get out of the group chat

gm legends, happy Tuesday.

Today’s lineup: a group chat app with a built-in planner friend so hangouts actually happen, a tool that watches your game footage and yanks out the highlights for you, and a newsletter fixer that turns your inbox reads into a small printable paper you might actually finish.

Alfi is a group chat app with an AI tucked inside the thread. It remembers the stuff people say they want to do, suggests spots via Yelp, nudges the group toward actual times, and keeps a shared calendar so plans do not vanish in the scroll. It also does the fun extras like goofy group images and a yearly wrap of who never stops talking.

🔥 Our Take: Group chats are incredible at inventing plans and awful at following through. This adds one extra participant whose only job is to keep pushing things from talk to locked-in, without turning one poor friend into unpaid event manager. Less endless maybe, more see you there.

Boris started a thread asking if the best startups actually come from “boring” problems. He shares his own whiplash: three years chasing a big idea in online education that went nowhere, then immediate paying users when he built a simple tool for home appliance repair techs.

Replies lean toward yes. People point to founders solving their own annoyances, like distance communication or addictive social media, and note that big winners often start as small, specific fixes. Flashy, “revolutionary” ideas sound great in a pitch, but the quiet, narrow problems tend to turn into real businesses faster.

GameCutAI turns full game footage into ready-to-post highlight clips. Upload a match, practice, or vlog and it analyzes the video, finds the key plays, and spits out short, shareable moments in seconds instead of you living on the timeline all night. You can also search the footage in plain language to jump straight to the play you need.

🔥 Our Take: There is a very specific kind of misery in knowing the clip you want is somewhere in a two-hour recording. Letting AI do the watching while you decide what’s worth posting is a much better use of time, especially if you are the coach, the editor, and the social team all at once.

Analog Reader turns your favorite Substack, Ghost, and RSS newsletters into a printable newspaper. You pick what you want to read for the week, it bundles everything into a clean PDF, and you print it or send it to something like a reMarkable so you can actually read in peace without tabs, notifications, or whatever drama the algorithm thinks is more important.

🔥 Our Take: Subscribing is easy, finishing is the hard part. Dragging your reading list back onto paper is a very millennial move, but sitting with coffee and a small stack of pages still beats trying to focus next to a notification bar. It’s a neat excuse to treat long-form writing more like a book and less like another tab you forget.