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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.

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.