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With increased concerns over coronavirus, more and more employees will be working from home over the next few weeks. In Seattle, companies like Amazon, Google, Facebook and Microsoft have shut down various offices and requested that employees stay home out of precaution. In San Francisco, Lyft and Dropbox also advised their employees to go home. LinkedIn is even conducting all of its job interviews virtually.

It’s obvious that tools like Slack and Zoom (which already saw its stock climb) will help, but what other tools can help your team prepare for a period of remote work? Our team at Product Hunt is fully distributed, spanning a myriad of timezones every day. Besides Slack and Zoom, we use tools like Trello, Quip, Invision, and 1Password to say in sync.

Some lesser known remote tools worth checking out right now:

📝 Taskade lets your team take notes and chat in a unified work space

“Taskade is easy to use and combines the best elements of a simple Todo-list with powerful workflow templates that make managing projects and teams a breeze.“ - Cody

👀 Tandem is a virtual “office“ for remote and distributed teams

“Tandem has put a lot of time into delivering a beautiful app that makes it dead-simple to talk with your team.” - Gustaf

🖥 CoScreen lets you literally share screens

“There is huge potential for tools like this. It could revolutionize streaming, pair programming, and really all kinds of collaborative jam sessions with remote workers.” - Alexander

💬 Humble Dot helps managers make meetings more efficient (we use this!)

“We are not able to meet weekly in person so this has been a huge time saver and has allowed us all to stay on the same page.” - Lucia

📹 Loom is like Slack, but with videos

“I use it a lot when product testing, it's so much easier to explain when I find a bug to our developers, also works great for recording calls and doing demos or tutorials.” - Adelaida

🎵 Flow State emails you two hours of free music for focusing every day

“I’m always looking for more focus music, so I appreciate the curation” - Tom

🎙 Krisp Mac lets you mute the background noise during calls

“Works like a charm for webinars and meetings. Strongly recommend.” - Gilles

🙌 Slido makes meetings more interactive with quizzes and polls

“Crowdsourcing the best ideas and questions within your teams, with a simple command in Slack. Looking forward to using this for our brainstorming sessions.” - Martin

⏰ Time Zone Converter lets you calculate the time for your teammates

“You've solved my biggest pain.” - Vitaliy

👏 Remote Team is an all-in-one HR platform for distributed teams

“It definitely beats spreadsheets and bank issues while transferring funds around the world.” - Dana

💻 GroWrk lets you rent home work stations

“GroWrk is looking to solve a growing and much needed issue— how to support remote workers in a scalable and cost-efficient manner.“ - Miguel

Twitter is finally joining the Stories revolution. It was just reported that the social media company is testing ephemeral tweets — dubbed “fleets” (lol) — that disappear after 24 hours.

Fleets are intended to appeal to Twitter users who are typically turned off by the permanent nature of normal tweets. But Fleets also differ from regular tweets in that they can’t be retweeted, they don’t have likes, and people can only respond to them via DM to the original tweeter.

Actually, fleets remind us less of Instagram Stories and more of Snapchat messages. Right now, fleets are only being tested in Brazil, but we’re closely monitoring the situation. Do you think you’ll use fleets? Share your thoughts here. 💬

Speaking of Twitter, we’ve seen a number of Twitter-adjacent products launch in the past few months. There was an app for making your feed less overwhelming, a tool that turns Twitter screenshots into beautiful photos, a site for findings your dream Twitter username, an API to hide Twitter replies, a bot to find gigs on Twitter, and even an index to graph public opinion of presidential candidates (based on tweets).

If you really want to go down the Twitter rabbit hole, check this out. 🐦

Today’s Daily Digest was crafted by Product Hunt and sponsored by our friends at SafetyWing.

SafetyWing just launched Remote Health, the first global health insurance built specifically for remote teams.

The future of work is looking increasingly flexible. Companies around the world are more open to remote work than ever before. Offering competitive working conditions for top talent without geographical restrictions can open new doors for companies and employees alike.

According to the Buffer and AngelList State of Remote Work Report 2020, 98% of 3,000+ remote workers surveyed want to continue working remotely, and 97% would recommend it to others.

Of course regardless of location, we all face health challenges sometimes. Remote Health can help with:

😁 Dental
👶 Maternity
💉 Vaccinations and screenings
🏥 Hospitalization
💵 $0 - $250 deductible options
💰 $1M overall limit
🤕 Doctor’s visits
💊 Prescriptions
🚁 Medical evacuations

SafetyWing’s ultimate mission is to build a social safety net for the first country on the internet. What they mean by this is full insurance, retirement plans, and eventually even full citizenship that anyone can be a part of. With Remote Health you can insure everyone under the same conditions, wherever they live or move to.

