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Nitin Sharma
Nitin Sharma

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Forget ChatGPT — These AI Tools Actually Help Developers Get Real Work Done

Let me be honest, most developers are obsessed with AI tools right now.

Every single day, a new AI app goes viral on X, LinkedIn, YouTube, or Product Hunt, and suddenly everyone starts acting like it’s the next thing that will “change everything”.

Even developers are constantly searching for the best AI website builders, best AI voice generators, best AI writing tools, best AI humanizer tools, best AI headshot generators, and pretty much every other AI tool category you can think of.

But what about the non-technical AI tools that actually solve tedious real-world problems in your daily workflow?

Most tools look cool for 5 minutes, generate some flashy output, and then you never open them again because they don’t actually solve a real problem in your daily work.

And that’s the biggest issue with the AI space right now.

So I generally try hundreds of AI tools every week and find the ones that actually solve problems.

And in this post, I’m sharing some of the new AI tools that genuinely solve problems, save time, and improve your workflows.

With that said, let’s get started.

1. Unabyss

If you’ve ever used multiple AI assistants (Claude, Cursor, Perplexity, ChatGPT, etc.) and felt like you’re constantly re-explaining the same context, what you’re building, where files live, your writing style, or what happened yesterday, then you’re not alone.

Even I’m stuck with ChatGPT since I’ve been using it for years, and it has tons of data about me. And if I want to shift to Claude, then I need to upload most of my data again and spend days training it to get the desired output.

That’s the exact problem Unabyss is trying to solve, and that’s one of the reasons it got ranked #1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt, since almost everyone is facing the same issue.

Source: Unabyss

But what does it do? It extracts your data from connected apps in under 90 seconds and structures it into clean files that any AI tool can access via MCP or one-click export.

And yes, you decide what you want to extract, and you have full control over what gets shared with each AI tool.

Source: Unabyss

To try it out, simply visit their website and click on the “Try now” button to create your account.

Source: Unabyss

After that, you just need to connect your sources so it can extract your data, integrate it with all the AI apps you use daily, and let you choose the access level.

With this simple process, you don’t need to start from scratch with every AI tool and get generic responses. Instead, it already has your data to give you the specific responses you want.

And you can even chat inside Unabyss using your trained data if you want to.

Source: Unabyss

Pricing: It’s free to try, and you get $20 in credits when you sign up. After that, it’s pay-as-you-go.

So if you are a founder, builder, marketer, writer, or anyone who uses AI, then you can use Unabyss as your self-updating context layer to train every AI tool you use.


2. Flow Music

You may have heard about Suno AI or Beatoven.ai that let you generate music and customize it the way you want.

Well now, even Google has launched its AI tool called Flow Music that lets you chat with the producer, create full-length songs, build interactive spaces, direct music videos, and more with their frontier music model Lyria 3, and then publish or share your creations.

Source: Flow Music

To try it out, simply visit their website and click on the “Login” button to create your free account.

And then you can add a prompt along with uploading your audio or image.

Source: Flow Music

There are some more features as well, like creating playlists, spaces, and music videos, and you can further prompt it to customize the output based on your mood, type, focus level, and so on.

I believe that it is still not perfect, but I also liked that the platform learns from your style over time, meaning the more you create, the more personalized the results become.

Talking about the pricing, you get 500 free credits when you create your account, along with daily top-up credits.

Source: Flow Music

And then, if you generate more, you can upgrade to one of their paid plans starting from $6 per month.


Just so you know:

Everything I’ve shared here is something I actually use.

If this post changed how you think about AI even a little, that didn’t happen in isolation. It came from a much bigger shift in how I use AI overall.

That’s why I put that entire system down inside “The (Unfair) AI Workflow Playbook” with everything you need.

It’s the exact set of workflows I use daily to run my work faster than feels normal, and if you apply even a few of them, you’ll save hundreds of hours.

You can spend months figuring this out on your own, or you can steal my entire playbook right now.


3. NanoClaw

Most of you may have heard about OpenClaw and even used it to automate tasks.

Well, NanoClaw is a secure, lightweight, open-source alternative to OpenClaw that can connect with messaging platforms like WhatsApp, Slack, Telegram, and more.

