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Buy by Agentcard lets an AI agent place a real order for you, starting with DoorDash from inside Claude. It's the consumer demo for Agentcard, a startup that issues spend-capped virtual cards to AI agents, from founder Karen Serfaty. Your first order is free, which is a polite way of saying yes, a chatbot can now spend your money on lunch.
🔥 Our Take: Everyone will share this as the funny "make Claude order DoorDash" thing. Look at who built it instead. Karen Serfaty's last company was Atlas, a corporate card with hard spending limits, and Remote bought it. So she's already built the boring hard part, and the boring hard part is the real product. Telling a bot to buy lunch is easy. Trusting it with your money is the scary bit, because what you actually want is a card you can cap at $40, lock to one job, and kill the second the agent does something dumb. That's an expense card, which she has experience in. The competition isn't other "order from Claude" demos, it's Stripe, Visa and Mastercard,and a $15 lunch is a fun way to get people comfortable with your product.
FUTO Swipe open-sources the thing that has quietly kept people on Google's keyboard: a tiny three-model system (635K, 300K, and 1.5M parameters) that does gesture typing entirely on your phone in milliseconds, shipped with the model weights and a C++ beam search library so anyone can add swipe typing to a VR headset, a laptop, or a Linux phone. It's from FUTO, the org Eron Wolf funds out of his own pocket to build open replacements for Big Tech features, with no investors attached.
🔥 Our Take: Most people don't realize swipe typing is genuinely hard, and for a decade only Google and Microsoft pulled it off. That's a big reason nobody actually leaves Gboard, even people who swear they care about privacy. FUTO just gave it away as open models that run on your phone. They can do that and nobody else will because of Eron Wolf, an ex-Yahoo guy who self-funds open versions of Big Tech stuff (a keyboard, GrayJay, a pile of it) with no investors asking why a keyboard earns zero. Will it move anyone off Gboard? Who knows, people stay out of habit. But if these little models are as good as Google's, the last real reason to stay is gone, and people building Linux phones or VR headsets finally get decent typing.
Swimio comes from Luca Corsilli, a swimmer who got sick of the gap between dumb lap-counters and coaching platforms that cost a fortune, so he built an AI swim coach that generates workouts, reads your Apple Watch, and puts a real pace clock on your wrist: with one swimmer's detail baked in, you flick between metrics with the Digital Crown mid-set instead of fighting Water Lock to see your splits.
🔥 Our Take: The competition here isn't your Apple Watch, it's MySwimPro, the big swim app that already has an AI coach writing workouts to your wrist. So Luca's a solo guy showing up a few years late with the same idea, which is rough. But the edge is in the details: You spin the Digital Crown to flip through your splits instead of poking a soaking, locked screen between sets, the kind of thing MySwimPro never bothered with. But a nicer way to check your watch is a small thing, not exactly a moat, and "AI writes your sets" keeps hitting the same wall: getting faster needs a coach watching your stroke, and an app can't. If you swim every morning it's definitely worth a shot.
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