the before list

Cap drop from Creative Department.

Design inspiration platform adding 100,000 curated images weekly. Intelligent canvas, familiar feeds, direct Figma export. Built by designers who wanted real creative work, not AI-generated imagery.

Flower Computer wants to pack digital intelligence into the physical world. Their first product 'Yuma' drops this summer.

AI agents that handle the tedious parts of Webflow development. Design, code, and execute without leaving Webflow or juggling multiple apps. Built for developers tired of repetitive tasks.

Cloudflare's move into container deployment. Run containers on their edge network alongside Workers. Another step in their plan to become the infrastructure layer for the entire internet.

Turn your Kindle into a conversation partner. Ask questions about your book, get summaries, or discuss themes with an AI that knows exactly where you are in the story. Finally, a reading companion that keeps up.

Independent type designer Fons Mans drops his first typeface this July. A new sans-serif that's free for everyone—rare in a world of expensive font licenses.

A mysterious 'ambient, intimate' product from this narrative-first lab that promises to feel like a daily habit. The founder hopes you 'can't imagine a future without it'—bold words for something still shrouded in secrecy.

Visual builder calling itself 'a baby between Cursor and Figma.' Generate and edit Next.js interfaces with the same speed you'd sketch wireframes. The promise: design-to-code workflows that actually feel natural.

Free platform for getting your whole team comfortable with AI. Instead of everyone using different models and workflows, Somara gives teams shared access to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google's APIs with unified management.

David Hoang's AI-powered design recruiting tool that matches companies with designers based on specific role requirements. Built with Replit and Visual Electric to solve the 'finding good design talent on demand' problem.

App generation and collaborative project building seem to be involved.

Latest from SuperFantastic Toys and Delahunt for storing folders.

OpenCode rebuilt from scratch as a gorgeous terminal UI for coding with AI. Zero-config language support, multi-session agents, and integration with 75+ models including local ones. It's what happens when someone who actually codes daily designs a coding tool.

Scheduled search alerts from Perplexity that deliver recurring reports on any topic. Think Google Alerts, but intelligent enough to actually find what matters. Part of their broader bet on making the browser your life's operating system.

The Browser Company's second act after Arc—an AI browser that wants to replace traditional browsing entirely. Think less 'browser with AI features' and more 'AI agent with browser capabilities.' They're betting the future is conversations, not tabs.

Prompt-to-website tool that outputs actual HTML and Tailwind, not just mockups. WebStudio is betting they can crack the creative web design problem that others have struggled with—going from idea to working site in one step.

An AI companion described as 'like a world-class life coach, available on demand.' Matt Shumer is alpha testing this mystery project, seeking testers through DMs and comments. No name or feature details yet—the intrigue is intentional.

Every's take on AI writing assistance: like having a ghostwriter who maps out what you're trying to say, builds a plan, and revises alongside you. Less autocomplete, more creative collaboration.

Give your Figma designs directly to Cursor, Claude Code, and other coding agents. They'll understand your design context and build proper components with the right variables. The designer-developer handoff just got a lot less painful.

Figma's bold move into web publishing. Design your site in Figma, then push it live without leaving the app. It's not just another website builder—it's Figma betting they can own the entire design-to-web pipeline.

Figma's answer to the prompt-to-prototype problem: talk to your designs and watch them become working demos. They're pushing hard on the design-to-prototype boundary, testing how much code they can eliminate from the creative process.

HuggingFace's first hardware venture: a $250 open-source robot built with Pollen Robotics. Designed for experimenting with human-computer interactions using HF's model ecosystem. Now available for order as of yesterday.

Every AI model you actually want to use, running on your Mac. Bring your own API keys, local model support, MCPs, projects, and solid keyboard shortcuts. It's the AI client for people who refuse to pick just one model.

AI-native design tool that ships code.

Design platform in early access. Details are scarce, but they're confident enough to claim 'a new era of design begins.'

Email client for people who think inbox zero is missing the point entirely. Bobby Goodlatte's take on mindful communication—smart batching, focus modes, wellness tracking. Their thesis: 'Email used to be a tool. Now it's a trap disguised as productivity.' $3M in funding suggests others agree.

Perplexity's take on what browsing should be when AI is built in from day one. Understands context across all your tabs, summarizes pages, and turns research into conversations. Just launched yesterday after months of alpha testing.

Jeremy Nguyen built the presentation interface we all imagined after watching Tom Cruise swipe through holographic displays. Gesture controls for presentations—because clicking through slides is so 2024.

Webflow's push beyond visual design into full-stack development. Deploy React apps, Next.js sites, and dynamic experiences on their Cloudflare-powered infrastructure.

Google's research assistant finally gets a proper mobile app. Upload documents, generate insights, and chat with your sources on the go. The tool that made AI podcasts from your PDFs now fits in your pocket.

SwiftUI educator Meng To is building a native Mac chat app with voice-to-text and custom prompts for different workflows. Supports all the major models plus local ones, runs on your API keys. It's the AI chat app for people who live in the terminal but want something prettier.

The to-do app that actually does the to-dos. Jordan Singer's vision of teams working alongside AI agents in a shared workspace. Less task management, more task delegation to your AI teammates.

Website QA tool built by freelancers tired of Markup's price hikes. Organized comments, screenshots, and collaborative review workflows without the sticker shock.

Waldo Broodryk is building something for people who publish images and websites, but he's keeping the details close to the vest. Currently seeking beta testers who are probably as curious as we are.

Email tool that promises to end 'Brute Force Productivity™' with automatic organization and collaborative apps. Brett Goldstein claims it's the first email transformation since Gmail 21 years ago. Bold claims deserve scrutiny, but the $3M in funding suggests believers exist.

Pietro Schirano's infinite canvas where you create apps by talking to them. Draw, iterate, and export production code without traditional design constraints. He's calling it 'the Cursor moment for design'—and he might not be wrong.

Take a photo, get a poem about what you captured. This hand-assembled camera from a tiny NYC team turns everyday moments into verse. It's delightfully analog in concept, surprisingly moving in practice.