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Yesterday Canva launched their desktop app on Product Hunt. This appears to be a growth play, aimed to compete with Adobe for your desktop dock. It’s clear that Canva wants to be everywhere. Back in December, the company launched a mobile app as well.

Canva has some competition, too. Over, recently acquired by GoDaddy, launched a web beta for their graphic design tool. Known for their mobile app, they had more than 1 million active users creating designs as of January this year according to data they provided to TechCrunch.

And it turns out there have been a few other acquisitions in the consumer design space lately. Unfold was acquired by Squarespace this past October.

There are lots of other tools to amp up your Instagram design too:

• InShot adds music, animated sticker effects and voice-overs

• Facetune has an alt use as a photo background editor and blur tool

• Mojo turns your photos into dynamic videos

The consumer design space is getting interesting. Who will be acquired next? 🤔

One more thing, totally off topic. Yesterday we asked what your best WFH tip was and the resounding answer was...

“Not working in the afternoon to enjoy some outdoor/park time...then working a couple hours later that evening to make up for it.” - Daniel

We can get on board with that. 😎

Remember life before WFH? The commute, the coffee break, watercooler chat, podcasts to accompany the commute home. Even if you were previously remote before the pandemic, the days used to look a little different.

The key to enjoying the freedoms of remote work is integrating the elements you loved from your in-office routine.

• Habit by Reclaim.ai auto-blocks time on your calendar for your regular habits like networking, lunch or exercise

• TeamSpirit keeps video calls on time and monitors your talk vs. listen ratio

• Cafecito books 30 minute networking coffee-chats with like-minded remote folks

• Watercooler is like a Clubhouse for your office where you can catch up socially with your colleagues

• Kuri might inspire your to chef it up again with new recipe ideas based on what’s in season for you locally

• Dwellito Mini-Office is a prefabbed space you can work from in your yard

• Virus Cafe is a remote friend-matching tool with a firm rule against small talk

The Product Hunt team has been doing the remote thing a while, so they weighed in on some weird WFH tips to add to your repertoire.

What is your best summer WFH tip? ☀️

Earlier this year we introduced a beta of YourStack. We haven't talked much about it on Product Hunt as we continue to onboard folks from the waitlist and iterate on the product.

But today we have something to share...

We're publishing the first series of "What's in your stack?" interviews with experts you may know from the community:

🎨 Pablo Stanley is the Staff Designer at Lyft and co-founder of Carbon Health. You might recognize him from his Product Hunt launches like Buttsss and most recently, Blush. Check out Pablo’s picks.

📲 Sarah Evans is a digital strategist and leader in international tech PR. Sarah’s stack is a must for anyone looking to level up their marketing stack.

🍷 Axel Florence is a Product Manager on the growth team at Shopify. Axel’s stack tells a story of his background in RnD and reveals his penchant for french wine.

💖 Abadesi Osunsade is the founder of Hustle Crew & co-host of Techish podcast. You might recognize Abadesi as the former Head of Maker Outreach at Product Hunt. Check out Abadesi’s must-have products.

#️⃣ Chris Messina invented the hashtag and designed products and experiences for Google and Uber. Since he’s got a reputation as a #1 product hunter, his stack is like a greatest hits collection.

☀️ Lolita Taub is acting Chief of Staff and interim head of sales at Catalyte, and she’s a scout at Indie.vc. Lolita is incredibly curious, so you might want to study her stack.

We’ll be sharing more interviews with a variety of experts in design, marketing, engineering, cooking, parenting, music, and many other crafts. Let us know who’s on your wishlist on Twitter and we’ll try to make it happen. 😄

If you’re new to remote work, the endless options of where you could move can give you FOMO.

The remote work revolution started “gradually, then suddenly,” as penned by Matt Mullenweg. Within a few weeks, everyone from Square to Shopify was announcing permanent or extended WFH policies.

Here's a list of tools for digital nomads looking for a change:

First, start out with the practical stuff. Take your list of dream cities and plug them into a Relocation Calculator to find how far your salary goes on the basics. 💸

If early retirement is high on your list, scout out cities with a lower cost of living with this Financial Independence Calculator. 🏖

Timezones become really important with a distributed team so you’ll want to look closely at timezone overlap with your teammates.⌚️

A little tip: plan a trial trip before you lock it in. Test out a new city first by staying at an Outsite with fellow nomads. 👋

All this said, it’s still a tricky time to move right now, especially internationally. Keep tabs on travel restrictions for countries on your dream list with MayWeLeave. ✈️

Your time is precious, so we’ll make this quick. These productivity lifehacks will save you minutes you can spend on better things, like finding someone who will match your donations for a worthy cause.

📱 Anyline Keyboard brings CMD+C to the real world. Snap a photo of text IRL and paste into your phone

🎨 Color Copy Paste can copy colors from your phone & paste them on web, Figma or Sketch

😊 Blush is a customizable illustration tool so you can create unique artwork on your own without a design background

📩 Signature.email is a drag and drop editor for creating slick email signatures efficiently

👀 Oko tells you when you need a screen break to avoid eye strain

📅 MeetingBar gets you into your next Zoom call from your menu bar

🔍 Command E searches everything in your cloud or computer automagically

👋 Anygood is a gesture-based to-do app launched today to help keep track of what you want to read, eat and listen to

What is truly the best productivity app out there? Drop your thoughts here.

