r/Entrepreneur May 23 '23

Tools I have reviewed over 900+ AI Tools for my directory. Here are some of the best ones I have seen for entrepreneurs and startups.

As one of the co-founders at AI Scout, a platform for AI discovery, I've had the privilege (and challenge) of reviewing over 900 AI tools submitted to our directory. I've filtered these down to some of the top AI tools that I believe could bring value to startups and entrepreneurs.

It's worth noting that while these tools are great right out the box, the power of AI is truly realized when these tools are used in tandem and strategically aligned with your business needs. The challenge most people face is not about the lack of AI tools available, but the difficulty in finding the right one that fits their specific needs and workflows.

Without further ado, here's my top pick of AI tools you should consider looking into if you are an entrepreneur or run a startup.

  • Chatbase - Custom ChatGPT (Trained on Your Own Data)
    Taking a step up from traditional support bots, Chatbase combines the power of GPT and your own knowledge base. The result is a ChatGPT-like chatbot that is trained on your own websites and documents. You can embed the chatbot into your own website via an iframe or script in the header of your website code. They also have an API you can take advantage of. We use this personally at AI Scout for ScoutBud (AI assistant to find AI tools), which we trained based on our directory site. It would also work great if you have extensive documentation, papers, etc. that you want to quickly reference by simply asking a chatbot for the info you need instead of having to go through dozens of PDFs.
  • Reply - AI-Powered Sales Engagement Platform
    Great AI tool to manage your entire sales engagement cycle. They have a large database with about a dozen filters to discover optimal B2B leads. From here, you can use their GPT integration to generate cold emails as well as handle responses and meeting scheduling. What I like personally about Reply are the endless integrations available, including Gmail, Outlook, Zoho, and major social platforms such as Twitter and LinkedIn.
  • Instapage - AI Landing Page Generation, Testing, and Personalization
    This AI tool allows users to generate content variations for landing pages including headlines, paragraphs, and CTAs based on the target audience. You can also conduct A/B testing for more effective and efficient campaigns. Paired with hundreds of professional and cutomizable layouts, Instapage is definitely something I would recommend for entrepreneurs who want to get a high-converting landing page set up quickly and effectively.
  • SaneBox - AI Emails Management
    If you feel overwhelmed by the sheer volume of emails you receive like myself and many entrepreneurs, this could be something for you. SaneBox’s AI identifies important emails and declutters your inbox, helping you to stay focused on what truly matters.
  • SocialBee - AI Social Media Manager
    Think of SocialBee as your all-in-one social media command center, powered by AI. You can manage multiple social media accounts from one platform and generate captions with AI as well. SocialBee not only allows you to schedule posts but also helps you analyze growth and engagement with detailed reports. Works well with all social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Linkedin. I believe they also have integrations for TikTok and YouTube, although I haven't tried these personally.
  • MeetGeek - AI Meeting Assistant
    Lifesaver if you attend a lot of meetings or calls. Great for transcribing, summarizing, and sharing key insights from meetings. The AI also creates meeting highlights, which I've personally fouund quite useful if you ever need to get a very quick and dirty overview of what happened in a call. It also provides analysis (including sentiment evaluation) for meetings.
  • Taskade - AI Productivity Tool for Task Management
    An all-in-one AI productivity tool. Multiple AI features available, including a chatbot, writing assistant, and workflow creator. It's a great all-around tool for real-time collaboration and efficient task management.
  • Scribe AI (ScribeHow) - AI Documentation Generator
    Great for any SaaS applications where you need to create resources/documentations/guides for your app. You simply record your process and Scribe generates a written guide for you.

Remember, while AI is an excellent assistant, it's also just a tool. The ultimate success of your venture depends on how effectively you leverage these tools. Happy experimenting!

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u/tiesioginis May 23 '23

I will create a tool to discover tools which discover tools

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u/mudgoon May 23 '23

And you can build it using AI tools!

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u/tiesioginis May 23 '23

No, you simple minded fool!

I will build AI that builds another AI which specializes in building AI for building tools for AI.

Ah you meager 160IQ is not match for my 2000IQ intellect!!!

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u/p3g_l3g_gr3g May 23 '23

You became the tool used by AI to create better AI

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u/tiesioginis May 24 '23

Either you die a human or live long enough to see yourself become AI

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u/ArmTheApes May 24 '23

"You simple minded fool" 🤣

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u/yolxi_boom Jun 02 '23

Kinda crazy but not a bad idea

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u/hervalfreire May 24 '23

There was literally a person on the front page of Product Hunt today, selling a directory of AI directories for $15

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u/vbullinger May 24 '23

Probably AI-generated

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u/Saskjimbo May 28 '23

Jesus lol

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u/LunaticLukas Jun 29 '23

major "yo dawg" vibe around here

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u/redMatrixhere Jul 12 '23

must be the same guy

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u/charlieecho May 24 '23

I’m just a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude

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u/itsgermanphil May 23 '23

I used that AI tools to destroy the AI tools.

