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OnlyFans dropped big news yesterday. The company that skyrocketed to popularity thanks to adult creators is banning sexually explicit content (mostly... nude content will be allowed; details are still fuzzy). It cited pressure from banks which checks out, since Visa and Mastercard recently cut ties with Pornhub.

OnlyFans' porn problem reaches elsewhere, too. Many VCs are prohibited from investing in explicit content, and the Apple/Google stores have strict policies on it. That’s why the first OnlyFans app is SFW along with its new free-streaming platform, OFTV, which launched a few days prior to announcing the big ban.

We’ll all be watching to see if the company can pull off this content strategy pivot. OnlyFans has over 130 million users on the site each month who tune into more than 2 million content creators. That does include some SFW creators like fitness instructors and chefs, but it’s the adult content that brings the milkshakes to the yard.

Beyond social media giants and their new tools, OnlyFans also has to compete with new competitors with all-in-one platforms for creators and subscribers. Gigs launched recently in this space. The “Shopify for video creators” streamlines the video process from creation and editing to monetization.

To attract new creators, OnlyFans will probably need to go beyond basic features like subscriptions and tipping. They could make an acquisition or beef up their creator tools, a space that’s on fire. Yesterday Riverside.fm, a podcast and video creation platform, launched its second iteration which enables creators to record 4K HD video and leverage features like AI Speaker View, split backgrounds, and background noise reduction. OnlyFans creators need tools like this.

It could also look to newcomers who take a sensual approach to “intimacy-related entertainment” content, like Bang and just-launched StoryMaze, to keep its existing fan base.

The bottom line is that while the company was on the earlier side of the creator renaissance, now it’s got work to do.

It’s good to be in the Stripe mafia.

That’s a term startuppy folks use for early employees who spin out their own startups, ICYDK. More than 40 new companies have been started by ex-Stripers to date. Some are still in stealth mode. Others have launched on Product Hunt, including Quill, Watershed, Clearbit,and OpenAI.

Sometimes Stripe invests in these startups, and recently Stripe backed one called Accord, which made its Product Hunt debut yesterday. Accord is a “customer collaboration platform” for sales and onboarding teams. The founding team of three is made up of two brothers with seasoned sales backgrounds – Ross Rich (who’s ex-Stripe), Ryan Rich (who’s ex-Google) – and Wayne Pan.

What's the startup? If you’ve ever been on either side of a B2B sale, your experience most likely included dealing with a mess of emails, chasing approvals, tracking pitch decks, and going back and forth on contracts. And enterprise sales? Imagine more of the same but with more people and on a bigger scale.

The goal of the Accord platform is to make the whole process flow better, with all of the information around a sale accessible for sales teams and customers. Accord's features include shared timelines and milestones, a resource center, and integrations with CRMs so that sales teams aren’t working against their current process.

More to the story. Accord fits within a growing trend called “buyer-first selling." Not long ago, we wrote about TestBox in this space too, which takes a “try it before you buy it” approach to enterprise sales.

Buyer-first approaches involve designing a sales process around the buyer and you can see how a sort of cross-company project management tool like Accord could make for a better buyer experience.

YC, at least, was convinced of the concept quickly. TechCrunch reported:

“[T]he founders applied to YC… and impressed the incubator with their insight and industry experience, even though they didn’t really have a product yet. In fact, they literally drew their original idea on a piece of paper.” 😮 Accord went on to be part of the W20 cohort.

Your browser may be your most used tool at work that’s not actually built for your work.

“Why aren’t companies who make browsers fixing obvious problems that prevent us from being more productive and enjoying our work more? [Because] knowledge workers make up just 1-2% of their user bases.” Dmitry Pushkarev shared on Product Hunt.

So competition among neo-browsers has been heating up. Pushkarev’s Sidekick and Suhail Doshi’s Mighty and are two notable new products from the last year, filling the void that legacy browsers (RIP Internet Explorer) left.

Sidekick’s answer is a browser built atop Chromium, featuring a UX built for working with apps and clutter control. Mighty’s launch was hyper-focused on speed. Both took #1 Product of the Day spots on Product Hunt launch day and have gained steam.

