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Golden Kitty Awards 2020: What are the best products of the year

Wednesday, February 3, 2021

Drum roll ... On January 28 the Golden Kitty Awards took place, the best of the best products of the year launched at Product Hunt! For the first time in its six-year history, this year's awards ceremony was held online. The winners were selected in 23 categories from mobile applications to fintech, and the best products in each category received their Golden Kitty award.

Let’s have a look at the projects which won their kittens this year.

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Какие продукты стали лучшими в этом году по версии Golden Kitty Awards — Product Hunt

Mobile app — EduDo

It is not the first time that we mention and support this Belarusian startup. EduDo is a mobile app with short (up to 3 min. long) interactive educational videos. On the platform, the users can find:

  • Short educational videos, recommended to you according to your fields of interest;

  • 13 categories: from Art to Business, from Fashion to Environment, from Technologies to Psychology;

  • Process visualization: you watch a video, complete quizzes and unlock various achievements;

  • Many people who are ready to share their unique experience.

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Какие продукты стали лучшими в этом году по версии Golden Kitty Awards — Product Hunt

Community & Social — OnlyFams

OnlyFams is a platform that allows you to create closed communities (while maintaining your domain, logo and brand). Such communities include a common space for communication with various extensions: events, forums, directories, private invitations. They provide many customizations and pre-installed extensions, as well as the ability to create your own extensions using the offered API.

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Какие продукты стали лучшими в этом году по версии Golden Kitty Awards — Product Hunt

Remote Work tool — Vowel

Nowadays, video conferencing has become a daily routine, and Vowel has developed more than just a video calling application, but has become a real personal assistant. Scheduling, creating and holding meetings, inviting new participants, recording and transcribing in real time — all done in one window. The purpose of the app is to make online meetings more productive, organized and help users save their time.

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Какие продукты стали лучшими в этом году по версии Golden Kitty Awards — Product Hunt

Privacy Focussed tool — SecureFrame

SecureFrame helps businesses complete SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certification in weeks rather than months by integrating with 30+ services including AWS, GCP, Azure and Okta. The app provides auditing through its preferred auditing network, enables users to comply with regulatory requirements with automatic reports and alerts, and securely scales with customizable workflows and automation.

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Какие продукты стали лучшими в этом году по версии Golden Kitty Awards — Product Hunt

Side Project — One Word Domains

One Word Domains quickly and easily picks names for companies. The application gives you access to a database of free one-word domain names that can be filtered alphabetically and by word type. This is a simple but very useful tool that allows you to save resources for naming development. One Word Domains currently supports over 50+ TLDs and 300,000+ available domains and has already helped over 700 users find their dream domain.

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Какие продукты стали лучшими в этом году по версии Golden Kitty Awards — Product Hunt

Crypto product — Cent

Cent is a network where you can earn additional income for creativity; their mission is to free humanity from traditional employment by turning a social network into an income network. Fans can Seed the creators, who, to their opinion, will generate the most value in the future.

Seeding is the transfer of monthly rewards to such creators, as well as receiving some percent of the rewards from other contributors to this author, which come after your rewards. This gives the creator a monthly income and encourages early fans to share the author’s work.

You can “tag” the most interesting posts: something like infinitely clickable likes that give 1 cent to the creator of the post, thus supporting him and inspiring him to keep creating posts.

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Какие продукты стали лучшими в этом году по версии Golden Kitty Awards — Product Hunt

Ecommerce product — RetentionX

RetentionX is an easy-to-use tool that can replace an entire team of data scientists. Artificial intelligence turns data into understandable actions, as well as, develops business solutions based on numbers. From the first days of use, RetentionX identifies the key drivers of business growth, it can detect problems and make informed decisions if some of the important metrics have been changed.

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Какие продукты стали лучшими в этом году по версии Golden Kitty Awards — Product Hunt

Social Impact product — Campaign With

On the Campaign With platform you can study and donate at the same time. There are courses on completely different topics, from fitness classes to bartender courses. A person donates his knowledge to others or, buying a course, donates 100% of the money to charity.

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Какие продукты стали лучшими в этом году по версии Golden Kitty Awards — Product Hunt

Hardware product — Raspberry Pi 400

The Raspberry Pi 400 is a small desktop microcomputer, which is integrated into a compact keyboard. It has a quad-core 64-bit processor, 4GB of RAM, wireless networking, Bluetooth 5.0. On the rear panel of the device, there are ports and headers including GPIOs, two memory card slots, two micro HDMI and USB 3.0 connectors. The device can be connected to 2 displays, supports 4K video playback. Of the pleasant advantages — low cost: $70 for a computer or $100 for the whole set.

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Какие продукты стали лучшими в этом году по версии Golden Kitty Awards — Product Hunt

WTF product — How Bad Is Your Spotify?

A bot that uses artificial intelligence to analyze the user’s Spotify account, evaluate musical taste and criticize it. In the process, he will ask a couple of questions, and then give out his result as a true musical snob. Don’t take the Bot seriously :)

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Какие продукты стали лучшими в этом году по версии Golden Kitty Awards — Product Hunt

Design tool — Spline

Spline is a tool for designers that allows creating 3D objects for use on the Internet in real time. The tool allows you to create simple geometric shapes, use text, edit materials, import 3D models, and more.