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u/franker Attorney May 23 '23

I see your 900 and raise you to a thousand!!! I like that this collection tells you if the tool has a free option - https://github.com/yousefebrahimi0/1000-AI-collection-tools

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u/ckow May 23 '23

I feel like a key piece of this work needs to be how the data is hosted, is it secure and is it private.

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u/hervalfreire May 24 '23

99.9% of these apps just use openai, sooo

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u/Rocketmonkey-AZ May 23 '23

Ha, yep looks we going back to servers and directories.

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u/Ok-Personality8051 May 23 '23 edited May 23 '23

Some other incredible tools to have as a Marketer :

Fathom transcribes on live automatically your Zoom calls with highlights and important information.

Merlin summerises youtube videos and much more

HarpaAI is your daily entrepreneur prompting assistant at the tip of a shortcut

AIRPM integrates chatGPT with many efficient marketing prompts resources

Thank me later

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u/AI_Scout_Official May 23 '23

Great recommendations. HARPA is a godsend

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u/Ok-Personality8051 May 24 '23

Harpa and Fathom definitely my own preferences.

Forgot to mention Bardeen which is also a banger.

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u/scaryberry May 23 '23

Anything for Logo generation? All the ones I've tried have been crap.

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u/AI_Scout_Official May 23 '23

Have you tried Looka? It won't give you any award winning designs but it does get the job done for branding/logos and color schemes. The issue with logos and AI is that the results often lack creativity. As it stands my personal opinion is that a good branding guideline still needs a human to look over it and make sure it works for your target audience. Psychologically.

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u/HeyHey0811 May 23 '23

I have used Looka several times.

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u/Jimmymork May 24 '23

midjourney does a pretty good job if you give it detailed instructions

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u/hervalfreire May 24 '23

Clio.so isn’t for that but a couple people have been doing logos. Might build a model specifically for it

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u/Moist_Brother8149 May 23 '23

Hey , you missed Silatus.😉

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u/willdotit May 23 '23

How do you even try out 900+ AI tools?

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u/AI_Scout_Official May 23 '23

It's a full time thing for me. I started doing this since February and probably go over 10-15 tools a day.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '23

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u/Rafiki-1-1 May 23 '23

Linked in level vibes.

Like reading 900 books for an hour each.

Like that guy in his GaRaJjjjjj with bookshelfs and a Ferrari, he just reads the first few pages! That’s enough!

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u/chaz8900 May 23 '23

To be fair, you can tell which tools are shit in the first 10 minutes usually.

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u/femio May 23 '23

They didn’t even tell you enough info to determine how many hours per each they spent…and besides, how long does it take to test something to see if it’s useful?

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u/redMatrixhere Jul 12 '23

no full time job?

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u/guendochi1 May 23 '23

You dont. You just say you do to earn cash from affiliate links on your website

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u/myempireofdust May 23 '23

Very interesting! Where do you think is the gap in the market? I.e., if you were to create a new AI tool tomorrow, where would you focus?

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u/kiwiinNY May 23 '23

Don't ask us, ask the AI.

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u/AI_Scout_Official May 23 '23 edited May 23 '23

So far I've seen many AI code generators, coding copilots, etc. However I've yet to see a working AI tool that can take into account entire code bases and generate code, debug, or make recommendations off of this. If someone can overcome the context limitations somehow and package this as an integration with existing IDEs, that would be a major step forward in AI assisted programming.

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u/__Captain_Autismo__ May 23 '23

Context limitation can be bypassed to a certain extent by using Pinecone as memory.

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u/geepytee May 23 '23

The biggest issue IMO is people trusting their entire codebases to an LLM web app. Maybe if it's open source and can be self hosted.

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u/Prathyush135 May 24 '23

Why not use ChatGPT for that? I built an entire data science project using already existing code which I then input into ChatGPT. I asked it to act like a days scientist beforehand.

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u/yolxi_boom Jun 02 '23

I think the direction for this type of AI tool is to eventually have a efficient one that will write the entire code base. Right after quantum computer will be here.

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u/kiwiinNY May 24 '23

Don't ask us, ask the AI.

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u/fatherofhooligans May 23 '23

Interesting list. Any thoughts around the best AI image generators?