Now a new browser, SigmaOS, has thrown its hat in the ring with a “radically different UX.”

“It's built around workspaces and multitasking… Your browser activity is separated into workspaces — one workspace per project,” founder Mahyad explained.

The makers looked to Vim, Slack, Notion, and the defunct Rockmelt for UX inspiration. Like Sidekick, SigmaOS workspaces help to organize your pages and apps. Other features include the ability to snooze pages, split your screen, and instantly share links across apps. SigmaOS is built using the WebKit engine.

Maker Sarav Mitra admits the product may not be particularly appealing to browser extension power users who have refined their perfect setup, but the browser can be a one-stop-shop for others.

Will SigmaOS be the next #1 browser? You decide. 👇

Project management is a space in non-stop iteration mode. Every once in a while, a product like Slack or Trello revolutionizes the space. It’s followed by a series of “If X and X had a baby” products that combine and iterate core concepts.

That’s not to downplay the latter. Makers come to the table with fresh product design and development perspectives for incorporating emerging tech and trends.

In project management, those trends currently include spatial note-taking, real-time collaboration, AI, automation, and whiteboarding. A few new noteworthy contenders have launched with a combination of such features.

For engineering teams, there’s Tara AI, a product that’s coming straight for Jira. The company just launched its second version after incorporating feedback from the community last year. With a vision for “a ticketless future,” Tara AI 2.0 includes automatic status updates based on Git events, auto-sprinting, and progress views with live pull-requests and commit statuses.

Clover is a creative workspace that combines notes, whiteboarding, todos, and a daily planner. Clover's spatial and real-time workflows give it brainstorming, diagramming, and collaboration power in addition to task management.

“At the core of Clover is a new type of document called a Surface. It combines the power of a modern text editor with the flexibility of a whiteboard (think Dropbox Paper meets Figjam).” Co-founder Tom Giannattasio shared.

If Clover is a creative workspace, think of Infinity Maps as your knowledge workspace – “if Miro and Notion had a baby.” Infinity Maps is bringing together whiteboarding, diagramming, and real-time collaboration.

Like Clover, Infinity Maps is hoping to tap into your “sense of space” to help bring structure to projects that are complex and scattered, without stifling ideas and creativity. Infinity Maps is in its 1.0 launch phase and Clover just opened its beta — the perfect time to test and share highly impactful feedback with the makers about what you need.

Infinity Maps also has a pretty loveable video, and we love a good launch video.

Quora became the latest company to announce monetization tools for creators last week.

“We want to make sharing knowledge more financially sustainable for creators.” Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo said on the company’s blog.

Creators have two money-earning options with the new Quora+ product. They can join an earning program where writers get paid for member's reading time, or be included in Quora's subscription bundle where members pay $5 per month or $50 per year.

Quora is following in the footsteps of big tech companies that are building tools for the creators already on their platforms, but we’ve seen a couple of innovators identifying new and unique gaps in this space. We just mentioned the launch of Mentorcam last week which enables high-profile experts to share their knowledge in a manageable way. Ghost Knowledge launched in June, which collects pledges to fund articles from experts who don’t normally publish. The top article request has more than 50 pledges.

More people have the opportunity to grow passion careers, side-projects, and personal brands than ever before. That doesn’t equate to having the resources to be fulfilled and successful. We compiled ten of the most useful tools we’ve seen launch for creators so far this year.

MediaKits - Link your accounts to highlight your reach, top posts, and more in minutes
Creators Toolkit - A collection of 250+ tools for all types of creators
Spore - All-in-one website builder for engaging and sharing with fans
LeadDelta - Connections manager built for creators
Clarity - List of mental health resources for musicians and creators
Setups - Wesbite of creator workspaces and equipment for inspiration
Flowbo - A funding system for creators to provide predictable revenue
Musixmatch Pro - All-in-one platform for musicians to verify claim copyrights, distribute, and more
Gigs - All-in-one platform for video creators
Open Benchmarks for Instagram - Tool to help creators see how their stats stack up

This week, the crypto world has been watching one of the biggest crypto heists to date play out on Twitter.

