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About two years ago, the Product Hunt community got a first look at Superhuman, an app that promised to be the “fastest email experience in the world.” 60,000 people subscribed to get access.

Today, Superhuman remains invitation-only and its larger waiting list is 180,000 people long. How? There’s evidently a demand for a faster and more sophisticated email client than the 15-year-old Gmail.

“So...Superhuman has basically changed my life. 10/10 would recommend” - Camille Ricketts

“‘Sent via Superhuman’ is the blue checkmark of email.” - Leah Fessler

"I've been using Superhuman for a couple weeks now. When people ask me what it does for me, I reply 'Superhuman is like the Marie Kondo of email'" - Alexandre Scialom

So what happens when you do get that coveted Superhuman invitation (and pay the $30/month price tag for access)?

Superhuman plugs into your existing email account, but only works with Gmail and Google G Suite addresses right now.

Some of the app’s features: Superhuman lets users undo sending an email, track email opens and send follow-up reminders. 👋 It’s more ~unique~ features include keyboard shortcuts for everything, “instant intro” for moving introductory email senders to bcc and a scheduling tool that automatically pulls up your calendar when you’re typing out a day of the week. 💪

Today, Superhuman announced a $33M investment by Andreessen Horowitz, bringing the company’s total funding raised to $51M. The company is valued at roughly $260M.

We spoke with Superhuman founder, Rahul Vohra — who previously founded Rapportive (another email startup that sold to LinkedIn in 2012) — about the news, as well as the lessons he learned building a product that hasn’t actually launched yet.

“You'll see that folks love Superhuman for three main reasons: they get through their inbox twice as fast as before, they respond to important emails faster, and many see Inbox Zero for the first time in years. The funding will be used to double down on all three. Superhuman is already the fastest email experience in the world, but we are going to make it even faster” - Rahul

Read the full interview here.

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

For anyone in tech, a constantly changing day-to-day is just par for the course. One day you could be focused on big picture road-mapping and the next day you might be working on company culture. But in startupland, there simply isn’t enough time to do it all. That’s where Vettery comes in. 👀

The company streamlines recruiting with machine learning to help companies hire. To date, Vettery has partnered with over 15,000 companies (including Fortune 500 firms) across North America, Ireland and the UK. With over 31,000 candidates in its database, Vettery has a lot of data. And they want to share some of it.

You can download Vettery’s 2019 Tech Salary report here to get a comprehensive guide to the numbers you need to help build a top-notch recruiting strategy, including average salary by role, premium programming skills, and more. In other words, it’s everything you need to hire talented software engineers, data scientists, and designers.

A few weeks ago, we pulled off the covers off of v2 of the Product Hunt API and challenged you to surprise and inspire the community with your creations. As expected, you all delivered impressive results in the latest Maker Festival. Tbh, this is our favorite fest to date.

So without further ado, here are the winners and runners up across the festival's seven categories.

Third party integration 🛠

Winner: Makerbox lets you create and manage Product Hunt Maker Goals, all from Slack. Made by Rishikesh Gorantala.

Runner Up: Makergoalbot is a Maker Goals bot for telegram. Made by Knight.

Browser extension 👀

Winner: P-Block replaces online ads with Product Hunt posts. Made by Matt.

Runner Up: Let Me Product Hunt That For You is an extension that provides Product Hunt info about a website. Made by Angela.

Data visualization 📈

Winner: Maker Network lets you explore your Product Hunt network. Made by Mubashar.

Runner Up: Buzzwords lets you check out the most used words in product descriptions. Made by George.

Desktop apps 🖥

Winner: Maker Goals Menu Bar lets you manage your goals from your Mac menu bar. Made by Ferenc.

Runner Up: Yac Bot for Product Hunt lets you hear the top product of the day in Yac. Made by Justin.

Mobile apps 📱

Winner: Makers for iOS is a full-fledged mobile app for Maker goals. Made by JPEGuin.

Runner Up: Cheerswipe lest you swipe to cheer a Maker. Made by Arthur.

Web apps 😻

Winner: Maker Goals is a new way to manage your PH goals. Made by Nikolay.

Runner Up: Maker TV is videos of the best new products in tech. Made by Raghuv.

Everything else 🙃

Winner: Product Hunt Higher Lower is a game that tests your PH knowledge. Made by Roland.

Runner Up: Peek-a-week tracks your productivity week by week. Made by Raghav.

Thank you to all of our community members who voted and a big shoutout to everyone who contributed a project. We hope to see you all at our next one - stay tuned!

Face-changing tech continues to fill our stories and camera roll. Beyond Snapchat’s viral gender swap and baby face filters (which are expected to boost the company’s Q2 numbers), AI-powered face changing is on the rise.

