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Become a 'Meme-Dealer'
On Sunday night, Elon Musk confessed on Clubhouse the secret to being a meme-king on Twitter was to use 'meme-dealers.'
No sooner was this uttered, than young maker Bereket got to work preparing for a Product Hunt launch to help everyone become an Elon Musk style meme-dealer.
Of course, there are many tools to help you source or make your own memes. Here's a short selection that have launched on Product Hunt over the years:
Kapwing: Collaborative platform for creating GIFs and memes
Me-me: Search dank and funny memes
Frinkiac: Make memes from your favorite Simpsons episode
Meta-meme: A marketplace to buy, sell and collect rare memes
Meme Factory: A decentralized meme marketplace and registry
Mehmz: Make memes with your friends
Now you too can become a 'dealer of memes'.
No sooner was this uttered, than young maker Bereket got to work preparing for a Product Hunt launch to help everyone become an Elon Musk style meme-dealer.
Of course, there are many tools to help you source or make your own memes. Here's a short selection that have launched on Product Hunt over the years:
Kapwing: Collaborative platform for creating GIFs and memes
Me-me: Search dank and funny memes
Frinkiac: Make memes from your favorite Simpsons episode
Meta-meme: A marketplace to buy, sell and collect rare memes
Meme Factory: A decentralized meme marketplace and registry
Mehmz: Make memes with your friends
Now you too can become a 'dealer of memes'.
The end of bad team meetings
Today's newsletter was crafted by us and sponsored by our friends at Duuoo Teams.
Earlier this week, the team at Duuoo dropped their latest tool to help facilitate better team communications, Duuoo Teams.
“We’ve taken everything we've learned about helping teams have great 1-on-1 conversations and put it into a team context.
Science shows that team collaboration and team support are crucial levers to raise the sense of belonging, motivation, and psychological well-being.
(Duuoo Teams) offers an effective way to engage with your team, hold 1-on-1 and team dialogues, track progress and build a culture of open communication and transparency.” - Founder Duuoo, Magnus Stawicki Blak
With Duuoo Teams you can:
🗣 Have more effective 1-on-1 and team dialogues of all kinds
💯 Work in an iterative and agile way
🙌 Set and track individual and team OKRs
🙋♀️ Give and request feedback
Here’s what some early adopters had to say:
“We have used Duuoo for a year or so now and absolutely love it! It gives my manager and me a chance to chat about things that might otherwise not pop up.” - Rebecca
“It really is a game-changer for running effective 1 on 1s. Can't wait to try out their OKR system!” - Matthew
“Guiding such conversations using talking points provided by different experts seems like a really good approach” - Nadia
Earlier this week, the team at Duuoo dropped their latest tool to help facilitate better team communications, Duuoo Teams.
“We’ve taken everything we've learned about helping teams have great 1-on-1 conversations and put it into a team context.
Science shows that team collaboration and team support are crucial levers to raise the sense of belonging, motivation, and psychological well-being.
(Duuoo Teams) offers an effective way to engage with your team, hold 1-on-1 and team dialogues, track progress and build a culture of open communication and transparency.” - Founder Duuoo, Magnus Stawicki Blak
With Duuoo Teams you can:
🗣 Have more effective 1-on-1 and team dialogues of all kinds
💯 Work in an iterative and agile way
🙌 Set and track individual and team OKRs
🙋♀️ Give and request feedback
Here’s what some early adopters had to say:
“We have used Duuoo for a year or so now and absolutely love it! It gives my manager and me a chance to chat about things that might otherwise not pop up.” - Rebecca
“It really is a game-changer for running effective 1 on 1s. Can't wait to try out their OKR system!” - Matthew
“Guiding such conversations using talking points provided by different experts seems like a really good approach” - Nadia
How to get out of video calls 😈
We've all been in a meeting that could have been an email. But what about those Zoom calls, or classes, that make you wish the ground would open up and swallow you whole? Luckily, Kevin has built a tool to save you from another unnecessary meeting.
Freezing Cam lets you freeze your webcam during video calls on purpose. You can also fake a stuttering webcam or even play a video instead of your webcam.
