Makeroo #1: OpenAI shutdowns, Figma MCP, TPUs
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Shiplist is now Makeroo. Same free launch directory, new name and a new home at makeroo.app.
This is the first Makeroo weekly. You list your product with a web form or from your own AI agent, and AI checks it in minutes. Every Thursday you get the launches worth a look and the news that matters if you ship.
This week: five tools on Makeroo, two of them newly submitted over MCP, plus four stories. List yours free at makeroo.app/submit, or let your agent do it over MCP.
New on Makeroo
- RobotTraining.jobs
Robot training jobs with the pay they post
Other
- MailVeri
Bulk Email Verification You Can Actually Afford
Marketing & Sales
- Bun
A fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime
Developer Tools
- Hono
Web framework built on Web Standards
Developer Tools
- Astro
The web framework for content-driven websites
Developer Tools
In the news
- OpenAI retires gpt-4, o1, o3-mini and more on October 23
gpt-3.5-turbo, gpt-4, gpt-4-turbo, o1, o3-mini, o4-mini and gpt-image-1 shut down Oct 23, plus some fine-tunes. Search your code for old model names.
OpenAI API docs
- Figma co-founder says MCP is not a perfect protocol
Figma added 20 MCP partners but limits the data it exposes to cut abuse risk. Dylan Field says MCP favors frontier labs. Expect scoped access when you build on MCP.
TechCrunch
- Google and Amazon go after Nvidia with PyTorch backends
Google's TorchTPU and Amazon's TorchNeuron run PyTorch apps on their own chips. Google says it takes a config change. Worth a look if GPU cost or supply limits you.
TechCrunch
- How the Claude Code team does code review
Review runs continuously, "more like spellcheck while you write". Claude fixes most changes before a human looks, and people spend their review time on the harder questions.
Simon Willison's Weblog