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If you scroll Instagram or TikTok for 20 minutes, you'll probably come across a post or two pitting generation against generation. In the workplace, stereotypical differences between Gen Z and Millennials present Gen Zers as… let’s say experts in setting work-life boundaries, while Millennials (and older generations) are more in the “call me anytime” camp.

But younger professionals probably have more in common than they think, and one of those similarities is a love for digital audio. Last year a Spotify study showed that 69% of millennials and 61% of Gen Zs think audio formats are one of the greatest ways to tell stories.

Though Slack Huddles and audio rooms have made it easier to chat with colleagues and network, Giide’s launch reminded us that audio hasn’t totally infiltrated our work communications — yet. The tool offers a new way to present to your team using images, video, questions, and interactive audio.

“I knew that businesses needed to learn to communicate with Millennials and Gen Z the way they've learned to consume information. Fifty-page PDFs, whitepapers, hours of video, reports, or long presentations weren't going to cut it,” wrote Giide co-founder Allison Kent-Smith.

Inserting audio on Giide's no-code platform offers flexibility. If you want a polished sound you can upload existing audio (maybe using a tool like Podcastle to clean up your sound first), or you can simply speak into your phone or desktop mic and start recording. One commenter surfaced that Giide’s audio capabilities could also offer a better way to communicate with those who have visual impairments.

The competition over who gets to power your pitch deck has really heated up over the last few years. Pitch has grown to serve tens of thousands of teams, while Canva and Adobe took bigger steps into the space last year. Newcomer Tome made a splash on its launch day last month, too.

Do you think audio is the secret to keeping your co-workers' attention? Here’s one way to find out.

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Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of our Web3 feed – a place where you can discover the latest Web3 projects and learn the ins and outs of this new era of the Internet.

Nearly 6,000 Web3 projects have launched on Product Hunt, 35,000 of you are already following the crypto topic, and Web3-related keyword searches make up over 32% of the top 8 most searched terms — we took the hint.

The idea for the feed came about during one of our annual internal hackathons, when Web3 engineer, Tim Carambat, proposed building a central hub for Web3 enthusiasts that not only allows them to discover new projects but also gives makers a way to reach new audiences.

In its current format, the feed allows you to browse through projects, filtering by the category they fit in – DAO, DApp, DeFi, or by the blockchain they’ve been built on. We designed the feed while keeping in mind the particularities of Web3 projects. The embedded Twitter follower count may, for instance, help you better understand the hype and community behind a launch.

The Web3 space can be confusing and it’s hard to know where to start. We get that and we’re with you. That’s why we’ve also partnered with experts, like David Phelps and Linda Xie, to help shed some light on Web3 concepts. Whether you still don't understand NFTs or you’re ready to dive into more advanced topics, we’ve curated a collection of resources ranging from understanding the uses cases of NFTs to deeper dives into the economics of them.

We’ve still got a lot planned and we hope this initiative encourages more of you to launch. We’d love to hear your thoughts, so make sure to drop us your feedback!

We probably don’t need to remind you of the importance of reducing carbon emissions, but you might be less familiar with progress around removing the gigatons of carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere and ocean.

A new initiative led by Stripe called Frontier, in partnership with Alphabet, Shopify, Meta, and McKinsey, is putting the topic in the spotlight. The plan is to purchase $925M worth of carbon removal from companies developing carbon removal technologies. The model is called an AMC (advance market commitment), a term borrowed from NGOs working on vaccine development and distribution. It works like a binding contract that guarantees a viable market for a product once it’s successfully developed. Frontier intends to encourage researchers, entrepreneurs, and investors to accelerate the development of carbon removal technologies by guaranteeing future demand for them.

Stripe is using Stripe Climate, a tool that allows businesses to direct a fraction of their revenue towards carbon dioxide removal, to provide some customers to Frontier.

Frontier is one of many global and corporate initiatives in the carbon removal space. Climeworks just raised $600M for its direct air capture technology. Governments are trying to do their part too. The UK and EU have committed to capture 6 million tons of carbon dioxide per year.

While some may celebrate the news, if you’re feeling skeptical, we don’t blame you. So far, fewer than 10K tons of carbon dioxide have been captured to date, and it’s believed 6 billion tons need to be removed by 2050 to achieve net-zero carbon emissions and limit global warming.

So is Frontier just a marketing stunt from some of big tech’s most controversial players? There’s no doubt such a partnership will make a big PR splash and executives be early to pat themselves on the back. But the reality of our meager progress against carbon removal reveals that we all need to be doing more to support such technologies and we’re hopeful that Stripe’s solution may kickstart more progress.

