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Create epic content on your phone 📱💥
Today's smartphones are all-in-one production studios, empowering us all to make world-class content with fun, simple-to-use tools. With just a few apps, you can be a designer, photographer, videographer, copywriter, and editor – all on the go.
We’ve teamed up with our friends at Buffer, who put together a collection of awesome apps for creating incredible social media content. Get started now, all you need is spark of creativity and your phone.
Highlights include:
• Create: Awesome app for creating your own graphics, logos, stickers (and even Snapchat geofilters) from scratch.
• VidLab: All-in-one mobile studio for creating professional videos & photos. Add animate text, artwork, music, and FX, on the go.
• Adobe Voice: Make stunning explainer videos in minutes. You don't even need any footage, with the app's 25,000+ animations & photos.
• Manual: Turn your iPhone into a DSLR! A manual camera with RAW images in DNG format. Best product video.
• Camera FV-5: Same as Manual, but for Android! A camera app with DSLR-like manual controls.
For more, check out Buffer's post: The Mobile Marketing Studio: 26 Apps to Help You Create Epic Social Media Content on Your Smartphone.
We’ve teamed up with our friends at Buffer, who put together a collection of awesome apps for creating incredible social media content. Get started now, all you need is spark of creativity and your phone.
Highlights include:
• Create: Awesome app for creating your own graphics, logos, stickers (and even Snapchat geofilters) from scratch.
• VidLab: All-in-one mobile studio for creating professional videos & photos. Add animate text, artwork, music, and FX, on the go.
• Adobe Voice: Make stunning explainer videos in minutes. You don't even need any footage, with the app's 25,000+ animations & photos.
• Manual: Turn your iPhone into a DSLR! A manual camera with RAW images in DNG format. Best product video.
• Camera FV-5: Same as Manual, but for Android! A camera app with DSLR-like manual controls.
For more, check out Buffer's post: The Mobile Marketing Studio: 26 Apps to Help You Create Epic Social Media Content on Your Smartphone.
How to Ace Your Coding Resume 💯
An impactful resume is the first step to landing your dream coding job, and it may be the only chance you get to grab a recruiter or hiring manager’s attention. Make the most of it.
We teamed up with General Assembly to help you ace your coding resume! Get it here. Make your coding resume rise above the crowd.
If you're just starting out, Mike from our team's Learning to Code collection is full of apps and resources that will help you get started! 🎉
We teamed up with General Assembly to help you ace your coding resume! Get it here. Make your coding resume rise above the crowd.
If you're just starting out, Mike from our team's Learning to Code collection is full of apps and resources that will help you get started! 🎉
Evan Spiegel's Most Underrated Skill
Yesterday, Snap introduced a (fantastic) new feature called Snap Map. At first, people pointed fingers at its similarities to social location-sharing app, Zenly, until TechCrunch’s Josh Constine revealed that Evan acquired the company for $250M to $350M. PLOT TWIST! 😲
Zenly co-founder Antoine Martin laid out the company's mission in their Product Hunt launch last year:
“We’ve been on a mission to popularize constant location sharing for the past 5 years. Zenly is now the closest thing to a social network built on a map, with your friends and family.”
Unlike Snap’s acquisition of Vergence Labs (which turned into Spectacles), Zenly isn’t an obvious acquisition for the “camera company.” The deal, it appears, is just the latest in a series Snap Acquisitions that make up an essential part of the Snapchat core experience. More on that here.
Evan Spiegel, known for being one of the great product visionaries of our time, has an underrated skill: knowing when to acquire and when to build.
Zenly co-founder Antoine Martin laid out the company's mission in their Product Hunt launch last year:
“We’ve been on a mission to popularize constant location sharing for the past 5 years. Zenly is now the closest thing to a social network built on a map, with your friends and family.”
Unlike Snap’s acquisition of Vergence Labs (which turned into Spectacles), Zenly isn’t an obvious acquisition for the “camera company.” The deal, it appears, is just the latest in a series Snap Acquisitions that make up an essential part of the Snapchat core experience. More on that here.
Evan Spiegel, known for being one of the great product visionaries of our time, has an underrated skill: knowing when to acquire and when to build.
