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A digital brand, built in the open
Explore. Create. Grow.
Ideas. Tools. Products. Opportunities. All in one place.
DOVELO brings together what curious people need to make things: honest product discovery, practical AI tools, learning resources and the digital products we build ourselves.
- 01Product discovery
- 02AI tools
- 03Learning
- 04Digital products
- 05Software
The idea
Three verbs.
One place to do them.
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Explore
Find the tools, products and ideas worth your time. We test before we recommend, and we tell you what we didn't like.
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Create
Turn what you find into work. Guides, templates and software that shorten the distance between an idea and a finished thing.
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Grow
Build skills, audiences and income over time. Opportunities show up more often for people who keep making things.
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The ecosystem
Everything under one name.
DOVELO is growing one area at a time. Here's what's open now, what's being built, and what comes next.
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Discover
Products and services, reviewed honestly and compared side by side.
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AI Tools
Practical AI tools, tested on real work rather than demos.
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Journal
Writing on technology, craft and building things on the internet.
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Learn
Guides and short courses that go from zero to useful.
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Digital Products
Templates, kits and toolkits designed and made by DOVELO.
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Software
Small, focused apps and utilities that do one job well.
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Shop
A storefront for physical and digital goods we stand behind.
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Studio
Digital services for brands, creators and small teams.
Planned
Principles
Fewer things,
chosen carefully.
The internet has no shortage of recommendations. It's short on ones you can trust. These are the rules we hold ourselves to.
- 01Useful over loud
- We publish when something helps, not to fill a calendar. No countdown timers, no invented scarcity.
- 02Tested before recommended
- If we haven't used it on real work, we don't put our name next to it. When a product changes, our review does too.
- 03Transparent by default
- When we earn from a link, we say so next to the link, not in a footer. Partnerships never decide what makes the list.
Journal
Recently written.
The DOVELO letter.
One email every other Sunday. New tools, ideas worth borrowing, and an honest look at what we're building.