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Fock Ups

Fock Ups lets you add some grit and grime to your otherwise idealistic mock ups.

Why? Well, IRL isn’t always pretty. Design faces real challenges and conditions we should probably consider more.

And also, we have to entertain each other or we’ll $#%!-ing lose it.

Zeacon

It’s tedious keeping the videos on your site up-to-date, configuring them to rank, and then poring over the analytics to understand viewer and visitor behavior.

Zeacon is a content management tool that hosts, organizes, and analyzes interactive and shoppable videos for you. Just install the code snippet on your website, add your videos to the library, and let it go to town.

The AI Marketer automatically optimizes SEO as it learns, collecting real-time data on influencer-driven traffic spikes and syncing with promotions. Basically, it’s always on, learning to attract > engage > and convert.

Lark

Lark is an all-in-one productivity super-app for chat, meetings, docs, and projects.

It can do email, approvals, calendars, video-conferencing, meeting minutes, rooms, webinars, wikis, messenger, and any integration you can think of—so you can streamline your biz workflow without paying for a dozen SaaS tools.

FYI: The starter plan is pretty comprehensive for small teams, too, accommodating up to 50 users.

EverLearns Mindmap Generator

This AI mindmap generator tool helps you visualize and organize complex topics with a few clicks. It’s super helpful in the content creation process, particularly for visual thinkers, but it’s also a great resource if you’re preparing for a presentation of any kind. It’s totally free, too.

Steer

Business is its own language, and not everyone is a native speaker.

Steer is a macOS app that helps you refine and iterate your professional writing in ANY app, so you sound coherent and competent across all comms.

Best part is that Steer matches the tone to whatever app you’re in, so you won’t sound too formal on Slack or too Slack-er on LinkedIn. A cool feature that neurodivergent folks will appreciate, especially.

Cello

Cello helps you accelerate growth by setting up a referral program that seamlessly integrates with your SaaS product.

Just embed the referral experience inside your product to make it frictionless for users to share across channels. Cello integrates with payment providers and handles all the billing and payouts.

All that’s left to do is track your word-of-mouth results.

New Google Chrome Feature for Android Users

FYI: Google Chrome Android users can now transition between native app and web content via Minimized Custom Tabs, which streamline the usually clunky in-app web browsing UX via a compact, picture-in-picture window.

Kino

This is a professional video app for iOS from the team at Lux. It helps you achieve that know-it-when-you-see-it film style by circumnavigating the iPhone’s usual space-saving shortcuts that degrade video quality.

Instant Grade is a one-tap color grading feature that lets you select from high-quality presets or load up your own styles. AutoMotion gives you the best exposure settings for that cinematic motion-blur effect.

It’s intuitive enough to be approachable, but technical enough to hold the attention of videophiles.

timeOS

Nothing like scrambling from one meeting to prep for the next. timeOS is AI-powered New Tab page that briefs you ahead of your meeting with relevant notes, Gmail threads, and LinkedIn info. Just hover over an event to revisit the summary of a past meeting. The customizable AI chatbot joins, records, transcribes, and summarizes your day, like an executive assistant that manages itself.