NEW from Amazon, Uber CEO resigns 😮
Amazon just launched yet another service! This time, aimed at putting department store retailers out of business.
The logic behind Prime Wardrobe is simple: the best fitting room is your own room. Just pick out a new outfit – Amazon has over 1 million items to choose from - return what you don't like, and embrace your small roll in Jeff Bezo's quest to take over the world.
P.S. You don't have to pick out clothes yourself! Alexa will do it for you.
Pro Tip: Get 5% cashback on all your Amazon purchases. 💳✨
The logic behind Prime Wardrobe is simple: the best fitting room is your own room. Just pick out a new outfit – Amazon has over 1 million items to choose from - return what you don't like, and embrace your small roll in Jeff Bezo's quest to take over the world.
P.S. You don't have to pick out clothes yourself! Alexa will do it for you.
Pro Tip: Get 5% cashback on all your Amazon purchases. 💳✨
Innovative NEW photo-video app 📸 👀
The makers of Clippy (unrelated to Microsoft’s Clippy), the app that lets you download and edit videos on your phone, just launched a new video narration app called ClippyCam that allows you to share photos and video with embedded picture-in-picture, FaceTime-like videos.
We’ve played around with it. It’s fun. The best part: you can easily upload everything to Snapchat (which Clippy says is the most popular social channel for uploads by far).
Download ClippyCam, get creative, and @ProductHunt will retweet cool use cases! 📸🎉
We’ve played around with it. It’s fun. The best part: you can easily upload everything to Snapchat (which Clippy says is the most popular social channel for uploads by far).
Download ClippyCam, get creative, and @ProductHunt will retweet cool use cases! 📸🎉
The Most Dangerous Writing Apps ⚠️
The more you write the better you get, the quicker you're able to turn coffee into text. Medium and Google Docs provide a very welcoming experience, and yet, one of the hardest parts of writing is getting started and staying focused on the task at hand.
That is why The Most Dangerous Writing App was invented. The moment you stop typing the screen starts turning red, and soon after all progress is lost. There is no option to save.
Another technological cure to writer's block is Flowstate, which is available on the Mac App Store and iOS. Flowstate deletes everything if you stop typing, making it equally dangerous.
Other apps that help you simplify your message include Easy Write and Cleartext, both of which only allow you to use the 1,000 most common words (plus cofveve).
For more ways to improve your writing, check out the Dangerous Writing Apps collection.
That is why The Most Dangerous Writing App was invented. The moment you stop typing the screen starts turning red, and soon after all progress is lost. There is no option to save.
Another technological cure to writer's block is Flowstate, which is available on the Mac App Store and iOS. Flowstate deletes everything if you stop typing, making it equally dangerous.
Other apps that help you simplify your message include Easy Write and Cleartext, both of which only allow you to use the 1,000 most common words (plus cofveve).
For more ways to improve your writing, check out the Dangerous Writing Apps collection.
Amazon to buy Whole Foods for $13.7B 😳💰
Amazon just announced it's buying Whole Foods for $13.7B (!!!), another step toward their plans of world domination. 😳
If their stock price is any indication — up 2x from two years ago — Jeff Bezos and team are on a tear, expanding their foothold far beyond their e-commerce bookstore roots. This year alone they launched a:
• Voice-activated wand for ordering anything
• Pinterest competitor (sort of)
• Device that takes photos of you while you dress (really)
• Credit card that offers 5% cashback on every Amazon purchase
• Live concert experiences for Prime members (watch out, Ticketmaster)
There's a reason VC's are hesitant to invest in any startup competing with Amazon.
Above is just a small sample of what they're building. See more here.
If their stock price is any indication — up 2x from two years ago — Jeff Bezos and team are on a tear, expanding their foothold far beyond their e-commerce bookstore roots. This year alone they launched a:
• Voice-activated wand for ordering anything
• Pinterest competitor (sort of)
• Device that takes photos of you while you dress (really)
• Credit card that offers 5% cashback on every Amazon purchase
• Live concert experiences for Prime members (watch out, Ticketmaster)
There's a reason VC's are hesitant to invest in any startup competing with Amazon.
Above is just a small sample of what they're building. See more here.
