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NEW Google Chrome 🖥️✨
A new Google Chrome has arrived.
The browser loved by 55%+ of the world has a completely new design, focused on productivity and security:
"They’re hard to read, it’s hard to know which part of them is supposed to be trusted, and in general I don’t think URLs are working as a good way to convey site identity. We want to challenge how URLs should be displayed." – Adrienne Porter Felt, Chrome's engineering manager
They've tried this before: in 2014, the team tested the "origin chip", a feature that only displayed the main domain on your current tab. It was quickly deprecated and never launched publicly. We'll have to wait and see what their next iteration looks like. AOL Keywords were farrrr ahead of their time. 😂
The new Google Chrome is live for Mac, PC, Android, and iOS today. Do you like the new design? Share your thoughts with the community.
The browser loved by 55%+ of the world has a completely new design, focused on productivity and security:
- Tabs have been completely redesigned to let you quickly scroll through your open windows. Tab hoarders everywhere rejoice.
- The in-browser password, address, and credit card number manager is rebuilt to make it easier to spend all your money while surfing the internet.
- Answers now appear directly in your omnibox (where you'd typically enter a URL). Instead of having to Google a question, Chrome will pull the answer up automatically without loading a full web page.
"They’re hard to read, it’s hard to know which part of them is supposed to be trusted, and in general I don’t think URLs are working as a good way to convey site identity. We want to challenge how URLs should be displayed." – Adrienne Porter Felt, Chrome's engineering manager
They've tried this before: in 2014, the team tested the "origin chip", a feature that only displayed the main domain on your current tab. It was quickly deprecated and never launched publicly. We'll have to wait and see what their next iteration looks like. AOL Keywords were farrrr ahead of their time. 😂
The new Google Chrome is live for Mac, PC, Android, and iOS today. Do you like the new design? Share your thoughts with the community.
10 Crazy Startups 🚀
Fearless founders are here to save the day.
Some of the most successful startups from the last decade seemed crazy when they launched. Uber asked customers to get in a stranger's car. Coinbase lets anybody buy and sell magic internet money. Lil Miquela, with her 1.4M Instagram followers, isn't a real person.
There's no shortage of fearless founders:
🚁 Zipline uses autonomous drones to deliver urgent blood, vaccines, and medicine to remote hospitals across Africa. Their drones fly at 80MPH and can deliver supplies up to 100 miles away. "I used to see the drones fly and think ‘they must be mad’, until the same drone brought me blood and saved my life."
🎙️ Lyrebird lets you impersonate anybody's voice. Ghost-written and recorded podcasts could be coming soon... or #fakenews powered by falsified audio recordings of public officials. Facehub will even let you face-swap in realtime directly on your iPhone.
🛴 Scootbee is building self-driving, decentralized shared scooters. Push a button, and a scooter will drive to you. Hop on and ride to your destination – the scooter will drive away in search of a new rider. They're launching on the heels of Bird and Lime each raising hundreds of millions shortly before Uber and Lyft announced their scooter strategies. Big competition.
💅 Wanna Nails lets you try on nail polish in Augmented Reality. Simliar to INKHUNTER (tattoos), Sephora's Virtual Artist (makeup), and Fabby Hair (hair colors)... all in AR. Next step: full outfits in VR?
☠️ Die With Me is a chat app for people with less than 5% of battery life. We promise we're not draining our battery on purpose to use on the app.
Some of the most successful startups from the last decade seemed crazy when they launched. Uber asked customers to get in a stranger's car. Coinbase lets anybody buy and sell magic internet money. Lil Miquela, with her 1.4M Instagram followers, isn't a real person.
There's no shortage of fearless founders:
🚁 Zipline uses autonomous drones to deliver urgent blood, vaccines, and medicine to remote hospitals across Africa. Their drones fly at 80MPH and can deliver supplies up to 100 miles away. "I used to see the drones fly and think ‘they must be mad’, until the same drone brought me blood and saved my life."
🎙️ Lyrebird lets you impersonate anybody's voice. Ghost-written and recorded podcasts could be coming soon... or #fakenews powered by falsified audio recordings of public officials. Facehub will even let you face-swap in realtime directly on your iPhone.
🛴 Scootbee is building self-driving, decentralized shared scooters. Push a button, and a scooter will drive to you. Hop on and ride to your destination – the scooter will drive away in search of a new rider. They're launching on the heels of Bird and Lime each raising hundreds of millions shortly before Uber and Lyft announced their scooter strategies. Big competition.
