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Everyone is trying to figure out how to play emerging CPG. EVERYONE. Every public CPG company, every retailer, every consumer VC and PE firm, every meaningful public investor. EVERYONE. – Ryan Caldbeck, CEO of CircleUp
There’s a wave of beautifully crafted products filling store shelves and your mailbox.
We’ve all heard of Warby Parker. Many of you may be wearing a pair of Percey’s right now. Here are some other up-and-coming CPG products and brands to keep and eye on:
💄 Glossier is an online beauty startup with a fanatical following. They have over 60,000 names on waitlists for their skin care products and just raised another $52M to bring their iconic #glossierpink to boys and girls everywhere (just like in the header GIF.
🌿 California Dreamin sells cannabis-infused alcohol, just launched at Y Combinator's Demo Day.
🍺 Morning Recovery, built by an ex-Tesla engineer, is here to solve hangovers. Made $1M in revenue its first three months.
👖 Outdoor Voices is is BetaBrand meets Patagonia. Super technical athleisure for your weekend hikes.
👄 Quip sells electric toothbrushes that are so much cooler than what your dentist gives you. $5 for refills.
🙏🏽 Bevel is a shaving kit designed for every skin type, from Tristan Walker.
What are your favorite CPG brands? Add your own. 📦
Today, YC’s bi-annual Demo Day kicks off. Over 100 founders will take the stage, pitching a room packed with investors and journalists at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.
We've put together a collection of some of the startups coming out of Y Combinator’s Winter 2018 batch, from wild AR apps to AI assistants that watch you in your home:
📈 CoinTracker is a cryptocurrency portfolio tracker that will do your taxes for you automatically. Supports 2,000 tokens. That's a lot of tokens.
🚭 Quit Genius gives personalized and proven advice on how to quit smoking, founded by a doctor.
📝 Slite is a beautiful note app for teams. Launched with 1,800+ upvotes.
👉 Piccolo lets you control your IoT devices just by pointing at them. Imagine if Alexa had eyes that could see evvverryyything you do at home.
📰 Substack will help you launch your own paid newsletter. Create your own Stratechery like Ben Thompson.
📹 Arrow for iOS lets you add AR text and emojis to your videos.
💌 EasyEmail is a Chrome extension that will write your emails for you.
🤖 Molly is an AI version of you that can answer everybody's questions, so you can focus on building. It's like a cookie from Black Mirror. 😳
On Wednesday night, Degrassi's Drake and Travis Scott joined adored streamer Ninja to play Fortnite. 628,000 tuned in to watch on a random Wednesday night, crushing Twitch's all-time streaming record.
Some context: The Super Bowl maxed out at 1.1M concurrent viewers. Fortnite developer Epic Games is even planning an official celebrity competition in June.
“Video games ARE popular culture. Last night was proof of that.” – Geoff Keighley, Producer of The Game Awards
Esports typically require a powerful (and expensive!) gaming PC. Lucky for us, Epic Games just released an iOS version of Fortnite so the entire world can pretend to be Katniss Everdeen and try to outsurvive everyone.
They're rolling out iOS invites as we speak. Get yours today. 🎮
Airtable just raised a massive $52M funding round, and announced a new apps platform that gives non-coders the tools to build complex software. They're also hiring for dozens of open positions.
Like Station and Coda (which announced a $60M funding round back in October), Airtable is ushering in a new era of productivity software that’s part spreadsheet, part database, and super flexible for different workflows.
From 🗓 editorial calendars, 📋 user studies, 🎉 event marketing, and even running entire 📦 inventory management systems, Airtable users have been creating workspaces for just about everything:
2015: "I use this tool every day." – Ashton Kutcher
2016: "Airtable You serve a noble purpose, and props to your designers for making spreadsheets *gasp* enjoyable." – Stephanie Engle
2017: "Switch to Airtable. We power our fund on it." – Josh Felser
2018: "Dipped my toe in the Airtable API last night and the water's jusssst right. Can see myself building all sorts of silly stuff..." – Clark Wimberly
The Significance of Airtable Blocks
In the late 70's, a Harvard student invented the spreadsheet, put 400,000 bookkeepers and accounting clerks out of business, and revolutionized the way we do business. For the first time, founders and engineers could hyper-optimize everrrryyything. 600k accountants joined the workforce.
Airtable Blocks are like spreadsheets in the 70's, but for programming. We've partnered with Airtable to give you first access to Airtable Blocks:
🗣 Translate an entire content calendar from English to French using the Google Translation API.
🖼 Scan images of all lost and found items using the Google Cloud Vision Block and automatically update CRM records with the keywords.
