😸 Your face has a pulse

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The video edit tool built by the officer who noticed nobody was doing serious video AI, the Mac camera that now reads your heart rate from your face, and the Runway alum who replaced every instance of "AI" on the internet with 💩. Plus: a maker asking whether success means fewer users.

Rodeo is what happens when you spend years building serious video AI infrastructure and finally ship a consumer tool. Jae Lee noticed the gap while leading data science at South Korea's Cyber Command: text and image AI had decades of research behind them; video had almost nothing. TwelveLabs is what he built to close it. Rodeo is what it looks like in your hands: describe the shot you want and it assembles your first cut.

🔥 Our Take: TwelveLabs has been building multimodal video understanding models since 2022: models that process video the way GPT processes text. This is the first time that infrastructure becomes something you can use on your own footage. If you've spent hours scrubbing through clips to find the 30 seconds that matter, the claim here is that you describe the moment instead. Whether the output is actually edit-ready or a starting point is the question worth asking before you cancel your subscription to anything else.

GlowPulse uses rPPG, the same technique used in clinical camera-based heart rate monitoring, to detect subtle color changes in your face caused by blood circulation. Live BPM in your menu bar, Pomodoro sessions with heart rate charts, HRV data during breathing exercises. $2.99, 100% local, no wearable.

🔥 Our Take: rPPG has been in hospital settings for years. This puts it on your desk for less than a coffee. If you've ever sat through a difficult conversation and wondered whether your stress response was real or you were imagining it, your camera now has an answer. The $2.99 price is the point: there's no subscription, no Apple Watch, no chest strap. It either works well enough on your face or it doesn't.

They kept using words like colleague, coworker, team member. One CEO called it the glue holding their e-commerce business together, which is a lot, but also… you see why. It lives in Slack and plugs into 3,000+ tools, so instead of jumping between tabs, you just ask for the thing. Pull Stripe against HubSpot, check Sentry alerts, spin up a campaign brief, build a landing page, send a report upstairs. It all happens there.

One user said it was the first time AI felt like a real coworker, which is either exciting or slightly concerning depending on your week.

Enshittifier is a Chrome extension that replaces every instance of "AI" on the web with 💩. Wells Riley, Founding Designer at Runway, built it using AI tools. The name is Cory Doctorow's term for how platforms degrade. The intent, in his words: "a small nudge to be a little more mindful of the din around AI."

🔥 Our Take: The best detail is that Wells Riley used AI to build it. He's been in the industry long enough to know what the technology actually does, and he still felt the word had become noise. Install it for a day and you'll notice how often "AI" appears as punctuation rather than a description of something real. That's either funny or depressing. Probably both.

Mona Truong (@monatruong_murror) posted the question her product forces every week: every growth playbook she studied assumed more usage equals more value. Murror is built for the opposite. The success case is a user who stops needing it.

The replies get at the real shape of the problem. Word of mouth here comes from people who've already graduated from the product, not current users. One commenter pushed back that "intentional usage" is clearer framing than "less usage." Another flagged the investor conversation: how do you pitch a product whose metric is resolution, not retention?

The sharpest line is Mona's own: "We hope you won't need us forever."