What one-person AI businesses run on
Every tool on this page is named in a source of at least one story, or is visible in the code of that business's home page. The count shows how many stories use it. Open a tool to see what it did in each business, with the grade and the source.
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Team
What the product does
Outcome
Evidence of use
AI models
The models that do the AI work: text, images, voice and video.
A paid web service from OpenAI: a program sends text, images, or audio to OpenAI's AI models and receives the generated answer, billed by the amount processed.
An API for Google's Gemini AI models: a program sends text, images, audio or video and receives generated output, billed per token (a piece of a word).
An API for Anthropic's Claude AI models: a program sends text, images or documents and receives generated text, billed per token (a piece of a word).
An inference platform: it runs image, video and audio AI models from many makers on its own GPUs, and a business calls them through one API and pays per output.
An AI voice service: it turns text into spoken audio that sounds like a person, copies a voice from a sample, and dubs recordings into other languages.
An API gateway for AI models: a program sends every request to one address with one key, and OpenRouter forwards it to the chosen model at any of many providers.
SpaceXSI API (formerly xAI API)x.ai/api (SpaceXSI API (formerly xAI API)'s official site, opens in a new tab)
An API for the Grok AI models: a business's program sends a prompt over HTTP and receives generated text, images, video or speech in the reply.
A hosting service for machine learning models: a business sends a request to its API, the model runs on Replicate's GPUs, and the business pays only for that run.
A family of AI image models from Stability AI: each creates a picture from a text prompt, and a business can run it on its own computers.
A family of AI models that make or edit images and video from a text description, used through an API or downloaded and run on your own servers.
A video generation model: it turns a text prompt or a still image into a short video clip, and a product can call it through an API.
An AI video model from ByteDance: it creates short video clips from a text prompt or an image, and a business calls it through an API.
A family of large language models from the AI company DeepSeek, offered as open-source models, a chat app, and a pay-per-use API for other programs.
An AI inference cloud: programs send prompts or audio to open models running on Groq's own LPU chips and get fast answers or transcripts through an API.
A speech AI service: a program sends audio and receives a written transcript, or sends text and receives spoken audio, through Deepgram's API.
A family of AI language models and a chatbot: people chat with Grok in apps, and programs send prompts to the Grok models through an API.
Microsoft's cloud computing platform: a business rents virtual machines, databases, storage and hosted AI models in Microsoft's data centers and pays for what it uses.
A European AI company and its family of language models: programs send prompts to Mistral's models through an API, or run the open-weight models on their own servers.
An AI answer engine: a person or a program asks a question, and it searches the web and replies with a written answer that cites its sources.
Google's AI assistant app: a person types or speaks a request, and it answers with text, code, images or research reports, using Google's Gemini models.
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (formerly Vertex AI)cloud.google.com (Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (formerly Vertex AI)'s official site, opens in a new tab)
Google Cloud's AI platform, called Vertex AI until April 2026: programs call Gemini, Imagen, Veo and other models through it, and teams build agents and train models.
NVIDIA's open speech recognition models: they turn recorded speech into punctuated text with timestamps, and can run locally on a user's own computer.
Google DeepMind's video generation model: it turns a text prompt or a still image into a short video clip with generated sound.
OpenAI's open-source speech recognition model: it turns spoken audio into text in many languages and can run on the user's own computer.
A hosted AWS service that gives a program access to many AI models from different companies through one API, billed per token.
A family of large language models from Z.ai: a program sends text or images through an API and gets generated text or code back, priced per token.
Google AI Modesearch.google/ways-to-search/ai-mode (Google AI Mode's official site, opens in a new tab)
The generative AI search mode of Google Search, powered by Gemini: it answers a question in its own words with links to the web pages it draws on.
An embedding model API from MongoDB: it turns text, code or images into vectors so a program can search by meaning.
A family of AI video generation models from Alibaba Cloud that make video clips from text or images, as open models and as a paid API.
A speech AI API: a program sends recorded or live audio and gets back a written transcript, speaker labels, summaries and other analysis.
An AI inference cloud: a program sends a prompt to open-weight models such as GPT OSS 120B through Cerebras's API and gets the answer back very fast.
An AI model company for businesses: its API gives programs access to Cohere's language, embedding, reranking and speech models, billed per token.
A machine translation service: people and programs send text, documents or speech and get them back translated into one of more than 100 languages.
A research method from Google for fine-tuning a text-to-image model on a few photos of one subject, so that the model can draw that subject in new scenes.
A web search API built for AI agents: a program sends a natural-language query and gets back matching web pages, text excerpts or structured answers with sources.
A cloud platform that runs open AI models on its own GPUs and sells access through an API, priced per token or per GPU time.
A Google Search feature that places an AI-written summary with source links above the search results for some queries.
A text-to-image AI platform whose own image models, including the open-weight Ideogram 4, create and edit pictures with readable text from written prompts.
Microsoft's AI chat assistant: on the web, in a mobile app and inside Microsoft 365 apps, it answers questions and drafts, summarizes and analyzes content.
An AI company that trains the Kimi family of large language models and sells access to them through the Kimi API, billed per token.
Perplexity's developer APIs: a program sends a query and gets ranked live web results, or answers grounded in web search with citations, billed per request or per token.
A family of open-weight large language models from Alibaba's Qwen team, including Qwen3-Coder for writing code; companies run them locally or call them through Alibaba Cloud's API.
An AI image company and design tool: its own text-to-image models, such as Recraft V3, create raster images and vector graphics from text prompts, in its app or through an API.
An AI company that makes video generation models such as Gen-4.5 and sells them in a web app for creators and through an API for developers.
An AI 3D model generator: it turns a text prompt or an image into a textured 3D model for games, animation, 3D printing and product visuals.
Named in one story: 81 tools
An open-source AI model that generates songs with vocals and instruments from a text description and lyrics, and can edit, remix or extend existing audio.
AI21 Labs' developer platform: a web console and API through which a program calls AI21's Jamba language models and builds on them.
An AI model API reseller: one API key and one balance give access to hundreds of text, image and video models, including Google's Nano Banana and Veo.
Apple on-device Foundation Modeldeveloper.apple.com (Apple on-device Foundation Model's official site, opens in a new tab)
Apple's small language model that runs on the user's iPhone, iPad or Mac, called by apps through the Foundation Models framework without a key or per-request fee.
Apple Speech frameworkdeveloper.apple.com/documentation/speech (Apple Speech framework's official site, opens in a new tab)
Apple's built-in speech recognition framework that lets iPhone, iPad, Mac and Vision Pro apps turn live or recorded speech into text.
Azure Document Intelligenceazure.microsoft.com (Azure Document Intelligence's official site, opens in a new tab)
A Microsoft Azure cloud service that reads documents such as PDFs, forms and invoices with AI models and returns their text, tables and layout as structured data.
Microsoft's cloud service that runs OpenAI's language and reasoning models on Azure, so a business's software can generate text through an API.
An AI inference platform: it runs open-source and custom AI models on GPUs and serves them to other software through APIs, billed by use.
An image-to-3D AI model from ByteDance Seed: it turns a single image into a textured 3D asset that physics simulators can use directly.
ByteDance Seedreamseed.bytedance.com/en/seedream5_0_lite (ByteDance Seedream's official site, opens in a new tab)
An image generation and editing model from ByteDance Seed: it creates or edits images from text prompts and reference images, sold by API through BytePlus.
ByteDance's enterprise cloud: it sells API access to ByteDance AI models, such as the Seedance video and Seedream image models, plus cloud infrastructure.
A real-time voice AI service: its API turns text into speech, transcribes speech, clones voices from short clips and runs phone voice agents.
A B2B data provider, now part of HubSpot: it adds company and contact facts to CRM records, helps score leads and shows which companies visit a website.
Cloudflare Workers AIcloudflare.com/products/workers-ai (Cloudflare Workers AI's official site, opens in a new tab)
A serverless AI inference service: a program calls open-source models such as Whisper or Llama on Cloudflare's GPUs and pays per use.
A research model for face restoration: it turns blurry, damaged or AI-distorted faces in images into clean, detailed faces.
A neural network add-on for image models such as Stable Diffusion: a condition image like edges, depth, pose or a pattern controls the layout of the generated picture.
A plagiarism and AI-content detection service: it checks text, code and images against web and document sources and reports copied or AI-generated parts.
A generative AI model from Roblox that creates 3D object meshes from a text prompt, for use in games.
An AI inference cloud: it runs hundreds of open-source AI models on its own GPUs and sells their output to other programs through an OpenAI-compatible API.
An open-source music source separation model: it splits a finished song into separate stems such as vocals, drums, bass and the other instruments.
An open-source deep-learning model that adds color to old black-and-white photos and film footage and reduces their visual defects.
Distil-Whispergithub.com/huggingface/distil-whisper (Distil-Whisper's official site, opens in a new tab)
An open-source English speech recognition model from Hugging Face: a smaller, faster distilled version of OpenAI's Whisper that turns audio into text with timestamps.
An AI model API gateway: one API key gives access to many providers' language, image, video and audio models, billed per use.
A fashion AI service whose virtual try-on model shows a garment from a product photo on a chosen person, through a web app or an API.
Firebase AI Logicfirebase.google.com/docs/ai-logic (Firebase AI Logic's official site, opens in a new tab)
A Google Firebase service whose client SDKs let mobile and web apps send prompts to Google's Gemini AI models directly, without a separate back-end server.
A voice AI service: a program sends text to its API and receives spoken audio in a chosen or cloned voice; it also transcribes speech to text.
A speech-to-text API: a program sends recorded or live audio and receives a written transcript, with optional analysis such as speaker labels and summaries.
Google's machine translation service: people translate text, speech, images, documents and websites in its apps, and programs translate text through the Cloud Translation API.
OpenAI's image generation models: a program sends a text prompt, and optionally images, through the OpenAI API and receives a new or edited image.
An open language model released by OpenAI in 2019: a transformer that writes text by predicting the next word, published as code and weights for fine-tuning.
A voice AI service from SpaceXSI: programs hold real-time spoken conversations with Grok, turn text into speech and transcribe audio through an API.
MiniMax's AI video generator: it turns text prompts or photos into short video clips, in a web app and through the MiniMax API.
A video generation model from Alibaba that makes short cinematic video clips with sound from a text prompt or images, and edits existing videos.
An AI video platform and API that turns a written script into a video of a talking digital presenter, with lip-sync, cloned voices and translation.
An AI service, earlier named Hitem3D, that generates detailed, print-ready 3D models from one image or a text prompt, through a web app and an API.
Tencent's AI models that turn an image or a text prompt into a textured 3D model, offered as downloadable weights and on Tencent's 3D creation website.
An AI 3D model generator from Deemos that turns images or text prompts into textured 3D assets, through a web workspace, plug-ins and an API.
IBM Watson Natural Language Understandingibm.com (IBM Watson Natural Language Understanding's official site, opens in a new tab)
IBM's text analysis API: a program sends text and receives the keywords, entities, categories, concepts, sentiment and emotions found in it.
An AI API aggregator: one API key and one credit balance give a program access to many other companies' video, image, music and language models.
Meta's family of large language models whose weights anyone can download, fine-tune and run on their own servers or devices.
An open vision-language model from university and Microsoft researchers: it reads an image with a text question and answers in text.
A desktop app that downloads open large language models and runs them on the user's own computer, with a local API for other software.
A family of open-weight AI video generation models from LTX, originally part of Lightricks: text, images or audio go in and video comes out, through an API or self-hosted.
Microsoft AI's family of image models: they create images from text prompts and edit existing images, offered to developers through Microsoft Foundry on Azure.
MAI-Transcribemicrosoft.ai/models/mai-transcribe-2 (MAI-Transcribe's official site, opens in a new tab)
Microsoft AI's speech-to-text models, offered as a cloud API: a program sends recorded audio in one of 60 languages and receives a written transcript.
An AI 3D generation API: a program sends a text prompt or images and receives a textured 3D model, billed in prepaid credits per request.
Microsoft Text to Speech (Azure Speech)azure.microsoft.com (Microsoft Text to Speech (Azure Speech)'s official site, opens in a new tab)
The text-to-speech feature of Microsoft's Azure Speech cloud service: a program sends text and receives natural-sounding speech in one of many neural voices.
An AI company that builds its own language, video, speech and music models and sells them through an API; its H3 model turns prompts and reference media into short videos.
Google's family of Gemini image models, which create and edit pictures from text instructions and reference images, in the Gemini app or through the Gemini API.
Nano Banana Prodeepmind.google/models/gemini-image/pro (Nano Banana Pro's official site, opens in a new tab)
Google's premium Gemini image model (Gemini 3 Pro Image), which creates and edits detailed images with legible text from prompts and reference images.
A cloud platform that hosts more than 200 AI models behind one pay-per-token API, and also rents GPUs and sandboxes for AI agents.
NVIDIA's hosted AI inference: NIM API endpoints on build.nvidia.com that run models such as Nemotron and DeepSeek for applications.
NVIDIA's family of open AI models for reasoning, vision, speech, retrieval and safety, including a speaker-diarization model that labels who spoke when.
A former hosted service that ran generative AI models, such as Llama and FLUX image models, for applications through an API; now closed after joining NVIDIA.
Software that downloads open AI models and runs them on a Mac, Windows or Linux computer, with an optional paid cloud for larger models.
Oxford University Press's language-data business, which licenses dictionary data, word lists, phonetic transcriptions and recorded pronunciations to software makers as datasets and an API.
A video generation model from Pruna AI that turns a text prompt, an image or audio into a short video clip with sound, through an API.
An inference cloud that runs open AI models such as GLM, Kimi and DeepSeek behind one OpenAI-compatible API and bills per token.
