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Happy Holidays, Product Hunters! 🎄🎁🎅❄️⛄️

We're so thankful for you and are pretty excited to see everything you'll launch in the 2020s. As promised, we’re continuing with our countdown of the top most upvoted products of 2019 (until Friday). Next up:

15. 100,000 Faces is a free resource of over 100,000 faces generated by AI. RIP stock photography.

“Wow, impressive ! A bit scary... but impressive.” - Ousmane

14. Startups 3 is an online bootstrap builder that comes with predesigned elements and templates.

“One word. Beautiful.” - Fajar

13. Jumbo is a powerful privacy assistant for iOS (made by the founder of Sunrise). As we wrote in April, “the app lets you simply and easily clean up your social profiles. You can automatically adjust 30 Facebook privacy settings, delete old Tweets and make new ones ephemeral, clean old Google searches and erase your Amazon Alexa requests.”

“PLEASE do Jumbo for e-mail. PLEASE.” - Daniel

12. Terms and Conditions Generator is an attorney-approved tool that generates professional Terms and Conditions in minutes.

“It is a really powerful tool for an inherently complex area when you build products.” - Jonno

11. VisualSiteMaps automatically generates sitemaps and high-resolution screenshots of any site or web-app, making it super easy to perform in-depth site audits for UI, UX, SEO, and marketing research.

“Was just googling how to build visual site maps, and by accident found this gem. Seriously impressed by it, and was even surprised it was not on Product Hunt already.” - Jean

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

ICYMI: We’re covering the most upvoted products on Product Hunt this year in this week’s newsletters. The countdown continues...

20. Stonly creates interactive step-by-step, embeddable product explanations. The product was created by the founder of Dashlane, and ultimately aims to help people who build cool things explain how those cool things work.

“I highly recommend Stonly to our portfolio startups wanting to optimize their support teams. Top-notch UX, interactive and time-saving.“ - Laetitia

19. Clean Mockups make it super easy to create mockups right from your browser. The idea is that you’ll spend more time on product thinking versus things like resizing and masking.

“Cool, sleek design with perky colors.” - Melissa

18. INK is a handy, writers-first tool that helps to optimize content for Google. It eliminates the need to rely on SEO experience to help content stand a chance in search, and improves content traffic by understanding what audiences want.

“I have been working with and using INK for the past three months. It has changed the way I want to write.” - Sarah

17 . Glaze is a library of royalty-free illustrations anyone can use in their products or presentations.

“These are great! Using them for a presentation I'm giving soon to evoke the emotion I want people to feel. Powerful for storytelling.” - Kunal

16. Webframe is a database of 800 web app screenshots to give you inspiration for your next app. The Maker wanted to help other makers avoid signing up for web apps when they want screenshots for #inspo, which in turn leads to being spammed forever and ever.

“There's a million variations of this idea but Webframe brings a new approach to the problem. It earned a bookmark in my browser.” - Aaron

In tomorrow’s (CHRISTMAS) newsletter: a privacy assistant, a useful comic book, and an attorney-approved product. 👀

It’s almost the end of 2019! Of course, you knew that already from all the end of the decade #content that’s undoubtedly in your inbox.

There are so many products we could share to wrap of the 2010s (we’re a product of this decade), but we wanted to give some love to the most upvoted products of 2019. We’ll be sharing the year’s top 25 products over the next five days, so stay tuned! First up:

25. Marketing Examples is a super useful gallery of real-world marketing examples from successful companies. It will help you improve your SEO, perfect your newsletter strategy, and grow your following on Instagram.

“Invaluable modern marketing lessons - the only marketing newsletter I subscribe to actually.” - Pete

24. Tesla Cybertruck launched in November (with a bang) and we’re still thinking about buying one. The $39,000 electric pickup truck is designed to look like a sports car but definitely looks like it belongs on Mars.

“It feels like Tesla is the Apple of the car industry. Right now it feels strange and unfamiliar, then suddenly other manufacturers will start to move towards a similar aesthetic and it will be the norm.” - Manny

23. Exploding Topics is an aggregator for trending topics like health, business, marketing and fashion, among others. The tool scrapes the web for what’s blowing up right now, sourcing from millions of data points.

“Wow. That’s like a pre-curated Google Trends on steroids.” - Dan

22. UserGuiding is a nifty no-code tool that helps product teams create interactive manuals that showcase how a product works.

“Although we are a technology-focused team, we decided to use UserGuiding because of their smooth, easy solution. We do not need to deal with complicated user guiding development any more.” - Osman

21. Product Resources List is a huuuge list of over 250 free product management resources. The idea is to help PMs save time in their day-to-day responsibilities.

