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Instead of forcing yourself into picking the best fare right now, join 500k+ travel addicts who use DFC to monitor favorite routes and book when the airlines screw up. You'll get texts or email alerts to book before the fares disappear.
This happens far more often than you'd think. A business class seat from San Francisco to New Zealand was priced at 90% off because someone forgot to include a zero. A few years ago, flights from the US to Hawaii were priced at $7 because of a computer glitch. Oops. 😮
Just this last week, mistake fares popped up for flights from the US to Greece for $325, Thailand for $350, Mexico for $150, and even Japan for $360.
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Turn yourself into Iron Man 😮
You can now star in your favorite GIFs. It's content magic. ✨
Uraniom is a French based startup working on 3D avatars and digital characters. Two years ago, they originally launched to put a digital version of you inside movies and video games, as the founder Loic Ledoux demonstrates:
Now, they've adapted their technology to let you put yourself inside of a GIF instantly. They’ve also unlocked a key insight: viral reaction GIFs are even more sharable when you see you and your friends inside of them.
It's incredibly simple to use:
Digital avatars are here to stay. Between Apple's Memoji, Snapchat's Bitmoji, and the Oculus Avatar SDK, everybody is competing to control how you express yourself digitally in 2D and beyond. The OASIS is coming sooner than you think.
Uraniom is a French based startup working on 3D avatars and digital characters. Two years ago, they originally launched to put a digital version of you inside movies and video games, as the founder Loic Ledoux demonstrates:
Now, they've adapted their technology to let you put yourself inside of a GIF instantly. They’ve also unlocked a key insight: viral reaction GIFs are even more sharable when you see you and your friends inside of them.
It's incredibly simple to use:
- Get early access to Morphin here.
- Take a selfie.
- Pick from their set of viral reaction GIFs. You can drop the mic like Obama, cheers like Leo in The Great Gatsby, and dozens more.
Digital avatars are here to stay. Between Apple's Memoji, Snapchat's Bitmoji, and the Oculus Avatar SDK, everybody is competing to control how you express yourself digitally in 2D and beyond. The OASIS is coming sooner than you think.
Don't buy an iPhone Xs. Win this instead 📱
The new iPhone Xs costs over $1,000. It doesn't even come with AirPods. 😿
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😮 Apple's most stunning OLED screen ever.
📷 A camera that can adjust the depth of field *after* a picture is taken
😅 Picture-perfect Memoji that work inside Facetime
💃 Dance anywhere with Apple's "best cordless product ever."
New phone, new headphones, new you. Boom. 💥
We solved your problem. Enter to win a brand new iPhone Xs and AirPods, courtesy of our friends at Elevator, Men's Health, and more:
😮 Apple's most stunning OLED screen ever.
📷 A camera that can adjust the depth of field *after* a picture is taken
😅 Picture-perfect Memoji that work inside Facetime
💃 Dance anywhere with Apple's "best cordless product ever."
New phone, new headphones, new you. Boom. 💥
Google’s had a rough month
Google's had a terrible, horrible, no good very bad few months.
First, the new Google Chrome update automatically began logging browsing history in perpetuity if you logged into any Google-owned service, like Gmail or YouTube. They quickly backtracked, promising a more secure version with next month's release. They've also been caught secretly tracking your location data... even if you've opted out.
Google also began development of a censored search engine in China and took part in buliding Pentagon-funded AI tools to improve targeting for unmanned drones. Over 3,100 employees signed a petition to dissuade Google from taking the contract.
To top it all off: the EU fined Google $5 billion dollars for antitrust violations earlier this summer. That's a lot of Google Home Minis. 😮
Users are beginning to fight back. Launched yesterday by serial-builder Pieter Levels, No More Google curates the best apps to replace your Google-owned tools. Came in #1 on PH with 850+ upvotes. 🏆
Replacing Chrome? Try Firefox Quantum or Brave.
Replacing Google Search? Try DuckDuckGo.
Replacing YouTube? Try Dlive.
Replacing Google Docs and Sheets? Try Notion and Airtable.
