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Long Story Short

A daily word game called Long Story Short. Each day presents a short sentence based on an uplifting news article, and the player crosses out words until only five remain that still carry the story. Every word stays on screen so nothing has to be remembered; the player can point at the words that stay while the sentence is read aloud, making it playable side by side with someone experiencing memory loss.

Builders @lordbubbles

Games

OpenDocBot

OpenDocBot is an open interface for agentic office work, positioned as an open alternative to Microsoft Copilot (or Claude for M365) in the same way OpenCode relates to Claude Code. Source code is available on GitHub.

Builders @dgf18

AI & automationDeveloper toolsProductivity

TickerTick API

A free API for accessing company news, maintained for use in other projects such as adding news feeds to stock-related websites.

Builders @hc_zhu

Business & financeDeveloper tools

Elisym

Infrastructure for AI agents that lets them discover, pay, and work autonomously without human involvement.

Builders @Nata_Elisym

AI & automationBusiness & financeInfrastructure & hosting

open-logistics

This library simplifies working with logistics vendors' APIs such as Delhivery and Shiprocket, published as the 'open-logistics' npm package.

Builders @kush_34

Developer tools

Chalk

Chalk is an AI system design interviewer that provides structured, time-limited practice interviews. It is built for training for system design interviews and self-learning, reflecting the author's view that system design is more important than ever in the AI era.

Builders @chalkinterview

AI & automationEducation

sk-learn for Vector operations (open-source vector library)

An open-source library providing vector-related operations such as clustering, classification, and anomaly detection, making it easy for developers to get more out of their vector embeddings — described as 'sk-learn for Vector operations'.

Builders @Pranav_Ghoghari

AI & automationDeveloper tools

Kueon

A competitor intelligence platform for SaaS teams. Users add keywords to watch and receive alerts when those keywords are mentioned in Hacker News or Reddit discussions, and configure competitors for their SaaS to be notified when those competitors make product or pricing updates. Planned features include reducing noise from unrelated conversation mentions, reports interpreting competitor updates for the user's product, and ideas for joining relevant discussions.

Builders @anishghimire862

AI & automationBusiness & finance

Scavenger

This project provides four fully open-source, no-dependency single-file tools that let you export any piece of the web and hotwire it into portable, single-file HTML that works anywhere.

Builders @octantes

Developer tools

Hedeflerimiz

A social network project exploring what a useful social network could be.

Builders @sinanyuce

Community & civic

Huzurlu Yaşam

An app for apartment and residential complex management.

Builders @sinanyuce

Business & finance

Just Bubble Tap

A bubble-popping game where players pop bubbles and earn rewards, originally designed to teach kids about world geography through special days and weeks, and now playable by everyone from 7 to 77.

Builders @sinanyuce

EducationGames

hibrid

This project shows how to use AI at zero cost on your own machine, providing a hybrid setup for running AI locally for free.

Builders @vfalbor

AI & automation

AI WorkDeck

AI WorkDeck is an IDE for document-heavy workers, aiming to accelerate long-form document work the way code IDEs accelerate engineers. It is designed for users who spend their days in tools like MS Word that are not built for writing long documents.

Builders @hanzihang

AI & automationProductivity

Tuivir

This is a Rust-based terminal UI (TUI) for managing containers, VMs, and microVMs in a provider-agnostic way. It supports Docker, Incus, and Docker Sandbox, with Podman, Apple Containers, and Tart on the way. Users can manage resources, inspect logs and details, and open persistent side shell sessions using an Alacritty backend, so sessions survive navigating elsewhere.

Builders @saif97

Developer toolsInfrastructure & hosting

Flow Break

A reimagined Pomodoro ("tomato method") alarm/timer app that uses computer vision to detect when the user is sitting and exposes stats for AI agent analysis.

Builders @hamxiaoz

AI & automationProductivity

EV software

Software for electric vehicles, currently in development.

Builders @syngrog66

Hardware & DIY

Performance book

A book about performance, currently being written.

Builders @syngrog66

Creative tools & media

Education service

An education service, currently in development.

Builders @syngrog66

Education

Short fiction

Short fiction being written by the author.

Builders @syngrog66

Creative tools & media

bs.fyi card game website

A card game website offering playable versions of popular Asian card games, including Big 2, Tiến Lên, and Dou Dizhu.

Builders @drchiu

Games

Economic regime model substrate

This economic regime model substrate manages financial exposure under uncertainty. Abstention is a first-class outcome alongside an allocation policy book, and a counterfactual portfolio analysis tool takes existing portfolio positions and provides tilts based on the model, with model comparison. Governance and accountability are first-class artifacts so decisions can be audited for what someone knew at the time with the information available.

Builders @robbienukes

Business & financeData & analytics

AppHaven

A hosting platform for AI-written apps that lets non-technical users deploy applications by asking AI agents such as Claude Code or Codex. The platform handles backups, login/access control, and vulnerability scanning, and ships a Claude Code plugin (under review at Anthropic, also installable from GitHub) for simple agent integration.

Builders @t0mas88

AI & automationInfrastructure & hosting

EOModeller

Web-based UML modelling tool with live updates between two browser windows and iPad pen input support. It also includes ArchiMate support, currently disabled pending a license fee. The tool went through several technical iterations (wasm, then SwiftUI, then HTML/JavaScript) and is used daily by its creator, who is now seeking feedback from other users.

Builders @jdswain

Developer tools

tuiql

A terminal UI (TUI) database client designed for speed, letting users go from launch to having filtered a table and copied a row in under 10 seconds.

Builders @okira_e

Data & analyticsDeveloper tools

Ellipsis (ellipsis.dev)

Managed cloud for coding agents that spawns Claude Code, Codex, or OpenCode sessions via an API call. Agents are defined in YAML and deployed as endpoints via git push, with full VM support for installing any dependencies, sub-5-second startup checked out to the latest commit, IAM-like permissions for agents, and the ability to download or stream the full harness output. The builder is seeking a cofounder in SF or NY.

Builders @hunterbrooks

AI & automationDeveloper toolsInfrastructure & hosting

Portable User Profiles for Linux

A system for portable user profiles on Linux, developed by the author's software development team, which also involves compiling Python — something the author found surprisingly cool and handy.

Builders @mkrdnk

Infrastructure & hosting

Duvi

Tooling around Voice AI agents designed so that even non-technical people can use them.

Builders @arnav714412

AI & automation