Search, Don’t Scrub
gm legends, happy Thursday.
Here’s today’s lineup: Spottr turns hours of video hunting into seconds by letting you type or describe a moment and jump straight to it; Tight Studio gives product teams a full screen studio with smart zooms, captions, and voiceovers so your demo videos don’t look like hostage footage; Retool’s new Enterprise AppGen builds internal tools straight from plain English, hooked up to your real data and ready to deploy.
Skip the Scrub
Spottr turns videos into something you can actually search. Type what you remember, a phrase, a moment, a thing — and it jumps right to it. Perfect for creators drowning in footage or teams digging through long calls.
🔥 Our Take: Every video platform gives you a play button, none give you a “find the part where it mattered” button. Spottr does. It’s not reinventing video, just fixing the worst part of it, the waiting.
Open Tabs, Open Roles
fmerian’s October hiring thread is live, and it’s buzzing with founders and job hunters swapping leads. Startups like QA.tech, Layercode, and Aikido Security are posting open roles, while engineers, designers, and operators jump in with what they’re building next. It’s the kind of thread that makes LinkedIn look like a waiting room.
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Lights, Camera, Demo
Tight Studio turns plain screen recordings into cinematic product demos. You get smart zooms, synced captions, AI voiceovers, music, and motion. all built around what’s happening on screen. It’s for makers who want their demos to feel as polished as the product itself.
🔥 Our Take: Most demo videos are just… screens doing stuff. Tight Studio adds rhythm and storytelling without needing a video editor. It’s the difference between showing a feature and actually selling the feeling of using it.
Apps That Build Themselves
Retool’s new AI AppGen lets you create full internal tools from a single prompt. Describe what you need, and it connects to your data, sets permissions, and spits out a working app you can edit or ship instantly.
🔥 Our Take: There’s something quietly dangerous about giving developers a button that says “build app.” If this actually works at scale, the hardest part of internal tooling might soon be just describing what you want clearly enough.
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