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Arena
✓ verifiedFreemium
Engagement suite adding live chat, comments, polls and live blogs to publisher and brand sites to grow and monetize audiences.
145K visits/mo
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Convex
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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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ZykaAI
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Multi-model AI creation platform for generating images, videos, and voice, giving one subscription access to 25+ third-party models.
23K visits/mo
Pricing
Free: $0/mo
Starter: $49/mo
Professional: $249/mo
Business: $999/mo
Free trial available
No public pricing
Free & Starter: $0/mo (pay-as-you-go, 1-6 developers)
Professional: $25/developer/mo
Business & Enterprise: $2,500/mo minimum
Starter: $29/month (2,000 credits)
Growth: $99/month (10,000 credits)
Enterprise: $199/month (22,000 credits)
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦Threaded comments
- ✦Real-time group chat
- ✦Live blog streams
- ✦AI polls and moderation
- ✦First-party data capture
- ✦No-code website embed
- ✦Text and SMS chat
- ✦Appointment booking
- ✦Reminders
- ✦Digital payments
- ✦Video calls
- ✦AI-assisted communication (CoPilot)
- ✦Wellness and Loyalty Plans
- ✦PMS Integration
- ✦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
- ✦Single subscription providing access to 25+ image/video/voice AI models
- ✦Credit-based usage shared across all available models
- ✦Motion control and avatar/marketing studio tools
- ✦Voice cloning and automatic video dubbing
- ✦Parallel generation limits that scale by plan tier
- ✦API and webhook access on paid plans
Use cases
- →Live event coverage
- →Growing on-site community
- →Monetizing audience with ads
- →Capturing first-party data
- →Streamlining communication between veterinary clinics and pet owners
- →Managing appointment requests and bookings
- →Processing digital payments for veterinary services
- →Sending reminders for medication and appointments
- →Boosting wellness plan subscriptions
- →Reducing missed calls at veterinary clinics
- →Building real-time reactive apps
- →Backends for AI agents
- →Replacing Firebase or Supabase
- →Full-stack TypeScript development
- →Creators generating marketing images and video without multiple subscriptions
- →Producing cinematic AI video clips with tools like Seedance or Sora 2
- →Cloning or dubbing voices for multilingual video content
- →Teams needing API access to integrate AI generation into their own tools
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