Design focused learning

gm legends! Welcome back to the Leaderboard. In today's issue: a tool that lets you blog via WhatsApp, a refreshed take on language learning, and a tool that marries AI and human ability when it comes to networking. Let's dive in.

Writerry: A tool that lets you blog directly from WhatsApp

Since setting up my first blog in 2004 as a Club Penguin nerd (yes, I had opinions on igloo designs), I’ve been hooked on tools that make publishing easier. Writerry might take the cake—it’s so simple it’s almost ridiculous. Just text your thoughts into WhatsApp, and it turns them into a blog post, handling SEO, formatting, and publishing for you. It’s peak no-effort blogging, but I do wonder about scalability—can it handle high-volume bloggers or more complex needs like images? Either way, for busy pros or anyone who breaks into a sweat logging into WordPress, this feels like the easiest way to get your thoughts out there.

Kann: An app to help you master Japanese vocab.

Education apps are all really good at getting ton of learning content jammed inside them but often fail at making the experience feel a bit less, school-like. Kann does something that I wish more learning apps did, a design-first approach. It uses Swift's natural UI gift and pairs it with educational content to make the app fell pretty, magical, all while learning. The only thing it can't do is force me to practice, not even an angry green owl can do that.

Socap.ai: An AI networking copilot for entrepreneurs

In a world full of AI tools that try to do the networking for you (mainly by sending awful cold emails), it’s nice to see Socap in a different lane. The concept is simple: You connect your email/LinkedIn and Socap populates a searchable, shareable list of your network. In other words, the AI does what it’s good at (quickly analyze large troves of data) and you do what you’re good at (seem human when contacting humans). My only hesitation here is data protection — do I have to let an LLM scrape my entire personal inbox to get the full benefit?