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How to pitch your product with GIFs 💰😎
GIFs: moving images, a simple concept that's now the universal language of human intelligence. Research likely shows a direct correlation between the rise of GIFs and people's decreasing attention span on the internet.
The question is, can you describe your product in a GIF? It's easier said than done, but here are some of the best examples we've found:
• Oristand's portable and super affordable standing desk
• Blockhead's clever solution to your MacBook charger not fitting
• Papier's beautiful note-taking app in your browser
• Highly's Medium-style highlighting in every app and website
• Zoom, Enhance! which turns your regular photos into zoomable GIFs
The question is, can you describe your product in a GIF? It's easier said than done, but here are some of the best examples we've found:
• Oristand's portable and super affordable standing desk
• Blockhead's clever solution to your MacBook charger not fitting
• Papier's beautiful note-taking app in your browser
• Highly's Medium-style highlighting in every app and website
• Zoom, Enhance! which turns your regular photos into zoomable GIFs
Developers' secrets revealed! 💻🔥
Command Line Interface: The black screen people of code use to interact with their laptop, for work stuff. Developers, we're onto you.
All this time developers have been secretly using advanced CLI technology to play with their favorite apps in the middle of work, without their boss knowing. Here's what we've definitively found:
💻 Medium CLI lets developers secretly read Medium articles
⚡️ This clever thing is a command-line power tool for Twitter
🎶 Developers can also access all the world's songs in their terminal
🌐 You-Get is a Command-line utility to download media content
😻 There’s even a way to browse Product Hunt via command line!
There's much more. Sindre created a Command-Line Tools collection that includes a supercharged GitHub integration, a way to search Wikipedia, and a beautiful interface for Slack. Check it out.
All this time developers have been secretly using advanced CLI technology to play with their favorite apps in the middle of work, without their boss knowing. Here's what we've definitively found:
💻 Medium CLI lets developers secretly read Medium articles
⚡️ This clever thing is a command-line power tool for Twitter
🎶 Developers can also access all the world's songs in their terminal
🌐 You-Get is a Command-line utility to download media content
😻 There’s even a way to browse Product Hunt via command line!
There's much more. Sindre created a Command-Line Tools collection that includes a supercharged GitHub integration, a way to search Wikipedia, and a beautiful interface for Slack. Check it out.
NEED Your Help! 🙋
Are you the go-to I.T. support person in your family? Do your friends always ask you "what's the best product for ____?" Great, now is your chance to help the community out.
In Monday's email, we highlighted some of the most popular questions on Ask Product Hunt so far. Today, we wanted to bring to your attention these potentially life-changing questions that could use your recommendation.
🤔 What's the best way to edit GIFs from Giphy on iOS?
🤔 Is there any app for adding watermarks on IG photos?
🤔 Is there an app to make videos like vox.com's?
🤔 What's the best fashion app out there?
🤔 What's a good cross platform chat SDK for a mobile app?
🤔 What are the best services to do user recordings in mobile apps?
If you have a good recommendation for one of these, add your response! View all here.
P.S. Congrats to Kunal Bhatia, Ben Lang, and Jakub Rogalski for topping this week's Most Helpful Leaderboard! 🎉
In Monday's email, we highlighted some of the most popular questions on Ask Product Hunt so far. Today, we wanted to bring to your attention these potentially life-changing questions that could use your recommendation.
🤔 What's the best way to edit GIFs from Giphy on iOS?
🤔 Is there any app for adding watermarks on IG photos?
🤔 Is there an app to make videos like vox.com's?
🤔 What's the best fashion app out there?
🤔 What's a good cross platform chat SDK for a mobile app?
🤔 What are the best services to do user recordings in mobile apps?
If you have a good recommendation for one of these, add your response! View all here.
P.S. Congrats to Kunal Bhatia, Ben Lang, and Jakub Rogalski for topping this week's Most Helpful Leaderboard! 🎉
Google just invented "autocorrect" for drawing! 😮
Google just launched a new tool that combines machine learning and drawing. The result: fast drawing for everyone — especially if you can’t draw well. 😅
Why it’s cool: AutoDraw acts as an “autocorrect” for your doodles. If you try to draw a bike or a cat, Google will suggest to swap it with an artist’s rendition. Similar to how iPhone autocorrect works, if AutoDraw senses profanities starting with the letter F being doodled, it will insert a group of cute duckings for you to undo. 🐥
Watch Google’s demo video and send us your best cat doodles.