A B2B data provider: software sends a company or person identifier through an API and gets back a standardized profile with firmographics, headcount and contact data.
An AI media generation platform that makes video, images and sound from text, images or clips, with its own Pika models and an API to over 100 models.
An open-source research model from Tsinghua University and Tencent ARC Lab that generates a textured 3D mesh of an object from a single photo.
An AI video generation platform with its own video models: an app or program sends a text prompt or an image and receives a short generated video.
A speech AI service for speaker diarization: it finds who spoke when in a recording or live audio and labels the transcript by speaker, through an API.
Open-weight speech recognition models from Alibaba Cloud's Qwen team that turn speech in 52 languages and dialects into text, live or from files, and can run locally.
A platform to build, test and run AI voice agents that answer and make phone calls for a business, and chat agents for text.
An open-source Python library and set of pretrained word vectors that find words and phrases with a similar meaning to a given word or phrase.
A speech-to-text service: a program sends recorded or live audio to Speechmatics' API and receives the written transcript, in more than 55 languages.
A generative AI company whose Stable Diffusion models turn written prompts into images, offered as downloadable models and through a pay-per-use API.
StepFun Open Platformplatform.stepfun.com (StepFun Open Platform's official site, opens in a new tab)
StepFun's model API platform: programs send text, images or audio and get answers, speech or transcripts back from StepFun's own Step and StepAudio models.
A free, open-source chess engine: a program that analyzes chess positions, scores them and finds the best move, used inside chess apps and websites.
A family of open-source language models from Google Research that turn every task into text in, text out: translation, summaries, answers and classification.
Tencent's cloud computing service; its Tencent HY 3D (Hunyuan3D) API turns a text description or a 2D image into a textured 3D model.
A cloud platform for open-source AI models: programs call its API to run chat, image, video and speech models, fine-tune them, or rent GPU clusters.
AI image and video enhancement software and API: its models upscale, sharpen and denoise photos and videos in desktop apps, web apps or other products.
An open-source image-to-3D model from Microsoft Research: it turns a single picture into a textured 3D asset that 3D software and game engines can use.
A developer platform for voice AI agents: it runs AI assistants that answer and make phone calls or talk inside web apps, billed per minute.
A platform for building AI chat and voice agents for customer service: teams design the agent visually, add a knowledge base, and deploy it to chat or phone.
An open-source method that creates and edits images from a text prompt by letting the CLIP model guide the VQGAN image generator.
An open-source Swift framework from Argmax that runs OpenAI's Whisper speech-to-text models on Apple devices, so an app can transcribe audio offline.
An API from World Labs that generates explorable 3D worlds from a text prompt, images, a panorama or a video, and returns them as Gaussian splat and mesh files.
Xiaomi's family of large AI models, offered as open weights and through a pay-per-token API, that understand text, images, video and audio and write text.
Building the product
Frameworks, programming languages, no-code builders and AI coding tools.
An open-source framework for building websites and web applications with React: it handles page routing, rendering pages on the server, and the production build.
A JavaScript library for building user interfaces: a developer writes small reusable components, and React updates the web page when the data changes.
A hosting service for Git repositories: it stores a team's source code with its full change history, and adds code review (pull requests), issue tracking and automated builds.
A code editor with a built-in AI assistant: the developer describes a change in plain language, and the editor writes or edits the code across the project.
A programming language from Microsoft that adds static types to JavaScript: a compiler checks the types before the program runs and then outputs plain JavaScript.
An AI chat assistant from OpenAI: a person types a question or a task, and it answers with text, code, images or data analysis.
An AI coding agent from Anthropic that works in a developer's terminal or editor: given a task, it reads the project's files, edits code, and runs commands and tests.
A general-purpose programming language: businesses write their server software, data processing scripts and machine learning code in it.
A CSS framework: a developer styles a web page by adding small ready-made class names, such as flex or pt-4, directly in the HTML.
A JavaScript runtime: it runs JavaScript code outside the browser, so a business can write its server software and build tools in the same language as its web pages.
An open-source JavaScript web framework for content sites: it turns pages, components and Markdown into fast HTML pages, built ahead of time or on the server.
A general-purpose, open-source programming language, used to write native apps for Apple devices such as the Mac and iPhone, and also server software.
An AI assistant from Anthropic: a user writes a request in a chat window, and it answers questions, writes and edits text or code, and creates files.
A collaborative design application: a team draws the screens of a website or app together in one shared file, and developers turn the designs into code.
An open-source framework from Meta: a team writes one app in JavaScript with React, and it runs as a native app on both iPhone and Android.
A visual website builder and host: a team designs pages on a canvas, manages content in a built-in CMS, and publishes the site on Webflow's servers.
An AI coding agent from OpenAI: given a task in plain language, it reads a code repository, writes and edits files, runs commands, and proposes the changes for review.
A content management system: software that stores a website's pages and posts in a database and lets people edit and publish them from a browser without writing code.
An open-source framework and cloud service on top of React Native: a team builds one JavaScript app for iPhone, Android and the web, then builds, ships and updates it.
A website builder with an AI design agent: a team designs pages on a visual canvas, and Framer publishes and hosts them as a live website with a CMS.
Apple's framework for building app user interfaces in Swift: developers declare what each screen shows, and it runs on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV and Vision Pro.
A no-code app builder: a person builds the screens, database and logic of a web or mobile app in a visual editor instead of writing code, and Bubble hosts it.
An open-source Python web framework for building APIs: a developer writes typed Python functions, and FastAPI turns them into validated, documented HTTP endpoints.
A programming language, standardized as ECMAScript: it is the scripting language of web pages, and with Node.js it also runs on servers.
GitHub's built-in automation service: it runs workflows that build, test and deploy code on virtual machines when something happens in a repository.
An open source framework (a code library) for Python and JavaScript: it supplies ready-made components that connect an application to language models, vector databases and other tools.
A workflow automation platform: it connects apps and APIs in visual workflows with AI agent steps, running on n8n's cloud or on a company's own servers.
A web framework built on Vue.js: it gives a project a ready structure for pages, routing and server-side rendering, so the team writes only the application code.
A general-purpose scripting language for web development: its code runs on the web server and produces the HTML pages, data and files that a website sends to browsers.
A free source-code editor from Microsoft: developers write, run, debug and manage code in it, with extensions for each language and built-in AI agents.
An open-source framework for desktop apps: developers build one app with web technologies (JavaScript, HTML and CSS) and ship it for macOS, Windows and Linux.
A minimal web framework for Node.js: a JavaScript library that receives HTTP requests on a server, routes them to code, and sends back pages or API responses.
An AI coding assistant from GitHub: it suggests code while a developer types, answers questions about a codebase, and runs agents that make changes and open pull requests.
A small JavaScript library that a web page loads to find and change page elements, react to clicks and send requests to the server with short code.
A statically typed programming language from JetBrains, used to write Android apps, server software and code shared between mobile, desktop and web platforms.
An open-source PHP web framework that gives a web application ready-made routing, database access, authentication, queues and testing.
MUI's Material UI: an open-source library of ready-made React interface components, such as buttons, text fields, tables and alerts, that follow Google's Material Design.
A framework that makes videos from React code: each frame is a web page drawn by React, and Remotion renders the frames into a video file.
An open-source JavaScript library that draws interactive 3D graphics inside a web page, using the browser's WebGL or WebGPU interface.
A hosted online form builder: a business creates forms, surveys and quizzes without code, shares them by link or embeds them, and collects the answers.
An open-source frontend build tool: it serves a web app's source code during development with instant updates and bundles it into optimized files for production.
An open-source JavaScript framework for building web user interfaces from components that update the page automatically when the data changes.
A design tool that runs in the browser: a person without design training picks a template and edits it to make social media images, presentations, logos and videos.
A drag-and-drop page builder for WordPress: a person designs the pages of a website visually, without writing code, and the paid Pro version adds forms, popups and theme templates.
Google's open-source framework for building apps: one Dart codebase produces iOS, Android, web and desktop apps, so a business maintains one app instead of several.
An open-source package manager for JavaScript: it installs a project's dependencies faster than npm, keeps one copy of each file on disk, and manages monorepos.
An open-source ORM for TypeScript and Node.js: developers describe their data model in one schema file and query the database through a generated, type-safe client instead of SQL.
An AI app builder: a person describes an app in plain language, and Rork writes, builds and publishes native iPhone, Android or web apps without hand-written code.
A systems programming language: it produces fast, memory-efficient programs without a garbage collector and checks memory safety and thread safety at compile time.
An open-source framework for web user interfaces: a compiler turns components written in HTML, CSS and JavaScript into lean JavaScript that updates the page directly.
The application framework for Svelte: it adds routing, server-side rendering, data loading and deployment adapters so that Svelte components become a complete web app.
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An open-source React UI component library and design system: developers build application screens from ready-made buttons, tables, forms and other components.
An open-source front-end framework: ready-made CSS styles, a layout grid and JavaScript components for building responsive websites quickly.
An open-source React component library: ready-made, accessible interface parts such as buttons, menus, tabs and sliders for building web applications.
A software library from Anthropic for building AI agents in Python or TypeScript: the Claude model plans steps and calls tools such as file editing, shell commands and web search.
An open-source Python web framework: a small library that maps web addresses to Python functions, used to build websites and back-end APIs.
An open-source programming language from Google, used to write fast compiled programs such as web servers, network services and command-line tools.
An open-source query language for APIs: the client asks for exactly the data fields it needs and the server returns them in one response.
An open-source library that connects a server-side framework such as Laravel to React, Vue or Svelte pages, giving a single-page app without a separate API.
An AI app builder: a person describes a website or web app in plain language, and Lovable writes the code, runs it and hosts it.
A no-code automation platform: a business connects its apps in a visual editor, so data moves between them and tasks run without manual work.
An open-source TypeScript framework for building AI agents and workflows into an application, with model routing, memory, tools and observability.
An open-source React library for node-based editors: apps use it to draw boxes connected by lines, such as visual workflow builders and diagrams.
An open-source web application framework written in Ruby: it gives a team the database layer, page templates, routing, email and background jobs needed to build a web app.
An open-source stylesheet language that compiles to CSS: it adds variables, nesting, mixins and functions so that a web team can keep large style sheets organized.
An open-source set of React interface components that a command-line tool copies into the app's own code, so the team can edit every button, dialog and table.
An open-source JavaScript library for real-time messaging: it keeps a two-way connection open between browser and server, so the app pushes updates without page reloads.
An open-source framework for building small desktop and mobile apps whose interface is written in web technologies and whose application logic runs in Rust.
An AI code editor, now named Devin Desktop, in which AI agents write, change and test code in a project while the developer reviews the work.
Named in one story: 104 tools
A paid WordPress plugin that adds custom fields, repeatable field groups, galleries, options pages and PHP-built editor blocks to a WordPress site's edit screens.
An open-source JavaScript charting library that draws interactive charts and data visualizations in a web browser for dashboards, reports and products.
Apple's framework for building the graphical user interface of macOS apps: windows, buttons, menus, text and the handling of mouse and keyboard events.
Apple Vision frameworkdeveloper.apple.com/documentation/vision (Apple Vision framework's official site, opens in a new tab)
Apple's built-in computer vision framework that lets apps read text, detect faces, barcodes and objects, and separate subjects in photos and video.
An AI research and development lab in Amman, Jordan and the USA whose development team, Avancer Factory, builds production software and apps for clients.
An open-source PyTorch library that quantizes large language models to 8-bit or 4-bit numbers, so they run and train in much less GPU memory.
An AI app builder: a person describes a website or web app in a chat, and AI agents write, test and host the code.
A visual website builder for WordPress: it designs pages, forms, popups and WooCommerce stores, and AI agents can build sites in it.
A general-purpose programming language from Microsoft, the main language of .NET, used for web backends, cloud services, desktop and mobile apps and games.
A website builder for simple one-page sites, such as landing pages, profiles and signup pages, built from templates in the browser and hosted by Carrd.
Ceviche Challengesgithub.com/google/ceviche-challenges (Ceviche Challenges's official site, opens in a new tab)
Google's open-source set of photonic design test problems: each simulates a light-guiding chip component, so researchers can compare algorithms that design such components.
An AI code review service: it reviews every pull request automatically, summarizes the change, comments on likely bugs and suggests fixes before a human reviews it.
An open-source tool from Replicate that packages a machine learning model into a Docker container with a ready HTTP prediction API.
A library of WordPress themes and HTML website templates: a business downloads a ready-made design and edits it into its own website.
A Mac app for running several AI coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex in parallel, each in its own isolated workspace, locally or in the cloud.
An open-source SDK for putting AI agents and chat inside an app's user interface, with generative UI, shared state and user approval steps.
An open-source computer-use driver: it lets AI agents such as Claude Code click, type and read in desktop apps on the user's own computer, in the background.
A free component library for Tailwind CSS: it adds ready-made class names for buttons, cards, menus and other page parts, so web pages need less styling code.
GitHub's automated dependency updater: it watches the packages a repository depends on and opens pull requests that move them to newer or patched versions.
An autonomous AI coding agent from Cognition: it takes a programming task, writes, runs and tests the code in its own workspace, and opens a pull request.
A free, open-source Python web framework that handles databases, page templates, user accounts, an admin interface and security for a website's server side.
A browser-based app builder: it creates iPhone, Android and web apps through visual editing and AI agents, and publishes them to the app stores.
An open-source TypeScript ORM: application code defines database tables in TypeScript and runs type-checked SQL queries against PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite and other databases.
A dynamic, functional programming language that runs on the Erlang virtual machine and is used to build scalable web, real-time and distributed applications.