SafetyWing has already insured 20,000 people around the world. Check out what some of the community have said:

“As someone who aspires to work remotely, this seems like the first valuable healthcare solution I've seen so far.” — Aleksa Jovanovic

“A great step towards making remote work more sustainable and manageable.” — Josh Lindsay

Last week Citroen unveiled its answer to the question of sustainable urban transportation. Ami promises to be a compact yet comfortable 2-seater electric car that can be customized with six color choices.

As well as being a green and agile solution to getting about town, Ami can be driven without a formal drivers license. This means that, in France at least, this mode of transport is accessible to teens as young as 14.

Would you let your teen drive around in one of these? Early reactions from the community seem in favor:

“I want one. Love this.” -Andrew Jernigan

“A very impressive vehicle! I could see these doing very well in Vancouver” -Daylen Sawchuk

“Awesome work by Citroen.” -Josselin Colletta

Of course this scooter-meets-car isn’t the first electric vehicle on the scene, but it might just be the cutest. In the past year we’ve seen multiple new electric options emerge:

⚡️ Cyber Truck

🚗 Tesla Model Y

🚙 Porsche Taycan

🚘 Mustang Mach E

🏎 Aston Martin Rapide E

🚙 Nikola NZT

A few months ago, Maker Abhinav Chhikara noticed a trend on Instagram and LinkedIn where creators were sharing “micro-blogs” through carousel posts.

“Some of my favorite designers had started sharing their learning process on Instagram, and I was finding tremendous value in it,” - Abhinav wrote on Product Hunt.

However, it then became hard for Abhinav to refer back to these posts that were giving him creative fuel. Enter: Booklets.io. 👀

Booklets.io is an Instagram library of sorts; it combines these education-oriented posts on social media into bite-sized learnings around product design, UX, marketing and branding, among other things. This is particularly useful for self-taught designers, marketers and creators who are unsure about which online courses would be the most valuable to them. 📚

“One of the problems self-taught designers, marketers and creators face is that online courses are useful only if you know exactly what you need to learn and want to explore in depth. But while starting out, often you don't know how vast the topic is. With my interviews with early users, I've found a lot of them using Booklets to explore the breadth of an industry before they decide to start learning.” - Abhinav

What do you think of bite-sized learning? Share your thoughts here.

Some early thoughts from the PH community:

“This is hands down the best thing I have seen in this month. So valuable! I probably have hundreds of screenshots on my phone from those IG micro-blogs and they will probably be lost and forgotten soon.“ - Dominik

“Love the design and format. This kind of synopsis could help me decide if I should read something.“ - Ramnath

“I'm thinking about getting into UX more seriously, and this seems like an amazing resource I can use to start learning“ - Vjeko

Another day, another at-home gym. Yesterday, Tempo launched on Product Hunt as an “all-in-one fitness studio” where you can work out with trainers who can see when you make a mistake (so they can fix it).

Tempo joins the growing amount of startups that are using things like 3D sensors and AI along with mirrors and screens to help you work out. There’s already the big players — like Peloton and Mirror — but there’s also newcomers like Tonal (a machine learning gym), Next! Fitness (a way for users to work out with smart mirrors in a a physical gym) and Zenia (an AI-powered yoga assistant).

“Tempo's main offering is democratizing the guidance, motivation, and accountability that makes personal training effective,” Tempo Maker Moawia Eldeeb wrote on Product Hunt.

With Tempo, it’s more about form. In fact, Tempo devices come with Microsoft’s Azure Kinect (advanced AI sensors) built-in to watch you as you complete your reps. The machine looks less like a mirror and more like an armoire, and it offers a variety of classes from yoga to strength training to HIIT.

Tempo is priced close (but slightly cheaper) to what a Peloton bike costs — the machine will cost you $1,995 and then you’ll pay another $39/month subscription for content.

When asked what makes Tempo stand out in the increasingly crowded at-home fitness market, Eldeeb said that, “Tempo tracks your strength by monitoring your form, reps, and weights being used as you exercise giving you accurate metrics. Tempo also comes with all the weights, dumbells and barbell required for most strength and HIIT classes.”  

Tempo also just announced that it raised a $17.5 million Series A, which it will use for marketing, retail distribution, R&D and content production. 💪

Today’s Daily Digest was crafted by Product Hunt and sponsored by our friends at Ground News. 

Ground News has a new approach to the news with meta-coverage. With social media making it easier than ever to get lost in an echo chamber, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to trust all of the news in our feeds online. To help readers avoid biases in the media, Ground News has launched a news comparison platform, a tool that looks at your biases and a newsletter that covers blindspots for both the left and the right.

