The Zapier Blog

JULY 20, 2025

AI note taking apps are fast becoming the standard because they remove the need to take hurried notes, allowing you to stay present in conversations. I use Fathom for all my client meetings, but while shopping for the best AI meeting assistant , I tried Fireflies—which, turns out, is a strong contender.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 20, 2025

I order groceries, get food delivered, map out how long the drive is to Barnes & Noble, and check the weather to confirm that staying inside is the best course of action—all from my cozy corner of the couch. I worked with an expert on APIs to put together this beginner's guide and tutorial on how to use them.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 18, 2025

Few do it better than Obsidian and Notion. Turn ideas into action Automate your note-taking For years, I've relied on Notion to make sense of the avalanche of digital information I collect, like personal notes, web snippets, movie watchlists, itineraries, work reports—the list goes on. Here's what I found.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 30, 2025

Make your Google Sheets work for you Automate Google Sheets Here, I'll dive deep into Google Sheets' capabilities and limitations, exploring whether this kind of space is actually useful for your data projects or if it's a sign you might need to look beyond spreadsheets altogether. How many rows can Google Sheets handle?

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Large software companies accelerated growth this year, despite their scale reinforcing the notion that users write data into systems but rarely delete it. The result of all a supremely rational artificial cerebrum: type in a few key sentences into a GPT-3 powered app, click a button, and a blog post pops out. MAU growing quickly.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

That’s why 40 million Americans use online dating sites. Most of us want one spouse and we’re done. I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. I’ve used Asana extensively to manage activities firm-wide. 1) Manage the firm .

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Dream It

JULY 31, 2019

We eventually launched the product, which didn't generate enough revenue to support us- so we shut down the business after all my credit cards maxed out. The most valuable resource the accelerator provides is the network, so use all my time to navigate that network. I had a clear 3-step plan: Not going out of business.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

DALL-E 2, OpenAI’s powerful text-to-image AI system, can create photos in the style of cartoonists, 19th century daguerreotypists, stop-motion animators and more. ” But Stable Diffusion’s lack of safeguards compared to systems like DALL-E 2 poses tricky ethical questions for the AI community. .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Generative AI is hot among venture capital firms now , with $4.5 Narrato , a AI content creation and collaboration platform, announced today it has joined the ranks of other generative AI startups with VC funding. The Narrato team decided to embed generative AI into different stages of the content process.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

As the enthusiasm around AI image and text generators grows, Jasper , a startup developing what it describes as an “AI content” platform, has raised $125 million at a $1.7 Rogenmoser is a Y Combinator alum, having co-founded Proof, a startup that used algorithms to customize businesses’ websites.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

But it's perfectly valid to take a break to see what other AI chatbots are available. Build your own AI chatbot with no-code Here's how Allow me to save you a dozen Google searches (or ChatGPT prompts). I spent time talking to some of the best AI chatbots to see how they measure up.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 3, 2020

Our food systems – what we eat and how we procure it – are major drivers of rising temperatures and extreme weather patterns. Food and beverage technology, or “FoodTech,” holds the potential to improve how we eat — from increased food yield, improved nutritional value and freshness to innovations in supply chain and procurement.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 18, 2023

Artificial intelligence is having a moment—and it seems like every tool is introducing its own AI features. So I wasn't surprised to see that my favorite productivity tool, Notion, had jumped on the AI bandwagon too. The AI assistant appears instantly, offering several available actions.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

Since ChatGPT burst onto the scene last year, AI writing tools have been big news. While they aren't taking over the world (yet), they have reached the point where they can absolutely be useful. In the right circumstances, these AI text generators can help you work better and faster, and create more polished and on-brand copy.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 14, 2023

Do more with OpenAI Discover more ways to add AI to your workflows. Sign up for free to use this app, and many others, with Zapier. If you're a developer and you want to learn more about using the API with your integration, go here. If you don't yet have access, you can join the waitlist.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 3, 2023

Do more with OpenAI Discover more ways to add AI to your workflows. Here, I'll demystify this term and explain how and why you should use it to make your life (and the lives of everyone in your organization) easier—and maybe slightly terrifying. How to kickstart your IA strategy What is intelligent automation (IA)?