💅 Wanna Nails lets you try on nail polish in Augmented Reality. Simliar to INKHUNTER (tattoos), Sephora's Virtual Artist (makeup), and Fabby Hair (hair colors)... all in AR. Next step: full outfits in VR?
☠️ Die With Me is a chat app for people with less than 5% of battery life. We promise we're not draining our battery on purpose to use on the app.
Ransom note from a tech founder
Over the long weekend, we were introduced to a new font, designed entirely using tech company logos. Brand New Roman looks like a ransom note written by a tech founder.
It's not the only font-focused product to take off recently:
🏆 Font Shaming ranks fonts used by of the most-upvoted 700+ startups on Product Hunt. Sad spoiler alert: Comic Sans is not the winner.
✍️ Turn your handwriting into a font with Calligraphr. Just fill out a template by hand, upload your writing, and their services will send you a ready-to-use font.
📝 You can build your own font in Photoshop and Illustrator too, with a little-known app called Fontself. Loved by teams at Google, Apple, and Ogilvy.
🏘️ Airbnb launched their own font earlier this year: Airbnb Cereal, after the Obama and McCain cereal boxes that co-founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia sold in order to bootstrap Airbnb.
And... if another font catches your fancy, use WhatTheFont to snap a pic and it’ll find the closest match. It’s like Shazam for typography nerds. 🤓
It's not the only font-focused product to take off recently:
🏆 Font Shaming ranks fonts used by of the most-upvoted 700+ startups on Product Hunt. Sad spoiler alert: Comic Sans is not the winner.
✍️ Turn your handwriting into a font with Calligraphr. Just fill out a template by hand, upload your writing, and their services will send you a ready-to-use font.
📝 You can build your own font in Photoshop and Illustrator too, with a little-known app called Fontself. Loved by teams at Google, Apple, and Ogilvy.
🏘️ Airbnb launched their own font earlier this year: Airbnb Cereal, after the Obama and McCain cereal boxes that co-founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia sold in order to bootstrap Airbnb.
And... if another font catches your fancy, use WhatTheFont to snap a pic and it’ll find the closest match. It’s like Shazam for typography nerds. 🤓
NEW iPhone leaked 📱🍎
The new iPhone has been LEAKED.
9to5Mac leaked an unreleased photo of the two new iPhone XS models, set to replace the iPhone X this fall. The leak is timely: Apple announced their their annual keynote yesterday morning, slated for September 12th.
The iPhone XS will come in two sizes: a 5.8in model identical to the current iPhone X, and a larger 6.5in model like the 7 and 7+ from 2016.
Our biggest question: how is the "iPhone XS" pronounced? Is it the "iPhone 10 S," "iPhone Excess," or the "iPhone Extra Small"? Is the larger model called the "iPhone Extra Small Plus"? We're here to ask the most important questions.
To keep yourself distracted until September 12th, here's a list of our favorite productivity-killing apps:
👾 The Internet Arcade (900+ classic arcade games, no quarters required)
🐍 Snake on a Chrome: The classic game, now in your browser
🖥 Giphy Tab: Ridiculous GIFs in every new Chrome tab
😎 Netflix Super Browse: Let's you pick Netflix's secret genres
😡 Annoisli: Listen to screaming babies and sirens at work
We apologize in advance for all the time that will be lost. For more, check out the Anti-Productivity collection on Product Hunt. 😜
9to5Mac leaked an unreleased photo of the two new iPhone XS models, set to replace the iPhone X this fall. The leak is timely: Apple announced their their annual keynote yesterday morning, slated for September 12th.
The iPhone XS will come in two sizes: a 5.8in model identical to the current iPhone X, and a larger 6.5in model like the 7 and 7+ from 2016.
Our biggest question: how is the "iPhone XS" pronounced? Is it the "iPhone 10 S," "iPhone Excess," or the "iPhone Extra Small"? Is the larger model called the "iPhone Extra Small Plus"? We're here to ask the most important questions.
To keep yourself distracted until September 12th, here's a list of our favorite productivity-killing apps:
👾 The Internet Arcade (900+ classic arcade games, no quarters required)
🐍 Snake on a Chrome: The classic game, now in your browser
🖥 Giphy Tab: Ridiculous GIFs in every new Chrome tab
😎 Netflix Super Browse: Let's you pick Netflix's secret genres
😡 Annoisli: Listen to screaming babies and sirens at work
We apologize in advance for all the time that will be lost. For more, check out the Anti-Productivity collection on Product Hunt. 😜
Forward this to a student 🎒
Subject: Back to school? You'll thank me later
To: Your now back-in-school son, daughter, niece, nephew, etc.
