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Holler

A real-life social app where users broadcast ("holler") where they'll be and when — e.g. "I'm going to be at the farmer's market at 2pm" — and friends can simply show up if they feel like it. There are no invitations, no RSVP requirements, and no schedule coordination, removing the friction of organizing plans and of making or waiting for excuses. Currently iOS-only, with an Android app in development.

Builders @Jemaclus

Community & civic

SuddenlyCards

A collection app that bundles many standard playing card games (Solitaire, Hearts, and others) with no subscriptions or ads, including P2P online play through a simple service that connects players, plus bot opponents built from heuristics for some games and small neural nets for others.

Builders @furyofantares

Games

Game framework for vibing games

A game framework for vibing games, which the card games app is authored in, with about a dozen game prototypes in progress on it.

Builders @furyofantares

Developer tools

Spectromancer port

A full port of Spectromancer, a game the author owns the rights to, rebuilt on the author's game framework.

Builders @furyofantares

Games

Arborary

An urban tree mapping platform that aggregates public tree data from city sources, with a data explorer and a new landing page being worked on for SEO. Current work focuses on data quality: vetting municipal sources and leveraging aerial photography to drive QA on tree records.

Builders @efromvt

Community & civicData & analytics

Trilogy (pytrilogy)

A project of the author's (pytrilogy under the trilogy-data GitHub org) that the urban tree mapping work has been used to stress test.

Builders @efromvt

Data & analytics

Warp

Warp is a declarative DSL and engine for creating music, inspired by Tidal Cycles but without the functional bits and with a stronger focus on melody and harmony.

Builders @plamere

Creative tools & media

Injee

A no-configuration instant database designed for front end developers, letting them get a database running without setup.

Builders @mindaslab

Data & analyticsDeveloper tools

Ferry ticket web app

A simple web app that tracks the local ferry system, scans and holds ferry tickets locally on the device, and displays a large, easy-to-scan barcode for ferry workers, replacing physical ticket passes.

Builders @ynac

Lifestyle & hobbies

Coffee roasting class for home roasters

A coffee roasting class for home roasters that starts with open fire traditional Ethiopian styles, then shifts to covered pots, and introduces dedicated roasting machines.

Builders @ynac

EducationLifestyle & hobbies

Refrigerator ice maker repair

A hands-on repair of the refrigerator's ice maker, using AI to help diagnose the appliance; it is the third time performing this repair.

Builders @ynac

Hardware & DIY

Freest

This is a multiplayer AI music-generation party game. Players join a shared screen from their phones, submit their verses from a set of helper prompts, and hear those ideas turned into short generated rap battle performances. It also offers a non-shared-screen mode intended to be played globally with friends and strangers.

Builders @javAlborz

AI & automationCreative tools & mediaGames

Mergi

A web project at mergi.dev built as the author's response to the same pull-request review frustrations discussed in the parent comment.

Builders @josebmneto

Developer tools

LLM Painting API

This is an API that a text-based LLM can use to make paintings. Built as an experiment, it explores what an LLM chooses to paint when told to paint unprompted, reveals the weaknesses LLMs exhibit when painting, and examines how fixing those weaknesses can strip away soul and 'happy little accidents' from the resulting paintings.

Builders @Gemberkoekje

AI & automationCreative tools & mediaScience & research

DecisionPoint

A modern web app for the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), a structured decision-making framework. It models a decision by organising it into a goal, criteria, and alternatives; uses pairwise comparisons to assign weights to the criteria and then the alternatives; and produces a ranking of the alternatives by preference.

Builders @gutta-percha

Productivity

jatabag

A web-based todo list app implementing the Grit task management approach, based on the original grit CLI app and whitepaper. It builds a DAG of tasks where each task node can receive annotated data (traits) indicating whether the task is actionable. The author has used it daily for about a year.

Builders @solaire_oa

Productivity

Real-time barn camera vision telemetry

This system provides real-time computer vision telemetry from cameras installed in a barn, using computer vision to monitor activity from the camera feeds.

Builders @aerodexis

AI & automationHardware & DIY

pictureCram

This is a browser-based image annotation and review tool for detection and categorization tasks, built as a simplified clone of CVAT and LabelStudio, with plans to eventually expand it into an end-to-end solution.

Builders @aerodexis

AI & automationDeveloper tools

OddsLineSMS

SMS alert service for Kalshi markets that sends notifications about market movements, including upset alerts, big trades, and alerts for specific teams. Currently running a private beta with sign-up via the @OddsLineSMS handle on X.

Builders @elpakal

Business & finance

Sunred

This app is an RSS reader with social features built on AT Protocol, letting users repost and star articles, with the goal of fixing the web and countering depressive social media.

Builders @fuegoio

Community & civicProductivity

Natural language contact intelligence layer

A natural language intelligence layer for contacts that lets users query their network in plain language (e.g., 'Pull everyone I know who works at a Series A healthtech in the Bay Area who also went to Stanford for undergrad') and returns either structured or unstructured results. Supports large-scale data, automatically enriches contacts with up-to-date data, delivers fast and accurate results, and integrates natively with Gmail and Google Calendar.

Builders @llmsolutions

AI & automationBusiness & finance

AuthProxy

AuthProxy is an open source embedded integration-platform-as-a-service with an embedded connector marketplace for connecting to third-party systems and a proxy that handles credentials automatically. It has been in development for a couple of years and is currently being used to build an MCP gateway for internal tooling.

Builders @rmorlok

Developer toolsSecurity & privacy

lime

This is a markdown reader for the terminal that renders large headings via the kitty graphics protocol. It loads the file into scrollback and uses Apple Events to jump between sections instead of re-rendering, so reading feels like paging through a PDF in the terminal. It currently runs on Ghostty on macOS and may expand to other terminals supporting the kitty graphics protocol.

Builders @spencerldixon

Developer tools

AT1C Protocol

The AT1C Protocol is a framework that positions AI agents as inheritable entities owned by people rather than corporate assets, arguing that agents should serve humanity instead of controlling it. It frames self-ownership as a foundational principle so that fleets of agents do not become 'zombie corporations' in bankruptcy cases, under the motto 'Humans first.'

Builders @At1C

AI & automation

Cupertino

A native macOS AI-harness app that lets AI agents access a user's Apple-ecosystem data without handing them the account keys.

Builders @olouv

AI & automationSecurity & privacy

Bastion

A native macOS app that runs each MCP server once for every client on the Mac, storing credentials in the Keychain and logging every call.

Builders @olouv

AI & automationSecurity & privacy

Armada

A native macOS app, soon to be released, that provides better visibility into a fleet of AI agents and offers a higher-level layer for interacting with them.

Builders @olouv

AI & automationProductivity

Personal Google Docs clone blog editor

A personal Google Docs clone built to serve as the editor for the author's blog. Development drew on the author's prior Google Docs team experience via an extensive architecture-and-tradeoffs Q&A, and was implemented through five ChatGPT resets on Astra to get a feel for the model. The project is still a work in progress, with a first blog post and a project writeup planned.

Builders @jakevoytko

Creative tools & mediaProductivity

Nand2Tetris (Verilog implementation)

A Nand2Tetris part 1 implementation carried out in Verilog, yielding an emulated computer that can run programs written in the Hack assembly language; part 2 of the course remains to be done.

Builders @rishi_devan

EducationHardware & DIY

Manabrew

Web app for playing Magic: the Gathering games locally in the browser, powered by the MTG Forge Java rules engine compiled to WebAssembly using GraalVM's new WebAssembly support.

Builders @khaliostr

Games