Are you optimistic about Frontier? Join the conversation.

Here’s hoping that today’s edition of the daily newsletter won’t put you to sleep the way this product aims to.

Berlin-based company Endel first launched in late 2018 as a sound wellness product that helps you relax, focus, and sleep through different sound environments. After raising $22M in capital over the past two years and working with artists like Grimes, the app is now collaborating with Grammy- and Mercury Prize-winning English singer, James Blake, to launch Endel × James Blake: Wind Down.

Endel’s approach to generative music is an interesting one. Its proprietary patented technology takes immediate inputs such as time of day, weather, user movements, and GPS location to create soundscapes. This also means that each track that you hear is uniquely composed for you, in real-time.

The app is available across iOS, macOS, Android, Amazon Alexa, and most recently, Apple TV. After Endel was awarded The Apple Watch App of The Year award in 2021, Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, called Endel co-founder and CEO Oleg Stavitsky. At the time, Stavitsky “thought it would be a quick call, where Cook says congratulations and doesn’t really know who we are,” Stavitsky shared in a recent Forbes interview. Turns out, the conversation kickstarted Endel’s latest expansion.

The Wind Down soundscape launch focuses primarily on improving sleep and is “scientifically designed to flow perfectly into a good night’s rest.” Endel’s Community Lead recommends turning it on two hours before bedtime and goes on to explain that this particular soundscape “utilizes specific tones to encourage relaxation in the body’s parasympathetic nervous system and prepare it for rest.”

What’s your take on generative music? Let the Endel team know in the comments.

There’s only a handful of things that gets productivity junkies more fired up than new calendars and time-management tools. One of them is note-taking apps.

Today, Alex MacCaw, who you might know as the founder of Clearbit, is launching Reflect, an app designed to mirror the way your brain works and act as your daily journal, whether that’s for work or personal use. The app allows back-linking topics to help you connect thoughts and ideas. It also integrates with your Google Calendar and Contacts, which means you can use it as a personal CRM.

The small team of three engineers started working on Reflect a year ago with a clear goal of building a lifestyle business that focuses on listening to users and iterating. “We don't have meetings or any corporate fluff that gets in the way,” the maker adds.

There’s a lot of competition in the space and among the interest that Reflect is getting on its launch today, some of you wanted to know: “how is this different?”

The way Alex describes what makes Reflect special is through the values they enforce. That’s speed (everything is client-side), security (the app uses end-to-end encryption to ensure privacy), and reliability. He goes on to say that while some note-taking apps out there “prioritize growth over sustainability,” their goal is to keep the project bootstrapped, as a “modest sustainable business.”

If that still doesn’t clarify how Reflect compares to other existing solutions, one Reflect user also added: “it has the polished interface of Bear, the tagging and comprehensiveness of Roam, the cross-platform capabilities and polish of Evernote, and security-first position of Obsidian but with remote sync on top.”

With the past two years being a 50-million-person social experiment on changing how we work, the big debate revolved around those who want to work from the office and those who prefer working remotely. But as countries are easing restrictions, it seems like some companies have found a middle ground: hybrid-remote work.

Naturally, makers have been busy building solutions that can offer the best of both worlds. Here are some to look at if you plan to swing by the office every once in a while.

☕️ Café 2.0 helps teams gain more visibility over who’s where to decide where to work from. It lets you align your plans with teammates, discover internal communities, and find out about events, celebrations, or new hires. Café wants to promote flexibility by letting people meet in offices, coworking spaces or, you guessed it, cafés.

🎙 Around’s real-time audio synchronization ensures that all microphones and speakers are enabled concurrently so that you no longer need to huddle around a big screen when working in hybrid environments.

🪄 We recently talked about Tandem’s new launch – Hybrid Spaces, which gives teammates an always-on window to teleport around the office, using off-the-shelf conferencing hardware.

🍩 Although we’re a fully remote company, we use Donut for Hybrid Work to create deeper connections with others on the team. Its latest release includes hybrid-friendly templates, Watercooler for shared channels, Hybrid-friendly Intro messages, and more.

🦦 The New Otter makes team meetings more productive and collaborative with automated meeting notes and transcription that include key takeaways so that no one gets left behind – whether they’re working from the office or from home.

What’s your take on ways of working? Vote here.

Building is not easy. Fortunately, the maker community is a very resourceful and helpful one. We love when others share their knowledge and we continue seeing that happen all the time over discussions and on launches.

