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Happy Friday! It's time to unwind, reflect on our limited time remaining as biological mankind, and enjoy some not so serious products: 

🌐 The Useless Web will take you to the web's greatest treasures
📷 Selfie Brush will make sure you have your best hair in every selfie
💥 Whammy is a radical new way to chat with 🦄💩😯 sounds
🐐 Goat Attack makes the ultimate text bomb for your enemies
😮 Nudifier app makes people in photos look faux naked
🎁 Selfie Dolls turns your friend's selfies into an excellent present :)

For more, follow the Weird Products topic on Product Hunt. 😜

Many of you are working on your own startup or keep a running list of ideas to build. Fun fact: Product Hunt started off as a daily email digest using this tool. Here are some other handy apps to get started and build quickly:

• Design quick mocks directly on your phone with Napkin
• Learn how companies boost revenue & retention with Petit Hacks
• Create outbound call campaigns in 5 minutes with Upcall
• Turn any web page into a wireframe in one click with Wirify
• Or just get the source code directly with Website Downloader

For more, check out the full collection on Product Hunt, and the 28 Tools to Help You Launch Your Startup on Medium.

There are so many creative, useful things launching every day. Today, we're teaming up with Amazon to surface awesome new products like...

👀 Narrative Clip, a camera that you wear
☕️ Minipresso, a portable espresso maker
📸 Prynt, a device that turns your phone into a printable Polaroid
💦 Pryme Vessyl, a smart cup
😱 Pavlok, a wearable that literally shocks you (no joke)

Read more about our partnership and explore more cool products you might love. 💕

Google just launched its FaceTime competitor, a one-to-one video calling app for iOS and Android. We saw a brief demo at Google I/O earlier this year -- its cool video preview feature is quite memorable. 🙂

Duo looks like an impressive addition to a crowded space of new video messaging that includes Tribe, Bunch, Airtime, and of course Snapchat.

Want to fly to Portugal in November, for free? We've teamed up with theSkimm, Food52, Hipmunk, Savoteur and Web Summit to give away 2 free tickets to one of the biggest tech conferences in Europe. Previous guests include everyone from Bono to Elon Musk. Enter for your chance to win:

🔑 Access to all stages at the Web Summit
💵 $500 voucher towards accommodation
✈️ Round trip economy flights to beautiful Lisbon

Also, this Thursday learn more about Web Summit from the Co-Founder and CEO, Paddy Cosgrave.

Make your home smarter by befriending Alexa and getting a Nest, Dropcam, and some Philips Hues. You know, the typical smart home companions. Here are some lesser known, handy gadgets for the home:

⛅️ Brilliance brings the outside world to your home with Philips Hue lights

🤖 Houndify adds a voice-enabled conversational interface to anything

🔌 Reset Plug automatically resets your router & modem when the WiFi fails (while eero and Plume will make sure it never drops in the first place)

🔓 August and Lockitron are two excellent smart locks

🍓 Grove Ecosystem helps you grow fresh herbs, lettuce & fruit indoors all year round (Leaf grows the cannabis)

For more, follow the Smart Home Topic on Product Hunt, and check out these 12 Must-Have Smart Home Products on Medium.

Nostalgia is a powerful tool for connecting with your audience. It’s one of the reasons for Pokemon GO’s massive success and why Netflix’s new retro show, Stranger Things, was so well-received by 80’s babies.

So, we looked way back to the depths of Product Hunt to pull out some of our favorite nostalgic products:

👾 The Internet Arcade 900+ classic arcade games (no quarters required)
💻 Cathode is the vintage terminal you've always wanted
📺 My 90's TV lets you relive TV shows from your childhood
🎶 The Nostalgia Machine plays your favorite tunes by year
🔊 Endangered Sounds Museum plays nostalgic sounds from the past
👌 The Restart Page is Geek nostalgia at it's fines
📱 Great Apps Timeline shows how today's great apps evolved over time

Lastly, the Time Machine lets you jump back in time and re-discover the best products on Product Hunt. 🙂

There's a recent trend in photo editing apps that are simply magic. They go way beyond what Instagram originally did with filters, by turning your regular photos into art. Some of our favorites:

• DeepArt turn your pics into artsy masterpieces using algorithms
• The hugely popular Prisma added some amazing new filters recently
• Artisto is like Prisma, but for videos (like the one above)
• Upload photos into Emoji Mosaic to get incredible emoji creations
• Pikazo uses artificial intelligence to create LaCroix faces

For more, check out the full collection on Product Hunt, and here's Michael Phelps demonstrating the effects of 7 of the most popular ones. 🏊🏅🐐

10 months ago, Twitter Moments launched with mixed reaction:

"Given how much I truly enjoy the Discover feature on Snapchat and the ability to check out live events, I'm really excited for this." —Cat Noone

"It's so so late, and maybe unforgivably so" —Mischa Nachtigal

"I gotta be honest.... I think this is going to be a bust." —Seth Miller

Today, Twitter announced you too will be able to create Moments. Read the full announcement.

Late last week, rumors spread that Walmart was in talks to buy Jet, a two-year-old startup, for $3b (yes, a billy). This morning, rumors were confirmed with their cash buyout of the Amazon competitor.

This is one of many startups acquired this year. Snapchat gobbled up Bitmoji for $100m, Facebook bought this wacky augmented reality app, and Shots picked up this Musical.ly competitor. The M&A market is heating up.