It's community driven, so you can even upvote or add your favorites. Share your thoughts about No More Google in the comments. 🔒
First, the new Google Chrome update automatically began logging browsing history in perpetuity if you logged into any Google-owned service, like Gmail or YouTube. They quickly backtracked, promising a more secure version with next month's release. They've also been caught secretly tracking your location data... even if you've opted out.
Google also began development of a censored search engine in China and took part in buliding Pentagon-funded AI tools to improve targeting for unmanned drones. Over 3,100 employees signed a petition to dissuade Google from taking the contract.
To top it all off: the EU fined Google $5 billion dollars for antitrust violations earlier this summer. That's a lot of Google Home Minis. 😮
Users are beginning to fight back. Launched yesterday by serial-builder Pieter Levels, No More Google curates the best apps to replace your Google-owned tools. Came in #1 on PH with 850+ upvotes. 🏆
Replacing Chrome? Try Firefox Quantum or Brave.
Replacing Google Search? Try DuckDuckGo.
Replacing YouTube? Try Dlive.
Replacing Google Docs and Sheets? Try Notion and Airtable.
It's community driven, so you can even upvote or add your favorites. Share your thoughts about No More Google in the comments. 🔒
Mark Zuckerberg's "iPhone" moment 😮
Yesterday Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at Oculus’ annual conference to reveal their next big thing: Oculus Quest.
“This is important. It may not be the ‘iPhone moment’ for VR, but it does suggest that single-device VR is coming and will make it so much more accessible to a broader audience.” – Chris Messina
Previously, headsets fell into two categories. Weaker VR systems like the Google Cardboard are typically powered by a smartphone and exist as standalone devices. Viewers typically don’t or can’t move around in these experiences. Doing so can be dangerous. 😆
Comprehensive VR systems like the Oculus Rift or Magic Leap One come with controllers for your hands (used to select virtual things) and six degrees of freedom. In other words, you can walk around and look up, down, left, and right in a virtual room naturally. The system knows where you are in your living room.
Gaming inside a comprehensive VR system is farrrrr more engaging. You can interact with virtual objects, dodge underneath projectiles, and move around naturally. It feels closer The OASIS we were all promised in Ready Player One.
Until now, these comprehensive VR systems required powerful gaming PCs to function. Facebook's new Oculus Quest offers the best of both worlds: location tracking, gaming controllers, and 50+ games in a standalone unit, no clunky gaming PC required.
It's only $399. It'll go on sale next spring. 📦🤑
2 million apps were built in the first 10 years of Apple's App Store. Some apps have been downloaded over one billion times around the world.
The first fully comprehensive, standalone VR gaming device is here for less than half the new iPhone. We can't wait to see what you build. 🤗
“This is important. It may not be the ‘iPhone moment’ for VR, but it does suggest that single-device VR is coming and will make it so much more accessible to a broader audience.” – Chris Messina
Previously, headsets fell into two categories. Weaker VR systems like the Google Cardboard are typically powered by a smartphone and exist as standalone devices. Viewers typically don’t or can’t move around in these experiences. Doing so can be dangerous. 😆
Comprehensive VR systems like the Oculus Rift or Magic Leap One come with controllers for your hands (used to select virtual things) and six degrees of freedom. In other words, you can walk around and look up, down, left, and right in a virtual room naturally. The system knows where you are in your living room.
Gaming inside a comprehensive VR system is farrrrr more engaging. You can interact with virtual objects, dodge underneath projectiles, and move around naturally. It feels closer The OASIS we were all promised in Ready Player One.
Until now, these comprehensive VR systems required powerful gaming PCs to function. Facebook's new Oculus Quest offers the best of both worlds: location tracking, gaming controllers, and 50+ games in a standalone unit, no clunky gaming PC required.
It's only $399. It'll go on sale next spring. 📦🤑
2 million apps were built in the first 10 years of Apple's App Store. Some apps have been downloaded over one billion times around the world.
The first fully comprehensive, standalone VR gaming device is here for less than half the new iPhone. We can't wait to see what you build. 🤗
Twitter for voice is here 🗣️
Yesterday a team out of Toronto launched Dialog, a simple way to host your own live AM radio show on the internet.