Recently, these makers curated and launched playbooks to make learning from others easier. Let’s take a look. 👇

Wizen Guides covers most topics indie makers will need when they’re just getting started. The makers interviewed founders and distilled their advice into actionable how-to guides for others to learn about marketing, product, and more.

Scaling Research Playbook by Maze x ADPList covers insights and advice from 30+ UX leaders sharing real-life examples and key principles.

“Our goal is to give UX leaders a practical guide on how to scale the impact of research by empowering product teams to run their own research and build a learning muscle in their organizations,” Maze founder shared.

The Science Based Playbook of Pricing provides practical recommendations and examples of price setting, based on research papers from scientific journals such as the Journal of Marketing and Marketing Science.

CXL Playbook Community is a bootstrapped project and offers over 2500 step-by-step marketing guides, ranging from growth to analytics and A/B testing.

Early Stage Founders Playbook is a book for founders who “love building features and struggle with marketing.” It contains 21 sections that will help you figure out what marketing tactics are most suitable for you, a curated list of 35 software tools to help you grow faster, and a planner with 36 marketing activities to take, average budget, and probable conversion rate for every activity.

You know that scene in every action movie when the computer whizz furiously hacks a system using some random commands on a dark background and goes “I'M IN”? The tool they’re writing commands in is the terminal. It’s what most developers use, without a doubt, on a daily basis. Still, not much has changed in its UI over the past 40 years.

Enter Warp. The company recently announced its $17M Series A, led by Dylan Field, co-founder, and CEO of Figma.

Warp is a Rust-based (a fast programming language) terminal that allows you to create your own workflows and share them with your team. It groups commands and outputs like a data notebook and lets you find useful ones through community-sourced workflows and command generation. If you work with a terminal, you might know the frustration of not being able to move the cursor wherever you need it. Warp solves that.

Maker Zach Lloyd has been a developer for 20 years. He previously worked as a principal engineer at Google and was TIME’s interim CTO. When talking about what pushed him to work on Warp, Lloyd shares: “I want to bring collaboration to the terminal. My experience as lead engineer on GDocs made me realize that every productivity app is more powerful when it’s collaborative. I’m excited to bring that approach to the terminal as well.”

What annoys you about the terminal in its current state? Let the makers know in the comments. They might be able to help.

This is your daily reminder that you don't need all those tabs open.

Yesterday we saw a new player join the save-for-late race in an attempt to make collecting knowledge easier. Meet Heyday. What seems different about the tool is that you don’t actually do any of the saving yourself. Instead, the browser extension automatically collects web pages you visit and pulls in content from your apps.

Maker Sam DeBrule shares that he started working on Heyday as “today's tools require behavior change and constant input. That’s okay for productivity junkies but the rest of us are stuck with 100 open tabs.” He believes that “knowledge management tools should be easy/fast to set up, layer on top of existing workflows, and require little manual input,” carrying on to explain that staying organized should be made as easy as “Honey makes it to save money or Grammarly makes it to write well.”

Heyday remembers what content you visit, including websites or tweets, and uses artificial intelligence to resurface these whenever you’re reading something in the same area of knowledge. One user referred to it as “your own personal Google search engine for anything you’ve looked at, read, or thought ‘I should make a note of this.’”

The save-for-later, bookmarking space is a compelling, yet crowded one. We’ve written about using AI to resurface content in the past so it’s interesting to see makers working to minimize the time we spend learning and getting used to a new tool.

What do you use to make sense of all the information you come across? Let us know.

It’s something makers hear every day. The folks at Butter did, and it turns out their users needed a way to collaborate on the go. Hence, today’s launch – Butter for mobile.

You might remember Butter from its distinctive yellow branding or one of three nominations in the Golden Kitty Awards this year.

Butter initially launched when the pandemic hit as a way for facilitators to recreate the energy and collaboration of traditional, in-person workshops. Two years in and “our users told us that they want to be able to use Butter for ALL their meetings — including more routine stand-ups, townhalls, 1-on-1s, and more casual discussions,” maker Jakob Knutzen shares.

Today’s launch comes as a response to user feedback and includes “a time-boxed agenda to keep things on track, fun emoji reactions, soundboards, GIFs in the chat, a hand-raise queue to minimize the awkwardness of talking over each other, and easy polls.” Cue the cat GIFs.

While some are making their way back to the office “just to sit on Zoom calls,” remote events and get-togethers don’t seem to be going away anytime soon. Last week saw Golden Kitty Award winner Vowel move from private to public beta to help async, distributed teams make brainstorm sessions, recurring meetings, and user interviews more productive.

What do you think? Are we butter off collaborating remotely, or is this the end of an era?