Building an AI tools comparison hub.
I compare:
- AI coding tools
- automation tools
- AI agents
- video generators
- website builders
- ChatGPT alternatives
Goal:
choose better tools, faster.
AppLovin CEO is trying to counter Anthropic’s CEO claims that SaaS is DEAD and never coming back.
$APP is not an ad network. It is not a gaming company. It is an arbitrage engine with 400 engineers, $1.3 billion in cash flow per quarter, and a capital allocation track record that belongs in a business school curriculum.
Start with the gaming studios. From 2018 to 2023, AppLovin acquired over 15 mobile gaming studios and 1,500 people.
Nobody understood why. The answer was data.
Third party advertisers would not share their conversion and ROAS data with AppLovin's model.
So AppLovin became a first party advertiser — running its own games, generating its own behavioral data, feeding that data into Axon, its deep learning ad model.
The studios were not a business. They were a training set. The moment Axon 2.0 launched in April 2023 and proved so effective that the entire gaming industry had to plug in and share their data to access the returns, the studios had served their purpose.
AppLovin sold the entire portfolio to Tripledot and moved on. They used the asset to build the moat and immediately dumped the asset. That is not a pivot. That is a premeditated extraction.
The 2022 buyback is the capital allocation move that defined the company's trajectory. The market had pushed AppLovin's market cap to $3.8 billion.
The business was printing over $1 billion in EBITDA. Instead of open market repurchases, management identified that private equity backers and early insiders controlled nearly 50% of the float and needed liquidity.
They bypassed the public market entirely, negotiated directly with those institutional holders, and executed a $6 billion leveraged buyback at the floor.
Foroughi estimates that single decision generated $50 to $60 billion in retained value for remaining shareholders as the stock recovered. One negotiation. One decision. $50 billion created.
The operating model is the part that should make every other tech CEO uncomfortable. AppLovin fired 40% of its workforce while growing revenue nearly 100% year over year. The C suite is four people—CEO, CFO, CTO, General Counsel. No CRO. No COO. No salesforce.
Over 80% of the codebase is now written by AI, multiplying the output of their best engineers by up to 100x. The product does not need to be sold.
Advertisers plug in, set a performance goal, and if the ROAS is positive they scale spend infinitely. The platform turns advertisers into blind arbitrageurs — they do not need to understand how it works, they just need to see the return.
The TAM expansion is the next leg. Axon perfected gaming monetization. It is now being pointed at ecommerce and local SMBs — markets orders of magnitude larger than mobile gaming. The model does not need a sales team to penetrate them. It needs inventory and intent signals. It is acquiring both.
The company has internal compensation triggers tied to a $1 trillion market cap. They went from $3.8 billion in 2022 to $154 billion today. The people running this business have done everything they said they would do, faster than anyone expected, with fewer people than anyone thought possible. That track record is the most important input in any forward model.
Betting against a team that turned a $3.8 billion floor into $154 billion in three years, with 400 people, no salesforce, and an AI model that the entire industry has to use — requires a very specific and defensible thesis.
Most of the people making that bet do not have one…stock is still being beaten to death…still not compelled. AI companies are just too good and getting better but interesting to see him come publicly to try to pump his stock
INSTEAD OF WATCHING NETFLIX TONIGHT. Spend 2 hour with this. Claude AI FULL COURSE that teaches you how to BUILD and AUTOMATE anything. The people who watch this tonight will wake up tomorrow with a new skill. Watch it and bookmark it now.
Day 25 of learning AI bs from scratch
> spent time reading through Attention Is All You Need
> went back over attention, masking and positional encoding
> over laying code i had already written before
> kept nanoGPT open alongside it
> trained a small next-token prediction model
> a bunch of things that finally made more sense now
mostly reading and continuing the Transformer stuff from the last few days.
references:
https://t.co/ztazhPe3hF
https://t.co/Jv2uo8lf94
deploying a usable llm soon and wrapping this up, then let’s see what comes next >
this might be the most important visual you see today.
everyone is obsessed with bigger context windows.
almost nobody is asking what deserves to enter them.
