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Todays' newsletter was crafted by us and sponsored by our friends at Secureframe.

Being enterprise-ready never looked sweeter. 😎Let’s chat about how Secureframe can streamline your SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliance in a matter of weeks.

Getting SOC 2 (pronounced 🧦 two) compliant takes roughly 6 - 12 months, followed by regular audits and overhead. Let’s be honest. No one wants to spend hours trying to figure out new compliance standards or have administrative paperwork be a blocker every year.

“In the same way that companies use Quickbooks to prepare their books, Secureframe is hoping to do the same with security standards, starting with SOC 2 and ISO 27001.” - Shrav Mehta, Co-founder

Secureframe automates security awareness training, collecting audit evidence, monitoring cloud infrastructure, and more. They’re backed by Base10 Partners and Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI-focused venture fund), where they’ve recently raised $4.5M.

As your company continues to scale, Secureframe will allow you to spend more time focused on your team and customers, and less time losing sleep over risky behavior.

Here’s what the community thinks of their release:

“Such an annoying process that all businesses selling to the B2B world need to go through. Glad someone is fixing it!” - Nick

“I would have given my left arm for this years ago. Enterprise compliance is such a bottleneck when it comes to closing & implementation.” - Harrison

“Game-changer in enabling startups to sell to established, enterprise businesses.” - Nikil

Are you a well-seasoned compliance pro or just starting your journey?

Sell a product, save the world? Stripe has introduced Stripe Climate, which allows merchants to set aside a fraction of their revenue to scale emerging carbon removal technologies.

This seems like a natural (no pun intended) move for Stripe who pledged last year to pay per year at least $1M towards carbon removal. Since then, they’ve been scouting some interesting projects, including Climeworks that launched earlier this year.

Their landing page goes into detail on what constitutes as ‘emerging carbon removal tech,’ noting their preference for permanent carbon removal versus traditional carbon offset programs.

Right now, Stripe Climate is only open to US-based Stripe users but they’re looking to expand the program internationally. As a merchant, you can let customers know about your commitment with a spiffy badge embedded on checkout - a great visual, especially if your audience is eco-conscious.

Stripe Climate joins an influx of eco-friendly products we’ve recently seen join the community:

🚘 Aerial 4 helps you automatically track your carbon footprint. Their public beta is available on iOS.

💚Greenlist challenges your team to make sustainable choices through Slack.

📗Neutral’s monthly subscription allows you to offset your carbon emissions with a program of your choice.

🌳Treecard is a wooden, zero-fee, top-up debit card that uses interchange fee profits towards reforestation.

🛒EcoCart is a chrome extension that automatically plants trees while you shop online.

As a Stripe merchant, will you try out Stripe Climate? Let us know 👇

This Halloween we’re bringing you both the treats and the tricks (the socially-distant kind).

We’ve compiled a list of some of the newest spooky products and games, as well as treats to gift yourself - no reason needed. Check them out here:

Tricks 🎲
Can you survive this hike with your team? Try this pick-a-path adventure game on Zoom for your next social: The Hike.

Spook friends and family with a ghastly letter. Use Phantom Letter to send a hand-written letter from a ghost.

Level up your IG game or dating profile with your creation from My Evil Doll.

Horror game meets beautiful graphic design: Scarlet Hollow is a choose your own adventure game available on Steam.

Nothing is scarier than making real life choices. Step out of your comfort zone and try out The Life Deck; 151 cards for daily or weekly challenges.

Treat (Yo’ Self) 💁‍♀️
OnePlus N10 5G and Nord N100 are the latest additions to the OnePlus family with 5G.

Ekster converts your iPhone 12 into a wallet with storage for 6+ cards and room for cash.

Fluora is the world’s first LED houseplant that can bring any space to life.

Hills adds a touch of personal expression with high-end accessories for your Tesla Model 3 and Model Y.

Lever Health offers 1:1 coaching for you to meet health goals across nutrition, movement, and sleep.

Razer Seiren Mini is an ultra-portable and sleek streaming mic.

Happy Halloween!

Yesterday, Google officially announced the integration of AppSheet into its tools.

AppSheet is Google Cloud’s no-code development platform which allows you to create powerful apps without code. It will be part of the Google Workspace family, which recently brought together Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Meet, Chat, and more (and was responsible for some notable icon changes). 👀

Google acquired AppSheet at the beginning of this year. Similar to other no-code platforms, it uses machine learning to analyze data from a spreadsheet and build a prototype app without users needing to know code.

However, it isn’t the only no-code platform that was released this year — flashback to when we covered the AWS no-code app builder. Amazon’s Honeycode is a great contender with its drag-and-drop interface and similar ease of use.

Both products are robust platforms that require no-code, carry a friendly UI, and allow for real-time deployment. There are of course many other awesome no-code tools that do similar things: Retool, Thunkable, Webflow, Candu, Airtable, or even Internal.

Which no-code platform do you plan on testing out? AppSheet or Honeycode?

“DON’T TOUCH THE DECK” - a familiar message we’ve all heard at least once while scrambling to put together a presentation. 🙃

It’s the type of presentation anxiety that doesn’t come with presenting: having an organized, relatable, and well-designed deck.

Earlier last week, Pitch moved out of beta. Their team claims that this presentation software can boost productivity without sacrificing creativity - a mighty stance. However, with 25,000 teams currently onboarded it may be a worthwhile claim.

