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Jankara-style karaoke app

A karaoke application built using SingOnKey as a base, intended to work like the karaoke systems in Japanese karaoke boxes (Jankara), so the builder can sing with his wife like they did in Japan.

Builders @jyapayne

Creative tools & media

subedit

An AI-native linter and formatter for AI-generated code comments and Markdown. It automatically fixes style misalignments deterministically, and when a problem cannot be fixed by reformatting, it invokes AI via a hook to regenerate the content.

Builders @mroops0111

AI & automationDeveloper tools

Voice Brain Dump

A web app for voice-based brain dumping — capturing thoughts and ideas by speaking them out, shared via the domain voicebraindump.com.

Builders @Tsarp

Productivity

Paper Profit

A paper-trading platform that teaches investing and trading through hands-on simulated trading practice, letting users learn by doing.

Builders @pg1

Business & financeEducation

BestOf journal reduction framework

An analog, pen-and-paper framework that reduces daily journals into a curated commonplace book. The process: write a daily journal as usual, underline the most resonant passages with a red pen, let the thoughts settle for a few days, copy the best underlined sections into a separate 'BestOf' journal with a black pen, and then review weekly, striking through anything no longer needed. Over time this effortful reduction produces a single repository of the best ideas from all daily journals.

Builders @_bramses

Productivity

Launchroom

This is a self-hosting dashboard that provides a Railway-like canvas for connecting the different services in a project, and it uses Tailscale for easy multi-server setups.

Builders @bennett_dev

Infrastructure & hosting

Recap360

A macOS-only video player focused on 360-degree videos. It supports GoPro MAX, DJI Osmo 360 and Insta360 cameras, and also plays dash cams and body cams (Vantrue and Boblov). It loads footage of a multi-hour ride in seconds directly from MicroSD as a small ~5MB download with no ads and no accounts, and shows a map overlay plus graphs of internal camera metadata such as speed, altitude, ascent rate and internal temperature.

Builders @moj

Creative tools & media

kavla.dev

A SQL canvas tool providing a visual canvas for working with SQL, with support for pasting images. The builder is exploring layered graph drawing (Sugiyama) layout patterns for arranging nodes on the canvas.

Builders @aleda145

Data & analytics

isomorphic-app

A tool similar to Wayfinder for agent memory, built for use by non-technical teams.

Builders @isomorphic-12

AI & automationProductivity

KoalaMM

This memo app keeps indented lists flat instead of nesting them into parent-child hierarchies, letting users move lines around freely like in OneNote but with a less clunky interface.

Builders @my12parsecs

Productivity

ImperiaQuiz

Online multiplayer quiz game supporting 1-vs-1-vs-1 matches (with bot opponents when few players are online), a remake of the old ConQUIZtador game. Built with a Go backend, a React + Three.js frontend, and a bank of over 20,000 questions generated with LLMs and hand-reviewed.

Builders @xavortm

Games

draw

A live architecture board that developers and their coding agents draw on together. The agent connects over MCP (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, claude.ai) and draws what it changes as it works, with edges meant to cite a source line or fingerprint. Users can circle something in red crayon to get the agent to answer or fix it. Use cases include an incident scratch pad where the agent lays out its debugging findings, seeing how a change affects the architecture before reading the diff, flagging risky parts like a DB migration with every piece of code that reads that table, diagram branching (creating a branch of an existing diagram instead of cloning it), and a work-in-progress GitHub App that generates a diagram per PR. Open source under Apache-2.0.

Builders @mralanlee

AI & automationDeveloper tools

looot.ai

Pay-per-use platform that gives AI models access to a catalog of the best tools, with no subscription required.

Builders @luisalima

AI & automation

Luminum

This is a Raspberry Pi OS modification for kids that turns a Raspberry Pi into a dedicated at-home learning device. The core idea is a no-limit device at home dedicated to learning rather than games.

Builders @brisky

EducationHardware & DIY

Mother of all VPNs

A VPN project called 'Mother of all VPNs' (MOAV), presented with its homepage at moav.sh.

Builders @shayanbahal

Infrastructure & hostingSecurity & privacy

TheLastSaaS

Open source (MIT) data and backend layer that serves as glue between AI assistants, agents, and data. Provides a flexible data layer plus users, groups, granular permissions, notifications, durable work queues, and audit logs, with MCP and CLI interfaces that work across agents and assistants such as Claude and GPT.

Builders @mkly

AI & automationDeveloper tools

Video Hub App

Video Hub App is a desktop application for browsing, searching, and organizing video collections on Windows, Mac, and Linux, released as MIT-licensed open source. It is currently being ported from Electron to Tauri to shrink the installer from 400 MB to 40 MB.

Builders @yboris

Creative tools & media

PaperWX

A dead simple weather site that shows the next 24 hours of weather in plain language, emails the forecast the night before, and also displays NWS warnings and watches. It draws on freely available data from the local National Weather Service, aiming to fix unreadable weather sites.

Builders @pjo

Lifestyle & hobbies

Ghost-race running watch app

A watch app for runners that lets them compete against their previous runs, inspired by 1990s rally games where players raced against "ghosts".

Builders @alexmcpt

Health & fitness

LEGO deal tracker

A LEGO deal tracker aimed at collectors and LEGO investors that focuses on price prediction based on data.

Builders @alexmcpt

Business & financeLifestyle & hobbies

MiniHomelabs HWDB

A hardware database that works like a PCPartPicker for used OEM computers, letting home lab enthusiasts compare specs of old PCs. Currently focused on specs, with plans to add viable upgrade paths and explanations of the different model lineups.

Builders @burnt_toast

Data & analyticsHardware & DIY

Fantasy Recipes

A fantasy-themed recipe site where all the recipes are narrated by different characters. It took inspiration from the Necronomnomnom and is aimed at people who enjoy DnD.

Builders @specialdragon

Lifestyle & hobbies

Univerlab

A collection of the author's various projects, all hosted at univerlab.org; the comment provides no further details about the individual projects.

Builders @JheisonMB

Context Cost

A website presenting a software design theory centered on the concept of context cost, arguing that design decisions should be driven by context cost considerations.

Builders @lericzhang

Developer tools

Muster

A Libghostty-powered terminal for managing AI agents. It lets the user keep an eye on their agents and lets agents (cross-harness included) work together, communicate, and spawn new Muster agents themselves. Recently given a visual refresh and used as a daily driver.

Builders @amterp

AI & automationDeveloper tools

Kan

An offline Kanban system stored as files in a Git repository for tracking tasks and projects. AI agents can interact with it through the kan CLI, express which cards block what, and automatically pick up work with 'kan ready'.

Builders @amterp

AI & automationDeveloper toolsProductivity

LLM screenplay generation strategies

This project develops effective strategies for getting LLMs to generate screenplays that are not terrible; the author reports having found some approaches that seem to work.

Builders @iknownthing

AI & automationCreative tools & media

vpdf

This app is a vim-inspired terminal PDF reader built on MuPDF and the Kitty Graphics Protocol, letting users read PDFs in the terminal with vim keybindings.

Builders @letientai299

Productivity