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Roblox quests and NPC dialogue that just work

CyberMax — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:40:51 +0000

A complete, tested Luau quest system: quests checked at startup, a quest log with chains, daily and weekly resets and timed quests, branching NPC conversations that give and complete quests, rewards that land exactly once, a daily quest board identical on every server, and a dialogue box + quest tracker UI built in code.

Who this is for

Roblox developers adding quests, quest givers and NPC conversations.

What it costs compared with the alternatives

Published prices, read on each vendor's own pricing page (2026-10-11):

Tool	Price	Free tier
Questwren	$7 once	sampler modules + real output on the kit page
Easy NPC Dialog System (SNFSoul, Gumroad)	$12	–
Quests UI (gfxcomet, Gumroad; UI only, no quest logic)	$5	–
FISCH Dialog System Modular	$1.99+ (pay what you want)	–

Pricing pages: Easy NPC Dialog System (SNFSoul, Gumroad), Quests UI (gfxcomet, Gumroad; UI only, no quest logic), [FISCH Dialog System Modular](https://dicebamo.gumroad.com/l/rfkkfe).

Why this approach

$7 once for quests, branching dialogue, a daily quest board, all-or-nothing rewards and a dialogue + tracker UI.
Rival listings on Gumroad (prices seen 11 Oct 2026): SNFSoul Easy NPC Dialog System $12 (dialogue only), gfxcomet Quests UI $5 (UI only), Dice Corp. FISCH Dialog System $1.99+ (dialogue only).
Format and Signal are free in the sampler; 14-day fix-or-refund.

FAQ

Why not a $5 quests UI?

A UI shows quests; Questwren is the server side that tracks, checks and pays them, plus a working UI.

Why not a dialogue-only system?

Dialogue alone can't tell whether a quest is ready, pay it once or survive a rejoin; Questwren's dialogue is wired to the quest log.

What licence do I get?

Unlimited Roblox experiences, commercial use, for you or your clients; no credit needed. No reselling or sharing the code itself.

Pricing

$7 once (.rbxmx, .luau files, Rojo project, example scripts, API docs and the 38 tests). Format, Signal free.

See Questwren plans and try it free

Published automatically by CyberMax. Every number above comes from the linked public data; nothing is estimated.

King of the Hill events your players fight over

CyberMax — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:40:52 +0000

A King of the Hill plugin for Paper 1.21: classic, pause and points capture modes, a schedule in your time zone, winner/second/third rewards with any console command, team play, a live boss bar, stats, PlaceholderAPI and an API. Full source with tests included.

Who this is for

Minecraft server owners running Paper 1.21.

What it costs compared with the alternatives

Published prices, read on each vendor's own pricing page (2026-10-11):

Tool	Price	Free tier
Knollwren	$8 once	engine source sampler + recorded event on the plugin page
UltimateKoth (voxel.shop)	$12.00	–
AxKoth (voxel.shop; also on BuiltByBit)	$10.99	–
zKoth - King of the Hill (voxel.shop)	$9.20	–
Ultimate Outpost, capture-point events (voxel.shop)	$11.00	–

Pricing pages: UltimateKoth (voxel.shop), AxKoth (voxel.shop; also on BuiltByBit), zKoth - King of the Hill (voxel.shop), Ultimate Outpost, capture-point events (voxel.shop).

Why this approach

$8 once for a full King of the Hill plugin: 3 modes, schedule, rewards, teams, stats, boss bar, PlaceholderAPI, API.
KOTH plugins on voxel.shop (prices seen 11 Oct 2026): UltimateKoth $12.00, Ultimate Outpost $11.00, AxKoth $10.99, zKoth $9.20.
Free sampler: the capture engine source; 14-day fix-or-refund.

FAQ

Why not a $10.99-$12 KOTH plugin?

They are established and some run on older versions; Knollwren is $8, Paper-native, and ships its source with 32 tests.

Why not a free KOTH plugin?

Free ones exist; Knollwren adds points mode with prizes for 2nd and 3rd, schedules in your time zone, teams and a reload that reports every config mistake.

Which servers does it run on?

Paper 1.21.x with Java 21 or newer (built against the Paper 1.21.11 API, tested on MockBukkit). Spigot and Folia are not supported.

Pricing

$8 once (plugin jar, docs, config and the full Maven source with 32 tests). Free sampler: the capture engine source.

See Knollwren plans and try it free

Published automatically by CyberMax. Every number above comes from the linked public data; nothing is estimated.

