# Free Notion and Gamma Alternatives: Top GitHub Repos This Week

Channel: The Next New Thing
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[0:00] Do you hate how AI writing sounds like AI? Well, I've got a solution for you. Do you want to create videos with a single prompt? I've got a repo that'll do that for you. Do you like Notion, Calendly, Gamma Slides, but you don't like how much you have to pay for them? I've got free alternatives for them. All that's coming up because right now we've got the top 10 GitHub repos of the week, plus three special ones that I picked

[0:21] out for you. Let's get started. Presented by Zapier, the AI automation company. All right, Adam, let's go down the list of the top 10 for the week. In fact, up we can start with number one. This is understand anything. Here's the way that these people framed it. They said, "Look, you join a new team, you've got 200,000 lines of code, you've got to try to understand what happened before you even arrived. Nobody made it clear, there isn't even a clear read me file, and you've got to figure it out and take it on." Or, maybe you're like me, you created something 6 months ago, you were super excited about it at

[0:54] the time, and you totally forgot what you made or what the code is in there, and you want to understand it. The idea behind understand anything is this will clarify it and make sense of it so that you understand it and can actually use it. What do you think? Yeah, I think this stuff is really important. Now, you know, I'm I'm seeing this a lot in our organizations, in our portfolio companies, where people are vibe coding up apps, but they're they don't know how to document them well, they don't know how to write down, "Here's how I made the these decisions, here's what it's connected to." And now

[1:24] they're they're successful, they're working, and then other people try to work on them, too, and man, they are stuck. So, having this like automatically created documentation, this map that anybody could understand and click around, like this is the sort of thing that that I think could be game-changer as these vibe coded apps start to become real apps and not just

[1:44] uh little prototypes. Okay, you know what? You're totally right. I'm building things and then I expect other people to take them on, they don't understand what's there, I don't understand what's there. This is what will clarify it. Really good repo. Let's go on to number two for the week. This is the other way around. Now, it's Claude code that doesn't

[2:02] understand everything that's in there. You've got this whole city that you've basically developed, this whole virtual world in your code, and now every time Claude code wants to go and do something, it has to go and run through the whole neighborhood and the whole world to understand it. This gives it a map, so it takes fewer calls, and as a result, it wastes fewer tokens, and it becomes a lot easier to for Claude code for Code acts for all these services to

[2:26] work with your code. Yeah, I I think the you know, we always talk about fewer tokens, and some people are paying per token, but most people aren't. We're using our subscriptions to pay per tokens, and so it doesn't it doesn't seem like it should matter, but Andrew, I want to remind you that the LLMs all have a dumb zone. And you say, "Opus 4.7 has a a 1 million context a 1 million token context window. I should use the whole thing." Well, after about a 100,000 tokens, it gets dumber fast. And so, yeah, if you're using that whole window, then then you have a problem. Like, I'll

[3:02] I'll tell you yesterday, I I tried to do a new task in a project, and Claude burned 190,000 tokens just trying to understand the code base, the database, and everything that was connected to it. And and that was one of the things where man, I I got to start using some of these graph tools because I'm I'm putting Claude in the dumb zone before

[3:22] it's gotten to do any work. I see, so it's not just about saving tokens, it's about making it smarter, so that you can, as you keep working with it, get the best out of it. All right. There's no smarter token than the very first token that Claude sends you. Okay, let's go on to the third one, and

[3:38] that is AI engineering from scratch. This is a course by a very opinionated course creator. Here he is on X. He says, "Look, AI education is moving from watch videos to ship artifacts." I'm totally with him on that. That's why I built AI engineering from scratch. I've got 406 416 plus lessons, 20 phases,

[3:59] every lesson outputs something reusable. You get prompts, you get skills, you get agents, you get MCP servers. That's what he built. Here it is. I love his vision. I don't know that this is really for me or I don't know. What do you think of this? Yeah, I mean we we spent a little time looking through the actual phases and a bunch of the lessons and I'm not sure who it's for either. The they're pretty technical pretty quickly and and it's very technical thing to do. In order to interact with this you open these folders, you go and look at these, you know, the English.md markdown file. Then

