The Stack Curated blog

Dub Review: More Than Just Another Link Shortener

At first glance, Dub looks like another place to shorten links. That really undersells it.

• Business
• Marketing
• Attribution
• Analytics

August 28, 2026 · 4 min read

Framer Review: A Website Builder for People Who Actually Care About Design

Framer is one of those products that makes you wonder why building a good looking website used to require so much back and forth.

• Business
• Design
• Web
• No-Code

August 27, 2026 · 4 min read

Superlist Review: A Task Manager That Does Not Feel Like Accounting Software

There are more productivity apps than anyone needs, and most of them promise to completely reorganize your life.

• Productivity
• Teams
• Project Management

August 26, 2026 · 4 min read

Buffer Review: A Simple Way to Stop Forgetting About Social Media

Buffer solves a boring problem, and boring problems are often the ones worth solving.

• Marketing
• Social Media
• Automation

August 25, 2026 · 4 min read

Cal.com Review: Because Booking a Call Should Not Take Fourteen Emails

There are few things more irritating in business than trying to schedule one short meeting.

• Business
• Scheduling
• Sales

August 24, 2026 · 4 min read

Beehiiv Review: Building an Audience You Actually Own

Social media followers are useful, but they are rented.

• Newsletter
• Publishing
• Audience

August 23, 2026 · 4 min read

Perplexity AI Review: One of the Research Tools I Would Actually Use

Perplexity is useful because it tackles one of the most annoying parts of internet research: opening a ridiculous number of tabs just to answer one question.

• AI
• Research
• Productivity

August 22, 2026 · 4 min read

Chatbase Review: Useful Customer Service, As Long as You Keep an Eye on It

Chatbase lets you build a chatbot around information from your own business.

• AI
• Customer Support
• Lead Gen

August 21, 2026 · 4 min read

Spline Review: Very Cool, Provided You Have a Reason to Use It

Spline lets designers create interactive three dimensional material for websites.

• Design
• 3D
• Web

August 20, 2026 · 4 min read

Screenpipe Review: Fascinating Productivity Tool With an Obvious Privacy Question

Screenpipe records desktop activity so you can search and analyze what you were actually doing.

• AI
• Productivity
• Privacy

August 19, 2026 · 4 min read

Superhuman Review: Expensive Email Can Make Sense for the Right Person

Superhuman is built for people whose inbox has practically become a second job.

• Productivity
• Email
• Communication

August 18, 2026 · 4 min read

Granola Review: Meeting Notes That Let You Pay Attention to the Meeting

One of the stranger parts of modern meetings is watching everybody type notes while supposedly talking to each other.

• AI
• Meetings
• Productivity

August 17, 2026 · 4 min read

Tella Review: Better Screen Videos Without Becoming a Video Editor

Sometimes you need to show someone how something works.

• Video
• Marketing
• Sales

August 16, 2026 · 4 min read

CodeRabbit Review: A Useful Second Set of Eyes on Code

CodeRabbit reviews software code and gives developers feedback before changes are merged.

• AI
• Engineering
• Code Review

August 15, 2026 · 4 min read

Polymarket Review: Interesting Signal, Not a Crystal Ball

Polymarket is a prediction market where people trade based on what they think will happen in the real world.

• Markets
• Research
• Business

August 14, 2026 · 4 min read

Privy Review: Good Online Store Marketing, Provided You Do Not Annoy Everyone

Privy helps online stores capture email addresses, recover abandoned carts, and run email and text campaigns.

• E-Commerce
• Marketing
• Conversion

August 13, 2026 · 4 min read

Ghost Review: A Publishing Platform for People Who Want to Own the Publication

Ghost makes sense if your goal is to build a real publication, newsletter, or membership business instead of simply posting content somewhere.

• Publishing
• Newsletter
• Memberships

August 12, 2026 · 4 min read

Wispr Flow Review: The Fastest Way to Get Thoughts Out of Your Head

We ran Wispr Flow for thirty days across email, docs and Slack. Here is what actually changed about our output.

August 12, 2026 · 7 min read

Copper Review: A CRM That Makes Sense If Your Company Lives in Google

Copper stands out because it fits naturally with Google Workspace.

• CRM
• Sales
• Business

August 11, 2026 · 4 min read

Cap Review: Sometimes Showing Someone Is Faster Than Explaining It

Cap is a straightforward screen recording tool.

• Video
• Async
• Open Source

August 10, 2026 · 4 min read

Hedra Review: Artificial Video Is Becoming Genuinely Useful

Hedra creates generated characters and talking video.

• AI
• Video
• Marketing

August 9, 2026 · 4 min read

Interact Review: Quizzes Can Be Excellent Lead Generators When They Are Not Stupid

Interact lets businesses create online quizzes designed to collect leads and segment visitors.

• Marketing
• Lead Gen
• Quizzes

August 8, 2026 · 4 min read

Vercel Review: Fantastic for Developers, Mostly Invisible to Everyone Else

Vercel provides infrastructure for modern web applications and is closely associated with Next.js.

• Engineering
• Hosting
• Web

August 7, 2026 · 4 min read

Flow Review: Project Management for Teams That Hate Project Management

Flow is aimed particularly at creative teams and agencies.

• Productivity
• Teams
• Project Management

August 6, 2026 · 4 min read

Twilio Review: You Probably Use Twilio Without Knowing It

Twilio is the kind of company consumers often interact with without ever seeing the name.

• Engineering
• Communication
• APIs

August 5, 2026 · 4 min read

Flora Review: A Productivity App That Is Really About Leaving Your Phone Alone

Flora is built around focus sessions and reducing distraction.

• Focus
• Health
• Productivity

August 4, 2026 · 4 min read

Superpower Review: Health Tracking for People Who Want More Data

Superpower is aimed at people who want to understand their health through biomarkers and other data rather than relying only on how they feel.

