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What happens when a brain researcher who specializes in the rehabilitation of athletes makes an app? A lot of celebrity endorsements will follow.

At least that’s the case for Nuro by Nurosene. If you have already heard of the app, founded in 2019 by neurologist Daniel Gallucci, it may be because of headlines around Michael Phelps (Olympic swimmer) and Richard Sherman (NFL star) joining the advisory council or Joe Jonas investing in the app. There’s are other big names associated as well but what they all have in common is the impetus to speak out about mental health.

Nuro provides a science-based, self-guided platform for better brain health. “Our app was designed by a team of neurological experts that have been using these methods in clinic with elite athletes for decades,” explained Nurosene Product Manager, Jamie Hackett, with today’s launch.

According to the company’s investor information page, Nurosene agreed to acquire NetraMark, a Canadian AI and ML startup that provides learning solutions to biotech companies. The goal is to digitize the experience of seeing a functional neurologist.

One of the most interesting features is a Virtual Neural Scan described as a non-invasive, personalized tool to strengthen your brain basics. It starts with a series of tasks to assess four neural networks (a collection of synapses that fire across the human brain and create meaning) — cognitive flexibility, working memory, long-term memory, and adaptability.

“...[T]he brain is a self-organized series of neurological networks… Your score is a PROXY for what we think certain networks of the brain may be doing, what they may excel at, or not. This is very much ACTIVE data as you progress…” the site explains.

The assessment of these four neural networks serves as the basis for personalizing your experience. The result is Daily Brain Flow exercises, designed to stimulate and optimize the dynamic nature of your brain and improve your mental performance.

Though we may not know what it’s like to compete in the Olympics, we’ve all been through something in the last few years. Would you try Nuro to boost your mental health? Why or why not?

When times get tough, it’s easy to get nostalgic for older, simpler days. Or at least for the things that brought us joy back then.

Every once in a while, we get a new product that resurfaces a sound, smell, or visual that heads straight for the hippocampus. The best ones do all three.

We’re highlighting 10+ new products this Throwback Thursday to reminisce while appreciating how far we've come.

MD Vinyl: Watch the records spin with an iPhone widget that pairs with Apple Music
iPod Classic Player: Vinyl too old? *Click click click* Off to the naughties
My 2000s TV: Flip through Bob Barker, music videos, and the static
Nokia 6310: It doesn’t have Super Retina XDR but Snake still never looked better
HomeMovie: Pass the camcorder around with your friends
Studio Clock: Inspired by 70s clocks, but still used for the most accurate time
Clippy JS Library: There was a time you wanted Clippy to go away — not today
Drag & Drop: Pass on nostalgia with 80s & 90s pixel illustrations for your projects
Vacation sunscreen: Want to smell like Summer of ‘86 in Summer of ’22?
Computer Museum: Re-explore computers like the Macintosh Plus. Here’s a floppy disk, if you need it.

Have more time to kill? Take ten minutes and dive into 70s lingo with Retrogram, go on a duck unicorn hunt like in the 80s, or revisit prehistoric Google times with DinoJump. Then we’ll send you back to the future.

Game Jolt launched its mobile app on iOS and Android today. If you haven’t heard of Game Jolt yet, it’s a social platform “where gen z gamers are hanging out…” wrote Game Jolt’s Events Director, Guy 'Yug' Blomberg, in a tweet. He added: “I've learned more about how they interact and play games in the last 3 months than I did in the last 3 years.”

Game Jolt first launched eight years ago by husband-and-wife founders Yaprak and David DeCarmine. The two met while working at the e-comm retailer, Zulily, which they ultimately left when they decided to focus on Game Jolt full-time.

Now, Game Jolt is where millions go to get social around their favorite games, from indie titles to Pokémon. Gamers have started over 60,000 communities on Game Jolt, with the largest exceeding half a million people. Gen Z gamers particularly love how the platform supports their preferences for personalized and fun engagements.

“[G]amers are the ones that are creating the majority of the content out there. They love creating fan art of their favorite video game characters, they record videos of themselves playing games or playing with their friends. They write guides and review games that they’re playing so that they can have those meaningful discussions,” Yaprak DeCarmine told Venture Beat last autumn after the company closed a seed round of funding.