A look inside Ground News:

👀 The Blindspot Report highlights the most biased stories of the week. If your politics lean left, you likely don’t know that the president hit his highest approval rating last week. And if they bend to the right, you probably didn’t hear that Antarctica just hit the highest temperature on record. Find out what you (and your agree-to-disagree neighbor) missed in the news this week. Subscribe. 👈

🌏 Coverage analysis goes beyond left/right news and tracks stories across space and time (well, across news locations and publishing times). With this tool, next time a story like #Pizzagate (the conspiracy theory about satanic paedophilia at a pizza joint) comes at you, know where it originally came from.

🗞 My News Bias shows you your own inclinations and preference for certain types of news, outlets and topics. Ground News has put together a one-week diagnostic that analyzes your reading patterns and gives you a report of what, how and where you consume.

To see more on how news is collected, labeled, and delivered, check out Ground News on Product Hunt.

“My personal rude awakening was when years at an unforgiving private equity job had me looking and feeling old and tired beyond my years. I tried all kinds of expensive skincare products to no avail. I never saw a real difference until I tried products that were tailor made for my skin.”  — Proven co-founder Ming Zhao

Yesterday, beauty startup Proven debuted on Product Hunt with a splash. The company was founded by Ming and her co-founder Amy Yuan, a computational physicist from Stanford, in response to the skincare industry’s lack of innovation. Like Ming, Amy was frustrated with her own skin, so she built her own AI-powered database to analyze scientific students against consumer reviews. Today, the database has expanded to 20 million consumer students and 4,000 scientific papers — all on skin. 👀

How it works: Proven collects 47 different pieces of information about you through it’s “Skin Genome Quiz,” which includes things like your gene expressions, environment, lifestyle and skin concerns. Then, using AI, Proven combs through its database of scientific papers, reviews and dermatology expertise to make a product recommendation. The company even updates your formulas as the seasons change.

So...no more acne in high school? Or college? Or ever? Maybe. A sampling of the reviews on Product Hunt indicate that Proven knows their stuff:

“I've love Proven since my first jar. Exactly what my skin needs. I've got an oily T-zone and dry cheeks.” - Nancy

“Proven uses AI where and how it needs to be used. No BS here.” - Camilla

“I use this product every day and it is insanely amazing. I can't believe how well it works.” - Lisa

“I've been using Proven for the last year and my skin really cleared up. Made the mistake of switching off for the last few weeks and now I'm breaking out again. I've learned my lesson - stick with Proven.” - Stella

P.S. They’re giving members of the Product Hunt community a discount if you want to try it out. 👈

It was just reported that Venmo is testing a new feature that would let adults create a debit card for their kids that’s connected to their account. It makes sense; giving teens an allowance is common, and more and more people aren’t carrying around cash. A digital allowance could also help parents send their kids money in a pinch, since more than half of U.S. children now have a smartphone.

A look at the digital debit card market for teens:

Current is the, ahem, current leader in this space. We saw them launch three years ago to “bring allowances into the digital age.”

At the time, Current founder and CEO Stuart Sopp wrote that the idea behind the tool was to teach teens financial literacy and give parents more control around how children spend their money in a society where “allowances remain firmly footed in the past.” The Current Student Account launched with two components: a Visa-branded debit card and an app that gave families a way to mutually decide how money would be earned and spent. The company currently has over 800,000 accounts and raised a $20 million Series B last year.

Fintech startups like Kard and Revolut also have plans to launch their own teen debit cards, joining startups like Current and U.S.-based Step. 💸

Over the weekend, Binned Art launched with a novel approach to selling art. The curated marketplace lets artists sell their work anonymously (mostly to recoup the cost of art supplies) and helps patrons buy affordable, original art.

“As a fellow painter, I kept on cluttering my studio with unsold works. While I worked on refining my style and finding my artistic voice, I wished I could sell some paintings under a pseudonym to make room for more.” — Maker Adrian del Mar wrote on Product Hunt.

How it works: Instead of using galleries to sell art, any artist can submit their art (mostly paintings and drawings) to the marketplace. The prices of the painting are based exclusively on the size of the painting, and artists can calculate the accurate price to sell their work using a built-in calculator.

Ultimately, the idea is to help early-career artists refine their style while making money, and simultaneously help more people be able to afford original art.

More alternatives for purchasing *unique* art:

📹 Infinite Objects lets you “print video”

🖼 Art Bloom sources canvas prints from independent artists

👀 RARE Art helps you find limited edition digital art

💸 Artmood lets you buy or rent original art

🙌 Otis lets you invest in original art for as little as $25