Winners of the 2018 Golden Kitty Awards are revealed
The 4th Annual Golden Kitty awards have been our biggest yet. From over 12,000 nominations we narrowed it down to 322 finalists across our 22 categories.
Golden kitties are a celebration of all the cool things that have launched throughout the year.
Our community continued casting votes right up to the deadline as products battled it out for a podium position as winner or runner up.
The cut-off was fast approaching and it looked like some categories would end up a draw, but in the end there has to be a winner. 🏆
Winners of the 2018 Golden Kitty Awards
Below are the Golden Kitty winners and runner-ups in each of the 22 product categories, and two data-driven (non-voting) awards for Community Member of the Year and Maker of the Year.
Voting started Thursday January 10th and ended Tuesday January 16th 6pm PST. We tallied the votes across each category and here are the winners*.
🌟 Product of the Year: TikTok
🥈2nd Place: Nintendo Labo
🥉3rd Place: Pioneer
📱 Mobile App of the Year: Shortcuts
🥈2nd Place: Gemini Photos
🥉3rd Place: Stoop
🛠 Hardware Product of the Year: Apple Watch Series 4
🥈2nd Place: Cafe X
🥉3rd Place: DJI Osmo Pocket
😎 Augmented Reality Product of the Year: Wanna Nails
🥈2nd Place: Shopify AR
🥉3rd Place: Magic Leap One
🌍 Social Impact Product of the Year: Matter
🥈2nd Place: O.school
🥉3rd Place: ICON Home
🏡 Smart Home Product of the Year: Google Home Hub
🥈2nd Place: Wyze Cam
🥉3rd Place: June Oven (2nd Gen)
🌚 Side Project Product of the Year: MacBook Alarm
🥈2nd Place: VisaList
🥉3rd Place: Maker Mag
🔐 Privacy Focused Product of the Year: 1.1.1.1 by Cloudflare
🥈2nd Place: DuckDuckGo Privacy App & Extension
🥉3rd Place: Simple Analytics
🐈 Made with the ProductHunt API: Maker.rocks
🥈 2nd Place Femake
🥉 3rd Place: Upvote Bell
⚡ ️Lifehack Product of the Year: History Search
🥈2nd Place: FYI
🥉3rd Place: Make OS X Great Again
💪 Health & Fitness Product of the Year: RocketBody
🥈 2nd Place: Mirror
🥉 3rd Place: Modern Fertility
📚 Founder Book of the Year: MAKE Book
🥈 2nd Place: Ship it
🥉 3rd Place: Atomic Habits
💰 Fintech Product of the Year: Buy Me A Coffee
🥈 2nd Place: Finimize for iPhone
🥉 3rd Place: TransferWise Debit Card
🌈 Diversity Product of the Year: Diversify Tech
🥈 2nd Place: Tech Ladies Job Board
🥉 3rd Place: Flockjay
🤖 AI & Machine Learning Product of the Year: OneSoil Map
🥈 2nd Place: remove.bg
🥉 3rd Place: Facehub
🔉 Audio & Voice Product of the Year: Krisp
🥈 2nd Place: Slack Voice Chat by Standuply
🥉 3rd Place: Transistor.fm
⛓ Crypto Product of the Year: Coinbase Wallet
🥈 2nd Place: Lolli
🥉 3rd Place: Robinhood Crypto
🖋 Design Tool of the Year: Draftium
🥈 2nd Place: Humaans
🥉 3rd Place: Framer X
🖥 Dev Tool of the Year: Prettier
🥈 2nd Place: Piio
🥉 3rd Place: Stripe Billing
🙀 WTF Product of the Year: Die With Me
🥈 2nd Place: The Button
🥉 3rd Place: Times Newer Roman
To pick our finalists for ‘Community Member of the Year’ and ‘Maker of the Year’ we pulled data from all of 2018 and created a model to compare individuals against a number of metrics including (but not limited to) their Maker goals, comments, upvotes and product launches.
💻 Maker of the Year 2018: Andrey Azimov
Andrey is an indie maker from Ukraine living in Bali. He quit his job in March 2018 to focus on making startups with a goal to make $1k MRR within a year. He’s had plenty of awesome Product Hunt launches including Sheet2Site, Progress Bar OSX and Make OSX Great Again.
Honorable Mentions:
🤗 Community Member of the Year 2018: Hiten Shah
Hiten has started three SaaS companies, runs an email newsletter called Product Habits and has launched an outstanding 84 products on Product Hunt over the years. Throughout 2018 he always makes time to engage with other makers in the community, chiming into launches and goals.
Honorable Mentions:
Thanks to everyone for their participation in the awards and to all the makers that built something awesome in 2018.
*Winners in product categories were selected based on the total number of credible votes, discounting inauthentic voting behavior.