[4:36] you have to figure out how to run the code that's paired with each lesson. So it's like they're technical lessons for technical people, but in general a lot of technical people know a lot of these concepts or they have other ways that they would already prefer to learn them. So I don't quite understand. You know, I I actually I'm still one of the people that wants to watch tutorials. I want to hear someone talk through it because I appreciate you know, getting to hear it, getting to see it and then I want to do it. You know, what I would love actually is what if there was a video for each

[5:06] one of these? Right. Cuz now I get to watch it, I get to listen to it and sure I I get to interact with it too. You know, let's let's let's bridge the gap. I think this one is maybe too far down the spectrum and what what would the YouTube plus this combination look like? I do That's what's going to get me real

[5:22] excited. But I I do like that he built it. I wonder though how did he create all these lessons? Did he really do it? Is this like vibe coded lessons? What's what's in here? Anyway, um but I appreciate his vision on it. And now Zapier MCP, everybody knows how much I love Zapier MCP. Here's the Here's the beauty of this. I grill people in private because they're my sponsor. I want to make sure am I really supporting somebody that we are all using or am I looking like an idiot here? And I just talked to a founder and I asked him, "How are you using

[5:52] this?" I don't need to hide his name. It's the It's the founder of Grain. And I said, "How are you using this?" And he goes, "Listen, I use all these different tools. I basically don't want to have to keep out re-authenticating and keep bringing in all my API keys and everything." He's basically he's got a toolbox and he comes into this tool and he's got it there. And then when he shifts to something else, he's got another toolbox. And in the toolboxes Gmail, Google Calendar, Asana. He uses actually doesn't use Asana, he uses Linear. Nobody uses

[6:13] Asana anymore, it seems. And he just brings it in and it's all there and he can say, "I want you to have this permission but not that permission. You can read my email but not send my email. You can draft an email for me but not send it." A lot of my friends, by the way, are actually having AI drafted email. I need to do I do have that more. I now set that up this week. All right, next. That's Zapier MCP. If you're not using it, you've got to. Thousands of apps, full

[6:37] protection. Okay, I love this one as a video creator. Here's the problem that I run into. I often need to pull YouTube videos for lots of different reasons. Sometimes because I want to clip them and put them in my own videos. Sometimes because I want to show them to somebody on the team and I need to clip them out. Sometimes there's something on X that I want to just send out in a different format without sending a link to X. So, I go to these websites that will let me download and you've seen this, Adam. We all use them. A few things happen. One is you pick a favorite site and it's

[7:04] just done. Somebody has taken the site down and you can't use it. The next thing is it will either try to get you to download porn or try to get you to download malware. And they do it with this weird ad that says download here and only if you look underneath it you realize it's an ad. The thing about this is this is a tool that's just drop dead simple. Connect it in, download what you need, move on, and connect it into your workflows. That's the other thing that we don't get from those websites. You

[7:31] can't connect it into your workflow. This you can. What do you think? Yeah, I love the the CLI nature here cuz like I I actually have built kind of a a one of these. I I I had seen this one before I spent all that effort uh because I needed one of my agents to be able to scrape out YouTube and to get uh you know, YouTube has these like auto transcriptions that are attached to videos and I had to build this whole workflow in pipeline that could pull that in so my agent could use them. Oh man, I wish I had seen this first and I

[8:01] I could have just uh you know, I probably could have saved 3 hours of work. And this is appreciate Andrew like the the the battle here, YouTube is constantly battling these these scrapers, these bots and so I don't want to own that part of the battle. I would much rather the the supporters and contributors of uh YTDLP are are Oh yeah, YouTube figured this out. Now let's fix this and you we could get around the bot detection here like I want them to own that and I just want my transcripts,

[8:30] please. Really popular. 166,000 stars, 14,000 forks. Totally understand it. Um All right. Next up. Uh oh, by the way, I should say these are these three are are honorable mentions. They didn't make it into the top 10 list this week, but they are worth looking at. So number two of three honorable mentions is Appy Flow. Here's a problem that I have. I love Notion. I really do. Everything's organized, everything makes sense in there. The problem I have with Notion is they're getting so heavy into AI that they're

