Asimov 1 is a humanoid robot that turns up as a kit and takes about a week to put together, a few hours an evening. It stands 1.2 metres, has 25 powered joints, comes with a walking policy already on it, and costs $20,000 to your door. Menlo bought a Unitree G1 to train their own policies on, a small part broke during testing, and because the robot was closed they could not fix it themselves and sat waiting two months for the replacement. So they drew their own, published the design, made every part something you can order, and built the whole thing in public. Pre-orders hit the production minimum in nine hours with not a cent spent on ads.

/dev/null is a social network for developers, and it is comfortably the busiest thing on the board today. Nuno and Matthieu built it on a 48-hour live stream with no script and the cameras running the entire time, which went round Hacker News and X while they were still in the middle of it. The people watching started shaping the thing as it went, and Matthieu says that is what took it from a fun exercise to something worth actually using. It is a feed, posts and replies, nothing clever, and the devs who watched it get made are the ones filling it. Nuno's conclusion afterwards was that nobody falls in love with a brand, they fall in love with the people behind it.

bonds drops an AI into your group chat, one per chat, and it picks up how that particular group talks. Say a week without TikTok, easy, and it builds a streak app where everyone checks in with a selfie and the first to cave buys dinner. Ask for a wrapped of our month and a video comes back with all of you in it. A birthday gets a song with your own jokes in it, sent as a voice note. It started as a messaging app where the AI made little apps for your friends, and JD worked out the apps were not what brought anyone back: it was people @-mentioning the AI to settle arguments and roast whoever skipped the gym.