An open-source bundler for web code: it combines JavaScript, TypeScript, JSX and CSS files into optimized bundles for browsers or Node.js, very quickly.
A file upload service and API: a drop-in widget takes files from many sources, and Filestack stores, transforms and delivers them through a CDN.
An open-source feature flag service: developers switch features on or off, or change settings, for chosen users without deploying new code.
A visual app builder: developers design screens and logic by drag and drop and get a Flutter app for iOS, Android, web and desktop, with code they can export.
A paid WordPress plugin that makes a website load faster by caching pages, compressing images and trimming CSS and JavaScript.
An open-source collection of free fonts packaged as npm packages for self-hosting in web apps, with a CDN that serves the same fonts by URL.
An open-source framework built on React for making fast websites: it turns content from many sources into pre-built pages that a CDN can serve.
A lightweight WordPress theme with add-on blocks: a business builds its whole website, including header, footer and page templates, inside the WordPress editor.
A software development platform: it hosts a team's Git code repositories and automatically builds, tests and deploys each code change.
Google's REST API for Gmail: with the user's permission, a program reads, searches, labels and sends that user's email.
Google's hosted Jupyter notebook service: people write and run code in a web browser on Google's machines, including GPUs and TPUs.
A library of open-source web fonts from Google: a website links one stylesheet, and its pages then display the chosen fonts.
An open-source compression layer for AI agents: it shrinks tool outputs, logs, files and search results on the local machine before they reach a language model.
An open-source framework from HeyGen that renders web pages built with HTML, CSS and JavaScript animation into MP4 video, designed for AI coding agents.
An open-source JavaScript library that shows a website or app in the user's language by loading translation files and filling in translated text.
An open-source Python library for numerical computing: NumPy-style array code that is automatically differentiated, compiled and run on CPUs, GPUs or TPUs.
An open-source JavaScript testing framework: it runs a project's automated tests, compares results with expected values, mocks dependencies and reports code coverage.
An AI model from TypeSafe AI that answers structured questions inside software with typed decisions and confidence scores, for classifying, routing and scoring data.
An open-source CRDT library: it lets several users or devices edit the same document at once, or offline, and merges their changes automatically.
An open-source icon library: more than 1,600 consistent SVG icons with ready-made packages for React, Vue, Svelte and other web frameworks.
Apple's small desktop computer: a five-inch-square Mac with Apple silicon, often used as an always-on machine for development and local AI models.
An open-source 2D physics engine in JavaScript: it simulates gravity, collisions and friction between objects for games and interactive web pages.
The official Python library for the Model Context Protocol: developers use it to build servers that give AI applications tools and data, and clients that call them.
Apple's low-level programming interface for the GPU: apps on Apple devices use it to draw 3D graphics and to run parallel calculations such as machine-learning inference.
Microsoft's email and calendar service and app; other programs can read and send a user's Outlook mail through the Microsoft Graph API.
An open-source JavaScript library for state management: it tracks which parts of an app's data each component uses and updates the interface automatically when that data changes.
An open-source TypeScript framework for building server-side applications on Node.js, such as web back ends, APIs and microservices.
An open-source sign-in library for Next.js web applications that supports Google, Apple and other OAuth logins, email links and passwords.
The Natural Language Toolkit, an open-source Python library for processing human-language text: tokenizing, tagging, parsing and classifying it, with many downloadable corpora.
NVIDIA's open-source reference stack for running autonomous AI agents, such as OpenClaw, inside sandboxes with policy controls over files, network and credentials.
An open-source build system for JavaScript and TypeScript monorepos that runs, orders and caches build and test tasks across many projects in one repository.
Microsoft's JavaScript API for Office Add-ins: web code that runs inside Excel, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint and reads or changes the open document.
OpenAI's toolkit for building apps inside ChatGPT: an MCP server gives ChatGPT tools to call and can return an interactive interface shown in the chat.
OpenAI Playgroundplatform.openai.com/playground (OpenAI Playground's official site, opens in a new tab)
A web page in OpenAI's API platform where developers write and test prompts against OpenAI models before putting them into their own code.
An open-source personal AI assistant that runs on the user's own computer and takes instructions through chat apps such as WhatsApp, Telegram and Slack.
An open-source Python library from Hugging Face that fine-tunes large AI models by training only a small set of extra parameters, such as LoRA adapters.
An open-source web framework for the Elixir language; with its LiveView library, interactive pages are rendered on the server and updated in the browser over a persistent connection.
A developer service that lets AI agents and apps act in their users' accounts on 3,000+ other apps, with managed sign-in, prebuilt tools and an API proxy.
An open-source Python library that extracts the key phrases of a text document, with a choice of statistical, graph-based and supervised extraction models.
An open-source framework for building browser extensions with React and TypeScript, with tools from Plasmo Corp. for testing and publishing them to browser stores.
An open-source React framework for building rich-text editors, with plugins and copy-in UI components that include AI editing, collaboration and Markdown import and export.
An open-source browser automation framework from Microsoft that drives Chromium, Firefox and WebKit from code, for end-to-end tests, scripts, screenshots and AI agents.
An open-source command-line tool for Python projects: it installs the libraries a project depends on at fixed versions and builds and publishes the project as a package.
A toolkit for progressive web apps: it makes an existing website installable on phones and computers like an app and sends push notifications to its users.
An open-source JavaScript library that drives Chrome or Firefox from code, used to automate browsing, test web pages, take screenshots and pre-render pages into HTML.
An open-source routing library and framework for React web apps: it maps each URL to the screen that shows it and loads that screen's data.
A website design tool: designers lay out pages visually in a browser editor and publish them as hosted websites, such as portfolios and personal or client sites.
An open-source full-stack web framework: Remix v2 builds React apps with server data loading and forms, and now continues as React Router v7; Remix 3 is a new standalone stack.
An online platform where an AI agent writes, runs and hosts apps and websites from a plain-language description, so non-programmers can build software.
An open-source library of ready-made React interface components built on shadcn/ui, which developers copy into a web app instead of building screens from scratch.
An open-source tool that syncs Roblox game scripts and models between ordinary files on a computer and Roblox Studio, so developers can use external editors and Git.
An open-source JavaScript and TypeScript bundler written in Rust that combines a web app's source files into optimized files for production; it powers Vite.
An open-source command-line tool that shrinks the shell output an AI coding agent reads, so the agent sends fewer tokens to the paid language model.
A free, open-source, object-oriented programming language, used for web applications through the Ruby on Rails framework and for scripts.
A library of ready-made React page sections and components, built on shadcn/ui and Tailwind CSS, that developers copy into their own website or app code.
A WordPress SEO plugin that automatically generates page titles, meta descriptions, schema markup, sitemaps and social preview tags so search engines can read the site.
An open-source Python library for natural language processing: it splits text into words and finds grammar, names, places and other structure for software to use.
An open-source software update framework for macOS apps: built into an app, it checks for new versions, downloads them and installs them.
An open-source browser interface, known as AUTOMATIC1111, for running Stable Diffusion image models on one's own computer to generate, edit and upscale images.
An AI coding bot installed as a GitHub app: it reads an issue, plans the code changes and opens a pull request that makes them.
An open-source Swift library that emulates an xterm/VT100 terminal, so macOS, iOS and web apps can run and show command-line sessions in their own windows.
Tailwind Plus (formerly Tailwind UI)tailwindcss.com/plus (Tailwind Plus (formerly Tailwind UI)'s official site, opens in a new tab)
A paid collection of UI components, website templates and a UI kit built with Tailwind CSS by its makers; it was called Tailwind UI until March 2025.
An open-source routing library for React web apps: it maps URLs to screens, with type-safe links, route parameters, URL search state and data loading.
An open-source full-stack web framework for React and Solid that adds server rendering, streaming and type-safe server functions to TanStack Router.
A no-code website builder: a person assembles pages from ready-made design blocks, or asks its AI to generate them, and Tilda hosts the finished site.
An embeddable rich-text editor for web applications: it turns a plain text box into a word-processor-style editor and saves the content as HTML.
A JavaScript library that speeds up page navigation in server-rendered web apps by fetching the next page and swapping its body without a full reload.
A build system for JavaScript and TypeScript monorepos: it caches task results and runs only the builds, tests and lints affected by a change.
A no-code website builder: creators build landing pages, link-in-bio pages, blogs and forms, and sell digital products, without writing code.
Apple's framework for building app user interfaces on iOS, iPadOS and tvOS: windows, views, controls, touch handling and the app's event loop.
A no-code website builder for startups: founders build landing pages, SaaS sites, directories and blogs from templates or with AI prompts.
A game engine and editor for building 2D and 3D games and interactive apps, and deploying them to mobile, PC, consoles and XR devices.
An AI app builder from Vercel: a person describes a page or app in plain words, and v0 writes the code and publishes it as a live website.
An open-source TypeScript library from Vercel that gives one programming interface to many AI model providers, for building chat apps and AI agents.
An open-source chatbot app template from Vercel: a ready Next.js chat interface with login, saved history and AI model access that developers copy and change.
An open-source test framework for JavaScript and TypeScript code, built on the Vite build tool, that runs a project's automated tests.
An open-source C/C++ program and library that runs OpenAI's Whisper speech recognition model locally, turning recorded audio into text without a cloud service.
An open-source framework for building browser extensions: it turns one TypeScript codebase into extensions for Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari and other Chromium browsers.
Apple's integrated development environment for the Mac: developers write, test, debug and ship apps for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS and visionOS with it.
An open-source Python library that downloads the subtitles or transcript of a YouTube video, including automatic ones, without an API key or a browser.
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Hosting, databases, queues and rented graphics processors.
A hosting service for websites and web applications: it builds the code after each change in the Git repository and serves the result from servers in many regions.
A network placed between visitors and a website: it delivers pages from nearby servers, blocks attacks, manages DNS, and also offers file storage and code hosting.
A hosted backend built on the PostgreSQL database: it gives an app a database, user login, file storage and realtime updates without the team running its own servers.
A set of hosted backend services from Google for web and mobile apps: a database, user login, file storage, hosting and analytics, without servers to manage.
A cloud computing platform: a business rents Google's servers, storage and databases over the internet to run its software, and pays for the amount it uses.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)aws.amazon.com (Amazon Web Services (AWS)'s official site, opens in a new tab)
A cloud provider: it rents servers, storage, databases and many other computing services over the internet, and a business pays for the amount it uses.
Sign in with Googledevelopers.google.com/identity/siwg (Sign in with Google's official site, opens in a new tab)
Google's login service for websites and apps: users sign up and sign in with their Google Account, so the site needs no separate password for them.
An authentication and user management service: an app hands sign-up, sign-in, sessions and user accounts to Clerk instead of building and securing them itself.
An open-source relational database: it stores an application's data in tables and answers SQL queries, with transactions that keep the data consistent.
A hosting platform: it takes code from a Git repository, builds it, runs it as a web service with databases, and charges for the CPU and memory used.
An in-memory data store: applications keep fast-changing data such as caches, counters, queues and rate limits in it and read it back in under a millisecond.
A German hosting company: a business rents virtual cloud servers or whole physical servers in its data centers, billed by the hour up to a fixed monthly maximum.
A cloud hosting service: it takes a program's code from a Git repository, builds it, and runs it on its servers as a website, background job or database.
A cloud hosting provider: a business rents virtual servers (called Droplets), managed databases and storage, with usage-based or monthly pricing.
A container platform: it packages an application with everything it needs into an image, and runs that image as an isolated container on any machine.
An object storage service from Cloudflare: it stores files such as user media in buckets, serves them over the internet, and charges no fees for downloaded data.
A platform as a service (PaaS): a developer pushes application code with Git, and Heroku builds, runs and scales it in managed containers called dynos.
A backend platform for web apps: it combines a reactive database, server functions written in TypeScript and real-time sync, as a cloud service or self-hosted.
A document database: it stores application data as flexible JSON-like documents instead of table rows, and runs self-managed or as the hosted MongoDB Atlas service.
A web hosting and deployment platform: it builds a site from a Git repository, serves it from a global CDN, and runs serverless and edge functions.
An open-source web server: it serves static files, forwards requests to application servers as a reverse proxy, balances load and caches content.
A hosted vector database: it stores embeddings (lists of numbers that represent the meaning of text) and returns the stored items most similar to a query.
A database engine that is a code library inside the application: it stores all the data in one file on disk, so a business needs no separate database server.
A communications platform with APIs: a business's software sends and receives text messages, phone calls and email, and verifies users, through Twilio.
A tool and login platform for AI agents: it connects an agent to its users' accounts in more than 1,500 apps and handles the OAuth consent and tokens.
Firebase Authenticationfirebase.google.com/products/auth (Firebase Authentication's official site, opens in a new tab)
Google's hosted sign-in service for apps: it checks users' passwords, phone numbers or Google and other accounts and tells the app who is signed in.
Apple's cloud service: it stores a user's photos, files and app data on Apple's servers and keeps them in sync across the user's Apple devices.
A managed ClickHouse analytics database with developer tools: it ingests event data, transforms it with SQL and serves the results to applications as HTTP APIs.
A hosted vector and full-text search database built on object storage: applications store embeddings and documents in it and query them by similarity or keywords.
A cloud platform and marketplace of web scraping programs: a business runs ready-made or its own scrapers on Apify's servers and gets the collected web data back.
Google's bot protection service: it scores each form submission or sign-in on a website by how likely it comes from a bot, so the site can block spam and abuse.
A serverless cloud platform for AI and compute-heavy work: developers run Python functions on cloud CPUs and GPUs and pay per second of use.
A serverless PostgreSQL database service: it hosts Postgres databases that scale automatically, shut down when idle, and copy instantly into branches for development.
