Good morning. Midjourney just opened its V8 model to community testing — 5x faster, native 2K, and a generational leap in prompt accuracy.
Meanwhile, a Framer creator spent 60 days pretending to be someone else and made $11K. The reveal is March 25th.
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In today's issue:
Framer University's Nandi Muzsik reveals how he made $11K anonymously in 60 days with Framer templates.
Midjourney begins community testing of V8, its fastest and sharpest model yet.
Gamma launches its biggest update ever with AI image generation, rebuilt templates, and new integrations.
Doodles launches an AI image model trained exclusively on its own artwork.
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TOP STORY
🎨 Midjourney releases "V8 Alpha"
This week, Midjourney began community testing of "V8 Alpha", an early version of its next-generation image model, which is now live.
What's new in V8 (Alpha):
Prompt adherence: Better at following detailed, specific instructions while still producing surprising results when prompts are open-ended.
5x faster generation: Standard image jobs now complete significantly faster than V7, with the web interface updated to match.
Native 2K resolution: A new --hd mode renders natively at 2K; --q 4 adds extra coherence for complex scenes.
Improved text rendering: In-image text now works more reliably, especially when the text is wrapped in "quotes" in your prompt.
Best-ever personalization, srefs, and moodboards: V8 carries forward V7 personalization profiles (no rebuild needed), and significantly improves how it reads aesthetic direction from style references and moodboards.
New UI features: A conversation mode for back-and-forth prompting, a Grid Mode for focusing on one image set, and sidebar-based settings so controls don't block your view.
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WEB DESIGN
🔬 Framer's "$10K Undercover" experiment
This week, Framer creator Nandi Muzsik (founder of Framer University) and winner of Best Framer Creator 2024, revealed he spent 60 days operating anonymously as a fake persona called "Orin Fitzgerald" to prove that success on Framer doesn't require an existing audience.
Starting with zero followers, no portfolio, and no reputation, he made $11,579 in 60 days building Framer templates and taking on client work.
What he built under the fake identity:
A $27K template: The "Jet" template he built as Orin has since generated over $20K in sales and $7K in affiliate commissions.
$8,250 in client work: Three paying clients closed during the 60-day window, with all calls done camera-off and with a voice changer.
3,000+ followers: Built from zero using viral tweets, with no connection to his real identity.
5 portfolio pieces: Built from scratch to demonstrate skills without a reputation to lean on.
The full story, including the client who cancelled a $4K project mid-build, the moment Framer's founder found out, and the day-by-day breakdown, will be revealed live on March 25th at 2 PM EDT. The event is free.
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DESIGN
✨ Gamma launches "Gamma Imagine"
This week, Gamma announced its biggest update ever, introducing "Gamma Imagine" alongside rebuilt templates, smart charts, and direct integrations with Claude and ChatGPT.
What's new:
Gamma Imagine: A new AI image generation tool built directly into Gamma. Describe a logo, infographic, diagram, or poster, and Gamma generates multiple style options (all matched to your brand colors, fonts, and visual identity) without leaving the app.
AI-Native Templates: Templates now work differently. Instead of filling in a blank structure, you take any existing presentation and update it for a new audience or purpose with a single prompt, brand, and style intact.
Gamma Connectors: Gamma now integrates directly into Claude, ChatGPT, and other work tools. Turn a conversation or an email thread into a finished deck without switching tabs.
Smart Charts: New chart types for telling clearer data stories, designed to pair with the updated template system.
AI Infographics and Multipage Gammas: New formats for more complex visual communication beyond traditional slide decks.
All updates are available now. Gamma Imagine is free for 30 days.
📰 Other news you might've missed
Lovable added a Twitch integration, allowing you to connect your Twitch account to anything you build, enabling stream overlays, alert systems, and viewer-controlled game mechanics from a single prompt.
LTX Studio launched AI dubbing for Enterprise — podcast and video content can now be dubbed into 175 languages with synced lip movement.
Anything added SMS verification — every app you build now supports phone number signup and login out of the box.
FLORA released two quality-of-life updates: Bulk Connect lets you link multiple nodes at once, and Split Grid lets you divide variations without spending credits.
Lovart introduced Voice Mode, allowing you to talk to your Lovart agent to generate and edit designs hands-free with full canvas awareness.
Higgsfield AI released "Soul Cinema," its most cinematic image model, which is now fully available, with up to 10,000 free generations for new users on Pro+ plans.
Perplexity launched Comet Enterprise, its AI browser is now available for enterprise teams for research, task automation, and work directly in the browser.
Notion added a Tabs block, type /tabs to organize dense pages without creating subpages or long scrolling layouts.
Notion also added GPT-4.5 mini to its Custom Agent model picker, a faster, lower-cost option for agents with straightforward, repetitive jobs.
FLORA also added Arrow 1.0 by Quiver AI, a prompt-to-SVG tool for generating vector-perfect shapes, icons, type, and technical drawings directly inside FLORA.
Perplexity Computer shipped automatic Playwright testing — new web app projects are now tested by an AI that navigates like a real user to catch and fix bugs before you see them.
DESIGN
🎨 Doodles launches "Doodles AI"
Doodles, the entertainment company that started as a collection of 10,000 hand-drawn NFT characters in 2021, just launched Doodles AI, a creative image tool powered by Prism 1.0 (a proprietary model trained exclusively on Doodles-owned artwork with no third-party or scraped data).
It's an early example of what IP-rich companies are starting to do: turn their owned creative libraries into the training foundation for their own models.
With brand partnerships spanning McDonald's, Adidas, and Pharrell Williams, plus a TIFF-premiered animated special, Doodles has the catalog to back it, and claims the model generates outputs 84,000x faster than traditional illustration workflows.
At launch:
Image reimagining: Upload any photo or image and Prism 1.0 reinterprets it through the visual language of the Doodles universe, producing studio-grade output stylistically aligned with the original IP.
On the roadmap: Physical objects from generations, video with sound and dialogue, real-time AR, and gaming are all planned as the product evolves.
Long-term ambition: Doodles has stated its goal is to produce the first feature-length animated film created entirely through its own AI systems.
Doodles AI is available now in beta. New features and model upgrades will roll out throughout 2026.
