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When Slack has a case of the Mondays...
When Slack went down on the first back-to-work Monday of 2021, the memes followed suit. Y'all are hilarious on social and honestly, we love to see it.
The short outage also sparked questions about what to do when your internal communications system breaks down in our remote-first world. Twitter DM? Group SMS? WhatsApp? Zoom Chat? Carrier pigeon?
We turned to Twitter to crowdsource your favorite Slack alternatives. Here are some of your top picks:
Telegram: Privacy focused group communications platform
Twist: Team communications tool from the team at Doist
Zulip: Open-source team chat with threading
Discord: Group chat built with gamers in mind
Rocket Chat: Open-source Slack alternative
Slenke: Team communications and project management
Signal: Encryption powered messaging focussed on privacy
Mattermost: An open source, self-hosted Slack-alternative
Basecamp: Project management and messaging tool by DHH and Jason Fried
For some newer alternatives, here are 3 products just entering the race:
Rake: Combining internal messaging with stakeholder communications
Taskade: Remote work hub for messaging, project management and more
Vizy: Like Slack, if it were video/audio first
A lot of you also answered with our favorite solution to a Slack outage... just take a nap. 😴
The short outage also sparked questions about what to do when your internal communications system breaks down in our remote-first world. Twitter DM? Group SMS? WhatsApp? Zoom Chat? Carrier pigeon?
We turned to Twitter to crowdsource your favorite Slack alternatives. Here are some of your top picks:
Telegram: Privacy focused group communications platform
Twist: Team communications tool from the team at Doist
Zulip: Open-source team chat with threading
Discord: Group chat built with gamers in mind
Rocket Chat: Open-source Slack alternative
Slenke: Team communications and project management
Signal: Encryption powered messaging focussed on privacy
Mattermost: An open source, self-hosted Slack-alternative
Basecamp: Project management and messaging tool by DHH and Jason Fried
For some newer alternatives, here are 3 products just entering the race:
Rake: Combining internal messaging with stakeholder communications
Taskade: Remote work hub for messaging, project management and more
Vizy: Like Slack, if it were video/audio first
A lot of you also answered with our favorite solution to a Slack outage... just take a nap. 😴
Do this every day
Forming good habits can be hard. It’s a lot easier to stay in bed and hit the snooze button than to get up for an early morning run. While setting grand resolutions doesn't always work out, reflecting on daily habits and removing net negative behaviors, while injecting positive ones, can be a great start.
1 Second Everyday 4.0 launched over the weekend as a great example of a habit-forming initiative that doesn’t have to feel like a chore. By taking a 1-second video every day, you create a movie of your life to watch at the end of each year. Having first launched on Product Hunt in 2015, some community members have been using it habitually for years, proving that habit-forming apps can make a long-lasting impact:
“Been using this for 4 years I think. When you see your video plays back, it's magical, transported back to whatever event you recorded” - Ferdy
“I love this. Documented the first two years of my son's life. Best thing ever.” - Joanna
“I started in January 2013 and it is awesome to look back on the moments of my life since then, the good ones and the not so good ones. I can’t recommend this enough” - Silvan
There are lots of great products that can help with better habit forming, whether your goal is to write every day or finally drop that filler word from your vocabulary.
Here are a few that launched recently:
Everyday 2.0 is a daily tracker to help form habits through visualising streaks
90 days of prose encourages daily writing through a 90 day prose challenge
Lose the very will help cut ‘very’ from your daily vocabulary
Success Planner uses a minimalist pomodoro technique for daily tasks
Habitify X makes goal setting easy with check-ins, and motivational streaks
Confetti for iOS and Android rewards you with confetti for completing daily tasks
1 Second Everyday 4.0 launched over the weekend as a great example of a habit-forming initiative that doesn’t have to feel like a chore. By taking a 1-second video every day, you create a movie of your life to watch at the end of each year. Having first launched on Product Hunt in 2015, some community members have been using it habitually for years, proving that habit-forming apps can make a long-lasting impact:
“Been using this for 4 years I think. When you see your video plays back, it's magical, transported back to whatever event you recorded” - Ferdy
“I love this. Documented the first two years of my son's life. Best thing ever.” - Joanna
“I started in January 2013 and it is awesome to look back on the moments of my life since then, the good ones and the not so good ones. I can’t recommend this enough” - Silvan
There are lots of great products that can help with better habit forming, whether your goal is to write every day or finally drop that filler word from your vocabulary.
