Free: STOP Amazon knockoffs, vibecode apps, OpenAI replacement & more!

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0:00I bought this knockoff battery off Amazon. It doesn't work anymore and the company behind it is gone. Well, today I've got a Chrome plugin that will solve that for you by eliminating knockoffs from Amazon. Use dictation apps to talk to your computer and have it type out. Well, I've got a dictation app that has brains, not just typing out what you say. I've got a brand new search engine that instead of giving you search results, will actually generate an app for you. That and so many more of this

0:23week's AI drops. Let's get started. Presented by Zapier, the AI automation company. First thing for today is Knockoff. This is by Josh Pigford, who's constantly creating things, but this is really taking off. 11 million views here. It's getting views all over YouTube when people are talking about it. Here's what it does. You know, when you go to Amazon and you're looking for something and then they start to tell you about the knockoff stuff and you don't know what's real and what's a knockoff and worse, maybe you buy the knockoff and it hurts. What this does is it hides the knockoff from you and it also will get rid of sponsored posts and

0:59anything else that's not what you came to Amazon to look for. What do you think of this one, Corey? I think this is serving a huge need because I mean I know me personally when I shop on Amazon I it sounds crazy but I almost like go out of my way to find the more expensive option because I want to buy the real one. I mean I'm so sick of buying the Chinese knockoffs that are

1:19cheap but they fall apart after a week. So, this is something that I personally would use and I think I mean no wonder it's blowing up. People I think a lot of people feel the same way. He doesn't know how he's going to make money from it. He's been asking people on Twitter. I I'm the opposite of you. I look for the cheap one. So, I needed a MagSafe battery for my phone and so I saw two of them. This one was cheaper than the Anker and I said, "You know what? I want Ankor, but this one's

1:41cheaper." I bought this freaking thing. It even has this kickstand and then I took it on a trip. The battery is dead. It will not restart. I plugged it in. I've done everything I could and the company behind it is gone. You go back to Amazon to say, "Well, what happened?" The whole listing, the whole company is gone. I ended up with this one. This is just bulletproof from Ankor. I make this mistake all the time. Maybe this is why

2:04so many people like it. Yep. I've made that mistake so many times. That's why that's my lesson learned. That's why I always go with the expensive option. Never works. Okay. Next is Farsza. Let me hit play on this video that you found. Let's say I want to write a reply to this email, but I'm not quite sure what I want to say. I can just say, "Hey, [music] Clickie, type a reply to this email." And say something like, "Thanks. Appreciate you." And ask him what his use cases [music] are for the product. And this will take like 5 seconds, but it'll actually generate a

2:32reply directly in my text box in Gmail. I pasted your reply. And it'll be in my voice uh based on Hey Clickiey's memories of me. And what's interesting is it reads his unlike other uh dictation apps, it reads what's on his screen, but also because it's Clicky and their site is heyclicky.com. It watches again watches everything that's going on in his computer and it will then uh understand how he talks. And

2:56Clickie does that and so much more. Clickie also will like you can say, "Hey Clickie, um turn on my Spotify and play Aussie Osborne." And it'll it'll do the thing. So, Clickie sounds to me almost like a better Siri, which I think is much needed for sure. But what's interesting is that dictation tools specifically, it's almost like a a contextaware whisper flow is what that

3:18seems like to me. So, if you're paying for both, I mean, that's probably an opportunity to ditch whisper flow. So instead of having to dictate exactly what you want to say word for word, you can say kind of like what he showed like hey send a reply that's something along the lines of uh you know send three product examples but read the email that he sent and give me ideas and then it'll generate an actual reply based on that context and by reading the screen. So I think it's

3:44cool. I think it's neat. All right. Um next just vibe. This is a search engine that instead of giving you search results will actually build a web app for you. So, I'm going to say I'm going to Reikuic. I'll be there in a few hours for 48 hours on the ground. I want you to find fun stuff for me to do at night. And since I'm a runner, places for me to go run. And that's me

4:09dictating it in. I'm going to hit send. It only takes a few seconds, but just to speed it up, I'll show you. This is what it did when I did it a few minutes ago. And it's basically an app. I could now click in. I could ask it what to do, what I want. It's not a great app. I can't even X out of this. What's going