The community is already finding some pretty unique use-cases for it:
"Love it! Finally, I m going to eat my favorite ice cream in virtual class without my teacher noticing ahah" - Marion
"LOL, students are going to love this."- Ryan
"Finally I can pick my nose mid zoom." - Jason
Freezcam gives us some Bufferi-ng vibes, where you can pretend to lose connection on your Zoom call. A couple of older products that can come in handy to get you out of tricky meetings; cop-out will help you skip the meeting altogether with a handy excuse, or callback will preschedule a fake call so you can pretend to be pulled away by an important client or issue. 😈
For some more practical products to help eliminate pointless meetings with asynchronous options, we covered a few new products last month or check-out our list from last year.
Freezing Cam lets you freeze your webcam during video calls on purpose. You can also fake a stuttering webcam or even play a video instead of your webcam.
The community is already finding some pretty unique use-cases for it:
"Love it! Finally, I m going to eat my favorite ice cream in virtual class without my teacher noticing ahah" - Marion
"LOL, students are going to love this."- Ryan
"Finally I can pick my nose mid zoom." - Jason
Freezcam gives us some Bufferi-ng vibes, where you can pretend to lose connection on your Zoom call. A couple of older products that can come in handy to get you out of tricky meetings; cop-out will help you skip the meeting altogether with a handy excuse, or callback will preschedule a fake call so you can pretend to be pulled away by an important client or issue. 😈
For some more practical products to help eliminate pointless meetings with asynchronous options, we covered a few new products last month or check-out our list from last year.
OnlyFans for X
OnlyFans for X is the new Uber for X. Whether you're into building bespoke spreadsheets, tweets, niche communities, or investing, there's an OnlyFans model for you.
Monetizing side projects and passion plays have been amplified by our largely socially distant new world prompting people to explore alternative ways to safely make a living from home.
The rise of paid newsletters through products like Substack and Ghost, and more recently with Twitter's acquisition of Revue are another example of how content creators can monetise their audience.
Of course there are many more tools to help creators monetize their passion. Check these out:
Current pays you to stream your favorite content.
Buy Me A Coffee gives your audience a way to thank you for creating content.
Cent is a network for Universal Creative Income featuring lots of amazing artists to support.
LiveKlass is an on-demand virtual classroom platform.
Glow offers a no-code way for indie podcasts to make $ through memberships.
Drip is a Patreon competitor by Kickstarter built to back creators.
Curious Fictions is a Patreon for professional authors and writers.
Flattr is an automatic way for creators to make money from their online content.
Supercast makes podcast monetization simple by adding a paid membership to your podcast.
Monetizing side projects and passion plays have been amplified by our largely socially distant new world prompting people to explore alternative ways to safely make a living from home.
The rise of paid newsletters through products like Substack and Ghost, and more recently with Twitter's acquisition of Revue are another example of how content creators can monetise their audience.
Of course there are many more tools to help creators monetize their passion. Check these out:
Current pays you to stream your favorite content.
Buy Me A Coffee gives your audience a way to thank you for creating content.
Cent is a network for Universal Creative Income featuring lots of amazing artists to support.
LiveKlass is an on-demand virtual classroom platform.
Glow offers a no-code way for indie podcasts to make $ through memberships.
Drip is a Patreon competitor by Kickstarter built to back creators.
Curious Fictions is a Patreon for professional authors and writers.
Flattr is an automatic way for creators to make money from their online content.
Supercast makes podcast monetization simple by adding a paid membership to your podcast.
Elon Musk said what?
Elon Musk joined Golden Kitty Product Of The Year 2020 winner, Clubhouse, for the first time last night (10 PM PST) for a live interview with the Good Time Show. Clubhouse's previous room limit of 5,000 was tested and multiple side-rooms opened for those unable to get into the official room.
Elon was asked what life will be like on Mars (tough and his kids have no desire to go), his taste in TV shows (Cobra Kai got a mention), AI and Neuralink, education for 5-year-olds, memes (he has 'meme dealers'), self-driving cars, and, of course, crypto. He's a late supporter of Bitcoin and seemingly long on Dogecoin as he quipped, "the most entertaining outcome is the most likely," among a handful of other topics.
In an unexpected twist, Musk asked for Vlad Tenev to become a speaker in the room and proceeded to interview the Robinhood (a previous Golden Kitty winner) CEO over the recent Game Stop debacle.
Tenev gave some behind-the-scenes knowledge into the inner workings of financial systems while Elon pressed him, "The people demand an answer."