“Incredible resource for people who want to know different aspects of product management.“ - Abid

In tomorrow’s digest: AI generated faces, interactive step-by-step guides, and a special tool just for writers. 👀

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is finally here, marking the final episode of the nine-part “Skywalker saga.”

To celebrate, Morphin, a CGI studio where you star in your favorite movies and GIFs, launched “Intruder in the First Order” to let you insert yourself into the world of Star Wars.

The experience is for die-hard Star Wars fans who want to see themselves holding a lightsaber like a Jedi, piloting an X-Wing or firing a blaster gun. All you have to do is take a selfie and you’re there.

“Since we started working on this computer vision tech, we knew that someday, it would be possible to see your CGI self in a movie. And isn’t Star Wars the movie universe that got us all dreaming? Who never dreamt of using the Force?” - Morphin founder Loic Ledoux 

In honor of the final movie installment, here’s some of our favorite Star Wars-related products from over the years.

💬 Star Wars on Messenger is Star Wars-themed Facebook messenger

🙌 Star Wars Intro Creator lets you create your own Star Wars intro

💪 Lightsaber Escape lets you use your phone as a light saber

😍 BB-8 Droid by Sphero is the cutest little droid

👏 Columbia Echo Base Collection are limited-edition Star Wars jackets

🔥 Stance Socks have a Star Wars collection to keep your feet warm

🚫 Force Block blocks spoilers from the latest Star Wars movies

📱 Star Wars is the official Star Wars mobile app

“Although there are some robocall blocking solutions out there, most of them just flag suspicious calls by adding something like ‘Scam Likely’ to the caller ID, but they don't actually stop the calls from ever (annoyingly) ringing your phone. Rather than selling vaccinations, they're selling medication.“ - Pepper Maker Ethan Naluz

Pepper is the latest product attempting to solve robocalls, due to the fact that there are over five billion robocalls each in month in the U.S.. And this number is set to hit 62 billion (in total) by the end of 2019. Why? Because robocalling is a cheap and easy hustle. Every successful spam call brings in an average of $430.

So Pepper works like an email spam filter.

“Instead, of warning you that a call *might* a robocaller, Pepper blocks robocalls from ever ringing your phone in the first place, so you don’t even get call notifications unless they’re confirmed to be from a human.” - Ethan

According to Ethan, not a single robocall has gotten past Pepper’s technology. The service currently works in the U.S. with AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon, and the company says it will expand internationally if there is enough demand. Would you use this?

It’s worth highlighting a few other clever products in the space, which all of their own approach to blocking unwanted, spammy calls. Mostly notably, there’s RoboKiller, an app which has devised a smart SEO strategy to get in front of folks looking for a solution.

According to the predictive trends newsletter Glimpse, 89% of RoboKiller’s traffic comes from search, but searches for ‘RoboKiller’ only account for about .5% of traffic. Instead, RoboKiller uses landing pages for individual phone numbers (the company has created about one million of them) that people commonly search after getting a robocall. Using this approach, the company’s site visits have gone from 375,000 in May of this year to 2.5 million in October.

A few other options to block those robocallers 🚫

📞 Numverify

📞 CallHero

📞 RoboStopper

A hard truth about AirPods: they can get kind of gross.

Don’t get us wrong — the new AirPods are slick and full of noise-canceling magic, but that doesn’t prevent accumulated dust and wax residue in brand new ear buds.

Luckily, the Product Hunt community is always thinking about pressing issues like this and came up with a solution. Enter Just Away, a cleaning kit for your AirPods.

“Just Away started with a simple struggle as AirPods users: dirty, ugly ear wax and dust accumulation on the Pods and the Case. Having tried and tested multiple solutions, I have not found a solution that answers this problem properly. I realized I needed to come up with something myself.” - Just Away Maker Mehdi Izemmour (he worked on the project as a side hustle).

What you get in the kit:

• Cleaning paste
• Alcohol wipes 
• A spudger (a little tool for electronic repairs) 

All of the materials are non-toxic and eco-friendly, and if you clean your Pods/Pods Case just once a week, the kit will last you for ~ three months.

Some early reactions from AirPods owners:

“NICE! I thought about making an AirPod cleaning kit and talked myself out of it like 8 times” - Armand

“I've been using blue tack and dental pics from the dollar store for two years now. Works great. Beautiful website, though.” - Steven

“Sounds like a product I need - frequently obsessively worried about how dirty my AirPods get.” - Cheung

More quirky accessories for your tech products:

⌚️ Five.pm makes Apple Watch bands that look like scarves

🙌 Nintendo Labo are DIY creations for your Switch

😻 Product Hunt on Amazon Echo is...exactly what it sounds like

New Year’s resolution: Become as fit as Kumail Nanjiani (see above — it’s not photoshopped).

