What Would “Good” AI Look Like? & Frond shutting down

Philipp Temmel -

My name is Philipp and you are reading Creativerly, the internet corner where I unpack my musings, curate and write about noteworthy apps and software, and explore the latest trends in design and tech.

Hey and welcome to Creativerly 325 👋

Last week, I published a new post trying to create an overview of some lovely apps and tools to interact with the decentralized social networks Mastodon and Bluesky. Since I am always planning to update those kind of post regularly, I was super happy to have received multiple messages from readers sharing additional apps and tools with me. This means, my pipeline of tools I need to add to the post is already growing which is great.

It is amazing to see that an increasing number of developers are building powerful clients and apps that extend the platforms' features. This is crucial. Third-party clients encourage innovation, they can make social networks more accessible, and they cater to specific communities and niche interests. So, if a social network is blocking creative minds from doing that, it is missing out on a lot of talent, creativity, and ultimately users who are accessing the social network through those third-party clients.

Well, keep an eye on the post, as I will update it soon with even more apps and tools.

And now, enjoy the newest newsletter issue.

The best new app for newsletter reading.

Meco is a distraction-free space for reading newsletters outside the inbox. The app is completely free and packed with features designed to supercharge your learnings from your favourite writers. Become a more productive reader and cut out the noise with Meco - try the app today!
Get started for free

This is an affiliate link to support Creativerly. If you are interested in putting your tool, product, or resource in front of over 2000 creative minds, consider advertising in Creativerly and book a sponsor or classified ad spot. Find all the important information at creativerly.com/advertise.

Fresh Updates & News

Astropad introduces free 'Rock Daily Planner' iPad app →

Astropad, makers of Luna Display, Rock Paper Pencil, and Astropad Studio, just announced the launch of their newest iPad app called Rock Daily Planner. Rock Daily Planner is a free dialy planning app for iPad, which allows you to handwrite your plans, take notes, sketch ideas, all in a single minimal, focused space. With just one view, you get the possibility to stay on top of your priorities, to-dos, and an hour-by-hour schedule. It offers flexible templates for notes, journaling, or sketching. Additionally, Rock Daily Planner allows you to seamlessly connect your calendar to keep plans and appointments aligned. You can grab Rock Daily Planner for free right from the App Store.

Frond is shutting down →

Frond announced that they made the difficult decision to shut down service on May 31, 2025. Frond was a service to create community spaces, sell memberships, and grow groups of like-minded folks. It had some stand-out features like Threads, as every conversation in Frond was threaded as they are easy to follow, spark richer conversation, and scale endlessly. Frond was backed by Jack Altman, Dylan Field, Andreas Klinger, Mario Götze, Tiny VC, and others. Unfortunately, Frond did not provide any kind of information regarding why they have to shut down services.

Capacities ships Automated Export →

In case you are writing, journaling, and taking a lot of notes on different topics, articles, books, and so on, you have probably built up a serious archive of thoughts and ideas. If you are maintaining a knowledge base, capturing all sorts of inputs, it is worth creating regular backups. With the most recent update, Capacities introduced a super easy way to create regular backups of your notes, as it now supports Automated Export, which provides durable access to your data for the future.

Within Capacities' settings you can now configure which spaces to export, how often, and to where, and then you are all set and Capacities will do the work for you, automatically backing up all your notes.

Mental Wealth

❯ Can’t and won’t – “AMIDST THE UNENDING LAYOFFS and the edicts to use nonsense-making machines, the forced commutes, the increasingly lengthy and arbitrary interview processes, and the retrenchment of already minimal efforts at diversity and inclusion—a question is lurking in the minds of many workers, cautious and careful, afraid to poke its head out of the den it has safely hid in until now, but each day getting a little braver, a little more certain that now is the time: what if I cannot fucking do this anymore?”

❯ Embrace the wiggle – “The other day I found myself having lunch with a well-known musician and book editor. They were talking about the nature of their work and how they decided what to do and not to do.”

❯ Why Simplicity Can Be Strength in a Complex World – “Adecade is a long time in behavioral science. Since the Behavioural Insights Team was established in the U.K. government in 2010, I’ve seen new units, debates, and techniques spread across the globe at breakneck speed. The field is much broader and stronger now than it was when we began, thanks to skill, effort, and painful reckonings.”

❯ What Would “Good” AI Look Like? – “We're a few years into the tech industry's AI hype cycle, and it's all been characterized by far more heat than light. The assertions by the people making the AI platforms are as absurd as we've come to expect from shameless Silicon Valley shills. (AGI: a strategy of raising funding based on the promise of being able to replace any worker with a Python script.)”

Do not miss out on this ...

❉ Experience the ultimate vector editor for macOS, iOS, and iPadOS. Get started with Amadine*.

❉ Think tasks, not apps. Setapp* is you one-stop subscription to solving every task on Mac and iPhone.

❉ Fathom is cookie-free, GDPR compliant, privacy-first website analytics software. Get $10 off your first invoice and a 7-day free trial when you use this link*.

These are paid promotions or affiliate links to support Creativerly. If you are interested in putting your tool, product, or resource in front of over 2000 creative minds, consider advertising in Creativerly and book a sponsor or classified ad spot. Find all the important information at creativerly.com/advertise.

Appendix

❯ ICYMI

My most recent post which is probably one of the biggest post I have written so far, includes various apps and tools to interact with Mastodon and Bluesky, two decentralized social networks that are continuously growing their user bases. No matter if you are looking for third-party clients, an app to cross-post to both social network, a tool to update threads on Mastodon with ease, or anything else, I hope this post got you.

❯ Quick Bits

Till next time! 👋‌‌‌‌

Support: Do you have a friend who is looking for inspiration, news about design, and useful tools and apps? Forward this newsletter to a friend or simply share this issue and show some support. You can also show some love by simply clicking the button down below and keep this newsletter a sustainable side-project by buying me a coffee. ☕️ 🥰

Some of the links in my newsletter and my blog posts are affiliate links. Those links are marked by an asterisk. If you buy something through the link, the product will not cost you anything more, but I will receive a small commission which not only supports Creativerly and my work but also helps me to keep this publication a sustainable side-project.

Creativerly is proudly published with Ghost*.