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A 🔥 new app out of Y Combinator
Hey, friends! We've been playing around with a 🔥 new app, currently in Y Combinator, a must-download for anyone that listens to podcasts.
The founders are giving the Product Hunt community early access before their public launch. Add your details for a sneak peek. 👀
The founders are giving the Product Hunt community early access before their public launch. Add your details for a sneak peek. 👀
Thank you to all the badass women 🙏
Today's Product Hunt Digest comes from Brianna Wu, an engineer and a Candidate for US House of Representatives in MA District 8.
Today is International Women's Day, which challenges us to create a more gender inclusive world. I’m not Oprah, I’m a software engineer - and I love pragmatic solutions. Here are three things we can do that are proven to improve things for women:
#1) Make a commitment to professionally network with more women this year. Statistically, most people are hired based on personal recommendations. This can be harder for women, because we can be treated as potential dates more than potential colleagues, and as we get older we’re treated as invisible.
#2) Consider your own biases. A recent study showed only 5 percent of white men consider our lack of diversity a top problem. Unconscious bias in our field leads to women not getting hired, promoted, or given credit for career accomplishment. Taking a moment to ask if you’re showing bias is scientifically proven to lessen it.
#3) Call out gender bias when you see it. For example, it’s extremely common in the workplace for women to be talked over. When this happens, step in and politely ask the person to finish their thought. Studies show there is no career downside for men that do this, while women pay a steep price.
The first step to solving a problem is understanding the problem. This book may help.
Thank you Brianna for the guest post. Check out the Female Founders collection for products made by women in tech. Let us know if your company is missing and we'll add it straight away. 🎉
Today is International Women's Day, which challenges us to create a more gender inclusive world. I’m not Oprah, I’m a software engineer - and I love pragmatic solutions. Here are three things we can do that are proven to improve things for women:
#1) Make a commitment to professionally network with more women this year. Statistically, most people are hired based on personal recommendations. This can be harder for women, because we can be treated as potential dates more than potential colleagues, and as we get older we’re treated as invisible.
#2) Consider your own biases. A recent study showed only 5 percent of white men consider our lack of diversity a top problem. Unconscious bias in our field leads to women not getting hired, promoted, or given credit for career accomplishment. Taking a moment to ask if you’re showing bias is scientifically proven to lessen it.
#3) Call out gender bias when you see it. For example, it’s extremely common in the workplace for women to be talked over. When this happens, step in and politely ask the person to finish their thought. Studies show there is no career downside for men that do this, while women pay a steep price.
The first step to solving a problem is understanding the problem. This book may help.
Thank you Brianna for the guest post. Check out the Female Founders collection for products made by women in tech. Let us know if your company is missing and we'll add it straight away. 🎉
Create a beautiful resume in seconds ✨
Warm intros are often the best way to land your next gig, but you should still be prepared with a beautiful resume. Fortunately, you no longer need to fight with Microsoft Word's stubborn formatting. These tools to make your resume-creation process a breeze.
📋 Create an attractive resume in minutes with I Need a Resume
👌 Create the perfect resume and cover letter with Kickresume
👀 Import your LinkedIn info and let Standard Resume handle the rest
🔨 Build a 1-page personal website in minutes with Resume Builder
💫 Transform your resume into a bot instead with Estherbot
🕵 Compare your resume with thousands of others on Resume Samples
If you fundamentally disagree with the concept of resumes... this Alternatives to Resume collection is just what you need.
📋 Create an attractive resume in minutes with I Need a Resume
👌 Create the perfect resume and cover letter with Kickresume
👀 Import your LinkedIn info and let Standard Resume handle the rest
🔨 Build a 1-page personal website in minutes with Resume Builder
💫 Transform your resume into a bot instead with Estherbot
🕵 Compare your resume with thousands of others on Resume Samples
If you fundamentally disagree with the concept of resumes... this Alternatives to Resume collection is just what you need.