From: You and Product Hunt
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Hi {{Student's Name}}!
I know you're headed back to school and dreading the idea of taking notes after a summer of playing Fortnite and other Gen Z things.
The Product Hunt community has a list of the 75 Must-Have Apps for Students to make your first day back juuuuust a little bit easier.
My favorite? {{Pick one of the following 5}}
⌨️ Grammarly fixes all of your typos in your most import papers for professors and emails to recruiter. Game-changer.
🎈 Helium floats a small browser (for Netflix) above your other windows, so you can watch shows on mute while taking notes in class.
🐘 Evernote is the best note-taker and organizer out there. Public/private notebooks, to-do lists, tables, web clippings, attachments – it's everything you need to crush that frustratingly boring required class.
📝 Paperspade lets you type your math homework. Your professor and the environment will thank you.
🚀 Rocket adds Slack-style emojis to every program on computer. This isn't necessarily the most productive app, but it's one of my favorites.
Enjoy classes. They'll be over in less than a year.
-{{Your Name}} {{Your Favorite Emoji}}
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All of the young people are headed back to class.
Help your favorite son, daugher, or friend crush their classes and impress their friends with the 75 Must-Have Apps for Students.
Trust us, they'll thank you later.
To: Your now back-in-school son, daughter, niece, nephew, etc.
From: You and Product Hunt
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Hi {{Student's Name}}!
I know you're headed back to school and dreading the idea of taking notes after a summer of playing Fortnite and other Gen Z things.
The Product Hunt community has a list of the 75 Must-Have Apps for Students to make your first day back juuuuust a little bit easier.
My favorite? {{Pick one of the following 5}}
⌨️ Grammarly fixes all of your typos in your most import papers for professors and emails to recruiter. Game-changer.
🎈 Helium floats a small browser (for Netflix) above your other windows, so you can watch shows on mute while taking notes in class.
🐘 Evernote is the best note-taker and organizer out there. Public/private notebooks, to-do lists, tables, web clippings, attachments – it's everything you need to crush that frustratingly boring required class.
📝 Paperspade lets you type your math homework. Your professor and the environment will thank you.
🚀 Rocket adds Slack-style emojis to every program on computer. This isn't necessarily the most productive app, but it's one of my favorites.
Enjoy classes. They'll be over in less than a year.
-{{Your Name}} {{Your Favorite Emoji}}
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All of the young people are headed back to class.
Help your favorite son, daugher, or friend crush their classes and impress their friends with the 75 Must-Have Apps for Students.
Trust us, they'll thank you later.
Product Hunt Radio is back 🎙️
Product Hunt Radio is back. Listen and subscribe right here.
Shortly after Product Hunt started, we were inspired to start a podcast. We named it Product Hunt Radio, which felt delightfully nostalgic.
Over the following years, we recorded 100+ episodes with notable founders like Tim Ferris, Alexis Ohansian, and Brit Morin, reporters like Sarah Buh and Ann Friedman, investors like Sarah Tavel and Chriss Sacca, and ocassionaly entertainers like G-Eazy and Amanda Palmer.
We loved recording the pod, but were decided to retire it in 2016 to focus on growing the community.
Today, we're excited to re-introduce Product Hunt Radio with a new superstar cast. Each episode features your favorites, like Alexia Bonatsos, Andrew Chen, Erik Torenberg, Allison Esposito, Garry Tan, Brian Norgard, Jeff Morris Jr., Patrick Collison, and Sophia Amoruso.
Each week we’ll host a different prompt. Call (707) 785–6152 to chime in and we might include it on the show. It’ll be fun. 😊
The first episode will drop soon so be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Breaker, Overcast, and wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.
Shortly after Product Hunt started, we were inspired to start a podcast. We named it Product Hunt Radio, which felt delightfully nostalgic.
Over the following years, we recorded 100+ episodes with notable founders like Tim Ferris, Alexis Ohansian, and Brit Morin, reporters like Sarah Buh and Ann Friedman, investors like Sarah Tavel and Chriss Sacca, and ocassionaly entertainers like G-Eazy and Amanda Palmer.
