Itās Wednesday, January 21st: This week, we cover Replit shipping full mobile app development by prompt, Black Forest Labs releasing FLUX.2 Klein for sub-second image generation on consumer GPUs, ElevenLabs launching Scribe V2 for real-time speech-to-text, and open roles at early teams building applied AI.
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In Todayās Top Tools, we spotlight some of the most innovative, creative AI apps that we recommend adding to your stack.
1ļøā£ Replit Mobile Apps: Full Mobile App Development
About Replit Mobile Apps: The vibe coding platform Replit just shipped full mobile app development. Describe your app in natural language, and Agent builds the entire thing... interface, backend, AI integrations, Stripe payments, all of it. Preview instantly via Expo Go, then publish directly to the App Store, all from your phone.
Design Mode creates interactive designs in under 2 minutes, and Fast Build produces high-fidelity apps in nearly the same time. No native dev experience required to get started.
Check out a new way to build your next app, website, and more with one of the industryās hottest vibecoding providers.
2ļøā£ FLUX.2 Klein: Image Generation in Seconds
About FLUX.2 Klein: Black Forest Labs' new image model generates and edits in under a second (30% faster than any competitor). The 9B model matches quality of models 5x its size; the 4B variant runs on consumer GPUs (RTX 3090/4070) with just 13GB VRAM.
One unified architecture handles text-to-image, single-reference editing, and multi-reference composition (up to 10 images). The 4B version ships Apache 2.0, fully open for commercial use.
Fine-tune locally or hit the API.
3ļøā£ Scribe V2: ElevenLabsā Newest Speech-to-Text Model
About Scribe V2: ElevenLabsā transcription model achieves the lowest word error rate on industry benchmarks, outperforming Whisper, Deepgram, and Gemini across 90+ languages.
The Realtime variant delivers sub-150ms latency with 93.5% accuracy, enabling conversational AI that actually keeps up. Keyterm prompting biases the model toward your specific vocabulary (product names, medical terms, brand language). Weāre talking entity detection across 56 categories and automatic multi-language handling in single files.
Explore the docs behind what makes Scribe so powerful.
Here are a few standout opportunities from companies building at the edge of AI. Each role is selected for impact, growth potential, and relevance to our community.
Founding Designer, Design, Spur ($140Kā$220K + 0.05%ā0.20% Equity): āWeāre building the AI QA Engineer that lets teams test websites in plain English. No CSS selectors, no brittle scriptsāour multimodal agents interact with web pages like real users. Founded by two Yale alums (ex-Figma, ex-DeepMind), backed by First Round Capital, Neo, Pear VC, and YC. Customers include Wander, Living Spaces, and Nextdoor. Design is foundational here, not a layer. Youāll reimagine one of the most under-designed spaces in softwareādefining how testing feels, not just how it functions.
Founding Product Manager, Product, Alex ($150Kā$200K + 0.01%ā0.10% Equity): āWeāre building the future of hiring with an AI recruiter that conducts live video interviewsāhelping companies get deep hiring signals faster than ever. One of the fastest-growing startups from our YC batch, we just raised $17M from Peak XV Partners. Fortune 100 companies, Big 4 firms, and nationwide chains already use us. This is our first PM hire. Youāll operate like a founder, not a process PMāturning enterprise customer pain into shipped product that drives revenue, retention, and trust. Work directly with founders. Own outcomes, not roadmaps.ā
Principal Recruiter, Recruiting, Hyperbound ($120Kā$170K + 0.07%ā0.10% Equity): āWeāre building the Sales Performance OSāAI roleplay and coaching that helps enterprise sales teams practice, measure, and scale top-performer behaviors. Just raised a $15M Series A, 5xād ARR, and doubled headcount. Customers include LinkedIn, Monday.com, Autodesk, Vanta, and G2. In 2026, weāre doubling headcount again. This is a founding roleāyouāll build the talent pipeline, shape employer brand, and create the systems that let us scale from 15 to 30+ without breaking. High visibility, high impact, directly with founders.ā
Founding Sales, Sales, Venta AI (ā¬50Kāā¬80K + 0.50%ā1.00% Equity): āWeāre building the AI sales employee for Europeāthe only compliant way to run automated outreach via email, LinkedIn, and physical letters across EU regulations. Founded by serial AI entrepreneurs (previous company acquired), backed by YC and Googleās AI fund Gradient Ventures. Based in Munich, youāll run cold outreach using our own tool, deliver customer demos, and drive experimental sales and marketing campaigns. Early-stage, high-ownership, in-person.ā
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