Tech Twitter timelines are ablaze with interview commentary today, with some speculating that Elon may even now appear in other unannounced Clubhouse rooms fuelling further excitement about the app.
We were lucky enough to hear directly from Clubhouse cofounder Paul Davidson in the Golden Kitty afterparty last week on his own excitement about the social audio space and its future. We'll certainly be spending more time there. For those already on Clubhouse, follow the Product Hunt community for updates on when we'll be chatting next (we'll try to get more invites soon for those not yet in).
Elon was asked what life will be like on Mars (tough and his kids have no desire to go), his taste in TV shows (Cobra Kai got a mention), AI and Neuralink, education for 5-year-olds, memes (he has 'meme dealers'), self-driving cars, and, of course, crypto. He's a late supporter of Bitcoin and seemingly long on Dogecoin as he quipped, "the most entertaining outcome is the most likely," among a handful of other topics.
In an unexpected twist, Musk asked for Vlad Tenev to become a speaker in the room and proceeded to interview the Robinhood (a previous Golden Kitty winner) CEO over the recent Game Stop debacle.
Tenev gave some behind-the-scenes knowledge into the inner workings of financial systems while Elon pressed him, "The people demand an answer."
Tech Twitter timelines are ablaze with interview commentary today, with some speculating that Elon may even now appear in other unannounced Clubhouse rooms fuelling further excitement about the app.
We were lucky enough to hear directly from Clubhouse cofounder Paul Davidson in the Golden Kitty afterparty last week on his own excitement about the social audio space and its future. We'll certainly be spending more time there. For those already on Clubhouse, follow the Product Hunt community for updates on when we'll be chatting next (we'll try to get more invites soon for those not yet in).
GOLDEN KITTY WINNERS
The 6th annual Golden Kitty Awards have come to an end. You nominated thousands of products and makers across 23 categories, casting tens of thousands of upvotes to select the winners.
We were thrilled to share the award ceremony yesterday with so many of the winners and finalists. Thank you to everyone who attended and made it a truly special event.
So without further ado, here are the 2020 Golden Kitty winners in each of the 23 categories
⛱ Remote Work tool of the year: Vowel
👀 Side Project of the year: One Word Domains
🛠 Hardware product of the year: Rqaspberry Pi 400
🙀 WTF product of the year: How Bad Is Your Spotify?
🛍 Ecommerce product of the year: RetentionX
🎨 Design tool of the year: Spline
🗣 Audio and Voice product of the year: Phone Call Translator
🙅♀️ No-code tool of the year: V.One
📱 Mobile App of the year: EduDo
🔐 Privacy Focussed tool of the year: SecureFrame
💸 Fintech product of the year: Finmark
⛓ Crypto product of the year: Cent
🌈 Diversity and Inclusion product of the year: Noun Project Photos
💯 Productivity tool of the year: Fastdok
🏋️♂️ Health and Wellness product of the year: Plum Village
🌏 Community and social product of the year: Onlyfams
🌎 Social Impact product of the year: Campaign With
🤖 AI and Machine Learning product of the year: Almanac
😎 Augmented Realisty product of the year: ClipDrop
🖥 Developer tool of the year: Markup
🏆 Product of the year: Clubhouse
Check out the winners, runner ups and honorable mentions in all 23 categories here.
We also gave out two non-voting awards. Congrats to our Maker of the Lucy Guo, and Community Member of the Year, Chris Messina.
And a big thank you to our partners, Welcome, Zendesk for Startups and Capsule.
Congrats to all makers for building awesome things in 2020. 😺
We were thrilled to share the award ceremony yesterday with so many of the winners and finalists. Thank you to everyone who attended and made it a truly special event.
So without further ado, here are the 2020 Golden Kitty winners in each of the 23 categories
⛱ Remote Work tool of the year: Vowel
👀 Side Project of the year: One Word Domains
🛠 Hardware product of the year: Rqaspberry Pi 400
🙀 WTF product of the year: How Bad Is Your Spotify?
