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Raycast
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A fast, keyboard-driven Mac/Windows launcher with an extension store and built-in AI commands for power users who live in shortcuts.
1.1M visits/mo3.4K saves
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Outset.ai
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AI-moderated research platform for deep customer insights.
437K visits/mo5.8K saves
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Regex.ai
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Experimental AI tool that suggests regex patterns from highlighted example text, for developers who dislike writing regex by hand.
3.8K visits/mo935 saves
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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
Pricing
Pro (with AI): $8/month
Free trial available
No public pricing
Free: $0/Monthly
Starter: $14.99/Monthly
Plus: $24.99/Monthly
Premium: $49.99/Monthly
Ultra: $99.99/Monthly
No public pricing
Free & Starter: $0/mo (pay-as-you-go, 1-6 developers)
Professional: $25/developer/mo
Business & Enterprise: $2,500/mo minimum
Core features
- ✦Extendable command-bar launcher for macOS and beta Windows support
- ✦Thousands of third-party extensions from a public store
- ✦Built-in AI chat and custom AI command automation
- ✦Clipboard history, window management, and calculator utilities
- ✦Text snippets and quicklinks for repetitive actions
- ✦Hotkeys and aliases for common apps and commands
- ✦Team plan for sharing snippets, quicklinks, and extensions
- ✦AI-moderated interviews
- ✦AI synthesis and highlight reels
- ✦Customizable AI interviewer persona
- ✦Multimodal research (video, voice, text)
- ✦Flexible participant recruitment
- ✦Advanced unmoderated testing
- ✦Access to 200+ AI models in one place
- ✦Comprehensive AI toolkit for various LLM needs
- ✦Personalized customer support and onboarding
- ✦Universal interface with seamless local model integration
- ✦Multi-modality support for file and folder analysis
- ✦Developer tools for building applications
- ✦Deep research capabilities with Datavibes Pro
- ✦Bot creation tools with Botcraft and Typebot
- ✦Model comparison with Beam
- ✦Content creation with Magic AI
- ✦Text highlighting to define target matches
- ✦Multiple candidate regex outputs shown side by side
- ✦Live preview of what each pattern matches
- ✦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
Use cases
- →Launching apps and running quick commands without leaving the keyboard
- →Automating repetitive text and file tasks with snippets and quicklinks
- →Getting AI answers or writing help without switching apps
- →Sharing productivity tooling and extensions across a team
- →Market strategy
- →Segmentation & Personas
- →Brand Research
- →Innovation & Concept Testing
- →User Experience & Usability
- →Creative Testing
- →Coding assistance and application development
- →Document creation and analysis
- →Comprehensive research and data analysis
- →Content creation for articles, blogs, and marketing
- →Bot development for websites and customer support
- →Model comparison for optimal AI selection
- →Quickly building a regex for extracting emails or similar patterns
- →Comparing several regex approaches against sample data
- →Building real-time reactive apps
- →Backends for AI agents
- →Replacing Firebase or Supabase
- →Full-stack TypeScript development
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