Last week, Photo Creator, an AI-based photo editor with face swap and background removal, launched on Product Hunt to shake up stock photos. What people think:

“Looks like the future of stock photography market to me” - Julia

“Face switching features are incredible — super easy to use” - Andrea

“So cool I can create the images I need for specific articles.” - Marina

For more face morphing fun, a few more to check out:

🙃 Reflect Step I: Face Swap lets you swap faces with Elon Musk (or anyone)

😯 Face Swap Live lets you switch faces with your friends in real-time

😁 Emojiface turns your face into an emoji

🙃 Zepeto turns your selfie into a Pixar character

😍 Lensa will make you even more beautiful

😎 Swapped lets you change faces with celebrities and friends

😉 Muglife lets you create 3D characters from any photo

😳 Deepfakes web α lets you create deepfake videos

😀 Snap Camera is Snapchat Lenses, but on desktop

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

With Libra’s launch from Facebook earlier this week, cryptocurrency has been top of mind.

But beyond the hype, the blockchain and decentralized architecture that is often used in cryptocurrencies have a lot of exciting use cases beyond tokens.

If you’ve been following Product Hunt's work on App Mining with Blockstack, you may have tried one of the over 140 apps in the wild that solve a number of problems inherent to our current internet, and empower people to connect and collaborate in new ways. These apps are built so that your fundamental digital rights remain protected, meaning you own both your identity and data from the start.

Curious how that’s possible? You’re in luck. Blockstack breaks it all down and makes it easy to try it for yourself. The TLDR: the traditional model of a central entity controlling everything is gone and the underlying network puts users in charge.

And if you’re the type that just likes to jump in and play around, here are some of our favorite new apps that (quite literally) can’t be evil:

💌 Dmail is a privacy focused email provider

🙌 BitPatron is a decentralized censorship-free Patreon alternative

🔒 Closet is a password and secrets manager for teams

💸 Lannister Capital is the simplest wealth manager and financial planner

👏 Blackhole is a blockchain-based file transfer tool for everyday use.

💵 Paid lets you sell anything and pocket everything

🔮 Predicto makes predictions about future events to earn money

You can check out all 140 of them here.

P.S. You still have time to submit an app to Blockstack’s Can’t Be Evil contest (there’s over $15,000 up for grabs).

Slack’s going public today, but don’t call it an IPO.

Instead, Slack is pursuing a direct listing on the New York Stock Exchange (under the ticker “WORK”), forgoing the IPO process to reduce the number of banks involved and costs in IPO-related fees. The company has set a reference point of $26 per share for the listing, valuing the company around ~$16B.

Do direct listings sound familiar? Though they’re rare (only companies in great financial shape tend to pursue them), Spotify also went public via direct listing last year.

Slack is the latest in the slew of tech companies to go public this year, and our new favorite game is taking trips down Product Hunt memory lane. Some of our favorite Slack comments:

“So good. The iOS app crushes Hipchat's. Our team made the switch and we haven't looked back.” - Will

“Yeah, we tried it too and it hasn't stuck. Butterfield seems to build these beautiful games/tools that miss something core.” - Derek

“I don't know how my team survived without Slack previously. We switched from Skype (could never get on with Hipchat) and haven't looked back. The search is miles better, the mobile apps are incredible, and the integrations with things like Trello, ProdPad and MailChimp just make it a no-brainer.” - Janna

“Quite simply, our business depends on Slack.” - Jamie

Slack is one of the biggest new B2B platforms to launch in recent history, and we’ve seen a lot of bots created since its launch. A sampling:

🍩 Donut for Onboarding makes onboarding easy, in Slack

👋 Notify gives you a Slack notification when your startup is mentioned online

🙌 Halp is a Slack-first internal ticketing system

🌚 Sblack is a lightweight Mac client for Slack

💪 Paste is a presentation tool for Slack

📹 Slack Video Messaging lets you record and send videos in Slack

⭕ Tic-tac-toe for a game in Slack

👍 Suttna is a check-in app for Slack

🙃 Slackmojis is a directory of custom Slack emojis

😂 Slacker lets you post funny replies as different characters

And there are sooo many more. Check them all out here 👇

Yesterday, Clockwise made a splash on Product Hunt with its *intelligent* calendar. But to be sure, this isn’t just another calendar app. 📅

Instead, Clockwise uses machine learning to make the calendars we already have work better. The startup’s big promise: you’ll get your time back. Some of Clockwise’s ~unique~ features:

• Movable and unmovable meetings
• Team sync for “Focus Time” aka uninterrupted blocks of time
• Automatically go into Slack do-not-disturb during meetings
• Personal calendar sync

According to Clockwise co-founder and CEO Matt Martin, the company has already given back over 12,000 hours of time to teams at Lyft, Coursera and Lattice. Some initial reactions from the PH community:

“Clockwise is a special product because it acts like a public good and has so many positive repercussions at the team and company level as soon as ONE person starts using it.” - Michelle

“If this delivers, it's the #1 product I've expected for the past 2 years” - Christophe

“Set up once and forget. It just works in the background” - John

The company also announced it raised an $11M Series A earlier this week. And they’re not the calendar startup raising capital. IRL launched their new social calendar alongside the announcement of their $8M round funding. Investors seem to be looking for the next Sunrise (RIP).