Here are a few that launched recently:
Everyday 2.0 is a daily tracker to help form habits through visualising streaks
90 days of prose encourages daily writing through a 90 day prose challenge
Lose the very will help cut ‘very’ from your daily vocabulary
Success Planner uses a minimalist pomodoro technique for daily tasks
Habitify X makes goal setting easy with check-ins, and motivational streaks
Confetti for iOS and Android rewards you with confetti for completing daily tasks
New year, who dis?
New year, new kitty? This year, we’re starting off the year golden. ✨
Probably the most anticipated awards show of the year (Oscars who?), we’re bringing back the Golden Kitty Awards. The Golden Kitty Awards is an annual celebration of products, makers, and community members. Every year we highlight the most interesting products and prolific makers. You can see last year's winners here.
This year we’re hosting a virtual awards ceremony with more deets around nominations and even a tease on who the host is coming soon. 👀
Sign up to keep in the know.
Probably the most anticipated awards show of the year (Oscars who?), we’re bringing back the Golden Kitty Awards. The Golden Kitty Awards is an annual celebration of products, makers, and community members. Every year we highlight the most interesting products and prolific makers. You can see last year's winners here.
This year we’re hosting a virtual awards ceremony with more deets around nominations and even a tease on who the host is coming soon. 👀
Sign up to keep in the know.
2020 Shout-outs 🙌
We’ve reached the end of 2020, a year that might’ve felt like the Twilight Zone. We could go on about everything that’s happened (our newsletter is not long enough for that), but we’d rather talk about you.
Shout-out to all our amazing community members and makers who have made geeking-out everyday awesome. To spread the love, we’ve brought back our annual shout-out board.
If you’re feeling extra festive or just want to say thanks, drop a note to recognize the people and products that made a difference to you this year.
Here are a few submissions so far:
"Thankful to have seen some friends live out their dreams & sharing their journeys via @producthunt - @harveyhodd & @mattalcock" - Tim
"@robert_thelen is always a joy to collaborate with like our work on our little side project Privacy Hunt" - Richard
"@adamfrypierce gave me the chance to prove myself!! 😸😸😸" - Diego
"@zaheerbaloch for pushing me to think outside of the box!" - Naeem
Add your shout-out and we'll share some of our favorites on Twitter. 😊
Shout-out to all our amazing community members and makers who have made geeking-out everyday awesome. To spread the love, we’ve brought back our annual shout-out board.
If you’re feeling extra festive or just want to say thanks, drop a note to recognize the people and products that made a difference to you this year.
Here are a few submissions so far:
"Thankful to have seen some friends live out their dreams & sharing their journeys via @producthunt - @harveyhodd & @mattalcock" - Tim
"@robert_thelen is always a joy to collaborate with like our work on our little side project Privacy Hunt" - Richard
"@adamfrypierce gave me the chance to prove myself!! 😸😸😸" - Diego
"@zaheerbaloch for pushing me to think outside of the box!" - Naeem
Add your shout-out and we'll share some of our favorites on Twitter. 😊
Top 5 most upvoted products
The list of lists, we’re closing off our series today with the top 5 most upvoted products of 2020. You can catch up on the top 25 most upvoted products here.
And you can find the top five most upvoted products of the year below.👇
5. Fluently Beta is an online text editor with a multilingual translator, dictionary, and thesaurus built-in.
“This looks amazing. I tested Arabic, English, Amharic and Somali. The translation is almost precise. Keep it up.” - Kayd
4. HEY is a new way of creating, sending, and organizing emails (i.e., they reinvented the proverbial email wheel). Get your own @hey account for free.
“The email reinvented by those that brought use Basecamp, maybe the best well-thought tool to manage teamwork, where each detail is there for a reason.” - Miguel
3. SLAZZER is an A.I. powered background removal software that quickly removes the background from any image in just 5 seconds or less.
“Wow, this is a nice product. Even worked with a white t-shirt against white background.” - Jens
2. Moonshot is a virtual escape room that teams can play over video conference. Solve puzzles on a planet designed for 10-100 players.
“The most high tech escape room I've seen.” - Patrick
1. Easy Bloggers is a space where users can find influencers for their marketing needs. Get a cost estimation for your YouTube influencer marketing campaign, statistics, and more for free.
“Great product, well-thought features! The product will obviously enhance the efficiency of advertising.” - Eric
Until next year!