Why it’s cool: AutoDraw acts as an “autocorrect” for your doodles. If you try to draw a bike or a cat, Google will suggest to swap it with an artist’s rendition. Similar to how iPhone autocorrect works, if AutoDraw senses profanities starting with the letter F being doodled, it will insert a group of cute duckings for you to undo. 🐥
Watch Google’s demo video and send us your best cat doodles.
Win a FREE trip to Amsterdam! 🍁✈️
Our friends at The Next Web are holding their annual tech conference in Amsterdam next month, and you're invited! The speaker lineup includes the CEO of Trello, the co-founder of Google Drive, Snapchat's Chief Strategy Officer Imran Khan, Hardwell (the DJ), and a "Ryan Hoover" (among dozens others).
Enter for a chance to win:
🎟 2 free tickets to The Next Web's conference
✈️ $1,000 gift card towards round trip flights (for two)
🏡 3 nights in the boutique No 377 House Hotel
💵 $500 spending money 😏😏😏
See you, and the 10,000+ tech enthusiasts in Amsterdam! 🇳🇱🍁
Enter for a chance to win:
🎟 2 free tickets to The Next Web's conference
✈️ $1,000 gift card towards round trip flights (for two)
🏡 3 nights in the boutique No 377 House Hotel
💵 $500 spending money 😏😏😏
See you, and the 10,000+ tech enthusiasts in Amsterdam! 🇳🇱🍁
The best app. 📱🔥
A week ago we launched Ask Product Hunt, a community-powered product search engine. Since then, many of you have submitted recommendations for questions like the best time-tracking software, best podcasting app, and best app for writing on the Mac.
Below are some of the questions with the most product recommendations so far:
🤔 What are must-have Chrome Extensions? (79 Recs)
🤔 What subscription services do you pay for and why? (70 Recs)
🤔 What is your favorite macOS menubar app? (59 Recs)
With 157 product recommendations, this is the most popular question so far.
Below are some of the questions with the most product recommendations so far:
🤔 What are must-have Chrome Extensions? (79 Recs)
🤔 What subscription services do you pay for and why? (70 Recs)
🤔 What is your favorite macOS menubar app? (59 Recs)
With 157 product recommendations, this is the most popular question so far.
Stripe's new project: bigger than Stripe? 🤔
Starting a company can be needlessly complicated:
☑️ lengthy paperwork
☑️ boring bank visits
☑️ legal mumbo jumbo
Stripe hates this stuff, too. So they built this.
When Stripe Atlas pre-launched last year, it received over 3.5k upvotes (and was available only outside the U.S.). Now, Atlas is available to founders everywhere, and includes lots of new features (like accessing your new Silicon Valley Bank account a few minutes after signing).
Stripe Atlas could also be bigger than Stripe (if it expands into a marketplace for all the services entrepreneurs don't want to have to deal with).
P.S. LIVE💬 with Stripe Atlas' Head of Community today at 10am PST.
☑️ lengthy paperwork
☑️ boring bank visits
☑️ legal mumbo jumbo
Stripe hates this stuff, too. So they built this.
When Stripe Atlas pre-launched last year, it received over 3.5k upvotes (and was available only outside the U.S.). Now, Atlas is available to founders everywhere, and includes lots of new features (like accessing your new Silicon Valley Bank account a few minutes after signing).
Stripe Atlas could also be bigger than Stripe (if it expands into a marketplace for all the services entrepreneurs don't want to have to deal with).
P.S. LIVE💬 with Stripe Atlas' Head of Community today at 10am PST.
The 60 marketing tools used at Buffer 📈
Today's Product Hunt Digest is by Ash Read, social blog editor at Buffer. Ash surveyed his team to find the 60 most-used marketing tools at Buffer.
As a marketing team spread around the world, we always keep an eye on the latest marketing and productivity tools to help us stay connected and doing our best work.
