source: Novu

Personal Productivity: Heptabase 

Productivity for Teams: Fusebase

Web3 & Crypto: Clustr

Data & Data Privacy: Dashboards by Equals

Bootstrapped & Small Teams: Tally 2.0 

Community & Social: Threads by Meta 

Maker of the Year: Marc Lou

Community Member of the Year: Elly Cho

The big one? I can’t help it. I just love the suspense…

• This tool allows you to quickly preview your webcam before jumping on a call.
• iZTalk uses AI to translate languages in real-time on your calls. 
• This product uses AI to generate artistic portraits in seconds.

• Peerlist 1.0 is a professional network specifically for people in tech. 
• GrowthMentor lets you connect with 600+ startup mentors for flat fee.
• This tool alerts your developer team in seconds about potential trends and bottlenecks.