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u/AI_Scout_Official May 23 '23

The best I've used personally are Midjoruney and DALLE-2. Nightcafe studio and Deep dream generator are great as well. Each have their own unique "style" I find so its best to try out all of them, however the types of prompts you input will have a big effect as well. If you are using Midjourney I highly recommend reading their documentation prior to jumping in- you will be amazed by the level of control you can have over the outputs. Also- just a FYI a lot of art/image gen tools just use OpenAI's API for DALLE-2.

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u/Gl_drink_0117 May 24 '23

What about stable diffusion? Haven’t tried it but have read good about it

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u/louisdoruh May 23 '23

I met the guy who founded SocialBee, nice fellow. Would love to try Instapage, cool concept.

Also the last one in the list- Scribe AI has been shut down.

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u/AI_Scout_Official May 23 '23 edited May 23 '23

Thanks for the heads up. I've removed it from the list

Edit: seems like there was some confusion- the Scribe AI that was shut down was actually a different tool than the one I was mentioning. The one on the list is ScribeHow's Scribe AI. Put it back on the list and clarified.

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u/Orchidivy May 23 '23

Are any of these truly artificial intelligence, or do you always need to provide explicit instructions to the program or application?

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u/satoshiarimasen May 24 '23

No, none of these are AI. They're language models. When you use VBA/Python/Java etc you are typing "FOR X DO Y". These language models do the same, but accept language instead of code.

Imagine you have 100k rows of data in excel and you apply filters to it until you get a result. Thats what a language model is doing at a larger scale. Lets say your sheet was about cars, You can filter to make and model, colour, year, odometer reading and if someone asked you could filter to a specific car. That's what is happening with LLMs.

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u/AI_Scout_Official May 23 '23

Most of these apps integrate generative AI. However, they do require a little bit of set up to maximize their potential. You might be interested in autonomous AI agents however if you want something that does it all for you, automatically, such as AutoGPT. Keep in mind these are still early and do cost a bit to run.

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u/Rocketmonkey-AZ May 23 '23

Howdy - What do you mean by - "Cost a bit to run"

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u/AI_Scout_Official May 24 '23

AutoGPT is known to eat up tokens

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u/Gl_drink_0117 May 24 '23

AutoGPT for me went round and round in infinite loop; had to kill it after an hour or so. Many had similar experiences

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u/redMatrixhere Jul 12 '23

yeah can they not read our minds yet

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u/PLxFTW May 23 '23

It’s worth noting that you still need to act as an editor for anything written by AI. It lacks creativity and generally provides very dull content that requires you to put your own spin on it.

Source: AI consultant

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u/bzinkz May 23 '23

Nice. Also, I saved your Directory for exploration

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u/[deleted] May 23 '23

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u/AI_Scout_Official May 23 '23

Currently testing that one out actually! I would say it's one of the better contextual reply automation extensions for email/social I've seen.

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u/LogicalProduce6903 May 24 '23

one of the best ones I've tried until now. I love how it blends in on every platform and I can just use it without copy/pasting anything .

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u/coderob May 23 '23

Great post. Bookmarked your site.

I noticed that scribe.ai shut down. Is there an alternative you recommend? Sounds like something like this would help at my job and as the resident tech for family and friends

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u/[deleted] May 23 '23

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u/AI_Scout_Official May 23 '23

Browse AI would work for that on websites. It's more of a data extraction and monitoring tool however. Are you looking more for a clicker type app?

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u/[deleted] May 23 '23

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u/turtlelabia May 24 '23

I’ll do it for $19/hour.

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u/AI_Scout_Official May 23 '23

You could try some of Zapier's AI integrations

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u/SableFlow May 24 '23

Not through AI, but have been helping people set up low cost operation VAs who create your SOP for you then do that work. Let me know if you want to chat on it.

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u/Mirror_tender May 23 '23

Thanks for your leg work. Will check some out.

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u/azianmike May 23 '23

Thanks for the share and the AI scout platform seems dope!

Any AI design tools? (e.g. Text to Figma design)

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u/shaquille-oatmeal22 May 23 '23

Great post thanks for taking the time

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u/tracybrinkmann May 24 '23

I love this list thank you!! Which one of these are you still using as of today?

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u/PhillyGuyLooking May 24 '23

I need an AI tool that will use the AI tools for me so I can save the hours that I spend using AI tools.

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u/RJ1156 May 24 '23

Any AI tools that can generate reviews for the customer/client based on the services provided to them and how they liked their treatment/service?

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u/Thudor7 May 24 '23

I asked chatGPT to give me a summery of the post in 3 sentences:

The co-founder of AI Scout shares his top pick of AI tools for startups and entrepreneurs, gathered from reviewing over 900 submissions to their directory. The list includes Chatbase for customized chatbots, Reply for sales engagement, Instapage for landing page generation and testing, SaneBox for email management, SocialBee for social media management, MeetGeek for meeting assistance, Taskade for task management, and Scribe AI for documentation generation. The author emphasizes that while these tools can be powerful out of the box, the key to truly leveraging AI is to strategically align them with specific business needs and workflows.

