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Ridiculous Design

In honor of April Fools Day, spend some time on Ridiculous Design, a website dedicated to refreshingly absurd ideas.

What if you could filter out Instagram content based on your preferred level of FOMO for the day? What if apps told you how long you’ve been scrolling… in miles?

Some of these concepts seem impractical at first glance, but they’re backed by data on user behavior. It’s a disruption to the proliferation of predictable design, and we love it.

Reporfy

If you’re an artist and a well-built data dashboard is your medium, this one’s for you.

Reporfy is for creating, organizing, sharing, and tracking data collaboratively in a cloud-based, drag-and-drop environment. Naturally, AI is built in to answer questions, provide insights, and suggest ways to level up your dashboard. We like that you can collab with folks inside and outside of your team to get it done.

Supercal

Calendar apps fill free slots in your day, which can result in a staccato workflow (9 a.m. meeting, 10:30 a.m. meeting, noon meeting, and so on).

Supercal batches your availability into “preferred slots,” so you have a chance to enter flow, “deep work,” intense focus, or whatever you want to call it. That magic two hour jam session we chase all week.

Adsby AI Ad Generator

Adsby is a free AI ad generator tool for Google ads. We figured we’d let it speak for itself.

All we did was enter the URL and define the category (Ecomm, Services, Local Business, or Technology), and this was the result:

Effortless Ad Creation – AI-Powered Ad Magic
“Create perfect ads in a few clicks with our Free AI Ad Generator Tool. Streamline your ad creation effortlessly. Discover the ease of ad creation with Adsby’s Free AI Ad Generator. Perfect ads, zero cost, no effort.”

Pretty passable. Choose from several variations, and you’re on your way.

New Linktree Features

Is your Linktree in need of a trim?

The startup recently released a “Featured” layout to help your links stand out with a thumbnail or content preview from YouTube, TikTok, Spotify and Instagram; plus a relevant CTA.

Other updates include the ability to fetch up to 6 of your latest IG posts and Reels, more prominent profile pictures in your page’s color scheme, and text links.

Crystal

AI might be able to help you better prepare for human interaction.

Crystal quantifies human personalities into rich data that can be used to understand yourself, your colleagues, your clients, and your customers.

From communication preferences and motivations to decision-making and learning styles, Crystal gives you clear instructions driven by predictive analysis and personality assessment.

Spellbound

Increase engagement and conversions by embedding interactive widgets in your emails.

Users can play games, respond to quizzes, leave reviews, cast votes, answer surveys, rate items, and more directly from the inbox—so you can reduce churn and track in-email engagement rates instead of link clicks.

Spellbound uses a no-code designer tool and plays nice with your vendors and ESP. Magic.

Numbr

Some of us are still furiously tapping away on a calculator (app) with a pencil between our teeth.

And some of us use Numbr, which is a smart calculator combined with a notepad that understands a ton of intuitive expressions. It can even convert currencies.

Activepieces

Activepieces is a no-code, self-hosted, open source Zapier alternative for automating your internal marketing, sales, and operations. A clean UI, AI integrations, a growing library of apps, and a responsive team and active community mean that if it doesn’t already have what you need, you can request it and contribute to development.