🐤 Product Nuggets #1 — back by popular demand

Jacob's top 5 product tweets from the past week

Sep 30, 2022

Huge thank you to everyone who voted in the poll last week 🙏

It was overwhelmingly positive so, for now, I plan on sending out Product Nuggets each Friday. If you missed the first one, you can find it here.

🐤 Nug #1 — Natural language gets super powers

The world of web scrapers and other tools that automate repetitive online tasks have existed for a while. But Adept takes it to the next level. With current tools, it requires meticulous set up, defining parameters and click targets. Now, ACT-1 can interpret natural language requests and execute on them.

The future’s about to get crazy.

Adept @AdeptAILabs

1/7 We built a new model! It’s called Action Transformer (ACT-1) and we taught it to use a bunch of software tools. In this first video, the user simply types a high-level request and ACT-1 does the rest. Read on to see more examples ⬇️

Since we’re on the topic of AI, I’m throwing this thread in here as a bonus:

GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg

How dead celebrities would look today with artificial intelligence I can't stop staring at these... Don't tell me AI isn't going to change the world:

🐤 Nug #2 — AR isn’t just for kicks

Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar

The shoe on this desk is not real, it is augmented reality (AR). The future of digital marketing and e-commerce will be powered by AR.

🐤 Nug #3 — TikTok is ripping off BeReal

We’ve seen social media platforms rip each other off for the last 15 years, but here’s why this one is interesting. BeReal is optimized for spending LESS time on social media (read my full analysis on BeReal). TikTok builds the exact same feature, except they’re optimizing for getting you back in the app for the hundredth time today.

Same feature. Very different intent.

Chris Messina @chrismessina

TikTok BeReal Now so unreal.

🐤 Nug #4 — Slack wants to play

As I mentioned last week, Canva just started playing in the “docs” sandbox with the big kids, Microsoft Word and Google Docs. Off in the corner is Dropbox Paper, playing by themselves. Now there’s a new kid on the block: Slack Canvas.

Where as Canva brings a bit of design spice to docs, I’m curious to see how Slack Canvas will differentiate themselves.