Category: Startups
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Paperclip (Product Review)
My summary of Paperclip before using it – Before trying Paperclip, I had a rough idea of what to expect: an agentic platform for business tasks, probably something like a smarter to-do list with AI running the items. I was partially right, but the reality is more interesting than that. How does Paperclip explain itself in…
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Eventual / Daft (Product Review)
My summary of Eventual before using it – Eventual is a multimodal data processing platform designed to power AI-based products and features. How does Eventual explain itself in the first minute? “Revolutionising the way you work with data” is the main strapline on Eventual’s website, and the short explainer video wastes no time making the case.…
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Gumloop (Product Review)
My summary of Gumloop before using it – A workflow automation tool similar to tools like UiPath, Cassidy AI, Zapier and n8n. How does Gumloop work? I started with a simple workflow to understand Gumloop’s core building blocks: YouTube to blog post I chose the simplest task I could think of: converting a YouTube video…
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Why 99% of AI startups will be dead by 2026 (according to Srinivas Rao)
Bold prediction: 99% of AI startups will be dead by 2026. That’s according to Srinivas Rao, host of the Unmistakable Creative podcast, in his recent Medium article. His reasoning? Most AI startups are building on shaky foundations that won’t survive because their product and underlying technology aren’t defensible enough. Let me share how Rao has…
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Synthesia (Product Review)
My summary of Synthesia before using it – Using generative AI to convert text or voice into video, similar to tools like Captions and Veed. How does Synthesia explain itself in the first minute? “Turn text to video, in minutes.” So Synthesia isn’t converting voice (yet), but will use text to “create studio-quality videos with…
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