And you can find the top five most upvoted products of the year below.👇
5. Fluently Beta is an online text editor with a multilingual translator, dictionary, and thesaurus built-in.
“This looks amazing. I tested Arabic, English, Amharic and Somali. The translation is almost precise. Keep it up.” - Kayd
4. HEY is a new way of creating, sending, and organizing emails (i.e., they reinvented the proverbial email wheel). Get your own @hey account for free.
“The email reinvented by those that brought use Basecamp, maybe the best well-thought tool to manage teamwork, where each detail is there for a reason.” - Miguel
3. SLAZZER is an A.I. powered background removal software that quickly removes the background from any image in just 5 seconds or less.
“Wow, this is a nice product. Even worked with a white t-shirt against white background.” - Jens
2. Moonshot is a virtual escape room that teams can play over video conference. Solve puzzles on a planet designed for 10-100 players.
“The most high tech escape room I've seen.” - Patrick
1. Easy Bloggers is a space where users can find influencers for their marketing needs. Get a cost estimation for your YouTube influencer marketing campaign, statistics, and more for free.
“Great product, well-thought features! The product will obviously enhance the efficiency of advertising.” - Eric
Until next year!
Show me your pearly whites 🦷
To celebrate the end of the year, we’ve been showcasing the most upvoted products from 2020 this week. If you missed yesterday’s list because of the holiday, you can catch up here. 👈
10. Hypnopedia is an iOS App that plays affirmations while you sleep. The goal is to provide regular discipline to maintain a user’s mental health by increasing self-confidence and self-awareness.
“I have been using the app for a few weeks and I can see some positive results already...Interesting concept and highly recommended for feeling positive and motivated throughout the day.” - Divyansh
9. Pearlii uses AI image processing to scan dental photos, taken at home with a smartphone camera. All you need is a smartphone, a mirror, and 10 minutes.
“Being a dentist I know that people avoid treatments unless there is a pain but with such a great app they will be motivated to get routine checkups with just a click.” - Nidhi
8. Open Peeps is a hand-drawn illustration library—a system of doodles. You can use them in product, marketing, comics, product states, user flows, personas, and more.
“A perfect solution to encourage visual thinking for people who claim they can't draw.” - Bruno
7. Plum Village is a free mindfulness app with Buddhist insights and guided meditations offered by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh.
“Wonderful app, both for those who have just started exploring mindfulness and for those who have put it into practice for a while.” - Emeron
6. ZELF allows users to send and receive money through messengers (Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram and Viber).
“Making payments to my friends for coffee or beers is going to be easier than ever now.. and a great way to avoid handling cash in this post-Covid19 world we’re entering.” - Mauricio
We’re closing off the top 5 most upvoted products tomorrow. Stay tuned to see which products made 2020 epic.
10. Hypnopedia is an iOS App that plays affirmations while you sleep. The goal is to provide regular discipline to maintain a user’s mental health by increasing self-confidence and self-awareness.
“I have been using the app for a few weeks and I can see some positive results already...Interesting concept and highly recommended for feeling positive and motivated throughout the day.” - Divyansh
9. Pearlii uses AI image processing to scan dental photos, taken at home with a smartphone camera. All you need is a smartphone, a mirror, and 10 minutes.
“Being a dentist I know that people avoid treatments unless there is a pain but with such a great app they will be motivated to get routine checkups with just a click.” - Nidhi
8. Open Peeps is a hand-drawn illustration library—a system of doodles. You can use them in product, marketing, comics, product states, user flows, personas, and more.
“A perfect solution to encourage visual thinking for people who claim they can't draw.” - Bruno
7. Plum Village is a free mindfulness app with Buddhist insights and guided meditations offered by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh.
“Wonderful app, both for those who have just started exploring mindfulness and for those who have put it into practice for a while.” - Emeron
6. ZELF allows users to send and receive money through messengers (Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram and Viber).
“Making payments to my friends for coffee or beers is going to be easier than ever now.. and a great way to avoid handling cash in this post-Covid19 world we’re entering.” - Mauricio
We’re closing off the top 5 most upvoted products tomorrow. Stay tuned to see which products made 2020 epic.
