Good morning, makers. It's only been a few days since Robotaxis were approved in San Francisco, but they’re off to a pretty chaotic start. Here’s video footage. 😬
Today:
- Learn to read body language
- Generate hyper-realistic humans
- Use K-pop to learn Korean
I improve, therefore I am
If there's one thing makers can always bet on, it's the inherent human drive to self-optimize. Whether it's improving our circumstances through education, nutrition, or emotional intelligence, the desire to better ourselves is ingrained in our DNA.
This past week, we've seen a slew of innovations from makers — many of them indie and bootstrapped — who are tapping into this timeless instinct. Here's a roundup of 7 new products you can use for self-improvement:
🧠 Clearmind is an AI-powered therapy tool that provides mood-based recommendations, real-time meditation sessions, actionable to-dos, and mental health tracking.
👁️ Menteo App teaches users how to read emotions and body language, aiming to enhance understanding in both personal and professional interactions.
👄 WorkbookPDF helps users learn and practice any language using topics they enjoy, from K-pop to Salsa.
🥔 Kalorie and Nutrition Buddy are iPhone food tracking apps that offer meal logging and insights.
🥑 AvoMap provides a 3D view of the terrain for your next race or sporting event.
💪 Numbies is a lightweight fitness app designed to help users “do 10,000 push ups. Easily.”
Your agents stopped answering and started doing
Your agents call tools, write to databases and move money, so a wrong answer is now a wrong action, which is a considerably worse meeting. Arcjet runs policy before every LLM call, tool call, query and API request: prompt injection, sensitive data, bots, rate limits, spend quotas, and your own rules in Rego on top. It reads the OpenTelemetry you already emit, so switching it on is one environment variable, no code changes and nothing to deploy. Each check also reads the earlier steps in the same workflow, so an agent's tenth action gets judged against the first nine and not on its own. JavaScript, Python and Go SDKs all at 1.0, agent framework guards included, free tier to start on.
Daily Top Products
- Human Generator crafts hyper-realistic synthetic humans for use in ads, games, or other media.
- insightIQ helps marketers find relevant influencers and gauge the potential purchase intent of their audiences.
- AI Voice Cloning by Wavel generates high-fidelity voice clones for free from 60 seconds of uploaded audio.
- Flowly offers an app and software dedicated to managing the carbon footprint of vehicles owned by individuals or companies.
- SayData embeds in your app/web product to enable your users to analyze, visualize, and generate insights from their data in plain English.
- Refero 2.0 is a design research tool with over 32,000 references from leaders like Notion, Apple, and Airbnb.
- Echo replicates familiar note-taking apps to encourage user feedback submissions.