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“My first thought was DANG, April came early... Looks very cool and a godsend for accessibility.“

No, this is not an April Fool’s joke — it’s a tool that *actually* lets you control your computer with head movements. Hawkeye Access for Mac launched today and gives you the ability to rotate your head to move your computer cursor. You can also make facial expressions to click, drag, and scroll around your screen, powered by your iPhone’s TrueDepth camera.

The launch follows Hawkeye Access for iOS, which was built last year. 📱

Maker Matt Moss wrote a little bit more about the tool on Product Hunt:

“Access for Mac is a big step up over traditional hands-free controls. It's easy to learn, incredibly powerful, and cheap. I can't wait to see how this helps people with motor impairments use their Macs, from browsing the web to playing games to editing videos.“

Some early reviews from the PH community:

“Hawkeye Access for Mac empowers all of us to explore, build, and play on computers through hands-free control. Regardless of whether or not you have motor impairments, Hawkeye feels magical to use.” - Hunter

“It's so great to see what can be achieved with just a phone today.” - Owen

It appears people will pay for, well, water. It was just announced that Liquid Death, the company that uses inventive, heavy metal-influenced packaging to sell canned water, raised $9 million from investors. 💦

A little history: We first noticed Liquid Death about a year ago when the canned water brand debuted on Product Hunt. The company cans mountain water from the Austrian Alps in response to fears around contaminated water and pollution, and uses aluminum cans for its water (sold at $18.99 for a 12-pack) since it’s vastly more recyclable than plastic bottles. Since then, the brand has utilized the tagline “Death to Plastic” to promote a sustainable cause — for every can sold, Liquid Death will donate 5 cents to help clean up plastic pollution.

As for the reason behind Liquid Death’s punk rock branding, founder Mike Cessario says that he simply wanted to make a healthy product that was provocative.

“In my past life as an ad agency creative director, I was always perplexed by the strict rules that brands and CPG products create for themselves,” Cessario wrote on Product Hunt. “Why is it completely ok for a horror movie product to have blood and gore and profanity and make $250 million? Or why can a rapper like Eminem make some of the all-time highest grossing music products filled with controversial awesomeness? But then CPG products, like beverages, all have to play by 1950's rules and be safe, boring, corporate, functional, rational, and appeal to absolutely everyone? All we wanted to do with Liquid Death was to make a CPG product that gets to play by entertainment product rules. Why not? There's a reason why people have such a deep passion and love for entertainment products, probably more so than almost anything else. And more specifically, we wanted to make a healthy product that is provocative and hilarious in a world where only unhealthy brands like energy drinks, soda, beer, candy, and fast food get to have all the fun.“

But beyond branding, people genuinely seem to love canned water. A few reviews from the PH community:

“Amazing design and idea. Can't believe it has taken this long to get canned water to be a thing in the mainstream.” - Ally 

“I figured its just water in a can but I'm hooked, love this stuff.” -  Laurence

With the new funding, the company plans to expand into more physical stores, starting with Whole Foods next month. 👀

It was only three months ago that we wrote about Chroma Stories, an Instagram competitor built by the lead developers behind Instagram Stories and Boomerang. The group behind the app — former Instagram and Facebook employees Alex Li, Joshua Harris and John Barnett — left their jobs to start Chroma Stories, which was warmly received by the PH community.

“Great templates to start from, motion controls make photos come to life, fast and easy to use.” - Soleio

“I have been using the app since it was first released. Recommended by someone connected to the founders. It works great, it has tons of new options compared to the standard tools avail on Instagram. If you post to Instagram Stories often or do so for work, get this app. You will look like a pro.“ - Andrew

Yesterday, the startup announced that it was acquired by Twitter. 🐦

The terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but Chroma Stories is shutting down, effective immediately. The company wrote in a statement that they “look forward to continuing our mission at a larger scale — with one of the most important services in the world.”

It’s worth noting that Twitter, known for words rather than visuals, isn’t yet a part of the Stories revolution (which has definitely arrived). Given the Chroma team’s background, this could mark the beginning of a more visual future for Twitter. Don’t worry, we’re closely tracking any hint of a “Twitter Stories” launch. 👀

If you spend any amount of time on the internet, you’ve probably seen a TikTok video by now. That doesn’t necessarily mean you use TikTok. More and more people are aware of TikTok because it’s super easy to share TikTok videos on other social media platforms, like Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

In fact, according to a study from Business Insider, only 11% of Gen Z internet users say they check TikTok Daily, but many people say they don’t need to open the app to feel like they’re “using“ it. Is this a genius organic marketing strategy? Maybe.

Something in the same vein launched on Product Hunt today — it’s called Pikaso and it turns tweets into Instagram-friendly screenshots.

“I created this tool for people who like to share their tweets on Instagram. It's much easier than taking screenshots and manually cropping them and the generated image looks more professional and clutter-free.” — Pikaso Maker Soheil Rashidi

Soheil seems to be filling a need; people on Product Hunt are already asking for the ability to turn Tweets for Instagram Stories and a feature that supports Twitter threads. We’ll be on the lookout for more tools that transcend the borders of social media sites.

In the meantime, some other wacky things you can do with your tweets:

🙌Print a tweet on anything with PrintMeBot

🖼Get a framed poster of tweets with Framed Tweets

💥Get wooden laser etched tweets with Laser Tweets

Over the weekend, engineers across the world took to Twitter in the name of salary transparency, sharing how much money they make annually with the hashtag #KnowYourWorth. 👀

The trend seems to have started with Slack developer Zac Sweers, who shared his education, years of professional experience, title, location, and compensation (including equity) like this:


As hundreds of engineers followed suit, there were very mixed reactions. Some people felt empowered, while others were disheartened by the hefty salaries that tech workers make at big tech companies in San Francisco and New York. But for underrepresented groups, this brief Twitter movement may have worked the way Sweers intended it to.