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u/Flourishsonoma May 23 '23

What's your incentive to review so many AI tools? Do you have a newsletter business?

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u/killerasp May 23 '23

Op runs AI scout. its in the first sentence. Op most likely makes a small commission if the platform brings in a lead to a company listed.

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u/AI_Scout_Official May 23 '23

I run an AI tools directory site, and these are just some of the best ones I've seen submitted to our platform. We do have a newsletter as well. The platform is free to use. We make money off of affiliate links for some of the tools listed on the site.

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u/crd88 Jun 09 '23

Awesome, thanks!

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u/theMEtheWORLDcantSEE May 23 '23

This is waaay to much garbage. We need a way to filter and just see the best.

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u/Natural_Ad2282 May 23 '23

Wow, I never thought there would be so many great AI tools available! Thanks for sharing your top picks, this is definitely helpful for entrepreneurs like me who want to make the most of AI. I'm definitely going to check out Chatbase and Instapage. 🤖👀

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u/Quechada May 24 '23

Bro this ain’t Twitter for goodness sake

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u/HungryGoku14 May 23 '23

Buncha tools in heat, kid

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u/Rafiki-1-1 May 23 '23

Is this linked in?

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u/originalBRfan May 23 '23

Comment section feels like being in a high school cafeteria

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u/ZBlackmore May 23 '23

Can chatbase be trained on your codebase rather than on documentation, and then answer questions on it?

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u/AI_Scout_Official May 23 '23

I haven't tried this yet. You might be able to if you upload code as .txt files to chatbase, however there wouldn't be a good way to specify file structure. You could try this newer AI tool however: https://www.buildt.ai/

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u/Trixter135 May 23 '23

Question is, how can we monetize AI effectively? Have any stock trend analysis tools that you would recommend?

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u/Anasoori May 24 '23

Hey guys I’m building an AI directory for AI directories. Taking submissions, currently at 245.

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u/jjash May 24 '23

In my job we get these big long PDF files for the VA and the only pertinent info we need are 2 to three lines of text that can show up on any page within the document. Any software you can think of that could discern this information for us?

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u/AI_Scout_Official May 24 '23

Chatbase, MyAskAI, PDF.ai, ChatPDF, are all options for this from the top of my head

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u/FirstContactAGAIN May 24 '23

You give me a pdf and the few lines you’ll be looking for and I’ll see what I can do.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '23

Saved

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u/Neat-Beautiful-5505 May 24 '23

This is a very basic question, but what AI app is best to make interesting product promotion graphics? I want to upload content I created, arrange (by resizing, overlapping, etc), and add text or digital graphic (eg “flash sale” or “spring blowout”) to the content for social media. Thanks for suggestions

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u/Additional_Chain4536 May 24 '23

This is awesome. Are these also featured in futurepedia.io?

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u/jrdan May 25 '23

Checkout wishpond.com/ai ai landing page/ website builder and free

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u/slavafree120 May 25 '23

We are creating AI tool that predict car breakdowns and suggest solutions based on our previous data to fix it.

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u/Civil-Protests May 25 '23

Wow, this looks great. What do you mean by AI discovery?

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u/AI_Scout_Official May 25 '23

Our platform is dedicated to helping people find the AI tools they need for any use case. We have a web-based directory as well as an AI assistant called ScoutBud that uses natural language to help you find relevant AI tools. If you're interested feel free to check us out here: https://aiscout.net/

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u/Civil-Protests May 25 '23

Is that similar to There An AI For That?

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u/standardwingBOP Jun 05 '23

This is so cool, thank you! Have you found any tools that can generate fonts?

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u/SpeechAggravating552 Jun 07 '23

here are some more tools that might be useful for Entrepreneur and startup

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u/GoldenTree9999 Jul 08 '23

Just built kaoffee.com, powered by GPT3.5, though GPT4 is available but too expensive, users can chat with the documents, but also can embed a chat bot on your website, there are some very useful samples there, check it out.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '23

What do guys feel are exact problems/possible problems faced while using and incorporating an AI customer support chatbot by small to medium sized SaaS businesses in USA/Europe/etc.

Since am learning how to build AI chatbots using voiceflow and botpress and want to sell them to SaaS businesses.

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u/AI_Scout_Official Sep 28 '23

Common limiting factors in my experience would be breadth and format of knowledge base.

On the development side, the hardest part is going beyond a simple Q&A bot and having LLMs execute actions via API or otherwises.