The crystal ball of e-comm trends 🔮

Today’s Daily Digest was crafted by Product Hunt and sponsored by our friends at within.co.

There’s never been a better time to launch an e-commerce venture, but it’s hard to predict what businesses are actually thriving in the wake of COVID-19.

Our friends at WITHIN are experts at seeing the future when it comes to e-commerce and retail, and they created a dashboard based on real-time industry data.

WITHIN is a performance branding company that’s worked with brands like Nike, Budweiser and Spanx. They source revenue, ad spend and conversion data from their client roster anonymously to identify trends and set founders up to succeed.

Since advertising is critical to early success, founders can also claim a Google and Facebook ad account audit to make sure your budget is driving results.

If you’re not as into dashboards, you can join the WITHIN team for free to get the insights directly. They host a live show twice a week. Drop in and find out how COVID19 will impact your business, plus get a sense of what’s happening in retail, fashion and omni-channel e-commerce.

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Grow your app with Setapp: revenue, users, & AI

You shipped the app. Now comes the part nobody warns you about.

Billing across dozens of countries. Licensing agreements. Tax compliance. Customer support for users you haven't met yet. And if your app does anything with AI, add provider management and infrastructure costs to the pile. None of that is why you started building — but all of it is now your problem.

Setapp is trying to take it off your plate.

You probably know Setapp as the subscription marketplace — one monthly price, hundreds of Mac apps. On May 21st, they turned toward developers. The pitch is simple: list your app, reach users who are already looking, and let Setapp handle the business layer.