Everyone's a musician

Happy Monday! It’s a new week, which means all new products are launching on the homepage. In today’s digest, I’m covering a new AI platform that lets you create professional-grade songs by typing or humming. But first…

The headlines: 

📹 TikTok is expanding its ad-creation suite with AI-generated avatars.

✍️ YouTube is testing out notes — a new way for users to add context.

⚠️ The US Surgeon General wants tobacco-style warnings on social media.

Remember when The Beatles got together for one last song? It got mixed reviews, but the fact that one of the biggest bands of all time embraced AI set a precedent. AI was going to change the music industry. From writing songs to generating entire tracks, many predicted an AI-powered musical revolution.

TwoShot is one of those AI apps looking to make its mark on the music scene. Launched last week, It is focused on making music accessible to all by letting you craft tracks with your voice, text prompt, or just by humming into a mic. 

Say you’re working on a lo-fi track to stimulate productivity. You can instruct TwoShot to generate a “melody of flutes inspired by nature” and then pair it with a chill drum line by beatboxing into your mic. The AI will turn it into a full-fledged, professional-sounding track. 

It also comes with a library of over 200,000 samples, ranging from rock to country music and everything in between, that you can grab for inspiration or even use the AI to remix into something new to create your next banger. 

One of the most powerful features is TwoShot's plethora of different models. While building your track, you can swap your chosen AI model at any stage for a different one, including ones built by big names. Say you want your lyrics to have a female voice. You can load up the “Grimes” model with your prompt or existing sounds, and it will work it into a more Grimes-esque sound.

Alongside that, these models are “ethically trained,” according to the team, meaning they usually have attained artist permission to use their likeness or have worked with them to create the model itself, like in the case of the Grimes one above. 

Of course, TwoShot isn’t the only platform looking to change up the music scene. Spotify recently launched AI playlists, a new tool that lets you generate playlists with a prompt, and Meta launched AudioCraft last year as a tool for making songs with AI.

FOR PRODUCT MANAGERS

Olvy 3.0 is an AI-powered platform that simplifies customer feedback analysis. Its AI listening tool captures the most impactful feedback from user calls before automatically categorizing it. 

Grazias is a free tool that lets you easily collect, manage, and showcase your testimonials from one platform. Users can rate and comment on your product. From there, you can respond and share the testimonials across your site and social media. 

FOR DEVELOPERS

Passkeys by Hanko is a plug-and-play solution that enables passkeys in your next app. It comes with a Javascript SDK, a passkey provider for Next-Auth, and guides for other frameworks. You can self-host it or host it on Hanko Cloud.

mirrord for Teams is a remocal development tool for Kubernetes. It lets devs run, test, and debug code in the cloud directly from their IDE or CLI, without going through Docker Build, CI, and deployment for every little change.

FOR PRODUCTIVITY 

Inbox Zero is an AI-powered tool built by a former Apple engineer that helps you quickly reach inbox zero. It uses AI to show you only what is important and block out irrelevant and spam emails so you can get through your emails more efficiently. 

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