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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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Synced.so
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Turns a team's Notion pages into a branded, SEO-friendly help center site or embeddable in-app widget.

2.5K visits/mo
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Interviews Chat
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI interview copilot delivering real-time answer suggestions and live transcription across video, phone and coding interviews.

120K visits/mo6.2K saves
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Raycast
✓ verifiedFreemium

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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ExplainPaper
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI reading aid that explains highlighted passages of research papers in plain language to speed up dense academic reading.

56K visits/mo15K saves
Pricing
Free: $0/mo
Starter: $49/mo
Professional: $249/mo
Business: $999/mo

Free trial available

Starter: $39/mo (2 help centers, 100 articles)
Professional: $79/mo (10 help centers, 1000 articles)
Business: $99/mo (20 help centers, 2000 articles)

Free trial available

No public pricing

Pro (with AI): $8/month

Free trial available

Free: $0/mo
Pro: $16/mo

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
  • Auto-converts Notion pages into a help center site
  • Embeddable in-app widget with natural-language search
  • Custom domain or sub-path hosting
  • Automatic SEO optimization and fast page loads
  • Branding customization (logo, colors, header/footer)
  • Password-protected private help centers
  • Multi-language and custom text support
  • Feedback collection on articles
  • Real-time answer suggestions
  • Live interview transcription
  • STAR and bullet response formats
  • Chrome extension for online assessments
  • AI interview prep and mock interviews
  • Multiple AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini)
  • 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
  • Highlight-to-explain any text
  • Follow-up questions on a paper
  • Whole-paper summaries (Pro)
  • Math and figure explanations (Pro)
  • Zotero library import
  • Saved highlights and explanations
Use cases
  • Live event coverage
  • Growing on-site community
  • Monetizing audience with ads
  • Capturing first-party data
  • Startups turning internal Notion docs into public documentation
  • SaaS teams adding contextual in-app help
  • Support teams wanting SEO-optimized knowledge bases without new tooling
  • Companies needing password-protected internal wikis
  • Getting live help during interviews
  • Answering online coding assessments
  • Practising with AI-generated questions
  • Handling phone and video interviews
  • 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
  • Understand dense research papers
  • Decode academic jargon
  • Summarize papers quickly
  • Learn unfamiliar technical fields
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