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The Leaderboard
December 5th, 2024
RIP Temu?
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GM world-changers. Welcome back to yet another edition of the Leaderboard, today we have: a new way to debug at lightspeed, a new trend for AI developers, Amazon's answer to Temu, and of course, the top products of the day. Let's get started.

Bugs running scared

Oopsie: Debug apps with AI and session replays.

Session replay has long been on the radar for the most popular mobile observability tools like Sentry to make it easier to diagnose user-facing problems. New player on the scene Oopsie (available only on React Native and Flutter at the moment) claims to be theĀ onlyĀ AI-powered mobile debugging tool focused on that use case, but I'd be interested to learn whatĀ InstabugĀ makes of that claim since they've been adding similar enhancements this year. In any case, all efforts to make debugging easier are welcome and apps that haven't already made similar integrations should give Oopsie a look.

Ship better AI

Coval:Ā Simulation and evals to ship voice and chat AI agents.

Building voice agents with LLMs once meant battling latency, interruption handling, and endpointing. Now, frameworks like Vapi and Pipecat make it easier to create agents that perform well ā€œmost of the time.ā€ These advancements have pushed voice AI ahead of human agents in many customer support settings, while enabling 24/7 phone support, healthcare check-ins, automated freight scheduling, and experimental voice UIs. But ā€œmost of the timeā€ isnā€™t enough. To achieve consistent reliability, tools for real-time observability, testing, and performance metrics are essential. Coval and Canonical AI are leading efforts here, setting the stage for 2025 to be the year of AI evals and metrics.

Can't beat the original

Amazon Haul: Amazon's answer to Temu

Iā€™ve never shopped on Temuā€”partly out of trust concerns and partly because Iā€™m wary of supporting a race to the bottom on prices. But seeing Amazon Haul ā€œbacked by Amazonā€™s A-to-Z Guaranteeā€ intrigued me enough to give it a shot. Unfortunately, the experience has been disappointing. The app feels cluttered, I canā€™t easily search for items, see prices, or even add things to my cart (maybe itā€™s overloaded with Black Friday traffic?). Compared to Amazonā€™s usual streamlined interface, this feels chaotic and full of friction. Maybe Gen Z is fine with the busy design, but I just want a quick, seamless shopping experience. For now, I think Iā€™ll stick with the main Amazon platform.

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