NEW: Y Combinator Startup School 🎓
or over a decade, Y Combinator has been one of the most influential forces in the startup community. Without it, reddit, Airbnb, Dropbox, and hundreds of other startups may not exist.
Today, YC introduced Startup School, a 10-week massively open online course (MOOC) to teach you how to start a startup. While helpful for the industry, Startup School isn’t a “charity”. They’re cleverly expanding their platform further down the funnel, to educate and identify tomorrow’s great companies. Well played. 😊
Join the conversation with Sam Altman and signup for Startup School here... or just read this startup f*&$ing advice.
Today, YC introduced Startup School, a 10-week massively open online course (MOOC) to teach you how to start a startup. While helpful for the industry, Startup School isn’t a “charity”. They’re cleverly expanding their platform further down the funnel, to educate and identify tomorrow’s great companies. Well played. 😊
Join the conversation with Sam Altman and signup for Startup School here... or just read this startup f*&$ing advice.
The 28 most loved product launches from Feb 💚🚀
February was full of big launches. Boston Dynamics showed off a robot with wheels that hops, Amazon launched a Hangouts competitor, Google fixed Hangouts in response, and Airbnb launched the month's most upvoted product.
Other popular launches include: a site for finding the best Chrome extensions, an app for overcoming social anxiety, an equity calculator for figuring out the value of your comp, and a public email address where people to pay you for a response.
Check out the Best of February and Best of January collections to see more great products launched in 2017 so far. 🏆🚀
Other popular launches include: a site for finding the best Chrome extensions, an app for overcoming social anxiety, an equity calculator for figuring out the value of your comp, and a public email address where people to pay you for a response.
Check out the Best of February and Best of January collections to see more great products launched in 2017 so far. 🏆🚀
Happy Snapchat IPO Day 👻📈🎉
Today is the day! For just $17, you too can add "Snapchat investor" to your Twitter bio. People were skeptical at Evan Spiegel's decision to turn down a $3 billion acquisition offer from Facebook in 2013, and now, $SNAP is going public at a $24 billion valuation.
While competitive pressures rise (👋, Instagram!), Evan and team have continued to innovate in surprising ways. They made QR codes socially acceptable. They face hardware that, unlike Google Glass, people actually use. And their Stories format has become a familiar UI pattern, inspiring WhatsApp, Facebook, and just yesterday, Medium launched its own “stories”. 💚
Check out Jack Dweck's Inspired by Stories collection.
If you're interested of how Snap's IPO stacks up against Facebook, Twitter, Google, and other big IPOs in tech, check out IPO List (which was itself inspired by Snap's IPO filing). 👻📈
While competitive pressures rise (👋, Instagram!), Evan and team have continued to innovate in surprising ways. They made QR codes socially acceptable. They face hardware that, unlike Google Glass, people actually use. And their Stories format has become a familiar UI pattern, inspiring WhatsApp, Facebook, and just yesterday, Medium launched its own “stories”. 💚
Check out Jack Dweck's Inspired by Stories collection.
If you're interested of how Snap's IPO stacks up against Facebook, Twitter, Google, and other big IPOs in tech, check out IPO List (which was itself inspired by Snap's IPO filing). 👻📈
YouTube takes on cable providers with a $35/month TV service!
YouTube just announced YouTube TV: a $35/month live TV streaming service that takes on cable providers directly. Stream ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC & more, never run out of DVR storage space, and link 6 accounts all for the price of one. Unlike Comcast, you can easily cancel anytime.
Why is this significant? YouTube recently announced that video views now surpass 1 billion hours per day (and growing), compared to collective TV viewership of 1.25 billion hours per day (and dropping).
Expect to see more and more products added to this TV Apps for Cord-Cutters collection and the popularity of services like HBO Now, Hulu, and the entire Netflix ecosystem thriving.
Why is this significant? YouTube recently announced that video views now surpass 1 billion hours per day (and growing), compared to collective TV viewership of 1.25 billion hours per day (and dropping).
