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Colorhunt

A photo scavenger hunt game where players are assigned a random colour and have 24 hours to go out and take photos matching it; the game then generates a photo grid from everything captured. Solo mode asks for 9 photos by yourself, with newly added palette (3 assigned colours) and rainbow (9 colours) modes, 1v1 mode pits you against a friend with a combined grid at the end, and squad mode has everyone contribute to a 20-photo grid with a room option to take breaks, react to uploaded photos, or spectate. No accounts, no app install, no personal data stored; photos and generated grids auto-delete after 24 hours from Cloudflare R2 storage.

Builders @dielll

Creative tools & mediaGames

Segtax

Segtax is a startup providing the niche accounting professional service of cost segregation, with work underway toward automating the bulk of the process.

Builders @joeaca04

AI & automationBusiness & finance

Ultrasound Acoustic Levitation Project

This project builds an acoustic levitation device using ultrasound, starting with a parabolic reflector approach for the initial version and planning a more complex next version with a flat plane phased array of 40 kHz ultrasound transmitters. It is pursued purely for research and learning, with no specific application goal in mind.

Builders @claytongulick

Hardware & DIYScience & research

Wherewhen

Wherewhen is a travel planner that lets users lock in fixed times (e.g., a restaurant reservation) and automatically rearranges the rest of the itinerary around those anchors.

Builders @stavros

Lifestyle & hobbies

Open-source inventory management system

This is an open-source inventory management system designed to handle multiple stores, each with their own inventory and products. Products are organized into categories and sub-categories, with location management for each item. Development is ongoing and the system still needs more work.

Builders @psion

Business & finance

Bloom

A web app where independent film teams capture and organize visual references for their productions.

Builders @magicstefanos

Creative tools & mediaProductivity

Gramps Web CLI tool (Go)

A command line tool written in Go for interfacing with a self-hosted Gramps Web genealogy service, letting the user manage and own their own genealogy data instead of relying on commercial genealogy sites. It fills a gap for CLI-based interaction with Gramps; it was AI-assisted in early development and is being cleaned up before a public release.

Builders @loufe

Lifestyle & hobbies

Python MIDI drum track extractor

A Python tool that extracts a MIDI drum track from an mp3 or other song file. It matches the current state of the art in academic publications on the MDB benchmark and runs faster than real time in PyTorch on a few-years-old MacBook. It also generates easy/medium/hard difficulty versions from the original expert track, coming close to official Rhythmverse charts, and the author experimented with extracting an instrument model for the drum sounds, which works well on clean mixes like Back In Black but struggles with dense mixes. The planned next step is building the author's own rhythm game.

Builders @cvwright

AI & automationCreative tools & media

Custom rhythm game (planned)

A planned rhythm game the author intends to create as the next step after building the MIDI drum extraction tool, motivated by an underwhelming initial experience with Clone Hero and YARG.

Builders @cvwright

Games

Multiplayer open world city game

A multiplayer, open world game where players can jump to any city, walk around, see businesses, and chat with other players. Resources such as the map are loaded on demand and garbage collected as needed.

Builders @coffeecoders

Games

Fil-GNOME (GNOME ported to Fil-C)

A port of the GNOME desktop environment to Fil-C. The port is starting to work but with some features still disabled; the Rust-to-Fil-ABI interop work is intended to get librsvg working in Fil-GNOME.

Builders @pizlonator

Developer toolsSecurity & privacy

Rust-to-Fil-ABI compiler support

A toolchain effort to compile Rust to Fil-ABI so Rust and Fil-C can interoperate without weakening either language's guarantees. About a third of the way through; needed to get librsvg working in Fil-GNOME.

Builders @pizlonator

Developer toolsSecurity & privacy

SaRCAsm (safe runtime capability-enforcing assembler)

A safe runtime capability-enforcing assembler that makes assembly memory safe. It works and OpenSSL has been ported to it, though the author does not yet have full confidence in it. Once complete it will replace zunsafe, Fil-C's escape hatch, which is currently only used for OpenSSL's assembly; hand-written assembly is otherwise needed to avoid timing side channels.

Builders @pizlonator

Developer toolsSecurity & privacy

Washed Up

This is an animated short story titled Washed Up, a creative work combining animation with narrative storytelling.

Builders @pcmaffey

Creative tools & media

Bubble Mix

A casual browser game revived from a 15-year-old project and polished with AI; it looks simple but is fairly well balanced and offers a quick endorphin fix.

Builders @afidrya

Games

Chameleon

An automotive-grade controller board running TockOS (written in Rust), designed as a generic control module rather than an engine control unit and built with AEC-qualified parts. Prototype PCBs are on order; the AI-assisted PCB layout was redone three times, with an expected price point around $400.

Builders @rta5

Hardware & DIY

Paperwing

An open-source news aggregator for the open web that pulls in content from HN, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon, and imported RSS feeds. It incorporates decision-model features that can identify possible spoilers in comments and gauge spiciness levels in comment sections.

Builders @j0rdans

AI & automationData & analytics

Turborel

A relational database called Turborel.

Builders @alexpadula

Data & analytics

TidesDB

A log-structured storage engine maintained by the author.

Builders @alexpadula

Data & analytics

Ender 3 V3 SE tune-up and calibration

A restoration and calibration project for an Ender 3 V3 SE 3D printer that had been sitting unused, covering fresh filament, cleaning, a mechanical tune-up, and working through Orca Slicer's calibration print suite.

Builders @epiccoleman

Hardware & DIY

Human Creativity in the Age of AI

A conference talk accompanied by a custom-built musical and visual contraption that drove the presentation, including a guitar solo generator that recuts phrases of the author's own playing into a new solo on the fly. The talk was also edited into a full video and short clips using DaVinci Resolve, with help from Codex.

Builders @epiccoleman

AI & automationCreative tools & media

Usefulls (Nomad 23)

Usefulls builds modular furniture-luggage, starting with the Nomad 23: a standard 23 kg checked suitcase that physically converts into a twin-door wardrobe cabinet. Removing the wheels reveals circular bumps on the base that seat into grooves on top of another case, letting multiple units stack into a full-size modular wardrobe. The founders are seeking feedback on the concept, the physical design, and their approach to modular furniture/luggage.

Builders @Abhishek, @channusingh1424

Hardware & DIYLifestyle & hobbies

super-release

An open-source alternative to semantic-release written in Rust with mono-repo support, built to make shipping packages in larger JavaScript/TypeScript mono-repos easier.

Builders @bowlingx

Developer tools

davegooden.com

Personal website at davegooden.com that the author is improving and continuing to build out.

Builders @cabinguy

Edina Country Club

Website at edinacountryclub.com that the author just pushed live as part of building out his real estate business (jokingly described as a 'real estate empire').

Builders @cabinguy

Business & finance

Steno

A single-download app for recording meetings and transcribing audio into meeting minutes using only local LLMs, so recordings and data never touch the cloud; runs on macOS (tested), Windows (not yet tested), and Linux (tested on ChromeOS/Terminal).

Builders @e12e

AI & automationProductivitySecurity & privacy

Oath Hammer character sheet/generator

A character sheet and character generator for tabletop role-playing games, currently in closed alpha testing; a follow-up to the Oath Hammer dice web app.

Builders @e12e

Games