🛍 Ecommerce product of the year: RetentionX
🎨 Design tool of the year: Spline
🗣 Audio and Voice product of the year: Phone Call Translator
🙅♀️ No-code tool of the year: V.One
📱 Mobile App of the year: EduDo
🔐 Privacy Focussed tool of the year: SecureFrame
💸 Fintech product of the year: Finmark
⛓ Crypto product of the year: Cent
🌈 Diversity and Inclusion product of the year: Noun Project Photos
💯 Productivity tool of the year: Fastdok
🏋️♂️ Health and Wellness product of the year: Plum Village
🌏 Community and social product of the year: Onlyfams
🌎 Social Impact product of the year: Campaign With
🤖 AI and Machine Learning product of the year: Almanac
😎 Augmented Realisty product of the year: ClipDrop
🖥 Developer tool of the year: Markup
🏆 Product of the year: Clubhouse
Check out the winners, runner ups and honorable mentions in all 23 categories here.
We also gave out two non-voting awards. Congrats to our Maker of the Lucy Guo, and Community Member of the Year, Chris Messina.
And a big thank you to our partners, Welcome, Zendesk for Startups and Capsule.
Congrats to all makers for building awesome things in 2020. 😺
Who needs a Clubhouse invite?
Today is the day! Doors to our first-ever Virtual Award Ceremony open at 12 PM (noon) PST.
It’s going to be a fun event hosted by Casey Newton. Casey will be announcing Golden Kitty winners live at the show, talking with finalists and winners, as well as discussing 2020 trends while looking ahead at tech predictions for 2021. Bonus: It’s all free! 💸
Expect exclusive winner announcements, interviews with Ryan Hoover, Josh Buckley, and special guests including Lolita Taub, Tiffany Zhong, and Chris Messina. Plus networking opportunities with past winners, other makers, and industry experts from the global Product Hunt community.
Spaces are limited so reserve your spot now. Register here. 👈
🚨 BONUS ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨
Ryan and Josh will be hosting the official Golden Kitty 2020 afterparty on Clubhouse today at 5 PM PST.
Want to join but don't have an invite yet? We got you covered. (Invites are limited on a first come first serve basis.)
This year's Golden Kitty Awards is brought in partnership with our friends at Welcome, Zendesk for Startups and Capsule.
Today is the day! Doors to our first-ever Virtual Award Ceremony open at 12 PM (noon) PST.
It’s going to be a fun event hosted by Casey Newton. Casey will be announcing Golden Kitty winners live at the show, talking with finalists and winners, as well as discussing 2020 trends while looking ahead at tech predictions for 2021. Bonus: It’s all free! 💸
Expect exclusive winner announcements, interviews with Ryan Hoover, Josh Buckley, and special guests including Lolita Taub, Tiffany Zhong, and Chris Messina. Plus networking opportunities with past winners, other makers, and industry experts from the global Product Hunt community.
Spaces are limited so reserve your spot now. Register here. 👈
🚨 BONUS ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨
Ryan and Josh will be hosting the official Golden Kitty 2020 afterparty on Clubhouse today at 5 PM PST.
Want to join but don't have an invite yet? We got you covered. (Invites are limited on a first come first serve basis.)
This year's Golden Kitty Awards is brought in partnership with our friends at Welcome, Zendesk for Startups and Capsule.
Never open Excel again
Today's newsletter was crafted by us and sponsored by our friends at Flatfile.
Data onboarding can be an everyday occurrence for many teams, but the term might sound unfamiliar. Remember the last time you imported a spreadsheet. Did it work correctly? 🙄
Formatting CSV or Excel files so the data can be imported into a product is a pain.
Companies spend tons of effort trying to fix data onboarding, usually, with implementation teams, import scripts, or relying on spreadsheet templates.
Flatfile has created two products to help fix this exact pain point: Portal and Concierge.
Flatfile Portal
Portal offers an embeddable, intuitive data import experience. Quickly integrate with any application and automatically map spreadsheet data using an elegant import wizard. Messy spreadsheets are easily validated so you can push the structured data to any API or endpoint.
Flatfile Concierge
Coming soon: Turn data onboarding into a collaborative experience with intuitive workbooks. Best of all? No code required!
Collaborate with invited customers to securely import, format, and merge spreadsheet data. No more FTP uploads, or emailing sensitive Excel files.
Sound good? Visit 👇
Data onboarding can be an everyday occurrence for many teams, but the term might sound unfamiliar. Remember the last time you imported a spreadsheet. Did it work correctly? 🙄
Formatting CSV or Excel files so the data can be imported into a product is a pain.
Companies spend tons of effort trying to fix data onboarding, usually, with implementation teams, import scripts, or relying on spreadsheet templates.
Flatfile has created two products to help fix this exact pain point: Portal and Concierge.