Here are five tools we’ve been enjoying lately:
Trello is indispensable for our team. It’s the home to all of our editorial boards and content planning.
Grammarly takes spell-checkers to the next level. There isn’t a day that goes by where I don’t use Grammarly multiple times. A simple, effective way to ensure our writing is mistake free.
Discourse is essential for us as a remote team. It's the place for all our most important updates and discussions.
Zoom is what we use for all our team video calls. It’s super-fast, reliable and can smoothly handle our full team All-Hands meetings (70+ people).
Refind is our go-to content discovery tool. It's a great place to discover and curate the best content. Sidenote: We enjoy Zest a lot, too.
There are tons of other handy tools used by the Buffer team, including a timezone tracker for distributed teams, Dropbox’s Google Docs competitor, and an ambient sound generator. Check out the full collection: The 60 Marketing Tools We Use at Buffer. 🙌
As a marketing team spread around the world, we always keep an eye on the latest marketing and productivity tools to help us stay connected and doing our best work.
Here are five tools we’ve been enjoying lately:
Trello is indispensable for our team. It’s the home to all of our editorial boards and content planning.
Grammarly takes spell-checkers to the next level. There isn’t a day that goes by where I don’t use Grammarly multiple times. A simple, effective way to ensure our writing is mistake free.
Discourse is essential for us as a remote team. It's the place for all our most important updates and discussions.
Zoom is what we use for all our team video calls. It’s super-fast, reliable and can smoothly handle our full team All-Hands meetings (70+ people).
Refind is our go-to content discovery tool. It's a great place to discover and curate the best content. Sidenote: We enjoy Zest a lot, too.
There are tons of other handy tools used by the Buffer team, including a timezone tracker for distributed teams, Dropbox’s Google Docs competitor, and an ambient sound generator. Check out the full collection: The 60 Marketing Tools We Use at Buffer. 🙌
GIPHY's revolutionary new camera app 😮
Innovation is often found at the intersection of two distinct industries. Today, the leader in GIF-based communication combined animated photos with voice-based technology, popularized by Alexa and Google Home.
The Result: A new camera app that turns your words into GIFs.
There’s a trend here. Snapchat was built around the premise of camera-first messaging, augmented with filters, stickers, and dog-licking lenses. Now, companies like Facebook are adding these smart-camera features into the camera, while others are launching standalone smart-camera experiences (see: Microsoft Sprinkles).
The Result: A new camera app that turns your words into GIFs.
There’s a trend here. Snapchat was built around the premise of camera-first messaging, augmented with filters, stickers, and dog-licking lenses. Now, companies like Facebook are adding these smart-camera features into the camera, while others are launching standalone smart-camera experiences (see: Microsoft Sprinkles).
Introducing: Product Hunt Stories
Today we're excited to launch Product Hunt Stories, an innovative new story telling format on the web. Credit goes to Stories as a Service, which lets you add Stories to your website with one line of code.
April Fools is an opportunity for companies to test out features 'as a joke' that they may actually want to do. So lets take a moment to run through some of the best April Fools/potential product launches from over the weekend, and announce the winner of April Fools:
• Google Maps lets you play Ms. Pac-Man right inside Maps
• Yo came back from the dead to launch Yo Stories
• Duolingo created the first ever emoji language course
• PitchFriendly announced Pitch Drone (pitch reporters via drone)
• Google launched Gnome, the Google Home for your yard
The winner of April Fools 2017 goes to Snapchat. Their 1-day only Instagram filter clone set a new standard for well-played April Fools jokes that actually work.
April Fools is an opportunity for companies to test out features 'as a joke' that they may actually want to do. So lets take a moment to run through some of the best April Fools/potential product launches from over the weekend, and announce the winner of April Fools:
• Google Maps lets you play Ms. Pac-Man right inside Maps
• Yo came back from the dead to launch Yo Stories
• Duolingo created the first ever emoji language course
• PitchFriendly announced Pitch Drone (pitch reporters via drone)
• Google launched Gnome, the Google Home for your yard
The winner of April Fools 2017 goes to Snapchat. Their 1-day only Instagram filter clone set a new standard for well-played April Fools jokes that actually work.