Though Game Jolt obviously has competition in the form of both newcomer communities and established ones like Discord and Twitch, the startup plans to continue fostering a vibrant and highly social community — “something like a TikTok for gamers.”

On today’s product launch page, Yaprak DeCarmine shared that the team worked closely with the Game Jolt community to build the new mobile app.

“Our team got to build alongside our community, which has been such a fun journey. Thank you for helping us beta test, [giving us] valuable feedback + also for inspiring us. Enjoy the Game Jolt Social app! 😘.”

The launch highlights features like “24/7 parties with your friends” in the form of chats, events, and streaming, and an Instagram-like discovery feed to help users find gaming art, videos, music, and eachother.

Finding a place to live doesn’t look like it used to.

For one thing, people are having a really tough time buying a home all over the world. Renting sucks, too. An extremely competitive market along with the pandemic has changed the way people find their homes. Then there are bullish metaverse investors dropping fat stacks on digital real estate, but that’s another story.

As the world changes, new startups look for ways to open doors to forever and temporary homes.

Home Ownership
DwellWell: When Matthew Canzoneri set out to move from daydreaming on Zillow to taking action on buying a home, he found the process was difficult with information scattered, biased, or generalized. He and Sam Carow set out to make the home buying process seamless. DwellWell offers a guided experience with education, decision-making tools, and connections to experts to help you buy a home.

Realm: Once a buyer closes on their home, they’re left to make it on their own, too. As Liz Young points out, “from the day you buy a home… you’re faced with a series of expensive and confusing decisions: how much to spend on renovations, when to refinance, which projects will increase home value, is it time to move?” Realm helps users navigate home-ownership by making sense of data, enabling you to make smarter decisions about how to invest in your home.

Renting
LeaseLeads: As web developers in the real-estate space, Dave Freund and his co-founders have seen how important in-person leasing is for converting apartment hunting leads to leases. LeaseLeads is a virtual leasing tool for multi-family property owners and operators. It offers virtual (bot-less) property tours, in-person tour scheduling, and ideal-floor plan matching for renters.

Split Lease: For renters seeking a secondary address, there’s Split Lease. An uptick in remote and hybrid work has led to more people seeking non-traditional lifestyles with bi-coastal living or workcations. Split Lease lets you rent certain days of the week each week, or weeks of the month each month. You only pay for the nights you need.

On the hunt now? Check out Relo, a tool to organize your apartment research in one place, and Playhouse, an actionable “TikTk for real estate.”

Like many of you, our minds and hearts continue to be with the people of Ukraine. Product Hunt is a global community connected through our love of products and technology.

We know that our thoughts can feel trivial during this time — particularly if you’re separated by miles and borders — and that finding a way to help is difficult. In times of crisis, we are always inspired by makers who lead not only with their thoughts but with actions, too. Makers around the world have been rallying to create and share resources for how we can help.

We've compiled a few of them here:

Help Ukraine Win: A collection of resources and info on how foreigners can help
Help Ukraine: Another detailed resource for how those outside Ukraine can help
Help Ukraine | Crowdsourced List: A list of resources to help Ukraine with crowdsourced info
We Stand With Ukraine Website Badge: A simple website badge to show support for Ukraine
Pro Ukraine Website Banner: A website banner that directs Russian users to Help Ukraine Win — for Russian civilians who want to support Ukraine

These resources provide various ways to help, from suggestions on where to donate (if you are able) to petitions that you can sign and more to support Ukraine.

Every year, Google drops Year in Search, a website with an emotion-inducing video that highlights what people searched globally that year. The project leverages data from Google Trends, Google's product that analyzes the popularity of queries in its search engine across regions and languages.

Year in Search is probably not the only time you’re exposed to Google Trends data throughout the year. A study conducted in 2009 used Google Trends to track influenza epidemics — it’s credited as being the study that opened the door to research studies using data from Google Trends. These days the tool has a range of uses across industries, from forecasting financial markets to understanding election results and developing marketing tools. Axios, for example, has been using Google Trends this week to analyze the parts of America paying closes attention to the Russia-Ukraine crisis, down to the district.

