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Person Search API by Crustdata

List building is broken. If you need to search people data on the web, Crustdata’s Person Search API is how you do it.

Prospecting, recruiting, and deal sourcing is tough with limited filters and stale data. With 60+ flexible filters, you can find exactly who you need with just one query.

Build sales lists that match your ICP, assemble talent pools with hyper-specific skills and career paths, spot overlooked founders and investment opportunities, and so on.

Brands Like These

Brands Like These is a curated online marketplace where you can buy and sell ready-to-launch brand kits made by real human designers.

For designers, it’s a way to turn unused or self-initiated projects into real income. No clients, no revisions (!), no gatekeepers.

And for buyers, it’s a shortcut to standout branding without the long pitch process or costly delays.

StoryChief

StoryChief is a content ops platform built to streamline how you and your team plan, create, and distribute content.

StoryChief analyzes your content, audience, and competitors in real-time, providing built-in SEO and readability scoring, weekly content audits, and analytics.

Its got a unified calendar for keeping everyone aligned, and it integrates with 100+ platforms, so your articles, posts, and updates can go live across CMSs, newsletters, and social channels in minutes.

Seedream 4.0

Seedream 4.0 is ByteDance’s advanced AI model for image generation and editing.

Early benchmarks suggest that it outperforms Google’s Gemini in areas like prompt adherence, alignment, and aesthetics.

It combines text-to-image generation and image editing into a single model, generates image up to 4k resolution, and delivers 2k images in 1.8 seconds.

Plus, you can use up to 6 reference images at simultaneously and generate 9 images at once. If that’s your thing, of course.

Calc’d

Calc’d looks like your average calculator, but once you start crunching numbers, you’ll find Easter eggs, hidden achievements, and light roasts about your calculating habits.

But the coolest thing about Calc’d is that it gives you your “year in numbers,” breaking down your math personality with cards like Stupidest Calc, Midnight Math sessions, and Operator Bias.

It’s like Spotify Wrapped, except you might wanna keep it to yourself.

Madgicx

Speaking of Facebook ad costs…

Madgicx positions itself as an AI-powered advertising partner that helps you dominate Meta ads without the usual headaches.

It’s a combined dashboard for automation, optimization, creative generation, and analytics.

Basically, Madgicx acts like a personal AI media buyer, auditing accounts, identifying growth opportunities, and guiding your ad strategy with its AI Creative Optimizer.

PhotoFox AI

PhotoFox AI generates professional-grade photos, videos, and ads from a single upload.

When you can’t swing the talent, sets, and reshoots, just upload one product image to get 100+ on-brand assets for ecomm, social campaigns, or ad placements.

Scale your creative production with built-in presets and brand-safe templates customized with your logos, color palettes, and typography.

Beyond studio-quality images (lifestyle, hero, flat-lay, on-white), there’s also video options like reels, turntables, explainers and more.

Sidekick

If you find Zapier logic intimidating, try Sidekick. It replaces clunky drag-and-drop builders with a chat-first interface.

Just describe what you want, like syncing Gmail with Google Sheets or pushing calendar recaps to Slack, and Sidekick’s AI adds the connectors, configures the conditions, and managers error handling for you.

Fable CRM

FableCRM for Gmail is a Chrome extension that turns your inbox into a sales hub.

It’s currently ranked as the #1 CRM for Gmail by ChatGPT. It eliminates the constant back-and-forth between apps by embedding pipeline management, lead tracking, and deal insights directly into Gmail.

Customize sales pipelines, track progress with the activity timeline, get instant lead summaries, and keep your entire team aligned without a ton of extra tools.