[9:01] pushing AI everywhere. You want to ask I just want to search. The AI button the AI bar is bigger than the little search bar. I just want to do something and they keep saying do you want the agent to do it for you? No, I don't. I want to do it myself. And part of the problem is that I have a big team using this and I don't want to sign up for AI for everybody on the team and then add agents for everyone on the

[9:22] team. What Appy What App Flowy has done is they've basically created a simplified Notion. As you could see here, everything is easy to use. It makes sense. Use it for yourself, use it for your team and I like how popular it is because it's it's just a useful useful tool. 71,000 stars, 5,000 forks.

[9:43] All right. Yeah, the one thing I'll say Andrew on these these notion type interfaces is they're really simple. It's just a document with a bunch of blocks in it. And the blocks can be in whatever order, in whatever way. And this is the perfect interface for documents and AI. Mhm. You know, you might have started to see the trend lately of don't use AI to

[10:03] write markdown, use AI to write HTML. These blocks are kind of halfway in between markdown and HTML where the the AI doesn't have to spend all its time thinking about the visuals cuz AppFlowy just provides that as the template, as the style. But, it can do something richer. It can do something Look at this beautiful to-do list and you saw a Kanban board earlier. Like, those are all features that are built in. And it gives the AI that supercharged power of the detail of HTML without having to spend all of its tokens and all of its time writing HTML. So, I love this block and block like method. And it doesn't

[10:38] surprise me that someone could kind of upset notion here because it's such a simple model and it's perfect for AI. All right. And finally, in the honorable mentions before we go back to our top 10 list is a Calendly alternative. I really like Calendly. I think it's a great service. I like all these little tools. The thing that I that I struggle with is

[10:57] they force me into their structure. Like, can I have follow-up messages? Yes, but only the ones that they have. Can I have this on my site? Maybe, only if they allow it. What the cal.com team did by open open-sourcing their software is they said, "Look, we figured out what works best for us. You can use it for free if you want to host it for yourself, but you can also edit and change it." And a few weeks ago, they actually said, "We're not going to continue to participate in this." I think. And what they said was they were worried about having all their um I guess their source code being public

[11:31] with what's going on lately with potential attacks. Having said that, the community around this is so big, people are using this. I've interacted with this as somebody trying to book a meeting with someone. It It works well. This is such easy software. I cannot believe how much Calendly is making considering how easy this whole this

[11:47] whole setup is. Right? Yeah, for a new founder entrepreneur, I mean, this would be the tool. It's free. You can customize it to your heart's content without having to pay them for the $3 upcharge here and the $12 upcharge there. Like, this is This is absolutely the way someone should start off. So good. The worst was I was using someone else's software as a just trying to book a meeting with a with a a partner. And I said, "Do you want to overlay your calendar on top?" I said, "Sure." They took me through a sign-up flow, Adam, that was 20 pages deep, and I finally And every step I said, "Okay,

[12:20] I'm invested a little bit, so I might as well go. I can't keep going." And then I finally just gave up on it. So frustrating. I get it. All right, back to our top 10 list. Number four on the list is knowledge work plugins. A few weeks ago you and I talked about how Anthropic basically turned lawyers into skills. They turned uh finance into skills. This is them coming for the rest of your organization, but I don't think they're replacing the organization. I think in this case what they're doing is they are helping your team. So, let's take a look at sales, for example. This is one that I that I

[12:54] know really well. When you are in sales, before you get into a meeting with somebody, what you want to do is have like a a meeting prep. And so sometimes you go and do it manually. A lot of us are creating our own skills to do it. Say, "I want you to pull data out of LinkedIn. I want you to pull data out of my CRM." That kind of thing. Go Google it. What Anthropic has done is they've said, "We are going to create the best version that we can of this, and we're going to make this work for you really well out of the box. Like,

