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TikTok is getting lots of attention, as usual. This week it announced ephemeral Stories and we all had something to say about it.

Last month, the company started testing a job application tool with the likes of Chipotle, Target, and Shopify. Now Gen Zers are landing jobs through #winning TikTok videos. Techies are predicting LinkedIn will follow with a similar feature soon.

Sure, PDF CVs have felt passé for a while, but we still send and upload them regularly.

CV first launched on Product Hunt 8 months ago with its new solution. Maker Andy Chung explained he wanted a simple page where he could edit and share his CV that wasn’t “heavy” like LinkedIn, but wasn’t a PDF either — a more “link-in-bio sized” resume.

The makers have now returned with Read.cv which includes social features to enable “meaningful connections” among users. Maker Joey Flynn explains how their approach is different from LinkedIn. The most important point is that “no one, including [the makers], can muck up your profile.” He explains:

“No one can endorse you for random stuff, no upsells, no banner ads... If read.cv is going to work, you're going to need to be able to send anyone your profile and know exactly what they're going to see — we will always preserve [that] at all costs.”

We are all about a clean, digital CV, particularly if it means finally putting an end to the miserable experience of uploading a PDF, then re-inputting all the same info into fields again.

On that note, another new launch, Job Tracker 2.0, is making job searching less painful. The Chrome extension and platform allows you to track and organize your applications across the web.

If you’re not a job seeker now, bookmark these or be a good friend and pass them on. Friends don’t let friends search for jobs unequipped.

If you are searching, psst... we're hiring!

Airbnb iterates fast. A recent blog from Ryan Brooks, a software engineer at Airbnb, gave us a look under the hood.

The emerging technique the company uses is server-driven UI (SDUI) and it’s used by other large companies too, like Spotify and Facebook.

“In a traditional world, data is driven by the backend and the UI is driven by each client (web, iOS, and Android),” Brooks explained. To show Airbnb’s listings page, for example, data might be pulled from the backend and then transformed by the client to show you the user interface with the listings.

SDUI allows engineers to pass the UI and data together natively — "the client displays it agnostic of the data it contains." That means makers can update their app's UI without requiring an App Store update.

Sounds likes a great strategy! But maybe you don’t have the resources Airbnb does. Enter Judo, a new no-code solution.

Judo is a Mac app for building native mobile interfaces without code that enables server-driven UI. It launched on Product Hunt last month. “This is game-changing for parts of your app that require continuous iteration like your app’s onboarding, or ephemeral content such as marketing or promotional campaigns,” Judo co-founder, Sean Rucker, explained.

The comments section speaks for itself.

“Amazing product! It's a trip building native app experiences from a WYSIWYG dashboard.” - Rory Kane

There are even more benefits to SDUI. Get a deeper dive into Judo and Airbnb’s “Ghost Platform” using SDUI on the launch page.

A real-time collaboration map tool launched today called Mapus that can help you plan trips synchronously with your family and friends.

Real-time collaboration is more important than ever in workspaces, but tech users want more out of their personal tools, too. Maker Alyssa X (a bootstrapping maker who launched Screenity to #1 in November) was surprised that other map tools only offered async collaboration.

Inspired by Figma, Mapus lets you highlight areas on the map, create lines and markers, find places, and view annotations, among other things. It's open-source and Alyssa X has included easy instructions in the GitHub repo so anyone can self-host a map.

Hyperbeam just launched its live collaboration tool on Product Hunt, too – a shared browsing site that lets you surf the web and watch shows with others. While there have been plenty of watch-together tools launch since the pandemic started, the community's enthusiasm for this product caught our eye.

“Love using Hyperbeam! So amazing that you've bootstrapped your way to a 10X better product and MAUs than your VC-backed peers.” - James Skylor

“Amazing product: the UI is clean and nice, super easy to understand, works way better than most similar products I've tried.” - Dursfellot

Hyperbeam was founded as a capstone project by an engineering team at the University of Waterloo. The makers have bootstrapped the product to over 150K monthly active users since starting in late 2019.

For more to do with friends, check out two more launches from the past year that enable shared Spotify playlists and shared video creation.

Mining for MiamiCoin, the city’s new crypto token, begins today at 1pm ET.

Among those bullish on the concept is Mayor of Miami, Francis Suarez — 30% of revenue generated goes to a secure digital wallet for funding projects that benefit the city.

