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Crucial Exams

A test prep SaaS that has been running for over 10 years, helping users prepare for exams.

Builders @shiftyck

Education

Kings Cup

An online multiplayer version of the drinking game Kings Cup, available on Steam; a recent rebuild of an earlier COVID-era project.

Builders @shiftyck

Games

Brewery manager game

A brewery management game that is currently in early development and not yet released.

Builders @shiftyck

Games

Independent Vet

This website and app helps pet parents find locally owned and corporate/PE-owned veterinary practices nearby, and now gets about 30k visitors a day.

Builders @packeted

Lifestyle & hobbies

Miletus

A personal learning agent that asks the user daily questions, emails interesting reads in chosen topics (math, LLMs, RL, robotics), and helps track progress in learning. Started as a web app and now ported to a Mac desktop app, positioned as "Conductor, but for your learning side quests".

Builders @thedreammachine

AI & automationEducation

Article on coroutines

An article on coroutines, recently published on the author's website.

Builders @kmstout

Creative tools & mediaEducation

Singtrace

This mobile app helps users practice singing. The free version lets users record their vocals and keep an archive of daily practice sessions for each song, while the paid version adds analysis of the user's vocals.

Builders @godot

Creative tools & mediaEducation

deadwood-rs

A Rust tool that finds dead code left behind by LLMs, akin to fallow but for Rust.

Builders @rlorenzo

Developer tools

fastsleep.app

This web app helps users get sleepy quickly through short guided sessions (as short as 7 minutes) that require no medicinal pills or long-form meditation. Users close their eyes and visualize brief micro-scenarios they hear, such as "moonlight on a white flower", until the next prompt arrives. It can also be used to break a nightly doomscrolling habit.

Builders @greybox555

Health & fitness

Simple CRM

A simple CRM in early development, drawing on the author's experience implementing CRMs and heavily customizing an ERP, aimed at the 90% of companies that only need something basic rather than a heavyweight suite; the author plans to share it for feedback when finished.

Builders @skrig

Business & financeProductivity

News collection Airflow pipeline

This app is an Airflow pipeline focused on collecting news. It serves as a personal news collection tool and a learning platform: processing is initially done with a stronger LLM, results are saved, and the plan is to later attempt training a small language model (SLM) on the saved data.

Builders @Havoc

AI & automationData & analytics

AI Music Video

An AI-generated music video project aiming for professional-level production quality, sharing the latest creation.

Builders @js4ever

AI & automationCreative tools & media

Unnamed project

An MIT-licensed re-implementation of an AGPL project whose original community is described as very anti-AI.

Builders @nonethewiser

SNES cloud save sync bridge

This project syncs game saves via the cloud between a real Super Nintendo console and emulators. A microcontroller wired to the SNES's spare controller port acts as a WiFi bridge, and a flash cart runs a small save sync routine (patched into the reset vector) that talks to the microcontroller. Firmware tweaks were developed iteratively with Claude reading logic analyser output.

Builders @dannyboland

GamesHardware & DIY

Local AI Tools Suite for macOS

A native macOS app offering a suite of completely local AI tools. The first version has been released, with a long roadmap of further development planned.

Builders @primaprashant

AI & automation

khumbu.im

This app helps users study the German language by extracting highlighted words from paper texts and generating Anki flashcards.

Builders @hudvin

Education

Forking the Internet

An effort to repurpose internet technology for community benefit rather than greed, corporate interests, or predation.

Builders @talkingtab

Community & civic

Pocket Text Lab

This is a text classification pipeline that runs entirely in the browser using WebGPU/WASM, with the Python logic executed via Pyodide. It downloads an embedding model, trains a linear SVM classifier whose hyperparameters are determined by cross-validation over a grid, and calibrates the classifier to produce reliable confidence scores. Users can paste their own data (no uploads supported) to train a model on it. Work in progress, with a blog post planned.

Builders @abhgh

AI & automation

Chartrow

This web app provides fast, dense stock market data visualizations, including drawdown (from 52-week high) charts for top YTD performers in the NASDAQ 100, dense chart views of ETF holdings such as ARKK, business fundamental trend charts (e.g., Microsoft), and multiple views of top-performing stocks as charts, heatmap, and calendar, with switchable chart/table/heatmap views and a responsive, snappy feel.

Builders @chartrow

Business & financeData & analytics

Occasionful

This app is an unofficial client for Partiful, the event invitation service, providing an easier-to-use interface than Partiful's official website and app.

Builders @awscherb

Community & civic

greenflagged.dev

A package registry and package manager that monitors changes to popular NPM packages to help prevent supply chain attacks, automatically reading and judging package updates. It lets AI agents settle package versions as older versions get new vulnerabilities discovered, has caught several supply chain attacks since monitoring began, and an automatic response pipeline to validate and publish newly detected attacks is in development. Python support is being worked on.

Builders @Azkar

AI & automationDeveloper toolsSecurity & privacy

getlattis.ai

An Orca-like meta harness at getlattis.ai. The builder uses it every day, and teammates have started using it and loving it; the long-term hope is for it to become a business.

Builders @jmvoodoo

AI & automationDeveloper tools

Turbolytics

This is a data monitoring company/service that monitors and sends alerts for data infrastructure, currently offering free monitoring and alerting for Postgres and Kafka Connect, including Debezium WAL growth in Postgres.

Builders @dm03514

Data & analyticsDeveloper tools

baseline

A starter template for building Astro websites, designed to be used together with (AI) coding agents.

Builders @jacoplane

Developer tools

bldbrne-vr

A native VR reimagination of the game Bloodborne, with all interactions redesigned to feel physical in VR and combat retuned, aiming to feel like a native VR experience rather than a port.

Builders @pantelisk

Games

Audio FPAA ASIC

An audio field-programmable analog array (FPAA) ASIC being prepared for the Wafer Space run 3 chip fabrication shuttle. Circuit blocks are partially validated ahead of the tapeout deadline, and a two-edge pad ring design from the prior run could enable significant die area savings.

Builders @Archit3ch

Hardware & DIY

Private offline image browser and tagger

A desktop app for browsing, tagging, and rating image collections. It reads image files without modifying them, keeping all tags, ratings, and metadata in a local SQLite database, and works fully offline as a private, easy-to-use alternative to the Eagle app.

Builders @bbx

Creative tools & mediaProductivity

Moulin

An audiobook player that plays local audiobooks and LibriVox books, and also includes a curated library of audio drama podcasts.

Builders @jacoplane

Creative tools & media