Facebook's TikTok competitor

The jam sesh goes digital with Collab, an app to create music together remotely.

Tip your coffee cup to the R&D team at Facebook who also created this and needs to CatchUp on some sleep this weekend.

TikTok has been busy capturing creators, and this feels a bit like their duet feature. On TikTok duets you need to invite someone to join you, but on Collab you can mix your video with others on the platform at will.

Once your track “slaps” and you’re ready to release it, turn that content into cash. Starting next week, Instagram is rolling out ads in IGTV and planning to share new that revenue directly with creators.

Getting back to the music, we’ve seen some cool indie app releases this week too.

Mixroom lets artists share out their unfinished music and song drafts that didn’t make the cut. It’s an unfiltered music haven for fans and artists who don’t always want the polished goods.

Helio is an open-source composition software where you visualize the music as you create it.

Seems like the pandemic is giving life back to music. ✌️

Jam with Collab

We asked 34 customers what Viktor does for them. Not one said chatbot.

They kept using words like colleague, coworker, team member. One CEO called it the glue holding their e-commerce business together, which is a lot, but also… you see why. It lives in Slack and plugs into 3,000+ tools, so instead of jumping between tabs, you just ask for the thing. Pull Stripe against HubSpot, check Sentry alerts, spin up a campaign brief, build a landing page, send a report upstairs. It all happens there.

It has already hit top 5 on Product Hunt with 130 comments, is SOC 2 certified, and your data does not train models.

One user said it was the first time AI felt like a real coworker, which is either exciting or slightly concerning depending on your week.