About AI Dude
AI Dude is an independent catalogue of AI tools, run by one person rather than a content agency. This page explains who that is, how tools end up here, and where the money comes from — because a recommendation is only worth as much as what you know about who made it.
Who writes this
The catalogue is written and maintained by Dich, who founded AI Dude in 2023. There is no editorial team, no rotating freelancers and no syndicated content. When a tool page says a plan costs a certain amount or that a feature is limited to a paid tier, someone checked that on the vendor's own pricing page.
The project runs alongside a Telegram channel and a Discord community, and a good share of what gets covered comes from questions people ask there — which tool actually does this, is the free plan usable, did this service quietly change its pricing.
How tools are assessed
Most AI catalogues copy the vendor's own marketing copy and call it a description. The rules here are deliberately different.
- Pricing is read off the vendor's live pricing page, not from press releases or other catalogues. Where a limit is stated per day rather than per month, it is written that way, because the difference decides whether a plan is usable.
- Limitations are stated as plainly as features. If a tool cannot do something people expect it to do, that belongs above the fold, not in a footnote.
- Claims that cannot be verified are left out. If it is unclear whether two products are the same company, the page says so rather than guessing.
- Tools that have shut down stay in the catalogue, marked as no longer available. What a tool promised and how long it lasted is part of the record.
When something is wrong
Prices change, products get rebranded and services close without announcing it. Any page can go out of date, and some will be wrong before they go out of date. If you find an error, say so in the Discord and it gets fixed — corrections are treated as the fastest way to improve the catalogue, not as complaints.
How the project makes money
Some links to tools are affiliate links, which may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Placement in the catalogue is not for sale: paying does not get a tool listed, ranked higher, or described more kindly, and there is no paid-review option. Where a tool is bad for a given use, the page says so regardless of whether the link earns anything.
Get in touch
The fastest way to reach the project is the community. Corrections, tool submissions, disagreements with an assessment and requests for what to cover next are all welcome there.