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+ ui primitives for navigating between, discovering them, managing them, etc ! (and on all the above, and the ones dan mentions, I don't think they need to look anything like the solutions we already have for these things, new ideas are possible!)
daniel holmgren 🫠
so you have a "universal" app that pulls together all these disparate highly-contextual apps. notifications for all of them in one spot, a algorithm/discovery for seeing updates across all of them, etc