• Health
• Biomarkers
• Performance

August 3, 2026 · 4 min read

Rythm Health Review: Recovery Matters More Than Hustle Culture Admits

Rythm Health focuses on recovery and sleep.

• Health
• Recovery
• Sleep

August 2, 2026 · 4 min read

Pliability Review: Useful If Your Back Feels Older Than You Are

People who spend most of the day sitting at a computer eventually discover body parts they did not know could get stiff.

• Health
• Mobility
• Desk Work

August 1, 2026 · 4 min read

Huberman Lab Workspace Review: Useful If You Want to Apply the Ideas

The problem with health and performance content is that people can spend hours learning how to become more productive and accomplish absolutely nothing that day.

• Health
• Protocols
• Focus

July 31, 2026 · 4 min read

Viktor Review: For the Company Where One Important Tool Is Still a Python Script

Every company eventually develops some strange internal process that depends on one employee and one mysterious script or spreadsheet.

• Engineering
• Internal Tools
• Automation

July 30, 2026 · 4 min read

Anara Review: Because Eventually Shared Folders Stop Cutting It

Anara is described as a platform for organizing visual assets and creative workflows.

• Creative
• Asset Management
• Teams

July 29, 2026 · 4 min read

Anything Review: Building Software by Describing What You Want

Anything belongs to a new generation of tools where you describe the software you want and the system starts building it.

• AI
• App Building
• No-Code

July 28, 2026 · 4 min read

The 2026 Solo Founder Stack: Nine Tools, One Person, Real Leverage

A complete operating stack for a one-person company — what to buy, what to skip, and what each tool actually returns.

July 28, 2026 · 9 min read

Tonies Review: An Interesting Alternative to Giving a Child Another Screen

Tonies uses physical characters and audio entertainment for children.

• Parenting
• Screen-Free
• Family

July 27, 2026 · 4 min read

Viator Review: Useful When You Want to Travel Without Planning Every Minute Yourself

Viator is a marketplace for tours, attractions, excursions, and other things to do once you arrive somewhere.

• Travel
• Experiences
• Family

July 26, 2026 · 4 min read

Collrs Review: Useful Design Help, but It Cannot Give Your Brand a Personality

Collrs helps designers create and organize color palettes.

• Design
• Branding
• Color

July 25, 2026 · 4 min read

JBBR Pro Review: Hiring Software Can Help, but Hiring Is Still Human

JBBR Pro is described as a recruiting and candidate management platform.

• Hiring
• Recruiting
• Business

July 24, 2026 · 4 min read

Raycast Review: The Kind of Tool Power Users Become Evangelical About

Raycast is essentially a command center for a Mac.

• Productivity
• Mac
• Workflow

July 23, 2026 · 4 min read

Make.com Review: Powerful Automation Without Writing Everything From Scratch

Make.com lets you visually connect applications and create workflows.

• Automation
• Operations
• No-Code

July 22, 2026 · 4 min read

Zapier Review: The Tool That Shows You How Much Time You Waste Moving Information Around

Zapier connects different business applications so one event can automatically trigger another.

• Automation
• Operations
• No-Code

July 21, 2026 · 4 min read

Supabase Review: A Shortcut for Building the Boring but Essential Parts of an App

When people imagine building an application, they picture the visible part.

• Engineering
• Database
• Auth

July 20, 2026 · 4 min read

WordPress Review: Old, Messy, Flexible, and Still Very Much Alive

Every few years somebody announces that WordPress is finished.

• Publishing
• SEO
• CMS

July 19, 2026 · 4 min read

HubSpot Review: Powerful, but Do You Actually Need All of It?

HubSpot can handle marketing, customer relationships, sales, service, automation, reporting, and a great deal more.

• CRM
• Marketing
• Sales

July 18, 2026 · 4 min read

Shopify Review: There Is a Reason So Many Online Stores Use It

Shopify lets businesses sell products online without building an entire commerce system themselves.

• E-Commerce
• Retail
• Business

July 17, 2026 · 4 min read

Slack Review: Great Until Your Company Creates Ninety Three Channels

Slack was supposed to reduce email.

• Communication
• Teams
• Business

July 16, 2026 · 4 min read

Better Auth Review: Login Systems Are One Place I Would Rather Not Get Creative

Better Auth provides authentication infrastructure for web applications.

• Engineering
• Auth
• Security

July 15, 2026 · 4 min read

Google Tag Manager Review: Incredibly Useful and Incredibly Easy to Mess Up

Google Tag Manager lets marketing teams manage website tracking without requiring a developer to change the site every single time another tag or event is needed.

• Marketing
• Analytics
• Tracking

July 14, 2026 · 4 min read

Stripe Review: A Product You Appreciate More When You Think About What It Replaces

Stripe lets businesses accept payments and manage billing without building their own payment infrastructure.

• Payments
• Finance
• Business

July 13, 2026 · 4 min read

Acme Enterprise Platform Review: I Would Verify This One Before Publishing

This is the one entry on the list where I would not pretend to know more than we know.

• Business
• Enterprise
• Software

July 12, 2026 · 4 min read

Rekomi Review: Affiliate Programs Get Complicated Faster Than You Think

Running an affiliate program sounds easy when you have four partners.

• Affiliate
• Growth
• Operations

July 11, 2026 · 4 min read

Dub Marketplace Review: Useful, but Do Not Become the Site That Recommends Everything

Dub Marketplace gives creators, publishers, and agencies one place to find and manage partner programs.

• Affiliate
• Creators
• Growth

July 10, 2026 · 4 min read

Recovery Is a Business Metric

Sleep and recovery scores predict decision quality better than any dashboard in your company. Here is how to track them.

July 5, 2026 · 6 min read