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Какие продукты стали лучшими в этом году по версии Golden Kitty Awards — Product Hunt

Developer tool of the year — MarkUp

MarkUp is an extension for the Google Chrome browser that allows you to collect feedback on any active website. With MarkUp you can:

  1. Convert any website or picture into a working space for joint work;

  2. Add comments in any place at your website, as well as, on the pictures;

  3. Connect your team, so you can instantly gather and analyze feedback; everything in one place and in real time.

Unlimited number of projects, numerous employees, unlimited feedback — all for free.

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Какие продукты стали лучшими в этом году по версии Golden Kitty Awards — Product Hunt

Product of the year — Clubhouse

Clubhouse is a social media app where users share audio clips instead of text messages. The company describes itself as “a new kind of social project based on voice” where “people can talk, tell stories, develop ideas, strengthen friendships and meet new interesting people.” Clubhouse has an interesting feature — the ability to walk into any room and listen to an expert or share your opinion. The user cannot register himself as he must receive an invitation link from another user. The application has user profiles with descriptions that you can subscribe to; rooms where people discuss topics; community clubs and interest groups.

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Какие продукты стали лучшими в этом году по версии Golden Kitty Awards — Product Hunt

Audio and Voice product of the year — Phone Call Translator

This is the second Belarusian project in the list! A real-time voice translator of telephone conversations was created to help resolve issues in traffic situations and urgent business problems with foreigners, as well as help in communicating with friends abroad. You can call both from a mobile and from a landline phone to all countries of the world. Translation is available in 30 popular languages, during a conversation you and your interlocutor will hear the translation of both callers, the original speech and the translation will also be duplicated on the phone screen.

You can read more about the project developers in our interview.

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Какие продукты стали лучшими в этом году по версии Golden Kitty Awards — Product Hunt

No-code tool — V.One

V.One is a designing app that allows anyone to feel like a developer, even without technical knowledge. With V.One, you can create your own design in the app builder or upload existing designs, download the source code and share it with colleagues, launch and test your app on TestFlight, release it in the App Store or Google Play in one click.

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Какие продукты стали лучшими в этом году по версии Golden Kitty Awards — Product Hunt

Fintech product — Finmark

Finmark is a financial planning and modeling software for startups. Finmark was created so that anyone, not just a financial professional, can easily create and update a financial model without spending weeks working on complex spreadsheets. The Finmark platform takes complex financial concepts and calculations and turns them into an easy-to-use interface so that companies can easily update, check and share their financial performance, manage budget, forecast and plan revenue.

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Какие продукты стали лучшими в этом году по версии Golden Kitty Awards — Product Hunt

Diversity and Inclusion product — Noun Project Photos

Noun Project Photos has a goal to create a global visual language to shape, reinforce and change the perception of the world. On their platform, they offer professionally handpicked art photos and icons for websites or applications. The fast-growing collection of images is imbued with the idea of cultural diversity and inclusion. All photos are affordable for every budget, from free downloads to high resolution JPGs.

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Какие продукты стали лучшими в этом году по версии Golden Kitty Awards — Product Hunt

Productivity tool — Fastdok

Fastdok helps people create ready-to-use and verified working documents such as price lists, invoices, recipes, certificates and other documents for various sectors: IT, business, HR, law, medicine, education, finance. Fastdok offers a versatile document generator with a process that makes it much easier and faster to receive finished documents in minutes. You just need to choose a document template and answer a few specific questions, nothing more!

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Какие продукты стали лучшими в этом году по версии Golden Kitty Awards — Product Hunt

Health and Wellness product — Plum Village

Plum Village is a new meditation app that can help develop the senses through guided meditations, deep relaxation and many more features. Plum Village is one of the few mindfulness apps that offers completely free content, including meditations with a Zen master. The app includes a guide to practice with the inner child, guided deep relaxation (body scans), music tracks with exercise songs, and nature sounds recorded at practice centers around the world. This application can be used by both experienced practitioners and novice meditators. The app works on all iPhone and Android devices.

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Какие продукты стали лучшими в этом году по версии Golden Kitty Awards — Product Hunt

AI and Machine Learning product — Almanac

Almanac is a platform for predicting consumer behavior by using artificial intelligence. With about 4 billion data units per day (including geospatial, weather, news and demographic data), Almanac provides insight into how customers behave in industries ranging from retail to marketing and to real estate, creates profiles and analyzes consumers. Along with forecasting trends, Almanac provides insight into historical trends, movements and consumer behavior: it prepares historical reviews for 3 years and a forecast for 2 months ahead.

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Какие продукты стали лучшими в этом году по версии Golden Kitty Awards — Product Hunt

Augmented Reality product — ClipDrop

ClipDrop is an AR Copy Paste application that allows the phone’s camera to quickly “grab” objects from the real world and place them into applications on the computer. It can photograph everything from plants to TV’s, automatically remove the background, and then quickly import into documents as cropped objects. This tool lets you import images and even text from books, for example, into various programs and websites, including Photoshop, Google Docs, PowerPoint, Figma, Canva, and Pitch.

Two nominations, for which the users couldn’t give their votes, were given to the Maker of the Year — Lucy Guo and the Community Member of the Year — Chris Messina.

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