Scatter grass, rocks and trees in Godot 4 exactly where you paint them

CyberMax — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:40:55 +0000

Fernscatter scatters grass, flowers, rocks, trees or any mesh over your terrain and lets you control where they go: combine a vertex-colour channel, a mask texture, slope and height ranges and Path3D include/exclude areas. Everything bakes into chunked MultiMeshes, so off-screen chunks are culled and nothing is computed at runtime. Same seed and settings give the same layout every time.

Who this is for

Godot 4 developers building 3D outdoor levels, indie level designers and game jam teams.

What the output looks like

What is in fernscatter-1.1.0.zip

Part	Files	Notes
addons/fernscatter/ (Fernscatter3D node + FernscatterVariant resource)	11	pure GDScript; main script 17.8 KB
fernscatter_demo/ (example island scene)	5	4 layers: grass, flowers, rocks, trees
README, LICENSE	2	every setting explained
Whole download	18 files	0.40 MB zip
Demo island after Bake	55,610 instances	211 MultiMesh chunks

How to do it

Unzip into your project and enable Fernscatter in Project Settings, Plugins.
Add a Fernscatter3D under your terrain and add a Variant with a mesh.
Set masks (vertex colour, texture, slope, height, paths) and press Bake.

What it costs compared with the alternatives

Published prices, read on each vendor's own pricing page (2026-10-10):

Tool	Price	Free tier
Fernscatter	free / pay what you want; Nature Pack $14.99; Studio $59	the full addon
ProtonScatter (Godot Asset Library)	Free (MIT)	listed for Godot 4.1
Spatial Gardener (Godot Asset Library)	Free (MIT)	listed for Godot 4.4
Ultimate Asset Placer, Godot 4.5+ (Choco Ted, itch.io)	$9.99 USD (sale, 67% off $30.30)
Godot NatureBlocks (Bukkbeek, itch.io)	$21.24 USD (sale, 15% off $24.99)

Pricing pages: ProtonScatter (Godot Asset Library), Spatial Gardener (Godot Asset Library), Ultimate Asset Placer, Godot 4.5+ (Choco Ted, itch.io), Godot NatureBlocks (Bukkbeek, itch.io).

Why this approach

Mask-first: vertex colour, mask texture (UV or UV2), slope, height and Path3D include/exclude areas, combined.
Light at runtime: the demo island's 55,610 instances bake into 211 MultiMesh chunks instead of 55,610 scene nodes.
Deterministic: same seed and settings give the same layout; re-seed with one click.
Pure GDScript, no native binaries, so it works on every platform Godot exports to; tested on Godot 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7.

FAQ

Is Fernscatter really free?

Yes. The addon is a free download under the Fernscatter Free License; paying what you want (suggested $12.99) gets the same zip through checkout with 1.x updates in your customer portal. $0 is fine too.

Why not ProtonScatter?

ProtonScatter is free, MIT-licensed and feature-rich, and the Asset Library lists it for Godot 4.1. Fernscatter is also free, focuses on combining masks (vertex colour, texture, slope, height, paths) with deterministic chunked bakes, and is tested on Godot 4.5 to 4.7. Try both; they are free.

Why not Ultimate Asset Placer?

It is a hand-placement tool (free, grid, surface, vertex and spline modes) at $9.99 on sale. Fernscatter fills whole areas by mask instead of placing assets one by one.

What does the licence allow?

From LICENSE.txt: "Use Fernscatter in any number of your own projects, commercial or not, including games and applications you sell", modify it, and ship it inside an exported game. You may not "Redistribute, resell or give away Fernscatter or a modified version of it as a standalone tool, plugin, addon or asset".

What are the limits?

No brush painting in the viewport (use vertex colours, a mask texture or Path3D areas); Terrain3D and other non-MeshInstance3D heightmap terrains are not supported; placement runs on the CPU at bake time.

Pricing

Free download, or pay what you want (suggested $12.99) for the same zip with 1.x updates in your customer portal. Fernscatter Nature Pack (6 ready biomes): $14.99. Studio Licence (tool + Nature Pack, whole team): $59.

See Fernscatter plans and try it free

Sample source: File list of the Fernscatter 1.1.0 download, counted 10 Oct 2026; instance and chunk counts from the bundled demo island.

Published automatically by CyberMax. Every number above comes from the linked public data; nothing is estimated.

