# Digest: 2026-04-21

## Status
phase: selection-complete
updated: 2026-04-21T03:15:00Z

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## Final Selection

Total items: 24

### Product Hunt (7 items)

#### Item: Twenty 2.0
- source: Product Hunt
- card_type: ph
- urls:
    primary: https://twenty.com
- title: Twenty 2.0
- tagline: Build your Enterprise CRM with an AI-friendly SDK
- votes: 287
- domain: twenty.com
- description: Open-source CRM rebuilt as an app framework. Build custom enterprise apps on top without forking. Self-hostable, AI-SDK ready, Salesforce alternative built from scratch.

#### Item: Perplexity Health
- source: Product Hunt
- card_type: ph
- urls:
    primary: https://perplexity.ai/health
- title: Perplexity Health
- tagline: Ask health questions across your records, labs, wearables
- votes: 144
- domain: perplexity.ai
- description: Unified health Q&A across medical records, lab results, and wearable data. AI-powered health assistant that connects all your health data sources.

#### Item: Chronicle
- source: Product Hunt
- card_type: ph
- urls:
    primary: https://developers.openai.com/codex/memories/chronicle
- title: Chronicle
- tagline: Build Codex memories from recent screen context
- votes: 132
- domain: developers.openai.com
- description: Captures screen context and builds persistent memories for OpenAI Codex. Lets coding agents recall what you've been working on across sessions.

#### Item: LiveDemo
- source: Product Hunt
- card_type: ph
- urls:
    primary: https://livedemo.ai
- title: LiveDemo
- tagline: Open-source interactive product demos
- votes: 130
- domain: livedemo.ai
- description: Create interactive product demos without code. Open-source alternative to commercial demo platforms. Record, edit, and share product walkthroughs.

#### Item: Harker 2.0
- source: Product Hunt
- card_type: ph
- urls:
    primary: https://getharker.com
- title: Harker 2.0
- tagline: Private speech-to-text on your Mac
- votes: 101
- domain: getharker.com
- description: On-device speech-to-text for macOS. All processing happens locally — no cloud, no data leaves your Mac. Native Swift app with Whisper-based transcription.

#### Item: Pioneer
- source: Product Hunt
- card_type: ph
- urls:
    primary: https://pioneer.ai
- title: Pioneer
- tagline: Fine-tune any LLM in minutes, with one prompt
- votes: 97
- domain: pioneer.ai
- description: Fine-tune any open LLM with a single prompt. Handles dataset generation, training, and deployment. Minutes instead of hours of manual configuration.

#### Item: X Island
- source: Product Hunt
- card_type: ph
- urls:
    primary: https://xisland.app
- title: X Island
- tagline: Dynamic Island for AI Coding Agents
- votes: 95
- domain: xisland.app
- description: macOS utility that turns the notch area into a live status display for AI coding agents. See Claude Code, Codex, and other agents' progress at a glance.

### AI/LLMs (8 items)

#### Item: ChatGPT Images 2.0 (FEATURED)
- source: AI-LLMs
- card_type: featured
- urls:
    primary: https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-images-2-0/
- title: ChatGPT Images 2.0 — GPT-Image-2 Sets New Standard
- description: OpenAI officially launched GPT-Image-2 with a live stream. The model now reasons before drawing — self-reviewing and iterating on outputs up to 11 minutes. Jumped to #1 on the text-to-image Arena leaderboard by a wide margin. Native 2K resolution, reliable typography, multi-image consistency, and photorealistic quality that's stunned the community. Available to all ChatGPT users; thinking mode for Plus/Pro.
- meta: openai.com · r/openai

#### Item: Google Deep Research Max
- source: AI-LLMs
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/next-generation-gemini-deep-research/
- title: Google Launches Deep Research Max
- description: Built on Gemini 3.1 Pro. Two variants — Deep Research (fast, interactive) and Deep Research Max (comprehensive, async). MCP support, native chart/infographic generation. Max scores 93.3% on DeepSearchQA and 54.6% on HLE. Available in API public preview.

#### Item: Claude Code removed from Pro
- source: AI-LLMs
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/22/anthropic_removes_claude_code_pro/
- title: Anthropic Tests Removing Claude Code from $20 Pro Plan
- description: Anthropic's pricing page now shows Claude Code as Max-only ($100+/mo) for new signups. Company calls it a "small test on ~2% of new users" but support docs already updated. Developers who signed up for Pro specifically for Claude Code feel bait-and-switched. Compute costs cited as the reason.

#### Item: Open WebUI Desktop
- source: AI-LLMs
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://github.com/open-webui/desktop
- title: Open WebUI Desktop Released
- description: Desktop app bundles llama.cpp for zero-config local inference. Connect to remote servers or run everything locally. Available for macOS (ARM64/x64) and Windows. Persistent API key support in v0.0.9.

#### Item: IBM Granite 4.1 8B
- source: AI-LLMs
- card_type: compact
- urls:
    primary: https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.1-8b
- title: IBM Granite 4.1 8B Released
- description: Improved tool calling, instruction following, and chat. Enhanced RL alignment pipeline. Open weights on HuggingFace.

