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Co-founder of ThinkUp, Gina Trapani

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Cool Tools Show #12

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Lifehacker founder and ThinkUp co-founder, Gina Trapani introduces us to a few web based apps that offer elegant design and features well worth their minuscule price-points. Fans of an uncluttered web experience will rejoice to hear what Gina offers up in this installment of the Cool Tools Show.

Show Notes:

Gina’s Website

Gina’s Twitter

Gina’s latest venture, ThinkUp

Forecast.io (Free)

“Forecast.io takes several different weather services and, based on your location, it will make it’s best guess, given multiple data sources, of what the weather is in your position and how long it will be partly sunny or at what point it will start raining. So if you wanna walk your dog and you don’t want to do it in the rain, Forecast.io is the place to look. It’s a very, very smart and well-designed weather app.”

Draft ($4/month or $40/year)

“Draft emphasizes that you get better the more you write so it gives you these great stats about how many words per day you’ve written, what hour of the day you’re most productive, what reading level you’re writing is at. It really incentivizes you to write more and so if you’re doing that with Draft, the subscription is definitely worth that. It’s just a few bucks a month.”

kidpost

KidPost (Free during Beta period)

“Kid Post sends a daily email to whoever opts in to your Kid Post, like Grandma or Grandpa, and it rolls up the photos from all those other services and it sends them out to everyone and includes the photos inline. So everyone in the family who is checking their email gets to see just the photos that you post to these different services automatically.”

Push Bullet (Free)

“Push Bullet mirrors my phone’s push notifications, things that have come pushed to my phone, to my desktop. So if any one of my apps shows me a notification, I see that on my desktop which means I don’t constantly have to be switching between my phone and my desktop.”

ThinkUp ($5/month)

“Facebook and Twitter and Google, they have a lot of information about us because we’ve been using these networks for a long time and I wanted to build an app that was like “what kind of information do they have about me that helps them know more about me. I wanna know more about myself. What am I talking about? Who am I friends with? What are the messages that travel far? How many times do I say ‘thank you’ to people?” so ThinkUp is my attempt at that.”

10/21/14

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