[13:22] just give us a company name and contact and the type of meeting you're having, and we'll make it work well. If you also connect it to other tools like your CRM, your email, etc., we will give you even more superpowers. And what we'll give you as an output is this kind of thing. Here's like a prep doc. And all of these

[13:39] skills are like that. What do you think of this? Yeah, the I mean, the plugin system here, Andrew, I think it's it's really underutilized. Uh what what you might not realize is if you have your whole team on Claude and your on this team account, you as the administrator can actually go in and force every one of your accounts, every one of your team members to install these plugins by default. And you can customize them. So, if if you're running a sales team, you know, I would look at this this plugin and say, "Well, I could change these prompts a little bit. I want to make

[14:14] sure it's connected to the data that we want it connected to. And oh, here's our flows and our SOP." And then with three or four button clicks in the Claude dashboard, now that's installed in the agents of every one of your sales team. And I don't know why more people aren't doing that. I don't know why more people aren't building these. I don't know why more people aren't using these. Uh it's

[14:34] it's really really uh underutilized. That's what we're doing as a team here at The Next New Thing. We are now starting to share skills so that if I'm doing something like last night I was working and improving a skill, everyone else on the team needs to have it. I'm never using these skills out of the box the way they are. I actually really keep hearing your voice in my head, Adam, when I say,

[14:55] "I'm not using their skill summary." It's not that I'm afraid that they're going to add stuff to it. I just want to get a sense of what's in here. I can clearly read this and understand it. What do I want from this? I'll go and tell Claude add it to my skill. That's the way that I that I plan to interact with this. I don't I don't need all this

[15:10] nonsense. Yeah. It's helpful. I like that they've got all these here and they're coming in and supporting the whole rest of the organization. Next. Look at the name on this one. It's called money printer turbo and what it does is it takes your text and it creates a faceless video for you. This is the repo here. I'm laughing because by the way, look at me. I now you've taught me Adam to switch directly to

[15:42] English and where the English link is. I'm like becoming a a GitHub like experienced user here. I will say this this stuff is pretty much all junk here. This is this is one user. I like I I watched honesty, Andrew. Yeah, I didn't even give you a chance to give your opinion. Here's I and I and I don't know. We should talk

[16:02] about whether it matters that it's junk. This is a user I watched him. We'll have a link to this in our in our description. He used it and he goes, "And 15 minutes later, I get this." And here's the video. Let's watch it together. a video here and then let's watch that. Motivation is the driving force behind our actions and

[16:22] aspirations. It propels us to overcome obstacles and pursue our dreams even in the face of challenge. Okay, this is like a dancing elephant. It's not like you really need to watch this. It's just hey, the elephant can dance. So, it's not like I really need these AI generated videos in my life, but it's cool that you can do it. Uh here, this is some of the settings. This is another user who ended up with another piece of nonsense on on AI is it or maybe Yeah, it's another person same same screen afterwards. Here's his

[16:53] result. video and this is let's play that and see. Generating everything that we needed. video. We will discuss the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle. What is this? The chopstick of I don't know what that is. I like what what is this? of a s'more and like an oyster. Right. In a chopstick over a cup. It's just It's horrible. Now, here's here's what I would say though. I wonder how much it matters Adam because my the the short that I was not super proud of, but I said to the editor, go ahead and post

[17:29] it, got over 100,000 views on Instagram. Then I said maybe some random thing happened to it. It's one of these repo uh clips. I said maybe some random thing happened. Another person on the team reposted it on Instagram. It's getting more than 100,000 views. So, maybe I'm being too precious, and maybe we do need to just flood the zone, put these videos out there, and keep improving as the technology improves. What do you think

[17:53] of MoneyPrinter Turbo? You know, Andrew, I think a lot of people are doing AI-generated videos, and they're using the kind of off-the-shelf tools to do them. And those videos, they look more polished out of the gate. They're better than the stuff that we just saw with less work. But, those tools aren't sophisticated enough to actually make those videos good. What I like about these more in-depth, kind of a little bit slower processes. Look at how many little knobs and fiddles and you could change this part of the prompt. Now, if you have a real business, you're trying to sell a real product, these are the kinds of

