Bots for every task

gm legends, happy Monday.

Here’s today’s lineup: Blocks lets you drag, drop, and snap together app components like Lego, then push them straight to production; Monotype brings back typewriter-style focus with a stripped-down, offline-first writing tool; Glowzy puts a virtual fitting room on your phone so you can shop and try on outfits without the dressing room hassle.

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Blocks lets you describe what you want in plain English and it builds the app or AI agent for you. Data, interface, and logic come together automatically, so instead of filing tickets or waiting on engineering, you can spin up something that actually works. It’s meant to give non-technical teams real tools without forcing them into rigid templates or endless no-code patch jobs.

🔥 Our Take: Imagine saying “we need an expense bot that writes PDFs, emails receipts, and spits out monthly reports” and having a live tool spinning in minutes. That’s the pitch. It liberates small teams from waiting on devs or wrestling with Zapier flows. The deeper gamble is whether people want to own the logic or whether they’ll default to SaaS convenience.

Monotype is a retro-inspired writing tool for Mac that strips everything down to words on a page. No formatting, no cloud, no clutter. It’s an offline-first typewriter interface with a moving page that keeps your attention locked on the writing.

🔥 Our Take: Modern writing apps are great at one thing: giving you a hundred ways to avoid writing. Monotype goes the other way. It traps you with your own words until you actually get them out. It’s not minimalism for its own sake, it’s more like a well-designed constraint that makes you productive by accident.

Glowzy is a virtual fitting room and shopping assistant. Upload your wardrobe to see how your clothes pair together, then browse and try on new pieces before buying them. It’s part closet organizer, part shopping tool, and part stylist in your pocket, built to cut down on bad buys and last-minute regrets.

🔥 Our Take: Shopping usually means guesswork: buy, try, return, repeat. Glowzy makes it harder to fool yourself into thinking “this will definitely work” when it won’t. It won’t cure retail therapy, but it might stop your closet from turning into a graveyard of mistakes.

By Lindsay Amos, former communications head at Y Combinator

The Wall Street Journal rarely covers seed-stage startups — let alone one raising just $2.2M. That’s why I was surprised to see Athena, an early-stage company working on how large language models surface brand-related content, featured in Katherine Blunt’s article about the demise of traditional Google search.

Instead of dismissing it as a blip (and because I’m a nerd), I dissected the bigger-picture story: what the founders emphasized, how the reporter framed it, and the pitch that might have landed them coverage. It turned into a case study I shared throughout The To Do List Summit, a one-day event for startup founders on reaching audiences across press, video, social, and events...