Upvoted Vol. III: Clean it up
Last week, Kitty dropped their end of year mixtape featuring the most upvoted products of 2020. This week we’re continuing the countdown:
15. DropInBlog for Shopify lets users embed a blog into Shopify store in only 3 minutes.
“Best solution out there! Lots of SEO features that you won't find elsewhere. Great product.” - Ben
14. PeerBoard is a community platform designed to integrate seamlessly into an existing website or product.
“Very clean UX and fits the market need. The documentation is also easy to help integration almost a no-code solution for building professional community within a private/public ecosystem.” - Varun
13. xpression camera is a virtual camera app that imprints the movements of your face and head onto anyone you want while you chat on Zoom, Twitch, or Youtube.
“Really impressed by the quality of xpression camera's results... their custom models are capable of creating very convincing digital face puppets!” - Chris
12. Blush is a plugin and web app that lets users add beautiful illustrations from different artists to their designs.
“The browser based editor is brilliant, really easy to use but immensely powerful (especially for someone like me lacking illustrator skills).” - Liam
11. Mine is an app that lets users discover their digital footprint and remove their personal data from services they no longer use.
“Cleaning up my digital footprint was a good way to start the new year.” - Ben
Tomorrow we’ll kick off the top 10 most upvoted products of 2020. Can you guess who made the cut?
15. DropInBlog for Shopify lets users embed a blog into Shopify store in only 3 minutes.
“Best solution out there! Lots of SEO features that you won't find elsewhere. Great product.” - Ben
14. PeerBoard is a community platform designed to integrate seamlessly into an existing website or product.
“Very clean UX and fits the market need. The documentation is also easy to help integration almost a no-code solution for building professional community within a private/public ecosystem.” - Varun
13. xpression camera is a virtual camera app that imprints the movements of your face and head onto anyone you want while you chat on Zoom, Twitch, or Youtube.
“Really impressed by the quality of xpression camera's results... their custom models are capable of creating very convincing digital face puppets!” - Chris
12. Blush is a plugin and web app that lets users add beautiful illustrations from different artists to their designs.
“The browser based editor is brilliant, really easy to use but immensely powerful (especially for someone like me lacking illustrator skills).” - Liam
11. Mine is an app that lets users discover their digital footprint and remove their personal data from services they no longer use.
“Cleaning up my digital footprint was a good way to start the new year.” - Ben
Tomorrow we’ll kick off the top 10 most upvoted products of 2020. Can you guess who made the cut?
Meowy Christmas 😻
Happy Holidays, Product Hunters! 🎄🎁🎅❄️⛄️
We're so thankful for you and are pretty excited to see everything you'll launch in 2021. Whether you're celebrating the holidays or buried in a burrito blanket enjoying the time off, here are some games to keep you occupied:
Townscaper a fun and relaxing game where you can build your own town.
Gumm lets you facilitate comedy games with peeps on Discord.
Brain Drain a 10-level puzzle game with a retro design.
Hollywood Hangman is a hangman game for movie buffs.
YDays lets you compete in creative drawing challenges with friends.
We're so thankful for you and are pretty excited to see everything you'll launch in 2021. Whether you're celebrating the holidays or buried in a burrito blanket enjoying the time off, here are some games to keep you occupied:
Townscaper a fun and relaxing game where you can build your own town.
Gumm lets you facilitate comedy games with peeps on Discord.
Brain Drain a 10-level puzzle game with a retro design.
Hollywood Hangman is a hangman game for movie buffs.
YDays lets you compete in creative drawing challenges with friends.
Most Upvoted Vol.II: Level up your Zoom game
ICYMI: We’re covering the most upvoted products on Product Hunt this year in this week’s newsletters. Today we’re dropping the next 5...
20. Cloud Devs is a talent pool of the top 5% European & Latin American Remote Developers, which can be assigned to you in 24 hours.
“Our talent manager was able to expertly identify the resources we needed for our projects. And the talent was outstanding in accomplishing our tasks and meeting expectations.” - Hayden
19. Newsadoo thinks of themselves as the “Spotify for News” with a service based on AI, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing, to enhance the news reading experience.
“It looks so simple. Really appreciate the design.” - Beverly
18. mmhmm lets users create a different type of Zooming by creating unique video presentations.
