Daily analysis
Short original articles about products that got it right — what they do and why they win and my expert verdict. In English and Persian.
Oct 13, 2026
5Your social profile is rented land
The algorithm changes and the rules change and the account can get restricted — none of it asks for your opinion. I built my own house at mehrdad.ir and treat LinkedIn as the storefront facing the street.
Read the analysis4 rules for AI-drafted posts that do not read like AI
This week I fully reviewed an open-source toolkit for writing LinkedIn posts built on 2026 data. Four rules survived as the most usable: statement openings and number-first lines and links in the first comment and a real AI-tell scrub.
Read the analysisOne short sentence reshaped the Social Studio roadmap
My AI content tool ships a wizard that currently generates Persian only. The feedback that arrived was one line — choose the language and the network inside the wizard — and the second version of that path clearly wins.
Read the analysisThe driving-license exam app is live on Cafe Bazaar
My driving-license exam app is now live on Cafe Bazaar. What shipped is a version whose core fully works — one honest choice included: Cafe Bazaar only for now because that is where the real users are.
Read the analysisDependency security pass: 16 alerts and closing 15 of them
16 security alerts were sitting on my website repository. 15 are closed as of today with the smallest possible version changes — and the one without an upstream fix is documented and watched, not hidden.
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2Superhuman Go puts the AI assistant where the work actually happens
Superhuman Go skips the empty chat box and embeds assistance across the tools you already use — drafting replies and summarizing threads and prepping your next meeting in place. A quiet bet that the future of AI help is contextual and not another tab.
Read the analysisGPT-6 Sol and Luna: frontier AI at half the price changes the math for small teams
GPT-6 ships as two tuned variants — Sol for deep reasoning and Luna for speed. The bigger story is the price: frontier capability at roughly half of last year's cost puts serious AI inside reach of one-person studios.
Read the analysisSep 26, 2026
2Fewer is a launcher that counts how often you pick up your phone
Fewer replaces your home screen with a plain launcher and quietly shows the number most phones hide: how many times a day you pick the device up. Measurement as a design choice — and a rare anti-addiction stance in launch software.
Read the analysisCuey compares ChatGPT and Claude and Gemini in a single tab
Cuey sends one prompt to the leading AI models and lines the answers up side by side. It turns the hunch every power user already has — that models are good at different things — into a visible and decision-ready habit.
Read the analysisSep 25, 2026
2Paragraph Notes is a private Markdown home for your Mac
Paragraph Notes keeps your notes as plain Markdown files on your own disk — no account and no lock-in and no telemetry drama. Part of a wider local-first swing that treats owning your files as a feature again.
Read the analysisKiwiDesk brings macOS window tiling that feels built into the system
KiwiDesk adds keyboard-driven tiling and layouts to macOS that behave like a first-party feature — no overlay UI and no fighting the system. A study in how small utilities earn a permanent home on the dock.
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