News.
What changed and why it matters.
A new model.A useful update.The bit that matters.
Your view
Same Club. With room to play or room to read.
AI news, claims put to work and tools to try.
For people building their own thing with AI.
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New tool. Same promises.
The feed has a favourite record.
We like the part after the announcement. What happens when you actually use it? What breaks? Would you use it again?
Big claim. Let’s give it something to do.
See what you getSTUCK ON REPEAT
Choose your vibe.
Three new tracks to try
Sound is off. Your feed can wait.
AI-made voices and music. Fictional headlines, familiar noise. Read the noise. Track on Suno
What you get
from the Club.
to think.
The Verdict.
We put a claim to work on a real task and show you the result. Sometimes our verdict is “skip it”.
Do we
See the work. Make your own call.
See the work. Make your own call.
INPUTA real taskOUTPUTA resultVERDICTYour call
Short list.
Tools, prompts and settings for one job.
Your browser tabs can exhale.
- A clear job.
- A few useful choices.
- Something to try.
Pick something.
Put it to work.
News, verdicts and things to put to work.
A different shot.One idea.
A whole series.
Brief, references, purposeful shots and corrections.
Explore the Images skillLiterallymy two
cents.JEV / 1.13
cents.JEV / 1.13
Literally my two cents.
The cost of 396 routing decisions. And why cheaper decisions didn’t mean cheaper choices.
Read the experiment
Then
Gemini 4 Argon, the facts and the demos
What Google says Gemini 4 Argon is, what it costs, where it trails, who has it.
Read the News
Claude CodePlan and build
CodexGet a second opinion
NeonKeep the data
Cloudflare Workers + R2Run it and store it
ObsidianRemember the decisions
PlaywrightLook at the resultSix tools. One thing to ship.
The stack behind my Worth a Shot Club build. What each tool does and why it earned a place.
Explore the StackThese are a few picks.
There’s more on the shelf.
Here’s what
we’re building.
A look inside the pipeline we’re building.
Follow a claim through the pipeline, with AI helping make the piece and people deciding what goes out.
Published pieces and work in progress. Explore a sample claim or inspect a piece. This preview isn’t connected to our pipeline yet.
Claim sweeper03 / 24
A shiny claim. What’s underneath?
24 illustrative examples. Inspect the promise, not the price tag.Your call / human required
STILL
HUMAN.
HUMAN.
A PLACE TO STARTA tool.
A tool.
Your point of view.
Open a square to inspect the claim and decide whether it belongs in your work.
News / Gemini 4 Argon
Picture
Audio
The Verdict / in production
My AI has a
middle manager.
Putting the subscriptions I already pay for to work together.
Read the VerdictThe Verdict 003Work in progress
Carousel / layout
The pipe / preview
BriefMakeInspectReady
Carousel is being checked.Our publishing pipeline, still in development. Every piece passes through a human review.Nothing publishes here.
A demo is not the whole story. Take a closer look
A demo
We want to see what happens after the demo. On our own work, with the awkward bits left in.
Drag the title bars on desktop. Bring a window forward to inspect it.
There’s room at the bench.
Come take
a shot with us.
Bring an idea, a skill or something you’ve already made.
Ways to contribute
We give a FAQ
about your questions.
Joining the Club means joining the newsletter. Start with the questions below or ask the little guy.
What exactly is Worth a Shot Club?
AI news, claims tried on real work and useful tools, prompts and settings. For people building their own thing with AI. We get curious about the part after “this changes everything”.
See what you getJoining the Club. Is there a secret handshake?
An email address will do. Joining the Club means joining the newsletter: news worth a look, work you can inspect and useful things to try. The signup in this study is a preview; it does not save your email.
Find the newsletter signupDo I need to speak fluent AI?
No entrance exam. Start with a job you want to do. News gives you the context, a Verdict shows an attempt and a Short list narrows the choices. Individual resources explain what you need to use them.
Find something to tryNews, Verdict, Short list. What’s the difference?
News explains what changed and why it matters. The Verdict puts a claim to work and shows what happened. A Short list brings together tools, prompts or settings for one job.
Meet the three formatsAnd when the shiny new thing is rubbish?
Then “skip it” is a perfectly good verdict. We show the attempt, the result and the limits. Sometimes the useful bit is finding out where it falls apart. You get to disagree with our call, too.
Take a closer lookCan I take anything home with me?
Yes. The library shelf points to the existing Images and Motion skills, plus work from the archive. The skills work with Claude Code or Codex; their resource pages explain the setup.
Browse the shelfCan a sponsor buy a better verdict?
A paid relationship does not earn a better verdict. We only stand behind products we would recommend and a paying tool can still get “skip it”. Any sponsorship or affiliate relationship needs to be clear on the piece.
See how the formats workCan we make something together?
Bring a skill, a question or something you’ve already made. The contribution page is the place to start a conversation about working together. Half-finished is a perfectly reasonable state to arrive in.
Explore ways to contributeAI? SI? Do I need another acronym?
You can leave the alphabet soup with us. Whatever the label, we want to see what it helps you do, where it breaks and whether you’d use it again. “Super” still has some explaining to do.
Take it to the workbench