The package registry and command-line tool of JavaScript: developers publish code packages to the npm registry and install them into their projects with the npm CLI.
A managed cloud database service: it hosts MySQL databases through Vitess and PostgreSQL databases, with branching, replicas, backups and horizontal sharding.
An email delivery service for applications: it sends transactional email such as password resets and notifications through an API or SMTP, and processes inbound email.
A GPU cloud for AI workloads: it rents on-demand GPU machines and serverless GPU endpoints that scale with incoming requests and bill per second.
A headless content management system: editors write structured content in Sanity Studio, and websites and apps fetch that content and its images through Sanity's APIs and CDN.
A web search API for AI agents: a program sends a query and gets back current web results and page content as clean text for a language model.
Apple's beta testing service: a developer gives test versions of an iPhone, iPad or Mac app to invited testers before the App Store release.
A large online library of photos and illustrations that are free to use, with an API that lets an application search the library and show the images.
A serverless data platform whose main product is a hosted Redis database that programs reach over the Redis protocol or a simple HTTP API.
A hosted gateway that sends an application's AI model requests to over 400 models from many providers through one API key and one bill.
WhatsApp Business Platformwhatsappbusiness.com (WhatsApp Business Platform's official site, opens in a new tab)
Meta's business messaging API for WhatsApp: a company's software sends notifications, promotions, login codes and support replies to customers on WhatsApp, and pays per delivered message.
The official programming interface of the social network X: an application reads and publishes posts, sends direct messages and manages accounts through it, and pays per request.
Akamai Cloud (formerly Linode)akamai.com/cloud (Akamai Cloud (formerly Linode)'s official site, opens in a new tab)
A cloud hosting platform from Akamai, formerly called Linode: it rents virtual machines, Kubernetes clusters, storage and managed databases, billed by the hour.
An open-source backend platform that gives web and mobile apps user login, databases, file storage, serverless functions, messaging and hosting through one set of APIs.
A hosted login and identity service: an application hands sign-up, sign-in, password handling and access control to Auth0 instead of building them itself.
An observability platform: it checks that a website or API is up, collects logs and metrics, alerts the on-call engineer, and hosts a public status page.
Cloudflare Workerscloudflare.com/products/workers (Cloudflare Workers's official site, opens in a new tab)
A serverless platform from Cloudflare: developers upload functions that run on Cloudflare's servers worldwide, and Dynamic Workers run code created at runtime in a sandbox.
An SEO data provider: its APIs return search-engine results, keyword search volumes, backlinks and other marketing data for software and agencies to use in their own tools.
A web scraping API, open source and also hosted, that turns web pages into clean Markdown or JSON for AI models and agents.
A durable execution platform that runs an app's background jobs and multi-step workflows, with automatic retries, queuing and scheduling, as a cloud service or self-hosted.
An open-source relational database server from Oracle: an application stores its data in MySQL tables and reads and changes them with SQL.
A free, open database of food products, built by volunteers: an app or program looks up a barcode and gets the product's ingredients and nutrition facts.
A free stock photo and video library: anyone can download the images and videos, or fetch them through the Pexels API, and use them without paying or giving credit.
An API for meeting recording: it sends bots into Zoom, Google Meet and Teams calls and returns recordings, transcripts and participant data to the developer's app.
A screenshot API: a program sends a web address and receives a clean image, PDF or scrolling video of that page, rendered on ScreenshotOne's servers.
An open-source platform that runs an application's long background jobs and AI agents written in TypeScript, with retries, queues, schedules and monitoring.
A hosted backend platform where an app's database, APIs and server logic are built in a visual editor, in code or by an AI agent, and run without managing servers.
A no-code automation platform that connects over 9,000 web apps: when an event happens in one app, Zapier runs set actions in others.
A customer service platform: a help desk where support teams receive, route and answer customer requests from email, chat, phone and social media, with AI agents and add-on apps.
A unified social media API, formerly called Late: one integration lets a program post and schedule content, answer messages and read analytics on many social networks.
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A CAPTCHA-solving service with an API: a program sends a CAPTCHA from a web page and receives the answer, solved by AI models or human workers, and pays per thousand solved.
An official Meta partner that gives businesses and software makers access to the WhatsApp Business API, hosts their WhatsApp numbers and charges a monthly fee per number.
An email API for AI agents: a program creates real email inboxes with one call, then sends, receives and threads messages through them.
An embedded integration platform: a software company puts Albato's white-label workflow builder, 1,000+ app connectors and AI agents inside its own product.
A hosted search service: a business sends its content to Algolia's servers and adds a search box with AI-ranked results to its website or app.
A global B2B marketplace where businesses find manufacturers and wholesale suppliers, compare product listings, request quotes and place orders.
Amazon's REST API for advertising: approved software reads and changes Amazon ad campaigns, bids and budgets and downloads ad performance reports.
Amazon Web Services' content delivery network: it caches a website's images, files, video and API responses on servers worldwide and serves them close to each visitor.
Amazon Web Services' object storage service: a program stores files of any size in cloud buckets and reads them back over the internet, paying per gigabyte stored.
Amazon Selling Partner APIdeveloper.amazonservices.com (Amazon Selling Partner API's official site, opens in a new tab)
Amazon's REST API for sellers and vendors: an authorized application reads and updates a seller's orders, inventory, listings, prices, payments and reports.
A cloud browser service for AI agents: a program starts managed Chromium browsers in the cloud that navigate websites, log in, fill forms and extract data.
Apple's paid music streaming service with over 100 million songs; other apps can read its catalog and create playlists in a user's library through MusicKit.
Apple's podcast app and directory, where listeners find, follow and play millions of shows and creators publish their shows from an RSS feed.
A cloud backup and storage company: its program copies a computer's files to Backblaze's data centers, and its B2 service stores data for apps.
A public blockchain built by Coinbase, an Ethereum layer 2, on which apps and AI agents make low-fee payments and stablecoin transfers that settle in under a second.
Cloud infrastructure for AI agents: it gives each agent a sandbox, a fast-starting virtual machine in which the agent runs code or hosts an app.
Free and open-source 3D creation software for modeling, sculpting, rendering, animation and visual effects, controllable through a Python API.
A security platform for AI agents: it scans agents, tools and MCP servers for risks, then watches and controls what agents do in production.
A cloud sandbox service for AI agents: each sandbox is a persistent Linux virtual machine that an agent or a person controls by CLI, API or SSH.
A web search API: a program or AI agent sends a query and receives search results or compact page extracts from Brave's own web index.
A cloud browser platform for AI agents: it runs real web browsers on its servers, which programs control to open sites, log in, fill forms and extract data.
A hosted headless browser service: programs connect through Puppeteer, Playwright or HTTP APIs to cloud browsers for scraping, automation, screenshots and PDFs.
An open-source job queue library on Redis: one service adds background jobs, and worker processes run them later, with retries, delays and schedules.
A content delivery network and edge platform: it caches a website's files, images and videos on servers near each visitor and bills per gigabyte delivered.
A data connector API for AI apps: it pulled files and web content from sources such as Google Drive and Notion into vector databases for retrieval.
A location data platform; its CARTO Basemaps service supplies background map tiles, drawn from OpenStreetMap data, for web and mobile maps.
An open-source distributed task queue for Python: an application sends tasks through a message broker, and worker processes run them in the background.
Chrome UX Reportdeveloper.chrome.com/docs/crux (Chrome UX Report's official site, opens in a new tab)
Google's public dataset of how real Chrome users experience websites: it reports loading speed, responsiveness and layout stability for each site and page.
An open-source column-oriented database for analytics: it answers SQL queries over billions of rows in milliseconds, self-hosted or as the ClickHouse Cloud service.
Cloud Run functions (formerly Google Cloud Functions)cloud.google.com/functions (Cloud Run functions (formerly Google Cloud Functions)'s official site, opens in a new tab)
Google Cloud's function-as-a-service: small pieces of code run on Google's servers when an HTTP request or a cloud event arrives.
Cloudflare Imagescloudflare.com/products/images (Cloudflare Images's official site, opens in a new tab)
Cloudflare's image service: it stores images, resizes and converts them on request, and delivers the right format and size from Cloudflare's global network.
Cloudflare Pagescloudflare.com/products/pages (Cloudflare Pages's official site, opens in a new tab)
Cloudflare's hosting platform for websites and full-stack apps: it builds a site from a Git repository on each push and serves it from Cloudflare's global network.
Cloudflare Registrarcloudflare.com/domains (Cloudflare Registrar's official site, opens in a new tab)
Cloudflare's domain name registrar: it registers, transfers and renews domains at the registry's price, with free DNS, DNSSEC and WHOIS privacy.
Cloudflare Streamcloudflare.com/products/stream (Cloudflare Stream's official site, opens in a new tab)
A managed video platform: it stores, encodes and delivers on-demand and live video for websites and apps through one API, on Cloudflare's network.
A cloud media platform with APIs: it uploads, stores, transforms and delivers a website's or app's images and videos through a CDN.
Apple's cloud database service for apps: an app stores and syncs its data in iCloud, either in each user's own account or in a shared public database.
A web data API for AI agents and apps: it scrapes, crawls and searches web pages into Markdown or JSON and returns a company's logos and brand colors.
A realtime video and audio service for developers: its SDKs add live calls, recording and streaming to web and mobile apps over Daily's WebRTC network.
A cloud service that creates isolated sandboxes on demand, in which AI agents and programs run untrusted or AI-generated code without touching the host systems.
A conversational marketing product: an AI chat agent and live chat on a company's website that talked with visitors, qualified them as leads and booked sales meetings.
An online marketplace where people and businesses list items for sale by auction or at a fixed price, and eBay takes a fee on each sale.
An open-source distributed search and analytics engine that stores data and answers full-text, vector and analytics queries through a REST API.
A closed serverless database service that stored JSON documents, queried them relationally and was reached over HTTPS; the service ended on 30 May 2025.
A serverless document database from Google Cloud: apps store their data as JSON documents and receive changes in real time.
A public cloud for developers that runs a business's apps and databases as fast-starting virtual machines in many regions, billed by the second.
A free font library from the Indian Type Foundry: websites load its typefaces from Fontshare servers with a short code snippet, or download them to host themselves.
An AI research assistant from Google: users add documents, links and videos as sources, then get answers, summaries and audio overviews with citations to those sources.
An online library and search engine of animated GIFs, stickers and short clips that people and apps search, share and embed.
A static website hosting service from GitHub that publishes a site directly from the files in a GitHub repository.
Google's programming interface to Google Ads: software creates and manages ad accounts, campaigns, budgets and reports without the Google Ads web interface.
Google Analytics Data APIdevelopers.google.com (Google Analytics Data API's official site, opens in a new tab)
Google's API for reading Google Analytics report data: a program asks for metrics such as active users or page views and receives the numbers.
Google's public web APIs, through which a program reads and changes data in Google products such as Gmail after each user grants permission.
Google Business Profilebusiness.google.com/us/business-profile (Google Business Profile's official site, opens in a new tab)
Google's free listing service for businesses: a company's profile with hours, contact details, photos and reviews appears in Google Search and Google Maps.
Google Identity Servicesdevelopers.google.com (Google Identity Services's official site, opens in a new tab)
Google's sign-in and authorization libraries for websites: users sign in with their Google Account, and apps get tokens to call Google APIs on their behalf.
Google's implementation of the OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect standards: apps sign users in with a Google Account and get permission to call Google APIs.
Google Play servicesdevelopers.google.com (Google Play services's official site, opens in a new tab)
Google's background services and SDKs for Android: apps include small client libraries for features such as maps, sign-in, location and messaging that run in a shared system app.
Google's website builder: people create and edit simple websites by drag and drop, without code, and Google hosts the pages.
A customer support platform for online shops: one help desk inbox for email, chat, SMS and social messages, with an AI agent that answers and resolves tickets.
A platform where developers host, share and run machine learning models, datasets and demo apps, with paid computing for running models in production.
An email outreach service that finds professional email addresses, checks whether they can receive mail, and sends cold email sequences, through an app or an API.
An incident management platform whose Status Pages show customers, in real time, whether a company's services work and what is being done about an outage.
An IP geolocation API: a website or program sends an IP address and receives its country, city, time zone, currency and network owner as JSON.
An IP address data service: a program sends an IP address and receives its location, network owner and signs of VPN or proxy use.
A hosted authentication and billing service for SaaS products: it handles user sign-up, login, roles and feature flags, and can bill the product's customers.
An email and SMS marketing platform for consumer brands: it stores customer profiles and shopping events and sends targeted campaigns and automated message sequences.
A server management service from the Laravel team: it sets up web servers on a cloud provider and deploys a PHP or JavaScript app from Git without manual DevOps work.
LinkedIn's set of web APIs: with a member's permission, another application can publish posts on LinkedIn for that member and read the posts' statistics.
A hosted document parsing service: it turns PDFs, Office files, spreadsheets and images into clean Markdown, text or JSON for AI applications.
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Microsoft Wordmicrosoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/word (Microsoft Word's official site, opens in a new tab)
Microsoft's word processor for writing and editing documents; developers can extend it with add-ins, web apps that run inside Word.
A hosted documentation platform: a company writes its product docs as files in a Git repository or a web editor, and Mintlify builds and serves the docs site.
A pay-per-call marketplace of tools for AI agents: one account and one balance let an agent find and call thousands of third-party APIs, such as search, scraping and data enrichment.
A video API for developers: it stores, processes and streams a product's videos and live streams, and supplies a player, thumbnails, captions and viewing analytics.
Notion's REST API, through which other programs read and write pages, databases, comments and users in a Notion workspace.
