This week, Federico and John kick off their holiday app and automation experimentation season a little earlier than usual with a mix of apps, automations, and services. On AppStories+, Federico and John look ahead, considering the future of Shortcuts and automation. Subscribe here. We deliver AppStories+ to subscribers with bonus content, ad-free, and at a high bitrate early every week. To learn more about an AppStories+ subscription, visit our Plans page, or read the AppStories+ FAQ. Links and Show Notes App and Automation Experiments Follow Up Claude Skills Federico’s Ongoing AI Testing Typing Mind OpenWeb UI Kimi K2 on Groq Kimi K2 Thinking MiniMax M2 Ticci article on MS Cerebras integration of GLM 4.6 by Z.ai John’s App Experiments Bloom Superhuman Federico’s Service Experiments Firecrawl Parallel Exa Pushover Zapier John’s Claude Code - Python - Notion Experiments Notion Federico’s Drafts and Readwise Reader workflow Drafts Readwise Reader Leave Feedback for John and Federico AppStories Feedback Form Follow us on Mastodon AppStories Federico Viticci John Voorhees Follow us on Bluesky AppStories MacStories Federico Viticci John Voorhees