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PDQ sells IT teams their time back
A school technician with a USB stick explains the appeal of PDQ better than any software pitch. The company built its business by making the same job repeatable across hundreds of computers.
Sketch and the art of leaving things out
A discarded app supplied the diamond. A very particular kind of designer supplied the business. Sixteen years later, Sketch is still testing how much a design tool should do - and how much it should leave alone.
The Developer Became the Manager
Conductor began by giving each coding agent its own corner of a Mac. Now it wants to be the desk where people assign, inspect and share the work of whole teams of agents.
Apple Sells You a Smaller World, and You Keep Buying It
It started in a garage and now runs on custom silicon, a services machine, and a billion-plus devices that all talk to each other. Here is how the walled garden actually works - and why leaving it feels like moving countries.
jo
jo is a voice-first personal AI agent for macOS that runs on your Mac and a private, per-user cloud machine. Rather than waiting to be asked, it proactively summarizes what is on your screen, drafts emails, manages your calendar, clips relevant content, and keeps up with the loose ends of work and life. Built natively in Swift for Apple Silicon and backed by Y Combinator (W24), jo reaches users across Mac, web, iMessage, Telegram, and WhatsApp while keeping personal data local and out of model training.
Copilot Money
Copilot Money is a subscription personal finance app for the Apple ecosystem that pulls all of your accounts - checking, credit cards, investments, loans - into one private, ad-free dashboard. Its standout feature is AI-powered transaction categorization that learns from your corrections, plus net worth tracking, budgets, recurring-expense detection and investment monitoring. Founded by Chilean engineers Andres Ugarte and Gabriel Dieguez Franzani, the app launched in January 2020, reached profitability in 2023, crossed 100,000 subscribers, and raised a $6M Series A in March 2024 led by Adjacent.