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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.

On AppStories+, Federico and John look ahead, considering the future of Shortcuts and automation.


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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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