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Yesterday Coinbase launched its newest product: a crypto index fund.

Right now, it's pretty limited, open to accredited investors in the US and restricted Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, and Litecoin. They tweeted out their future plans:

• Step 1. Offer Coinbase Index Fund to US-resident, accredited investors.
• Step 2: Make available to all investors.
• Step 3: Launching more funds which cover a broader range of digital assets.

They're not alone: Metastable Capital and Bitwise launched over the summer, also restricted to US-based accredited investors.

BUT, crypto is built to be decentralized, democratic, and open. So, here's how to build your own index fund of investments (no accreditation required):

• Step 1. Have money.
• Step 2. Buy bitcoin from Square Cash (for free!), Coinbase, Robinhood Crypto, LibertyX, or your favorite exchange.
• Step 3. Pick your preferred tokens from this always-updating list.
• Step 4. Convert your Bitcoin into any token with Shapeshift.
• Step 5. Auto-balance your portfolio with this tool.
• Step 6. Store each cryptocurrencies securely with a software or hardware wallet (like a Trezor).
• Step 7. Monitor your portfolio with Delta.
• Step 8. Pay your crypto taxes correctly with TokenTax or Visor.
• Step 9. HODL 🚀🌕

Baffled? Token Daily curates the most important crypto news, and here's a stunning visual explanation of the blockchain. ✨

Last month, Upfront Ventures hosted their annual summit, with speakers like CBS's Dan Rather, street artist Shepard Fairey, and Ready Player One's Tye Sheridan and Chris deFaria.

One presenter stole the show: rapper-turned-startup founder Chamillionaire shared his new app, Convoz, with the world alongside Snoop Dogg. Founders, watch Cham’s pitch and take notes.

The app is all about connecting people through video conversations. Discuss current events with your friends or stars like Shaq. As Cham describes in the Product Hunt comments: "We are working to build a platform that greatly reduces the trolling, spamming, fake bots, abuse, and overall negativity that we’ve seen plaguing most social media platforms over the years."

Convoz isn’t the only video-based social platform to recently spring up:

🙈 Huddle is an anonymous, peer-to-peer counseling service. Talk with blurred faces about addiction, anxiety, depression, and more.

🐳 Whale is a platform to ask and answer questions with only the best startup talent. Get paid in tokens for asking good questions.

📹 Tumbleweed curates daily videos of everyday perspectives on today's issues, so you can learn from your peers.

Artificial Intelligence is here to automate your entire life: scheduling meetings, shopping for groceries, and identifying whether you're about to eat a hot dog (with 2900+ upvotes!).

But... AI isn't just about efficiency. Here are 15 products to help you design and build beautiful things, powered by Machine Learning:

🎹 Play a piano duet with Google's AI on your laptop.

🎥 Your SO will love this: AI for picking the perfect movie. Solving the biggest 1st world problem of our generation.

😂 Your SO will LOL at this: AI for generating only the best memes.

📸 Shazam for fonts, so you can find every font with just a pic.

📝 Then find the perfect font pairing with this tool from IDEO.

👀 Use with caution: you can now clone anybody's voice (to make them say anything). It's like Photoshop, but for audio.

Justin at Algorithmia curated the 15 most creative AIs, just for you 🤖

Four-year-old autonomous drone startup Skydio has finally revealed their top secret product (and $42M in funding from a16z!). 😱

The Skydio R1 is an AI-powered autonomous drone that flies all on its own. It locks on to a subject (like yourself, going on a run) and follows along through trees and obstacles, without losing track.

Casey Neistat compared the R1's autonomous features to market leader DJI (maker of the beloved DJI Spark and Mavic Air): "It would be a little bit like comparing a Ford Model T to a Lamborghini. This isn’t a small step up, it's a quantum leap in tracking and following technology."

Marc Andreessen tweeted: "I'm temporarily breaking my Twitter break to highlight one of the most amazing tech breakthroughs I've ever seen, from Skydio." Watch the demo video of the self-flying camera in action.

As hardware gets commoditized, it's the software that matters. The company went all-in with 13 cameras (instead of sensors) for tracking.

More low key about your #selfies? There's also now a mini selfie drone that fits into your iPhone case. You're welcome. 🤗

We welcome our new robot overlords. If you're worried, you can now calculate the probability of a robot becoming your boss anytime soon. 👀

Everybody wants to be Slack it seems.

Yesterday, Google launched their Slack competitor, Hangouts Chat, seamlessly integrated into G Suite. Unlike other players in the space, Google’s focused on levering AI to improve team communication and productivity. Of course it also supports the essentials like GIFs (which may ruin your team’s productivity).

This release follows Facebook’s introduction of Workspaces, a social network for you and your coworkers, and Atlasssian’s Stride.

