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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).

The jam sesh goes digital with Collab, an app to create music together remotely.

Tip your coffee cup to the R&D team at Facebook who also created this and needs to CatchUp on some sleep this weekend.

TikTok has been busy capturing creators, and this feels a bit like their duet feature. On TikTok duets you need to invite someone to join you, but on Collab you can mix your video with others on the platform at will.

Once your track “slaps” and you’re ready to release it, turn that content into cash. Starting next week, Instagram is rolling out ads in IGTV and planning to share new that revenue directly with creators.

Getting back to the music, we’ve seen some cool indie app releases this week too.

Mixroom lets artists share out their unfinished music and song drafts that didn’t make the cut. It’s an unfiltered music haven for fans and artists who don’t always want the polished goods.

Helio is an open-source composition software where you visualize the music as you create it.

Seems like the pandemic is giving life back to music. ✌️

Ring ring, anybody there? Facebook’s R&D team dropped a new app this week. On Tuesday they released CatchUp which is an audio-only app that shows you who’s around to chat instantly, a bit like a voice-only chat room.

The big use case for the app is eliminating phone tag. It’s easy to jump in and out of calls with family or friends for up to 8 people. We’ve seen a lot of video calling apps launch recently including Messenger Rooms, so it’s an interesting pivot to voice-only to address video fatigue. Now you don’t have to be camera-ready, and it’s a bit easier to multitask if you are just hoping for a quick social session.

Since video fatigue is definitely a real thing, we wanted to dig deeper into this audio-only trend.

Walkie is a like a CatchUp for your colleagues, you can drop voice notes for your remote coworkers in real time.

About a year ago, an audio-based social platform called Lyrc launched. You can use Lyrc a bit like a mix of CatchUp and Walkie to capture and share audio-only moments with friends and family.

Currently launched around the same time and it’s a voice-only community where you can create a playlist of your stories, songs and voice notes.

If the phone call is coming back, does that mean radio is next? Another throwback app, Drive & Listen, is a trip. You can digitally drive around global cities and listen to their local radio stations to feel like you’re really there.

Keeping the auto theme going, Roadtrip is building a social music-listening app with audio voiceovers.

Consumer audio is getting interesting. 🔊