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Is Rainbow Capitalism Dead? 🌈

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Dotcal

With everyone using a different scheduling client these days, “finding time on the calendar” is a total pain. Dotcal takes the friction out of this process with a seamless, integrated work and personal calendar. You can set your availability and utilize custom questions, take payments, and more. The customizable booking pages are just a plus.

SEO GPT

At last, a free AI tool to hack SEO with real-time data analysis. Get ready-made original content that will pass AI detection, like titles, meta descriptions, topics, FAQs, etc. Unlike other chatbots, SEO GPT is enhanced to yield semantic results written for both humans and search engines.

Microsoft Lists

Microsoft’s new Lists app is a smart info tracking app for all of your personal and collaborative lists. With rules, reminders, comments, customizable views, and ready-made templates, you can organize whatever you’re working on or toward. And the UX is nice and tidy, like your tasks.

Yup

If you happen to be looking for a decentralized, all-in-one social feed that combines streams and native engagement for Bluesky, Twitter, Lens, Farcaster, and Threads, and more, then Yup might be for you. It aggregates your notifications and cross-posts wherever you like, so you can build a more customized, human-centric stream.

CreatorMind

Use CreatorMind to train a chatbot on your blog content in seconds without a single line of code. It’s a cool and engaging reference tool for readers and creators alike, as it quickly synthesizes information from multiple articles to answer questions. Plus, it provides the source links for further reading.

Minimal LinkedIn

Love ya, LinkedIn, but the UI is getting a little cluttered.

If you feel the same, you can install the Minimal LinkedIn extension to clean up your feed and remove ads, for free. So you can get back to clapping at everyone’s “I’m thrilled to announce…” posts.

Lighthouse

Lighthouse is Google’s free website analysis tool, which you can use to evaluate your site’s performance, SEO, accessibility, and adherence to best practices, yielding a score from 0 to 100 for each audit in under a minute. You can access Lighthouse it from straight from Chrome DevTools or via PageSpeed Insights.

Intently

Intently makes it easy to locate ready-to-buy prospects on LinkedIn who have the exact needs your product can solve. Just enter your query (maybe “employees of [brand] looking for [service]) and get an intent-driven feed of leads ranked by their buying potential. AI speeds up this burdensome manual process, so you’re freed up to do the fun part, which is closing deals.

Blacklight

Curious about the user-tracking technologies a website may be using to get your data? Enter the address of any website into Blacklight and get real-time privacy report and insights on what’s installed, including ad trackers, third-party cookies, screen recording services, keystroke capture technology, and more.