NVIDIA GPUsnvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphics-cards (NVIDIA GPUs's official site, opens in a new tab)
NVIDIA's GeForce graphics cards, processors that a PC uses for 3D graphics and to run AI models, such as image and video software, locally.
An API service that lets an application read and send email, manage calendars and record meetings across Gmail, Microsoft, IMAP and other providers through one interface.
A document-processing API: a program sends PDFs, Word files, spreadsheets or images and gets back clean Markdown text, answers to questions, or structured JSON data.
A plant database with a REST API: an app searches more than 10,000 plant species and gets back care data, images, hardiness zones and disease information.
An open-source PostgreSQL extension that stores embedding vectors in ordinary tables and finds the nearest ones, so semantic search runs inside the existing database.
An open notification system for podcasts: hosts announce an updated feed once, and apps and directories see the new episode within seconds by watching the Hive blockchain.
An AI gateway: one API in front of many language model providers that retries failed requests, falls back to other models, caches answers and logs every call.
Roblox's free desktop application for building, scripting, testing and publishing 3D games that run on the Roblox platform.
Infrastructure for AI agents: it routes their model calls, runs them in managed sandboxes, and lets them pay for tools and purchases within set limits.
A European cloud provider that rents virtual machines, GPUs, storage, databases and hosted AI models from its data centers in Europe, billed by use.
A web API that returns public data from social media platforms, such as profiles, posts, comments and video transcripts, to a developer's program.
A messaging API and business app that sends and receives iMessage, SMS and RCS messages from a company's phone number, for sales teams and AI agents.
Apple's login service: users create an account or sign in to an app or website with their existing Apple Account instead of a new password.
Sign in with Microsoftlearn.microsoft.com (Sign in with Microsoft's official site, opens in a new tab)
Microsoft's login service for apps: users sign in with an existing personal or work Microsoft account, and the app receives tokens that identify them.
Spotify's web interface for developers: apps read music and podcast data, search the catalog, create and edit playlists and control playback in a user's Spotify account.
A stock media subscription: for a monthly or yearly fee, video makers download unlimited royalty-free footage, music, sound effects, templates and images for their projects.
A web API that returns transcripts, metadata and AI-extracted data for YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and X videos, and web pages as Markdown.
A communications platform and licensed carrier: programs rent phone numbers from it, make and receive calls, and send text messages through its APIs.
A durable execution platform: it runs long, multi-step business processes as workflows that keep their state and continue after crashes or network failures.
TikTok's developer APIs: an app lets a user sign in with TikTok through OAuth, then reads that user's profile, statistics and public videos, or posts content.
A file processing service with an API: it receives uploaded files, then resizes images, encodes video and audio, processes documents, and stores and delivers the results.
A unified API for SaaS integrations: one interface lets a product read and write its customers' data in hundreds of third-party apps.
Vercel's object storage service: a web app stores images, videos and other files in it and serves them to visitors through Vercel's CDN.
A video hosting platform: a business uploads videos and embeds Vimeo's ad-free player on its website, with privacy, review and live streaming tools.
A cloud provider that rents on-demand virtual servers, bare metal machines, GPUs and storage in data centers worldwide, billed by the hour.
An open-source vector database, also sold as the managed Weaviate Cloud: it stores data with AI embeddings and finds the items closest in meaning to a query.
WeChat Mini Programsdevelopers.weixin.qq.com (WeChat Mini Programs's official site, opens in a new tab)
Tencent's platform for small apps that run inside the WeChat messaging app, so users open a service without installing a separate app.
A managed WordPress hosting company: it runs WordPress websites on its own platform and takes care of performance, security and support for the site owner.
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YouTube Data APIdevelopers.google.com/youtube/data (YouTube Data API's official site, opens in a new tab)
Google's web API for YouTube: a program searches videos and reads video, channel and playlist data, or uploads videos and manages playlists for a user.
Taking payments
Payment processors, in-app billing and deal marketplaces.
A payment processor: it charges customers' cards for a business and pays the money out to the business's bank account.
Apple's store for iPhone, iPad and Mac apps: it delivers a developer's app to customers, charges them for purchases and subscriptions, and pays the developer after keeping a commission.
Google's app store for Android: it distributes a business's app to phones, charges users for the app, subscriptions and in-app purchases, and keeps a percentage.
A subscription backend for phone apps: its SDK runs in-app purchases through Apple and Google, its server records which users have paid, and its dashboard reports the revenue.
A payment service: customers pay a business from a PayPal account or a card, and the money arrives in the business's PayPal balance.
A marketplace for software deals: software companies sell discounted licenses, often paid once for life, to a community of entrepreneurs, and AppSumo runs the launch marketing.
A merchant of record for digital products: it is the legal seller to each customer, so it collects the payment, pays the sales tax, and sends the business the rest.
A payment platform that acts as merchant of record: it sells a software company's subscriptions to customers worldwide and handles payments, sales tax and compliance.
A paywall platform for mobile apps: it shows, targets and A/B tests subscription screens inside an app, changed from a dashboard without an app update.
A service for mobile app subscriptions: its SDK handles in-app purchases, and its backend validates them, runs paywall A/B tests and reports subscription revenue.
A merchant of record for software and AI products: it sells to the buyer on the company's behalf, collects one-time and subscription payments, and handles sales tax worldwide.
A billing platform and merchant of record: it sells a software maker's products in its own name, takes payments and subscriptions, and handles sales tax worldwide.
A hosted commerce platform: a business builds its online store on Shopify, takes card payments at checkout, and manages products, orders and shipping in one admin.
An e-commerce platform for digital products: a creator uploads an e-book, course or software, sets a price, and Gumroad hosts the file, takes payment and handles sales tax.
A billing layer on top of Stripe for AI and SaaS startups: it tracks each customer's plan, credits and usage limits and enforces them in real time.
An online shop platform for creators: it makes and ships custom merchandise on demand, hosts the branded shop and runs checkout and sales tax.
An Indian payment gateway: it takes customer payments by UPI, cards, netbanking and wallets on a website or app and pays the money out to the business.
A marketplace for software lifetime deals: it sells one-time-payment plans of new SaaS products to its audience of entrepreneurs and runs the launch campaign for the seller.
A subscription marketplace for Mac and iOS apps: members pay one fee for a curated catalog, and Setapp shares the revenue with each app's developer by usage.
Named in one story: 19 tools
A Chinese digital wallet app from Ant Group; merchants worldwide accept it as a payment method next to cards, usually through a payment provider.
A stablecoin payments platform: through its APIs a business accepts, holds, converts and pays out money in stablecoins and regular currencies across countries.
A subscription billing platform: it charges customers by plan, usage or credits, sends invoices, collects payments through many gateways and records the revenue for a business.
A marketplace for software deals, mostly lifetime deals: software makers sell one-time-payment access to their products to marketers, growth hackers and founders.
An online sales platform with an affiliate marketplace: it runs the checkout, collects payments and taxes, and pays commissions to affiliates who send buyers.
GitHub Sponsorsgithub.com/open-source/sponsors (GitHub Sponsors's official site, opens in a new tab)
A funding service on GitHub: people and companies pay one-time or monthly sponsorships to the developers and organizations behind open-source projects.
Google's advertising program for publishers: it places ads from Google's advertisers on a website and pays the site owner a share of the ad revenue.
An affiliate marketplace and checkout for digital products: sellers list an offer, affiliates promote it for a commission, and JVZoo takes payments and pays everyone out.
A platform where groups without their own legal entity collect donations and sponsorships through a fiscal host and publish every income and expense.
An all-in-one membership platform that combines Stripe subscription billing, user login, protected content, CRM, email and help desk for a SaaS or membership site.
A website script that showed visitors a discount code based on their country, so buyers in lower-income countries could pay a lower price.
A payment gateway for African businesses: it accepts card, bank and mobile money payments, runs recurring subscription billing, and settles the money into the business's bank account.
A no-code subscription billing tool on top of Stripe: embeddable pricing tables, a customer portal and a Bubble plugin that syncs Stripe subscription data into the app.
A Vietnamese bank API service that detects incoming bank transfers and confirms payments automatically, so a business can take QR bank-transfer payments in dong.
Shopify Billingshopify.dev/docs/apps/launch/billing (Shopify Billing's official site, opens in a new tab)
Shopify's billing system for apps in the Shopify App Store: it charges merchants for app subscriptions, usage and one-time purchases on their Shopify invoice.
An online deals store run by StackCommerce: it sells discounted software, lifetime app subscriptions, online courses and gadgets from many vendors to consumers.
Stripe Managed Paymentsstripe.com/managed-payments (Stripe Managed Payments's official site, opens in a new tab)
A merchant of record service from Stripe: Stripe becomes the legal seller of a business's digital products and handles sales tax, fraud, disputes and buyer support.
A payment service for games: as merchant of record it sells items and subscriptions to players through webstores or an embedded checkout, and handles tax and chargebacks.
A Russian online payment service: it accepts bank card, SberPay, Faster Payments System and other payments on a merchant's website or app and takes a commission on each payment.
Finding customers
Launch sites, video and social platforms, ads and affiliate tools.
A social network for short public posts: a business uses it to show its product, answer customers, and collect followers who may later become buyers.
A website where makers announce new products: visitors vote and comment each day, and the products with the most votes appear at the top of the daily list.
The paid advertising system of Facebook and Instagram: a business pays to show its ads to people selected by age, place, interests, or past behavior.
A social app for short videos: a business posts videos there, and the app's recommendation system shows them to people who may become customers.
A video site owned by Google: a business publishes videos there for free, and viewers find them through search, recommendations and subscriptions.
A discussion website made of topic communities called subreddits: a business posts or answers there to reach people who are interested in its subject.
A social network owned by Meta for photos and short videos: a business posts there so that followers and new users see its product.
A social network for work contacts, owned by Microsoft: members show their job history, and a business or founder posts there to reach people in a specific profession.
Google's advertising platform: a business bids to show its ads above search results, on YouTube and on other sites, and usually pays each time someone clicks an ad.
Affiliate tracking software for subscription businesses: it gives each partner a referral link, records which paying customers came through it, and calculates the commission owed to that partner.
The unpaid ("organic") results of Google's search engine: Google's crawler program reads a business's web pages and shows them for matching queries, with no charge per visit.
A news and discussion website owned by the startup investor Y Combinator: users post links and vote on them, and founders post their products there to get early visitors.
A social network: a business posts on its own page and in interest groups, where people who may become customers see and share the posts.
Affiliate software for subscription businesses: each affiliate (a partner paid a commission per referred customer) gets a tracking link, and Tolt counts the sales and pays the commissions.
A search engine optimization (SEO) tool: it shows which keywords people search, which sites link to a page, and where a site ranks in search results.
The advertising system of LinkedIn: a business pays to show its ads to LinkedIn members that it selects by job title, company, industry or other profile data.
Google's online store for Chrome browser extensions and themes: developers publish an extension there after a review, and users find and install it at no charge.
A public review site: customers write reviews of a business, and the business can invite reviews, reply to them and show its score on its own site.
A review site for business software: customers rate products there, buyers compare them before a purchase, and a vendor's profile page with good ratings brings it new buyers.
A tool for testimonials (customers' written or video praise): it collects them through a form and shows them on the business's website as embedded blocks.
A scheduling tool: a business shares a booking link, a customer picks an open time slot from the connected calendar, and the meeting appears in both calendars.
An online community of founders of small internet businesses: a founder posts a product or revenue update there to get feedback and reach the first users.
An advertising platform: a business pays to show short video ads to chosen TikTok audiences and measures, with a pixel on its website, which ads lead to sales.
A free messaging and calling app for phones and computers; businesses use it to write to customers directly, in groups, and for support.
A scheduling tool: a business shares a booking page, a customer picks a free time slot, and the meeting is added to the connected calendars.
Reddit's self-serve advertising platform: a business pays to show image, video and conversation ads to Reddit users chosen by community, interest and keyword.
There's An AI For Thattheresanaiforthat.com (There's An AI For That's official site, opens in a new tab)
An online directory of AI tools: it lists more than 50,000 tools by task, and makers pay to list and promote their products to its visitors.
A visual search and shopping platform: people discover and save ideas and products as images, and businesses use free business accounts to reach them.
The self-serve advertising system of the social network X: a business pays to show its posts and ads to chosen audiences and measures what they bring.
A sales platform built on a database of business contacts: a sales team finds prospects and their email addresses, then sends outreach sequences from the same system.
Apple Ads (formerly Apple Search Ads)ads.apple.com (Apple Ads (formerly Apple Search Ads)'s official site, opens in a new tab)
Apple's advertising platform: an app maker pays to show its app at the top of App Store search results and in other App Store places, paying per tap.
Affiliate management software for subscription businesses: it tracks the sales that partners refer, calculates their commissions from billing events, and pays them out.
A directory website of AI tools: it lists thousands of AI products by category, with features, pricing and reviews, so people can find and compare them.
Affiliate program software for businesses that sell through Stripe: it tracks which affiliate brought each customer and pays their commissions.
Shopify's marketplace of apps for online stores: merchants find and install apps there, and app developers list and sell their apps to Shopify merchants.
A publishing platform for newsletters, podcasts and video: a writer builds a subscriber list on Substack and can charge readers for paid subscriptions.
ChatGPT plugin directorylearn.chatgpt.com/docs/plugins (ChatGPT plugin directory's official site, opens in a new tab)
OpenAI's catalog of plugins shared by ChatGPT and Codex: users browse and install plugins that add skills and connected apps to the assistant.
Claude Connectors Directoryclaude.com (Claude Connectors Directory's official site, opens in a new tab)
Anthropic's catalog of connectors for Claude: a company lists its MCP server there so that Claude users can find it and add it to their conversations.