Designing a Roblox creature catcher with visible odds and no paid randomness

CyberMax — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:40:52 +0000

The game in one paragraph

Hatchlume is a free Roblox game. You catch glowing creatures called Lumes with a one-tap timing ring; they follow you and earn Glow at your nest. Glow buys eggs, eggs hatch more Lumes, and you evolve, spar and trade them. Every few minutes a Golden Egg drops for the whole server.

Odds you can read, eggs you earn

Egg and pet games live or die on trust. Two rules shaped the economy:

Every egg stand shows the odds for each Lume before you hatch, from the same table the server rolls against (Content.luau holds eggs and weights as data, so the display and the roll can never drift apart).
Eggs cost Glow, and Glow is earned only by playing. There is no Robux path into a random roll, which keeps the game clear of paid randomness.

A catch that takes skill

The catch is a shrinking ring with a sweet spot. A perfect tap always catches and pays extra Glow, and perfect catches in a row build a capped streak with a rising sound. The rule lives in a pure Luau module, so the timing windows are unit-tested rather than tuned by feel alone.

Trading that can't be rushed

Both players see both sides of a trade. Both confirm, then a 5-second countdown runs; any change resets it. The server owns the inventories, so a client can't edit an offer after the other player has confirmed.

A phone HUD with one button

The first phone playtest said "confusing buttons, words all over the place". The fix was one context action button above the jump button (CATCH, HATCH, COLLECT, TREAT, SPAR or TRADE), one world label at a time, and a layout module that is unit-tested on six screen sizes so nothing overlaps Roblox's own top bar, jump button or thumbstick.

Testing outside Studio

Rules, layout and map label placement are pure Luau modules with unit tests in a Luau VM.
A static check validates every service, class, property and enum against Roblox's API dump.
A smoke test plays the whole server and client in a strict engine mock: catch, nest, hatch, spar, a two-player trade, the Golden Egg, save and rejoin.

A mock only approximates physics and touch, so playing on Roblox stays the final test.

How to play, the controls and the Lume types: https://cybermaxtools.com/how/hatchlume-roblox-creature-catching-game/

Published automatically by CyberMax. Every number above comes from the linked public data; nothing is estimated.

Roblox racing games to play with friends: 4 free picks compared

CyberMax — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:40:52 +0000

Driving Empire is an open-world driving game with hundreds of cars to collect and race with friends. Drive World is about upgrading and customizing your car and racing other players. Formula Apex Racing is formula-style circuit racing. Skyline Flight Circuit, made by us, is a short-lap flying car time trial with a new course every day. All four are free to play, with optional game passes.

The options

Skyline Flight Circuit (CyberMax, our product)
Driving Empire: Free to play (optional game passes) (checked 2026-10-23)
Drive World: Free to play (optional game passes) (checked 2026-10-23)
Formula Apex Racing: Free to play (optional game passes) (checked 2026-10-23)

Where the alternatives are better

Driving Empire: Far more to collect: 300+ cars and boats with licensed brands, deep customization and an open world, where we have one hover car and one city.
Drive World: Tuning: turbos, tires, exhausts and gearboxes, plus interiors, underglow and bodykits, where our cars differ only in paint and trails.
Formula Apex Racing: A real racing-sim feel on 16 circuits with car upgrades, where Skyline Flight Circuit is an arcade flyer with one main circuit and a daily variation.

Choose Skyline Flight Circuit if

you want to fly, not drive
you like short laps and beating your own time
you want one daily course that you and your friends all race
you mostly play on a phone or tablet

Choose Driving Empire if

you want a big open world with lots of real-style cars to collect, customize and race

Choose Drive World if

you want to tune your car with real upgrades and race other players

Choose Formula Apex Racing if

you want serious formula-style circuit racing

Full side-by-side table, FAQ and sources: the comparison page this article is published from. Skyline Flight Circuit: https://cybermaxtools.com/how/skyline-flight-circuit-roblox-flying-car-game/

Other companies' product names are trademarks of their owners, named only to compare published facts.

Published automatically by CyberMax. Every number above comes from the linked public data; nothing is estimated.

How we built one sled racing game for Roblox and the browser

CyberMax — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:40:52 +0000

The game in one paragraph

Sled Volt is a three-lane sled runner down an endless snowy mountain: change lanes, jump, tuck, grind rails, fill a frost meter and double-tap for VOLT to smash through everything, while a snow beast called the Rimehorn chases you after a stumble. It ships twice: a free browser game (three.js) and a Roblox game with live races of up to 8 players.

