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The future is video selfies 📽😁
Video is everywhere these days. Your Facebook feed is full of it, Twitter's getting into the game, and YouTube is practically cool-cat-heaven. You may have noticed a few more videos on this website called Product Hunt. 😉

And with the advent of smartphones and broadband, we’re seeing an explosion of social video apps including:

Tribe and Roger are are reinventing the walkie-talkie in different takes
HouseParty is what a group FaceTime would be as a social network
Squad is like Snapchat for groups of friends
Airtime is Sean Parker’s video based app (when he’s not curing cancer)
Amity is a new kind of messaging app (reserve your username ;)

For more, follow the Social Video Apps collection on Product Hunt. 🤗
Top Launches:SerpstatSerpstatStash.aiStash.aiKapKap
Salesforce buying Twitter? 🤔
Rumors are swirling about Twitter's future as its said to be preparing for a sale. It's reported that Disney and Google are no longer in the running, which leaves Salesforce a potential (unexpected) acquirer.

Meanwhile, an open-source Twitter alternative is making a headlines. Mastodon will feel familiar to fellow Tweetdeck fans. Reserve your first name handle just in case this takes off. 😉
Google's new phone will make you switch to Android 😮
Yesterday, Google announced a suite of new products to compete with Amazon, Oculus, Apple, and even our wifi-loving friends at eero. To recap, here’s what Google announced:

📱Google Pixel: iPhone competitor with 3mm headphone jack technology
🙇Daydream View: A virtual reality headset made out of fabric (clever)
🌐Google WiFi: A new kind of WiFi system (because wifi > everything)
🏠Google Home: A competitor to Alexa (P.S. soon you'll be able to talk to Product Hunt via Google Home) 😺

Now all you need to know is the best 150 Google Now commands to make all that new hardware extra intelligent.
Twitter bots! (RIP, Microsoft’s Tay) 🐥🤖
Remember Tay, Microsoft’s Twitter bot that went cray? It was fun while it lasted, but there are some very practical, non-offensive Twitter Bots today:

🏕 OOOTwitter sends an out-of-office reply to your @mentions
⚡️PowerPack is an entire auto-reply toolkit you can personalize
🤔 #AskJelly is all you need to tweet to get your questions answered
🤖 Botmoji from Emojipedia will help you become an emoji master
🌟 Unfavinator deletes all (or some) of your twitter likes (a recent trend)

Check out the full collection of Twitter Bots on Product Hunt.
Facebook just launched a Craigslist killer 👱💸👩
There’s a lot on the line this Presidential election: human decency, the cyber, and 🌮🚐 at every corner just to name a few.

Your vote matters. We’re working with our friends at VotePlz to make it super easy to register. Register right now in 60 seconds. Oh, and VotePlz is giving away $1 million in college scholarships and student debt forgiveness as prizes.
You goat to read this email 🐐
Thanks for voting! The results are in. We have data on the most internet animal there is (and Harambe is not pleased). Puppies and kittens were close, but they were no match to Goats—the ultimate winner.

Let's goat ahead and give it up to goats for all the happiness they spread across internet. Get 🐐 your 🐐 goat 🐐 on 🐐 this weekend with:

🐐 You Goat Mail (literally the greatest gift)
🐐🐐 GOAT (the best way to buy and sell sneakers)
🐐🐐🐐 Goat Attack (for your friends and enemies)
🐐🐐🐐🐐 Goat Simulator (one can dream)

For more, check out the fantastic Goats in Google Calendar addition and have Chelsea Handler's Goatta Go ready when meeting new people!
Browsers with super powers! ⚡️
We have a special relationship with our web browser. Some of us are faithful to one and can't even think of living without it, while others experiment with multiple browsers for different use cases.

Chrome may be the most popular bae, but there are plenty of complimentary options and solid alternatives:


• Helium is a floating browser window for your Mac
• Blisk is a Chromium-based browser designed for web developers
• Tor Browser lets you browse the internet anonymously
• Aloha is a private mobile browser with free unlimited VPN
• Vivaldi is a new browser from the original co-founder of Opera

Check out the full collection of Rad Browsers on Product Hunt and browse through these 7 Google Chrome Alternatives.
Meerkat just launched a new app 🏠🎉
The team behind Meerkat is unveiling a new app today: Houseparty. Fun fact: the app’s been available for 6 months in the App Store, published under a fake pseudonym. 🙊

Like its predecessor, the app is all about livestreaming but this time with a close group of friends. If (group) FaceTime was built on top of a social network, it would be Houseparty. 🏠🎉
Free AirPods (and how not to lose them) 🎧
Since the launch of the iPhone 7 and AirPods there have been a number of products dedicated to making sure those little white computers in your eardrum never get lost. CourageTapper, and the Spigen AirPods Strap come to mind.

With those preventative measures in mind... Enter to win free  AirPods! The winner will also get a brand new iPhone 7, plus two runners-ups will each receive the new Apple Watch Series 2. 📱⌚️🎉
Snapchat Spectacles! (and 5 other physical products) 🕶🃏⛱🎒❄️👻
Late Friday night Snapchat unveiled their highly anticipated smart video sunglasses: Spectacles. With the tap off a button you record 10 seconds of circular video, a new format that looks pretty awesome (and solves the portrait vs landscape video debate, at last). As part of the launch Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. to reflect that it's more than just an app.

But Spectacles isn’t Snap's first physical product launch. Here are 5 others you can buy right now:

❄️ Ice Tray
🎒 Backpack
🃏 Playing Cards
👻 Plushie
Beach Towel
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