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Jason Calacanis

JUNE 21, 2023

Before I get to my essay today, let me share a preamble on a podcasting author's wonderful, horrible life (page down to skip and read "The Great AI Hiring Freeze"). These blog posts/emails are a fantastic warm-up exercise for me, although since I wrote my first book, ChatGPT, and Grammarly have been introduced, and I'm dismayed and inspired.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 4, 2025

With tools like Tables , Interfaces , Chatbots , and AI-powered agents , it's easy to build workflows that not only run smoothly but evolve with your business. The examples below are some of the most popular ways teams use Zapier to reduce manual work and streamline their day-to-day.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 22, 2025

Fortunately, you can use automation to bridge those gaps. With a Zapier-powered project management table and AI chatbot, you can automatically organize tasks, track team capacity, and get fast responses about sprint health. " — Reddit thread "There's a big gap right now and lots of opportunity for better automation and AI.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 13, 2025

We're a few years into the latest AI boom, and it feels like things are starting to mature a little. AI writing generators once seemed like they were going to be the next big enterprise app category, but in reality, text generation is now more of a feature than a standalone business.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 3, 2025

You use dozens of tools to get work done—and you'll need to move information between them to keep operations running effectively. Zapier is the most connected AI orchestration platform—integrating with thousands of apps from partners like Google, Salesforce, and Microsoft. You could say it's one of the things we do best.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 13, 2025

Sign up for free to use this app, and thousands more, with Zapier. Their info enters whichever form tool you use. With this setup, your admin stays up to date without slowing you down, while client onboarding stays smooth and consistent no matter how busy things get. Here are some of the most popular ways to automate FreshBooks.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

That's why AI transcription tools like tl;dv are built to help you run the show, as it can automatically record, transcribe, and pull insights from meetings on the go. Try Zapier Chatbots Create free custom AI chatbots to engage customers and take action with built-in automation. Here are a few ideas to power your processes.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 2, 2025

Until recently, turning raw web data into something useful meant hours of manual scraping or writing custom scripts just to pull the exact insights you needed. Fortunately, with tools like Browse AI , you can easily extract data from any website so that you can monitor changes (like competitor pricing or product inventory) automatically.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 9, 2025

Enter Perplexity , the conversational AI search engine that gives you direct answers from real, reliable web sources and cites its answers—no endless link-hopping required. It's like plugging a live research engine into your business systems so every workflow becomes more informed, adaptive, and AI-powered. New to Zapier?

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 16, 2025

Here's how you can use Zaps—Zapier's automation workflows—to update your Slack channel topics automatically based on your calendar, tools like PagerDuty, or whatever else happens in your workday. Sign up for free to use this app, and thousands more, with Zapier. Don't let Slack chaos rule your (work) life.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 24, 2025

Fathom is a powerful AI notetaker that records and transcribes your meetings automatically. No matter which meeting tool you use—like Zoom , Google Meet , or Teams —Fathom takes notes, summarizes key points, and creates action items so you can focus on the call itself. Sign up for free to use this app, and thousands more, with Zapier.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 16, 2025

MCP servers facilitate the connection between AI tools like Claude and all the other apps you use. They make it possible to direct the AI to take actions—like adding new records to a database or CRM—without leaving the chat. If you live in Claude, you can see how useful this would be. Click the Edit Config button.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

He likes to point out that his company built search based on generative AI in December, several months before the other giant search players made their announcements. Image Credits: You.com You.com launched at the end of 2020 with the belief that there was room for another search engine, based more on AI.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 17, 2023

My mom used to keep track of her contacts in an address book. Lots of businesses use CRM (customer relationship management) software to keep track of clients, prospects, customers, vendors, partners, and anyone else they work with. I personally have five Gmail accounts, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and my iPhone.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 22, 2023

But Google revealed new generative AI updates poised to keep users on Google longer, nosediving organic traffic and disrupting the traditional marketing funnel. But Google revealed new generative AI updates poised to keep users on Google longer, nosediving organic traffic and disrupting the traditional marketing funnel.

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