#### Item: Ling-2.6-Flash = Elephant Alpha
- source: AI-LLMs
- card_type: compact
- urls:
    primary: https://openrouter.ai/openrouter/elephant-alpha
- title: Elephant Alpha Unmasked as Ling-2.6-Flash
- description: The anonymous "Elephant Alpha" model making waves on OpenRouter has been identified as InclusionAI's Ling-2.6-Flash. Follow-up to its Apr 18 debut.

#### Item: Roo Code shutting down
- source: AI-LLMs
- card_type: compact
- urls:
    primary: https://x.com/mattrubens/status/2046636598859559114
- title: Roo Code Shuts Down at 3M Installs, Pivots to Roomote
- description: VS Code AI coding extension Roo Code (3M installs) is shutting down. Founder pivoting entirely to Roomote, a remote-first AI coding tool.

#### Item: Bezos Project Prometheus
- source: AI-LLMs
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-21/jeff-bezos-nears-10-billion-funding-round-for-ai-lab-ft-says
- title: Bezos's "Project Prometheus" Raising $10B for Physical AI
- description: Jeff Bezos's five-month-old startup nearing $10B at $38B valuation. Backed by JPMorgan, BlackRock. Building AI that natively understands physics for aerospace, automotive, robotics. Co-CEO is physicist Vik Bajaj from Google X. Bezos's first operational role since leaving Amazon.

### GenAI/Media (3 items)

#### Item: ComfyUI DiffAid Patches
- source: GenAI-Media
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://github.com/xmarre/ComfyUI-DiffAid-Patches
- title: ComfyUI DiffAid Patches — Better Text-Image Alignment
- description: Inference-time adaptive denoising that improves text-image interaction without retraining. Based on arXiv:2602.13585. Works with FLUX and other rectified flow models. Significant improvement in prompt adherence and composition.

#### Item: Anima Turbo LoRA
- source: GenAI-Media
- card_type: compact
- urls:
    primary: https://civitai.com/models/2560840/anima-turbo-lora
- title: Anima Turbo LoRA v0.1 Released
- description: First turbo/distillation LoRA for the Anima model. Faster inference with minimal quality loss.

#### Item: ComfyUI Panorama Stickers
- source: GenAI-Media
- card_type: compact
- urls:
    primary: https://github.com/nomadoor/ComfyUI-Panorama-Stickers
- title: ComfyUI Panorama Stickers Adds Video + 360° Support
- description: Now supports video panoramas alongside images. Works with LTX-2.3 360 VR LoRA for immersive content. 180° and 360° preview in ComfyUI.

### Apps/Software (7 items)

#### Item: Backdrop 2.5
- source: Apps-Software
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://cindori.com/backdrop
- title: Backdrop 2.5 — Mac Live Wallpaper Engine
- description: Native Mac wallpaper engine with live wallpapers for Desktop and Lock Screen. New in 2.5: playlists, community platform, wallpaper scheduling. One-time purchase.

#### Item: ViewPorts
- source: Apps-Software
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://apps.apple.com/app/viewports
- title: ViewPorts — Live Port Monitor for Mac
- description: Menu bar utility showing every USB and Thunderbolt device. Walks the full device tree including hubs. Shows power draw per-port, speed, connection type. Lifetime license.

#### Item: Lattice
- source: Apps-Software
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://apps.apple.com/app/lattice-reference-manager
- title: Lattice — Lightweight Mac-Native Reference Manager
- description: Native macOS reference manager built as an alternative to bloated Electron-based academic tools. Fast, low memory, respects Mac conventions.

#### Item: SmoothCapture
- source: Apps-Software
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://smoothcapture.app
- title: SmoothCapture 1.2 — Native Mac Screen Recorder
- description: Swift + Metal screen recorder. 3D device frames (iPhone, iPad, MacBook), lens/lightbox effects, smooth zoom animations. Alternative to Screen Studio with different feature set.

#### Item: Fluent 1.8
- source: Apps-Software
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://fluent.so
- title: Fluent 1.8 — Spotlight-Like AI Assistant with MCP
- description: Native macOS AI assistant invoked like Spotlight. Full MCP support, hybrid RAG knowledge base, 20+ file formats. Supports all major AI providers. New action editor and prompt refiner in 1.8.

#### Item: LubeLogger
- source: Apps-Software
- card_type: compact
- urls:
    primary: https://lubelogger.com
- title: LubeLogger — Self-Hosted Vehicle Maintenance Tracker
- description: Track service records, fuel mileage, and expenses for all vehicles. Docker-ready. New QoL improvements in latest release.

#### Item: SearXNG Rotating VPN
- source: Apps-Software
- card_type: compact
- urls:
    primary: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1srpzpa/running_searxng_through_rotating_vpn_connections/
- title: Running SearXNG Through Rotating VPN Connections
- description: Guide for keeping self-hosted SearXNG alive when search engines fingerprint and rate-limit your instance — especially relevant when integrated with AI tools.