NEW Twitter App 👀✨
Twitter just revealed a big refresh to their mobile apps, now with less clutter, more real-time (RT’s and like counts update as they’re happening), and most importantly, links to websites open in Safari viewer! (so you don’t need to login to sites you’re already signed into on mobile) — REJOICE!
But that’s not the most interesting part.
Twitter moved the profile button to the top left, opening space for a new button on the bottom navigation. What will they add next? A TV button? 📺🤔
For those of you that don’t have a phone, there are other ways to use Twitter. Developers, tweet from your command line. If you live inside of Slack, reply to mentions and DMs directly from Slack. And if you’re a night owl, the Twitter Night Mode extension is a must.
But that’s not the most interesting part.
Twitter moved the profile button to the top left, opening space for a new button on the bottom navigation. What will they add next? A TV button? 📺🤔
For those of you that don’t have a phone, there are other ways to use Twitter. Developers, tweet from your command line. If you live inside of Slack, reply to mentions and DMs directly from Slack. And if you’re a night owl, the Twitter Night Mode extension is a must.
Increase your productivity with ROBOTS! 🤖
Today’s email is by Sam DeBrule, co-founder of Journal, and voice of the Machine Learnings newsletter.
Artificial Intelligence: the buzziest of tech buzzwords.
We’re decades away from developing a superhuman artificial intelligence. Luckily, a handful of startups are already hard at work using machine learning (ML) techniques to build products that automate work-related tasks for you.
Here are a few ML-enabled tools that will make you more effective at work today:
• Grammarly fixes botched sentences when writing important emails
• Cassette lets you be present by transcribing interviews & meetings
• X.ai is like your own personal assistant for scheduling meetings
• Textio flags and reduces biased language in job descriptions
• Troops alerts your sales team when leads are slipping
For more ML-enabled business tools, check out Sam's Machine Learning at Work collection on Product Hunt.
Artificial Intelligence: the buzziest of tech buzzwords.
We’re decades away from developing a superhuman artificial intelligence. Luckily, a handful of startups are already hard at work using machine learning (ML) techniques to build products that automate work-related tasks for you.
Here are a few ML-enabled tools that will make you more effective at work today:
• Grammarly fixes botched sentences when writing important emails
• Cassette lets you be present by transcribing interviews & meetings
• X.ai is like your own personal assistant for scheduling meetings
• Textio flags and reduces biased language in job descriptions
• Troops alerts your sales team when leads are slipping
For more ML-enabled business tools, check out Sam's Machine Learning at Work collection on Product Hunt.
The latest in cryptocurrency: PotCoin 🍁
ICO’s are the new apps. There’s a cryptocurrency for everything.
Today’s newest entrant is PotCoin, a cryptocurrency for the marijuana industry, used to bypass traditional “drug-free” banks. But unlike Bitcoin, Ethereum, and others, PotCoin is endorsed by Dennis Rodman. For real.
It may be early days, but every week we’re seeing innovative uses for the blockchain. There’s:
• Monaco VISA, a physical “credit card” for cryptocurrency
• 21.co, a platform that pays you to answer emails
• CryptoPunk, digital avatars based off the Ethereum blockchain
• HammerCoin, an MMORPG with a Bitcoin-powered economy
• Lionshare, a gorgeous cryptocurrency price monitor for the Mac
P.S. We heard that Coinbase is having technical difficulties handling all the new accounts. Here are some alternatives recommended by the community.
Today’s newest entrant is PotCoin, a cryptocurrency for the marijuana industry, used to bypass traditional “drug-free” banks. But unlike Bitcoin, Ethereum, and others, PotCoin is endorsed by Dennis Rodman. For real.
It may be early days, but every week we’re seeing innovative uses for the blockchain. There’s:
• Monaco VISA, a physical “credit card” for cryptocurrency
• 21.co, a platform that pays you to answer emails
• CryptoPunk, digital avatars based off the Ethereum blockchain
• HammerCoin, an MMORPG with a Bitcoin-powered economy
• Lionshare, a gorgeous cryptocurrency price monitor for the Mac
P.S. We heard that Coinbase is having technical difficulties handling all the new accounts. Here are some alternatives recommended by the community.