We gave it a try and a few friends popped in. Long-time Product Hunt community member, Adam Marx, jumped on. Gereltuya called in from Mongolia at 3am. Naval shared his feature requests and ideas. You can catch the recording of the conversation here.
Dialog is reminiscent of Meerkat (RIP). Similar to live streaming app, Dialog leverages the Twitter graph to bring listeners online instantly to participate in the conversation (or lurk), making content creation more accessible than traditional podcasting.
Now's a great time to build for voice and audio with the rise of AirPods and mass adoption of Google Home and Alexa-powered devices (fun fact: more than 40M homes in the U.S. have a voice assistant). Sonos just announced their developer platform. Amazon introduced their Alexa-powered microwave. Kids are barking commands at Alexa, even if Alexa isn't around. Hardware adoption is here and consumer behavior is shifting.
Of course, Dialog isn't the only one experimenting in this space:
🐦 Twitter's Periscope launched something similar as a weekend hackathon project earlier in the month.
💸 Ense is a super minimal app for sharing your voice and sounds, built by the co-founder of Venmo.
📝 Medium has quietly (pun intended) turned into an audio platform, offering professionally voice-read versions of its most popular articles.
🚣♂️ Anchor, with $14M+ in funding from GV, Accel and others, has evolved into a podcasters platform, making it easy to start your own show and publish to Apple Podcasts and more.
And then there are the picks and shovels for creating unique voice experiences:
✂️ Former Groupon CEO, Andrew Mason, built a tool to edit audio the same way you would edit text.
🤖 Lyrebird is a freaky tool that uses deep learning to imitate anyone's voice.
☎️ Y Cominbator-backed Voiceops brings analytics to call centers.
Give Dialog a try and add a link to your show in the Product Hunt discussion. We'd love to (literally) hear from more of you in the community. 🎙
We gave it a try and a few friends popped in. Long-time Product Hunt community member, Adam Marx, jumped on. Gereltuya called in from Mongolia at 3am. Naval shared his feature requests and ideas. You can catch the recording of the conversation here.
Dialog is reminiscent of Meerkat (RIP). Similar to live streaming app, Dialog leverages the Twitter graph to bring listeners online instantly to participate in the conversation (or lurk), making content creation more accessible than traditional podcasting.
Now's a great time to build for voice and audio with the rise of AirPods and mass adoption of Google Home and Alexa-powered devices (fun fact: more than 40M homes in the U.S. have a voice assistant). Sonos just announced their developer platform. Amazon introduced their Alexa-powered microwave. Kids are barking commands at Alexa, even if Alexa isn't around. Hardware adoption is here and consumer behavior is shifting.
Of course, Dialog isn't the only one experimenting in this space:
🐦 Twitter's Periscope launched something similar as a weekend hackathon project earlier in the month.
💸 Ense is a super minimal app for sharing your voice and sounds, built by the co-founder of Venmo.
📝 Medium has quietly (pun intended) turned into an audio platform, offering professionally voice-read versions of its most popular articles.
🚣♂️ Anchor, with $14M+ in funding from GV, Accel and others, has evolved into a podcasters platform, making it easy to start your own show and publish to Apple Podcasts and more.
And then there are the picks and shovels for creating unique voice experiences:
✂️ Former Groupon CEO, Andrew Mason, built a tool to edit audio the same way you would edit text.
🤖 Lyrebird is a freaky tool that uses deep learning to imitate anyone's voice.
☎️ Y Cominbator-backed Voiceops brings analytics to call centers.
Give Dialog a try and add a link to your show in the Product Hunt discussion. We'd love to (literally) hear from more of you in the community. 🎙
Amazon and Snapchat are teaming up 🔍
Snapchat and Amazon are teaming up to give you shopping superpowers.
Starting today, you'll be able to snap a picture of anything – sneakers, purses, lamps, snacks, books – and immediately purchase directly from Amazon.
This is a natural extension of what Snap's been pushing toward with their camera-first focus. Coincidentally, Pinterest launched a similar feature two years ago. Pinterest Lens introduced visual search to its pinning population to contribute to the network’s 600+ million monthly searches.