“I’ve seen an outpouring of gratitude, particularly from women, for folks sharing,” he wrote on Twitter. “Even in cases where they have reservations about the approach of efficacy, there’s an appreciation that those sharing are trying to be an ally.”

Today, a resource called Know Your Worth launched on Product Hunt that aggregates all of the data collected from the Twitter experiment. You can search salaries by country and city, and even see how much remote engineers make.

For more salary resources, check out LinkedIn Salary, Founder Salary Calculator and SalaryOrEquity. 💸

A new experimental app from Facebook just launched.

It’s called Hobbi and it’s a lot like, well, Pinterest. It’s also a lot like Google’s new app called Tangi, which sort of reminded us a lot of Jumprope (read more on that here).

The app is aimed at hobbyists who like things like crafting, fitness, cooking, baking, and interior decorating, and users can organize their various projects into collections. They can also create videos of finished projects within the app, but as of now, there’s no built-in social sharing feature. 👀

Hobbi comes out of Facebook’s semi-new “Product Experimentation“ team, which has launched apps like the ad-free meme maker Whale, anonymous chat app Bump, and a social music app called Aux.

Facebook has previously stated that these new apps aren’t necessarily meant to last, and the main goal of the Product Experimentation team is to give people “new experiences for building community.”

“Unlike Facebook’s family of apps, NPE Team apps will change very rapidly and will be shut down if we learn that they’re not useful to people. We expect many failures. We also want to minimize disruption to the billions of people who use Facebook apps every day,” Facebook wrote in a statement. 

Give Hobbi a spin here and tell us that you think. 🤔

The whole foldable phone thing came onto our radar just about a year ago, when Samsung officially unveiled its “Galaxy Fold“ smartphone. The Galaxy Fold’s screens infamously started to break (and then break again), so of course Samsung came out swinging at its annual event with the Galaxy Z Flip this week.

The compact phone folds up into a small little square when it’s closed, and Samsung says the phone’s bendable glass screen should last for 200,000 folds. Would you get it? Tell us! The phone arrives this Friday for $1,380.

Samsung also took the hood off of another smartphone at the event: the Galaxy S20 (aka the annual refresh of Samsung’s flagship phone). Big changes include the removal of the headphone jack, another camera and better photo features. These phones will be available during the first week of March.

Samsung also announced its second-generation wireless earbuds, Galaxy Buds Plus, at the event. TLDR; the new buds provide a huge boost to battery and sound, but they look exactly like the original Galaxy Buds (Samsung’s answer to AirPods).

Happy folding, everyone. 📱

Slack groups are on the rise. With recent surges in remote working and the popularity of small-group messaging outside of work, it makes sense. Slack communities are like an online forum for niche interests, and it’s not uncommon to belong to more than one Slack group.

This also presents a problem: Slack was originally intended as a messaging services among coworkers, something that employees consistently check throughout the day. But if you belong to several Slack groups, it’s really easy to fall behind on threads and messages.

Enter: Lowdown, a new app that turns community content from Slack into an auto-generated newsletter.

“Last year I started a Slack community which grew to over 800 members, but I noticed that many of the people who joined didn’t engage and eventually disappeared. I desperately wanted a way to re-engage with these members so I could remind them of the valuable content my community offered. If I could do that they’d know what they missed and could return to get involved. That’s when we had the idea to highlight the post's members engaged with the most in a weekly newsletter.” - Lowdown co-founder Steven Hylands

How it works: Lowdown watches whatever Slack channels you want, and then automatically resurfaces the posts in those channels with the most replies/emoji reactions in newsletter format. If you currently run a Slack group, you can auto-subscribe your entire membership to Lowdown or ask your community members permission via a Slackbot DM. Your “newsletter“ will then be sent to subscribers every week, with no manual input from you.

Judging by the reaction on Product Hunt, people really dig this idea:

“This could be very useful, I’m starting to drown in Slack communities.” - Chris

“200% value added to any Slack community.” - David

“I'm part of a few Slack communities and I struggle to keep up sometimes, but I don't like feeling like I've missed useful or entertaining content so I generally have to find time to scroll through the various channels for updates - not great. Thank you for creating this, huge problem solved!“ - Melissa

Raise your hand if you’re getting Lowdown to handle all your Slack groups. 👋

Hoop, an app that looks like Tinder but works for finding new friends on Snapchat, hit the number two spot on the App Store charts this month.

Why you should care: Hoop was created with Snap Kit, Snapchat’s developer tool kit that lets makers integrate Snapchat’s features (Bitmoji, Stories, Ads, etc.) into their own apps. We’ve seen Snap Kit catapult other apps — namely, Yolo — to the top of the App Store and into the internet zeitgeist among teens.

Hoop ultimately works a lot like Tinder (or Bumble or Hinge) and prompts users to swipe to connect with new people, who they can then message over Snapchat. Hoops makes you spend “diamonds” in the app if you want to reach out to people. After a certain amount of requests to chat, you can earn more diamonds by sharing and inviting friends to Hoop. The idea, of course, is to ultimately drive more users to Snapchat.

Hoop reportedly has more than 3 million downloads so far. Would you use it?

Some other apps integrated with Snap Kit:

👻 Brb

👻 Wavechat

👻 Stickered

👻 Wishbone 

👻 WYA 

👻 TOKO

👻 PicsArt

👻 Squad

Check out more Snap Kit apps here. 👈