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#121 NTSOT | Find out the best tools of the week! Get paid while AI loads, lock your apps until you sleep, and search files by memory.
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Bloomberg reported on Thursday Anthropic expects its IPO to match or beat SpaceX's record, the largest first-time sale ever at $75 billion raised.
The public filing lands as soon as the end of this month.
AI money keeps moving in numbers most of us will never touch.
Your leverage sits somewhere else. Small tools, picked well, compounding every week.
Five of them made the cut today.
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What Will You Find Today?
5 Tools of the Week
Some Lifetime Deals I found this week (pay once and keep forever)
1. Routine - Tasks, Calendar and Notes, Powered by AI

Routine brings your tasks, calendar, notes, and projects into one workspace.
Capture anything with a hotkey, block time on your calendar, and turn meeting notes into action items without a bot.
AI agents and automations take on the repetitive work, so you spend your hours on decisions.
Everything syncs across desktop, mobile, and web, online or off.
π― Who is it ideal for?
Founders, managers, busy professionals.
π° How much does it cost?
Free plan: β
Paid plans: from $5/month
π Website
2. Dotient - Local Visual File Search

Dotient turns your local files into a searchable archive.
A quantized vision model reads your images and documents on your own device, so nothing leaves your computer.
You describe what a file looks like, and Dotient finds it.
Group files into cubbies, tune your search with signals, and map your whole archive in a visual graph.
π― Who is it ideal for?
Photographers, designers, creative teams.
π° How much does it cost?
Free plan: β
Paid plans: from $5 (one-time purchase)
π Website
dotient.com
3. uwait - Get Paid While AI Thinks

uwait pays you for the seconds you spend waiting on AI chatbots.
Install one browser extension, and every time ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and other assistants think, a native ad fills the pause.
Advertisers bid in real time for the moment, and you keep the largest cut.
The sites behind each answer earn a share too. Your prompts stay private on your machine.
π― Who is it ideal for?
Heavy AI users, publishers, advertisers.
π° How much does it cost?
Free.
π Website
4. Kimi AI - Assistant for Coding and Knowledge Work

Kimi is an AI assistant built for coding and deep knowledge work.
You give it a goal, and its agents run multi-step tasks in parallel, from research to building sites, slides, sheets, and documents.
The model reads up to a million tokens of context, handles images, and writes and runs code.
You delegate the busywork and keep your focus on the decisions.
π― Who is it ideal for?
Developers, researchers, knowledge workers.
π° How much does it cost?
Free plan: β
Paid plans: from $19/month
π Website
5. HyperSleep - Sleep more. Scroll less

HyperSleep keeps your most distracting apps locked until you have slept.
Four sensors, Google Sleep API, motion, ambient light, and phone usage, cross-check each other, so no single signal fakes a night of rest.
You earn your scroll time by sleeping well.
Wake to a sleep score and a streak, all tracked on your device with nothing sent to the cloud.
π― Who is it ideal for?
Students, remote workers, chronic doomscrollers.
π° How much does it cost?
Free plan: β
Paid plans: from $4.99/month
π Website
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π€― Lifetime Deals of the Week
Exclusive offers that get you a lifetime subscription to the tools. Pay once and keep forever.
Feedboss ($59) - Get a LinkedIn strategist that decides what to post, drafts in your voice, and grounds it in your knowledge.
TimeTuna ($49) - Create branded scheduling pages with video backgrounds, custom domains, and real-time calendar sync.
Friday Code ($139) - Build, deploy, and automate full-stack apps from a single desktop workspace with AI.
Setapp - My Favourite ToolDrowning in apps? Setapp offers a Netflix-style subscription for Mac & iPhone apps. Over 240 productivity, creativity, and utility tools for only $9.99/mo. Check it out at Setapp.com (30-day extended free trial) |
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