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.

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Links and Show Notes

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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