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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.

UGC videos that convert 10x more. More hooks, more angles, more formats — all in minutes. Find what converts, kill what doesn't. Brands using ReUGC see up to 10x higher conversion rates.

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.

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

Launch Your Product. Get Seen Weekly.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Monthly software subscriptions for a maker directory and Hosted MCP posting tools.

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.

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.

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.

Sell Bio turns the link in your bio into an AI agent that qualifies every lead before you ever get on a call. It asks the right questions, scores who is ready to buy, books the call, and drafts the follow-up — you approve, it sends. Built for coaches and consultants who already get DMs but lose them between the inbox, a spreadsheet and a payment link. No code, live in minutes. Free plan; Starter $29/mo; Pro $99/mo.

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.