Google has yet to drop its own API for builders to leverage this big data, though some developers have been using an unofficial API to do so. And the Google Trends website alone has its limitations. For instance, users can’t see volume related to searches, only a 0-100 index (i.e. “How many searches exactly did that term get on that day?”)

Yesterday, we saw an interesting new product to enable users to get more out of Google Trends. The makers at Glimpse launched Google Trends Supercharge, a Chrome extension that makes it easier to understand and visualize the data you’re seeing in Google Trends.

“Our team has loved Google Trends since forever but we’ve always been bummed that there’s no way to see search volume in the tool, or that there’s no good way to discover new and relevant trends, among a bunch of other frustrations,” wrote Glimpse maker, Noah Fram-Schwartz, while introducing the product.

The extension lets you see absolute search volume, a breakdown of search by channels, and the trajectory of data. Users can set alerts to track trends, too.

Google sees over 3.5 billion searches per day so finding better ways to harness that data is no little feat. Early adopters who were quick to try the product were excited to get more depth out of their analyses.

“I am stunned, this is just so damn goood! I really loved the minute details that it adds to the search result data, super excited for its future,” wrote one commenter.

The makers mentioned they’re working through a big roadmap of features, so now is a great time to voice what you need most out of trending data.

We’re Notion users here at Product Hunt, along with 20 million-plus users out there. It’s probably not fair to call out alternatives to Notion when the real hovering giants are MS Office (includes Word) with 1.2 billion users and Google Workspace (includes Docs) with 3 billion users.

Though Notion may have a long way to go until it reaches mass adoption like Microsoft and Google, it’s done such a great job fostering an avid community while tending to individual creators that it often feels bigger than it is.

Over the past few years though Coda has gained a lot of steam and emerged as a noteworthy competitor in the space. The startup reached unicorn status in July after raising $100M in a Series D funding round. It has 1 million-plus users.

Co-founders Shishir Mehrotra and Alex DeNeui, two MIT graduates and both formerly Microsoft and Google makers, launched Coda’s beta four years ago, noting to the Product Hunt community that they started building a new type of document from scratch that “erases the boundaries between words and data.”

Coda went on to iterate, consistently taking a spot among the top five products of the day. It launched Packs in 2019, which is Coda’s name for building blocks that turn the tools’ workspace into a way to manage apps. Figma founder, Dylan Field, who hunted it noted: “I was super impressed with how this release lets you connect all sorts of things to Coda via the web, including sending text messages via Twilio, automating Github PRs and creating conditional formatting based on live weather forecasts.”

With Coda’s newest launch yesterday, Mehrotra shared that the team has been rebuilding Coda’s editor and reimagining the Pack ecosystem: “We found we couldn’t fully realize our vision of the all-in-one doc until we bridged a few more divides, some of which have been entrenched in documents for decades.”

Packs is now an open platform and users are invited to create Packs that can be shared with others. This opens the door for makers to build off of what Coda and Packs can do to increase productivity. To support this new ecosystem, Coda introduced a marketplace, a revenue-share system, and a Maker Fund. “Right now we have dozens of Packs, soon we’ll have thousands.”

Changes to the Coda editor includes customizable page layouts and the ability to include pages inside of table row. Another feature users will love is dark mode. But we think the most interesting part of this launch is the new Packs ecosystem to rival the kind of community that we’ve seen Notion create.

Makers are weighing in and asking questions on the launch page now. What do you want to know about Coda?

Much to learn you still have.

You probably know that but the question is “how?”

Learning from experts is one of the most popular and interesting ways to learn (or be entertained). Who among us hasn’t audited a class at Twitter U? We spend so much time unraveling Twitter threads because that spool is big and full of secrets.

The biggest challenge is accessing expertise. Today we met a new product to tackle that. Newcon is like “Netflix for professional keynote presentations and conference content.” Many of us can relate to its maker Cephas on the FOMO and disappointment of missing out on a conference because of astronomical ticket prices. Newcon's goal is to democratize access to that content, allowing anyone to partake regardless of place, time, or financial situation.

