treasure map for real life

gm legends, happy Wednesday.

Today’s lineup: a tiny compass app that tells you what’s actually in front of you and how much light you’ve got left, a local AI video brain that lets you search your footage instead of scrubbing for hours, and an all-in-one AI builder that tries to take you from idea to shipped app without juggling three different backends.

What’s in that direction is a tiny iOS compass that actually answers the question in its name. You point your phone, and it shows nearby landmarks plus sunrise, sunset, and golden hour for where you are, so you know what’s in front of you and how much light you’ve got left without opening a full map app.

🔥 Our Take: This is for those little moments on a walk or trip where you’re half-sure that’s the city, or that’s the coast, but not enough to bet on it. Instead of loading maps and zooming around like a maniac, you just aim your phone and get a quick reality check plus a heads-up on whether it’s worth chasing one last bit of sun.

Jake Friedberg opened a thread asking if AI tools can really stick with classic SaaS tiers, or if usage-based pricing is basically the new normal. The core tension: GPUs are expensive and spiky, but customers still want bills they can predict.

Most people are landing on some kind of hybrid: a sane base plan plus metered usage, with very clear value metrics, live usage dashboards, caps, and alerts so no one wakes up to a nightmare invoice. Pure pay-per-use only feels okay when the value per action is painfully obvious. If you’re currently guessing between flat plans and token meters for your own product, this thread is a good reality check.

Edit Mind is a local AI video tool that turns raw footage into something you can actually search. It runs on your machine, indexes every clip with things like objects, faces, and emotions, then lets you use natural language to jump to exact moments or spit out rough cuts without scrubbing through hours of timeline.

🔥 Our Take: Video files are still big dumb blobs on most hard drives. Having a tool that watches everything once, tags it properly, and lets you say “show me the part where she laughs in the red jacket” is a huge upgrade over dragging a playhead and guessing. The local part matters too – your archive stays yours.

Imagine is an AI builder that takes you from prompt to working product on top of Appwrite in one shot. You describe what you want and it pulls together frontend, backend, auth, database, storage, notifications, hosting, compliance, security, and scaling so you are not juggling three other platforms just to launch.

🔥 Our Take: describing yourself as the most complete AI building platform in 2026 is a brave move, but the interesting part is the ambition to replace the usual Lovable plus Supabase plus Vercel stack with one place that actually ships. If it really holds up for prototypes, internal tools, and proper apps, a lot of builders will quietly pick convenience over yet another clever demo.