Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
This week, Federico and John kick off their holiday app and automation experimentation season a little earlier than usual with a mix of apps, automations, and services.
On AppStories+, Federico and John look ahead, considering the future of Shortcuts and automation.
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Links and Show Notes
App and Automation Experiments
- Follow Up
- Claude Skills — claude.com/blog/skills
- Federico's Ongoing AI Testing
- Typing Mind — typingmind.com
- OpenWeb UI — openwebui.com
- Kimi K2 on Groq — groq.com/blog/introducing-kimi-k2-0905-on-groqcloud
- Kimi K2 Thinking — moonshotai.github.io/Kimi-K2/thinking.html
- MiniMax M2 — minimax.io
- Ticci article on MS
- Cerebras integration of GLM 4.6 by Z.ai — inference-docs.cerebras.ai/models/zai-glm-46
- John's App Experiments
- Bloom — bloomapp.club
- Superhuman — superhuman.com
- Federico's Service Experiments
- Firecrawl — https://www.firecrawl.dev
- Parallel — parallel.ai
- Exa — exa.ai
- Pushover — pushover.net
- Zapier — zapier.com
- John's Claude Code - Python - Notion Experiments
- Notion — https://notion.so
- Federico's Drafts and Readwise Reader workflow
- Drafts — getdrafts.com
- Readwise Reader — readwise.io/read
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John and Federico consider the future of Shortcuts in light of the rapidly evolving automation landscape.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Claude Skills Follow-Up
04:57 - The Holiday Experiment Season Begins
05:25 - TypingMind
14:50 - John's App Experiments
20:53 - Federico's Services Experiments
23:36 - Parallel
28:55 - Claude Code Scripting in Terminal and Connecting to Notion
31:55 - Drafts Actions and Browser Testing
This week, Federico and John kick off their holiday app and automation experimentation season a little earlier than usual with a mix of apps, automations, and services.
On AppStories+, Federico and John look ahead, considering the future of Shortcuts and automation.
---
Links and Show Notes
App and Automation Experiments
- Follow Up
- Claude Skills — claude.com/blog/skills
- Federico's Ongoing AI Testing
- Typing Mind — typingmind.com
- OpenWeb UI — openwebui.com
- Kimi K2 on Groq — groq.com/blog/introducing-kimi-k2-0905-on-groqcloud
- Kimi K2 Thinking — moonshotai.github.io/Kimi-K2/thinking.html
- MiniMax M2 — minimax.io
- Ticci article on MS
- Cerebras integration of GLM 4.6 by Z.ai — inference-docs.cerebras.ai/models/zai-glm-46
- John's App Experiments
- Bloom — bloomapp.club
- Superhuman — superhuman.com
- Federico's Service Experiments
- Firecrawl — https://www.firecrawl.dev
- Parallel — parallel.ai
- Exa — exa.ai
- Pushover — pushover.net
- Zapier — zapier.com
- John's Claude Code - Python - Notion Experiments
- Notion — https://notion.so
- Federico's Drafts and Readwise Reader workflow
- Drafts — getdrafts.com
- Readwise Reader — readwise.io/read
AppStories+ Post-Show
John and Federico consider the future of Shortcuts in light of the rapidly evolving automation landscape.
Visit AppStories.net to learn more about the extended, high bitrate audio version of AppStories that is delivered early each week and subscribe — http://appstories.plus
Check out our Desk Setups — macstories.net/setups
Leave Feedback for John and Federico
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Follow us on Mastodon
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- Federico Viticci — mastodon.macstories.net/@viticci
- John Voorhees — mastodon.macstories.net/@johnvoorhees
Follow us on Bluesky
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- John Voorhees — https://bsky.app/profile/johnvoorhees.macstories.net
Affiliate Linking Policy — macstories.net/privacy-policy
Timestamps:
00:00 - Claude Skills Follow-Up
04:57 - The Holiday Experiment Season Begins
05:25 - TypingMind
14:50 - John's App Experiments
20:53 - Federico's Services Experiments
23:36 - Parallel
28:55 - Claude Code Scripting in Terminal and Connecting to Notion
31:55 - Drafts Actions and Browser Testing
