Golden Kitty Awards Winners 🏆😺
The 3rd Annual Golden Kitty awards came down to the wire, literally. Multiple categories were nearly tied at yesterday’s cutoff, including:
• CryptoKitties and Earn.com in Crypto ⛓
• Tixio and Gmail Unsubscriber in Lifehacks ⚡️
• Coinbase and Telegram for Breakout Product 📈
The most upvoted product of the year, Station, held its lead over fan favorite, FireFox Quantum, to win Product of the Year. This is the first time the year’s most upvoted product is also the winner of the top product category.
In a shocking twist, Petcubes Bites beat 2x Golden Kitty Award winner Elon Musk in the prestigious WTF Product category. In response, the Golden Kitty Awards veteran has pivoted The Boring Company’s product (and fundraising strategy) from on-brand Boring Company hats, to less-boring $600 Boring Company flamethrowers. 🔥
Winners of the 2017 Golden Kitty Awards
Below are the Golden Kitty winners and runner-ups in each of the 14 product categories, and two data-driven (non-voting) community awards. Voting started Monday January 22nd and ended Sunday January 28th 12pm PST. The product with the largest number of upvotes in each category at the end of the voting period was crowned the winner.
🌟 Product of the Year: Station
🥈 2nd Place: Firefox Quantum
🥉 3rd Place: HQ Trivia
💻 Maker of the Year: Pieter Levels
The Maker of the Year award is one of the two data-driven categories, based on the number of products the maker has launched launched, upvotes received from the community, average number of upvotes per launch, and with a focus on makers who are building independent projects.
Pieter Levels, the winner of the inaugural Maker of the Year award in 2015 when the Golden Kitties first started, is reclaiming the title in 2017. This past year he launched a big update to Nomad List, spun out Nomad Gear and built this year’s Side Project of the Year, Hoodmaps. We hope to see another live unboxing this year once the golden kitties arrive, Pieter. 😊
Also congrats to runners up Ukraine-based Lisa Dziuba, serial maker Mubashar Iqbal, and the always helpful Jordan Gonen.
🤗 Community Member of the Year: Kevin William David
The Community Member of the Year award is the second data-driven (non-voting) award based on the total number of upvotes received from comments and posts made, average number of upvotes received from comments and posts made, and general helpfulness in the community. While there is no perfect measure or definition of what an exemplary community member is, we believe those data points are representations of that.
Congrats to Kevin William David, last year’s runner-up, for winning the Golden Kitty for 2017’s Community Member of the Year. Kevin’s contributions to the community have been appreciated since he joined in 2013.
Generous Hiten Shah, community-builder Kiki Schirr, and awesomely curious Chris Messina are runners up.
Congrats to all of the makers for building something awesome in 2017. 😺
P.S. If you’re building something in 2018, give Ship a try.
P.P.S. Due to irregular voting patterns from suspicious accounts, a portion of the upvotes were removed from a handful of products. The Golden Kitty Awards are a celebration of all the amazing products, makers, and community members from the past year, so it’s important we try our best to acknowledge the products that earned the accolades, even though we may not all agree on the outcome. 😊