4:28on here? There we go. X there. It's Yeah, it's not a great app. I don't know how to get to those other images, but it works. Yeah, for one, not terrible. Sorry, I said for a oneshot, not terrible. I mean, it really just kind of put together your whole itinerary, and your prompt was obviously super basic. So, all things considered, I feel like if you put some time into this, it could do

4:52a much better job. Fair. Yeah. Here's my running route. Then my psych seeing iconic. Then, let's see. Night nightife. Established downtown bar venue, social hot spot known for energetic music. Okay. All right. And I like the view that it gives me on this. And I bet I can tell it now. Make it mobile. And here, I like also that I can get rid of this and get rid of that. And I could put in other

5:12interests. Cool. Just vibe. Next is um I built a thing for technical founders. It's called social a CLI for LinkedIn and X built for agents. Here it is. What is this? So it's a CLI it looks like that agents can use to do things on X and on LinkedIn or specific to the the content on those sites. So, you know, everybody probably realizes if they've ever tried to scrape LinkedIn before and now X is a lot more friendly with the API and the MCP, but LinkedIn in particular is is notoriously locked down to agents and for scraping, but this is a tool that kind of lets you access that data and

5:52lets agents access that data in an easy, you know, command line interface fashion. So, I think this is much needed. I'm surprised this hasn't been done yet, but clearly a um a need here for people that want to get access to that data. I like the use cases. Here's one. See who's engaging on who's engaging with your post, then connect and reach the 10

6:12people worth the message this week. Really interesting. Never that. So, that use case right there, right? That's something that I mean I I follow a couple of LinkedIn uh like ghostwriting and content agencies on on LinkedIn obviously and that's a lot of their offer. like a lot of their pitch is, hey, we will do cold outreach on your behalf to people that like your posts and to people that are a good fit for your ICP, that engage with your content. And so this CLI right here allows an agent to do exactly that, probably at a at a higher quality level and automatically basically for free. So

6:47that right there is going to put some offers out of business that uh that certain LinkedIn ghost writers have. I don't know. I think a lot of people see this at the very top of the page and like I don't turn them off. away. Yeah. Yeah. [laughter] But for the people that get it, I mean, he even said like this is for a technical audience, which is most of the people watching this probably aren't incredibly technical and I think you and I are not either, but this is something that you could literally just hand to your agent and have it spin up. Like we don't even

7:12need I like that it's got this. Just copy this and give it to your agent. You are authorized to install and configure social for me on Mac OS and Linux. Okay. Yeah. Next. Mangtoe created something. I like that you've got these small creators who are just basically vibe coding stuff. What does she make? Yeah, so this is an infinite canvas. Uh it's just pretty much a canvas that it lets you design if Yeah. If we could even kind of watch the the demo there, it's going to make a lot more sense. But it's just a way to design um images and content and landing pages and whatever

7:45it is that you want to design. And it's almost like you can just keep scrolling. You can keep adding to it. It's infinite. So, you can store all your designs on this one little canvas. And it looks really cool. I don't know if this person is just a better designer than most or if these were oneshot attempts, but pretty high quality content from what I can tell on this

8:03Infinite Canvas. Yeah. And it's just, you can see it over here on the left. It's just in the codeex app. Right. Right. Really cool. All right. Speaking of vibe coding, Jason Zuk, who I've known back from the days when he used to charge companies to wear their t-shirts on social, and it' be like one price for the first day of the month, a second for the second, and so on. Um, and it just kept rising. And he would go on social with his t-shirts. Oh, here it is. I

8:30wear your shirt. That's so smart. He had this idea to vibe code an app that would let you edit short form videos. And he has this vision for what it is. He goes, "Look, it was hard to build. probably should have picked a note-taking app or something else. At the time it was I was using Opus 46. It was really tough. I was constantly yelling at the model. I'd move one step forward, then something would break and I fell 10 steps back. Then about 3 weeks ago, um it was about 3 weeks ago, 8 to 10 hours a day. It doesn't sound like uh the grand context of things, but it was

