🚀 4-Launch Friday with Google's New 10-Tool TextFX Project - August 18, 2023

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Welcome back to ‘4-Launch Friday,’ where we ditch the news, deep dive into the latest AI tools, and give you an honest, no-bs review.

Happy Friday, let’s get it.

Deep Dives

AI TOOLS
Your Friday Deep Dive
Tools that deserved a second look.

1. Coinrule
“Crate trading bots, follow smart investors. Catch the next market opportunity and compete with professional traders. No coding required.”

Bottom Line: Being from NY, I have limited options for exchanges, so setting this up will involve some VPN magic, but from what I see, it’s an easy way for people to start using trading bots with simple If/then scenarios.

Once I get it funded and set up, I’ll post a monthly profit/loss report based on an initial $1k buy-in.

Cost: If you trade under $3k a month it’s free. Plans increased based on trading volume after that. 25% discount when billed yearly.

Sign up Process:

Onboarding:

Key Features:

• Automated trading running 24/7

• Connect multiple exchanges

• Trade with 14 Rules simultaneously

• Access 250+ new template strategies

• Test strategy with demo exchange

• Data Studio with buy/sell signals

Pros:
If you have any experience in bots or trading you’ll be able to set this up quickly and start trading. With a promoted profit rate of 61%, it’s worth trying out the free plan and letting it run on autopilot for a month to see what it can do.

Cons:
“Rules” aren’t as intuitive as I’d like to see. I’ve used plenty of bots before and and it took me a while to figure out where everything was. I’d like to see a automated guide option that you can turn on/off during your first trades. *It does have a ‘Smart Guide’ in demo but I wasn’t a fan. Help videos instead of articles would be preferred.

Investment: Open
Looks like they have a new crowdfunding campaign that opened 2 weeks ago. https://coinrule.com/invest.html

2. WritingHero
“Powerful AI writing tools to boost your writing productivity. An office productivity tool to help you work more efficiently.”

Bottom Line: If you’re in the market for an AI-writing assistant there’s no harm in giving this one a shot; however I don’t see much that would have me upgrade to a paid monthly plan.

Cost: Demo plan is free with a 2k word limit with access to 110+ templates. Unlimited word plan is $29/mo.

Sign up Process:
Email Verification Pin

Onboarding:

Dashboard:

Key Features:

• Over 100+ custom tools and templates

• A full-featured document editor

• Plagiarism free content
  
  

Output:
We tested their “Company About Page’ tool

Pros:
It has a lot of tools to choose from, with pre-prompts to help as a starting point for many common business content needs.

Cons:
The dashboard comes pre-loaded with 8 of the most popular tools; however, when you click on one, it says ‘document not found’ and that you need one to use the editor to save your work. But you can continue without one … so I don’t have to use one, or will my work not save?

The messaging and process aren’t on-point, and with so many other products doing the same thing, you need to check every box to stand out.


For the output, it looks like very simple prompting was used, so responses are broad and vague. OK, as a starting point but only for the first-timer, advanced users will get no benefit from this.

3. TextFX by Google
“AI-powered tools for rappers, writers and wordsmiths.”

Bottom Line: If you’re looking for the features below, and don’t mind subpar responses that then this is for you.

Cost: Free
Sign up: None
Onboarding: None


Key Features:

• Create a simile about a thing or concept

• Break a word into similar-sounding phrases

• Make a scene more unexpected and imaginative

• Evaluate a topic through different points of view

• Generate sensory details about a scene

Output:
For the ‘Explode’ tool, which is supposed to break a word into similar-sounding phrases ‘apple’ was turned into ‘a pal’.

Ok, that works, but then ‘good’ was turned into ‘food’, which doesn’t work.

‘Artificial’ generated ‘Art ice ficial (icicle made of art).’ WTF does that even mean?

Pros:
10 tools that I never knew I might need. Extraordinarily simple UI.

Cons:
Being from Google, the failure rate was unexpectedly high.

The character limit of 25 was much too low to provide context to get quality responses.

Overall, not great.

4. Surfer
“Skyrocket your organic traffic with Surfer. Surfer will give you a SEO workflow to boost your organic traffic, increase your visibility and improve your rank.”

Bottom Line: If you need a keyword generator, then this works well. If you want it to write the articles for you, incorporating those keywords (which is to be assumed), then expect it to get very expensive.

Cost: No free plan. Packages start at $89/mo when billed monthly. For this review I chose the ‘Essential’ Plan.

Sign up:

Onboarding:

Key Features:

• Generate articles that generate traffic

• Create briefs with catchy headlines in seconds

• Write and optimize content in any language

• Ensure authenticity of your article and avoid penalties

• Integrate with Google Docs, Wordpress, Jasper

Output:
Using the Keyword Generator Tool my input was ‘Artificial Intelligence Newsletter’. Within 2 minutes it generated 16 clusters

Pros:
It generates keywords and suggests how many times to use them in an article in order to achieve proper SEO. The UI is user-friendly and intuitive.

Cons:
Pay-as-you-go ($29) is only available after you purchase a higher-end subscription. I’d feel more comfortable using this as a gateway to try it out and then upgrade.

After paying $89, the Keyword Generator Tool prompted me to pay additional for an article to be written with the generated keywords.

The Essential Plan is represented that it includes 180 articles a year - assumed to be AI-assisted, but that’s not the case. It only includes 180 articles that you write yourself. AI credits start at $29 ea, which is ridiculous.

I’ll be requesting a refund.

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