Expect to see more and more products added to this TV Apps for Cord-Cutters collection and the popularity of services like HBO Now, Hulu, and the entire Netflix ecosystem thriving.
The Ultimate Life Hacks
Life Hacks: The little things that make you more efficient than everyone else. There are hundreds of these on Product Hunt, and we’d like to highlight some of the great ones:
🗣 Find your iPhone by shouting MARCO! (no joke)
🌐 Use an AI-based to-do tool to do the right things at the right time
🌍 Convert time zones directly from your iOS notification center
🔋 Speed up your computer by converting your open tabs into a list
🌳 Plant a tree whenever you need to focus (or it will die)
🍿 Share account access without sending your username/password
🚨 Hide all your Chrome tabs instantly by hitting the Panic Button
💀 Instantly kill iTunes as soon as it launches 💥🎵
🗣 Find your iPhone by shouting MARCO! (no joke)
🌐 Use an AI-based to-do tool to do the right things at the right time
🌍 Convert time zones directly from your iOS notification center
🔋 Speed up your computer by converting your open tabs into a list
🌳 Plant a tree whenever you need to focus (or it will die)
🍿 Share account access without sending your username/password
🚨 Hide all your Chrome tabs instantly by hitting the Panic Button
💀 Instantly kill iTunes as soon as it launches 💥🎵
Key startup takeaway from the Oscars 🌝💡
The big winner of the 89th Academy Awards was La La Land, taking home 6 Oscars, and briefly winning Best Picture (there was a mixup). That honor ended up going to Moonlight, a deserving winner.
What you can learn from Moonlight's win: It is absolutely critical to name your startup after cross-platform emoji. Think of: 🏠🎉, 🍑, 👻, 🐐, 🧀 — these are all app names you can communicate with simple emoji on iOS, Android, Twitter, and Gmail. As such, congrats to all those involved with the 🌝💡 win. Honorable mention to 🦁 and 👽🌍.
Now, get started with a productive week by browsing some of these:
🍿 Leanflix's powerful filters help you find the perfect movie
🍿 Caption makes finding the right subtitled super easy
🍿 Strema is like your own (self-hosted) personal Netflix
🍿 Reelgood is the one central guide for Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, HBO
🍿 MovieMogul shows you the all-time best films you have't seen
What you can learn from Moonlight's win: It is absolutely critical to name your startup after cross-platform emoji. Think of: 🏠🎉, 🍑, 👻, 🐐, 🧀 — these are all app names you can communicate with simple emoji on iOS, Android, Twitter, and Gmail. As such, congrats to all those involved with the 🌝💡 win. Honorable mention to 🦁 and 👽🌍.
Now, get started with a productive week by browsing some of these:
🍿 Leanflix's powerful filters help you find the perfect movie
🍿 Caption makes finding the right subtitled super easy
🍿 Strema is like your own (self-hosted) personal Netflix
🍿 Reelgood is the one central guide for Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, HBO
🍿 MovieMogul shows you the all-time best films you have't seen
Ruin your coworkers' productivity 😆
Congratulations! You made it to Friday, the final workday of the week, the best day to be productive and not distract your coworkers with silly things.
• Let your iMessage imagination run wild with Fake iPhone Text
• Make a bad situation excellent with The Pooplunger
• Enter any word and get 'hilarious' puns to share with Pun Finder
• Create and share your own 3D LaCroix can
• Draw cats from your nightmares with pix2pix
• Find out WTF you should do with your life ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And most importantly, Bitmoji just released a Chrome Extension.
• Let your iMessage imagination run wild with Fake iPhone Text
• Make a bad situation excellent with The Pooplunger
• Enter any word and get 'hilarious' puns to share with Pun Finder
• Create and share your own 3D LaCroix can
• Draw cats from your nightmares with pix2pix
• Find out WTF you should do with your life ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And most importantly, Bitmoji just released a Chrome Extension.