9:00a lot and frustration and lack of momentum. Finally got the app to work. He had problems with it. Then Fable came out. Here we go. Fable 5 came out and using it for the second app uh felt so differently that he said okay let's come back to this he did two hours later Fable and GPT 5.5 finished the captions feature he was able to keep working on it and build it and now it's finally alive and um this is what Fable is enabling people to do this is a really welldesigned very thoughtout app um that lets you create and edit videos yeah what I I think is interesting about

9:37this tool in particular is so one of the biggest pain points that people have with editing video is just getting highquality B-roll and storing it in in a certain place and then going in and like adding it where it makes sense. And so it looks like what scene roll does is it when you start it up, it actually prompts you to record a few specific B-roll scenes of yourself. So, for example, of you at the keyboard or of you talking or you on a podcast or whatever. And then it kind of adds that

10:04to almost like your B-roll inventory. And then when you record future short form videos, it then uses AI to insert those B-roll uh clips into your short form videos. So, it's almost like, you know, it helps you record the B-roll once and then it helps you insert it easily forever. So, that to me solves a big pain point. I don't do a ton of editing or or B-roll with my videos, but I could see this solving a huge pain point and no wonder it's starting to

10:31take off for him. I do love B-roll. Um, it makes it more interesting. I love recording it. I hate editing it. It's just such a pain to keep track of it. I admire Casey Neistat with his endless collection of videos from the past. Okay. Um, Matt Van Horn, he created Printing Press. There's an update. It's self-learning CLI now. What is printing press and what's the self-learning

10:54aspect? Yeah, so printing press is a tool that lets you create a CLI command line interface for for any tool for any website it looks like. And so printing press is not new, but this is a new update to printing press. So this is now uh essentially now the printing press CLIs are self-learning. So what Matt is saying is that when your agent creates a new CLI, it will leave itself notes on how to use the CLI and how to improve it so that it gets smarter every run. And he even gives an example. He's like,

11:25there's a real benchmark in the video. The same question went from 10 calls down to two. So it's also going to make your CLI and your workflows within those CLIs more token efficient. So I mean Matt Van Horn has put out some really good stuff. I think he's really well regarded in the open source developer community. Last 30 days is another skill of his that is really popular and really useful. I've used a bunch. My business partner, who is more technical, really likes the printing press CLI. In fact, I think he even commented on this uh tweet and replied to it with something that he built with

11:58it. But all in all, um yeah, Matt's crushing it and this is a much needed update to what was already a cool tool. I forget the example he gave about when he was launching it. He created a CLI that would let him order pizza from some pizza company and he said, "Look, they never changed their APIs." So, we knew we could work with it. We're talking about years and years of no changes and

12:20so we could just order pizza. And then just when he launched, they changed it and oh, he had to rush out to make the fix because he liked the demo. And I guess this is a way of updating um more naturally. What I like about about printing press is that and I I've used it only a little bit. I like that you can come on here and you can see the library of what other people have

12:41created. My friend uh where is it? My friend Katherine Lavy created one for Facebook Marketplace because she just cannot stand responding to all the people on Facebook Marketplace. And it's in here somewhere. He just changed a site but oh there it is. It's down here. And so if I do something like Facebook on a site, I can see Facebook

13:03Marketplace. And this is from Katherine. All right. Next, speaking of um skills, this is Corey Haynes. He created the marketing skills. Now he's got maker skills. I like marketing skills because you could say to it, "Here's my site. Now I want you to create um an onboarding email sequence. Now I want you to create SEO pages." And it did a beautiful job with it. I had him demo it on this channel and it really took off for me. Um, what's the maker skills that

13:30he's got now? Yeah. So, scroll down a little bit. It kind of gives us a brief description. So, it's uh scroll up to the top right at the be. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, again, this is just kind of listing out the different things that it can do. So, it's what almost 15 to 20 different skills. Everything from like one of the skill is decide, right? Think through a decision with the real fork. Then you've got uh a v a skill to watch a video. So that's a big pain point with like Claude and Chat GBT. They can't actually watch videos. So by giving this watch video