"Steve built a computer and called it a phone. Evan is building a phone and has called it a camera." – Ben Basche
This also isn't the first time Snap's blended camera and commerce: in February, Nike pre-released Air Jordan III “Tinker” sneakers directly inside Snapchat through an immersive AR experience. The shoes sold out in 23 minutes. 😮
An AR future is coming. Check out the full list of 20+ Augmented Reality apps before it's too late to join the OASIS. 🏖️
Starting today, you'll be able to snap a picture of anything – sneakers, purses, lamps, snacks, books – and immediately purchase directly from Amazon.
This is a natural extension of what Snap's been pushing toward with their camera-first focus. Coincidentally, Pinterest launched a similar feature two years ago. Pinterest Lens introduced visual search to its pinning population to contribute to the network’s 600+ million monthly searches.
"Steve built a computer and called it a phone. Evan is building a phone and has called it a camera." – Ben Basche
This also isn't the first time Snap's blended camera and commerce: in February, Nike pre-released Air Jordan III “Tinker” sneakers directly inside Snapchat through an immersive AR experience. The shoes sold out in 23 minutes. 😮
An AR future is coming. Check out the full list of 20+ Augmented Reality apps before it's too late to join the OASIS. 🏖️
Lyft goes open source
While most tech companies hoard data and patents, a small contingent are slowly open-sourcing internal tools to help the rest of the world design beautiful and accessible apps.
Just this weekend, Lyft's design team launched Colorbox, a design tool used to build accessible color systems. There are an estimated 285 million people in the world who are visually impaired – Colorbox makes it easy to design interfaces that anybody can interact with, not just those with 20/20 vision.
"Color is instrumental in how we perceive the world, and that could not be more true within interfaces. At Lyft, we believe in an inclusive future where anyone can pick up a product and be successful." – Kevyn Arnott
Lyft isn’t the only unicorn giving things away. Facebook published a collection free design resources. Uber released their distributed deep learning framework. Airbnb's design team open-sourced Lottie, a tool to add high-quality animations to any native app:
"In the past, building complex animations for Android, iOS, and React Native apps was a difficult and lengthy process. You either had to add bulky image files for each screen size or write a thousand lines of brittle, hard-to-maintain code. Because of this, most apps weren’t using animation — despite it being a powerful tool for communicating ideas and creating compelling user experiences." – Airbnb Design
Just this weekend, Lyft's design team launched Colorbox, a design tool used to build accessible color systems. There are an estimated 285 million people in the world who are visually impaired – Colorbox makes it easy to design interfaces that anybody can interact with, not just those with 20/20 vision.
"Color is instrumental in how we perceive the world, and that could not be more true within interfaces. At Lyft, we believe in an inclusive future where anyone can pick up a product and be successful." – Kevyn Arnott
Lyft isn’t the only unicorn giving things away. Facebook published a collection free design resources. Uber released their distributed deep learning framework. Airbnb's design team open-sourced Lottie, a tool to add high-quality animations to any native app:
"In the past, building complex animations for Android, iOS, and React Native apps was a difficult and lengthy process. You either had to add bulky image files for each screen size or write a thousand lines of brittle, hard-to-maintain code. Because of this, most apps weren’t using animation — despite it being a powerful tool for communicating ideas and creating compelling user experiences." – Airbnb Design
Apple’s next big thing ships today 📦
It's that time of the year. 🎄
Swarms of Apple fans around the world are "working from home," waiting for UPS to deliver their brand new iPhone Xs or Xs Max. At the same time, thousands are waiting outside their local Apple stores to get their hands on the new Apple Watch Series 4.
Fun fact: the first official sale of the iPhone Xs went to Mazen Kourouche and Teddy Lee (above) in Australia about 16 hours ago. 👏👆
For the rest of us anxiously checking UPS.com, there's a better way. The Shopify team launched a powerful app to track all of your packages. Arrive automatically syncs with your email, pulling tracking numbers from any online order. You'll get helpful notifications every time your package moves on planes, trains, and automobiles until it's delivered.