The startup behind it all is CityCoins, and the makers just launched on Product Hunt to explain the concept in-depth (and invite you to today’s Twitter Spaces with Ryan Hoover).

“CityCoins are powered by Stacks, a protocol that enables smart contracts on the Bitcoin network. There is no pre-mine or ICO, anyone can compete to mine CityCoins...” maker Patrick Stanley explained.

After 30% for the city, the remaining 70% of the STX can be stacked, a function that can earn STX and Bitcoin rewards, but the headline here is largely how the tokens can potentially support communities.

“Demand for CityCoins is driven by their yield-generating capabilities in addition to their growing utility, enabled by the fact that they’re programmable,” the team explains.

CityCoins are built on an open source software, so developers can also start creating applications and experimenting with use cases today. Imagine Miami-focused apps that use the tokens for rewards or entrance into spaces. Such apps can drum up more funding for Miami.

CityCoins protocol states that the city’s crypto treasury can’t be used for purposes other than investing in city initiatives, which could include initiatives from public works projects to attracting tech startups.

San Francisco is next in line for its token, and Stanley has referenced other startup cities on the horizon worldwide.

What questions do you have about CityCoins? Leave them for the makers. 👇

One search for all your SaaS tools — sounds efficient, doesn’t it?

A new work hub launched on Product Hunt recently called Qatalog with “a new kind of work infrastructure” that brings projects and tools together under a single user interface. The launch follows a $15M Series A raise in October.

We see a lot of tools that claim to eliminate time spent switching between apps to look for stuff (information, files, goals, people, etc.), but at their core most are still separate SaaS tools. As a result, efficiency benefits only really kick in when your team has migrated all users and knowledge bases, which can be a years long process and a gamble.

Qatalog is interesting in that it doesn’t try to replace your mish mash of tools with its own. Founder and CEO Tariq Rau (ex-Amazon and ex-Wise) told TechCrunch that Qatalog is creating one source of truth for your workspaces powered by a "work graph" under the hood. Search is one of the primary uses and benefits – others include project management functions, OKR tracking and management, and automating processes across tools.

A single source of truth is a large promise. Rauf explained that Qatalog pulls as much information from your SaaS tools as possible, and asks for additional information as needed. So far, Qatalog has single-click integrations with many SaaS favorites plus a couple that surprised us, like Clubhouse.

You can find a list of integrations and a link to request what you don’t see on their site.

Amazon’s cloud computing arm has been eating more and more of the internet every year. Amazon just shared that AWS revenue grew 37% in Q2. In 2020, it held 41% of the market (more than double Microsoft in second place).

If you were thinking, "With all that growth, cloud computing on AWS must be as easy as ordering socks for next-day delivery," you’d be wrong.

Igor Zalutski of Digger explained: “🤯 The complexity of AWS is frustrating. It now has over 200 services, and it takes lots of knowledge and upfront work to just get your apps deployed.”

Digger is a no-code AWS solution that launched earlier this month. Makers can generate cloud infrastructure without having to learn AWS.

Non-technicals may not know that plenty of companies have been working to make it easier to build and manage cloud platforms for years. Platform as a Service companies like Heroku and Vercel exist for this purpose. Zalutski explained that Digger’s goal is to solve for the limitations and shortcomings of existing models.

“Unlike PaaS, there are no limitations on what you can build with Digger – because under the hood it generates Terraform.”

To peek under the hood, read on to see what questions the community had for the makers of Digger:

In June, we saw 28 Notion-related product launches on Product Hunt, mostly from indie makers. You can...

📚 Make a reading list.
⚔️ Turn your chores into a quest.
🖱️ Build a website.

There’s now a Notion tool for all of those things. One of the benefits of Notion is that there's no single use case for it.

We asked Ben Lang, a long-time member of the Product Hunt community who leads community at Notion, to share the types of tools he sees most often and highlight some of his favorites. They include:

Templates like this link manager
Template packs like this productivity pack
Tools like this highlighter for the internet

After the Notion API beta launch earlier this year, the diversity of tools launched on Product Hunt continued to expand.

We're watching makers create custom products on top of Notion, like Noah Bragg whose product, Potion, enables you to build websites with the content you already have in Notion. As one of our Maker Grant recipients, he talked to us about how he chooses platforms as an indie maker seeking financial independence, and why Notion was a great fit for Potion.

