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Boom

Another day, another dull remote meeting full of talking heads.

Boom is a MacOS camera app that makes video calls more engaging with fun UI, branded designs and overlays, camera presets, muted notifications, reaction GIFs, screen-share magnification, and more.

Sleep Baseball

It’s Monday.

Put up an away message, imagine you’re napping on your granddad’s “retro gauche” sofa on a spring afternoon, and listen to a radio broadcast of a fake baseball game.

Sleep Baseball removes the loud commercials, hey-batta-battas, and everything else that ruins the ASMR of baseball radio. It could not be more boring. You’re so welcome.

Baserow

Baserow is a collaborative open-source platform for building scalable databases and applications.

It’s an Airtable alternative made for marketers. In one collaborative database, you can digitize your workflows, automate processes, connect your teams, and centralize your data — all without code and engineers.

WeExpire

We interrupt your regularly scheduled SaaS parade for a morose (but pragmatic) tool recommendation.

WeExpire is an open source tool that lets you write an encrypted emergency message that will only be revealed, by QR code, to your most trusted contacts following any unfortunate circumstances that may befall you.

It’s not as complicated as a will, but it’s not as precarious as a note written on a napkin that you’re using as a bookmark, you know? O, to live and die in the 21st century!

ButterDocs

What if Google Docs was more tailored to the professional writer and editor?

ButterDocs is pared down to be distraction-free. Serious writers will appreciate that the built-in notes app and outlining board to help you start from square one, organize your research, and collaborate more intuitively.

We love the word sprint challenges, the ability to stash unused copy instead of backspacing it into the abyss, and honestly? It’s nice that there are no anonymous animals watching the workflow.

Visual Sitemaps

Autogenerate a comprehensive visual architecture of any URL for the purposes of planning, diagnosing, restructuring, or assessing competitors.

Just set your flow depth, number of pages, and additional parameters, and get a visual sitemap in seconds that you can annotate, tag, and reorganize. You get your first 25 screenshots for free.

PhotoShelter

Build, organize, and leverage your library with PhotoShelter, a digital asset management platform with lightning-fast upload, auto-tagged people/objects/brands, social media integrations, collaborative workspaces, and a suite of AI features for search and transcription.

You’ll be like, “DAM.”

IdeaApe

Whether your looking to validate an app idea, develop a brand, create a persona, refine an SEO strategy, or build a campaign—you need to understand your target’s pain points.

Type your keyword into IdeaApe and get a comprehensive analysis of hundreds of relevant Reddit threads, where your audience is most candid about what they’re looking for.

You could DIY this yourself, but it could take dozens of hours of sifting through very weird subreddits. So.

2024 State of The Data Report

It’s tempting to take a cue from Google and drag your feet about getting ready for cookie deprecation.

But the truth is, we’re already living the shift toward a privacy-centric ecosystem—from platform updates to new legislation.

Brands that prepare now will be glad later. WPromote’s 2024 edition of the State of The Data Report walks you through what to expect and how to adapt.