They acquired Limitless AI in 2025 which had pivoted from “record and rewind anything on your Mac” to a hardware pendant “granola for everything” product. It was not in market for very long prior to the acquisition.
Hardware was very nice & sorry to see they sold. Mine sits in my desk now :/
Limitless used to be Rewind that maintained one of the most useful pieces of software on my Mac, and I use a cracked version now because I refuse to give it up. There is nothing else like it yet. I seem to recall some other thing that aims to be similar, but that might be cross-platform or otherwise Linux-ish which discounted it as a practical alternative. (I don't remember its name unfortunately)
I said Rewind, as that's what the company and product was called at that point before they rebranded to Limitless (and completely abandoned Rewind). The product called Limitless had no relation to Rewind and no plans to integrate Rewind's functionality. Rewind's website continued to exist and continued to accept payments, which is how I found and purchased the app, but there were no updates.
- Rewind uses Apple's on-device OCR (Live Text). That alone sets it apart from every other screen recorder, I've never seen another - you can search by any text that has ever been captured on-screen. I do not trust any OCR other than Live Text.
- The on-disk format is fairly compact. Over 7 months of recording is still under 250 GB on my machine.
- It records the URL in Safari so you can return to any web page you have ever visited without having to rely on OCR of the address bar, which isn't even displayed anymore most of the time.
I haven't used most of its other features.
Unfortunately, it's been breaking recently as macOS updates. For instance, notification banners no longer show up in the recordings. This actually removes a huge part of the utility for me, as I used to be able to use Rewind to catch notifications I didn't see in time, but that is no longer possible. So now when I see a notification slide away in the corner of my vision, I just have to accept that there's nothing I can do to ever see what it was (most notifications do not go to Notification Center on my machine; not sure why).
Also, Rewind crashes so often that I need to have a script in crontab to automatically restart it.
Uber has over time had to relax a lot of the marketplace management practices that reduce the incidence of experiences like this. Can’t penalize drivers for cancelling / ignoring requests because it starts to erode their argument around drivers being independent contractors. So of course the quality of the product degrades to the point where now it’s going to accelerate the move away from human drivers.
Ups = some local-area doulas have started sharing the baby app in a big WhatsApp group & growth is starting to pick up.
Downs = my first vibe-coding horror story. For PracticeCallAI, the subscription flow was failing and somehow outside my test coverage, so I've been missing out on new subscribers for the last two months. In an effort fix it, Replit Agent - which I have been loving otherwise - truncated the table that stores all of the user calls. and their database rollback is throwing errors. So that's been fun.
Working on https://practicecallai.com/ - simple saas that lets users run practice calls / role play against a custom AI partner. Goal is to make it the easiest to use & fastest to get started with in the market.
It’s been a fun, practical way to continuously evaluate the latest models two ways - via coding assistance & swapping between models to power the conversational AI voice partner. I’ve been trying to add one big new feature each time the model generation updates.
The next thing I want to add is a self improving feedback loop where it uses user ratings of the calls & evaluations to refine the prompts that generate them.
I was getting stuck in some manager <> direct report situations and wanted to figure out a way to practice tough conversations, so I started putting together https://practicecallai.com/.
You can choose from common difficult scenarios or create a custom one and get connected with a conversational AI voice agent to practice. Started out with just manager use cases but now testing out sales calls, interviews, pitches, etc.
Mostly built on Replit (would recommend - is amazing & keeps getting better) and relying on a mix of ElevenLabs / OpenAI / Anthropic for the voice & LLM tech.
I've been working on an iOS app called snapmail: lets you take any photo on your phone, filter / sticker it, and send it as a 4x6 postcard anywhere in the U.S. for $2.99. Fun way to stay in touch with friends & fam. One of a few no-account-needed, single use iOS apps I've been working on.
https://www.usertesting.com - you can upload screenshots / prototypes / the actual webpages (if they exist) and have users go through a series of questions. You can also set it to scramble the order to see how that (if at all) changes preferences.
As other folks called out, this can give you a sense of customer comprehension / stated preferences & reasons why, but may not give you the level of confidence a true A/B test would (launching both iterations & splitting traffic amongst & measuring conversion difference)
Which market are you in and who did you end up getting in touch with in support? Did you try the Safety Incident Support Line? At least in the US that is 1 (800) 285-6172.
Without getting into specifics they absolutely do have a way to track down the driver regardless of the state of the trip / who cancelled.
Yes I specifically called that line. They informed me that they had no ability to see driver canceled rides. They could only see the same rides I have in my history. They were sympathetic and took my complaint but ultimately it ended up nowhere. The same Uber support black hole of nothingness. No response, no follow-up nothing.
Pretty much this driver exploit can be executed with impunity and Uber does not care and there is no way for customers to report it.
I have a good friend who runs http://barnonetrivia.com - they have professional hosts who lead ~hour long live zoom trivia games. Questions are creative and original. Can't recommend enough - very fun!
I know Nick, Bob, and Strader from early Uber Boston days - they are great people and very hard workers. I'm really happy to see ex-Uber folks going after an opportunity to strengthen local communities vs. so many others who tried to hop on the next scooter / marketplace / fintech 'rocketship'
I don't know enough about the investment model they support, but any company that is trying to help grow important community businesses like Great Scott in Allston deserves attention.
Hardware was very nice & sorry to see they sold. Mine sits in my desk now :/
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