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Laper is an all-in-one creative OS for screenwriters, directors, and storyboard artists—Cursor, CapCut, and Figma for visual storytelling. It unifies the entire film and television workflow, powered by an AI agent that operates under the user’s direction. A comparable product, preiview.io, recently raised a $12 million seed round. Laper grew from a solo founder to a five-person team and continues to scale rapidly.

Video, Photo, Audio & PDF Tools All-in-One App for Mac, Windows & iPhone, 25+ tools to compress, convert, trim, merge, and edit your media files, plus PDF merge, split, compress, and encrypt. Everything runs offline in one app, with a simple drag-and-drop workflow.

AppIt Studio builds a toolkit of three native macOS apps that work better together: DockFlow saves and switches your whole workspace by preset, ExtraDock adds unlimited customizable Docks on any screen, and ExtraBar turns your menu bar into one-click actions and deep links. Each is powerful on its own — but the bundle unlocks the full ecosystem in a single lifetime purchase, for less than buying them separately. One toolkit to upgrade how you move around your Mac. From €59.99, one-time.

Aura++ is an AI-powered product launch and discovery platform that helps startups, indie hackers, SaaS companies, and developers launch their products, gain visibility, and attract early users. Every launch is designed to increase your online presence through AI-generated launch content, SEO-friendly backlinks, social media promotion, founder profiles, and a curated product directory.

Cut your Claude Code & Codex bill by ~50%. Headroom is a menu bar app that quietly optimizes all the inputs that Claude & Codex get. It trims prompt bloat, strips boilerplate and compresses documents without throwing anything away.

Launch your product. Get found on Google and in AI answers.

Production-ready QR code platform with A/B testing, geo-targeting, advanced analytics, and full API access. Built for teams that need more than basic tracking.

Reelyze is an AI-powered video analytics platform that helps content creators grow on Instagram Reels, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts. Paste any video and Reelyze analyzes it frame by frame, delivering a hook score, retention map, exact drop-off timestamps, and specific fixes to improve your next video. Beyond analytics, Reelyze tracks your competitors automatically, surfaces trending content in your niche, and generates full video scripts with five hook options using your own performance data. The

An AI developer on your server, using your Claude subscription. Build, preview, and deploy from any browser—including your phone. Your projects keep running when your laptop is closed.

Turn AI search into revenue

Analyse is your whole growth stack in one tab: web analytics, an AI SEO content engine, and a data copilot in a single subscription. Track funnels, retention and cohorts without SQL. Generate SEO blog posts researched from your real site data and publish to WordPress, Ghost or webhooks. Ask questions like "why did signups dip last week?" in the dashboard, or from Claude and Cursor via our MCP server. Cookieless, no visitor PII, EU-hosted. Live in 5 minutes, from $29/mo.

Describe your niche in the AI chat you already use. It designs the listing fields, fills them in, and puts the site online. The domain and the revenue stay yours.

The Gamified Study OS.

Four-Leaf is the AI-powered career platform that helps job seekers prepare with confidence, from job search to offer. Practice real voice interviews, tailor your resume and cover letters in seconds, and negotiate the salary you deserve.

Kaneo is a project management platform built on the idea that less is more. Boards, tasks, and workspaces in a clean, genuinely fast interface, with every feature earning its place instead of cluttering your workflow. Teams use it to plan, track, and ship without the noise of legacy PM tools. Available as a hosted cloud product, with an open source core for teams that want it.

Your agents already write code. doc0 makes them read it first.

All-in-one tool for founders. Validate ideas - Grow users

Most habit apps only ask did you or didn't you. Habit Pocket asks how many, at what time, and which one - checkmarks, numbers, times of day and select lists in the same grid. You can also mark a day skipped: not done, not missed. Different colour, streak carries on. There's a public API and an MCP server, so Claude can read your actual data and answer questions about it. No points, no levels, nothing that dies if you take a night off.

Submit once, stay discoverable longer. This is a catalog of software built to stick around - not a launch week that disappears. Paste a URL, edit the draft, save. If it is a real tool and the facts check out, the listing goes live and stays public.

Your day isn't a to-do list. It's a system. Ship it. Plan and reshape your day on a 24-hour dial. Draw it by hand, or hand it to AI.

Done-for-You SaaS Presence for Search & AI | UseWok

Convert any webpage into clean Markdown with one click. Edit inline, run AI actions like summarize, fact-check, or your own prompts, and send the result to your notes app.

An automated study platform that helps users study and memorize content and subjects based on their own study materials imported into the platform.

Give every client one branded place for project updates, conversations, documents, bookings, and remembered context, so they always know what is happening.

Emailens is an email QA and compatibility testing platform built for developers, marketing teams, designers and growth teams. It catches rendering bugs, broken layouts, and HTML/CSS quirks across major email clients before campaigns go out. With native support for React Email, MJML and Maizzle, it lets teams automate email validation, preview dynamic templates instantly, and protect inbox deliverability; replacing outdated testing suites with fast, reliable pre-send quality assurance.

Daily launch leaderboard for makers. Submit your product, quote-tweet the launch post, and rank by real likes on X, not upvotes. Resets every day.

Rankpad helps businesses monitor how often their brand appears in ChatGPT responses, track competitor visibility, and understand where they stand in AI search. It gives teams a clean way to measure AI visibility, spot missed mentions, and improve their positioning as more buyers use AI tools to discover products and services.

Liso turns anything you read into audio you can listen to. Highlight text on any web page, right-click, and choose "Listen with Liso." It's instantly turned into natural-sounding audio and saved to your Liso library at getliso.app - ready to play on your commute, on a walk, or anytime you'd rather listen than read.

Tuziyo is a multi-model AI image and video studio for designers, creators, and indie teams. Compare leading models, preserve prompts and references in reusable sessions, collect useful outputs in a Library, and arrange shots in Studio.

GrillMyPitch is an AI-powered pitch readiness tool for pre-revenue founders. Upload a pitch deck and get structured feedback scored against real VC criteria, then simulate a live VC conversation with an AI persona. Multiple deck analyses completed, clean UX, zero errors. Built on a modern stack, low running costs currently (~$9/month infra). No revenue yet — the product works, the GTM hasn't been cracked. Ready for an owner with an existing founder audience.