Meadow ↗ — Hidden songs on your walk, chosen by people, not algorithms

Meadow is an iPhone app for leaving a song at a place, so you pick something off Apple Music, drop it where you're standing with a note if you want, and it sits there for five days waiting for whoever walks past, and inside 500 meters they get a question mark and some rustling grass on the map with a compass pointing at it, and they have to get within 50 meters before it says what it is.

DearCameo ↗ — Social network where only the dead have accounts

DearCameo is a social media for dead people. Yes, you read that correctly. Accounts only go to people who've died, and it checks Wikidata to be sure, so no, you can't make one for your mate as a bit. You pick someone, write their post, and people who knew them pile into the comments.

Eyecon ↗ — Auto-pause video when you look away

Eyecon watches you to check whether you're still watching, and pauses the moment you aren't. That covers the person who wanders in to ask you something, the thing you turned round to pick up, and the episode you slept through, all of which normally cost you four minutes of program and another one dragging the scrubber about trying to find your place again.

MachineMail ↗ — Real inboxes for AI agents, with trust built in

MachineMail hands an agent its own email address so it can sign itself up for things, sit and wait for the verification code, and answer what comes back. Inboxes get created on demand, a catch-all domain covers the rest, and wait_for_message is the call that holds until mail arrives.

Friday Work ↗ — When Claude hits its limit, your task keeps going

Friday is a task board that runs Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and a dozen more agents side by side on your own machine. They message each other, and when one hits its usage limit the task moves to another agent with a record of what it already changed, so a Claude limit at four in the afternoon stops being the end of the day.

1. The spark wasn’t there: Tesla is discontinuing the Cybertruck after lackluster sales.
2. Spaces to roam: Meta followed up with Muse agents by launching Spaces, a way to collaborate with the agent on a specific topic. It’s catching up in other ways, too: it just bought Conductor, an AI coding company for deploying agents.
3. Book it: Airbnb says it’s coming out with its own AI travel agent.
4. Earnings report: Anthropic has followed OpenAI’s lead by launching a personal finance tool for Claude. Users can connect their bank accounts via Plaid and get help tracking their spending.
5. To the wonder: Food delivery app Wonder filed for an IPO. It’s already gobbled up Blue Apron, Grubhub, Tastemade, and Spyce. 
6. The new QVC: TikTok now has a shopping app in several Asian markets as it swings into social commerce.
7. This could have been a podcast: Readwise, which allows you to save things to read later, is launching an app that combines an e-book store with a Goodreads-like tracker.
8. Downtime: Canva laid off more than one-fifth of its staff to address waning growth as chatbots have proven adept at image generation. Squarespace also laid off 19% of its staff as vibe-coding has made it easier for people to design their own websites. 
9. r/marketing: Reddit is testing ad placements in search results. At an earnings call last month, the company said it was moving to a “logged-in experience.”
10. Scroll down: Netflix is experimenting with AI. Viewers can use it to quickly get recommendations on what to watch instead of scrolling through the platform until they give up and go to bed.

We appreciate when a founder can explain the problem and the solution in a few sentences. Here are three new products that launched this week—as explained by the people who built them: 

A new browser pouring one out for Arc

“I run several companies and dozens of websites, and for years my browser was where that work lived: one space per company, the right Gmail and Stripe already signed in. When Arc's makers said Arc stops working on 22 December, I didn't want an AI-first browser with an account. I wanted the spaces back, and less noise. So we built Tao Browser.” – Reji Modiyil

A child sleep app to avoid parental insanity

“We are parents and pediatric sleep experts. We built Mellow Kids after seeing the same thing again and again: parents log every nap and feed, and their app gives them back only the next nap time. But when sleep suddenly changes, parents want to know why and what they can do about it. Sometimes the schedule needs to change, and sometimes it is development.” – Daiany

A copy-paste app that makes privacy easier

“I built PasteGuard after catching myself pasting a production config — database URL, credentials and all — into an AI chat. The idea is simple: keep sensitive data out of AI chats without changing how you copy and paste. PasteGuard checks your clipboard locally and replaces sensitive values with placeholders.” – Nguyen Quan

Fmerian compiled a list of “founders, teams, and startups” that are hiring right now. It includes Mastra, Mintlify, Polylane, Supabase, and Trigger.dev.

People are hopping in the thread to say they’re hiring for people, too. Tessa Kriesel is “building an awesome team of contractors” for Mozilla. Justin D’Souza is looking for an engineer and a security researcher to join Beacon.sh, which hit #1 this week. If you’re looking for your next role, get in the comments.