The Roundup // Prompt engineering therapy

Happy Sunday, fam. We’ve got an exciting edition of the Roundup this week — an app that could fix your context switching-induced ADHD, an open-source prompt engineering therapist, the most shouted-out products on the site in the past month, and lots more. Let’s get into it. — Sanjana and Aaron

General Collaboration: A unified inbox for all of your work apps.

Nonstop switching between apps is a productivity killer. General Collaboration proposes a streamlined solution — a unified inbox with notifications from all of your work apps. It’s also got a nifty “follow” feature that lets you peek into (or spy on) your coworkers’ pending tasks.

Latitude: An open-source prompt engineering platform.

How do you ensure the accuracy of LLM outputs at scale, when “accuracy” is multivariate and context-dependent? One approach might be to try Latitude, which offers dozens of customizable evaluation templates and an AI-powered prompt editor. 

Theneo: An AI-powered tool for generating and cleaning up API documentation. 

In a world with more APIs than ever, straightforward documentation has never been more important. Theneo promises to automate beautiful docs and keep them up to date — a worthwhile value prop, given we’re all just asking ChatGPT to build the integration anyways.

Monalisa: One-click enrichment of developer profiles on Github.

Monalisa uses AI-powered search to fill in a developer’s Github bio information — email, current company background, social media, etc — and send you an email with the results. It’s probably most useful for those selling dev tools, though it doesn’t yet allow users to search for people matching specific criteria.

Text Behind Image: Puts text behind an image.

We love this whole timeline: a 16 year-old high school solo maker built this tool in only three hours with AI. The result is simple, effective, and user-friendly. It might even give a wallpaper app recently launched by a certain YouTuber a run for its money. 

Over the week, the Internet kicked off about Beehiiv’s latest marketing stunt, which took direct aim at one of its main competitors, email marketing platform ConvertKit (now Kit). The campaign criticized everything from Kit's logo, to its pricing strategy, to the speed at which the team ships new features. The kicker? Beehiiv called the ad a “convert-to-Beehiiv-kit” — an obvious namecheck of their competitor. Many loved the campaign for its savagery, and it made for some great drama-scrolling. 

Others didn’t agree, calling it shady practices and a low blow. The Kit CEO even chimed in with some screenshots of Beehiiv trying to poach their users by replying to welcome emails. However, it quickly surfaced that Kit has been doing the same thing to Beehiiv users. 

Our take: That’s business, baby. It’s a free market. Everyone is competing for your eyeballs and, more importantly, your money. Competition gives users options and spectators entertainment. Don’t you guys remember the Apple vs. Microsoft ads? Nobody slammed Apple for them, because they were ✨ iconic ✨. Ultimately if you want to get ahead, keep shipping, and when they go low, maybe go just a teensy bit lower (but in good spirits). 

If you’ve been on the site in the past few months you’ve probably noticed our “shoutouts” feature, which lets makers call out three products that were indispensable to them in the building process. Above, we’ve put together a chart of the ten most shouted-out products in the past month — a glimpse into what tools cutting-edge makers are using these days. (Note Cursor’s meteoric rise; it wasn’t anywhere near the top ten a couple months ago!)

First, we bring you a special feature from world-renowned hunter (and our friend) Ben Lang, who’s just launched next play — a network of top-notch founders and operators which also runs several newsletters, podcasts, and regular “off-the-record” gatherings worldwide.

From a recent next play curated list:

Here are 31 fast-growing Y Combinator backed startups, currently hiring for REMOTE roles:

1) Unriddle (YC S24) - read, write and find research papers faster 

2) Stacksync (YC W24) - sync between CRMs and databases 

3) Akiflow (YC S20) - tasks and calendars in one app (PH Launch)

4) Finni Health (YC W23) - empowering autism care providers (PH Launch)

5) Ply Health (YC S24) - get providers in-network with payers (PH Launch)

To see the complete list go here.

Also, have you seen our newly launched product category pages? They combine our Shoutouts data with Product Landscape articles written by top founders who are experts in their field. We’ve got Immad Akhund, the CEO and Founder of Mercury, giving his take on the best online banking platforms, Christina Cacioppo, CEO and Co-Founder of Vanta, on the best security and compliance tools, and tons more. Check out all the landscape pages here.

And finally, be sure to check out a new article on the site written by Kyle Corbitt, the Founder and CEO of OpenPipe: “A Founder’s Guide to AI Fine-Tuning.”

That’s all for this week! Got some more time to kill? Check out the What Beats Rock game.