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Piview

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Generates architectural visualizations (facades, interiors, masterplans) tailored to a site's actual climate data.

Domain registered 1 month ago

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How it works
Detects Köppen climate from project location to tailor materials and passive design strategies
What's different
Climate-aware generation rather than generic renders
Pricing
Pay-per-use, no subscription
Best for
Architects, interior/landscape designers, real estate agents

Watched for 6 days · last checked today

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Monkey Flash

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A macOS app that dims every window except the one you're actively working in, for people who lose focus to visual clutter.

Pay onceNo subscription
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How it works
Dims inactive windows, highlights the active one
Pricing
One-time purchase, no subscription
Best for
Developers, writers, designers on macOS

Watched for 5 days · last checked 4d ago

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AlienIcons

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Sells customizable animated icon assets for designers and developers, exportable to Lottie, SVG, GIF, PNG, or After Effects, for a one-time payment instead of static icon libraries.

Domain registered 3 months ago

Pay onceNo subscriptionCan export my data
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How it works
Customize colors, speed, triggers, and styles, then export or pull assets via SDK/CDN; integrates with Canva.
Pricing
One-time purchase with lifetime access, no subscription.
Best for
Designers and developers who want production-ready animated icons instead of static ones.

Watched for 7 days · last checked 6d ago

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Smooth Paycheck

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Converts irregular freelance income into a steady monthly paycheck by splitting deposits across paycheck, tax, buffer, and profit accounts, instead of budgeting off a good month and getting caught out by a slow one.

FreeNothing to installPay onceNo subscription
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How it works
Sizes a paycheck off your income floor, not average; free Income Stability Score front door
Best for
Freelancers/self-employed with month-to-month income swings: translators, editors, designers, photographers, writers, consultants

Watched for 2 days · last checked 2d ago

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Lumist Studio

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A bundle of 15 browser-based creative and dev tools (regex tester, image compressor, kanban board, SVG builder) that run locally with zero cloud servers or subscription fees.

Works offlineNo subscription
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How it works
A bundle of 15 browser-based creative and developer tools — including a regex sandbox, image compressor, kanban tracker, and SVG-to-React builder — that run locally via IndexedDB, plus browser extensions to extract typography and colors from pages.
What's different
Zero cloud servers across all 15 tools, replacing fragmented workflows and separate online converters.
Pricing
No subscription — everything runs locally in the browser.
Best for
Developers, designers, and creators who want to replace a fragmented set of separate online tools with one local suite.

Watched for 17 days · last checked 11d ago

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Stratum

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A native, non-Electron macOS GUI for browsing and editing MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and SQLite databases.

Pay onceNo subscription
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How it works
A native Swift macOS database GUI for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and SQLite, with a visual table browser, schema designer, query editor with autocomplete, iCloud sync, and one-click import from TablePlus.
Pricing
One-time purchase, no subscription; free during beta.

Watched for 10 days · last checked 2d ago

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