Flatfile Portal
Portal offers an embeddable, intuitive data import experience. Quickly integrate with any application and automatically map spreadsheet data using an elegant import wizard. Messy spreadsheets are easily validated so you can push the structured data to any API or endpoint.
Flatfile Concierge
Coming soon: Turn data onboarding into a collaborative experience with intuitive workbooks. Best of all? No code required!
Collaborate with invited customers to securely import, format, and merge spreadsheet data. No more FTP uploads, or emailing sensitive Excel files.
Sound good? Visit 👇
Jam with an expert
Today, the team over at Jam dropped Jam Genies.
Maker Dani Grant explains the product:
"A network of amazing experts from Facebook, Slack, Netflix, Snap, and others to help you improve your website.
How it works: just choose a genie, pick a time, pay their one-time fee, and Jam with them. It’s one-on-one help from an expert, on-demand, about your exact problem."
Jam launched last year as a way to collaboratively work on your website right from the page. It enables you to leave comments and discuss improvements directly on your site. Next came Jam wand enabling copywriters to make site copy-edits without requiring an engineer. Now with Jam Genies experts can weigh in and give advice on your product pain points.
This latest Jam update is giving us some Superpeer vibes. A sort of "Calendly-meets-Cameo" where users can book 1 on 1 meetings with influencers through direct calender links.
Would you pay to jam with an expert ? Let's us know in the comments.
We find 1:1's with an expert pretty great. So much so we also have our own network of mentors and peers you can chat with.
Maker Dani Grant explains the product:
"A network of amazing experts from Facebook, Slack, Netflix, Snap, and others to help you improve your website.
How it works: just choose a genie, pick a time, pay their one-time fee, and Jam with them. It’s one-on-one help from an expert, on-demand, about your exact problem."
Jam launched last year as a way to collaboratively work on your website right from the page. It enables you to leave comments and discuss improvements directly on your site. Next came Jam wand enabling copywriters to make site copy-edits without requiring an engineer. Now with Jam Genies experts can weigh in and give advice on your product pain points.
This latest Jam update is giving us some Superpeer vibes. A sort of "Calendly-meets-Cameo" where users can book 1 on 1 meetings with influencers through direct calender links.
Would you pay to jam with an expert ? Let's us know in the comments.
We find 1:1's with an expert pretty great. So much so we also have our own network of mentors and peers you can chat with.
Makers Festival to $7.5M
Today, the folks over at Yelling At Cubicles (aka YAC) announced a $7.5M round of funding led by GGV Capital and a return investment from the Slack Fund.
You might remember the team from their Maker Story where cofounder Justin Mitchell unpacks how 1 tweet led them to raise $400K. That $400K is now $7.5M. Pretty impressive stuff.
Fun Fact: YAC started as a project during our first ever Makers Festival in 2018 where they went on to win a Silver Kitty Trophy. 🏆
YAC is a voice messaging app for remote teams allowing you to leave a voice note for your team in Slack, in a group, or in public. A kind of Slack-meets-Clubhouse scenario.
With Clubhouse itself now reportedly valued at $1B, and Twitter audio spaces gaining momentum, the social audio space is increasingly interesting to watch. Many products dropped in this space last year, we covered a number of them in this newsletter. We're excited to see how this space develops, and what launches to look out for in 2021
We are joined by the YAC team today for an AMA to discover how they went from Product Hunt Makers Festival to raising $7.5M. Join us and ask them a question.
You might remember the team from their Maker Story where cofounder Justin Mitchell unpacks how 1 tweet led them to raise $400K. That $400K is now $7.5M. Pretty impressive stuff.
Fun Fact: YAC started as a project during our first ever Makers Festival in 2018 where they went on to win a Silver Kitty Trophy. 🏆
YAC is a voice messaging app for remote teams allowing you to leave a voice note for your team in Slack, in a group, or in public. A kind of Slack-meets-Clubhouse scenario.
With Clubhouse itself now reportedly valued at $1B, and Twitter audio spaces gaining momentum, the social audio space is increasingly interesting to watch. Many products dropped in this space last year, we covered a number of them in this newsletter. We're excited to see how this space develops, and what launches to look out for in 2021
We are joined by the YAC team today for an AMA to discover how they went from Product Hunt Makers Festival to raising $7.5M. Join us and ask them a question.
