AppStories

·S1 E482

Filling the App Gap

April 27
49 mins

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Episode Description

This week on AppStories, John and Federico cover Apple’s executive transition, follow up on OpenAI’s super app, and share the apps they’re looking for and give each other suggestions on how to fill their app gaps.

On AppStories+, we round up the tools we’ve built for ourselves that fill gaps, for which we haven’t found apps.

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Links and Show Notes Links and Show Notes

Apple Leadership Transition

OpenAI Codex and Computer Use Follow-Up

Filling the App Gap

AppStories+ Post Show: Self-Built Tools and the Services Behind Them
  • ElevenLabs
  • Buffer
  • Google Gemini
  • Kokoro TTS
  • Defuddle
  • CrossPost (John’s cross-platform social media posting tool)
  • Research Feed (John’s ranked, filtered social media reader)
  • Dialog (John’s article-to-podcast converter using Defuddle, Claude, and Kokoro TTS)
  • Daily Star (John’s twice-daily magazine-style digest from Notion, RSS, and Matter)
  • Notion Daily Notes Appender (Federico’s quick-capture web app)
  • Notion Daily Notes Viewer (Federico’s horizontal tray viewer for open daily notes)
  • Ghost Reader (Federico’s Readwise Reader audio-preview tool using ElevenLabs)
  • CLI Chats (Federico’s session-log viewer for Claude Code and Codex)

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