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Surgeflow

SurgeFlow is a Chrome browser extension that automates your web tasks using natural language commands.

Describe what you want done in plain English, and it automates repetitive tasks; coordinates across multiple tabs at once; plans, executes, and validates tasks; and speeds up analysis, research, job applications, data collection, etc.

Gridfy

Gridfy turns raw data into interactive widgets you can drop straight onto your website. This is cool if you need dynamic, data-driven elements but can’t manage a rebuild every time something changes.

Connect a live data source like Airtable, Notion, or Google Sheets, choose a prebuilt component, customize how it looks and behaves, and then install.

Sparkle

Sparkle simplifies sales outreach by consolidating your cold email, inboxes, CRM, and deliverability platforms into one place.

There’s built-in email verification, deliverability monitoring, and domain health checks. On the outreach side, it supports personalized cold email and multi-channel workflows, along with analytics.

The built-in CRM covers lead management, deal tracking, and pipeline customization without requiring another system.

Swiped

If you need a Pinterest for good ad inspo with a side of marketing analysis… this one’s for you.

Swiped curates and dissects real direct-response marketing examples that are worth saving for future reference (or reverse engineering).

They break each example down to explain why it works with regard to persuasion, consumer psychology, and strategic intent. So you get a little smarter along the way.

Unloop

Stuck on a problem, stalled out on a project, defeated by the job search, etc?

Unloop exposes your habits, reactions, and thought patterns that are constantly draining your battery in the background.

It offers a visual, self-guided way to notice your loops, understand what triggers them, and experiment your way through it with tiny shifts.

The idea is that when you can see the loop, you can finally interrupt it. There’s no signup required.

Adobe Tools in ChatGPT

Adobe basically turned ChatGPT into a little creative suite.

Some core features from Photoshop, Express, and Acrobat are now natively available (and free) inside ChatGPT.

Photoshop’s integration lets you upload images and apply edits, effects, or selective styles with pro-level controls like sliders and adjustment layers.

Adobe Express can help with generating cards, social graphics, and animations, which you can now refine conversationally.

And Acrobat enables PDF edits, merges, compression, and text extraction directly in ChatGPT.

Zoom Ahead

Zoom would like to drop its positive albeit outdated pandemic associations now.

The brand tapped Colin Jost’s agency No Notes and SNL darling Bowen Yang for a new campaign, “I Use Zoom!”

Yang plays an overzealous IT manager who champions a clunkier platform only for employees to rise up and declare their allegiance to Zoom.

The 30-second hero spot is part of a larger push spanning podcasts, influencers, TV (including a national College Football Playoff buy), and even a regional Super Bowl pre-show placement.

Shopify Product Network

Shopify just launched a free tool that helps you quickly expand your storefront with an “instant catalog” of products.

It’s designed to increase conversions and it uses data from hundreds of millions of buyers to surface personalized product recommendations directly in your Shopify admin.

You can then place these products across your store, from on-site placements to thank-you pages, and earn either cash commissions or ad credits when a customer buys through you.

Posted

Posted is a creator-powered engine that lets creators compete to make your most viral content. You only pay for what actually wins.

Launch a contest or deal, upload a simple brief, and outline the rules. From there, creators self-select, produce content tailored to your brand, and post organically on their own channels.

You get instant audience testing, real engagement signals, and fresh concepts surfaced by competition. And you own the winning content to use as you please.

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