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Yo earlies. ☼ Welcome to edition #78 of the early.tools newsletter, now reaching 2,966+ readers. Every Sunday, you get a quick rundown of launch updates and the most notable pre-launch startups worth watching. I'm Julian Paul, and I track tools as they move from Waitlist → Alpha → Beta → Launched, so you catch the products that matter early.  | Sponsor Brought to you by The Network — We're hiring and giving grants to solo founders & builders. |
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→ What changed this week (Oct 12 – Oct 18)Members see all of it. → New: early.tools in your AI
Big one this week: early.tools now plugs straight into Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or any app that speaks MCP. Paste one address, sign in with your early.tools account, and your assistant digs through the directory for you. - Ask what launched this week, who built it and what else they've made
- Find resources and experiments for the stage you're at
- Manage your own listing from the chat. Nothing changes until you approve it
Paste this: www.early.tools/api/mcp → setup takes a minute Members also get the full backlog (including what lists next week), contacts for 604 founders and the 11,616-founder watchlist, right in the chat. → Top listings5 more went live (Beta 1 · Early 4). One workspace for every coding agent on your Mac — split panes, shared context, and a unified MCP gateway. 
Ari is an AI CFO that keeps your financial model current—plan hiring, review results, and test pricing decisions against your numbers. 
AI-powered database client for Postgres, MySQL, MSSQL, and ClickHouse — query, explore, and manage data effortlessly. 
AI canvas for Photography and Design — create graphics, illustrations, and videos with 100+ built-in styles and tools. 
Open source notification orchestration layer for mobile push — send, segment, schedule and automate on your own Apple and Firebase keys. 
- History of Software Design (Design) — Celebrates the designs and designers that shaped software.
- Zima (Build) — x86 home servers, DIY NAS units and single-board computers for homelabs, Docker and local AI.
- Explee (Distribution) — An AI outreach agent that finds ideal customers, writes personalised emails and handles follow-ups.
- Arc UI (Design) — Animated React components and blocks, installable with the shadcn CLI or buildable by AI tools from its docs and MCP.
- useLayouts (Design) — Free animated React components built with Framer Motion and Tailwind CSS, ready to copy.
- Found (Business) — Reads your email, Slack, Stripe and Wise every morning and surfaces the money sitting in them.
- Holo (Distribution) — Turns your website into ads, emails and social posts.
Want to list?early.tools is a hand-curated editorial platform. Submitting is free via early.tools/submit — we pick the best from a growing backlog. Free submissions aren't guaranteed a homepage listing. Want guaranteed eyes on your launch week? - Featured weeks — from €19 — every week after the first is €1 cheaper, down to €12: 4 weeks €70, 8 weeks €124. Pick your launch week.
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