[18:27] tools where you can spend the time to actually say, "Well, yeah, let me try five versions of this and post them all and see which one works." And yeah, some of them aren't going to be good, but right now you're not posting anything. So, get out there, like try some of these. Use genuinely good, interesting content. I mean, I think part of the problem here is that these are a little bit contrived of examples. And so then yeah, the output is is not that interesting. But, if you have an interesting business and an interesting product, instead of going to the off-the-shelf video generation tools, I'd be spending more time in one of

[19:01] these where I did get to fiddle and experiment, and I bet you could get to a higher quality than you could with with something, you know, like Sora. And you do get to pick the models that you use. It keeps improving. You keep improving how you're using it. All right, fair point. That's MoneyPrinterTurbo, and I've got all these videos linked up below so that you

[19:20] can grab them in the report. Okay, presentation. Gamma. Took the world by storm because they said, "Look, you shouldn't start with an empty slide. Start to put your header, your design, or even even work with a template and start to fill in the gap. Just talk through what you have. In fact, don't even talk through. Give me what you already have. A Google Doc, a transcript from a meeting, whatever you got, just paste it in and we'll create slides for you." Now, Google to some degree is trying to catch up, but they haven't. Gamma still is in the lead, and now here comes presentation by presentation

[19:52] with a GitHub repo that does all of that for you, and here's what the slides look like. What do you think of this, Adam? For free. I mean, you know, Andrew, you're talking to a loyal Gamma user. I I was in the beta, you know, I paid and paid. I loved the service, and I canceled it 2 months

[20:11] ago. Do you know why I canceled it? I canceled it because I could make pretty good slides with just Claude now. Right. But you know what? I don't I kind of miss the interface. I kind of miss having a nice Gamma-like, "Here's the slides." Like, you know, some You need to give me the user interface. You need to give me the buttons. I want to see a bunch of templates, and Claude doesn't make that easy, and I don't want to rebuild Gamma from scratch. Ooh. Now you're telling me I could have free Gamma that like has all these beautiful templates built in, that has some

[20:42] integrations. Uh I think I'm pretty interested in that. All right, fair point. You're right. I do use um Claude to create slides. In fact, this is made in Claude. We're looking at it right now. That's right. I mean, maybe this presentation tool would would make what you're doing here even more repeatable. You could build your own templates. I'd be curious

[21:02] if we tried that. I do like this kind of setup over here as as you can see it. And what I also miss about using Gamma and Google Slides and everything else is being able to just edit the slide itself. If I want to make a single change, Adam, it recreates the whole thing. It drives me crazy to do that. And so That's right. And it takes forever and

[21:21] it breaks something else in the process. Like there's there's real logic to having a tool that helps manage a lot of that. I mean, look at how seamless this is compared to asking Claude to make the slides. You know, just because Claude can make them and they're pretty doesn't mean that it should be the only game in

[21:36] town. Okay, fair point. It's available for free presentation. Now I understand why people like it. Uh again, as I keep saying, full report below. People have been downloading it. Thousands of people download these reports. So, I'm glad to see that it's there for you and we'll have all everything in for you. All right. I think the best way to describe this repo is by seeing it in action. When we see AI slop in text, we all recognize it. Like this. Here's the thing. I'm

[22:01] going to read this. Here's the thing. Building great products is hard. It turns out that most teams struggle with alignment, communication, execution. Not because they lack talent, because they lack clarity. So, this thing's it has these little telltale's additions. Yeah. What this repo does is it's actually it's just a a skill that says, "I'm going to catch all these and I'm going to isolate them so that your writing doesn't look like AI even if AI created it for you." I I think

[22:29] this is very positive. I like this one. What do you think? I love it. Absolutely. No, you know, full stop. it. Full stop. I I even like look at this. Chris Brillo. Uh this old blogger has added to it and he goes, "Look, AI wrote this. You could tell because every paragraph." So, basically, he started adding in addition to what was there already. He started saying, "You know, I don't just want to catch specific words. I want to also start catching these rhythms." And he's adding it into it. And I think more and more people can start to identify what feels like slop and adding it into uh

