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Convex
✓ verifiedFreemium
TypeScript backend-as-a-service with a reactive database, server functions, auth and file storage for full-stack and AI apps.
692K visits/mo20K saves
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waldo.fyi
✓ verifiedPaid
AI platform for brand research and strategy; coherent research tool.
33K visits/mo
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ChatPDF
✓ verifiedFreemium
Popular tool to chat with PDFs and other documents, giving summaries and cited answers, with a free daily tier and no-signup start.
1.8M visits/mo43K saves
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Glif
✓ verifiedFreemium
Creative agent platform that chains hundreds of AI models to make short videos, product shots and ad campaigns from prompts.
160K visits/mo34K saves
Pricing
Free & Starter: $0/mo (pay-as-you-go, 1-6 developers)
Professional: $25/developer/mo
Business & Enterprise: $2,500/mo minimum
Teams: $179 per brand/month for 15 brands, paid annually
No public pricing
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦Reactive real-time database
- ✦TypeScript server functions (queries/mutations/actions)
- ✦Built-in authentication
- ✦Cron jobs and backend workflows
- ✦File storage, text and vector search
- ✦ACID transactions; open-source/self-host
- ✦Automated workflows for brand strategy
- ✦Real-time data from social, ad libraries, and premium providers
- ✦Customizable workflows with no code required
- ✦Private and confidential workspace
- ✦Collaboration and export tools
- ✦Chat with PDFs, Word, PowerPoint and text files
- ✦Summaries with cited sources
- ✦Multi-file chats via folders
- ✦Any-language upload and chat
- ✦Extra tools: AI writer, detector, flashcards, slides
- ✦No-signup quick start
- ✦Chat interface orchestrating many AI models
- ✦Prebuilt glifs for video effects and edits
- ✦Short-form video and ad creative generation
- ✦Product-shot and image editing tools
- ✦Credit-based usage
- ✦Explore library of community workflows
Use cases
- →Building real-time reactive apps
- →Backends for AI agents
- →Replacing Firebase or Supabase
- →Full-stack TypeScript development
- →Brand research
- →Audience insights
- →Last-minute pitches
- →Competitive intel
- →Regional market research
- →Understand research papers
- →Study and homework help
- →Review contracts and reports
- →Translate and summarize documents
- →Create short-form videos from prompts
- →Generate product and ad creative
- →Add captions and effects to videos
- →Prototype AI creative workflows
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