Taylor Majewski
What smart initiatives have you seen from tech companies in response to COVID-19?
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Hi Makers! Let's gather inspiration from tech companies who are launching projects that help those in need right now.
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Vinay@ivinay
Layerpath
At Zoho, we launched Remotely https://www.zoho.com/remotely/ (free until July 1st) and The Small Business Emergency Subscription Assistance Program (ESAP) initiative https://www.zoho.com/esap/
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Designmodo
A nationwide initiative by partnering staffing agencies to reduce rates from 5-10% for essential businesses for the next 6 months. http://www.StaffingStimulus2020.org
Friyay.io
My company created a free training portal that’s focused on working remote and home office hygiene! Check it at http://remote-readiness.litmos.com
Smarking
MasterClass for iOS is offering all existing users a free pass to share with anyone through March 30th.
Libro.fm is giving 100% of payments with SHOPBOOKSTORESNOW to the customers' bookstore of choice, and just passed $50K raised: https://blog.libro.fm/shopbookst...
Find My Pasta
hey! I've made an app that lets ppl report empty shelves & products at their grocery stores, so vulnerable ppl don't have to visit multiple stores to find food: https://www.producthunt.com/post...
Virus Fight Club
HI @taylormajewski We are launching a game to help spread important messages about coronavirus spreading to people around the world, but in a game. check our product: https://www.producthunt.com/post...
$10 million dollar support kit for photographers and creatives offered by Shoot & Share here -> https://www.shootandshare.com/po...
@david_jay Huge in a time where rescheduling or even cancellations are taking a big toll on cash.
Many libraries in the US giving out free eCards for 60 days. Sacramento Library allows people to borrow 60 eBooks at a time. https://www.saclibrary.org/About...
At App in the Air, we're making all premium features available to everyone until April 30th - our users are finding this super helpful. We also created a support page to for users navigating different airline policies: https://appintheair.freshdesk.co...
NeighborPledge
We at AgentRisk have made our portfolio management software available for free and have heavily discounted our 1-on-1 portfolio consultation service. More about this on our blog: https://blog.agentrisk.com/how-a...
Perkness
Created by ByteDance is allowing people to use their product for free.
Working from home with your pets this week? Get Lark for free at https://t.co/Fv0lqMFgyq. We know you'll like it. Your dog might, too. 😉
#Lark #remoteworking #workfromhome #collaboration https://t.co/DDE1KEOnRS
Awesome question! We've consolidated lots of resources that became free or heavily discounted during COVID-19 and added it here: https://www.producthunt.com/post...
Some organizations like Gitcoin has started the initiative, including $50k for public health - https://gitcoin.co/blog/gitcoin-...
Also, there's a hackathon dedicated to help combat issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic - https://hackquarantine.com/
Socap.ai (YC W23)
Free webinar on how to build a dashboard for any web app 2 times faster by UI Bakery team. It will be a series of free webinars dedicated to low-code platforms, and the ways to build web apps using them. No coding and design skills are required. More details here https://uibakery.io/post/webinar...
2023 Fintech Onboarding Guide
We are no tech giant but we (YSplit) launched an open source app called 'Lava Manus' in a Corona focused Hackathon the other week so you can track how many times you have washed your hands in a day.
It is gamified, so you can see which countries and cities are washing hands the least and most.
It is bare bones but it is open source so if any devs want to submit a PR please do!!! We have many feature ideas we have added to issues to get started.
App link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/la...
And here is the repo: https://github.com/boatengyeboah...
Features yet to build:
- Reminder to wash hands
- Venmo like public feed of people around the world washing hands
We're offering free Production plan to app related to the COVID-19 response at Bubble. More than 20 applications are now being live.
https://twitter.com/Bubble_Group...