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In case you missed the news, agent.ai recently hit a major milestone: 2 million users and counting! |
But here's what really gets me fired up: out of those 2 million users, 25,337 people have made the leap from simply using agents to actually building them. Everything from the super-simple "I'm just learning to see what this feels like" to relatively useful agents across a variety of use cases. |
These builders are the heart of our community, and they're proving that you don't need to be a programmer to create genuinely useful AI agents. |
So as a celebration, we created the Community Choice Awards, where our community voted on their favorite agents from the past year. |
In todays post, I'm breaking down: |
The 7 award winers and what makes each special Why these agents represent the best of what's possible What you can learn from their approaches to solve real problems
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—@dharmesh |
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 | Build Your Brand DNA, By Ashna Thakkar |
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This agent perfectly captures what makes our community special: solving expensive, time-consuming problems with simple solutions. |
Build Your Brand DNA generates a complete brand identity from a single business idea--with tone, voice, values, and positioning. |
I talk a lot about the abundance of software in the age of AI, and how I think it's an entrepreneur's greatest strength. Branding has always been something I think entrepreneurs need to spend more time on, and this agent fills that gap beautifully. |
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 | Ideal Customer Profile Builder, By Shaalin Parekh |
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This agent demonstrates something I talk about constantly (maybe too much): the best AI tools make complex work feel simple. |
The ICP Builder defines and refines ideal customer profiles from just names or LinkedIn URLs. The workflow design helps you iterate rapidly, and you get deep, actionable analysis with minimal input from you. |
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 | Find Your Ikigai and Best Fit Jobs, By Suraj Kripalani |
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This one hits different. In a world where AI will allow everyone to do more of what they want to do (and less of what they don't), Suraj built an agent that helps you discover what that actually is. |
The agent guides users through a self-reflection journey with thoughtful prompts that evolve based on your answers. It's beautifully crafted for clarity and purpose, helping you discover what drives you, then finding roles that match. |
Sometimes the most powerful agents aren't the ones that automate tasks, but the ones that elevate your thinking about important decisions. |
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 | Shoulda Been an Email, By Monique Howard |
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I've written about this agent before, but it's great to see the community highlighting it again. The name alone makes me smile every time I see it. |
The agent turns meeting agendas and transcripts into clear, actionable summaries while scoring meetings on clarity, time management, engagement, and outcomes. |
As someone who's probably attended 10,000+ meetings in my career (many of which, yes, should have been emails), this agent is both cathartic and genuinely useful. It's simple, and solves a problem we've all experienced but nobody talks about. |
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 | Find Grant Funding Matches for Your Startup, By Julia Turnbull |
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This one is beautifully focused: it does one thing extremely well, which is finding grant funding opportunities that actually match your startup. |
It surfaces dozens of grant opportunities tailored specifically to your business, with organized, actionable output that's actually usable. |
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 | Meal Prep Planner, By Sidd S. |
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What I love about this agent is how it tackles a universal problem that affects everyone. It's unrelated to work but instead uses AI to make your life better. |
The Meal Prep Planner agent generates personalized recipes with ingredients and video links, making meal planning fast and actionable, and even automatically sending recipe ideas on a schedule you set. |
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 | ObjectionOwl, By Erol Aykan |
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While genuine usefulness is always the north star for AI agents, user experience is a close second, especially when it comes to onboarding skeptics or less technical users. |
ObjectionOwl generates real-time, relevant objection-handling tips during sales calls, with contextual examples and smart scripting. |
But what won this award is how beautifully the output is presented. It's not just functional, it's polished and professional in a way that makes you want to use it. |
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What These Winners Teach Us About Building |
Looking across all seven winners, a few patterns emerge that any aspiring agent.ai builder should note: |
They solve real problems. None of these agents were built just to showcase technical capabilities. Each addresses a genuine pain point that people experience regularly. |
They save significant time and money. These agents take tasks that normally require hours or expensive consultants and complete them in minutes with comparable quality. |
They focus on user experience. The winning agents aren't just functional--they're thoughtfully crafted with real users in mind. |
They create genuine value. Each winner produces outputs that people already pay for through traditional channels. |
These awards are community-powered, which means they're driven by your voices, your votes, and your vision for what agents can become. To everyone who nominated, voted, or shared an agent they love--thank you for making this celebration possible! |
Congratulations to the winners, and I'm looking forward to seeing what the community builds next! |
—Dharmesh (@dharmesh) |
PS: There's never been a better time to start building agents. Big updates coming soon as head into INBOUND (HubSpot's annual conference). As always, I'll be delivering a keynote, and as always, am stressed out about it. Hope to see many of you there. |
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