the real work happens before the model starts:
> select what matters
> order it correctly
> compress without losing the lesson
> pin the rules that cannot move
> cache what every agent will need
now zoom out one level.
your company has the same problem.
every decision, correction, example, and workflow is fighting for attention across dozens of private chats.
a Company Brain assembles the right context before the work begins and makes what the team learns available to the next person and the next agent.
the full build is in the article below:
este tipo acaba de exponer cómo está usando Claude Code + YouTube para ganar $97k/mes.
menos de 15 minutos que valen la pena ver, guardalo para más tarde🙇🏻♂️
There are two kinds of people in the AI era.
One says: “I’m not good at coding.”
The other opens Cursor + Claude Code, builds a rough first version, breaks a few things, fixes them, and keeps moving.
That gap is becoming more important than the skill gap itself.
AI does not magically make everyone a developer, designer, writer, researcher, or entrepreneur.
What it does is dramatically reduce the distance between “I have an idea” and “I built something.”
And that changes the game.
Can’t code? → Cursor + Claude Code
Can’t build an app? → Lovable + Bolt
Can’t design UI? → Figma AI + Uizard
Can’t edit videos? → Runway + CapCut AI
Can’t research fast enough? → Perplexity + Genspark
Can’t write well? → Claude + Jasper
Can’t build AI agents? → n8n + Flowise
Can’t automate repetitive work? → Zapier + Make
Can’t create presentations quickly? → Gamma + Canva AI
Can’t brainstorm? → ChatGPT + Gemini
Can’t learn fast enough? → NotebookLM + ChatGPT
Can’t grow on LinkedIn? → Taplio + AuthoredUp
Can’t build an online business? → Shopify Magic + Durable AI
The advantage is no longer knowing every tool.
The advantage is knowing which problem you are solving, which tool can remove the bottleneck, and how to connect those tools into a workflow.
So stop asking: “Which AI tool should I learn?”
Start asking: “What am I unable to do today that AI can help me do tomorrow?”
Then build. Test. Improve. Repeat.
AI will not replace effort.
But it is creating an enormous advantage for people who are willing to move before they feel completely ready.
THIS IS F**KING INSANE
CLAUDE CAN NOW TURN A SINGLE PROMPT INTO A FULLY ANIMATED YOUTUBE VIDEO.
No video editor.
No timeline juggling.
No jumping between multiple AI tools.
The secret is connecting Claude to a custom Model Context Protocol (MCP) setup.
From one prompt, the workflow can handle:
→ Script: Claude creates a structured, production-ready script
→ Voiceover: The script is converted into timed narration
→ Animation: Visual assets are generated, sequenced, and animated
→ Final video: Everything comes together as one workflow
Instead of copying prompts between 4 different apps, MCP lets Claude coordinate the tools needed to handle the entire production pipeline.
Prompt → Script → Voice → Animation → Video.
The interesting part isn’t just AI generating videos.
It’s having one interface orchestrate the entire workflow.
Bookmark this for when you build your next AI workflow.
this is f**king insane.
an 18-year-old found a roofing company on Google Maps with 4.9 stars and no website.
he copied their reviews, pasted them into ChatGPT 5.5, and within 2 minutes, had a complete brief for the website.
then he gave that to an AI coding tool and just watched it work.
the AI built the entire website, all the pages, the reviews, and even a booking button.
once it was ready, he called the owner and showed him the live preview.
the owner said yes almost immediately. he’d been meaning to fix his website for years but never had the time.
$1,000 invoice.
47 minutes from finding the business to closing the deal.
and then he realized he could turn the whole thing into a machine.
AI can now pull 200 businesses from Google Maps in minutes, use their real business data to write personalized emails, and help send hundreds of them every day.
even a 3% response rate can turn that into serious money.
he went from making around $4k in his first month to projecting $15k-$20k by month six.
the scary part isn’t that AI can build a website.
it’s that one person can now find the customer, build the product, sell it, and automate the outreach - all in the same afternoon.
there are millions of businesses on Google Maps that still need this.
EU AI Act Article 50 is now applicable.
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