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Arvin

3.7

Browser extension and web app that puts GPT, Claude and Gemini chat, writing help, translation, PDF chat and image generation in one assistant, with daily free credits.

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Dust

4.5

Platform for building and sharing AI agents that work on company knowledge, with 70+ connectors to tools like Slack, Notion and GitHub, a choice of 20+ models, multi-agent workflows and permission controls.

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Maket

4.2

AI home design studio that generates residential floor plans, edits layouts from plain-language instructions, turns an uploaded plan into an editable project, and renders rooms in chosen styles and 3D.

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WowTo

4.0

Instructional video platform that builds how-to and support videos from screen recordings, slides or PDFs, with AI voiceovers in 300+ voices, talking AI avatars, subtitles and a hosted video knowledge base.

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Yippity

4.1

AI quiz generator for teachers that turns notes, a web page, a PDF or a YouTube video into draft questions to review, shares the quiz with a class by access code, and suggests marks and next-lesson ideas.

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Typly

3.9

AI keyboard for iPhone and Android that suggests a reply to a copied message in one tap, and fixes, summarizes, translates and rewrites text, from a Polish company that trains its own language models.

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Whelp

4.1

Customer support platform that pairs AI agents trained on your FAQs, policies and catalog with one inbox for WhatsApp, web chat, SMS, email, Instagram, Messenger and Telegram.

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Cargo

4.2

Go-to-market infrastructure for AI agents: a data model, 100+ connectors and hosted workflows where LLM agents research, enrich, score and route leads, with revenue logic kept as versioned code.

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