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- Matthew Lesiuk is building Clipio. He uses it for cold video outreach to market Clipio.
- Bhanu Teja P is building SiteGPT. He used it to build a chatbot for his blogging platform Feather.
- Simon Hoiberg is building Aidbase. He uses it to handle customer support on his personal website.
- Dharmesh Shah shared ChatSpot on X (Twitter). His post got 4,600,000 views.
- Bhanu Teja P launched SiteGPT on X (Twitter). The launch tweet got 1,000,000 views.
- Mark Gadala-Maria says growing on X (Twitter) helped him get 7,500 people on the waiting list for Post Cheetah.
- Dorik lets you sign up for the waiting list for Dorik AI. It helps to generate UI, copy and images for your websites.
- Slack lets you sign up for the waiting list for Slack AI. It helps to get insights into your chats and knowledge bases.
- JetBrains lets you sign up for the waiting list for JetBrains Grazie. It helps software teams write and communicate better.
- Hippo Video has a video ROI calculator.
- QuillBot has a suite of free grammar tools.
- Jungle Scout has a profit calculator for dropshipping.
- Aaron Edwards made DocsBot AI. It’s free for chatting with docs with up to 50 pages.
- Abdulhadi Y made AI Magicx. You can make a limited number of articles, logos and images for free.
- Helghardt Avenant and Michail Brynard made Lampbuilder. You can build 1 landing page with AI on its free plan.
- Copymatic offers a 30% commission to affiliates.
- Seamless.AI offers a 20-40% commission to affiliates.
- Pieter Levels offers a 20% commission to Photo AI affiliates.
- Jon Yongfook is building Browserbear. He charges up to $949 per month.
- Shawn Tucker is building Feedloops. He charges $69 per year while it’s in beta.
- Dobroslav Radosavljevič is building Written Labs. He charges up to $49 per month.
- Jera sells website roast packs at Roast My Web.
- Lior Grossman is building Completely. It costs $39 per competitive analysis report.
- Philipp Seeser lets you enhance the audio of 1 file with Xound. It costs $4.99 per file.
- Jared Rhizor offers a 7-day trial for MealByMeal. It helps to track food and calories.
- Alex Buran offers a 7-day trial for Help-Desk.ai. It helps to build AI chatbots for customer services.
- Eddie Forson offers a 7-day trial for EnVsion. It helps to uncover insights from your customer interviews.
- Loom let existing users try Loom AI before launching.
- Evernote lets users try AI-powered search for free before adding it to paid plans.
- Archbee offered a beta of AI Addon for free to paid users. It now costs up to $50 per month on top of paid plans but is part of the Enterprise plan.
- Twelvefold builds generative AI tools.
- 1811 Labs builds AI products in 2-4 weeks.
- Slimmer AI is a venture studio for building AI products.
- Pawa is a venture studio for machine learning startups.
- VirASTRAL helps to build AI SaaS and generative AI products.
“Most of these companies are retrofitting AI into existing products. The future is AI-native UX.”
This is common with technology. It took decades for manufacturers to redesign factories around electricity instead of adding to existing factories. Progress is iterative.
“Some of these are AI wrappers with weak moats.”
If an AI wrapper can make people’s lives easier, they will pay for it. Seize the opportunity when you have it.
“Uncontrollable growth can lead to bankruptcy. Freemium users can eat up API credits faster than expected.”
Limit the number of available credits to free users. Design Sense lets you generate only 1 image for free. Logie has user caps.
“This market is crowded.”
You can differentiate by offering unique features, great customer support or serving a niche audience.
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