Put work on autopilot

gm legends, happy Monday.

Here’s today’s lineup: Trace routes work to the right doer, breaks messy flows into steps, runs the repeats, and only pings people when it matters; Walk the World turns your step count into progress on real routes with bankable steps and cheeky passport stamps; Re:Connect lets you type with your eyes using a laptop webcam with quick calibration, dwell to click, and word prediction.

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Trace routes work to the right doer, human or agent. Connect Slack, Jira, and Notion, sketch the flow in plain English, and it turns that into steps with owners, repeats, and smart nudges. One board shows what is running, what is stuck, and who moves next.

🔥 Our Take: Onboarding checklists, bug triage, renewals, weekly reports. You write the rule once and the handoffs happen without you prowling Slack for updates. Fewer drive-by pings, fewer “who owns this” moments, and a clean trail in the tools everyone already uses. Start with the ugliest flow on your team and see if it moves by tomorrow without you poking it. If it does, keep feeding it.

Walk the World turns your daily steps into progress along real routes. Pick a famous trail, watch your dot move across the map, and collect checkpoint photos, passport stamps, and a postcard at the finish. You can bank steps on busy days and spend them later. It syncs with Apple Health so the miles just show up.

🔥 Our Take: Closing rings never motivated me. Watching a route fill in does. Banking steps kills the guilt spiral, and the little stamps add just enough fun to make me take the long way home. If streak apps burn you out, this swaps pressure for steady progress you can actually see.

Re:Connect turns a laptop webcam into eye-controlled typing. No special hardware. Quick calibration, an on-screen keyboard, dwell to click, and word prediction so messages, notes, and emails are doable with a glance. It’s built for people with limited mobility or speech, 

🔥 Our Take: This is the kind of tool that actually changes a life. If the setup is simple and it stays accurate through glasses and bad lighting, it will turn “can you type this for me” into “I’ve got it.” The wow is the demo. The win is independence.

It's the end of May 2025. By this point, I’ve applied to Y Combinator loads of times, but have always gotten the same answer: “No.” So when my co-founder, Akash, and I sign up for the MCP Hackathon, getting into YC is the furthest thing from our minds. We just want to build something we’d actually use, and see what happens.

We call the resultant product Inbox Zero. It’s an AI assistant that can answer emails by voice. I’m stuck in traffic most mornings, and so is Akash, so the idea of clearing our inboxes without touching a screen feels like magic. We record a demo and dent Akash’s car while recording, just minutes before the deadline. Judges love the demo. Then they announce the winner… us. And the prize? A direct YC interview.