📱 Send text messages to everyone in the organization right from Airtable, using the Twilio SMS Block.
You can use them to manipulate objects in 3D, generate custom project dashboards, get real-time KPI visualizations, and tap into APIs that would normally require developer integration.
Explore the Best of Airtable
Airtable Universe is a new publishing platform that anyone can use to publish their Airtable database in public.
We just published their database of all the top quotes from our How to Build a Career in Tech book, translated into Spanish and French using Airtable Blocks.
Today’s Daily Digest was crafted by Product Hunt (we are Airtable users!) and sponsored by our friends at Airtable. Psst! They're hiring. 😊
Before Tinder invented swiping technology, people used to build up the courage to walk up to people and ask, “Would you like to go on a date sometime?"
It's been less than a month since Lucy Guo and Jarred Sumner launched the Apply to Date MVP on Product Hunt. Thousands of singles signed up. Hundreds of future couples went on dates. Today, Apply to Date is launching on iOS, so you can find your next date on the go.
How to find a date: Signup and add your Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, and other social profiles so your future partner can get to know you better; add a brief bio and description of what you’re looking for; then share your “About.me for dating” profile with the internet.
Bonus Points: People have been adding their Apply to Date page as the one and only link in their Twitter/Instagram bio. 😛
Yesterday, Apple announced their latest acquisition: Texture, the Netflix of magazines. The digital newsstand gives readers access to 200 digital magazines like National Geographic and Esquire for $9.99/mo.
Apple is doubling down on trusted, original content. They're reportedly investing $1 billion into original TV shows this year alone.
It's working: Apple pulls in $8 billion every year from their "subscription services" like Apple Music and (soon-to-be) Texture. That's more revenue than Apple makes from Macs and iPads. 👀
ICYMI, we've pulled together some of Apple's acquisitions from 2017:
📱 Workflow, so you can automate all of the things on your phone. They received an Apple Design Award in 2015 (and were promptly acquired).
🎙️ Shazam, so you can always know what song was playing. Apple reportedly paid ~$400M for the London-based company.
📈 Turi, a powerful machine learning platform for developers and data scientists, which sold for a reported ~$200M.
🤗 buddybuild, a tool for developers to quickly gather feedback and iterate on their apps. Made in Canada! 🇨🇦
They also figured out why Alexa was randomly laughing at people. Creeeeeeeepy. 👀
We have a secret: you can save up to 35% of every Amazon order using a little-known site called Purse, if you pay in bitcoin.
Purse finds people who want to trade their Amazon gift cards for bitcoin, so everybody wins in the end. They integrate directly with Coinbase too, so you can buy and spend seamlessly.
If you're looking for easier ways to shop on Amazon:
- 🤖 Earny gives you money back on purchases when prices drop
- 💳 Amazon Prime Rewards Card gives you 5% cash back
- 🐪 Camel alerts you in advance when a product's price drops
- 👀 WikiBuy finds you lower prices from across the internet and displays them directly in Amazon
- 😀 Smile Always redirects all purchases through Smile.Amazon so you're always donating to charity
We recently asked the Product Hunt community:
"What are some of your favorite products built by bootstrappers?"
Responses include:
✈️ Nomad List, made by Pieter Levels to help digital nomads discover the best place to live and work. “I use NomadList all the time and [Golden Kitty winner, Pieter Levels is] always improving it.” – Joseph Pack
🖥 Carrd, made by a Nashville-based maker, is a dead simple tool for creating a single page website. “This is the quickest, simple website builder.” – Angad Singi
✅ Todist, made by a fully distributed team to help people manage their tasks productively. They're also working on a team chat app to compete with the heavily VC-funded Slack and Google's new Hangouts Chat.
🏕 Basecamp, also made by a distributed team founded in 1999 (!!!), is a widely used team productivity tool to compete with Atlassian-owned Trello.
🚨 Hyperping, made by solo maker Leo Baecker, will let you know when your site is down (it's ok, it happens to the best of us).
Explore more bootstrapped products and recommend your favorites.
In honor of International Women's Day, we’d like to celebrate 35 great products built by women for women shared by the Product Hunt community:
👌 VCGC is an online curation of the best advice from female founders, investors, and operators.
🚪 Glassbreakers is a peer mentorship community for women from the team that built Glassdoor.
👥 Leap from Y Combinator is an online community where women in tech can talk about whatever they want.
😳 The Pussy Project highlights the stories of women from diverse backgrounds and experiences.
Whose products should we add to the collection? Send us your favorite products from female makers on Twitter. 🐣