A pandemic truth: dating is not the same. When the entire dating pool pivots from IRL to TXT, there are bound to be some lasting effects.

According to Tinder data, March 29th was the biggest day in the apps history with over 3 billion swipes. Tinder may be one of the leaders in digital dating, but there are plenty of apps experimenting with new ways to find your love. 🌹

💖 League Live is virtual speed dating with a twist. Go on 3 dates in 6 minutes with users in your area that match your preferences.

💖 XO Dating Games has built-in games and icebreakers to combat initial awkwardness.

💖 Flutter Dating is a fast-paced dating app that only works on Sundays.

💖 Hinge Labs is more of a crash course on dating, designed to be deleted once you've found your match.

💖 Facebook Dating is an alternative for the app-shy generation, it’s focused on ‘meaningful relationships’ so you match when you have things in common, like interests, events or groups.

If you’ve already found your partner, there’s an app for you too. Tuned by Facebook is a place where you can create a memory box, exchange music, and share your moods with your partner to keep you in sync. Or try Cocoon, a YC-backed startup founded by two former Facebook employees.

We had to cancel our regular team offsite for Product Hunt this year, so we’ve been looking for fun ideas for a remote retreat. Since the social part of our retreats are the best bit, boring apps have no place here. 🙅

Here’s a preview of some quirky remote apps and games we're exploring:

• Brightful Meeting Games introduces icebreaking games to “super serious” business meetings

• Buzzfeed Quiz Party to test the team's knowledge on important things like, “Which Nicholas Cage character are you?’” and “What’s your British name?”

• MerryMint brings IRL activities online. Hire a magician for a magic lesson, invite a chef to teach how to make the perfect pancake, or get a mixologist to spice up your Friday happy hours

• Goat 2 Meeting sends an invite to a real goat or llama to join your video call (photo above)

• Moonshot is a virtual escape room. Join your team on an important space mission where you must escape. You can play this one with up to 100 people

We’re looking forward to a highly productive year following this retreat. 😆

Taking care of each other is important, and taking care of ourselves can sometimes come in second. When you can, remember to take a moment for yourself.

To help with that, we’ve spotted some new health and wellness apps to add to your homescreen.

We all know about Calm and Headspace, so we'd like to highlight a few lesser known apps you might want to add to your daily routine:

• Calmaria is a breathing app with an enviable aesthetic, the aim is to reduce anxiety and promote focus.

• Medito is a free-forever meditation app that was made by a non-profit that believes meditation should be ad free and available to everyone.

• TooDeep is an anonymous peer-to-peer support platform that uses audio notes to relieve anxiety.

Since physical health and mental health are so connected, adding some novelty to your fitness regime can help you max out both. Fresh workouts to add to your mix:

• Krew made an AI-augmented livestream workout platform that's guided by physiotherapists and nutritionists.

• Shark.Health created a Netflix-like experience for workout videos with the popular videos at the top.

• Tonal also launched an at home app that’s worth a look, with workout videos and habit tracking in one spot.

However you do it, take care of you. 💪

RIP conference room white-boarding sessions. The future of collaborative design is remote, and now you can create publish-worthy prototypes from home with no-code.

There are a lot of fresh prototyping tools these days, and the PH community has a lot of thoughts.

On Framer for web: “What I like most about Framer is that it’s also helping move the design process closer to "production" by giving designers better, more powerful tools for prototyping. This is much different than the typical workflow on Figma/ Sketch where you’re primarily working with static screens that are animated with basic transitions to create prototypes.” - Jason.

On Inspireframe “Very cool app for prototyping high converting landing pages. Easy to use, it enables you to materialize a landing page idea in a few minutes.” - Lucian.

On Bravo Studio “Love that this is fixing the main issue I have with these no code app builders, it allows you full control of the UI.” - Ben.

On ProtoPie “The main difference is Protopie won't make you jump off a building when you get syntax errors or find an API bug.”- Shuen.

And once your prototype is ready for feedback, give MarkUp or Maze a try. 🙌

Black Lives Matter. Period.

Product Hunt is a global community of people from all ethnicities, colors, genders and backgrounds connected through a shared love of products and technology. We hurt when people in our community hurt, and today, we like many of you, are hurting.

In today's email we want to celebrate Black makers from within our community. Here’s a small sample of the awesome products built by Black makers over the last few years:

🖤 Nappy - Beautiful high-res photos of black and brown people for free

🖤 While at Home - Stay up to date on all available resources during the COVID-19 pandemic

🖤 Calendly - Simply book meetings without the back and forth

🖤 People of Color in Tech - Join a growing community of People Of Colour working in tech and startups

🖤 Dream Big Hustle Hard - The millennial woman's guide to success in tech by Abadesi

🖤 The Bootstrapped VC - The official podcast of Backstage Capital hosted by Arlan Hamilton

🖤 Indie Hackers - Work together to build profitable businesses & side projects

🖤 Blacks Who Design - Highlighting inspiring Black designers

Let’s support more Black makers, together as a community. If you’re Black and made something you’re proud of, let us know on Twitter.

Lastly, if you have the means consider donating to Minnesota Freedom Fund, ACLU Foundation, The Bail Project, or many of the other organizations fighting for equality. You can do so on Every.org, a non-profit that makes it easy (and social).