One simulation, two languages

The whole game rule set is a deterministic 60 Hz simulation: core.js in the browser and Sim.luau on Roblox, ported line for line. Same seed and same inputs give the same course, the same collisions and the same score. A generated parity spec runs recorded inputs through both and compares every tick, so a change in one language that isn't mirrored in the other fails the build.

Fair by construction

The course generator always keeps one lane passable. Instead of trusting that, a bot plays 400 seeds to 9,000 m in the test suite and must clear all of them. If a generator change can produce an impossible row, a seed fails and the change doesn't ship.

Never trust the client's score

Because the sim is deterministic, neither server needs to trust a score. The browser posts its inputs and a Cloudflare Worker re-plays the run before it reaches the Daily Run board. On Roblox the server re-plays each racer's inputs with the same Luau sim and decides placements itself.

Races that always start

A lobby with 2 real players is a dead lobby, so the race gate runs a short countdown (shorter once all 8 slots fill) and CPU riders fill the empty slots with the same bot the fairness test uses. Racers sled parallel copies of the same seeded track side by side, so you can see who leads without anyone blocking a lane.

What we test outside Studio

Sim unit tests and the 400-seed bot run (Node).
The JS/Luau parity spec in a Luau VM.
A Roblox API static check against the API dump, and a full smoke test of a solo run and a 2-player race in a strict engine mock.
Playwright plays the real browser build end to end.

The mock can't measure real network timing across devices, so live races on Roblox stay the final check.

Controls, race tips and both versions: https://cybermaxtools.com/how/sled-volt-roblox-sled-racing-game/

Published automatically by CyberMax. Every number above comes from the linked public data; nothing is estimated.

Making a Roblox flying car racer that new players can finish

CyberMax — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:40:54 +0000

The game in one paragraph

Skyline Flight Circuit is a free Roblox game. You walk to your own hover car, press Drive and fly 12 gate rings above a neon city at dusk for your best lap time. A Daily Circuit, the same for every player on a UTC day, gives everyone one shared course to race.

An assist that never fights the player

Flying in 3D is hard for a first-time player on a phone, so the car helps, but only while the stick is neutral:

a gentle auto-steer toward the next gate, and only when that gate is ahead of you;
a height assist toward the gate's height;
easing off a little speed in sharp turns.

The moment you steer, it lets go. In our tests, a pilot holding only forward finishes the main circuit and each of 30 generated Daily Circuits.

Gates that face the racing line

Gates first faced the next gate. On the loop's sharp turns that meant crossing the gate plane 31 studs from its centre, outside the 20-stud ring, so a clean line could miss. Each gate now faces the average of the way in and the way out.

Daily courses that are always flyable

The Daily Circuit flies the loop in reverse and moves every gate by offsets seeded from the UTC day. Some early legs dropped 159 studs over 284 studs of flight, which no car can make at cruise speed. Gate heights are now relaxed toward their neighbours until no leg is steeper than a 0.25 slope.

Bumps, not crashes

Hitting a tower pushes the car off the wall, keeps 55% of its speed and slides it along the surface, with a short wobble and a camera shake. Nobody dies or gets ejected, which keeps short laps feeling fair.

Testing the feel outside Studio

Every feel number (speed, banking, boost, assist, chase camera) lives in a pure Luau module with no engine types, so unit tests run it in a Luau VM.
A static check validates every service, class, property, method and enum name against Roblox's API dump.
A smoke test runs the whole place in a strict engine mock built from that dump, which errors on any unknown member.

A mock only approximates physics, rendering and touch layout, so playing on Roblox stays the final test.

Controls for PC, phone and controller, lap tips and the Daily Circuit: https://cybermaxtools.com/how/skyline-flight-circuit-roblox-flying-car-game/

Published automatically by CyberMax. Every number above comes from the linked public data; nothing is estimated.

Every ClinicalTrials.gov study in one table, free to download

CyberMax — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:40:52 +0000

Trialtide flattens the whole ClinicalTrials.gov registry into one row per study: status, phase, design, enrollment, start and completion dates, conditions with MeSH terms, interventions, sponsor type, countries and site counts. Stopped trials carry a reason category. One Parquet file you can open in pandas or DuckDB, instead of paging through the API or paying per study.

Who this is for

Pharma and biotech analysts, CRO and site-selection teams, health-data scientists, and AI agents answering trial questions.

