by David Austin | Sep 22, 2026 | Cloud Hosting
The platform as a service market is worth $140.63 billion in 2026, up from $127.4 billion in 2025. The category is growing. Heroku, the product that defined it, is not. In February 2026 Salesforce moved Heroku into what it calls a sustaining engineering model. Heroku...
by David Austin | Sep 22, 2026 | ai tools
ElevenLabs is the best Speechify alternative for most creators in 2026. It costs $22 per month for 121,000 credits on Creator, includes professional voice cloning, and publishes its per-character rates openly. NaturalReader is the best pick for reading documents...
by David Austin | Sep 22, 2026 | ai tools
AI stopped being optional in property management sometime in the last 18 months. AppFolio reports that more than 99% of its customers now use some form of AI-enabled functionality, that users save an average of 10 hours per week, and that AI leasing tools produce 73%...
by David Austin | Sep 22, 2026 | ai tools
Sales reps do not have a lead problem. They have a sorting problem. Salesforce research found reps spend less than 30% of their time actually selling. The rest goes to admin, internal meetings, and deciding who to call next. Lead scoring fixes the third item. A good...
by David Austin | Sep 21, 2026 | Cloud Hosting
The platform as a service market reached $140.63 billion in 2026, up from $127.4 billion in 2025. That growth hides a category that reorganised itself in a single year. Three things changed the PaaS landscape in 2026: Salesforce froze Heroku development, Render...
by David Austin | Sep 21, 2026 | ai tools
The AI voice generator market reached $7.7 billion in 2026 and is forecast to hit $21.8 billion by 2030, a compound growth rate of 29.5 percent. Software accounts for 67.2 percent of that revenue. Synthetic speech moved from novelty to production tool in about three...
by David Austin | Sep 20, 2026 | ai tools
TL;DR: Jasper is powerful, but it is not cheap and it is not for everyone. The best Jasper alternatives are Copy.ai and Writesonic for marketing copy, Rytr for budget writers, ChatGPT for flexibility, Anyword for performance-driven ads, Sudowrite for fiction, and...
by David Austin | Sep 19, 2026 | ai tools
TL;DR: Gusto is the best HR software for most small businesses thanks to easy payroll, clear pricing, and strong support. Rippling wins on automation, BambooHR on people management, and Deel on global hiring. Paychex Flex, ADP RUN, Zoho People, and Justworks round out...
by David Austin | Sep 19, 2026 | ai tools
TL;DR: Surfshark is fast and cheap, but it is not the right fit for everyone. The best Surfshark alternatives are NordVPN, ExpressVPN, Proton VPN, CyberGhost, Private Internet Access, Mullvad, and Windscribe. They range from free to about $13 per month. This guide...
by David Austin | Sep 19, 2026 | ai tools
TL;DR: Typeform builds beautiful conversational forms, but its 100-response cap on the Basic plan and steep pricing push many teams to look elsewhere. The best Typeform alternatives are Jotform, Tally, Google Forms, SurveyMonkey, Formstack, Paperform, and Fillout....
