Chris Williams

News aggregation and curation solves a lot of consumer pain points. Excited about the concept and just downloaded the Informed News app. Appreciate that you do have a free tier that allows me to find news not behind the paywall and explore the app before agreeing to the subscription tier. It appears the ability to listen to the news in my feed is only available for some articles. Are you pulling the TTS from the publishers themselves and that's why not all have that option or does the ability to listen unlock for all articles upon subscribing? Congrats @benjaminmateev @sophie_coe @katjaalissamueller @martin_kaelble @kessia @aliya_arman and the whole team at Informed News. Launch day is a big event, enjoy it!

Making something look simple is always so much harder than it looks. I tested AMBLR by inputting two travel destinations I've frequented to see how relevant the results would be for vacations I knew well. For both, I requested adventurous excursions for a family trip and I was given 5-7 day items that would rival anything a travel agent would book. Currently no ability to book travel, hotel, or excursions directly from AMBLR - but to get these recommendations when I traveled, I spent weeks researching to find the best excursions and local highlights, then comparison-shopped guides and excursion companies. To be able to take the itineraries directly from AMBLR would have shortcut my vacation planning by weeks. I could go directly to the booking phase immediately. The recommendations for my few prompts were spot on, with one exception. The AI doesn't seem to have a concept of time/duration for an activity. Example from a 7-day Iceland vacation - Golden Circle tour and some of the other excursions suggested are multi-day activities and the AI was treating them all as single-day units. Same with Travel days, no real concept of travel time and duration of the excursion. Unlikely that on a day when you are flying internationally that you would also be able to also include large sightseeing/excursions during your trip. Maybe an additional filter to understand how much time each item takes would allow the timing of the recommendations to be a little more practical. Great travel tool - I'll be using it and can't wait to watch it evolve! Good work @moebesh!

Great productivity tool! Downloaded and played around "teleporting" items into different backgrounds. Love that I can jump right in. Minimal onboarding and everything seemed very intuitive. I think I was creating my first Blend in less than 60 seconds of downloading the App. So smart to have the seasonal, timely themed scenes you've provided, very relevant to have the Easter options on top of the suggestions. Was able to quickly add photos from the camera roll and take new photos. The spatial orientation of the original image is just right to be believable in the Blend. Not sure of a way around that without some volumetric capture or the Blend AI making some 3D assumptions about the item to give me a 3D axis to work from to manipulate. Editing layers, is super easy and intuitive as well. Only a small critique for the free version, I understand the need to watermark, but it didn't appear that I could move the watermark around the screen to optimize it for the photos I was editing. Not complaining that the brand bug exists, just wish I had a little more flexibility in placement as a free user. Of course, the option exists to upgrade and get rid of it, so there is a path to resolve the issue regardless. Congrats on the great launch @jamkam!

OK, here goes @tej_marakna - I'm going through and using my real-world vacation plans to see how Travopo can help me enhance my next trip to Costa Rica. A couple of suggestions from my initial touchpoints. The AI assistant did a good job of sourcing existing flights, but what would be equally helpful might be some recommendations. I was searching for flights 6 months out, not an optimal time to buy airline tickets. If the chatbot could not only share with me suggestions on the best times to purchase tickets based on historical pricing trends. For example, the latest data I've seen, the cheapest time to purchase flights is between 3-8 weeks before travel. I'm sure that varies based on the destination, the peak season for each destination so the bot can tell me if I'm going at a time that pricing is peaking, etc..., but if that data could be sourced and provided by the AI assistant, that might help me make my decision about when to book. One other suggestion, perhaps it is there and I just haven't found it yet, but as I'm searching it would be helpful to have international travel requirements prominently featured prior to getting too far into my booking. Visa and passport requirements to know if there are limitations that might prevent my traveling. Love the collection of guides and tips videos you've sourced. The packing list seems a little high-level and broad for me, maybe good for idea starters but a little too much like a storefront than an individual shopping vacation list. Great work on your launch, your years of hard work are certainly on display and you have a solid foundation to find the most useful and used features by your audience and really lean into iterating on those hard in the future. Best of luck!

This concept has me excited. Limited in application now, doesn't support my personal email accounts and as a contractor, that's challenging because I do my work via my personal email. The service doesn't support personal email and the work emails I have for clients don't have much history to train the model. Also doesn't support the various email platforms I use. All of that seems surmountable and this is a service I would use for every email. Even more valuable than having a Grammarly layer on top of my email flow. Can't wait!