Listen to your emails

Happy Friday! I hope your week has been everything you hoped it would be. In today’s digest, I’m covering a new launch from Beehiiv that will make consuming newsletters easier. But first…

The headlines: 

🧵 Meta’s Threads has officially passed 200 million active users.

💻 Intel is laying off 15,000 staff and will stop ‘non-essential work.’

🤖 Microsoft now lists OpenAI as a competitor in AI and search.

How many newsletters do you subscribe to? How many of them do you actually read? If you’re anything like me, you’re probably familiar with the Gmail storage warning, and there’s a good chance that at least 50% of it is due to unopened newsletters. 

People are busy, and reading newsletters isn’t always practical. You could be focused on work, commuting, and spending time with family. That’s why Beehiiv, the newsletter platform founded by early Morning Brew employees, has launched Audio Newsletters. 

For writers: Once you’ve finished your piece, you can navigate to the email settings tab and enable audio transcription with the press of a button. From there, you can pick from twelve different human-like voices to narrate your newsletter. 

For readers: When you receive a newsletter, you’ll notice a new audio player sitting at the top of the email. All you have to do is click play and start listening to the newsletter. You can focus on whatever other tasks you have while digesting that newsletter you promised yourself you would read. 

Alongside audio newsletters, Beehiiv also announced some other features designed to improve the newsletter experience for writers, such as click maps, which are a visual representation of what your readers are clicking on so you can see what’s working and what’s not. 

MAKER TOOLS 

FeatureYard is a free app that lets you create a suggestion page to gather user feedback and feature ideas. Enhance your project with insights directly from your users.

Wordware is an IDE that allows you to build custom AI agents and complex apps with natural language instead of code. 

AI TOOLS 

Choosy Cat is an AI chat client that takes your prompt and pulls in answers from all of the major LLMs. From there, the most accurate and appropriate answer will be chosen.

HomeGardenAI is an AI-powered tool that helps you with all of your gardening needs. You can diagnose plant diseases, get personalized care recommendations, and more.

FUN TOOLS 

1 in 1 million is an online rock paper scissors game that challenges you to win thirteen times in a row. Which is a one-in-a-million chance, by the way.

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