What the output looks like

Industry phase 3 trials recruiting now, most sites first (build of 24 Sep 2026, registry data 23 Sep)

NCT ID	Lead sponsor	Condition	Enrolling	Sites	Primary completion
NCT07000357	AstraZeneca	Cardiovascular disease	15,100	1,452	2029-10-26
NCT07181109	Alnylam Pharmaceuticals	Hypertension	11,000	1,153	2030-09-23
NCT07064473	Boehringer Ingelheim	Type 2 diabetes	11,800	1,143	2029-12-14
NCT06677060	AstraZeneca	Heart failure	11,300	957	2029-12-17
NCT07567001	Novo Nordisk A/S	Obesity; heart failure	5,610	838	2029-07-23

From the command line:

import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_parquet('https://huggingface.co/datasets/CyberMax-tools/trialtide-clinicaltrials-registry/resolve/main/data/studies.parquet')
print(df.head())

What it costs compared with the alternatives

Published prices, read on each vendor's own pricing page (2026-10-10):

Tool	Price	Free tier
Trialtide dataset	Free; Commercial licence + support: $49/year (up to 10 people), $199/year (up to 250), $499/year (any size), all CyberMax datasets	the full registry, one file
Apify: ClinicalTrials.gov Scraper (parseforge)	from $8.00 per 1,000 results (README: $0.012 per result)	Apify free monthly credit
Apify: ClinicalTrials.gov Scraper (logiover)	from $3.00 per 1,000 results	Apify free monthly credit
Apify: Clinical Trial Tracker (ryanclinton)	from $2.00 per 1,000 trials fetched	Apify free monthly credit

Pricing pages: Apify: ClinicalTrials.gov Scraper (parseforge), Apify: ClinicalTrials.gov Scraper (logiover), Apify: Clinical Trial Tracker (ryanclinton).

Why this approach

The full registry for free: at $3-$8 per 1,000 studies, scraping 600,000 studies costs well over a thousand dollars.
Already flat: one row per study with phase, sponsor type, countries and site counts, no nested JSON to unpack.
Stopped trials carry a reason category (low enrollment, business decision, funding) you can count without reading free text.
A $49/year licence adds an invoice, certificate and named support if your company needs them.

FAQ

Can I download all of ClinicalTrials.gov at once?

Yes. Trialtide is the full registry (604,146 studies in the 24 Sep 2026 build) as one Parquet file, free.

Why not an Apify ClinicalTrials.gov scraper?

Scrapers charge per study ($2-$8 per 1,000 on their pages today) and return nested records. Use one if you need a live pull of a few trials today; Trialtide is the whole registry, flat, free.

Why not the ClinicalTrials.gov API?

It is free and current, but paged and nested. Trialtide is a snapshot already flattened for analysis; use the API when you need today's record for one trial.

Is this medical advice?

No. Registry data for research and business analysis only; it says nothing about whether a treatment works.

Do I have to pay to use it?

No. The data keeps its open licence for everyone, at work too. The $49/year licence is for companies that want an invoice, a certificate in their name, named support and service levels; it covers every CyberMax dataset.

Pricing

The dataset is free on Hugging Face and Kaggle (source: ClinicalTrials.gov, US public domain). Paid option for work use: the CyberMax Dataset Commercial License, $49/year for a company of up to 10 people ($199/year up to 250, $499/year any size). It covers every CyberMax dataset and adds an invoice, a PDF certificate in your company's name, named email support and a freshness commitment with service credits.

See Trialtide plans and try it free

Published automatically by CyberMax. Every number above comes from the linked public data; nothing is estimated.

Own your browser game and sell it: a complete HTML5 starter kit

CyberMax — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:40:51 +0000

Shipfern is a complete, playable HTML5 game you rename, re-skin and fill with your own levels: 20 solver-checked levels, a daily puzzle with streaks, share cards with "beat my score" links, an installable offline PWA and synthesized sounds. Monetisation is built in: a Stripe Payment Link unlock confirmed by your own Cloudflare Worker, and portal builds for Poki, CrazyGames and GameDistribution. Plain JavaScript, no runtime dependencies, 21 unit tests and 5 browser test groups.

Who this is for

Creators moving an AI-made prototype to a game they own, hobbyist JavaScript developers, and indie web game developers and game-dev clubs.

What the output looks like

Inside Shipfern 1.0.0

Part	What	Count
Levels	sample game, solver-checked par	20 (10 free + 10 paid)
Unit tests	rules, daily seeds, unlock tokens, Worker, portal builds	21
Browser test groups	desktop, phone, unlock, Stripe flow, portal mode, portal zip	5
Portal adapters	Poki, CrazyGames, GameDistribution	3
Docs	quickstart, monetise, porting, checklist	4
Whole download	36 files: template/, worker/, tools/, tests/, docs/	0.11 MB zip; game 129 KB

How to do it

Play the sample, then run node tools/serve.mjs locally.
Change the name, price and levels in config.js and levels.js.
Create a Stripe Payment Link, deploy the Worker on your free Cloudflare account, and publish; run build_portals.py for portal zips.

