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Pickaxe
✓ verifiedFreemium
No-code platform to build, share and monetize custom AI-powered tools; solid adoption.
57K visits/mo
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Paperguide
✓ verifiedPaid
All-in-one research platform for reading, writing and managing papers; high traffic.
286K visits/mo4.1K saves
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Shaped AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
Managed AI ranking engine powering personalized search, recommendations, and feeds via a SQL-like query language.
88K visits/mo
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Macaron AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
Personal AI agent that builds custom mini-apps and tools on request and remembers your preferences to help with daily life.
184K visits/mo
Pricing
Free plan: $0/month
Gold plan: $23/month
Pro plan: $77/month
+250 credits/mo: $5
+500 credits/mo: $10
+2500 credits/mo: $50
Free: $0/month
Starter: $9/month
Advanced: $16/month
Standard: usage-based, $500/month minimum
Storage: $0.20 per GB
Enrichment tokens: $2 per million tokens
Reads: $0.45 per thousand
Writes: $0.012 per thousand
Training & encoding: $6 per hour
Free trial available
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦No-code AI app builder
- ✦Embeddable AI tools
- ✦AI model training
- ✦AI tool sharing and management
- ✦Prompt engineering integration
- ✦AI Studio creation
- ✦AI Search
- ✦Literature Review
- ✦AI Writer
- ✦Reference Manager
- ✦Chat with PDF
- ✦ShapedQL SQL-style query interface for retrieval and ranking
- ✦Hybrid semantic and keyword search
- ✦Continuous learning from user feedback signals
- ✦30+ native data connectors for warehouses and streams
- ✦Sub-50ms query latency
- ✦Python and TypeScript SDKs plus MCP support
- ✦Personal AI agent for daily life
- ✦Deep Memory that remembers user preferences
- ✦Builds custom tools and mini-apps on request
- ✦Personality test for personalization
- ✦Mobile app
- ✦Content and template library
Use cases
- →Creating and embedding GPT-4 apps in websites
- →Training AI on specific expertise using documents and data
- →Building AI tools for online courses, online stores, dashboards, and blogs
- →Automating tasks in Google Sheets
- →Coding qualitative data
- →Finding relevant research papers and getting research-backed answers.
- →Analyzing papers faster with accurate data extraction.
- →Generating and polishing academic content using AI.
- →Streamlining citation and reference management.
- →Personalizing 'for you' content feeds
- →Building product recommendation systems
- →Powering RAG retrieval with behavioral ranking
- →Adding hybrid search to an e-commerce site
- →Getting personalized help with daily tasks
- →Generating small custom tools on demand
- →Building an AI that remembers your context
- →Creative writing and story generation
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