Six small tools that earn their keep.
Self-serve APIs and SaaS, built on permissively-licensed open source. One subscription per tool. One curl to start. Pick one to try.
Mintmark
Send a PDF, get clean Markdown your LLM can actually read. Tables preserved, half the price of LlamaParse.
Try Mintmark → Audio transcriptionWhisperly
Drop in audio, get a transcript with speakers, word timestamps, and SRT/VTT subtitles. Half OpenAI Whisper's price.
Try Whisperly → Image editingMattly
Background removal, object erase, upscale. Same quality as remove.bg at one-twentieth the price. One endpoint per primitive.
Try Mattly → MCP marketplacePlugway
Hosted Model Context Protocol servers. Connect Claude Desktop or Cursor to Notion, GitHub, Slack, Linear, Postgres in 60 seconds.
Try Plugway → AI resume toolingHireboard
Beautiful résumés that actually get interviews. AI bullet rewrites, AI cover letters, ATS-tuned. $9 a month or $99 once.
Try Hireboard → Image CDNPixrush
Drop-in image CDN built on imgproxy. Resize, smart-crop, WebP/AVIF on the fly. $9/mo, not $89/mo. Bring your own R2/S3.
Try Pixrush →