The Silicon Valley star alerted the internet yesterday that he’s extremely ripped for his upcoming role in Marvel’s “Eternals” movie. Kumail shared his thoughts about his new physique on his Instagram account, crediting his transformation to the “best trainers and nutritionists paid for by the biggest studio in the world.” 

If you’re not about to make a Marvel movie, but are inspired by Kumail, we have some 2020 inspo for you. A sampling of some of the personal trainer substitutes that launched this year: 👇

👀 Onyx is the fitness app that watches you

⌚️ Gyroscope tracks your workouts, mood and sleep on your Apple Watch

🍎 Meals App is a sleek app for healthy meal planning

💪 HeroTracker is a workout tracker for CrossFit athletes

👋 Kudos lets you text a certified personal trainer (for $3/day)

🙏 Zenia is an AI yoga teacher

👏 Body Time is an AI personal trainer

⏰ 7 Minute Workout is exactly what it sounds like

🤔 The Longevity Index teaches you how to exercise for long-lasting benefits

💸 Future is a $150/month workout app that connects you to real trainers

🤑 Squat for crypto lets you earn crypto for exercising

“Every once in a while I'd discover someone new, and I'd want to learn more about how they think. The problem was, all of the content that they've generated is scattered around the web.” — WaitWho.is Maker Faraaz Nishtar

This a problem that most people who regularly browse the internet can relate to; someone leaves a virtual impression on you, so you scour personal websites, Twitter, podcasts, Medium pages, and YouTube accounts to dig up more of their content.

With so many entrepreneur types sharing war stories and lessons learned across the web, this problem is especially rampant in startupland. So Faraaz made a (growing) directory to bring content from people like Ben Horowitz, Jessica Livingston, Stewart Butterfield, Naval Ravikant, Brianne Kimmel and many others to one centralized place. WaitWho.is is like an RSS feed for people — it includes podcasts, essays, tweets and interviews. You’ll also get notified whenever your favorite content creator/influencer/role model shares new media.

“Love the subscription feature! Also, Paul Graham's avatar is the cutest.” - Alisha

“Love this - so many gems from people whose content I thought I already knew well.” - Chao

“Besides the really really smart category design, the site is just so visually friendly and warm.“ - Edward

“This is easily going to become a first stop in so many searches. There is a lot of potential in this.” - Mark

Who else should be in this directory? Let Faraaz know (P.S. He made this as a side project). 👏

While this is a great source of inspiration from individuals who have made waves in tech, you can also use this to find new people to follow on Twitter and this to share your own profile as a Maker. 🙌

“This is basically a free car rental... at least with the current pricing.” - Chris

Lyft just announced that the company is getting into car rentals, improving upon the headache that often comes with renting a car. 🚘

How it works: You can rent a car on a whim from your main Lyft app, and the company will even provide a $20 ride credit to make sure you don’t pay extra getting to and from the car pickup point. There are no mileage limits and you don’t need to fill the car back up with gas when you’re done using it — Lyft will do that for you and only charge the local market price. Folks have to be 22 in order to rent a Lyft car, and the company doesn’t seem to be charging the “young person fee” that traditional car rental companies have historically tacked on for drivers under 25.

The idea is a transportation app to rule them all (and eliminate personal car ownership); Lyft expanded its ride options last year to include bikes, scooters and public transit routes.

The company is starting the service in San Francisco in Los Angeles, where their cars are currently available for rent for as a little as $35 per day. 👀

Beyond traditional car rental companies, Lyft rentals is competing with car rental apps like Getaround (which Uber partnered with and then un-partnered with) and Turo. It a smart move by Lyft, considering car rental companies have been losing money to the ridesharing industry to the point where they’re even investing in their own ridesharing tech.

The click-click-click noise is back. What click-click-click noise as we talking about? The one from your iPod’s click wheel, obviously.

There’s a new app called Rewound that recreates the iPod experience on your iPhone’s touchscreen. Rewound basically operates like any music player app (it’s only available in the App Store right now) and lets you sync your music from an Apple Music library. The app also lets you use downloadable skins to seem more like an iPod and it uses haptic feedback like the classic iPod.

Note: Right now, it only works with Apple Music. Sorry, Spotify users. 😭

“I had no idea how much I needed this to exist until now.” - Alexander

“I bought it to support the developer and also because I rely heavily on playlists. I love the use of haptic feedback and the app is great so far.” - Michael

The app triggered a lot of nostalgia among the Product Hunt team, and even sparked a heated debate.



Settle this for us. What’s the best Apple product ever designed? Answers go here. 👈