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New Products 💯, AI for Collaborative Design 🍥, The People vs Google? 👨🏽⚖️
Today's TechToks: 70% cheaper Gemini 1.5, Make a software company with GPT framework, free open-source collaborative design, best hacks from cybersecurity conferences, Trending GitHub repositories, Product Picks, and more!
TechTok by João Martins
August 14, 2024
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Today's Picks🍒
💥 CrowdStrike’s crisis communication: Accepting the 'Most Epic Fail Award'
📈 Open-source productivity tools
🥊 What Google rivals want after the DOJ’s antitrust trial win
🛡️ Hacks & security research from Black Hat and Def Con 2024
😎 From Google Engineering: 70% cheaper Gemini
🏗️ From Slack Engineering: Re-architecture for huge customers
🌟 GitHub's Trending Repositories
🤝 The first open-source collaborative design tool
⚡️ Fast, easy AI management and development
🤹♂️ Software Company as Multi-Agent System
🏎️ Next.js and Tailwind CSS template
✨ Best practices for Node.js
🔥 Products of the Week
💡 Get your notes & bookmarks as an email roundup
🔁 Share up to 2TB in single file with extraordinary layouts
🐶 Find a match to your pet dog
➕ 7 more products to train your chatbots in spreadsheets, build a personal AI coach, write a website copy with AI, and more.
🧐 Weekly Picks
Most impactful articles and news of this week on techtok.today
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CrowdStrike's president accepted the 'Most Epic Fail' award in person, showcasing the company's transparency and accountability after a mass IT outage disrupted thousands of Microsoft systems. Experts praised this move as a PR masterclass, highlighting how admitting mistakes and addressing them with humility and humor can earn brand love, even for tech giants.
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📱 Product Picks
Curated products from Product Hunt.
🔥Trending products of the week
Generates Website Copy That Actually Sells in seconds, and helps you finish all your projects faster and launch in hours, not weeks.
A podcast app that uses AI to curate the best podcast moments, replacing full episodes with clips and subscriptions with clip playlists.
🐶 Pegada
Find the ideal playmates, companions, or breeding partners for your dog with a sophisticated matching and filtering system.
A platform to showcase your products through tech stacks: a resource for new indie hackers to learn and an opportunity for founders to showcase their work.
An AI generated email roundup of your recent notes and bookmarks. "Read it later" content regularly sent to your email, with a convenient AI summary for each file, note or link.
Kommunicate’s AI-powered customer service now can custom train chatbots on your spreadsheets to get real-time actionable insights.
💯 TechTok Recommends
We’ve tried it and it’s the real deal.
🔁 DROP
A simple, secure tool for sending large files up to 2TB, including photos and videos, with templates and layouts for displaying your work in your way.
🧢 Me.bot
Personalized AI companion that captures and connects your thoughts, synthesizing a coach for all your life challenges, from a big career move to a small gloomy moment.
AI-powered business plan software that simplifies planning for entrepreneurs and teams with our intuitive tools. Create comprehensive business plans, engaging pitch decks, and strategic plans.
✨ "Too long don't README"
GitHub trending repos of today
The first open-source design tool that enables collaborative design and development. It allows designers to create designs and prototypes, while developers can access the code and integrate it into their workflow.
What can you use this for? Design system management, real-time collaboration, and code inspection.
An AI management and development platform with self-hostable AI models to build apps. Based on a microservices architecture and integrates with third-party AI apps through Docker and OpenAPI.
What can you use this for? Run AI models, quickly build backendless apps, and deploy third-party AI apps easily.
A multi-agent framework that assigns different roles to GPTs to collaboratively tackle complex software engineering tasks. It combines LLMs into a multi-agent system, where each agent is assigned a specific role to collectively generate software artifacts.
What can you use this for? Build software faster, generate data structures and APIs, write documentation.
A feature-rich, customizable Next.js and Tailwind CSS blogging starter template with Contentlayer for managing markdown content, addressing common issues faced by individual bloggers. Provides examples like this one.
What can you use this for? Quickly code blog websites, be it a technical knowledge column, travel blog, or your portfolio.
Repos to learn something new
A comprehensive collection of 102 best practices for building Node.js applications to help developers write robust, scalable, and maintainable code. Covers 8 topics including architecture, error handling, coding style, and more.
What can you use this for? Learn and collaborate on best practices for node.js or it’s challanges.
👩🏽💻 Engineering Blogs
Articles from engineering blogs of big tech companies
Many improvements across AI Studio and the Gemini AP were announced, including: Gemini 1.5 Flash token costs decreasing by over 70%, 1.5 Flash tuning being available to all developers, and Gemini API supporting queries in 100+ additional languages .
Slack re-architected its backend and client applications to provide a unified view of data across multiple workspaces for its largest customers, addressing issues with their previous workspace-centric architecture, such as sync bugs and performance problems.