[23:02] into the skill. Very, very positive. Number seven for the week. Number eight is one that we had seen before. Um how would you set up Ruuvi? How would you explain this? it's kind of a magical little device, right Andrew? It's It's like this idea that that there's a sensor already in your room that you can use to monitor presence, to monitor heart rate, to monitor is someone breathing faster or slower. Like if I said to you Andrew, I've I've already installed one of these and it's in your office right now, you

[23:36] wouldn't believe me, would you? I would be creeped out and still it is in here because it what this Ruuvi uses is your Wi-Fi router to tell, like Adam said, if there's someone breathing in the room, if there's a heartbeat and it So there's a there's a big issue here. People are just arguing about this all over. There are Reddit links that I was going to include here, but they're not substantive. There are people on Reddit who say I'm going to try this out and come back and report back who never come back and report. Um so I've got a couple of um

[24:08] issues on GitHub to talk about here. This is from someone who says, "No, this is not fake." By the way, that's not good writing. "No, this is not fake. Yes, it actually worked works. Read the docs." And so people are saying, "Look, this works." And at the same time others are saying, "I haven't really seen it. This is just marketing. I don't really believe this is this does what it says it what it supposed to do. What do you think about

[24:31] this? Well, honestly Andrew, it's it's not the science is real. That's not up for debate. Like we use devices like this. We can monitor breathing by looking at at how wireless signals change over time and heart rate and all of that stuff. The question is could I use the random Wi-Fi router that's in my office to monitor that? And they even call it out here, which is that not every consumer router has the has the sensitivity and has the data exposed that would allow you to do this. But, what what I actually think there's a there's a bigger story here cuz I don't care that my that my router could or couldn't

[25:10] monitor my breathing. What I actually care about here is people are starting to use AI to bridge this gap between what's on your screen, what's on your computer or phone, and what's happening in real life. You know, we're already seeing that a lot with voice. Like, I type to humans, but I talk to AI, and AI talks back to me. And that's a much better way to interact with this software. Well, I love this. I love buttons that do things. I I want to use the technology we have around us and use AI to say, "Well, now we can get some new richness out of it that that we couldn't ever

[25:45] have before." I want to dissolve the interface between, you know, this screen. I don't like that you're two-dimensional right now. So, I think I think more people should look at this with kind of creativity and curiosity rather than "Will this work on my router? And what would I use this for?" Cuz almost nobody has a a real use case for this. Uh but, just take it as a take it as an exciting thing. And what could you build if your router could do things like that? What could you build with your screen if you could modulate your screen really quickly? And there's there's more uh

[26:18] there's more creativity to be had here. I do like looking at your LinkedIn when you post what you've done with a real-world device using some code that you created. Fair. All right. Anthropic cybersecurity skills. When I use Lovable, which is how you introduced me to a vibe coding, one of the things that I like about it is it will tell me there's a security problem with what you're doing, potentially. Do you want to look at it? Do you want to fix it? When I go to Claude code and I create something, there's nothing like that. I just hit publish, and we're good to go. Did I put my API keys publicly

[26:52] and anyone can use it? I did. Do I put some private information accidentally? Yes, it happens. And so, what this does is it says, "I'm going to catch it. Also, if there is a problem, if there is a cybersecurity issue, and it's gone out into the world, I'm going to help you identify and and resolve it." And it's not from Anthropic, despite the name that despite having Anthropic in the name of the repo, it's it's still really

[27:19] popular, 11,000 stars, and it's growing. What do you think of this? Yeah, I mean, if you're a vibe builder, but you don't have the engineering background, or honestly, even if even if you do, go and go and take your biggest project. You know, this is the homework after the call today. Go and take your your biggest project, run this on it, and see what it says. See See if it gives you some recommendations. See if it finds some vulnerabilities. My guess is that it will. Almost everything has some vulnerabilities. The problem is, you're

[27:50] not always going to remember to do that. And this makes it really easy. Now, you take this, there's a bunch of skills, it's all in this one package. There's two ways that you can or three ways. One is you could you could write this or run this on your on your project. But, I would set this up in Claude. You can set up a recurring command to run, you know, these automated skills that that can

