Happy holiday!

We thought today would be a good day to surface this question from our Makers Discussions: Who is a person (or team) that opened doors for you in your career this year? Share your responses (and tag your person!) with us here or on Twitter.

On behalf of the Product Hunt team, we're thankful for...

🐱 Cats on the Internet
🐶 Dog on the Internet
😂 “GIF”s and “JIF”s
🌍 Makers all over the world
👀 Real-life stories from those makers 
🗞 Learning about tech every morning 
🐥 Twitter
😲 AI-generated models
🍑 Buttsss
👂 Apple’s greatest invention this year
🔼 The most upvoted products this month (so far)

And of course, YOU. 🙏

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