The 5th Annual Golden Kitty awards brought a record number of makers together online and offline

Our annual Golden Kitty awards celebrate all the great products that makers have launched throughout the year. This year saw the most votes ever.

On January 28th, we also hosted a Global Meetup Day to make this year’s awards even more special. Makers across five continents and 35 countries collaborated to successfully host 73 community meetups IRL. I really enjoyed meeting many of you at the LA meetup yesterday. :)

So without further ado, here are this year's Golden Kitty award winners in each of the 23 product categories, as well as two data-driven (non-voting) awards for Community Member of the Year and Maker of the Year. We tallied the votes across each category discounting inauthentic voting behavior.

Social Impact Product of the Year: Wren

Hardware Product of the Year: MacBook Pro 16“

This category is sponsored by Xometry

Mobile App of the Year: GitHub for Mobile

Design Tool of the Year: Figma Plugins

This category is sponsored by monday.com

Dev Tool of the Year: Composer

This category is sponsored by Dave

Diversity and Inclusion Product of the Year: Elpha

This category is sponsored by Public.com

Crypto Product of the Year: Snowball Money

No Code Product of the Year: Makerpad 🙅‍♀️

This category is sponsored by Airtable

Fintech Product of the Year: Predicto

AI and Machine Learning Product of the Year: FaceMaze

Side Project Product of the Year: Leave Me Alone

Remote Work Tool of the Year: Nomad List 5.0

This category is sponsored by Spoke

WTF Product of the Year: Bird News Now

Audio and Voice Product of the Year: Descript Podcast Studio

Augmented Reality Product of the Year: Wanna Kicks

Health and Fitness App of the Year: Zenia

Smart Home Product of the Year: Lazy

Privacy-Focused Product of the Year: Brave

SexTech Product of the Year: Coral

D2C Product of the Year: Haus

PetTech Product of the Year: Whistle GO

Product of the Year: AirPods Pro

Product Memoriam Winner: Inbox by Google

Maker of the Year 2019: Marie Prokopets

Honorable Mentions:

Community Member of the Year 2019: Kunal Bhatia

Kunal is the co-founder of SlidesUp and a value-adding community member across the board. He’s submitted 47 products to the community, and throughout the year made time to support makers through maker goals, online discussions and international meetups.

Honorable Mentions:

Thanks to everyone for participating in the awards and to all the incredible makers and community members that launched and supported products in 2019.