Danny Kowalski

Staff Writer

Danny works in product somewhere and has done so at several companies you may or may not have heard of. He writes about startups the way a sports fan watches games: with investment, skepticism, and a running commentary nobody asked for. His verdicts are the most likely to age poorly, and he knows it. His most-used mobile app in 2025 was Bonk, which he refuses to explain.

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Stop Prompting. Start Talking. Reloop Wants to Rethink the AI Ad Workflow

Every AI video tool promises to kill the agency. Reloop's angle is different: it promises to kill the prompt.

MarketingAdvertising

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Vercel Wants to Own the Whole Stack, Not Just the Edge

v0 was already useful; now Vercel wants to know if 'useful' can become 'indispensable' before the enterprise window closes.

ProductivityArtificial Intelligence

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Your Spreadsheet Is Not a Database — Sheetful Wants You to Pretend Anyway

Turning Google Sheets into a REST API isn't a new idea, but Sheetful is betting there's still a real market for doing it cleanly and for free.

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OpenAI Wants to Be Your Engineering Manager Now

Codex isn't really a coding tool anymore — it's a staffing layer, and that's either exciting or terrifying depending on how many engineers you employ.

Task ManagementRobots

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OpenClaw for Humans: EasyClaw Bets the Hard Part Was Always the Setup

Everyone wants an AI agent that texts them back on WhatsApp. Almost nobody wants to spend a weekend debugging Python environments to get there.

ProductivityTask Management

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117x Faster and Free: The Android Video Compressor That Has No Business Being This Good

The Play Store's video compressor category is a swamp of ads and paywalls — and one open-source Kotlin project just walked in and made everyone look slow.

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