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Every company’s favorite thing is billing. Instead of building products or expanding the business, founders everywhere love managing invoices. What a thrill!

Just kidding. Invoices have always sucked. 👀

Yesterday, Stripe Billing launched an all-in-one billing and subscription service for fast-growing startups (the landing page is a beaut).

Stripe is slowly eating your entire financial tech stack. Now, you can:

📚 Learn how to run an internet business with Stripe Atlas Guides
🏛️ Legally incorporate your startup with Stripe Atlas
🖥️ Design your ecommerce checkout flow with Stripe Elements
📦 Build your own P2P marketplace with Stripe Connect
🔖 Manage your subscriptions, invoices, and bills with Stripe Billing
📊 Analyze your sales data with Stripe Sigma
😳 Prevent fraud on your site with Stripe Radar
🤑 Pay your taxes with Stripe Atlas Taxes

Stripe has raised over $470M to own all of your finances, and they're getting close. They're also hiring engineers and PMs like crazy.

Want to dig deep into fintech? We have just the link for you. One of our favorites: the TransferWise Debit Card, a bright green card to save you money when you pay abroad. The Uber Credit Card is pretty nifty too.

Pizza is objectively the best meal. Science agrees.

But making a pizza is difficult. So, we've compiled all of the best tools to make finding and consuming your next pizza easy as pie:

📍 PizzaMe! finds the closest pizza to you.
🎲 Feeling dangerous? Try Pizza Roulette.
💼 Then, take your treat to-go with the Pizza Pouch necklace.
😋 Or, try pizza-flavored pepperoni jerky.
📚 Learn to make the perfect pizza, and then...
♨️ Cook it with the Pizza Shelf in 90 seconds.
💬 This Messenger Bot lets you order from Domino's.

Last summer, Google announced the Pixel Buds: bluetooth headphones that promised to instantly translate ANY language, directly into your ear.

It's like someone invented a real-life Babel fish. 🐠

But... they haven't taken off. Awkward pauses while you wait for the translations, incorrect idioms, and a requisite data connection.

We have a better alternative. ✨

We’ve partnered with our friends with StackSocial to get you a deal on uTalk to understand 130+ languages (or maybe just 1).

✨ Instant translations, no data-connection required
💬 Includes local idioms and real-life vocabulary
🎧 Won't go out of date at the next #GoogleEvent

Get lifetime access today (expires April 29th). One caveat: this translator requires you to memorize a couple words. 😂

Spotify is going public today in an unusual way. Instead of using a bank, they're IPOing with an uncommon funding mechanism: a direct listing. Shareholders and employees will be able to sell their equity, but Spotify isn't actually raising any new funding by issuing new shares.

Quick facts about the IPO:

• Unlike most other executive teams, Spotify's co-founders will retain 80% of the voting power. 👀
• The mega-unicorn will trade as $SPOT.
• In the last three months of 2017, Spotify lost $7.9M every day.

The Product Hunt community loves Spotify, with dozens of integrated apps and tools to enhance your music-listening experience:

👂 Listen lets you add songs to Spotify playlists with your keyboard.
📻 JQBX is like turntable.fm (RIP).
🔈 Pacemaker+ makes it easy to DJ (it’s truly amazing).
🤔 Forgotify finds the poor songs that have never been played.
🗓️ Your 2017 Wrapped curates your favorite songs from last year.
📊 Spotify.me builds beautiful analytics about your listening habits.
🖥️ Skip Tunes lets you control Spotify from your menubar.
🎤 Find Your Best Festival finds your next favorite music festivals based on your listening history.

Discover the 20 Best Spotify products before they're public 💸

Some (brave) companies love to launch actual products on April Fool's.

On April 1st 2014, Google Maps: Pokémon Challenge was announced, teasing generations of fans with real Pokémon hiding in tall grass around their neighborhoods. Pokémon Go launched for real in 2016, and the entire world called in sick to catch Zubats. Mobs formed in Central Park.

Gmail and Amazon's Dash Buttons were originally announced on April Fool's Day too, to much skepticism.

In honor of products that must be fake, we've combined our favorite April Fool's launches with real products launched in the last year.

