Make developers smile

Happy Hump Day! Welcome back to the Leaderboard. In today's edition: a new collaboration tool that you might want to keep your manager away from, a new app that promises to make developers happy, and an AI tool that could make you the next Stan Lee. Let's dive in.

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

It feels like one of the biggest impediments to getting deep work done these days is nonstop context-switching between different apps — from Slack and Asana, to Hex and Figma, etc — and I’m excited to see General Collaboration propose a streamlined solution. The app’s “follow” feature, which lets you peek into your teammates’ tasks and discussions, is also intriguing. “Follow” seems perfect for small startups, but I’d bet lots of enterprise employees won’t be fans. Who at Deloitte wants their manager to know what they’ve really been up to all day?

Jam for Customer Support: Record customer bugs with dev logs.

As someone who's been stuck in the tech support loop, Jam for Customer Support feels like a lifesaver. Instead of playing detective trying to piece together what went wrong, you can just ask the customer to record their screen right from the chat. The video comes with all the dev logs, so engineers don’t have to keep guessing—or worse, ask for more info. No more endless back-and-forth, just one clean link that shows exactly what happened. Honestly, it’s one of those tools that would’ve saved me a ton of headaches back in the day.

Comic Factory: An AI tool for generating your own comic books.

We’ve seen tons of AI generators that spit out images or text, but most of them feel the same. With tools like Cursor and Claude making it easier to build AI products, the real challenge is finding a specific use case rather than just pumping out generic results. Take Comic Factory—it’s not just another image generator. It focuses on comics, which are tricky and time-consuming to create. The key takeaway? Don’t just add to the pile of AI tools. Find a niche, solve a problem, and you’ll actually stand out in the crowded AI space.