
AppStories· Folge 496
Summer Projects: Automation, Email, and Dictation
Montag, 3. August 2026 · 50 min
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Shownotes
This week on AppStories, Federico and John cover the app and agent experiments they’re both running.
On AppStories+, John explores the sort of rapid workflow iteration enabled by agents.
Also available on YouTube here (youtube.com/watch?v=inBmVMJR3DM&list=PLDSp…).
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Links and Show Notes
Summertime Projects
John’s Logic to Final Cut Automation
• Logic Pro (apple.com/logic-pro)
• Final Cut Pro (apple.com/final-cut-pro)
• Riverside (riverside.fm)
Federico Switches Email Clients
• Superhuman (superhuman.com)
• Spark (sparkmailapp.com)
• ChatGPT Work (openai.com/index/chatgpt-for-your-most-ambitio…)
• Codex (openai.com/codex)
Federico Retests Dictation Apps
• Wispr Flow (wisprflow.ai)
• Monologue (monologue.to)
• Aqua Voice (withaqua.com)
• Typeless (typeless.com)
• Superwhisper (superwhisper.com)
T3 Code
• T3 Code (t3.codes)
• T3 Code on GitHub (github.com/pingdotgg/t3code)
• Nerd Snipe with Theo and Ben (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nerd-snipe-with-…)
John’s Research System
• Parallel (parallel.ai)
• Firecrawl (firecrawl.dev)
• Defuddle (github.com/kepano/defuddle)
AppStories+ Post-Show:
• Advancing Voice Intelligence With New Models in the API (OpenAI) (openai.com/index/advancing-voice-intelligence-…)
• Desert Ant Labs (desertant.ai)
• Pokémon Red & Blue mod turns the classic RPG into a sick 3D voxel game (polygon.com/pokemon-red-blue-3d-voxel-mod-batt…)
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