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Hand-shaped shelves of what to try now — not the full inventory. Updated around August 9, 2026.
Featured tools
All tools →n8n
Open SourceOpen-source workflow automation with deep AI node support. Self-host or use cloud.
Best for: Teams that want self-hosted AI workflows with full control of data and nodes.
Make.com
FreemiumVisual automation platform (formerly Integromat) for multi-app scenarios and AI modules.
Best for: Ops and marketing teams building multi-step visual scenarios with AI modules.
Zapier
FreemiumNo-code automation connecting thousands of apps with AI actions and tables.
Best for: Fast app-to-app zaps with the broadest SaaS connector catalog.
Claude
FreemiumAnthropic's Claude for reasoning, coding, and agent workflows via Desktop, API, and MCP.
Best for: Long-context reasoning, coding agents, and MCP tool use.
ChatGPT
FreemiumOpenAI's ChatGPT for chat, GPTs, and API-powered automation.
Best for: General productivity, custom GPTs, and OpenAI API automation.
Gemini
FreemiumGoogle Gemini models and AI Studio for multimodal apps and long-context tasks.
Best for: Google Workspace users and multimodal / long-context apps.
Perplexity
FreemiumAnswer engine with citations for research and competitive intel.
Best for: Cited research, competitive intel, and fast fact-finding.
Ollama
Open SourceRun open models locally with a simple CLI and OpenAI-compatible API.
Best for: Local LLMs on laptop/server with a one-command model pull.
Verified workflows
Gold shelf →- Make.com AI Email Inbox Auto Responder With Make.com And Chat GPT
- Make.com Turn Any Podcast Or Meeting Transcript Into A Blog Post With Make.com
- n8n AI Cold Email Personalizer With n8n And GPT 4o
- Make.com Automated Competitor Price And Feature Monitor With Make.com
- n8n Multi Platform Content Repurposer With n8n And Claude
- Make.com AI Contract Risk Analyzer With Make.com And Claude
- Make.com CRM Deal Intelligence Enricher With Make.com And Claude
- n8n Bulk CRM Data Enrichment With Apollo.io And n8n
MCP servers to install
All MCP →Fetch
Web content fetching and conversion for efficient LLM usage.
Filesystem
Node.js server implementing Model Context Protocol (MCP) for filesystem operations.
GitHub MCP Server
This repository is a collection of reference implementations for the [Model Context Protocol](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/) (MCP), as well as references…
Memory
A basic implementation of persistent memory using a local knowledge graph. This lets Claude remember information about the user across chats.
Sequential Thinking
Dynamic and reflective problem-solving through thought sequences.
1mcp/agent
📇 ☁️ 🏠 🍎 🪟 🐧 - A unified Model Context Protocol server implementation that aggregates multiple MCP servers into one.
AI news desk
Full desk →-
Pipe – a semantic pipeline runtime with built-in MCP (Go)
Hacker News AI · 2026-08-09
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Show HN: CliTimes - Times lives on your CLI (with Claude Code)
Hacker News AI · 2026-08-09
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Qwen 3.8 and Claude Opus 5 show why raw benchmark scores don't predict the bill
Hacker News AI · 2026-08-09
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China's Top AI Model Evaded Testing Environment, Researchers Say
Hacker News AI · 2026-08-09
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Time has started serving ads to AI agents
Hacker News AI · 2026-08-09
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AI Will Change What It Is to Be Human. Are We Ready? (2025)
Hacker News AI · 2026-08-09
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Software Giant SAP Stops Most Travel and Hiring Because of AI's Soaring Cost
Hacker News AI · 2026-08-09
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Lessons from Reducing My Coding Agent's LLM API Costs
Hacker News AI · 2026-08-09
Design systems
Browse design →Dala
Dala design tokens and UI patterns as AI-ready DESIGN.md for Cursor, Claude Code, and v0.
Caldera
Caldera runs on a warm limestone canvas flooded with molten orange. The interface is flat and unshadowed, letting ultrabold compressed type at near-architectural scale (up to 189px) carry all structural weight. A single vivid orange (#fc5000) acts as the only aggressive chromatic accent against monochrome warm grays, with a violet plasma reserved for the hero halftone and a sulfur yellow for tags. The visual language is volcanic: condensed heavy letterforms, halftone dot patterns, 40px radii on cards and buttons, and 800px pill controls — heat contained within a soft, paper-like surface. https://caldera.xyz
Awesomic
editorial zinc grid with confetti-orange punctuation. Awesomic operates in a restrained, neutral-first visual register: a zinc-gray scale carries nearly the entire interface, with one vivid orange badge accent and almost no other chromatic intrusion. The geometry is defined by generous corner rounding — 36px cards, 14px buttons, 10000px pills — and hairline 1px borders replace drop shadows as the primary elevation tool. Typography is a single custom geometric sans (Cosmica) deployed at bold display weights (56–64px / weight 600) for editorial headlines, paired with compact 14px body text that signals efficiency. The atmosphere is that of a confident, infrastructure-grade marketplace: quiet surfaces, precise density, and color deployed as functional punctuation rather than decoration.
Jeton
Editorial fintech on warm marble Jeton operates as a fintech operating system on a near-blank canvas: vast white space, one searing orange-red accent, and typography that does all the talking. The interface is deliberately flat — no heavy elevations, no decorative borders — relying on generous whitespace, rounded geometric cards, and a single warm hue (#f73b20) to create visual punctuation. Headlines are oversized and tight-set (line-height 0.9–1.0 at 100+px), giving the page a confident, editorial rhythm rather than a dense SaaS feel. Color appears sparingly: orange for brand voice, near-black brown (#360802) for body text, and the occasional pastel wash for feature cards. The result reads like a magazine spread for financial infrastructure — restrained, spacious, and unmistakably bold.
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