We also gathered Ben and a team of Notion makers for a Twitter Spaces to talk about building successful products with Notion. Check out Ben's guide on the makings of a Notion product, and then join us today at 12pm Pacific. Set a reminder now so you don’t forget!

If you had doubts about no-code’s future, perhaps $100 million could persuade you?

Yesterday, Bubble announced its Series A, following a 2019 seed round, preceded by 7 years of bootstrapping. Founder Emmanuel Straschnov told TechCrunch how they’ve been using the seed money.

“In our business, it’s a features game. [Our users] are not technical, but they have high standards.”

We’ve been introduced to some of those new features on Product Hunt; Bubble’s integrations for Zapier, Airtable, and Figma all launched in the last year. Like Zapier, Bubble also wants to invest in education through its own content and university partnerships.

Despite a growing list of competitors, the new features aren't necessarily part of a race to the finish.

“I don’t look at all the no-code players as competition… the true competition we have is code.”

In that spirit, here are five recent launches from startups on a similar mission — to democratize software development (or burst the tech bubble).

Adalo - Build apps for every platform

Glide 2.0 - Create web apps from Google Sheets (now without Google sheets, too)

Softr 2.0 - Build web apps & portals from Airtable

Noloco - Build custom web apps quickly

Dorik 2.0 - Build websites with unlimited pages without code

If you’re new to this or overwhelmed, you could check out No-Code Stack for tool recommendations, practice with Bubble’s step-by-step How to Build guide and recreate Twitter, or dive right in with the latest...

“When you’re working with scientific research, sometimes you’re just one conversation away from changing the world.”

Cody Pawlowski is introducing FirstIgnite to the community today, a tool that connects researchers to potential funding and licensing. The startup has connected 20 universities with 500+ companies so far, including projects on bioengineered organs and new drugs.

Bridging communication gaps is one way makers are changing the doctor/patient dynamic, too.

A while back, we wrote about WhatsApp's rise to your eCommerce stack. Cero is a similar concept, applied to healthcare. Started by a former dentist, an AI scientist, and a data scientist, Cero automates touch points like appointment confirmations, exam prep, and beyond in Latin America.

Gradia Health offers a software solution for the same problem in the US, starting with Gastroenterology clinics. Co-founder Rithvik Seela explained that forgetting medical information is detrimental for both patients (who risk complications) and clinics (who hemorrhage money as a result).

Then there’s Zealth, a SaaS that helps hospitals in Southeast Asia with monitoring of cancer patients post-hospital. Founder Dheeraj Mundhra was in part motivated by a personal experience — “We could have saved your aunt if you would have visited us earlier,” a physician told him.

Mundhra gave an example of Zealth in practice: a cancer patient who was saved from potential sepsis after the software flagged the patient's high temperature and vomiting.

Finally, Abridge was hunted not long after a $15M fundraise — the app had hit 50,000 users in October, mainly through word-of-mouth. Abridge records your doctor’s appointments and uses AI to abridge the details of your care, helping you remember and understand doc's advice.

Maybe you can eat avocado toast and invest your money, too.

We’re not here to start a generational debate — just to point out that Millennials and Gen Z are better at managing their money than some thought. One of the main reasons is tech. For example, nearly 3x as many young people use online apps to invest versus older generations.

Two new products are helping tech users up their game even more.

Monarch, a personal finance app, launched last month. Its co-founder, Val Agostino, knows the space well — he was the first product manager on the original team that built Mint.com (acquired by Intuit).

Agostino told TechCrunch that he saw firsthand how tools help people gain an understanding of financial matters, but believes people need solutions beyond tracking and budgeting.

Monarch’s goal is to move beyond historically recording finances, to providing tools for proactively planning them. Other differentiators include a subscription-based (ad-free) model, multi-player accounts (e.g. access for you and your partner), and a promise of superior data with multiple aggregators. The startup just raised $4.8M in seed funding.

Today’s launch of Finexy is all about empowering savvy financial decision making, too.

In his introduction, founder Vik Raghavan identified a gap between “sentiment traders (think: trending social media stock) to long-term value investors”, noting the latter usually yield better returns. His answer: a “companion app for Robinhood.”

Finexy acts as your personalized analyst to help you identify winning stocks and portfolios. It leverages financial theory and research frameworks that investors like Buffett use, but done via robot.

The launch is aptly timed. Robinhood is set to IPO later this week it and it plans to sell as much as 35% of its shares directly to customers on its app (compared to the usual 1-2%).