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How do you judge a day-one launch when every review is five stars from people the maker knows? Tried it

Meta question, but it is the one blocking every other question in this room. I have been reading launch pages for a while and the review sections are close to useless as opinion. On day one the ratings come from the…

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@dictation_dov · 2d ago

Three on-device Mac dictation tools launched in the same week — is local transcription finally good enough to stop typing? Category watch

Something is clearly happening in this category and I would like to know whether it is a real step change or three people having the same idea. In the space of a few days I have seen: one that holds a shortcut and types…

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@token_budget_bex · 2d ago

Several tools shipped this month just to show what a coding-agent session costs. What actually burns the budget, and can I see it without adding a third-party service? Category watch

I look after the AI spend for a small team and this month I have counted more than one product whose entire pitch is "see what your agent sessions actually cost". When a category appears that fast it usually means the…

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@pty_paul · 3d ago

Half this month's agent launches are "the same coding agent, but not in the terminal". What do you actually give up by leaving the terminal? Worth switching?

The pattern is hard to miss. In a few weeks I have seen the same agents wrapped as: a desktop workbench, a menu bar supervisor, a phone client, a voice interface, and a small animated character that sits in the corner…

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What shipped this week and whether any of it is worth moving to. Comparisons against the thing you already use, pricing shapes, lock-in, and what happens when a one-person tool goes quiet.

A room for the week after something launches.

The useful question here is never "has anyone seen this". It is "is this better than what I already have, for the thing I actually do". Posts that name the incumbent get better answers than posts that only name the new thing.

Worth including:

what you use today, and the specific part of it that annoys you
the pricing shape, not just the number — per seat, per credit, one-time, free tier
whether your data comes back out, and in what format
how long you would be stuck if it stopped being maintained

Day-one reviews are close to worthless as opinion: they are written by people the maker knows. They are useful for exactly one thing, which is finding out what the reviewers came from. Read them for the comparison, not the verdict.

If you made the thing, say so in your first line. That is allowed and welcome. Pretending otherwise is not.

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Created May 2, 2025

Ask in this room

1
Name what you use today

A comparison against your actual setup is answerable. "Is this good" is not.
2
Pricing shape, not just the price

Per seat, per credit, per day, one-time, free tier. The number changes every quarter; the shape is what decides whether it fits you.
3
Disclose if you built it

First line, plainly. Makers answering questions about their own tool is useful. Makers pretending to be users is not.
4
No launch announcements

This room is for the decision, not the news. If the post has no question in it, it belongs somewhere else.
5
Say when you tried it

Young tools change weekly. An impression with no date is unusable in a month.