Spotify is going public 🤑

Spotify is going public today in an unusual way. Instead of using a bank, they're IPOing with an uncommon funding mechanism: a direct listing. Shareholders and employees will be able to sell their equity, but Spotify isn't actually raising any new funding by issuing new shares.

Quick facts about the IPO:

Unlike most other executive teams, Spotify's co-founders will retain 80% of the voting power. 👀
The mega-unicorn will trade as $SPOT.
In the last three months of 2017, Spotify lost $7.9M every day.

The Product Hunt community loves Spotify, with dozens of integrated apps and tools to enhance your music-listening experience:

👂 Listen lets you add songs to Spotify playlists with your keyboard.
📻 JQBX is like turntable.fm (RIP).
🔈 Pacemaker+ makes it easy to DJ (it’s truly amazing).
🤔 Forgotify finds the poor songs that have never been played.
🗓️ Your 2017 Wrapped curates your favorite songs from last year.
📊 Spotify.me builds beautiful analytics about your listening habits.
🖥️ Skip Tunes lets you control Spotify from your menubar.
🎤 Find Your Best Festival finds your next favorite music festivals based on your listening history.

Discover the 20 Best Spotify products before they're public 💸

Best spotify apps 🎵

So we’re just… talking to software now?

ElevenLabs has been the go-to for voice for a while. Now they've turned that expertise into agents that actually get things done. You set one up, it talks like a real person, listens, responds, and helps handle the task — support calls, bookings, whatever the job is. Not a demo, not a "press 1 for sales" situation. It's ready to deploy. Feels like one of those shifts where the interface quietly changes. Less typing, less clicking, more just saying what needs to happen and letting it play out.