Shopify's Robleh Jama and team even did a deep dive into the history of airmail and international shipping. Watch the video. 📦
Shopify isn't the only team improving shipping worldwide. The USPS now offers Informed Delivery, which emails you pictures of your physical mail before you actually receive it. Downside: you'll remember that you have credit card bills. Upside: it makes you seem psychic. 🔮
Swarms of Apple fans around the world are "working from home," waiting for UPS to deliver their brand new iPhone Xs or Xs Max. At the same time, thousands are waiting outside their local Apple stores to get their hands on the new Apple Watch Series 4.
Fun fact: the first official sale of the iPhone Xs went to Mazen Kourouche and Teddy Lee (above) in Australia about 16 hours ago. 👏👆
For the rest of us anxiously checking UPS.com, there's a better way. The Shopify team launched a powerful app to track all of your packages. Arrive automatically syncs with your email, pulling tracking numbers from any online order. You'll get helpful notifications every time your package moves on planes, trains, and automobiles until it's delivered.
Shopify's Robleh Jama and team even did a deep dive into the history of airmail and international shipping. Watch the video. 📦
Shopify isn't the only team improving shipping worldwide. The USPS now offers Informed Delivery, which emails you pictures of your physical mail before you actually receive it. Downside: you'll remember that you have credit card bills. Upside: it makes you seem psychic. 🔮
Amazon’s roadmap LEAKED
Jeff Bezos had a biiiiig day yesterday.
First, they quietly launched Amazon Scout, a Pinterest competitor powered by machine learning to help you discover (and purchase) your next favorite product based on what you 👍 and 👎.
Right now, most everybody visits Amazon with specific intent to purchase something – AA batteries, new socks, or maybe a case of LaCroix. But nobody browses Amazon just for fun. Their next big opportunity is window shopping, encouraging consumers to discover and buy things they weren’t necessarily looking for.
Pinterest started with this use case (of course, broadly focused on imagery but a large portion of pins are product-specific) and are now attempting to close the loop with buyable pins.
This isn't the first attempt to create a browsing experience by Amazon. They launched Interesting Finds and Launchpad a few years ago. We'll have to wait and see if Amazon Scout is as sticky as Pinterest, which pulls users back into the site with friends, messages, and notifications.
Next... someone leaked the news about Amazon’s two upcoming Alexa-powered devices. The first, an integrated subwoofer, is an attempt bolster the audio quality of the Amazon Echo, which some say can sound a bit "thin." Just like a Sonos system (which launched their developer platform a few weeks ago) or Apple's HomePod, the new Echo Sub can pair with up to 2 different Echos.
The second leak: An Alexa-enabled smart plug to power anything on or off with your voice. While we’ve seen devices like this before, it will let Alexa-lovers everywhere integrate more of their house onto Amazon's voice-powered stack.
First, they quietly launched Amazon Scout, a Pinterest competitor powered by machine learning to help you discover (and purchase) your next favorite product based on what you 👍 and 👎.
Right now, most everybody visits Amazon with specific intent to purchase something – AA batteries, new socks, or maybe a case of LaCroix. But nobody browses Amazon just for fun. Their next big opportunity is window shopping, encouraging consumers to discover and buy things they weren’t necessarily looking for.
Pinterest started with this use case (of course, broadly focused on imagery but a large portion of pins are product-specific) and are now attempting to close the loop with buyable pins.
This isn't the first attempt to create a browsing experience by Amazon. They launched Interesting Finds and Launchpad a few years ago. We'll have to wait and see if Amazon Scout is as sticky as Pinterest, which pulls users back into the site with friends, messages, and notifications.
Next... someone leaked the news about Amazon’s two upcoming Alexa-powered devices. The first, an integrated subwoofer, is an attempt bolster the audio quality of the Amazon Echo, which some say can sound a bit "thin." Just like a Sonos system (which launched their developer platform a few weeks ago) or Apple's HomePod, the new Echo Sub can pair with up to 2 different Echos.
The second leak: An Alexa-enabled smart plug to power anything on or off with your voice. While we’ve seen devices like this before, it will let Alexa-lovers everywhere integrate more of their house onto Amazon's voice-powered stack.