A link attribution platform: it makes branded short links, tracks the clicks, sign-ups and sales each link brings, and runs affiliate programs that pay partners for referred customers.
An online publishing platform: anyone can write and publish articles, called stories, and Medium helps each story find readers, including through shared publications.
Microsoft's online advertising platform: it shows paid ads in Bing search results and on other Microsoft and partner sites, and measures the actions that follow a click.
OpenAI's conversion-tracking script for ChatGPT ads: placed on an advertiser's website, it reports purchases, leads and sign-ups that follow a click on an ad in ChatGPT.
A closed affiliate and referral tracking service for SaaS companies: it recorded which affiliate brought each paying customer through Stripe or Paddle.
An online form builder: users create forms and surveys by typing as in a text document, share or embed them, and collect unlimited responses for free.
A product launch website: makers list a new tool or app on a launch day, and visitors discover, upvote and review it.
A Chinese lifestyle social platform where users share photos, videos and notes about products and experiences, and brands reach them through posts and ads.
An email newsletter about AI tools and startups, sent twice a week to about 120,000 readers; companies can pay to be featured to those readers.
A video and photo editor for desktop, phone and web browser, with templates and AI tools for making short videos for social media.
A software review and comparison website: businesses read verified user reviews to choose software, and software makers list their products to reach buyers.
Claude plugin directoryclaude.com/marketplace/plugins (Claude plugin directory's official site, opens in a new tab)
Anthropic's public catalog of plugins for its Claude assistant: software makers list add-ons there, and Claude users find and install them.
A website directory of AI tools: makers submit their AI products to get listed, and visitors browse them by category, integration and pricing model.
Mozilla's official catalog of Firefox browser extensions and themes, where developers publish an extension and Firefox users find and install it.
A curated directory of AI tools with a news feed and newsletter, where makers submit a tool for free and editors decide whether to list it.
A public registry of MCP servers, the plug-ins that give AI assistants tools, where developers list a server for free and users find and test it.
Google Workspace Marketplaceworkspace.google.com/marketplace (Google Workspace Marketplace's official site, opens in a new tab)
Google's app store for Google Workspace, where developers list add-ons for Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides and other Google apps, and users install them.
A cold email platform: it sends automated email sequences to sales prospects from many connected mailboxes and keeps those mailboxes out of spam folders.
A launch website for makers and startups: a new product is featured for 30 days, where visitors discover it, rate it and give feedback.
A professional network for developers and designers, with portfolio profiles, a weekly Launchpad where builders launch projects to early users, and a jobs board.
A press release distribution service: a company submits one news release, and PR Newswire sends it to newsrooms, journalists and news websites in the chosen countries and industries.
An SEO plugin for WordPress: it sets each page's search metadata, structured data and sitemap so that search engines can index and rank the site's pages.
An online SEO and marketing research platform: it shows which keywords people search for, which sites rank for them and how a site can gain search traffic.
A social media app from Meta for short public text posts and conversations, where a business can post updates and reach followers.
A directory website of AI tools where people search for a tool by task, and where makers pay to list their AI product to reach those visitors.
A messaging and social app from Tencent with over 1 billion users, used for chats, calls, sharing posts with friends on Moments, and mobile payments.
A paid online community where makers post each task they finish in public, keep a daily streak and get feedback from other founders.
Named in one story: 100 tools
A closed web directory of low-cost AI and SaaS tools, where makers could list a product to reach indie hackers and small businesses.
A web directory and marketplace of AI agents and agent skills, where makers list a product so that buyers can find and compare it.
A web directory of AI tools, sorted by category and pricing model, where makers pay a small one-time fee to list a tool.
Amazon Selling Partner Appstoredeveloper.amazonservices.com (Amazon Selling Partner Appstore's official site, opens in a new tab)
Amazon's app marketplace inside Seller Central, where Amazon sellers find, review and connect third-party software built on the Selling Partner API.
A hosted platform for app store reviews and app store optimization: it collects reviews, drafts replies with AI and tracks keyword rankings and competitors.
An advertising platform that shows full-screen ads inside mobile games and uses an AI engine to find buyers for websites, apps and games.
A free open-access archive where researchers post scholarly papers in physics, mathematics, computer science and other fields for anyone to read.
A startup directory where founders pay to list a new internet startup so that early adopters discover it and sign up.
A web tool for finding YouTube creators and affiliates to promote a product, with data on the sponsorships creators have already done.
An Indian print-on-demand platform: sellers put their designs on T-shirts, mugs and other products in a free online store, and Blinkstore prints and ships each order.
A media website about building a startup in public: articles, case studies, a podcast and a weekly newsletter for founders, run by Build In Public LLC.
A referral platform for software companies: it adds a user referral program to a product, tracks which referrals lead to purchases and pays out the rewards.
OpenAI's advertising platform for ChatGPT: businesses pay to show labeled ads below ChatGPT's answers, bidding per thousand views or per click.
A social media management tool: it schedules, designs and publishes posts to many social networks from one dashboard, and has separate tools for managing X accounts.
A go-to-market data platform: it fills lead and company lists with data bought from many providers, researches accounts with AI agents and runs sales and marketing workflows.
An open-source node-based application for generating images, video, 3D and audio with AI models, run locally or in the cloud and extended by custom nodes.
A comment moderation service for Facebook and Instagram: it hides spam and negative comments under a business's posts and ads and drafts AI replies.
A community website that lists plugins, MCP servers and rules for the Cursor AI code editor, where developers submit their plugins so that other Cursor users find and install them.
A free blogging and discussion site for software developers at dev.to, where members publish articles, tag them by topic and comment on each other's posts.
A launch site for developer tools: makers list a new tool for a chosen week, and developers vote, so the top tools reach its newsletter and audience.
A closed outreach service for X (Twitter): it collected lead lists from the followers of chosen accounts and sent AI-written direct messages to them.
Affiliate program software for subscription SaaS businesses: it tracks which partners send paying customers, calculates their commissions and prepares their payouts.
A keyword alert service: it watches Reddit, Hacker News and Lobsters and emails the user when a chosen word or brand name appears.
A product launch platform where makers list new software products on a launch day, collect upvotes and comments, and gain a backlink.
A blogging platform that publishes pages written in Notion as a fast, search-optimized blog on the customer's own domain or subfolder.
A curated online directory of software tools where makers list a product to get a public page and a dofollow backlink.
A business media brand: Forbes magazine and Forbes.com publish business journalism and articles by expert contributors, which can bring readers to a company.
The branded content unit of Forbes Portugal: brands pay for sponsored articles, video reports, podcasts and events published under the Forbes Portugal name.
An online form builder: a business makes sign-up forms, surveys and payment forms without code, embeds or shares them, and collects the responses.
An online directory of AI tools: makers submit their products to get a listing page, and visitors browse the tools by category and tag.
A startup launch board and SaaS directory: founders list new products in weekly launches, the community upvotes them, and each product keeps a permanent page.
A done-for-you directory submission service: for a one-time fee, its team lists a product on about 100 to 200 web directories to gain backlinks for search ranking.
An open-source publishing platform: it runs a blog or news website, sends each post as an email newsletter and sells paid memberships to readers.
Google Keyword Plannerbusiness.google.com (Google Keyword Planner's official site, opens in a new tab)
A free keyword research tool inside Google Ads: it suggests search keywords, shows how often people search for them and estimates bids for search ads.
A Google website that shows how search interest in a term or topic changes over time and across places, on a scale from 0 to 100.
OpenAI's public directory inside ChatGPT where builders publish custom GPTs, configured versions of ChatGPT, for any signed-in ChatGPT user to find and use.
An open-source command-line tool and MCP server that lets AI agents and scripts find and call Google APIs, such as Gmail, Search Console and Google Ads.
An open-source, self-hosted AI agent that runs tasks for a person or team, remembers past work, and is reached through chat apps, a desktop app or a terminal.
A LinkedIn outreach automation service that sends connection requests and message sequences from many LinkedIn accounts and collects the replies in one inbox.
A partnership management platform where a business runs its affiliate, creator and referral programs: it finds partners, tracks the sales they bring and pays their commissions.
A website where independent founders keep a public journal of their work: a founder page, one page per project, and dated progress notes.
International Coaching Federationcoachingfederation.org (International Coaching Federation's official site, opens in a new tab)
The global professional association of coaches: it credentials coaches and accredits coach training, and lets companies reach its members as Business Solutions Partners.
LinkedIn Sales Navigatorbusiness.linkedin.com (LinkedIn Sales Navigator's official site, opens in a new tab)
A B2B sales tool on LinkedIn: it searches LinkedIn's members and companies with detailed filters to find potential buyers and contact them.
An event platform: hosts create event pages, take registrations, sell tickets and message guests, and people discover events near them.
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Microsoft Edge Add-onsmicrosoftedge.microsoft.com/addons (Microsoft Edge Add-ons's official site, opens in a new tab)
Microsoft's online store for Edge browser extensions and themes: developers publish an extension there after certification, and Edge users find and install it.
Microsoft Marketplacemarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us (Microsoft Marketplace's official site, opens in a new tab)
Microsoft's online store for business software: partners list cloud solutions, AI apps and agents, and Office add-ins, and customers find, try and buy them.
Microsoft's app store for Windows: developers publish apps and games after certification, and Windows users find, buy, install and update them.
Microsoft's workplace chat and meeting platform; companies can also add apps and AI agents that talk to users inside Teams chats.
A searchable database of e-commerce shops, used to find and qualify sales leads by platform, installed apps and site performance, then export verified contacts.
The official discussion forum of the n8n workflow automation platform, where users ask questions, share workflows, request features and present projects.
A free note-taking app that keeps notes as local Markdown files and can be extended with thousands of community plugins and themes.
A website that lists open-source alternatives to proprietary software, where each open-source project gets a listing page with a link to its site.
A website directory of AI tools, sorted by category and pricing type, where makers submit their tools to be listed for visitors.
A partner relationship management platform that runs a B2B software company's affiliate, referral and reseller programs and pays the partners' commissions.
A product discovery directory where software makers list their products, other builders upvote them, and AI assistants read the structured listings to recommend tools.
Pinterest's tracking code for websites: it records what visitors do after seeing a Pinterest ad, so advertisers can measure conversions and retarget those visitors.
A hosted MCP service that connects AI assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor to Meta, Google, TikTok and other ad accounts, so they can report on and change campaigns.
A social media scheduler: it publishes one post or video to many social accounts on up to 10 platforms at once, immediately or at a planned time.
An online community where AI builders, prompt engineers and creators publish posts about AI prompts, guides, tools and model releases, and discuss them in comments.
The Python Package Index, the official public repository of Python software: authors upload packages there, and users download and install them with a package installer.
RENT (Real Estate & New Technologies)paris.rent.immo (RENT (Real Estate & New Technologies)'s official site, opens in a new tab)
A yearly trade show in Paris where companies that sell technology to real estate professionals rent stands and meet buyers.
An identity data service that matches anonymous website visitors to email addresses and other personal identifiers, so a business can send them marketing.
Revid (formerly Typeframes)revid.ai (Revid (formerly Typeframes)'s official site, opens in a new tab)
An AI video platform that turns a prompt, a link or a viral video into short-form videos and publishes them to TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and X.
Roblox Developer Forumdevforum.roblox.com (Roblox Developer Forum's official site, opens in a new tab)
Roblox's official online forum where game creators read platform news, ask for help, report bugs, share tools and find collaborators.
An App Store optimization app for Mac, iPhone and iPad that tracks how apps rank for chosen App Store search keywords and suggests new keywords.
An open directory of installable skills for AI coding agents, run by Vercel, that ranks each skill by how often developers install it.
Cold email software: it sends personalized sales email sequences from many sender mailboxes, warms up new addresses to avoid spam folders and collects all replies in one inbox.
A public directory of MCP servers, the plug-in tools that AI agents call, where developers publish servers and agents find each server's address.
A commerce company that sells brands' products through its deals marketplace, publishers' shops, newsletters and creators, and pays those partners for the sales they bring.
A startup directory and weekly newsletter where founders pay to list their products, with revenue and launch details, in front of other founders and indie makers.
A database of ecommerce stores: it lists millions of online shops with their platform, apps, sales estimates and contacts, so sales teams can filter and export leads.
An interactive demo platform: teams capture their product's screens into clickable, step-by-step demos and share them as links or embed them in websites and apps.
A hosted blogging platform: a company writes posts in Superblog's dashboard, and Superblog serves the blog on the company's own domain with technical SEO done automatically.
Affiliate tracking software: it records which affiliate, referrer or influencer brought each click and sale, and calculates the commission each partner earns.
A screen-recording and video-editing app: it records the screen, camera and voice, edits the result through its transcript, and shares the video as a link.
A testimonial service: it collects text and video reviews from customers and shows them on a website through embeddable widgets such as a Wall of Love.
A daily email newsletter and news site about artificial intelligence; companies reach its readers through sponsored sections and through its news, guides and tool lists.
An online directory of developer tools sorted by category; makers list a product there so that developers find it and so that it gets dofollow backlinks.
A product launch website in the style of Product Hunt: makers submit a product, visitors upvote it, and the top three of each launch period win badges and backlinks.
TrustSpot (now RaveCapture)ravecapture.com (TrustSpot (now RaveCapture)'s official site, opens in a new tab)
An e-commerce review platform: it asks buyers for product reviews, photos and survey answers after a purchase, and shows them on the store's pages.
A product directory for content creation tools: makers list their products, and creators browse them by category, collection and votes.