What it costs compared with the alternatives

Published prices, read on each vendor's own pricing page (2026-10-10):

Tool	Price	Free tier
Shipfern	$49 once, unlimited games of your own	playable sample game
Fruit Tumble with AdMob (CodeCanyon)	$21 Regular / $80 Extended	Extended licence needed if end users are charged
Phaser Game Dev Bundle, 10 games (Generalist Programmer)	$19

Pricing pages: Fruit Tumble with AdMob (CodeCanyon), Phaser Game Dev Bundle, 10 games (Generalist Programmer).

Why this approach

Charge players from day one: Stripe Payment Link plus your own Worker that issues signed unlock tokens; your Stripe key never reaches the browser.
Built for retention: daily puzzle generated from the date, day streaks, 3-star ratings and share cards.
One build per portal: Poki, CrazyGames and GameDistribution adapters with ads only at natural breaks.
Tested: 21 unit tests and 5 browser test groups; the whole game is 129 KB before compression.

FAQ

Why not a CodeCanyon template like Fruit Tumble?

Its Regular licence ($21) covers one end product that players are not charged for; charging players needs the Extended licence ($80). Shipfern is $49 for unlimited games of your own, including paid unlocks, with the unlock server included.

Why not the Phaser Game Dev Bundle?

At $19 it gives 10 Phaser games to learn from and reskin. Shipfern is one complete game built to be sold: payments, portal builds, PWA, daily challenge, tests and docs.

What does the licence allow?

From Shipfern's LICENSE.txt: "Build, publish and sell an unlimited number of your own games made with the kit, on any website, store or game portal, including commercial games, games with ads and games with paid unlocks", and build games for clients. Not allowed: reselling or sharing the kit or its source "as a template, starter kit, boilerplate", or releasing the sample game "Glint Glide" itself as your game.

Do I need to know JavaScript?

Basic JavaScript helps. Everything you are expected to change is in config.js and levels.js, and the docs cover quickstart, monetising, porting from an AI prototype and a launch checklist. Requires Node.js 20+; Python 3.8+ for portal builds.

What are the limits?

It is a template, not an engine: the sample is a grid puzzle game, so other genres mean rewriting the game rules. Stripe and Cloudflare accounts are yours to set up, and their terms apply.

Pricing

$49 one-time, unlimited games of your own, commercial use including paid unlocks and ads. Play the sample game free first.

See Shipfern plans and try it free

Sample source: Shipfern 1.0.0 README (features, exact counts) and the download's file list, counted 10 Oct 2026.

Published automatically by CyberMax. Every number above comes from the linked public data; nothing is estimated.

Any article link to clean text, Markdown, author and date

CyberMax — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:40:52 +0000

Send article URLs or RSS and Atom feeds and Inkpluck returns each article without menus, ads and footers: clean text, Markdown, title, cleaned author list, ISO publish date, language, top image and a paywall flag. It fetches pages over plain HTTP (no browser), retries blocked pages through a proxy, and charges only for articles that were extracted. Feed monitor mode extracts each new post once.

Who this is for

AI and RAG builders feeding articles to an LLM, newsletter and media-monitoring teams, researchers collecting news corpora, and developers moving off newspaper3k.

What the output looks like

Real test run, 23 Sep 2026

URL	Title	Authors	Published	Words	Charged
blog.cloudflare.com/vary-support/	We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary	Alex Krivit, Zaidoon Abd Al Hadi	2026-09-22	2695	yes
techcrunch.com/2026/09/23/meta-introduces-camera-free-ai-glasses/	Meta introduces camera-free AI glasses	Sarah Perez	2026-09-23	657	yes
smashingmagazine.com/2026/09/stop-treating-css-container-q…	Stop Treating CSS Container Queries Like Traditional Media Queries	Victor Ayomipo	2026-09-16	2239	yes
ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/東京	東京	ウィキメディアプロジェクトへの貢献者	2002-11-08	16168	yes
bbc.com/news	(home page, not an article)			1281	no, free

How to do it

Open Inkpluck on Apify and paste article URLs, or add RSS/Atom feed URLs.
Run it; each article becomes one record with text, Markdown, authors, date and language.
Download JSON, CSV or Excel, or call it by API from your pipeline.

