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Brain-enhancing music for work 🎧
The right type of audio can help you focus when you really need to. Grab your AirPods (if you can find them) and fire up your Spotify Time Capsule, or, you can achieve your goals in an enhanced state of mind. 🎶
• Brain.fm’s AI-powered audio tracks are like a mind-focusing drug
• FocusMusicFM has an endless stream of (EDM) music for work
• Chill N' Sound mixes ambient sounds to boost your productivity
• Noizio plays ambient background sounds from your Mac's menubar
• Tide is a slick app that combines a focus timer with sounds of nature
• GitHub Audio generates calming work music based on your GitHub
For more, check out the Brain Music collection on Product Hunt.
• Brain.fm’s AI-powered audio tracks are like a mind-focusing drug
• FocusMusicFM has an endless stream of (EDM) music for work
• Chill N' Sound mixes ambient sounds to boost your productivity
• Noizio plays ambient background sounds from your Mac's menubar
• Tide is a slick app that combines a focus timer with sounds of nature
• GitHub Audio generates calming work music based on your GitHub
For more, check out the Brain Music collection on Product Hunt.
Strangest Products Ever. 🌀
Happy holiday! Today is Stranger Things Season 2 Day. The Netflix hit series has been available for more than 7 hours and some of you may have already binged to the end
How to celebrate and look cool in front of your friends:
Create your own Stranger Things header. Makers Make! Drink LaCroix! The possibilities are endless. So many things could go viral on this special day. Create your own, and tag @ProductHunt. We'll RT the best.
Play the Stranger Things game on iPhone and Android. Warning: it will trigger your childhood memories, nostalgia at it's best. 👌
EVEN Stranger Things. This site uses AI to turn your photo into a strange poster. Stranger Cat will make your day.😸
You can also play the unofficial game and re-imagine what 1983 would be like with Stranger Games. 👾
How to celebrate and look cool in front of your friends:
Create your own Stranger Things header. Makers Make! Drink LaCroix! The possibilities are endless. So many things could go viral on this special day. Create your own, and tag @ProductHunt. We'll RT the best.
Play the Stranger Things game on iPhone and Android. Warning: it will trigger your childhood memories, nostalgia at it's best. 👌
EVEN Stranger Things. This site uses AI to turn your photo into a strange poster. Stranger Cat will make your day.😸
You can also play the unofficial game and re-imagine what 1983 would be like with Stranger Games. 👾
The Ultimate Marketing Stack for Startups 📈
The top products the other day included AppGrowthLab and GrowthHackList. Both are particularly useful if your startup doesn't have a marketing department and Don Draper is busy with bigger clients.
We put together a collection of The Ultimate Marketing Stack for startups – perfect for developers and non-growth hackers alike.
📈 The BAMF Bible has 25+ of the best growth hacks from 2017. The team just launched a step-by-step LinkedIn Hacking Guide.
📸 Unsplash has beautiful free photos, gifted by a generous community of photographers. For heavy use, try Unsplash's Bulk Downloader.
💌 Good Email Copy is a list of email templates from the best companies, while the Timing Optimizer shows you the perfect time to send them.
⛵️ Ship (by us!) is the best (imho) way to build an email list and communicate with your users.
📗 Marketing for Developers is a book for programmers who want to learn marketing. Tiny Marketing Wins also deserves a shout out.
🚀 App Launch Checklist is the ultimate planning tool for launching your app successfully. This can also help. 🐱
We put together a collection of The Ultimate Marketing Stack for startups – perfect for developers and non-growth hackers alike.
📈 The BAMF Bible has 25+ of the best growth hacks from 2017. The team just launched a step-by-step LinkedIn Hacking Guide.
📸 Unsplash has beautiful free photos, gifted by a generous community of photographers. For heavy use, try Unsplash's Bulk Downloader.
💌 Good Email Copy is a list of email templates from the best companies, while the Timing Optimizer shows you the perfect time to send them.
⛵️ Ship (by us!) is the best (imho) way to build an email list and communicate with your users.
📗 Marketing for Developers is a book for programmers who want to learn marketing. Tiny Marketing Wins also deserves a shout out.
🚀 App Launch Checklist is the ultimate planning tool for launching your app successfully. This can also help. 🐱
Amazon wants to let strangers into your home 👀
This morning Bezos and team announced Amazon Key, an in-home camera and smart lock. As expected, the news was met with hugs and disgust.
“Hell no. There’s no way I’m letting a stranger into my home.” – 😐 Person on the Internet.
Regardless of your position, Amazon’s chess move to get a key to your door is brilliant. This gives the “A” in FANG (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google) a gateway to in-home services, including:
🍎 Grocery delivery
🐶 Dog walking
✨ House cleaning
👵 Elderly care
🛠 Home repairs
Amazon’s playing a very long game. The seeds planted today will enable a new wave of exciting (and society altering) automation as robots clean your home, walk your dog, and deliver eggs.
If you’re looking for a security camera but not ready to give strangers a key to your home, check out this $19.99 smart camera. It’s #3 on Product Hunt today.