14:01skill to your agent, it can watch a video and then extract the transcript or the key moments from the video. There's a lot of use cases just with that skill alone, especially if you're a content creator. And like there's a company CFO skill here. Run a monthly or weekly CFO workflow for a company or agency. So, this is just I mean this is one of those sets of skills that quite frankly he should be charging like $500 for the skill pack because it it does a number of different things all at a high level and he's made it free and open source to the community. So, this is one that I I

14:35mean you have nothing to lose by downloading this and and taking some of these for a spin whether it's in Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, etc. Yeah, I like his work a lot. I was skeptical. I said, "Can it really do the work that of like a marketer?" Worked well. Okay. Plug This is a is a site that lets you vibe code Chrome extensions. I love creating my own Chrome extensions. Um, here's one that I made that I use now all the freaking time. It lets me mark up sites. Like, I want to be able to circle that. I want to use an arrow and point to that, you

15:10know, like. And I like that it just moves along with me. uh now anyone can do it. You can just come in here and type what you want. And I think it's more than the front end. It's the fact that it connects into superbase for database. The fact that it will do other interactions for you so that that it will that it will handle uh AI for you so that you can add an AI into it and have it analyze a page for example if you want a Chrome plugin that does that. I like that type of thing and that you can take it away and take it

15:38anywhere you want. But I have some hesitation. What do you think? what's good and where do you stand? Yeah. So, I know your hesitation is mainly going to be around like well why couldn't you just do this in cloud code or codeex or lovable or replet or any of the you know tools above and the answer is you can. This in my mind is just like

15:56a very specialized version of lovable. this is just like lovable for Chrome extensions, which I mean you could argue there's a market there, you know, for the right person, but at the same time, like the person that's going to go and vibe code a Chrome extension in this tool, I mean, they're they're probably already aware of lovable and they probably already know how to use Claw Code and Codeex. So, why wouldn't they just do it there versus having a

16:21separate subscription here? So, will it take off? I don't know. Unless it just becomes like really really good, better than the other tools at Vibe Coding Chrome extensions, but I just I don't know if that's possible. Yeah, I think that uh even this is not really convincing me that I couldn't just stick with a lovable or frankly

16:40with a claude code alternative to this. Having said it, if you need it simple, this is an easy quick way to get it done and then you can take it away from this platform and put it into cloud code and it is your code. I do like that. I like that about lovable too. I could build in their in their very basic platform and then take it anywhere I want. Okay, Osaurus, this is following this new belief that more of your AI interactions should happen on your desktop. And the problem is that most of this is very geeky. Getting AI on your desktop is so tough. I've been trying to get somebody

17:16to come on and do an interview with me about how to do it. It's difficult. This is like the ABC FisherPrice version of it. put it on your desktop, get it to help you write, get it to help you with documents, get it to work with you. And for much of what we're doing with AI, being on a desktop and using one of the open models seems like it's enough. And then if you want to, you can also add

17:35chat GBT and claude. Yeah. So this is like you said, I mean, this kind of solves that pain point of everybody's kind of hearing about that the local AI wave and they understand that it's long-term probably better because it's private, it's local. Yeah. That's not the full strength of the Frontier models. Maybe it's 90% of of them in terms of strength, but that's really usually all you need. And this looks to me just like the most userfriendly harness for the open source models for built for nontechnical people. So it looks like this is like a one-click download and then once you have the Osaurus app on your Mac, you can just

18:13oneclick install whatever open-source model you want inside Osaurus. So, this to me is solving a real need and I I do see this taking off. Um, and I think it's it's also just like user friendly. Yeah. Like the I was hoping you were going to show that it just looks good. Like aesthetically pleasing, nice branding, nice color scheme, something you get the models, it's smart enough to say, "Look, this one is too large. This one is too large. This one is a tight fit, so you might want to stay away from it, but here's one that will run well on your system with what you've got." And that to me, Andrew, is

18:45one of the biggest things about this Osaurus because that's something that I'm like, okay, even if I downloaded like Olama or LM Studio or whatever tools people currently use to run the local models, how am I supposed to know which ones are actually going to work? Like people talk about certain models are too big, you need a certain kind of computer, you need certain specs. Like I just don't have the time or care to look into that. But when this tells me like yes, this is going to run well or no,

