^3 (Cubed) vs Hype Machine

^3 (Cubed) is a lightweight, open-source 3D modeling and animation software. It features polygonal modeling, rigging, animation, simulations, rendering, and more. The interface is streamlined and intuitive for beginners to quickly start creating 3D projects.

Hype Machine is a music blog aggregator that surfaced emerging new music and made music discovery easy before streaming services existed. It aggregates posts from music blogs and surfaces songs getting buzz in the indie music scene.