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Quality GPTs - Custom designed GPTs for businesses

QualityGPTs

GPTs, personalized for you.
Agency providing easy to use AI tools to small businesses.

Out of Pages - e-commerce retail design art

Out of Pages

Notebook Subscriptions
Subscribe to the best field-tested notebooks around. Some ideas can't be saved on a smartphone. They have to be sketched, diagrammed or written by hand. They have to be torn out and handed to someone or rolled into a bottle and sent adrift. Out of Pages wants ...

Ray Tran - art

Ray Tran

Living life with one life to live :)
This is for my life and only my life :)

Unwithered - e-commerce consumer goods art online shopping

Unwithered

Art On Demand
Unwithered.com sells high quality prints from undiscovered artists. Orders are produced on demand and shipped within 24 hours.

ARTSEE - art

ARTSEE

See art on your walls at home without leaving the gallery
Art Hangup makes buying art easier for collectors, and selling art easier for galleries. Our app allows users to upload images of artwork encountered at galleries or fairs, either manually or through QR code scan, and then to virtually see that artwork on their ...

BucketFeet - e-commerce retail fashion art

BucketFeet

Our mission is to connect people through art.
Our mission is to connect people through art.

Appoet - digital media advertising mobile advertising art

Appoet

Hyper Local Discoverability Platform CMS
What is Infused (https://infused.today)? Infused connects the digital life you live with the people and places you love. Infused is a hyperlocal broadcasting and publishing app you can use with your friends or the community around you by leaving music, art, ...

Sim Street Journal - music services art entrepreneur

Sim Street Journal

Sim Street Journal explores the relevance of virtual commerce and culture.
Journal of critical commentary on virtual commerce and culture. Profiles entrepreneurs and leaders from the cultural community. Sim Street Journal is the magazine for those who seek significance, achievement, and take their second lives as seriously as their first. ...

Lowcost Email cheap flights alerts

NowBoarding ✈️

Invite-only mailing list.
We search the best weekend and long-haul flight deals so you can book before everyone else.

Civic ArtWorks - crowdsourcing design art architecture

Civic ArtWorks

Empowering community-driven place-making + design

Humble Venturez Inc. (Humble Pen) - education ventures for good art handmade

Humble Venturez Inc. (Humble Pen)

Handcrafted pens that give back
Handcrafted pens, packaged with artist inspired stationery in a beautiful packaging. For every Humble Pen purchased, we provide education for children around the world.

MaBaker - mobile social media platforms art online dating

MaBaker

Your tattoo can chat to another
Now your Tattoo can like and be liked by other Tattoos around it! TatChat’s aim is to attract and unite all people that bare body art, becoming the biggest walking & talking body art gallery worldwide, where one body art piece can talk to another. Anonymously ...

Patron21 - art crowdfunding musicians artists globally

Patron21

Subscription-based crowdfunding
Patron21 is a tool to help artists and creatives establish continuous funding. With patron subscriptions, fans can support artists on an ongoing basis and artists can continuously release new work directly to supporters. With Patron21, artists can finally build ...

GalaDo - music art concerts theatre

GalaDo

Unique ticket packages for cultural events in major cities.
GalaDo will provide ticket packages to cultural events in every major city. App supported, customers will be able to see more, do more, and applause more. By reaching out to multiple venues, users won't feel trapped by the typical subscription model and can enjoy ...

Invitation codes

The referral community
Invitation App is a social network where people post their referral codes and collect rewards on autopilot.

Mediabooze - social media photography photo sharing art

Mediabooze

Mediabooze brings your social media relationships into tangible art-like prints
Mediabooze.com helps you create collages with the photo of your friends!

Phlearn - education photography art photo editing

Phlearn

Photography/Photoshop Training Community
Phlearn creates free daily video tutorials covering photography and photo-editing topics for all levels of artist, as well as paid Pro tutorials for advanced learners. Phlearn has built a community around photography education, and we help our users connect with ...

Iconicast - digital media education music art

Iconicast

HueTunes is a new medium for creative expression that lets you paint in music
huetunes.com

Buddy Editions - e-commerce art interior design

Buddy Editions

An online art gallery offering limited edition prints.

DropShot - social media photography art anonymous

DropShot

Express your inner creativity. Anonymously!
DropShot is the exciting, new application that allows you to interact with the world anonymously. No need to sign in. No history. No identification. Just public displays of digital art linked to your current geographic location. Open the application to discover ...

Runaway Music Festival - music fashion art Festivals

Runaway Music Festival

Bringing Music to the Suburbs
Runaway Music Festival, curated by Runaway Brand Media, is the manifestation of an idea. We wanted to create an unparalleled experience that expresses and displays the key essentials to making culture a paramount portion of society. We want to use music to spread ...

Gramovox - music audio consumer electronics art

Gramovox

World's First Bluetooth Gramophone
Gramovox reimagines vintage A/V equipment into functional contemporary art. Our first product is the Gramovox Bluetooth Gramophone. Our bold design and vintage sound are inspired by the 1920s Magnavox R3 Horn Speaker. Our product's form and function are a marriage ...

Curmudgeon Group - advertising art public relations Disruptive Services

Curmudgeon Group

Art-Based Creative Campaigns
Curmudgeon Group specializes in the ideation and production of experiential, interactive, and disruptive art based creative projects and campaigns; driving public innovation, social impact, and brand experience and activation through the arts.

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