We loved recording the pod, but were decided to retire it in 2016 to focus on growing the community.
Today, we're excited to re-introduce Product Hunt Radio with a new superstar cast. Each episode features your favorites, like Alexia Bonatsos, Andrew Chen, Erik Torenberg, Allison Esposito, Garry Tan, Brian Norgard, Jeff Morris Jr., Patrick Collison, and Sophia Amoruso.
Each week we’ll host a different prompt. Call (707) 785–6152 to chime in and we might include it on the show. It’ll be fun. 😊
The first episode will drop soon so be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Breaker, Overcast, and wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.
Big thanks to our partners, Airtable, GE Ventures, Intercom and Stripe for their support. You’ll hear more about them on the show. 🙌
Delete your family using Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence is getting ready to replace Photoshop.
Just launched today out of MIT, Deep Angel can erase people, animals, vehicles, and more from photographs in seconds. It's insanely powerful and perfect for cleaning up your next vacation pictures.
If you'd prefer a manual image remover, try out TouchRetouch – you can manually remove items right from iOS or Android. There's also a native "eraser" built directly into Snapchat. 👻
Deep Angel isn't the only AI tool for creatives to launch recently. Lyrebird lets you impersonate anybody's voice using less than a minute of sample audio. It's sorta like Photoshop, but for audio.
You can speak as Donald Trump, Morgan Freeman, or anybody. The team went through Y Combinator last year and is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Redpoint, and SV Angel. No #fakenews. 😳
Just launched today out of MIT, Deep Angel can erase people, animals, vehicles, and more from photographs in seconds. It's insanely powerful and perfect for cleaning up your next vacation pictures.
If you'd prefer a manual image remover, try out TouchRetouch – you can manually remove items right from iOS or Android. There's also a native "eraser" built directly into Snapchat. 👻
Deep Angel isn't the only AI tool for creatives to launch recently. Lyrebird lets you impersonate anybody's voice using less than a minute of sample audio. It's sorta like Photoshop, but for audio.
You can speak as Donald Trump, Morgan Freeman, or anybody. The team went through Y Combinator last year and is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Redpoint, and SV Angel. No #fakenews. 😳
"This is EVERYTHING." 😂
"Omg... I can use OG Paint again!" –Dani Olympi
"This is a flash from the past. Reminds me of the days of sitting in the laundry room playing computer games on our family PC." –Gabriel Lewis
You can now run Windows 95 on your Mac, PC, or Linux. It's exactly how you remember it, complete with Wordpad, MS Paint, and Minesweeper.
From the maker, Felix Rieseberg: "This only works by accident and was mostly a joke. I myself am surprised at how well this worked." 😂
Nostalgia is a powerful tool for connecting with your audience. It’s one of the reasons for Pokemon GO’s massive success and why Netflix’s retro show, Stranger Things, was so well-received by 80’s babies.
So, we went back in time on Product Hunt to pull out some of our favorite nostalgic products:
👾 The Internet Arcade 900+ classic arcade games (no quarters required)
💻 Cathode is the vintage terminal you've always wanted
📺 My 90's TV lets you relive TV shows from your childhood
🎶 The Nostalgia Machine plays your favorite tunes by year
🔊 Endangered Sounds Museum plays nostalgic sounds from the past
👌 The Restart Page is Geek nostalgia at its finest
🐶 Hatchi is a virtual Tamagochi-like pet to take care of
📱 Great Apps Timeline shows how today's great apps evolved over time
Lastly, the Time Machine lets you jump back in time and re-discover the best products on Product Hunt. 🙂
"This is a flash from the past. Reminds me of the days of sitting in the laundry room playing computer games on our family PC." –Gabriel Lewis
You can now run Windows 95 on your Mac, PC, or Linux. It's exactly how you remember it, complete with Wordpad, MS Paint, and Minesweeper.
From the maker, Felix Rieseberg: "This only works by accident and was mostly a joke. I myself am surprised at how well this worked." 😂
Nostalgia is a powerful tool for connecting with your audience. It’s one of the reasons for Pokemon GO’s massive success and why Netflix’s retro show, Stranger Things, was so well-received by 80’s babies.
