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Retro

Feeling like social media is less social than ever? Retro is a friends-only photo journal… so Instagram, when Instagram was still cool. The “Journals” feature is a collaborative album-making system that lets you build a retrospective of your favorite moments each week.

OpusClip Captions

Captions on short-form video content don’t just satisfy basic accessibility considerations. They give antsy users visual input to focus on while they process your audio information.

While native caption features are tedious to work with, you can quickly add flashy captions to your content with OpusClip Captions. Just upload a < 200 MB video with at least 30 spoken words and select your preferred style.

Potion

Email templates are hard.

Try Potion for building out no-code (and no clunky drag-and-drop) email templates with all the familiar, intuitive UX of Notion and the flexibility of Figma. No monthly subscriptions, either.

Spellbook

Spellbook is a GPT-4 tool trained on billions of lines of legal text in order to take the tedium out of your contract writing process.

It reviews your copy in Microsoft Word and advises revisions to refine your contract. And don’t worry—it’s trusted by 2,000+ legal professionals. Worth a free trial.

VideoGist

Here’s the gist:

Enter any YouTube video link, and get a summary of the video. Do with it what you will.

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.