😸 Google just killed Chromebook

gm legends, happy Wednesday.

Google killed Chromebook and replaced it with Googlebook — Android-native, Gemini built into the OS, Magic Pointer that sees your screen; a Columbia engineer built a 0.4oz wristband that remembers every conversation you have all day; Latitude wants to show you exactly where Claude Code burns your tokens; and Vercel Day is Friday — two days left to get your launch on the leaderboard.

Googlebook is Google's new Android-based laptop line — announced yesterday with Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, and Lenovo — that replaces Chromebooks with a platform built around Gemini Intelligence at the OS level, including Magic Pointer, an AI-powered cursor that surfaces contextual suggestions based on whatever is on your screen.

🔥 Our Take: Chromebooks were always a compromised product: cheap, cloud-dependent, limited. Replacing them with an Android OS with Gemini at the foundation is a different kind of bet. Magic Pointer is the tell — it's not a chat box you open separately, it's the cursor itself becoming AI-aware. Microsoft threw down with Copilot+ PCs. Google's answer is to go deeper.

Vercel Day is this Friday, May 15. The countdown is on.

If you have something ready to ship, now is the time to schedule your launch. Launch on Product Hunt on Friday and you're automatically on the official Vercel Day leaderboard, in front of thousands of builders already paying attention that day. Top launches win prizes.

Two days. Get it scheduled.

They kept using words like colleague, coworker, team member. One CEO called it the glue holding their e-commerce business together, which is a lot, but also… you see why. It lives in Slack and plugs into 3,000+ tools, so instead of jumping between tabs, you just ask for the thing. Pull Stripe against HubSpot, check Sentry alerts, spin up a campaign brief, build a landing page, send a report upstairs. It all happens there.

One user said it was the first time AI felt like a real coworker, which is either exciting or slightly concerning depending on your week.

Memoket Gem is built by Terrence, a Columbia-educated engineer who spent seven years shipping AI across banking, enterprise, and consumer products — it's a 0.4oz AI wristband that captures your conversations all day and surfaces summaries, connected context, tasks, and follow-ups into your existing tools.

🔥 Our Take: The AI wearable space has been full of pendants and clips, but a wristband is something you already wear. The 0.4oz weight is the product decision that matters most — any heavier and it competes with a watch. The real design challenge here isn't the hardware though, it's consent and privacy: Memoket is passively recording everything all day, and who controls what gets captured and shared is where products like this win or lose.

Latitude for Claude Code comes from César Miguelañez and Gerard Clos — ex-VP of Product and ex-Director of Engineering at Factorial — and shows developers exactly where Claude Code is burning tokens: which tasks, which loops, which prompts, so you can hit your limits less and understand your cost profile beyond a monthly invoice.

🔥 Our Take: Two people who ran product and engineering at a scale-up know what invisible system failures look like, and that's the exact problem here. Claude Code burns tokens in ways that are completely opaque until you get the bill. Latitude's bet is that this is the APM moment for AI agents — every production app eventually needed Datadog, and every production agent is going to need something like this. The Claude Code integration is the specific wedge, but the platform is built for anything.