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Zoom Ahead

Zoom would like to drop its positive albeit outdated pandemic associations now.

The brand tapped Colin Jost’s agency No Notes and SNL darling Bowen Yang for a new campaign, “I Use Zoom!”

Yang plays an overzealous IT manager who champions a clunkier platform only for employees to rise up and declare their allegiance to Zoom.

The 30-second hero spot is part of a larger push spanning podcasts, influencers, TV (including a national College Football Playoff buy), and even a regional Super Bowl pre-show placement.

Shopify Product Network

Shopify just launched a free tool that helps you quickly expand your storefront with an “instant catalog” of products.

It’s designed to increase conversions and it uses data from hundreds of millions of buyers to surface personalized product recommendations directly in your Shopify admin.

You can then place these products across your store, from on-site placements to thank-you pages, and earn either cash commissions or ad credits when a customer buys through you.

Posted

Posted is a creator-powered engine that lets creators compete to make your most viral content. You only pay for what actually wins.

Launch a contest or deal, upload a simple brief, and outline the rules. From there, creators self-select, produce content tailored to your brand, and post organically on their own channels.

You get instant audience testing, real engagement signals, and fresh concepts surfaced by competition. And you own the winning content to use as you please.

Cal ID

Cal ID is a free-forever, cloud‑based scheduling platform for appointments, meetings, and calendar coordination.

It offers unlimited event types and booking links without premium tiers, and it syncs with Google Calendar, Outlook, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, etc.

There’s also payment integration support.

Eureka

Eureka is a “visual knowledge exploration platform.” What’s that you ask?

It turns any book, article, or topic into a visual knowledge map and network of nodes and ideas you can jump between and zoom into. In case you’re not exactly a linear thinker.

You can also generate articles or scripts directly from the knowledge graph, use interactive tools on the canvas, and navigate a topic in patterns instead of paragraphs.

GanttTool

GanttTool is a free project-management browser tool that helps you build professional Gantt charts without subscriptions, limits, or logins.

It has smart dependency detection, drag-and-drop task reordering, resource allocation, custom colors and styling, notes, hyperlinks, and flexible scheduling by date, offset, or relationship. You can export your work as SVG, PNG, or raw PlantUML code, making it easy to share or embed diagrams anywhere.

ZapDigits

ZapDigits is a lightweight tool to help you build client-ready marketing dashboards without the bloat.

Connect your existing tools (Stripe, Supabase, GitHub, YouTube, and more), and the platform automatically builds a personalized dashboard.

Customize with the no-code builder; drag, drop, and arrange your metrics; select from pre-built widgets; and get daily insights by email to keep on track.

Rephrase

Rephrase lives natively on MacOS and works inside Slack, Notion, Mail, Discord, etc. to help you clean up sentences, rewrite messages, and fix messy notes.

Just highlight text, hit your custom hotkey, and tighten up your prose without switched tabs or contexts. Instantly format lists, shift tone, translate, summarize, or create your own custom prompts for any task.

In “Lazy Mode,” type lowercase, shorthand, or half-formed thoughts and Rephrase will turn it into polished writing.