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Oh Dear

Oh Dear is an all-in-one website monitoring platform designed to give you complete visibility into website health, from uptime and performance monitoring to SSL certificate checks and broken link detection.

With global monitoring servers, you’ll know when downtime strikes, where it’s happening, and what needs fixing. It offers ping and TCP port monitoring, DNS and domain tracking, and scheduled task monitoring to ensure background jobs run smoothly.

Oh Dear even integrates Lighthouse performance and SEO monitoring. Plus, notifications are fully flexible through Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, SMS, email, and more.

SoWork

SoWork is an AI-powered virtual office where teams can work, chat, and collaborate as if they were sitting side by side.

It has simplified office views, customizable layouts, and spatial video calls that make remote work feel a little more… human.

Managers can see who’s online, track hours, and access team analytics. Meanwhile, AI assistants take meeting notes and generate action items automatically.

You’re gonna love it if you’re a Sims fan.

Jotform’s Instagram Agent

Jotform’s Instagram Agent instantly replies to messages in your brand’s voice, so you never miss a lead, fan interaction, or customer inquiry.

Once you connect your account, the AI trains on your posts, bio, and past conversations to deliver context-aware responses.

It can handle FAQs, recommend products, share class schedules, book appointments, or even guide followers through checkout.

It also replies to comments and story mentions and can connect with tools like Shopify, Calendly, and Google Sheets to automate sales and workflows.

Tab With a View

We know. You already have 53 tabs open. But open one more.

This browser extension transports you somewhere beautiful every time you open a new tab. There’s a reason it’s rated 4.9 stars. Yay, escapism!

Each global scene comes with context, so you can follow your nose and take a virtual tour, watch timelapse videos, or find quick facts about the location, if you wanna.

There’s also a built-in Focus Mode that combines Pomodoro-style sessions with calming sounds and visuals.

Tab With a View

We know. You already have 53 tabs open. But open one more.

This browser extension transports you somewhere beautiful every time you open a new tab. There’s a reason it’s rated 4.9 stars. Yay, escapism!

Each global scene comes with context, so you can follow your nose and take a virtual tour, watch timelapse videos, or find quick facts about the location, if you wanna.

There’s also a built-in Focus Mode that combines Pomodoro-style sessions with calming sounds and visuals.

Kuse

Kuse is a next-gen workspace for visual thinkers.

It’s got an infinite, canvas-based UI with multi-model AI for ideas, research, and creative exploration.

Generate, analyze, and compare text, images, and files all in one spot without constant context switching.

Kuse even integrates professional databases and APIs for deeper insights. Also, it’s very kute.

ChatGPT vs Google

Ahrefs just launched a monthly tracker comparing referral traffic from Google Search and ChatGPT. Hallelujah.

The dashboard pulls data from over 44,000 websites connected to Ahrefs’ free Web Analytics tool and updates each month.

The early numbers show Google still dominates, driving 41.9% of total traffic in July, compared to ChatGPT’s 0.19%.

But growth trends are worth noting: while Google traffic rose just 1.4%, ChatGPT referrals climbed 5.3%. That means, while small in absolute terms, ChatGPT is currently growing 3.8x faster than Google.

Adobe’s Acrobat Studio

Adobe just rolled out Acrobat Studio, an AI-powered hub designed to make working with PDFs (and other formats) less painful.

PDF Spaces are collaborative hubs where you can upload up to 100 files, from PDFs and Word docs to web pages. Acrobat Studio’s AI assistant can summarize the content, provide citations, and answer questions with pre-populated prompts.

There are also customizable AI “assistants” too, like an analyst for insights, an instructor for explanations, and even an entertainer. Or you can create their own.

FYI, it’s currently limited to English-language docs and can’t handle video, handwritten notes, or password-protected files. Pricing starts at $25/month, with a 14-day trial.

Logoipsum

Logoipsum is the lorem ipsum of logos.

It’s a collection of clean, abstract, and versatile SVG logos built to temporarily fill design mockups, UI layouts, wireframes, and client presentations until the real thing arrives.

Just click to copy the SVG and paste it into Figma, Sketch, XD, or Illustrator or download it directly.