So, we went back in time on Product Hunt to pull out some of our favorite nostalgic products:
👾 The Internet Arcade 900+ classic arcade games (no quarters required)
💻 Cathode is the vintage terminal you've always wanted
📺 My 90's TV lets you relive TV shows from your childhood
🎶 The Nostalgia Machine plays your favorite tunes by year
🔊 Endangered Sounds Museum plays nostalgic sounds from the past
👌 The Restart Page is Geek nostalgia at its finest
🐶 Hatchi is a virtual Tamagochi-like pet to take care of
📱 Great Apps Timeline shows how today's great apps evolved over time
Lastly, the Time Machine lets you jump back in time and re-discover the best products on Product Hunt. 🙂
The most frustrating GIF 📡
Your phone's GPS might be the hidden feature nobody talks about. While Uber and Lyft snagged the headlines and VC dollars, a wave of productivity apps are here to make life a little better.
⏰ WakeMeHere is a location-based alarm app that'll make sure you don't miss your stop on the commute. Trust us – waking up in an unfamiliar subway stop is about as fun as realizing the above GIF loops. 😂
🎨 GPS-A-Sketch lets you turn your run, bike ride, or walk into a giant Etch-A-Sketch. Draw all over your city.
📍 Visits lets you find places that you might have forgotten by automatically keeping track of all the places you’ve been to. Similar to Moves, which was acquired by Facebook in 2014.
✅ Anon Tasks and SKreminder remind you of tasks to do while you're at any specific location. Perfect for remembering to catch up with your old friends, running errands, or eating at that one burger place your friend recommended.
💬 Holo and WallaMe are apps that let you leave geofenced messages, discoverable only when your friends travel to that exact location.
🚖 Joyride is like HQ Trivia but for your Uber ride. Answer a number of questions during your ride. Win and your ride is free!
What are your favorite location-based apps? Let us know. 🤗
⏰ WakeMeHere is a location-based alarm app that'll make sure you don't miss your stop on the commute. Trust us – waking up in an unfamiliar subway stop is about as fun as realizing the above GIF loops. 😂
🎨 GPS-A-Sketch lets you turn your run, bike ride, or walk into a giant Etch-A-Sketch. Draw all over your city.
📍 Visits lets you find places that you might have forgotten by automatically keeping track of all the places you’ve been to. Similar to Moves, which was acquired by Facebook in 2014.
✅ Anon Tasks and SKreminder remind you of tasks to do while you're at any specific location. Perfect for remembering to catch up with your old friends, running errands, or eating at that one burger place your friend recommended.
💬 Holo and WallaMe are apps that let you leave geofenced messages, discoverable only when your friends travel to that exact location.
🚖 Joyride is like HQ Trivia but for your Uber ride. Answer a number of questions during your ride. Win and your ride is free!
What are your favorite location-based apps? Let us know. 🤗
HubSpot's shiny new tool for your growth team 🏆
Selling products to businesses is difficult. Every business is organized differently, titles are confusing, and decision makers rarely step forward.
Building customer personas – research documents about your "ideal customer" – can help, but they're difficult to make and even harder to share internally.
HubSpot is here to help, with their new Make My Persona tool. It guides you through the process with leading questions, then generates a sharable doc highlighting important details about your audience. Launched last Friday with 1000+ upvotes as the #1 Product of the Day.
Give it a shot. The landing page is a beaut too. 🏆
If you're building a startup, check out HubSpot for Startups, also recently upvoted to #1 product of the day with 750+ upvotes. You'll get a massive 90% discount on their marketing and CRM software to kick off your new product.
They've partnered with 1500+ startups out of Y Combinator, Techstars, 500 Startups, and more. Sign up today. 🚀
Today’s Daily Digest was crafted by Product Hunt (we are HubSpot users!) and sponsored by our friends at HubSpot. Psst! They're hiring. 😊
Building customer personas – research documents about your "ideal customer" – can help, but they're difficult to make and even harder to share internally.
HubSpot is here to help, with their new Make My Persona tool. It guides you through the process with leading questions, then generates a sharable doc highlighting important details about your audience. Launched last Friday with 1000+ upvotes as the #1 Product of the Day.
Give it a shot. The landing page is a beaut too. 🏆
If you're building a startup, check out HubSpot for Startups, also recently upvoted to #1 product of the day with 750+ upvotes. You'll get a massive 90% discount on their marketing and CRM software to kick off your new product.
They've partnered with 1500+ startups out of Y Combinator, Techstars, 500 Startups, and more. Sign up today. 🚀
Today’s Daily Digest was crafted by Product Hunt (we are HubSpot users!) and sponsored by our friends at HubSpot. Psst! They're hiring. 😊
