RIP Web Apps ⚰️

This newsletter was brought to you byDigitalOcean

RIP Web Apps ⚰️

Web apps are sooooo 2016.

Now you can turn your favorite web apps into desktop apps for Mac, Windows, and GNU/Linux with Web2Desk.

Launched yesterday with 600+ upvotes, it supports Intercom, Grammarly, Telegram, Twitter, Asana, Airtable, and really anything else. Try it today.

Web2Desk isn't the only tool that Apple should have built years ago:

🎩 Alfred: Will make you never use your mouse again. Alfred user, David, says: "Alfred is the bee's knees.. the cat's pajamas.. understand? Download it. Get the Powerpack. Do it. Do it now."

⚡️ aText: It's like text-replacement, but super easy to modify, with the ability to add custom fields. Accelerate your typing.

🖥 Magnet & BetterSnapTool: Use keyboard shortcuts to move/resize windows around the screen. Both of these are amazing.

⌨ Keyboard Maestro: Conduct your Mac like a pro. Arun says: "Keyboard Maestro is crazy awesome. I have been using for an year now for a ton of automation and hotkeys."

🚀 Rocket will insert Slack-style emojis everywhere. This is the most essential app you will ever download.

Create An App 🖥️

Highlight

Instagram quietly launched Instagram Lite this morning, designed to save space on your phone. This follows the launch of Messenger Lite, Google Go, and Twitter Lite, all targeted at international users who have limited access to data.

Inference should feel simple. Once AI hits production traffic, you're really managing routing, retries, observability, GPU bills running while nobody's home.

DigitalOcean Serverless Inference handles all of that in one API — OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible, 55+ models including Claude, DeepSeek, Qwen, and Llama. Scale to zero when you're not using it. Pay per token when you are. VPC and zero data retention on by default.

230 tokens/sec on DeepSeek V3.2 — 3.9× faster than AWS Bedrock (Artificial Analysis). Runs on the same bill as your databases and Kubernetes. One less thing to reconcile.

Try it today

The Leaderboard

Monday through Friday

Our ultra-fast Daily: Three takes on new products. Yesterday’s top ten launches. That’s it.