Hackers stole $613M in cryptocurrency from DeFi platform Poly Network, which enables users to transfer tokens from one blockchain to another. A recent Poly Network tweet shared that more than half of what was stolen had been returned.

In March, hackers also stole NFTs from investors on Nifty Gateway, causing one user to lose $10K+ worth of work. Both events have sparked conversations about the safety of crypto exchange.

Crypto security experts aren’t deterred, but they do want you to be informed.

“I think this demonstrates that even if you can steal cryptoassets, laundering them and cashing out is extremely difficult, due to the transparency of the blockchain and the use of blockchain analytics,” Tom Robinson, chief scientist of blockchain analytics firm Elliptic, tweeted.

What Robinson left out is that different assets and marketplaces work differently. In the NFT heist, Nifty Gateway explained that the source culprit was poor account management — the specific users’ credentials were stolen, and none of them had two-factor authentication enabled. Still, it's important to note that once an NFT is gone, it may be impossible to get back.

“The art heist highlights [] the security steps and understanding of decentralization that users new to the scene might be lacking... Once the transfer of an NFT, even a stolen NFT, is initiated… it cannot be reversed.” Benjamin Powers wrote for Coindesk.

So before we bring you the latest NFTs launches, we ask you to secure your accounts! You can also dive into an article or two about security pros and cons for decentralized and centralized models.

PartyBid - Combine your capital and bid on NFT actions
24 Hours of NFT - Claim your seconds of the day from an infinite loop of NFT art
NFTimeshares - Deposit an NFT and get back 12 Timeshares of that NFT
The Nifty - A suite of tools for monitoring the NFT market
Mintbase - Create and trade digital items as tickets, art, music, and more
Cheetah Club Coalition - A unique cheetah NFT for each one left in the wild, benefiting the Born Free Foundation

You can also check out the community’s current favorite crypto and NFT projects.

Instagram started out of founder Kevin Systrom’s love for photography, but many photographers don’t see the app as an outlet for creativity or place for community like they once did.

"As an amateur photographer, I am craving "community not comparison," commentor Kartik Parija wrote on Product Hunt.

A lot of catalysts can be credited for this change: Facebook acquiring Instagram, an algorithm that favors likes, filters and society’s obsession with perfection, social giants like TikTok popping up and pushing competitors to shift their priorities — to name a few.

Even Instagram admits they’ve got new priorities, as evidenced by this quote resurfaced by an article on Om.

"We're no longer a photosharing app," Adam Mosseri, Head of Instagram, a division of Facebook

Glass is trying to fill the void. The new photosharing app and community for photographers launched on Product Hunt on Tuesday. Its bootstrapping founders, Tom Watson and Stefan Borsje, met while working together at Framer. Watson is ex-Facebook and ex-Pinterest, counting over 20 years of experience in product design. He told Om:

“We hope to build a community for all levels of photographers to learn, grow, and generally nerd out about photography.”

So how is Glass different? At the top level, it’s private and subscription-based. If that sounds like deja-vu, it might be because we just wrote about Neeva, the “anti-Google,” a new search engine from an ex-Google team with a subscription-based and ad-free model. And then there was Monarch from a founder who’s ex-Mint with a similar story. The move away from pure ad monetization continues, but the bottom line effects on big tech is yet to be determined.

On a features level, Glass also steers clear of public counts (Instagram has been experimenting with this) and engagement algorithms. Photographers will be excited by things like P3 color profile support, minimal compression, and EXIF data behind your photos.

See more of the features and what the community is saying about Glass's entrance among its predecessors, from Instagram to Flickr.

Imagine typing “make kitty fall from the sky” and watching code generate that makes your cat image fall from the top of your screen. It’s raining cats instantly!

OpenAI has unveiled a new Codex, an “AI system” that translates your plain English text into code.

Last month we shared the launch of Copilot, the AI-enabled pair programmer that completes your code. Think of how Gmail suggests the end of your sentences in emails. Like that, but with code.

Copilot was created by Github and OpenAI using an earlier version of Codex, but the makers had only given us a peek at their Codex research at the time. Now they’ve released an updated version and an API, making it available for free in private beta.

