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Consistent AI Character Design Tool, Email Leads From Tiktok, and Plagiarism and Citations Checker Tool
Chris Bulen & Daniel Ebohon
May 26, 2026
Hi everyone đź‘‹
It’s Chris & Daniel, from Startups.fyi.
We all took Monday off for Memorial Day. To those of you in the service, we thank you.
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Startups FYI Spotlight
⚙️ Form Backend for Static Sites
This easy-to-use tool plugs into any static site or framework and handles submissions, email delivery, and spam protection without you touching a server. (Pre-revenue)
📡 Track when AI recommends your brand
People aren't Googling as much anymore. They're asking ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude. This tool tells you when those AI tools recommend your brand, and helps you build a Reddit presence in the meantime, since AI reads Reddit too. Two problems, one tool. (Currently generating $100/month)
Customer.io is the customer engagement platform for tech-savvy marketers.
Trigger email, push, in-app, SMS, webhooks, and more, all powered by real-time product and behavioral data. Build sophisticated journeys with branching logic, run experiments quickly, and iterate without constant engineering lift.
Thousands of founders rely on Customer.io for onboarding, activation, and lifecycle messaging. Join the Customer.io Startup Program and get up to 12 months free.
🧬 AI-powered Character Generation
Here is a VC funded tool, it is a free online tool that generates AI characters with the same facial features across different scenes, poses, and styles. (Generating $300 MRR for the founding team)
đź“Š Business Valuation Software
This tool is a business valuation software that combines AI, global public comps, M&A deal data, and DCF tools in one place. Built out of frustration with scattered, expensive tooling. Solo founder from Eindhoven. (Generating $1000 MRR)
📨 Verified Email Leads From Tiktok
Extract verified email addresses from TikTok profiles at scale. Niche buyers, creators, and Gen Z leads - turned into clean email lists for outreach. (Generating $3,000 MRR for a solo founder from California)
🔍 Plagiarism detection and citation tool
Plagiarism detection and citation tool built for students, educators, and content creators who care about originality. Been around since 2018, VC-backed, and still growing. (Generating $3,000 - $10,000 MRR)
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🤖 The $794K Bot Built in a Garage With Barely Any Code
A Brazilian programmer built a Polymarket trading bot using Claude Opus — 40,000+ trades, $10/month in costs, and barely a line of code written by hand. The secret? A self-improving system that reviews its own trades every night and adjusts its strategy automatically.
đź’» Microsoft's Blueprint for Real AI Agents
Microsoft’s senior AI developer just revealed how production-grade AI agents are actually built using Claude inside Microsoft.
In a 34-minute walkthrough, the team shows how Opus 4.7 connects with 1,400+ MCP tools, how Claude is plugged into agents, and how those agents are given real tools to move from prototype to production systems.
🚀 From Simple Content to $40K/Month Claude System
A 20-year-old demonstrates how Claude API can transform low-view content into a high-income client workflow by automating the entire production chain — research, structuring, drafting, and editing — into a single system that outputs client-ready work in minutes instead of hours.
What used to be manual freelance work becomes a repeatable pipeline that scales output and revenue without extra effort per project.
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