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Typequicker

This is an intelligent typing application that trains users to type over 100 wpm by identifying and focusing on their weak points, with 5-10 minutes of daily practice over a few months.

Builders @absoluteunit1

EducationProductivity

Factory software project

Contract software project developed for a factory client, with the author coding for the company during work hours and for other companies after hours.

Builders @impact_sy

judt.ai

An agent-first tool that enables AI agents to build and ship complete micro apps. Built on top of celld.dev, each generated app gets a full execution environment, database, and durable objects.

Builders @russ_j

AI & automationDeveloper tools

Tarvis

A private managed cloud platform for hosting apps and running agents, positioned as like Coolify but without requiring technical knowledge to host apps. It also supports running AI agents such as Claude and Codex remotely on the VPS, so users don't need to keep their computer or laptop on all the time.

Builders @scottydelta

AI & automationInfrastructure & hosting

Apptown

A self-hosted software forge and agent platform ('mini Heroku') that builds and maintains small apps and games. It runs on Mac or Linux in a temp container, is self-hostable, and can use local models. It deploys smallish things predictably and consistently with low friction, then helps maintain them long term, handling chores such as dependency and container updates.

Builders @xyzzy123

AI & automationDeveloper toolsInfrastructure & hosting

sloppy.live

This website gives Claude Code a live stream and a voice: the AI agent builds 1700+ games and apps live based on suggestions from chat, and also controls its own appearance and the website itself.

Builders @fela

AI & automationGames

Heidelberg Blocks

A 3D world that started as a 3D bridge and has grown to include multiple German cities, a karting track, a paragliding hill, a flight simulator, and more.

Builders @fela

Games

Heaven.dev

A cloud platform offering completely persistent Linux computers that share a pooled group of resources (CPU, RAM, storage), so resources can be allocated flexibly across workloads. Built around the principle of "transmutability," where computers and resources can be shaped to match any workload, with particular benefits for working with AI coding agents.

Builders @idoma

Infrastructure & hosting

Persistence Mechanics

A paper on the minimal components, dynamics, and selection of any systems that persists, being tested for completeness against the vacuum under the presumption that the universe persists.

Builders @mobilejdral

Science & research

Work/coding agent platform with desktop/web app

A hosted work/coding agent platform: a server-hosted backend paired with a desktop/web app that manages users, permissions, and tasks between human users and coding agents. It would let the non-profit client access incoming data files, diagnose data issues, generate tasks for the coding agent for review, and email property managers about missing data, with a companion desktop/web app for property managers to manage their data at the source. Intended to grow into a larger AI-enabled product for property managers.

Builders @brainless

AI & automationDeveloper tools

Property tax exemption compliance software

A platform built for a non-profit that manages property tax exemption compliance for 70+ property managers across North and South Carolina, some managing 10,000+ units. It accepts varied Excel/CSV data exports from Entrata, Yardi, and manually managed spreadsheets and normalizes them into a fixed expected format for tax compliance; the author also onboards property managers and handles development and support remotely.

Builders @brainless

Business & finance

SetReply

This is a text message (SMS) marketing platform for small and medium-sized businesses; work in progress includes a redesigned website for the existing service.

Builders @dbz

Business & finance

Botlark

A Hacker News-style site for autonomous agents, where agents can post and interact; a companion skill is published on the site and on ClawHub so agents can access it.

Builders @1potato

AI & automationCommunity & civic

hunt.tech

A job hunting platform being built as a startup by the author together with a few friends; the team has just started using Google Ads for it.

Builders @no-trbl-2-u

Business & finance

OurAgents.chat

This service lets different AI agents talk to each other. Users can connect their own agents (e.g., Muse and Grok Bot), have one agent review another's work such as Claude reviewing Codex's output, or link agents belonging to friends and colleagues without requiring everyone to be part of the same organization. It gives each agent its own inbox instead of sharing a primary email account.

Builders @vtail

AI & automation

Letters Practice

A low screen-time early literacy web app that serves as an onramp to reading, strictly scoping its involvement to reading mechanics for young children learning to read.

Builders @NiloCK

Education

Foveonic

Foveonic is a new image editor and processing engine for Foveon sensor cameras (manufactured roughly 2002-2019). It processes X3F files quickly and according to manufacturer intention, handling each of the four different sensor architectures with its own pipeline. It includes a major noise reduction improvement, GPU-based processing, and downsampled sensor-layer rendering so multi-shot editing stays snappy instead of rendering full 16mp images for small displays. The author is also reworking caching/scheduling to multiplex downsampled editing so images are processed in the same GPU pass rather than N passes times M images serially.

Builders @hankbond

Creative tools & media

Cheiron

A no-subscription fitness tracking app for bodybuilders that tracks macros, biometrics, workouts, and supplements.

Builders @RGS1811

Health & fitness

us-tax-model

A formalization project modeling the U.S. federal income tax system, with an interview component that has reached an 80% coverage target of filers, now undergoing refactoring to optimize future development.

Builders @RGS1811

Business & finance

Claude movie-taste prediction game

A personal game played with Claude in which the model asks questions about movies the player has seen, predicts their answers, gets graded, and builds a theory of the player's movie taste, eventually recommending movies and shows the player enjoys.

Builders @RGS1811

AI & automationGames

NoFlo 2.x

This project is work on the 2.x series of NoFlo, preparing the flow-based programming environment for its next major release, as detailed in an accompanying blog post.

Builders @bergie

Developer tools

Bossa Nova Chords

This web app displays manually curated bossa nova guitar chords synced with the songs' YouTube videos, offering a fun way to play along and learn the names of complex chord voicings. All chords were added by hand; the UI was built with the help of an AI model.

Builders @diehunde

Creative tools & mediaEducationLifestyle & hobbies

MinusPod

This tool removes ads from podcasts and YouTube, delivering ad-free listening and viewing. Its official website has just launched, with documentation and a live demo available.

Builders @Ttlequals0

Creative tools & media

AltStack.jp

A directory of digital services (cloud hosting, domain registrars, email providers, etc.) operated in Japan by Japanese companies. The static site is built with Astro.

Builders @Xixi

Infrastructure & hosting

Kamakiri Pages

A CLI-first static hosting service built after the author was unsatisfied with the available Japanese hosting options. AltStack.jp is planned to be switched over to it.

Builders @Xixi

Infrastructure & hosting

TradeInsight

A project shared as a bare link to tradeinsight.info; the source comment provides no further details about what it does.

Builders @timmit

Blocks

A web project at blocks.fabiopiparo.com centered on line drawing and maps, with global illumination rendering and 3D printer support.

Builders @holofermes

Creative tools & mediaHardware & DIY

The Time Game

A multiplayer card/board game built with Unity (C#) using Unity's Relay and Lobby services, designed with the complexity and mind-bending gameplay to appeal to fans of Magic: The Gathering and Hearthstone.

Builders @testerdread

Games

Teams Chat Exporter

A privacy-friendly, open source browser extension that exports chats from the Microsoft Teams web client, with ~90,000 users. Ongoing work focuses on making it stable and efficient when exporting huge chats containing several years of data.

Builders @gediz

Productivity

Formo

An attribution and analytics tool for onchain apps, built with data engineering and business intelligence practices.

Builders @leventhan

Data & analytics