“Having been a teacher in the first 6 years of my career, I know how underestimated good (video) performance is. I think this tool could help (online) teachers to engage their students so much more.” - Jibran
17. InVideo is a social video creation platform to create video ads, promo videos, social media videos and more.
“Have been using this for Wealth Management venture - Love how simple and cost effective it is! More power to you guys.” - Ankit
16. MicroAcquire helps startups find buyers and start conversations to lead to acquisitions.
“MicroAcquire is one of the best side project selling tools I've come across. It's very well designed and a breeze to list projects.” - Brett
Tomorrow’s newsletter will feature a special Christmas message, but you can expect the countdown to continue on Monday. Stay tuned...
20. Cloud Devs is a talent pool of the top 5% European & Latin American Remote Developers, which can be assigned to you in 24 hours.
“Our talent manager was able to expertly identify the resources we needed for our projects. And the talent was outstanding in accomplishing our tasks and meeting expectations.” - Hayden
19. Newsadoo thinks of themselves as the “Spotify for News” with a service based on AI, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing, to enhance the news reading experience.
“It looks so simple. Really appreciate the design.” - Beverly
18. mmhmm lets users create a different type of Zooming by creating unique video presentations.
“Having been a teacher in the first 6 years of my career, I know how underestimated good (video) performance is. I think this tool could help (online) teachers to engage their students so much more.” - Jibran
17. InVideo is a social video creation platform to create video ads, promo videos, social media videos and more.
“Have been using this for Wealth Management venture - Love how simple and cost effective it is! More power to you guys.” - Ankit
16. MicroAcquire helps startups find buyers and start conversations to lead to acquisitions.
“MicroAcquire is one of the best side project selling tools I've come across. It's very well designed and a breeze to list projects.” - Brett
Tomorrow’s newsletter will feature a special Christmas message, but you can expect the countdown to continue on Monday. Stay tuned...
2020’s most upvoted products - Vol.I
Kitty is back with their end of year mixtape featuring the most upvoted products of 2020. Over the next few days, we’ll be counting down the top 25 upvoted products, shining the spotlight on five every day.
Here are the first five:
25. ZapBG is a background removal tool that uses an AI and ML algorithm to help you remove background from your graphic assets.
“A must-have tool for any e-commerce store owner. Works flawlessly and saved us tons of time. Easy to use and intuitive.” - Vit
24. Avodocs 2.0 offers free, attorney-reviewed Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, NDAs, and other legal docs for startups. You can also negotiate, e-sign, store your legal docs.
“Avodocs has a huge social impact and helps to get your legal work done in minutes.” - Marina
23. Unstack is a no-code platform for building beautiful marketing websites and landing pages that ship with integrated A/B testing, forms & contacts, and full-funnel metrics.
“I've been designing website for last 8 years, but this one is exceptional. I don't need to understand any line of code to build a website that perfectly match to my design in Sketch.” - Ibnu
22. Trends.vc is a newsletter that allows you to discover new markets and ideas by joining a community of over 20,000 founders and investors.
“Excellent newsletter! Always gives my Shiny Object Syndrome by seeing other opportunities.” - Pete
21. Unscreen takes away the need for a green screen. Record your footage anywhere, then simply get rid of the background, even from gifs.
“Incredible. Played around with the product with my teams and we are stoked to add it to our daily workflow.”- Luis
That’s all for now. Stay tuned tomorrow, as we drop the next 5.
Here are the first five:
25. ZapBG is a background removal tool that uses an AI and ML algorithm to help you remove background from your graphic assets.
“A must-have tool for any e-commerce store owner. Works flawlessly and saved us tons of time. Easy to use and intuitive.” - Vit
24. Avodocs 2.0 offers free, attorney-reviewed Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, NDAs, and other legal docs for startups. You can also negotiate, e-sign, store your legal docs.
“Avodocs has a huge social impact and helps to get your legal work done in minutes.” - Marina
23. Unstack is a no-code platform for building beautiful marketing websites and landing pages that ship with integrated A/B testing, forms & contacts, and full-funnel metrics.
“I've been designing website for last 8 years, but this one is exceptional. I don't need to understand any line of code to build a website that perfectly match to my design in Sketch.” - Ibnu
22. Trends.vc is a newsletter that allows you to discover new markets and ideas by joining a community of over 20,000 founders and investors.
“Excellent newsletter! Always gives my Shiny Object Syndrome by seeing other opportunities.” - Pete
21. Unscreen takes away the need for a green screen. Record your footage anywhere, then simply get rid of the background, even from gifs.
“Incredible. Played around with the product with my teams and we are stoked to add it to our daily workflow.”- Luis
That’s all for now. Stay tuned tomorrow, as we drop the next 5.
