Happy Hump Day! In Today’s digest, I’m covering a new startup founded by serial entrepreneur Faheem Kajee and MCU star Karen Gillan. It aims to make sharing videos with your friends fun again. But first…

The headlines: 

💸 Nvidia is now the most valuable company in the world after leapfrogging Microsoft.

🦋 An ex-Snap engineer has launched a new social app called Butterflies.

👓 Meta has formed a new wearables group and laid off some staff.

We’ve all been there. You come across a TikTok video that is so funny that you can barely catch your breath from laughter, and you decide to send it to your friend. Surely, it will elicit the same response, but the only reply you get is a boring laughing face emoji, or worse, you’re left on read. 

It’s not you, it’s them. Don’t fret, though. A new app aims to solve this and bring the human charm back to social sharing.

Founded by serial entrepreneur and Moment founder, Faheem Kajee and Hollywood star Karen Gillan, known for playing Nebula in the MCU movies, Seen is a video messaging app that lets you send private videos to your friends in either one-on-one direct iMessages or group chats of up to 11 people. 

Say you come across a hilarious cat video online and want to share it with your friends. Seen lets you quickly drop the video in the group chat for your friends to view. Once your friends receive the content, they must record themselves reacting to the video. This reaction gets shared only with the friends in the chat, and in turn, the sender must then record themselves. 

One of the app's core features is its integration with TikTok, meaning you can easily share videos from directly inside the app, similar to how you would copy the link. Seen also incorporates a scrollable feed of some of the most popular videos on TikTok. According to the team, a Reels and YouTube Shorts integration is on the horizon. 

Seen is currently only available for iOS, and the team is hard at work building the next iteration, which will likely include a public feed of users and even monetization features like games and filters. It’s got some big-name backers as well, like Twitter co-founder Ev Williams and Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin. 

FOR DEVELOPERS 

i18nlocale can quickly translate your app into multiple different languages depending on where your user is visiting from. 

SQL Workbench lets you query remote CSV, JSON, Parquet, and Arrow data sources, as well as uploaded local files, directly from a browser, for free.

FOR DESIGNERS 

rnbw is a web-based design platformed aimed at designers that code and developers that design. You can prompt the AI model to begin designing for you based on your design needs and from there, easily edit it to make it pixel perfect.

FOR THE MIND

Meditation Buddies pairs you 1-on-1 with a partner over video, fostering a consistent and effective meditation routine without the need for willpower.

Figetable is a customizable fidget app that comes with six options that include different tactile responses like vibration to satisfying clicks. It’s designed to clear your mind and help you refocus. 

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