Source: NanoClaw

Here’s how NanoClaw compares its tool with OpenClaw:

Source: NanoClaw

In simple terms, NanoClaw mainly fixes two problems with OpenClaw:

  1. OpenClaw runs all AI agents in the same environment, so if one agent fails or gets compromised, it could affect the entire system. NanoClaw fixes this by running every AI agent inside its own isolated container, making it much safer, more secure, and easier to trust for real business use.

  2. NanoClaw is also much smaller and simpler, so developers can actually understand the code instead of blindly trusting a huge and complicated system.

To try out NanoClaw, simply run these 3 lines of code inside your terminal:

git clone https://github.com/nanocoai/nanoclaw.git nanoclaw-v2
cd nanoclaw-v2
bash nanoclaw.sh
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And then you can use it for tasks like:

  • Daily reports
  • Research workflows
  • Personal automation
  • WhatsApp-based AI assistants
  • Multi-agent workflows

So if you’re someone who loves experimenting with AI agents, automation, or self-hosted AI tools, NanoClaw is absolutely worth checking out.


4. Columns AI

Let me be honest, most people have data, but they have no clue how to actually understand it.

And that’s where I found Columns AI genuinely useful.

Instead of manually creating charts, dashboards, and reports that look boring and confusing, Columns AI lets you turn raw data into visual stories within minutes by connecting with data sources like Google Sheets, Notion, Airtable, and so on.

Source: Columns AI

To get started, simply visit their website and click on the button, “Create Your First Flow,” to create your account.

Source: Columns AI

And then you can create a new flow, select your data source, and turn your data into visuals that you can understand and share.

Source: Columns AI

Further, you can even build flows by describing what you need in plain English, schedule them to update automatically, and even upload your image or PDF to turn it into visuals.

Pricing: You can get started for free and get a $10 credit to try out the AI tool.

Source: Columns AI

And if you want to use more features or process more rows, then you can upgrade to one of their paid plans, which starts from $20 per month.


5. Scrunch

If you are in the AI space, you may know that SEO is slowly changing, or more clearly, the way people are shifting from Google to LLMs.

Yes, millions of people are directly asking ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity what tools, products, software, or companies they should use.

But most companies have absolutely no idea whether AI models are mentioning them, ignoring them, or recommending competitors instead, and that’s exactly what Scrunch solves.

It tracks how your brand appears across platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews, and then shows you what’s actually influencing those AI-generated answers.

Source: Scrunch

You just need to visit their website and add your website URL without even needing to sign up to run the AI visibility audit.

Source: Scrunch

And it tells you:

  • which websites AI models are citing
  • where competitors are outperforming you
  • what content gaps exist
  • and how AI agents are interpreting your brand

In short, Scrunch helps you get your site AI-ready so it can appear in answers, get cited, and grow revenue.

So if you run a SaaS company, agency, newsletter, ecommerce brand, or basically any online business, tools like Scrunch might become as important as SEO tools over the next few years.

Pricing: You can run your first AI visibility audit for free and even start a 7-day free trial with their Core plan.

Source: Scrunch

And then, if you still like it, you can continue with their Core plan, which costs $250 per month, or contact them to know the details about the Enterprise plan.


6. AICreate

This one is not a single AI tool like the others I mentioned. Instead, it provides free and open-source AI tools for images, video, audio, design, and text that work offline.

The best part? You don’t need to upload files to slow cloud servers, create accounts, wait in queues, or deal with annoying limits. AICreate gives you a massive collection of AI tools, all running locally on your device.

Source: AICreate

To try it out, simply visit the AICreate website and start experimenting with different AI tools.

I’ve tried their free AI image generator by writing a specific prompt, and here’s what it generated:

Source: AICreate

In the same way, you can even generate images, remove backgrounds, edit videos, create mind maps, enhance audio, work with PDFs, write content, and use tons of other AI tools without needing to sign up or pay money.

And here are the features that make this AI platform worth using:

Source: AICreate

Pricing: This one is completely free to use, and they even mention that there are no daily limits and no account required.


Hope you like it.

If this resonated with you, share it with someone who needs to read it, since most people want to learn practically about AI but won’t access posts like this.

And that’s where you can help someone you care about use AI practically and get ahead.

Also, don’t forget to checkout “The (Unfair) AI Workflow Playbook” where I shared exact set of AI workflows I use daily to run my work faster than feels normal.

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