I'm definitely biased here, but the OpenClaw hype is making people disregard the economics of it all.
Building Auto-CRM.com, my primary concern was building a system that runs well while not costing 200$ per month to keep up, and of course, while also maintaining security. I assume the good guys at Folk, Pipedrive, etc also had similarly priorities.
A lot of good work is being done within the OpenClaw ecosystem regarding RAG and memory, but specialised orchestration process to be a more reliable system.
Forgot to add one detail:
It has an Agent sidebar like Cursor/Antigravity/etc do, which basically reveals the agentic "thinking" and what actions it took and why, which allows for iterative improvements to the steering by the user.
If the agent does something you did not want it to, you can tell it not to do that and it'll remember that for future conversations.
Gemini 3.1 Pro isn't necessarily the next frontier Coding model, but it is still an amazing model.
Everyone has taken note of it's crazy good svg skills, but I had an idea to test this further. I needed to create a launch video for a project, and had this idea of an ongoing story going on in the background of the content, with a one-shot video of a person going about the daily office grind.
When Gemini 3.1 Pro came out, I decided to try to make an animated version of it first.
So, the stack for this process looks like:
1. AI Studio Build. Very quick, great scaffolding. Already aware of React Motion and other related helpful libraries.
2. Gemini 2.5 TTS
3. OpenShot to compile the video and the audio together.
Manual work needed:
1. Getting the script together. Actually also done using Gemini in the Gemini Web App. Recorded a walkthrough of my application, and just asked it to go from there.
2. Adjusting the time allotted to each of the scenes. AIStudio created the scenes pretty well, but they followed the time durations in the ideal script. This needed to be modified to be synced with the generated Audio. Needed just one prompt though.
3. Recording the Animation. Go Full Screen. OBS Studio Recording the window. Animation runs on autoplay, and hides the player controls. Move mouse to another screen. Record and Reload page to start from 0:00.
4. Compiling the shot and audio together. New Project in OpenShot. Bring resources in. Clip Video to start and end at the correct spots. Audio is already synchronized. Export.
Total money spent: 0$
Additional Insight: I initially forgot to switch the model, and got a Gemini 3.0 generation instead. Needless to say, that chat was a lot more cumbersome and the result a lot less appealing.
I am so happy with the result that it just seems obvious to build a wrapper that does all of the steps from recording to editing for you, but would love to hear what everybody else thinks.
Zed is my goto editor when I'm not vibe coding, but that is rare these days.
Their integration with Claude Code, etc really helped, but Antigravity completely pulled me away.
And really, since they're catering to the same basic audience, the defaults should be the same as VSCode for most stuff. VSCode but performant would be an excellent pitch for the upcoming consumer RAM deficient world.
Dunno how they plan to get wider extensibility and community support without an embedded JS backend to support the existing Code plugins. That's where the real blocker is.
https://NitroQR.com
Building the one stop QR Generator with a crazy amount of aesthetic customizability.
Already at a pretty functional level, focusing on marketing now.
Got something new cooking for the holiday season. Hopefully launching this weekend.
So, no custom scanners are really needed. But there are of course issues with scannability that become worse the longer the payload is. Easily solvable with link shortening though.
The robustness centers around how modern scanners really work. No scanners really matching data module by data module. They're sampling the centroids in the approximate locations. So long as we keep the relevant centroids the right color, we can use the rest of the space as we want. There is more that can potentially be customized too, but I like how it currently looks. Might add rounded borders though.
Ohh, the good old AI generated ones. I loved them when they came out. They look really good.
Each has their own merits though, in my opinion.
It's more expensive at scale to generate those. The results are also non-dererministic meaning the output can vary wildly while keeping the Qar information intact through Controlnet, which is not the case with our approach. The AI generated QRs also often don't really look like actual QR Codes, until you pull a scanner out. This is why I'm not really considering adding anymore customisation to this tool. Gives it a unique visual identity.
Agree with a lot here.
QR Codes have however become a cornerstone of digital convenience in a lot of the world. All the more true here in India, where basically everything is using QR Codes, from payments to restaurant menus.
People here are still not used to using Lens + OCR.
Then, there are issues like long links or confusing zeroes and O's.
QR Codes solve these pretty well, I believe.
Yep, found those really interesting when they came out. I used to run an AI startup until a short while ago. In my opinion, the cost to utility ratio still isn't there for most use cases.
So, that's why I wanted to find something deterministic, without all the compute consumption.
NitroQRs generate the same as normal QRs with some good old computing, and can be generated in bulk for basically nothing.
It's a commercial project but I'm of course not planning to monetize the QR generation. That'll always remain free.
Currently adding more features that would appeal more to enterprises or businesses. Those will be the only paid features