Cue from Manus is free for a limited time right now.

2026-10-14 15:58

Cue from Manus is free for a limited time right now. It's Manus's cloud agent product. No free tier normally, plans start at $20/mo for Pro, but access is free during the promo. Invite code: 4BSCU. Cue feels like grok-bot's playbook. Multi-agent with data isolation, and each agent even gets its own computer. You can group agents. Every agent ships with one free computer. More costs extra. The specs are decent, 8 cores and 15GB RAM. The catch is auto-sleep, so you still need the platform's native scheduled task to keep it alive. Works in the Cue app, and you can also hook it up to iMessage, Telegram, LINE, or Slack.

DeepSeek crashed again

. Web and API both went down at the same time 🥲

2026-10-15

Tencent now has a cloud agent too. It's called LightVela.

Under the hood it's the open source Hermes Agent, hosted in the cloud so it stays online 24/7, and it plugs straight into WeChat, QQ, WeCom, Feishu and DingTalk. No server to buy, no Docker to configure, no API key to apply for. Plans ship with model credits every month, so it works out of the box. From ¥68/month. New users get the first month free plus 4,500 credits. lightvela.com

2026-10-14

I stuffed an agent into an Android phone.

You've probably run into those short videos lately where an agent drives a phone around by itself. This one is called Mika, and it's a free open-source project. It's an Android app that works in the background through accessibility mode, so it can use pretty much any other app you have installed. Reply to someone on WeChat, scroll Xiaohongshu, drop something in a cart and check out. It finds the buttons by looking at the screen. There's no API to wire up, and it doesn't care what resolution your phone is. When it reaches a payment step or a captcha it stops and lets you finish. 🔗 github.com/wangzan101/Mika

2026-11-01

My product went profitable, and something in me broke.

Someone on Xiaohongshu posted a while back that she sells phone keyboard skins she made with Codex. Eight, ten yuan a pack. Over a thousand a month. I've been at mine for months. October: a few hundred copies, $1,200 gross. Platform fee 30%, tax 10%, so 60% should have landed. It came to just over a thousand dollars. I still don't know how the math pulled that off. I have an overseas bank account. Once lost $500 to a wire transfer off one. I'd still tell you to take payout through WorldFirst: less hassle, lower fees. You can also get a Hong Kong USD credit card tied to it that spends your WorldFirst balance directly. Digital card is free. Physical is $4. Mainland purchases under ¥200 skip the processing fee, and right now there's 1% cashback.

2026-11-01