Can you pick the fakes?

1. Beer that teaches you a new language, or a beer that's designed to be enjoyed in the shower. 🚿

2. A crypto-only Lamborghini store, or a genetic test that reveals your perfect car based on your DNA. 🚗

3. A drone that pitches journalists, or an app that hacks your dreams. 😳

4. A bad joke detector from Google, or an app that finds your doppelgänger from hundreds of years ago. 🖼️

5. A service to pay for Amazon orders with cash, or ATM drones that deliver cash anywhere. 🚁

April Fool’s may be behind us but there’s no need to wait another year to prank your friends and coworkers. Here’s a collection of (real!) prank products. You know what to do. 👹

Yesterday, nutrition tracker MyFitnessPal announced that over 150,000,000 accounts had been hacked. Your #cheatdays are now floating around the shady parts of the Internet.

"American enemies knowing how much raw Chipotle we regularly shovel into our mouths is an undeniable battlefield advantage." – Mike Isaac

In all seriousness, the breach isn't good news. Emails and hashed passwords were leaked, meaning if you've used MyFitnessPal before, change your passwords. Like, now. 👀

Now is also a good to chance to protect yourself from future hacks:

😱 Have I Been Pwned? will inform you if one of your accounts was compromised. They've cataloged over 4.9 Billion hacked accounts.

🔍 Alphabet's Outline is an open-sourced VPN builder for anybody. Instead of trusting some shady company with all of your traffic, you can build your own private network that protects all of your data.

🦊 Mozilla's Facebook Container just launched to block Facebook from tracking you around the internet. Don't tell Zuck 😳

🔐 1Password is better than storing your passwords on a post-it note, and they have powerful integrations with literally every browser.

💳 Privacy.com is the Snapchat of credit cards, generating a new (potentially ephemeral) credit card for every transaction.

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

We made a mistake.

Yesterday we shared Tim Cook’s announcement on the future of Apple Education, highlighting its new $329 iPad, new suite of apps, and Apple Pencil, all built for students.

However, we and many others missed Apple’s most important launch.

Space grey keyboards, trackpads, and mouses from Apple are here.

Some say you can't put a price on A E S T H E T I C S.

Well, Tim Cook did: a full set is $300. 👀

If you're looking for new accessories that cost less than a Michelin star dinner, here's a colorful mechanical keyboard that was #1 Product of the Day, and an app that turns your iPhone into a mouse. Sorry, Tim.

Yesterday, Apple rolled out their newest line of education products at Lane Tech High School in Chicago.

This focus isn't surprising: students who learn on Apple devices are more likely to stay within the Apple ecosystem as they grow up.

Tim Cook is playing catch-up: 30 million children use Google education apps like Gmail and Docs, and Google's browser-only Chromebook accounts for more than half the mobile devices shipped to schools.

Their big announcement of the day: a new 9.7" iPad, which includes:

✏️ Apple Pencil support so you can draw beautifully
🔋 10-hour battery life for late night Fortnite gaming
☁️ Free 200GB iCloud storage for students

It's normally $329, but students can buy it for a discount of $299. 👀

Apple also announced a complete redesign of their Microsoft Office clone iWork, and a new app called Schoolwork built specifically to help teachers assign work and track progress. No tree killing involved. 🌳

Every designer's favorite project: resizing and tweaking images for every social media platform. MySpace, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn... every one needs a custom image.

There's an app for that. We've teamed up with our friends at AppSumo to get you lifetime access to RelayThat, a design tool that automatically builds the perfect image for every platform. Upload your logo and any design assets, it does the rest.

Save time creating lovely images for all your social medias with a lifetime access to RelayThat (expires April 2nd). ✨

“We like to innovate on the infrastructure of innovation itself to help companies, and create more tech companies, because I think tech is a universal good for humanity.” — Naval Ravikant

Startups have the potential to make the world a better place, so we’d love to help you get started on your own startup.

We just partnered with our friends at Amazon to secure up to $7,500 in free AWS credits for makers, available to our annual Ship subscribers.

Product Hunt runs on AWS, and you can too. You'll also get access to the full suite of Ship tools, including:

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