If you’re still #TeamSlack, here are some of our favorite Slack bots:

💌 AstroBot for Slack lets you manage your inbox with a Slackbot powered by Artificial Intelligence and Astro's award-winning email client.

🤗 Donut matches you with a different coffee (or donut!) buddy every week. Loved by teams at Blue Apron, IBM, and InVision.

🕵️‍♂️ Atomic Slack delivers a weekly email digest of what happened in your Slack, so everybody’s up to speed.

🙏 GIPHY brings only the best GIFs, directly into Slack. WARNING: Select "G" rating or you may encounter NFSW results.

🤔 Where do y'all want to go for lunch? Simple Poll will tell you in seconds.

🐦 Add dozens of Party Parrots to your Slack. Yes, dozens.

"When everyone jumps jobs every 18 months, you need your own CRM." – Josh Constantine, Editor at TechCrunch

Journalists, VCs, founders... everybody is looking for a magic tool to help manage friendships, acquaintances, and coffee chats. ☕

We found it. We've partnered with UpHabit to give you early access to their relationship manager for your personal and professional network.

🔖 Import your contacts automatically from Gmail and Outlook
⏰ Set powerful reminders to follow up with your favorite people
📝 Take notes so you don't forget their favorite coffee shop

Anybody can be a future cofounder, investor, and friend. UpHabit actually lets you keep in touch, without eating up your weekends.

Last week, we launched our new experimental app, Sip. Today we're introducing the new Product Hunt mobile app, available on iOS and for the first time, Android (you can stop asking now! 😅).

The app was rewritten from scratch with three primary goals:

💋 Keep it simple – Now with less clutter, focused on the top products of the day

⚡️ Make it fast — 2-3x faster load times, now sporting advanced card swiping technology™️

📰 Inform — Product descriptions, 3rd party articles, and badges tell more about the product

Download the app for iOS or Android (sorry, BlackBerry folks!) and join the discussion (we'd love your feedback).

P.S. HUGE thanks to everyone that offered feedback during the beta. If you'd like to help and get early access to future releases, join us.

Last year, more than 20,000 products launched on Product Hunt, including some of these scary/innovative/useful/hilarious additions:

🍎 Apple launched a social video app.

🤖 Elon introduced a new startup to turn us all into cyborgs.

🛠 Stripe created a platform to help makers start a company.

😘 Giphy continued to make GIFs cool.

✏️ Google flexed its AI doodling technology.

🙀 This Y Combinator backed company freaked everyone out.

💰 Earn launched their crypto-powered LinkedIn InMail competitor.

🌭 HBO's Silicon Valley released a much-needed hotdog app.

🖌 A small team in the Ukraine built a handy tool for designers.

...and many more.

Today we're releasing our second book*, celebrating the most upvoted products from 2017. It's free to download.

*ICYMI, download our first book on How to Build a Career in Tech or share with a friend.

As more of our life moves to the cloud, digital security becomes increasingly important. We asked the Product Hunt community which tools they use to internet safely. Here are some of the most recommended products:

🔐 1Password is better than storing your passwords on a post-it note. “I swapped my low-tech spreadsheet for 1Password and OMG I have not looked back.” — Kate

😱 Have I Been Pwned? will inform you if one of your accounts was compromised. “Great service to keep tabs on vulnerabilities that may impact you.” — Hayden

💬 Signal is a chat app with end-to-end encryption to prevent snoops from spying on your messages. “It's widely considered the safest messaging service.” — Lachlan

🔍 Marshal scans Dropbox, Google Drive, and other cloud storage services to identify and remove sensitive information such as social security numbers and credit card numbers. “It is a great addition to my productivity app list and I have been using a beta...” — Om Malik

💳 Privacy.com is the Snapchat of credit cards, generating a new (potentially ephemeral) credit card for every transaction. “Super awesome idea in this era of security breaches.” — Carla

🐻 Tunnel Bear offers VPN software to browse the web securely. Most importantly, it has an adorable mascot. “Amazing interface, incredible support team PLUS they're passionate about improving privacy and security globally which is key.” — Emily

What's missing? Share your favorites and explore 20+ other tools that might save your butt. 😅

TL;DR: Today we launched Sip, an app to deliver daily tappable tech news and stories to your iOS or Android device.

We polled the Product Hunt community with a simple question: “Why do you use Product Hunt?” 🤔

Many visit the site to get inspiration, connect with others in tech, and discover products that can make life just a little better. Many also use Product Hunt to stay up-to-date on what’s happening in tech, to follow trends and learn what's happening in this rapidly changing industry.



For the past few months, we've been building with the Product Hunt community (via Ship) a new app that delivers the most interesting and important tech stories of the day, from major product announcements to stories about your favorite makers.

Unlike most apps, Sip delivers stories once a day at five o’clock so you can stay focused on being productive throughout the day.

Check out the app and share your thoughts with us. Happy sipping. 😊