“Hell no. There’s no way I’m letting a stranger into my home.” – 😐 Person on the Internet.
Regardless of your position, Amazon’s chess move to get a key to your door is brilliant. This gives the “A” in FANG (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google) a gateway to in-home services, including:
🍎 Grocery delivery
🐶 Dog walking
✨ House cleaning
👵 Elderly care
🛠 Home repairs
Amazon’s playing a very long game. The seeds planted today will enable a new wave of exciting (and society altering) automation as robots clean your home, walk your dog, and deliver eggs.
If you’re looking for a security camera but not ready to give strangers a key to your home, check out this $19.99 smart camera. It’s #3 on Product Hunt today.
Stealth startup raised $60M for Excel-killer ☠️
After 3 years in stealth, Coda launched their “Excel killer” to the world.
Founded by two Google Alums, the company just raised $60M (!!!) from top investors like Greylock, Khosla Ventures, and General Catalyst to rethink how we approach documents. Reid Hoffman is joining the Board.
The space is competitive, with Word, Excel, Docs, Sheets, and up and comers like: AirTable, Quip, Notion, and Canvas all in there, while the latest newcomer – the one app to rule them all – just launched 3 weeks ago and racked up 4,100+ upvotes already). 👀
Coda takes a different approach, integrating everything you need to create a personal CRM, organize tasks, and more. Unfortunately, no AR integration (yet!?). For that, download this app.
Founded by two Google Alums, the company just raised $60M (!!!) from top investors like Greylock, Khosla Ventures, and General Catalyst to rethink how we approach documents. Reid Hoffman is joining the Board.
The space is competitive, with Word, Excel, Docs, Sheets, and up and comers like: AirTable, Quip, Notion, and Canvas all in there, while the latest newcomer – the one app to rule them all – just launched 3 weeks ago and racked up 4,100+ upvotes already). 👀
Coda takes a different approach, integrating everything you need to create a personal CRM, organize tasks, and more. Unfortunately, no AR integration (yet!?). For that, download this app.
You’re invited! Join the Global Hackathon 🌎
We're excited to announce the Product Hunt Global Hackathon! 🚀
Starting November 1st, we’re kicking off a month-long, global, online hackathon. Everyone in the community can participate, and you’ll have the entire month to collaborate, get feedback, and refine your product.
There are over $250,000 in prizes. Including $100k in AWS credits, tickets to TechCrunch Disrupt, and Slack is giving away two iPhone X’s (or a lunch with Stewart Butterfield).
We have an accomplished cast of judges, including Michael Seibel (CEO of Y Combinator), Alexis Ohanian (Reddit cofounder), Cyan Banister (Partner at Founders Fund), and Sarah Tavel (Partner at Benchmark). Check out the full list of judges.
Anyone with a computer is welcome to participate, from solo makers to teams of people. Everyone will get free access to Ship, our new toolkit to help makers build awesome products, and you’re welcome to build anything you like.
Important Dates: October 29th is the deadline to sign-up. November 1st the hackathon starts. December 7th winners are announced. 🏆
Read more on Medium. Sign-up at: producthunt.com/hackathon
This will be the biggest hackathon we've ever put on. Thank you to our awesome partners: AWS, Stripe, Slack, Dribbble, Girls in Tech, Google Assistant, Glitch, Indie Hackers, and TechCrunch.
Starting November 1st, we’re kicking off a month-long, global, online hackathon. Everyone in the community can participate, and you’ll have the entire month to collaborate, get feedback, and refine your product.
There are over $250,000 in prizes. Including $100k in AWS credits, tickets to TechCrunch Disrupt, and Slack is giving away two iPhone X’s (or a lunch with Stewart Butterfield).
We have an accomplished cast of judges, including Michael Seibel (CEO of Y Combinator), Alexis Ohanian (Reddit cofounder), Cyan Banister (Partner at Founders Fund), and Sarah Tavel (Partner at Benchmark). Check out the full list of judges.
Anyone with a computer is welcome to participate, from solo makers to teams of people. Everyone will get free access to Ship, our new toolkit to help makers build awesome products, and you’re welcome to build anything you like.
Important Dates: October 29th is the deadline to sign-up. November 1st the hackathon starts. December 7th winners are announced. 🏆
Read more on Medium. Sign-up at: producthunt.com/hackathon
This will be the biggest hackathon we've ever put on. Thank you to our awesome partners: AWS, Stripe, Slack, Dribbble, Girls in Tech, Google Assistant, Glitch, Indie Hackers, and TechCrunch.
Best Medium Stories Ever. 👏
There's plenty of quality content on Medium. To find the best, explore Top Medium Stories. The site showcases the most clapped stories ever written, filtered by year, and updated daily. It’s all quality content. It’s the Product Hunt Time Travel of Medium Stories.
