Dreamlock vs Machine-like

Dreamlock is a private dream journal for iPhone. When you wake up you mumble a voice note, half-asleep, and by morning Dreamlock has turned it into a dream card: a clean retelling of the dream, a painting of it, the symbols it found and an interpretation.

The interpretation comes in three parts: what dream traditions say about the symbols, what psychologists tend to notice, and one question to think about. Over time the app builds a personal index of your recurring symbols, and you can ask questions about your own dream history. The site also has free guides on topics such as recurring dreams, nightmares, sleep talking and lucid dreaming.

Privacy is the main design choice. Dreams are recor…

Machine-like builds and runs custom AI agents for small businesses as a managed service. Instead of buying agent software and setting it up yourself, you describe a recurring job and Machine-like designs the agent, connects it to your tools, runs it and fixes it when something breaks.

Typical jobs are the repetitive ones: following up on leads, replying to enquiries, booking meetings, logging deals in the CRM and sending a weekly report. The agents connect to tools such as HubSpot, Gmail and Slack, follow your own rules, and can hold drafts for your approval before anything is sent. A console shows what each agent did.

The company calls this "managed agent operations": you get finished wor…