Codex, a descendant of GPT-3, is trained on code — notably, virtually all the public code on Github along with other repositories. Codex has the natural language understanding GPT-3 does, which means when you write “fall from the sky” not only does it know what you mean, it knows to accelerate speed to emulate an item falling from the sky.

Codex is most capable in Python but also proficient in over a dozen languages from JavaScript to Ruby. Not-a-shocker: It’s not perfect. Techies and journalists are quick to test its limits, digging deeper into stacked, complex commands. Another criticism worth noting is that some coders take issue with the fact that Codex is trained on their code repositories.

OpenAI seems overall unconcerned and bullish about how this technology will help coders. The launch blog explains:

“Once a programmer knows what to build, the act of writing code can be thought of as (1) breaking a problem down into simpler problems, and (2) mapping those simple problems to existing code (libraries, APIs, or functions) that already exist. The latter activity is probably the least fun part of programming (and the highest barrier to entry), and it’s where OpenAI Codex excels most.”

We have a lot of GPT-3 fans in the house, so we’re not surprised that so far, the Product Hunt community seems to agree.

“Everybody will truly have an opportunity to be a maker,” Slava Bobrov wrote.

What do you think?

Redfin and Zillow have tangentially benefitted from the cultural phenomenon of the real estate market, but have they really leveraged it as the content machine it is?

HGTV figured it out early. The network's breadth of both filler and compelling content propelled it to a top 5 cable network in the US. Competitors like Netflix followed their lead, and also figured out that social media is as much a powerful content generator as it is a distribution channel. In today’s world, influencers get contracts to host design shows and popular accounts are adapted to TV shows.

“Real estate is not just a transaction. It’s an entire culture,” wrote Alex Perelman with today’s launch of Playhouse. The makers of Playhouse spotted a gap between all of the home-related content you consume and transactions IRL.

“Maybe you saw an amazing house tour, but is it even in your state?... This one company does incredible tile work, but dang, not in your zip code. And so on it goes... a missed opportunity to connect millions of entrepreneurs and small businesses with potential customers in the real world.”

With the Playhouse mobile app, users can browse video listings like they would TikTok.

“Our vision is a real estate app that is both entertaining and practical. The content is fun and addictive like TikTok, but also practical and actionable like Zillow or Yelp.”

Would social and local content make your home browsing easier or more enjoyable? Let the makers know what you’d like to see from the app.

Not only do American consumers love same-day delivery, they’re growing to expect it.

“Demand for same-day delivery is growing at 43% annually across many business verticals,” wrote Mahmoud Ghulman, co-founder of Nash, on Product Hunt.

Amazon has something to do with that. Same-day delivery has been available on select products in densely populated areas globally since 2015. The problem is that most retailers or distributors don’t have the resources or scale that Amazon does. So what about everyone else? Makers are trying existing networks to close the gaps.

Nash is working to make it easy for businesses to offer same-day delivery at scale. Businesses (e.g. dry cleaners) can use the Nash software or API to offer pickup/delivery at a customer’s desired time by connecting to delivery providers (e.g. DoorDash), without needing to hire drivers or manage their own delivery operations.

Cache, which launched on Product Hunt last Friday, is in this space but is further focused on serving non-urban areas where “convenience deserts” have limited consumers from taking advantage of doorstep delivery.

“We’re big fans of products like GoPuff but... the economics don’t really lend themselves to many suburban areas... It doesn’t make sense to staff someone in a store overnight only to fulfill $30 worth of NyQuil (or even 10x that). Even though having access to snacks, OTC drugs… is really important when you need it.” wrote Jimmy Young. Young and co-founder, Christopher Wu, were previously working to lower costs for on-demand delivery at DoorDash.

Cache creates digital storefronts on Doordash and Uber Eats. Consumers make an order and drivers collect them at tiny, automated dark stores for delivery. The units can even hold ice cream, and maybe one day iPhones. Cache units are in just two locations today with plans “to cover the majority of the U.S. in the next 5 years and expand categories.”

Click through to get a look at the dark stores and share feedback.