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From first draft to final cut. The only platform where screenwriters and AI collaborate on scripts, breakdowns, storyboards, and production. A complete pre-production SaaS—AI creative workspace, AI script auto-complete, AI-driven scene breakdowns, storyboards, art direction, cast management, location scouting, and budgeting. One platform for your entire team. Built to accelerate human storytelling.

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%. Fastest growing startup last month per @marclou on x.com/marclou/status/2079185057525473769 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.

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.

Launch Your Product. Get Seen Weekly.

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.

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Verceltics is a private, native iPhone and iPad workspace for hosting, domains, deployments, analytics, search performance, speed, and uptime. Connect 10 hosting platforms, 8 registrars, and 9 site services, then manage multiple accounts from one app. Credentials stay in the device-only iOS Keychain and requests go directly to provider APIs—without a credential proxy, tracking, or telemetry. Built with SwiftUI and fully open source.

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

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

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.

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.

Quit All helps you break smoking, vaping, alcohol, ****, social media, weed, gambling, overspending, and caffeine habits in one private iPhone app. Track streaks, survive cravings with SOS GIFs, see money saved, log relapses without shame, and keep progress visible with Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets.

AI workforce where agencies hire, organize, and watch dedicated product teams build and maintain applications for each client

PiPilot is the AI fullstack build hub — build and ship web, mobile, desktop apps, APIs, CLIs, and packages with AI, right from your browser.

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.

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.

Observer is an Undetectable AI-powered Companion for meetings, and everyday work. It helps professionals stay focused by providing real-time answers, meeting insights, and automatically generated notes during conversations. Whether you're in a customer call, interview or a team meeting, Observer helps you capture key information, organize knowledge, and improve productivity without interrupting your workflow. Features include real-time AI assistance, meeting notes & Undetectability.

Fud AI is a free, open-source, privacy-first calorie and nutrition tracker for iOS and Android. Log meals from photos, barcodes, voice, text, Siri, or manual entry; estimate calories, macros, and nutrients using your own AI provider; track weight, body fat, workouts, and water; and optionally sync with Apple Health or Health Connect. No account, ads, or subscription.

Inspyry is an AI-powered vector graphics generator that creates scalable, flat-color SVGs from a text prompt — logos, icons, mascots, badges, tshirt designs, illustrations and wordmarks. It plugs into AI agents as a ready-to-use skill, letting assistants like Claude Code generate vectors on demand. Simple credit-based pricing.

Generate structured handover reports without time-consuming meetings. SkillPass captures the knowledge of your departing employees and makes it immediately usable for successors.

Context-aware Automated Follow ups that escalates tone automatically. Users describe tasks in plain English. It schedules messages via Slack, Email, or Teams. Each follow-up escalates from professional to firm to urgent. Built for freelancers, sales teams, and project managers. Includes analytics, flexible scheduling (1–90 days), and secure send-only access. Free tier available.

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An email API for developers who bring their own SMTP: connect Gmail, Amazon SES, Zoho, or your own server and get Handlebars templates, a REST send API, and send logs without paying managed-provider markup.

A customer-facing product hub for SaaS founders: one public URL for feedback, roadmap, changelog, docs, and more.

Identify security vulnerabilities and compliance gaps across your entire infrastructure with our advanced scanning technology. Customer will be charged for the in-depth Professional Assessment for a one-time-fee or for a yearly subscription.

One-click cloud hosting for AI agents.

YouTube's Watch Later playlist grows fast and gets messy — it can't be sorted, organized, or annotated. YT Organizer fixes that by turning your saved videos into draggable cards on a Kanban board, right inside YouTube and export your data directly to Notion or Obsidian with a single click using Markdown. No account required. All data stays in your browser — nothing is ever sent to any server. Just a better way to watch what matters.

Plataforma de software como servicio (SaaS) dirigida a estilistas y salones de belleza que permite generar previsualizaciones hiperrealistas de cortes y peinados mediante inteligencia artificial. Los usuarios pagan una suscripción mensual o anual para acceder a la herramienta de simulación visual y obtener créditos para la generación de imágenes.