A live streaming platform: creators broadcast video live to viewers who chat with them, and earn money from subscriptions, Bits and ads.
A social media scheduler: teams write, schedule and publish posts and threads to X, LinkedIn, Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon, and see analytics.
A directory website of AI and SaaS tools that sells listings with permanent dofollow backlinks, featured placement and reviews, plus AI visibility monitoring.
A video hosting and analytics service for sales videos: it plays marketing videos on a business's pages and measures which viewers buy afterwards.
A LinkedIn outreach automation tool: it sends connection requests, messages and follow-ups to chosen LinkedIn profiles automatically, with optional email steps.
A webinar platform for selling online: it hosts live video presentations with registration pages, chat, polls and timed sales offers, then sends replays.
A platform for selling courses, memberships, communities and software online: Whop runs the checkout, billing and access checks, and takes a fee on each payment.
WordPress.org Plugin Directorywordpress.org/plugins (WordPress.org Plugin Directory's official site, opens in a new tab)
The official free directory of WordPress plugins: developers host their plugins there, and WordPress site owners search, rate and install them.
A WordPress plugin for search engine optimization: it checks posts for keyphrases and readability while they are written and adds sitemaps and structured data automatically.
Google's advertising product for YouTube: a business runs video ads on YouTube and on video partner sites through Google Ads and sets its own budget.
A business and financial news website for the Middle East and Africa, run by LSEG, that also publishes press releases from companies, governments and organizations.
Keeping customers
Email, support chat and tools that reduce cancellations.
A chat platform: a business opens a community space, called a server, where its users talk with each other and with the team in text and voice channels.
An email sending service for developers: an application calls its API to send emails such as password resets and order confirmations, and it also sends newsletters to a contact list.
A customer support tool: it puts a chat widget on a website and collects chat, email and other customer messages in one shared inbox for the team.
A customer support helpdesk: it puts a chat window on a website or app, collects customer messages in one shared inbox, and can answer them with an AI agent.
A customer support and feedback tool: one subscription gives a business a live chat inbox, a help center, a feature request board with votes, and a changelog.
An email marketing service: it stores a business's contact list and sends campaign emails, automated email sequences and transactional emails such as receipts and password resets.
An email platform for software companies: it sends marketing campaigns, automated lifecycle emails and transactional emails such as receipts from one product.
An email delivery service from Twilio: software sends transactional and marketing emails through its API or SMTP relay, and SendGrid delivers them and reports the results.
A cloud-based messaging app: people and businesses send messages, files and calls, run large groups and broadcast channels, and keep chats synced across devices.
An email and SMS marketing platform: a business sends newsletters, automated campaigns and transactional emails such as receipts, and manages its contacts in a built-in CRM.
A customer feedback tool: users post feature requests and vote on them on a board, and the product team uses the votes to decide what to build next.
A customer messaging platform: it sends automated email, push, SMS and in-app messages to each user, triggered by the user's profile data and actions in a product.
An email marketing platform for creators: it collects subscribers through forms and landing pages, sends newsletters and runs automated email sequences.
A customer support platform (help desk): it collects customer emails, chats and other messages in one shared inbox, where a team and AI agents answer them.
A customer platform with a shared CRM: its hubs handle a business's marketing, sales and customer service, including a help desk where support tickets are answered.
A hosted email and SMS marketing service: a business keeps its mailing list in Mailchimp and sends newsletters, announcements and automated messages to it.
Help desk software from Freshworks: customer emails and requests become tickets that a support team assigns, answers and tracks, with AI agents that can reply on their own.
An email delivery service for developers: an application sends automatic emails, such as receipts and notices, through Mailgun's API, which delivers them and reports opens, clicks and bounces.
An online community platform: creators run a community with discussions, courses and events in one place and charge members a subscription or a one-time course price.
A video meeting and webinar platform: people meet online by video, and a company hosts live presentations with questions from a large audience.
An open-source customer support platform: a website chat widget, e-mail and messaging apps feed one shared inbox, with an AI agent that answers routine questions.
An email marketing service: it keeps a business's subscriber list and sends newsletters and automated emails to it, with signup forms and landing pages to grow the list.
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Amazon Web Services' email sending service: an application sends transactional and marketing email through it by API or SMTP and pays per thousand emails.
Apple Push Notification servicedeveloper.apple.com/notifications (Apple Push Notification service's official site, opens in a new tab)
Apple's service that delivers push notifications from an app maker's server to its users' iPhones, iPads, Macs and other Apple devices.
An email sending service: a product sends transactional messages such as sign-up codes and alerts, and marketing campaigns, through AutoSend's API or SMTP.
A newsletter platform: a publisher writes and sends email newsletters, grows the subscriber list, and earns from ads, sponsorships and paid subscriptions.
A live chat service for websites: a chat widget lets visitors message a business in real time, and agents answer from one inbox that also holds email and social messages.
Retention software for subscription businesses on Stripe and other billing systems: it shows cancel flows with offers, recovers failed payments and measures churn.
A sales CRM for small teams: it stores leads and deals and builds in calling, email, SMS, workflows and an AI sales agent, so reps sell from one application.
A customer support platform for small SaaS teams: a shared inbox for email, live chat and Slack, plus a knowledge base and an AI agent.
Firebase Cloud Messagingfirebase.google.com (Firebase Cloud Messaging's official site, opens in a new tab)
A free Google Firebase service that sends push notifications and data messages from a business's server to its app on Android, iOS and the web.
A customer service platform built around a shared inbox: support teams and AI agents answer customer email, chat, SMS and WhatsApp messages together.
A hosted documentation platform: a team writes product guides and API references in it and publishes them as a documentation website.
A tool that records a process on screen and turns it into a step-by-step guide or interactive walkthrough, shared by link or embedded in a website.
A hosted changelog service: a software company posts its product updates to a public web page and to a small notice widget inside its own app.
An all-in-one platform for selling knowledge online: it hosts courses, coaching, memberships and communities, and handles the website, email marketing and payments around them.
A transactional email service: an application sends automatic messages such as sign-up confirmations, password resets and receipts through its API or SMTP relay.
A hosted website builder that publishes Notion pages as a company's help center, documentation, blog, changelog or roadmap site on its own domain.
A customer messaging service that sends mobile push notifications, web push, email, SMS and in-app messages to the users of an app or website.
Paddle's churn-reduction toolkit that retries failed subscription payments, emails customers to update their cards, and shows cancellation offers; it is included with Paddle Billing.
A customer support platform for B2B companies: it collects support requests from Slack, email, chat, a customer portal and phone into tickets that people and AI agents resolve.
An email marketing service for creators and small businesses that collects subscribers and sends newsletters and automated emails to them.
An email marketing service for SaaS companies: it sends campaigns, automated email sequences and transactional email from one account, triggered by billing and product events.
An email marketing platform for creators, founders and small businesses: campaigns, automated and transactional emails, signup forms with referral waitlists, and a contact CRM.
A free customer-messaging service: one JavaScript snippet adds a chat widget to a website, and the team answers chats, tickets and help-center questions from one inbox.
A customer feedback service: users post and vote on feature requests, and the business publishes a roadmap, a changelog and live chat in one widget.
A video hosting platform for businesses: it stores videos, plays them on the company's own website in an ad-free player, runs webinars and reports viewer data.
A messaging app used mainly in Vietnam: people and businesses send messages and make calls on phones, on desktop computers and in a web browser.
Measuring
Analytics and revenue verification.
A public database of startup revenue, verified by reading each founder's payment provider (for example Stripe) through its API; it is also a marketplace for selling startups.
A Google service that counts visits to a website or app: it records where visitors come from, which pages they open, and which actions they take.
A product analytics service: it records what users do in a website or app, and shows the business reports, session recordings and test results from that data.
Google Tag Managermarketingplatform.google.com (Google Tag Manager's official site, opens in a new tab)
A tag management system from Google: a business adds or changes the tracking and advertising scripts on its site from a web console, without editing the site's code.
An error-tracking service: it collects the crashes, errors and slow requests from a running application and shows the developers where in the code each one happened.
A web analytics tool: a script on the website counts visitors and their sources, and it links each payment to the visitor, so the owner sees which channel brings revenue.
A free website analytics tool from Microsoft: it records visitor sessions for replay and draws heatmaps that show where visitors click and how far they scroll.
Google Search Consolesearch.google.com/search-console/about (Google Search Console's official site, opens in a new tab)
A free Google service for site owners: it shows which Google searches show the site, how often people click, and which pages Google cannot index.
A public leaderboard and marketplace for mobile apps: it shows each app's revenue and MRR, read directly from the app's payment service, and lets owners sell apps.
A privacy-friendly website analytics service: a small script counts visits, pages, traffic sources and goals without cookies and shows them on one dashboard.
A product analytics tool: the application sends an event for each user action, and the tool reports funnels (where users stop in a flow) and retention (who comes back).
Ahrefs Web Analyticsahrefs.com/web-analytics (Ahrefs Web Analytics's official site, opens in a new tab)
A cookie-free website analytics service from Ahrefs: a small script on each page counts visitors, page views, traffic sources and clicks, and shows them in a dashboard.
A product analytics service: an app sends it an event for each user action, and it shows how users move through the product and which ones return.
A privacy-first web analytics service: it counts page views, referrers and events on a website without cookies or personal data, so no consent banner is needed.
A website behavior analytics tool, now part of Contentsquare: it shows heatmaps, session replays and survey answers that reveal how visitors use each page.
A link-in-bio page builder for independent founders: one page lists all of a maker's startups, with revenue verified through Stripe or LemonSqueezy.
Vercel Web Analyticsvercel.com/docs/analytics (Vercel Web Analytics's official site, opens in a new tab)
Vercel's built-in web analytics: it counts visitors, page views, top pages and referrers for websites hosted on Vercel, without using cookies.
Cloudflare Web Analyticscloudflare.com/web-analytics (Cloudflare Web Analytics's official site, opens in a new tab)
A free web analytics service from Cloudflare: it counts a website's visits, page views, top pages and referrers without cookies or tracking of individual visitors.
A mobile attribution service: it records which ad, campaign or network brought each app install and the purchases that follow, so a business can compare its ad spending.
A privacy-focused website analytics service: one script counts visits, sources, pages and conversions without cookies, so a site needs no cookie banner for analytics.
ProfitWell Metricspaddle.com/profitwell-metrics (ProfitWell Metrics's official site, opens in a new tab)
Free subscription analytics software from Paddle: it reads a subscription business's payment data and reports recurring revenue, churn and customer value in dashboards.
An open-source web analytics tool: it counts a website's visits, visitors and actions without cookies, either self-hosted or as a cloud service.
A hosted log and event data platform: applications send logs, metrics and traces to Axiom, and engineers query, chart and get alerts on them.
A subscription analytics service: it reads a company's billing data and calculates recurring-revenue metrics such as MRR, ARR, churn and customer lifetime value.
A cloud monitoring and security platform: it collects metrics, logs and traces from servers and applications, shows them in dashboards, and alerts engineers when something breaks.
Facebook SDK (Meta App Events)developers.facebook.com (Facebook SDK (Meta App Events)'s official site, opens in a new tab)
Meta's code library for iOS and Android apps: it reports app events such as installs and purchases to Meta, so that ad results can be measured.
Google Analytics for Firebasefirebase.google.com/products/analytics (Google Analytics for Firebase's official site, opens in a new tab)
A free app analytics service from Google: a library inside a mobile or web app records what users do and shows it in reports.
A former free Google tool for A/B testing and personalizing websites, closed by Google on September 30, 2023.
Google's JavaScript snippet (gtag.js) that a website loads on each page to send visit and conversion data to Google Analytics and Google Ads.
An open-source observability and evaluation platform for AI applications: it records every language-model call an app makes, with cost and latency, and helps test and improve the results.
An open-source business intelligence tool: it connects to a company's database and lets staff build charts, dashboards and reports, with or without writing SQL.
Microsoft Excelmicrosoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/excel (Microsoft Excel's official site, opens in a new tab)
Microsoft's spreadsheet program: it stores data in rows and columns, calculates with formulas, and summarizes the results in tables and charts.
Website visitor identification software: a script on the site names the people and companies behind anonymous visits and sends them to Slack or a CRM as sales leads.
A closed web analytics and conversion tool: a small script counted page views and events, and its dashboard showed traffic, funnels, A/B tests and automations.
A customer data platform: it collects events from a company's apps and websites through one API and forwards them to analytics tools, ad platforms and data warehouses.
A web and product analytics service with marketing attribution: a script on the site records visits and actions and shows which channels and campaigns bring conversions and revenue.
A free web analytics service from Yandex: a code snippet on the site records visits, traffic sources and clicks, and shows them in reports, click maps and session recordings.
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A mobile measurement partner: Adjust's SDK in an app matches each install and in-app event to the ad campaign or source that brought the user.
App Store Connectdeveloper.apple.com/app-store-connect (App Store Connect's official site, opens in a new tab)
Apple's web and mobile console where developers upload and manage App Store apps and read their downloads, sales, conversion and revenue data.
App Store Connect APIdeveloper.apple.com (App Store Connect API's official site, opens in a new tab)
Apple's REST API that lets a program automate App Store Connect tasks and download an app's sales, financial and analytics reports.
AppsFlyer OneLinkappsflyer.com/products/deep-linking (AppsFlyer OneLink's official site, opens in a new tab)
AppsFlyer's deep-linking technology: one smart link sends each visitor to the right app store or straight into the app, and records which campaign brought the install.
A mobile attribution service that links each app install and in-app purchase to the ad that brought it, and runs trackable revenue-share links for creators.
An open-source, privacy-first analytics service for mobile, desktop and web apps that counts anonymous usage events and shows them in a dashboard.