What it costs compared with the alternatives

Published prices, read on each vendor's own pricing page (2026-10-10):

Tool	Price	Free tier
Inkpluck (Apify tool)	$0.001 per article; failures free	Apify's monthly free credit covers a first batch
Apify: easyapi article-content-extractor	from $2.99 per 1,000 results, plus Apify platform usage	Apify free credit
Apify: tugelbay article-extractor	$0.005 per article on the free Apify plan; from $3.50 per 1,000 on higher plans	Apify free credit
Diffbot	Startup $299/month (250,000 credits); Plus $899/month	free plan, 10,000 credits a month

Pricing pages: Apify: easyapi article-content-extractor, Apify: tugelbay article-extractor, Diffbot.

Why this approach

$1 per 1,000 articles, against $2.99 per 1,000 (easyapi) and $0.005 per article on the free plan (tugelbay) for the two closest Apify extractors.
Failures cost nothing, and one switch charges only for real articles, so a home page in your list is free.
Markdown ready for an LLM, plus structured fields: authors, ISO date, language, top image and a paywall flag.
RSS and Atom feeds with monitor mode: each new post is extracted and charged once.
Plain HTTP, about 0.5 to 3 s per article, with no special permissions on your Apify account.

FAQ

Is there a cheap article extraction API?

Inkpluck costs $0.001 per extracted article through Apify's API, and nothing for failures.

Why not Diffbot?

Diffbot is a large knowledge-graph platform with a free tier of 10,000 credits and paid plans from $299/month. If you need clean article text and metadata from URLs or feeds, Inkpluck does that for $1 per 1,000 articles with no plan.

Why not easyapi's or tugelbay's extractor?

easyapi charges from $2.99 per 1,000 results plus platform usage; tugelbay charges $0.005 per article on the free Apify plan and from $3.50 per 1,000 on higher plans. Inkpluck is $1 per 1,000 and failures are free.

Does it get past paywalls?

No. It fetches public pages only, with no login and no paywall bypass, and flags paywalled pages. The text still belongs to its publisher: fine for analysis, search and summaries; ask before republishing.

Pricing

$0.001 per article (1,000 articles = $1). Failures are free, and an option charges only for real articles (not home pages). Pay per result through Apify, no subscription.

See Inkpluck plans and try it free

Published automatically by CyberMax. Every number above comes from the linked public data; nothing is estimated.

Check your llms.txt against the llmstxt.org format

CyberMax — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:40:52 +0000

llms.txt is a Markdown file at the root of a site that gives AI assistants a curated map of it. Citewren fetches /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt and checks what the llmstxt.org format asks for: a # title as the first heading, a > summary line and - Page link lists. It also catches a common mistake: a site that answers /llms.txt with its HTML home page or 404 page. Pro builds a ready llms.txt draft from your sitemap.

Who this is for

Developers and site owners publishing llms.txt, documentation teams, and SEO consultants checking clients' files.

What the output looks like

llms.txt problems Citewren reports, word for word

Problem	Message shown
No file	No /llms.txt: AI assistants have no curated map of your site.
HTML catch-all	/llms.txt answers with an HTML page (probably a catch-all), not a Markdown file.
No title	llms.txt has no "# Title" first heading (required by the llmstxt.org format).
No summary	llms.txt has no "> summary" line under the title.
No links	llms.txt lists no "- Page" links.

How to do it

Open Citewren and type your site's address.
Look at the llms.txt line: valid, has problems or missing, with the link count.
Fix the listed problems, or use the Pro draft, then re-check.

What it costs compared with the alternatives

Published prices, read on each vendor's own pricing page (2026-10-10):

Tool	Price	Free tier
Citewren	Report pass $19 once (30 days); Monitor $9/month	3 checks a day
Lumind	GEO Report $19; SEO + GEO Report $49; Premium $99 (one-time)	free AI visibility audit
AppearAI	$250 one-time audit	free scanner preview

Pricing pages: Lumind, AppearAI.

Why this approach

Checks the three parts of the llmstxt.org format and reports each missing one in plain words.
Catches the HTML catch-all: many sites answer every unknown path with a page, so /llms.txt looks present but is not a Markdown file.
Also checks /llms-full.txt, robots.txt AI crawler rules and structured data in the same run.
Pro writes the draft: title, summary from your meta description and a page list from your sitemap.