For today’s launch, Newcon has curated a shortlist of keynotes from favorite experts in the tech and startup spaces: Chris Dixon, Brian Armstrong, Li Jin, and more.

Accessing expertise is a common problem for founders and creators to tackle. These days, the more on-demand and personalized the solution, the better. Here are 7 more products offering modern solutions to mentorship:

Mentorcam - 1:1 Cameo-like marketplace for advice from inaccessible mentors
Pillar - 1:1 mental and physical health coaching from accredited (National Board of Medical Examiners) providers
Senpai - Database of experts providing on-the-job experience for startup questions
BoldVoice - Accent lessons from Hollywood coaches for non-native speakers
Mentor Me Good: 1:1 coaching and bootcamps for landing a dream job in tech
System2 - An app that enables 1:1 fitness coaching from elite trainers
Chapter - Chapter invites thought leaders to curate the best content in their fields, bundling it into courses and adding time for your questions

We’ll take a salty Spam musubi any day.

It’s the robocalls on the rise that send us spiraling — is this the future?

In the US, the FCC’s Consumer Complaint Center reported that robocalls comprised 55 percent of all complaints in 2020. So last summer, while the FCC was really feeling that new James Bond movie, it implemented new standards for phone service providers called STIR/SHAKEN. Long story short, STIR/SHAKEN is supposed to help weed out the bad guys from the good guys (like when Walgreens is just calling to let you know that your prescription is ready). But some experts have called out giant loopholes in how the standards are implemented.

Other countries aren’t faring much better with their spam intake. In the UK, automated messages started accounting for half of all nuisance-call complaints received at the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). Another report identified India is the fourth worst country to be affected by spam calls and messages. Brazil is first.

Unlined launched today with a simple but lofty promise: no more unwanted phone calls. Unlined filters your incoming calls, checking who the caller is and your calendar before routing the call. That means it can be handy for blocking spammers and eliminating distractions while you’re preoccupied.

Unlined is new (in beta) from the Seedcamp-backed, Austrian-founded startup, Yodel, which launched its digital receptionist software back in 2016. The software routes calls to the right people in your company and lets those people manage the call in chat applications like Slack (Google had a competitor called CallJoy, but it shut it down in 2020).

If you want to take spam prevention a step further, you can also check out Removaly. While Unlined may help you stop unwanted calls at your phone, unfortunately, your personal information is likely already all over the internet for anyone to Google. “People search sites,” or data brokers, compile your information and sell it for profit. You can request that these sites remove your info, but doing so from each and every site out there is time manual and time-consuming. Removaly submits these requests for you.

Today, we present the most polarizing and least polarizing new apps you’ll read about all week.

Truth Social, former President Donald Trump’s social media app, made its debut in the App Store this Monday, on President’s Day in the United States. The app marks the return of the former US President to social media after being banned from Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.

The New York Times reported that the official launch of the app has been pushed back to March, while Reuters reported that it may launch today after all. We were able to download the app but ran into an error message when trying to validate an email address so it appears the makers aren't quite ready yet. Regardless, you can see screenshots of the app from beta testing on the launch page.

Looking for a social app that's not so politically-charged? We’ve seen quite a few recently, like Happyō and Alms, which add a positive and IRL spin to social interactions.

And have you met Gabby? The new social media app for dog people got a friendly response from the community over the weekend. Gabby lets you set up doggy dates with other dog people.

“The game-changing feature in this app is the algorithm, which finds you a perfect match for your pup. It not only introduces you to a completely new network, but helps you keep track of everything about your beloved doggy,” wrote Savian Boroancă, who hunted the product.

Gabby also has health features for your best furry friend so you can track things like daily calories intake, weight, calorie burn, vaccinations, and behavioral patterns.

Now, you could say Gabby is polarizing in its own right.

"Do the same about cats"
"Can I add my cat also?"
“Wow I'm going to need this for parrots!!!"
...wrote some contributors.

We’re kitten you, of course. Gabby is new so be sure to share with your dog-loving friends — it's currently available in the US and Armenia. The makers would also “love to hear suggestions, and why not even some constructive criticism, :),” so don't forget to leave your thoughts, too.