Is your startup in the middle of a pivot? Or maybe it's trying to respond to growing trends like AI. In today’s digest, I’m covering a bunch of tools that can help stay afloat while work speeds up. But first…
The headlines:
🎵 Spotify dropped a brand new, versatile font that will be used across the platform.
😯 Bing’s API went down, and with it, so did ChatGPT, Ecosia, and more.
🤖 According to documents, OpenAI didn’t use Scarlett Johansson’s voice for GPT-4o.
Work smarter, not harder with these four tools
The tech world is moving at break-neck speed, and so are our work lives. If you work in a startup, you’ve probably felt the rush of building and shipping new features to keep up with growing trends like generative AI and spatial computing recently.
There’s an old saying that goes something like “a worker is only as good as their tools.” While there’s some nuance to that, it can’t be denied that a good product can make your life ten times easier. So, in that spirit, here are some recently launched tools that make your work life more efficient:
Code & Line is a developer-orientated note-taking tool built by Berra Kerraman, a solo founder and front-end developer. It’s designed to help developers provide a more detailed understanding of their code. Its core feature allows users to target specific code lines with each note, aiming for a line-by-line explanation of the snippet.
Findr 2.0 is an AI-powered tool designed to be you and your team's work assistant. It can answer questions, find information, write documentation, and more by interacting with your company’s existing tooling and knowledge base.
CANVID for Windows makes it easier to quickly record your screen for things like showing off a demo, asking for feedback, or logging a bug. It prioritizes smooth mouse movement and automatic zooms for pointing out specific points. It also comes with customizable features like backgrounds and adding blur.
Granola is built for people in back-to-back meetings (hello, me). As you’re chatting on your call, Granola will automatically start taking notes by transcribing your meeting. It captures every detail and highlights the most important points — no more post-meeting docs!
There you have it! Four new apps to help you get to grips with moving fast and breaking things. After all, it’s all about working smarter, not harder.
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.
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