Companion Apps Critique and Raycast Exception

This week, Federico and John kick off their holiday app and automation experimentation season a little earlier than usual with a mix of apps, automations, and services.

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Links and Show Notes

App and Automation Experiments

• Follow Up
  • Claude Skills
• Federico’s Ongoing AI Testing
  • Typing Mind
  • OpenWeb UI
  • Kimi K2 on Groq
  • Kimi K2 Thinking
  • MiniMax M2
    • Ticci article on MS
  • Cerebras integration of GLM 4.6 by Z.ai
• John’s App Experiments
  • Bloom
  • Superhuman
• Federico’s Service Experiments
  • Firecrawl
  • Parallel
  • Exa
  • Pushover
  • Zapier
• John’s Claude Code - Python - Notion Experiments
  • Notion
• Federico’s Drafts and Readwise Reader workflow
  • Drafts
  • Readwise Reader

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