Happy Monday! A Slack alternative that goes by the name Threads saw over a million downloads after Instagram shipped it’s Twitter competitor. The OG Threads had to add a “We’re not associated with IG” badge to its landing page, although ironically it’s founder was previously a PM at Facebook 🧙

🌶 Daily highlight 🌶

Telly shipped its first free ad-supported TVs. The TVs are free of charge for users, with ads displayed 24/7 on the smaller screen at the bottom of the TV. The second screen is also the TV’s control center, meaning that if users obscure or cover it, they’ll find it harder to use the TV 🙃

Telly saw more than 250k orders in its first two weeks of pre-launch, so there’s clearly a market here. Given the ever-present search for more eyeballs, I’d be surprised if more consumer electronics products don’t eventually go the same route 💻

♨️ Latest launches

Big tech

• OpenAI ships a shared links virality feature for ChatGPT

• Meta blocks EU users from accessing Threads via VPN

• Reddit erases all chat history from pre-2023

• Apple launches Tap to Pay on iPhone in the UK

• Apple expands its password manager to third-party browsers

General and early-stage

• Captions ships an AI tool to create shorts from long-form video

• Framer launches code blocks for its dev collaboration tool

• Pixmo unveils an AI copyright infringement product

• Notion ships an ‘add to dictionary’ feature on its desktop app

• Synx introduces a Solana third-party dataset market

🔍 Other good finds

• Osmosis. A list of resources for PMs to learn about engineering

• The test. Threads’ retention is well below other top social apps

• True colors. Brave outed selling copyrighted data for AI training

🧈 Twitter nugget

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- Amol