All G-Suite Calendar users can try out Clockwise. Test it and tell us what you think 👇

Facebook has finally unveiled its blockchain plans following numerous rumors about its “GlobalCoins” project. Today, the company announced that the global cryptocurrency will actually be called “Libra.” 👀

Here’s what we know:

• Libra will launch in 2020 along with a blockchain-based network
• Facebook is also launching a digital wallet called Calibra, which will have its own app and be built into WhatsApp and Messenger
• Calibra promises to keep your crypto dealings and your Facebook data private
• Founding members of the Libra Association, a not-for-profit which oversees the token’s development, includes Visa, Uber, Lyft, Spotify, PayPal, Mastercard, Stripe and Andreessen Horowitz, to name a few
• Facebook, Calibra and these other founding members will earn interest on the money users cash in (it will be held in reserve to keep Libra’s value stable)

Some initial reactions:

“If Facebook can make this right then we potentially have one global currency” - Edul

“I'm very very curious how this matures. Facebook is one of the few companies that can accelerate cryptocurrency adoption to the mainstream (whether the crypto communities like it or not).” - Ryan

“Now Google and Apple will compete and it will really boost the industry.” - Seth

In the white paper Facebook published today, the company states its mission is to “enable a simple global currency and financial infrastructure that empowers billions of people.”

Between the lines, Facebook may be poised to scale a global cryptocurrency (more so than Bitcoin or Ethereum). In Facebook’s words:

“Mass-market usage of existing blockchains and cryptocurrencies has been hindered by their volatility and lack of scalability, which have, so far, made them poor stores of value and mediums of exchange.”

On the selling side, Facebook has relationships with 7 million advertisers and 90 million small businesses. On the consumer side, it’s estimated that 2.1 billion people use Facebook (which includes WhatsApp, Instagram or Messenger) each day.

If successful, Libra could become something akin to the next PayPal — an easy to set up payment method that’s universal and decentralized. Ironically, David Marcus, co-creator of Libra and long-time Facebook exec, is the former President of PayPal. It could also become a competitive banking system by offering access to folks in developing countries, reducing money transfer fees through Calibra and offering loans and credit to users.

This is big news, so we want to here what you think too. Tell us here.

Game Builder, a video game that lets you build Minecraft-style games, arrived on Product Hunt last week.

The project comes out of Area 120, aka Google’s workshop for experiments. The problem Google is solving for, in Google’s words:

“Let’s say you have an idea for a video game. It could be a first-person action game starring a snail on the (slow) run from the law, or a multiplayer game featuring only pugs. There’s only one problem: You’ve never built a game before. You don’t know how to program.You don’t know any 3D artists. And every tool you find won’t let you collaborate with friends.”

The solution: Game Builder is a Mac and Windows app that can work for folks *without* prior video game building experience. In fact, you don’t even need to know how to code to use it.

How it works: You can build worlds with simple drag-and-drop features. Graphics for characters and scenery can be found and imported from Google’s open library of free VR/AR assets, Poly. More experienced coders can also live-code their game using JavaScript. “Multiplayer” collaboration with other players is also available.

Game Builder has actually been available through Steam since last November, but Google hasn’t publicized the builder until now. That said, the release isn’t a huge surprise from Google, who’s gearing up to launch its own game streaming service, Stadia, later this year.

Never heard of Area 120 before? Here are some other “experimental” products Google is cooking up:

Rivet is an app for for reading practice 📖

CallJoy gives small businesses easy-to-use phone tech 📞

Touring Bird is an app for exploratory travel ✈️

Emoji Shot is emoji charades with friends 😎

Chatbase is chatbot analytics for developers 💬

P.S. Game Builder is free to play. So tell us what you think 👇

A little heads up: It’s Father’s Day this weekend.

In case you forgot, we rounded up a few last-minute gifts for your Dad, Product Hunt-style. Fun fact: all of these products launched within the past week.

If he’s is into photos...

Get him a 3D-printed tripod head 📷

If he’s needs a toothbrush upgrade...

Get him a robot that removes plaque 😁

If he’s into music...

Get him a personalized vinyl record 🎵

If he’s into gaming...

Get him the new Xbox controller 🎮

If he’s really into gaming...

Pre-order Google’s new gaming platform for him 🙌

If he’s intro travel....

Send him on an Airbnb Adventure (Airbnb launched this yesterday!) ✈️

And if all else fails, send him a funny card. Dads love jokes.