[28:14] run. You can do this in Claude Desktop. You could do this on the on the cloud version. And I would set this up to just run once a week. That way, if you're forgetting to run it, if you don't run it before you deploy, it's going to run once a week, and it's going to give you the output of this and say, "Hey, you should look out for this. Look out for this." The other thing is, if you're using something like GitHub to commit your code up and so that it deploys to Railway or Vercel or wherever, there's a

[28:39] thing called a pre-commit hook. What will happen is on your computer, when you try to commit or when you try to push a pre-push hook in Git, it will say, "Well, I've got to run this script first." And it'll run this script, and you can actually set it up so that if this finds vulnerabilities, it will fail the commit. It will not let you commit until you've run this, and it'll do it automatically. You don't have to remember to do it, but it'll run it automatically. And And if it finds something, it won't it won't commit it for you, and you have the opportunity to either fix it or if you're in a hurry

[29:13] and, you know, you like to live dangerously, you can push it through anyway. I had no idea I could do that. Wow. All right. Yeah. Final one. Cursor plugins in my friend group circle, Cursor is becoming more popular. I think it's getting a lot of credibility because essentially Elon Musk bought it even though it hasn't

[29:31] fully gone through yet. Um here is their launch video. They're adding uh Figma in this example. Add the Figma plugin. Add it for myself, not to the project in this case. Here we go. MCP servers, tools, usage. And now they've got the plugin. Super easy to add in here. That's They've got Notion uh in this demo. Of course, Slack in the

[29:59] demo and so many so many others. Um I also want to show one other example of it. Here is Webflow on their YouTube channel. They talked about how they They showed how to install it, and now here's an example of how you would use it. Um so they're in Cursor, and he's just typing in,

[30:19] "Tell me what sites I have." And then it's checking, and it's saying, "Okay, you've got Raymond's fantabulous site. You've got Raymond's one-pager. You've got Raymond's cool site." Raymond really likes Raymond. I'm sure it's his demo sites. WP import test and scratch site. Um really helpful it how it brings these other tools into Cursor. What do you think of this? What do you think of

[30:41] Cursor? Yeah, I mean I said it before. Like I think the plug-in ecosystem in Claude is is one of the most powerful and underappreciated parts of it. And now Cursor can do that same thing. And you can use all these plug-ins. And to remind you, Andrew, a plug-in isn't all that special. It's a bunch of skills. It's a bunch of like Claude skills or you know, agent skills along with predefined MCP connectors along with workflows or sub agents. So these are

[31:10] all things you could build individually. You could connect with Webflow with MCP. You could have done that 3 months ago. But the plug-in says, "Well, I'm not just going to connect the data of Webflow. I want to have some processes, some workflows. And I'm going to have some skills of here's the right way to deploy and here's the right way to use this." And now they packaged all that into one thing that you can use as a tool. And that's why they're so powerful is because all these little tools we're all building on the side, they're a lot more powerful when you when you turn them into this like coherent plug-in. So

[31:43] that's that's what we're looking at in both of these platforms. And they make it so much easier to follow, for example, all these security practices. Oh, you have 200 skills to check for security? Well, you're going to need a plug-in or something to help orchestrate how do you run those? How do you use those? So I I love this. And I love that you can build your own. Uh they have a pretty good SDK and a little ecosystem here. Uh you can duplicate a bunch of these pre-built ones and and build your

[32:09] own. Uh it's awesome. Do you like Cursor? I do like Cursor. I've actually been using it more lately, too. Partially because Claude has gotten more expensive. As the rate limits have come down, as they've gotten more aggressive about controlling the other ways you can use it, I've been using Codex more, I've been using Cursor more, and I've been

[32:28] using Claude a lot less. Wow. All right. Now that we are done with this week's top 10 and three bonus ones, I've got another collection of GitHub repos that you need to see right here. Click the link, go over, and we're finding out of that at least, what is it? 7% of people who watched this far are going to click over to the next one. So, see you on the next

[32:47] one.

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