AI that starts the convo

gm legends, happy Friday.

Here’s today’s lineup: ChatGPT Pulse wants to own your mornings with a daily digest that pulls from your apps, inbox, and calendar into neat little cards; textbehindvideo.io lets creators slip styled text behind their videos so captions look cinematic instead of slapped on; Pieter drags you back to the Windows 3.11 era with a working dial-up simulator and chunky retro UI.

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ChatGPT Pulse rolls out a daily briefing that pulls from your apps, calendar, and inbox. It spits out cards with what it thinks you should care about before you even start scrolling.

🔥 Our Take: This is OpenAI sliding into your mornings. Instead of doomscrolling or inbox roulette, you’re getting a feed curated by the bot. It could feel like a lifesaver, or it could feel like waking up to a bossy roommate who thinks they know your priorities better than you.

Nika asks: how do you build relationships with influencers when you want to promote your product?

She points out that cold pitches usually flop, and shared her own rules from working both sides: be upfront if it’s paid, give influencers what they need like tutorials or trials, set expectations clearly, and track results.

Others in the thread echoed that it’s less about transactions and more about trust, start engaging with their work before you ask for anything so you’re not just another DM sliding in cold.

textbehindvideo lets you drop text behind your video instead of slapping it on top. Fonts, motion, and placement are all tweakable, so the words feel like part of the shot instead of stickers from a template. Think movie trailer vibes without the editing headache.

🔥 Our Take: We’ve all seen the same video format a thousand times: shaky clip, bold white font sitting front and center like it owns the place. It works, but it’s boring. This tool finally gives text some range. It can sit in the background, add depth, and actually look like design instead of an afterthought. 

Pieter brings back the Windows 3.11 era with a working dial-up simulator, chunky retro UI, and the clunky charm of computers that sounded like they were gasping for air. It’s less a productivity tool and more a time machine for anyone who misses waiting two minutes just to get online.

🔥 Our Take:  Nobody asked for this, but everyone who lived through it kind of wanted it. Pieter taps straight into the weird comfort of bad pixels and worse internet speeds. It’s not useful, it’s not efficient, but that’s the point,  a reminder that computing used to feel messy, personal, and full of character instead of sanitized by endless SaaS dashboards.