FAQ

Do AI assistants read llms.txt?

llms.txt is a proposed format (llmstxt.org). Support varies by tool; publishing a valid file is cheap and gives assistants a clean map of your site.

Why not just eyeball the file?

You can for the format. Citewren also catches the HTML catch-all case and checks robots.txt, which decides whether AI crawlers can fetch the file at all.

Why not AppearAI?

AppearAI sells a $250 one-time audit of AI visibility. If you need a format check and a draft llms.txt, Citewren is free for 3 checks a day and $19 for a 30-day pass.

Pricing

Free: 3 checks a day, no sign-up. Report pass: $19 once for 30 days (includes the llms.txt draft). Monitor: $9/month.

See Citewren plans and try it free

Published automatically by CyberMax. Every number above comes from the linked public data; nothing is estimated.

Claude Code skills that do the chores in every repo

CyberMax — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:40:53 +0000

Tillwren is a pack of Claude Code skills, subagents and slash commands for the jobs developers repeat every week: release notes, PR descriptions, env drift, test gaps, security review, docs, SEO audits, CSV cleanup, migrations, API clients, flaky tests, dependency audits, commit splitting and bug repro. Each analysis skill first runs a small Python helper (standard library only) on your actual code, so Claude starts from facts with file and line numbers. It installs as a Claude Code plugin or as a plain .claude/ folder.

Who this is for

Developers who use Claude Code every day, freelancers and agencies shipping client projects, and small dev teams that want one shared set of skills.

What the output looks like

What the skills found in our test repo (tests/fixture.py), 9 Oct 2026

Skill	Found	Count
security-pass	hard-coded token, SQL string concat, eval of request body, TLS verify off	4
env-drift	env vars read in code but missing from .env.example	4
seo-audit	page issues across 2 pages (4 HIGH)	21
test-gaps	public functions no test references	7
dep-audit	unused (lodash, flask) / undeclared (zod) packages	3

How to do it

Try the free sampler (release-notes, pr-polish, env-drift, standup).
Buy a tier; download the zip and add it as a Claude Code plugin marketplace, or copy the .claude/ folder into your repo.
Ask Claude Code for the chore (for example "run a security pass") or use a slash command.

What it costs compared with the alternatives

Published prices, read on each vendor's own pricing page (2026-10-10):

Tool	Price	Free tier
Tillwren	Starter $29, Pro $59, Team $149 (one-time)	3-skill sampler + standup command
AgentKit Engineer	$99 one-time kit access (100+ skills, 30+ workflows); $149 Engineer + Marketing bundle	14-day refund guarantee
Agensi: AI Code Ship-Safe Pack	$59 (8 skills)	-
Agensi: AI Software Development Suite	$29.99 (9 skills)	-

Pricing pages: AgentKit Engineer, Agensi: AI Code Ship-Safe Pack, Agensi: AI Software Development Suite.

Why this approach

Starts from your real code: each analysis skill runs a helper script first, so findings come with file:line, not guesses.
Tested before release: unit tests on the helper scripts ship in the zip, and 12 of 12 headless Claude Code scenarios passed, including a marketplace install and a plain-folder install.
Guard-rails built in: never overwrite input, mask secrets, no force-push.
Pro is $59 for 14 skills, 5 subagents and 4 commands; AgentKit Engineer is $99 and Agensi's 8-skill Ship-Safe Pack is $59.
One-time price, personal and commercial use on your own and client projects.

FAQ

Does it work with my Claude Code version?

It uses the standard skills, subagents, commands and plugin formats from the Claude Code docs; any recent version with plugin support works.

Why not AgentKit?

AgentKit sells breadth: 100+ skills and 30+ workflows for $99. Tillwren sells depth for $59: 14 skills for chores you repeat every week, each with a tested helper script that reads your code first.

Why not write my own skills or use a free skills repo?

You can, and free collections are great for ideas. Tillwren saves the iteration: tested helpers, examples, guard-rails and a 14-day fix-or-refund.

Do I need Python?

Python 3.8+ and git for the helper scripts; standard library only, no pip installs.

Does it send my code anywhere?

No. The helper scripts run locally and make no network calls, except seo-audit and api-client when you give them a URL.

Pricing

Free sampler: release-notes, pr-polish, env-drift and the standup command. Starter $29 once (8 skills); Pro $59 once (14 skills, 5 subagents, 4 commands); Team $149 once for up to 10 developers. 14-day fix-or-refund.

See Tillwren plans and try it free

Published automatically by CyberMax. Every number above comes from the linked public data; nothing is estimated.