🎬 The Open Source Alternative to Loom (Finally Good)

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OpenAI acquired Hiro Finance this week, its seventh known acquisition of 2026.

The team joins OpenAI, the product shuts down on April 20, and all user data is deleted by May 13.

At the same time, Cognition is in talks to raise at a $25 billion valuation, double its last round, on the back of its Devin coding agent.

The pattern is hard to miss. Big labs absorb small teams. Vertical AI tools eat professional services. The middle ground belongs to founders who pick products built to outlive the news cycle.

Below are five tools worth your attention this week.

What Will You Find Today?

• 5 Tools of the Week

• Some Lifetime Deals I found this week (pay once and keep forever)

1. Cap - Beautiful Screen Recordings, Owned by You

Cap is the open-source alternative to Loom.

Record your screen, edit clips, and share videos with a link in seconds.

You get three modes: instant share, full studio quality with a built-in editor, and quick screenshots.

Auto-generated transcripts, AI summaries, and chapters come standard.

🎯 Who is it ideal for?

Founders, async teams, content creators.

💰 How much does it cost?

Free plan: ✅ 

Paid plans: from $2.42/month

🌐 Website

cap.so

2. Agentplace - Build Powerful Agents Fast

Agentplace is a platform for building, deploying, and using AI agents like teammates.

Vibe-code an agent in the builder, ship it to the cloud instantly, and use it inside a ChatGPT-style workspace with voice support.

Connect MCPs, integrations, or custom code. Use any frontier model from OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google without managing API keys.

Move from work mode to edit mode in seconds when an agent needs an update.

🎯 Who is it ideal for?

Operators, internal tool builders, small product teams.

💰 How much does it cost?

Free plan: ✅ 

Paid plans: from $29/month

🌐 Website

agentplace.io

3. Passbolt - Open Source Password Manager

Passbolt is an open-source password and secrets manager built for teams.

It uses end-to-end encryption with a public-private key system, so only authorized users decrypt the data.

You get granular sharing, audit logs, role-based access, and an API for automation. Self-host it on your own server or run it in the cloud.

Browser, desktop, and mobile apps cover every device your team uses.

🎯 Who is it ideal for?

IT teams, DevOps engineers, security-conscious businesses.

💰 How much does it cost?

Free plan: ✅ 

Paid plans: from $16/month

🌐 Website

passbolt.com

4. Pixero - AI Agent for Meta Ads

Pixero is an AI agent for Meta ad campaigns.

Drop your website URL, the agent scrapes your brand, builds the strategy, generates ad creatives, and deploys live campaigns in your Meta Ads account.

It manages tests and updates over time, the way a media buyer would.

Setup takes under ten minutes. Built by ex-Google engineers. Used by 10,000 brands in three months.

🎯 Who is it ideal for?

Founders, e-commerce brands, growth marketers.

💰 How much does it cost?

Free plan: ✅ 

Paid plans: from $149.99/month

🌐 Website

pixero.ai

5. Docmost - Enterprise-Ready Wiki for Teams

Docmost is an open-source wiki for teams needing full control over their knowledge.

You self-host it on your own infrastructure, including air-gapped networks.

Real-time collaboration, AI assistant, semantic search, and granular RBAC come standard.

Migrate from Confluence, Notion, or markdown without losing data.

The wiki doubles as an MCP server, so Claude or Cursor pulls answers directly from your docs.

🎯 Who is it ideal for?

IT teams, regulated organizations, enterprise knowledge managers.

💰 How much does it cost?

Free plan: ✅ 

Paid plans: from $3.50/month

🌐 Website

docmost.com

🤯 Lifetime Deals of the Week

Exclusive offers that get you a lifetime subscription to the tools. Pay once and keep forever.

• Blazly ($79) - Analyze AI mentions and publish SEO- and GEO-optimized content that ranks on Google.

• DM Champ ($59) - Resell a white-label AI sales agent to your clients and keep 100% of the profit.

• Katteb ($39) - Write SEO-optimized articles in your brand voice, auto-publish to WordPress, and rank in AI search.

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