Baidu Search Resource Platformziyuan.baidu.com (Baidu Search Resource Platform's official site, opens in a new tab)
Baidu's webmaster tool: a site owner verifies a website, submits its pages to Baidu search, and sees how Baidu crawls, indexes and shows them.
A real-time web analytics service: a script on each page records visitors and their actions, and a dashboard shows traffic, sources, heatmaps and uptime.
An experience analytics platform: a tracking tag on a website records how visitors click, scroll and leave, and shows heatmaps, session replays and funnels.
A cookieless web analytics service that connects to a site's payment provider and shows how much revenue each traffic channel, page and shared link brings in.
A behavioral analytics service that records how visitors use a website or app and replays their sessions, so a business can see where users struggle.
An open-source dashboard and alerting tool: it queries metrics, logs and traces from many data sources and shows them as graphs that teams monitor.
An ad tracking and attribution service that records which ads led to each sale and sends those sales back to Meta, Google and other ad platforms.
A public leaderboard website that ranks independent founders by their verified monthly recurring revenue, using data from TrustMRR.
Product analytics software for B2B SaaS companies that showed how each customer account used the product; the team joined Amplitude in August 2025 and closed the product.
A hosted event tracking service: a product's code reports events such as sign-ups and payments, which appear in a real-time feed, dashboards and push notifications.
An open-source status page and uptime monitoring service that checks a site from many regions and tells customers when something is down.
A web analytics service, offered as a Google Analytics alternative, that reports visitors, pages, sources and page speed, with optional heatmaps and session recordings.
An open-source performance dashboard for PostgreSQL databases that shows the slowest queries, space use and suggested indexes in a web page.
A cookie-free web analytics service hosted in Germany: it counts website visits, sources and conversions without storing personal data, so no cookie banner is needed.
An error tracking service that collects the errors a live application throws, groups them, alerts the developers and shows the code behind each error.
A mobile measurement partner: it attributes each app install and purchase to the ad network, campaign and ad that brought it, and joins this with ad cost.
Google's official WordPress plugin: it connects a WordPress site to Google services such as Search Console, Analytics and AdSense and shows their data in one dashboard.
A community site for vibe-coding builders whose web telemetry script counts a product's trusted daily visits and ranks the product on the site.
Operating the company
Contractors, documents, audits and legal services.
A team chat application: staff write messages in shared channels, sorted by topic, and connect other software so that its notifications arrive in the same place.
Google's paid bundle of office software for a business: email at the company's own domain (Gmail), shared documents and spreadsheets, file storage (Drive), calendar and video meetings.
A workspace application that combines documents, wikis, task lists and simple databases: a team writes notes, plans projects and keeps company knowledge in one shared place.
An online marketplace where founders list a startup for sale and buyers contact them; it supplies tools for the offer letter, the contract and the escrow payment.
A marketplace for freelance work: a business posts a job, hires a freelancer from the applicants, and pays that person through the site.
An online marketplace for buying and selling online businesses, websites, apps and domains, with valuation tools, brokers and secure payment of the purchase price.
An online marketplace for freelance services: a business browses fixed-price service packages (Gigs) from freelancers, orders one, and pays through Fiverr.
A privacy compliance service for websites and apps: it generates and hosts privacy policies, terms of service and EULAs, and runs cookie consent banners.
Work management software: a team records every task and project in one shared app, with owners, due dates and status, and can add AI agents to the work.
Google's cloud storage and file sharing service: a team keeps its files on Google's servers, opens them from any device and shares them by link or with chosen people.
A screen recording and video messaging tool: a person records the screen and camera, then shares the video as a link that others watch, comment on and search later.
An international money transfer and multi-currency account service: a business holds, converts and sends money in many currencies, alone or in batches through an API.
A no-code platform built on a relational database: teams store records in linked tables and build forms, views, automations and simple business apps on them.
A customer relationship management (CRM) system: it keeps a company's contacts, companies and deals, fills them from email and calendar, and automates sales work.
A project-management web app: a team keeps each project's tasks, discussions, files, chat and deadlines on one shared page, together with clients when needed.
Atlassian's project management and issue tracking tool, where teams break work into tasks, assign them and follow their progress on boards and reports.
An online business bank account for startups and small companies, with cards, payments, invoicing and accounting sync in one app.
A domain name registrar and web hosting company: a business buys and renews its domain names there and can add hosting, email and SSL certificates.
An online accounting service for small companies: an assigned accountant and Osome's software keep the books and prepare and file annual accounts and tax returns.
A design tool for macOS: designers draw app and website screens with vectors, build clickable prototypes and hand designs to developers through a web app.
A compliance automation platform: it connects to a company's systems, collects audit evidence for SOC 2, ISO 27001 or GDPR, and publishes a public trust center page.
Online accounting software for small businesses: it keeps the books, imports bank transactions, sends invoices, pays bills and produces financial reports.
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A password manager: it stores a person's or a team's passwords and other secrets in encrypted vaults, fills them in on websites and apps, and shares them safely.
A payout-advance service for mobile apps: it pays an app business up to 85% of its unpaid App Store and Google Play earnings now, for a flat fee.
Amazon Ads Partner Networkadvertising.amazon.com/partners/network (Amazon Ads Partner Network's official site, opens in a new tab)
Amazon Ads' registration program for agencies and ad-tool companies: members get training, a partner directory listing and a route to Amazon Ads API access.
Apple Developer Programdeveloper.apple.com/programs (Apple Developer Program's official site, opens in a new tab)
Apple's paid yearly membership that lets an individual or company publish apps on the App Store and use Apple's developer services.
Apple's automated notary service that scans Developer ID-signed Mac software for malware before it is distributed outside the Mac App Store.
Recruiting software that tracks job openings and applicants, publishes job postings on a hosted job board, and schedules interviews for a hiring team.
Penetration testing as a service: automated scans, AI agents and certified human testers attack a company's apps and deliver a report for audits such as SOC 2.
An affiliate network: it gives publishers tracked links to brands' products, records the sales those links bring, and pays the publishers a commission.
A finance platform for companies: corporate cards, a business account with checking and treasury, expense management, bill pay and travel booking in one service.
A security assessment standard for cloud apps that may access sensitive user data; an authorized lab tests the app against its requirements.
Anthropic's AI agent for office work inside Claude: given a goal, it works across chosen files, apps and a browser and returns finished documents, spreadsheets or slides.
A screenshot and screen recording app for Mac: it captures, annotates and edits images and videos, and shares them as links through its own cloud.
A cookie consent plugin for WordPress and Shopify: it shows a consent banner, blocks tracking scripts until visitors agree and generates privacy documents.
A global payroll and HR platform: it hires, contracts and pays employees and contractors in other countries for a business, including as their legal employer.
An electronic signature service: a business sends contracts and other documents online, the other parties sign them in a browser or app, and every step is recorded.
A digital identity issued by the Government of Estonia that lets non-residents start and run an Estonian company in the EU fully online.
An online escrow service: it holds a buyer's payment in trust until the buyer approves the goods, domain, vehicle or service, then pays the seller.
A note-taking app that keeps notes, files, web clippings, tasks and calendar events in one searchable account synced across devices.
A platform where teams build AI agents without code: the agents connect to work apps, browse the web, start on schedules or triggers and complete tasks.
A macOS and iOS app that manages App Store Connect: app developers update store listings, screenshots, TestFlight builds, reviews and submissions without Apple's website.
A paid email and calendar service from 37signals that sorts incoming mail by sender and lets a person or company refuse mail from unknown senders.
A hosted press kit service for mobile app developers: it publishes an app's description, images, videos, press releases and extra text pages as web pages.
An Indian online marketplace for early-career hiring: companies post internships and fresher jobs, students and new graduates apply, and paid plans add reach and screening.
A licensed CPA audit firm that audits companies for security and privacy standards such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001 and issues the reports that enterprise customers ask for.
Recruiting software for small and mid-sized companies: it posts a job ad to many job boards at once, hosts a careers page and tracks every applicant.
Poland's national e-invoicing system, run by the Ministry of Finance: businesses issue, send, receive and store structured invoices through it, by API or free government apps.
An issue tracker for software teams: it records bugs, features and tasks as issues and plans them into projects, cycles and roadmaps.
Little Exits (formerly Tiny Acquisitions)littleexits.com (Little Exits (formerly Tiny Acquisitions)'s official site, opens in a new tab)
A marketplace for buying and selling small online businesses, earlier called Tiny Acquisitions; sales close through its offers and escrow, with a success fee on each sale.
A public relations agency in Dubai for technology companies: it handles media coverage, press releases, awards and investor communications for its clients.
An online marketplace for buying and selling micro startups, such as small SaaS products, mobile apps and newsletters, with chat and a guided transfer service.
Microsoft's presentation program: a user builds a deck of slides with text, images, shapes and video, and presents or shares it.
An online visual collaboration platform: a team works together in real time on a shared canvas of sticky notes, diagrams, roadmaps and documents.
Free, open-source desktop software for recording video and live streaming, which combines screen, camera, browser and image sources into scenes.
A free online generator of legal documents: a business answers a few questions and receives a privacy policy, terms and conditions or disclaimer for its website or app.
A Mac screen recorder that captures the screen, a window or a region as an MP4 video and adds zooms, smooth cursor motion and backgrounds while recording.
A Norwegian audit firm in Kristiansand and Risør that audits companies' annual accounts and gives accounting, tax and corporate advice.
A creator marketplace and campaign platform: brands post briefs, hire short-video creators who apply, track how their posts perform and pay them in one place.
A compliance management platform: it helps a company prepare for security audits such as SOC 2 by tracking controls, collecting evidence and connecting it with independent auditors.
A company formation service from Stripe: founders anywhere apply online to incorporate a Delaware C corporation or LLC, get a US tax ID and issue founder shares.
A Stripe feature that lets a business send a share of its revenue, or buy a set number of tons, to fund permanent carbon removal projects.
A desktop text editor for code, markup and prose on Windows, macOS and Linux, sold as a one-time personal license after a free evaluation.
An online legal-document generator: it writes and hosts a privacy policy, terms and conditions and similar agreements for a website or app, and manages cookie consent.
An online scheduling tool: it gives a booking page where clients choose a free time from the owner's synced calendars and can pay when they book.
A visual project management tool: teams track tasks as cards in lists on boards, and move each card along as the work progresses.
A consent management platform: it shows a cookie consent banner on a website or app and records which data uses each visitor allows.
A compliance automation platform: it collects evidence for security audits such as SOC 2 and hosts a public trust center page with a company's security documents.
An online video editor with AI tools: it edits, subtitles, translates and generates videos in a web browser, for marketing and social media posts.
A flexible office space provider: it rents furnished offices, coworking desks, meeting rooms and business addresses to companies on flexible terms instead of long leases.
An identity verification service: it checks a person's age or identity from a selfie, an ID document or a digital ID and tells the business only the result.
An online form builder: it creates forms, surveys and quizzes, shares or embeds them on websites, and collects unlimited responses on its free plan.
A software development agency: a small team of senior engineers builds, fixes and maintains web apps and AI products for founders, including apps built on Bubble.
Used together
Pairs of tools that appear in the same business, in at least three stories.
Switches
A business that replaced one tool with another, as a source reports it.
- Chatbase: Pinecone to pgvector
- Photo AI: Stable Diffusion to FLUX (Black Forest Labs)
- TypingMind: Lemon Squeezy to Stripe2024
- Jenni AI: GPT-2 to OpenAI API2020
- Tweet Hunter: OpenAI API to AI21 Studio
- Tweet Hunter: Bubble to Next.js
- Talknotes: JavaScript to Nuxt
- Postiz: Kie.ai to EvoLinkSeptember 2026
- Postiz: Nx to pnpm
- Postiz: BullMQ to TemporalJanuary 2026
- Magai: Bubble to custom code2026
- Magai: WordPress to Next.js2026
- Revid.ai: Lemon Squeezy to StripeNovember 2025
- Castmagic: Webflow to Astro
- SEObot: Crisp to Intercom
- Vid.AI: Render to RailwaySeptember 2026
- SoundBoost.ai: Railway to HetznerJune 2026
- LLM Gateway: TanStack Start to Next.jsJuly 2025
- AI Toolbox: Lemon Squeezy to Polar
- 1ClickWebsite.ai: Breakdance to OCF, the company's own editing layerJune 2026
- EasyGen: Webflow to Next.js
- Wave AI: Windsurf to Claude Code
- Jungle: Brevo to SMASHSEND
- GlowUp: RevenueCat to Adapty
- Imagined with AI: DigitalOcean to Akamai Cloud (formerly Linode)2024
- Langua: Cursor to Claude Code2025
- Langua: GitHub Copilot to Cursor
- Langua: ChatGPT to Cursor
- Welmi: Adjust to Adapty Attribution2025
- Welmi: Tilda to React website on Netlify
- GenAIPI: Meta ads to LinkedInMarch 2025
- GenAIPI: OpenClaw to NVIDIA NemoClaw
- Rankability: Webflow to Astro
- MakeLogo.ai: Typeform to StripeDecember 2022
- AI SuitUp: Stable Diffusion to FLUX (Black Forest Labs)
- AI SuitUp: Framer to Webflow
- Indilingo: Flask to FastAPI
- DecorAI: Paddle to Stripe
- PostNitro: Lemon Squeezy to Paddle
- Rezi: WordPress to a web application built by an agency2019
- Jetwriter AI: Plasmo to WXT
- Aesty: Readymag to Next.js
- ColorBliss: OctoAI to Replicate
- ColorBliss: Semrush to Ahrefs
- Gliglish: Heroku to Microsoft Azure
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