Here are the most popular posts going back to 2013:
👏 6k – The Evolution of a Software Engineer (2013)
👏👏 16.9k – Tricks to Appear Smart During Meetings (2014)
👏👏👏 33k – for 37 Best Websites to Learn Something New (2015)
👏👏👏👏 60k – 13 Things You Should Give Up... (2016)
👏👏👏👏👏 117k – Our redesign of Medium’s Claps… (2017)
The most clapped article ever was written this year, where designer Jason Li showed how a "clapper slider" would be more effective than pressing the clap icon 50x to get to 50.
Most notably, the 2nd most clapped article of all-time was published just last week! "The Rock Test" – with 72k claps – in which @TheRock himself chimed in offering hugs for the Product Hunt team.
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A Challenge: We can make How to Launch on Product Hunt the most clapped Medium post of all-time. 🚀
Incentive: Knowing that your contribution resulted in a historic moment on the Internet. 🏆
Bonus: Install Medium Clapper prior to make your claps heard. 🔊
Here are the most popular posts going back to 2013:
👏 6k – The Evolution of a Software Engineer (2013)
👏👏 16.9k – Tricks to Appear Smart During Meetings (2014)
👏👏👏 33k – for 37 Best Websites to Learn Something New (2015)
👏👏👏👏 60k – 13 Things You Should Give Up... (2016)
👏👏👏👏👏 117k – Our redesign of Medium’s Claps… (2017)
The most clapped article ever was written this year, where designer Jason Li showed how a "clapper slider" would be more effective than pressing the clap icon 50x to get to 50.
Most notably, the 2nd most clapped article of all-time was published just last week! "The Rock Test" – with 72k claps – in which @TheRock himself chimed in offering hugs for the Product Hunt team.
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A Challenge: We can make How to Launch on Product Hunt the most clapped Medium post of all-time. 🚀
Incentive: Knowing that your contribution resulted in a historic moment on the Internet. 🏆
Bonus: Install Medium Clapper prior to make your claps heard. 🔊
Google Calendar gets a new look! 📆✨
Google Calendar just got its first redesign since 2011! It’s now infinitely more pretty, more modern, and aligned with Google’s Material Design scheme. 💅
The new update is gradually being rolled out but you can enable it now by following the instructions just under the gallery.
The State of Calendars in 2017
Google Calendar might be well-loved but the world has not yet healed from the tragic loss of Sunrise. The app was acquired by Microsoft in 2015 and killed off not long after. The result: a decent Outlook app and countless eulogies on Product Graveyard. ⚰️
“I was heartbroken when it shut down :( one of the best apps ever.”
P.S. An early Github employee is building a new Sunrise-like calendar app. 🌅
The new update is gradually being rolled out but you can enable it now by following the instructions just under the gallery.
The State of Calendars in 2017
Google Calendar might be well-loved but the world has not yet healed from the tragic loss of Sunrise. The app was acquired by Microsoft in 2015 and killed off not long after. The result: a decent Outlook app and countless eulogies on Product Graveyard. ⚰️
“I was heartbroken when it shut down :( one of the best apps ever.”
P.S. An early Github employee is building a new Sunrise-like calendar app. 🌅
Elon Musk launches 1st Boring product 🚀
Elon Musk, known for leading technology’s most futuristic projects from space exploration to neural brain implants, just announced his most ambitious project to date.
The first product release from the world's most boring company is accessible to many thanks to its ultra premium velcro technology, adaptable for all sizes. Priced at a reasonable $20 shipped, it’s truly the most boring product.
Congrats to Elon Musk and team on the launch. 🚀
The first product release from the world's most boring company is accessible to many thanks to its ultra premium velcro technology, adaptable for all sizes. Priced at a reasonable $20 shipped, it’s truly the most boring product.
Congrats to Elon Musk and team on the launch. 🚀
Facebook acquires App Store's #6 app 💰
Yesterday, Josh Constine broke the news that Facebook acquired tbh, the anonymous app where teens send each other compliments.
First reaction: that was fast! But it comes as no surprise, the app was going viral with the teens and became the #1 app in the App Store last month. As of today, tbh is just under Facebook in the #6 spot – quite impressive for a 9-week old app.
A quick snapshot of the App Store charts does show just how powerful Facebook is in the app world. Mark Zuckerberg and team deserve a lot of credit for acquisitions like Instagram, Oculus, and WhatsApp, and time will tell if tbh becomes as meaningful as those ones. Although, it's certainly a fun app you should try.
P.S. Mark Zuckerberg's most notable skill may also be Evan Spiegel's most underrated assets.
First reaction: that was fast! But it comes as no surprise, the app was going viral with the teens and became the #1 app in the App Store last month. As of today, tbh is just under Facebook in the #6 spot – quite impressive for a 9-week old app.
A quick snapshot of the App Store charts does show just how powerful Facebook is in the app world. Mark Zuckerberg and team deserve a lot of credit for acquisitions like Instagram, Oculus, and WhatsApp, and time will tell if tbh becomes as meaningful as those ones. Although, it's certainly a fun app you should try.
P.S. Mark Zuckerberg's most notable skill may also be Evan Spiegel's most underrated assets.