Pitch enables teams to virtually meet, build, and design presentations, all in one place. Some useful features include tracking slide progress, live video collaboration, and user-friendly templates. Here’s what the community is saying:

“The unique features Pitch offers over more traditional slide tools are fantastic, and a breath of fresh air.” - Zach

“You don't feel like you are fighting it all the time, it's just so intuitive and silky smooth.” - Paul

We’ve seen many other presentation helpers pop up this year. Check out these other tools:

OpenDeck wants to help startups perfect their next pitch with over 1,200+ slide templates. Work on your presentation notes with the Comprehensive Startup Pitch Deck Guide and nail any pitch format.

Wunderpresentation turns any text into a presentation without having to deal with design.

Sizle is a sales presentation tracking tool that showcases slide analytics for documents.

Pitchdeck for Figma allows designers to create stunning slide decks from their Figma designs.

Will you introduce your team to Pitch? Let us know 👇

We’re dropping this week’s flow of some of the most interesting product news. Apologies if you thought we were going to rap - Kitty is working on the mixtape in the studio. Here's the weekly wrap from our community:

ICYMI

🎨 Adobe showcased Photoshop 2021 and Adobe XD for Visual Studio Code at their Adobe MAX 2020 Creativity Conference.

💻 Amazon’s cloud gaming service called Luna is now in early access.

📓Moleskin has launched Flow 2.0, their upgraded digital notebook with real-time collaboration.

🖌️ Pitch is no longer in beta. Track slide progress, video conference, and design beautiful slides, all in one tool.

✂️ Copy, paste, and transfer real world objects with Clip drop.

🙌 Yesterday, Product Hunt welcomed our new CEO Josh Buckley. Ryan Hoover wrote about it here.

Top Daily hunts this week 🏆

Ground News Bias Checker is a browser extension that shows you different coverage from similar stories.

Aerial can help you track and offset your carbon footprint.

Vowel is a video conferencing tool where you can plan, host, and transcribe your meetings in one window.

Finmark’s simple user interface allows startups to navigate complex financial concepts and tasks.

Should you ‘build in public’ as a strategy? Read Sarah Evans' response from our AMA we hosted this week. 👇

Todays' newsletter was crafted by us and sponsored by our friends at Genies.

Imagine if you could clone yourself into the digital world looking a million different ways.

Genies’ upgraded 3D Avatar & Digital Goods SDK can make that a reality. No longer an exclusive perk reserved for celebrities, everyday users (for the first time ever) will soon be able to create their own personalized 3D Genies, starting with these two apps:

👜 GUCCI users will be able to shop directly with GUCCI for digital goods while their avatars rock the latest apparel designs.

😜 GIPHY will help users turn their avatars into GIFs across their site, mobile app, and other supported networks.

Genies hopes to grow these SDK partnerships to create a new type of digital goods economy and marketplace. In the future, you can cop the latest sneakers, swag, or accessories from their impressive roster of thousands of celebrities (Shawn Mendes and Cardi B to name a few) from their Genies’ Avatar Agency.

After creating your unique 3D Genie, you can teleport from platform to platform, interacting with other users to socialize or show off. Here’s what the community thinks of their latest update:

“From Oculus to Zoom, having one Avatar that can integrate across each digital touchpoint is something I think is much needed.” - Gabe

“Loved your earlier website and love this new update... would be a great addition to our AR platform.” - Snehaal

If you want to bring Genies Avatars + Digital Goods to your platform, you can request access at www.genies.com

What will your Genie look like?

The hardest part of starting something new is...starting.

This year has definitely thrown a few curveballs, but individuals are finding unique ways to get inspired. You may have seen a friend launch a new product, a colleague start a side-gig, or a stranger tweet about learning something new.

Learning to code or improving existing skills is something we’ve seen makers encourage each other to do across the community. Whether you’re searching for a career change, dedicated to personal growth, or looking to try something fun, coding offers an exciting challenge regardless of your background.

Here are some newly launched community products to inspire you and help you reach those goals. 🙌

Awwwards Academy has a variety of live workshops and courses from industry leaders.

Stanza uses code snippets to illustrate and teach core concepts.

Design+Code 4 offers premium courses for learning design & code with React and Swift.

Webflow University 2.0 has a vast library of lessons from introductory to advanced.

Frontend Developer Career Path teaches you skills to land your first job as a frontend dev.

codedamn offers different learning paths based on interest and skill.

Junto is not a coding course, but offers valuable wisdom from books, podcasts, and blogs.

Content creators now have the freedom to jazz-up 😉 their programming with a little music.

Last week, Anchor and Spotify brought together podcasting and songs. Whether you’re an aspiring radio host or you’re looking for some epic background music, Shows with Music will allow you to create your own audio show.

Snapchatters will also be able to include some background beats with Sounds for Snapchat. You can now add songs to snaps, which may seem long overdue with the likes of TikTok and Instagram Reels. However, Snapchat hopes to gain an edge by letting users create their own sounds and add them to snaps in the upcoming months.

If you can’t remember the song you want to add, you can always attempt to “hum it out” with Google’s new ‘hum to search’ feature. No one will hear your awkward humming (well, except for Google).

Here are some products that can offer a soundtrack for your life:

Streamradiox is Spotify for streamers (without the copyright claims).
cchound 2.0 is a roundup of licensed music you can use for your creative projects.
Third Space offers you soundscapes from everyday places to offset WFH isolation.
Fugue 2.0 is free stock music for content creators.
UHMMM plays elevator music to avoid awkward silences during meetings.
Ocean beta allows you to create electro beats to share with friends.

Inspired to start your own audio show? Let us know what you think of this reveal. 👇