Welcome to this week’s edition of Tool Clarity, content should be a little more consistent in the coming weeks.
Make sure to stick around as well; big announcements coming soon.
- Hunter
🚨 Quick News Recap
Anthropic’s model Mythos too good to be released?: Anthropic announced it will only be available to certain companies through project Glasswing.
A new trend in buying media businesses: major companies have recently started acquiring smaller media brands. Two of the bigger ones being OpenAI buying out TBPN and Hubspot acquiring Starter Story.
Meta announces Muse Spark: this is Meta’s latest AI model built to compete with the likes of Claude and Gemini.
🎯 Mini Deep Dive: is SaaS dying?
There has been a lot of talk (and fight) online recently about the future of SaaS. With many people even claiming software will be completely dead within the next few years due to AI coding becoming so good.
While this is obviously most likely for engagement it really does raise the question:
Is software still going to be a viable business in the coming years?
I think it really depends on what you build and the moats you have around your business.
Let me clarify a little more 👇
Anyone these days can now spin up a project on Lovable or Claude Code. The barrier to entry for a lot of apps and tools has basically gone to zero.
What really matters now is what you have protecting your business from AI and how you stand out in the market.
A few examples of good moats:
Software is still going to stick around for a long time but the way you win is already changing.
High quality products and defensible moats now matter more than ever.
💡 AI Ideas
Here are practical ways people are using AI this week:
Claude in Chrome is underrated
This week I used the Claude chrome extension to help design the newsletter you are reading right now. It figured out impressively quick how to use all the no-code Beehiiv settings in the editor.
Stop making sites that look like AI slop
A few quick tips to instantly upgrade the design output of AI tools:
use design skills for tools like Claude Code (don’t expect crazy results but it’s still worth it)
get inspiration from other websites with a combo of screenshots + source code (tutorial in this video)
find custom components you like to stand out even more (good places to look: 21st.dev, GSAP, Motion.dev)
🛠️ Tool Spotlight
Tools I have found interesting/useful this week:
Growth: A good-looking task, calendar, and time tracking app with natural language processing.
Littlebird: AI that has full context to everything you do on your computer automatically, completely secure.
Dimension: An agent coworker that never sleeps, fully integrated into the apps you already use.
FireCrawl: Scrape websites and get data better and faster for your AI agents.
🏷️ Deals & Discounts
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That’s it for this week. Any feedback you may have would be greatly appreciated. Just reply to this email and let us know whatever you’re thinking.
Until next time,