19:11it's not. You don't have enough space. That's that makes my life so much easier and makes me only want to use this for open source models versus something else. What I would like to see from them is a little bit more of work that does burn through a lot of tokens. Like a lot of these are just one-off requests. I want something that will, for example, do constant searches for me while I'm sleeping. I want to know what's going on online and have it organize and find just the important stuff for me. Like I do this search to find tools like this once a week so that I know what's going

19:42on. And that's why you that's what you and I use to record. It burns to a bunch of tokens. Takes a lot of time. Imagine if I could just have it run every night. And then if I could have that run every night and tell me what's launched. That's exciting. That's interesting. Can it also run and tell me what's trending

19:56every night? And then if that's happening, can it also tell me what's going on with my customer? Like that kind of a thing. Apple Music is not what I need my own my own uh desktop [laughter] model, right? Yeah, exactly. Um, okay. Maybe even like send out messages to potential customers, send out me, you know, that kind of a thing. Just constantly crank through stuff and

20:17use my computer when I'm not using it. All right. Finally, we got screen pipe. Let's take a look at this video. I could see and hear everything you and your team does. Every workflow is captured to build your company brain and and it just sits on your computer and watches everything that you do. This is going to freak some people out and excite into agents [music] that run your

20:35company. Introducing Screenpipe. Screenpipe runs quietly in the background and remembers everything you saw, everything you heard, and everything you talked about. It pulls from every tool your team uses and turns how you actually work into your company brain. It knows how your best people work and documents it. Setting up automations is simple. Just tell Screen Pipe what you want in plain

21:04English and voila. After a while, Screen Pipe doesn't even wait to be asked. It already knows exactly what you and your team needs. No more information silos. No more manual workflows. Your company brain knows everything. I like it. I'm scared of it. I do too. Yeah, it it looks like it's doing a few things in one. So, it's it's kind of taking a mix of like Granola's always on, always recording feature, but applying it to the whole desktop, not just to calls. It's taking the codeex record and replay feature that records your workflow and turns it into skills. But in this case, it's it's recording everything you're doing and

21:49it's simultaneously turning that into context and storing it inside your company brain. It is determining which of your workflows need its own dedicated agent. And then it's literally printing those agents to do those tasks. And then it's uh also creating SOPs for certain tasks too, which I assume by SOPs it means skills or at least SOPs that you can turn into skills. So, I mean, obviously this is like that's the the watered down version. If it actually works that way, then that's it's a fantastic tool. Like, that's going to make people's lives a

22:23lot easier, especially Teams. But my question would be, okay, well, on any given day, I'm doing 500 different things on my desktop. Some of them might be personal, some of them might be like I might be playing a video game, right? Like, who knows? So, how do I control what gets put into my second brain? Like I don't want it just to dump everything that I'm doing into my brain because within a week there would be hundreds of things in there that are not relevant or not helpful. So if there's like a QA layer for at least what goes into the brain as well as what agents get created

22:54as well as what SOPs get created then to me that's if it has that QA layer then it's it it's perfect. It hits the mark. You know I work with uh Zapier and Wade Foster the founder of Zapier he uses cursor for everything. It's how he responds to messages. It's how he uh checks on what's going on with his team, everything. Um, and at the end of the week, he can come back into it and he can say, "Based on what I've done with you this week, what can I automate?" And cursor will come back and tell him, "Here are some things that could just be

23:24done for you." And it's amazing. Most of us are not using one chat app like that to do everything. This I could see being compelling for the same reason. And I do see him find repetitive tasks that then get automated that get moved away and his company just keeps improving. Even frankly the way that he works with me he saw that every time we talk I ask him for what's going on in about in the company what can I do an interview about all that. I now get an update in Slack from his team. And I I can see it's automated with the stuff that I might

23:53care about talking about with their company. And I see the value of it. I definitely see the value of it. I'm also very scared of it. Okay. All right. We got it here. I'd love to know if you're watching this, what do you think of this one? And what do you think of all of the of the apps and tools that we showed you? Let me know in the comments. Of course, subscribe. And now we've got another one with a collection of tools that you

24:12probably haven't seen that you need. They'll blow your mind.

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