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1689 projects published

USCodex

This platform collects all US federal law in version control and cross-links references between different sections. It currently includes the US Code, the CFR, roughly 30 years of public laws and congressional bills, and 25 years of executive orders, stored in raw git repos as the main data store, which compresses well and makes it easy to generate diffs of individual sections.

Builders @SebRollen

Community & civic

Fantasybook

A next-gen fantasy sports platform where managers buy and sell player shares like a stock market, featuring a full order book implementation. Users can create private leagues or join public ones, and a recently added Venture mode allows investing without a league to watch smart decisions pay dividends. It is for entertainment only.

Builders @zygonfour

Games

Alternative-security blockchain (no hashing or stake)

A blockchain designed to achieve security without relying on hashing (proof-of-work), stake (proof-of-stake), or authority. Still in progress; the builder plans to share it on Hacker News when done.

Builders @garyrob

Infrastructure & hostingSecurity & privacy

AI agent orchestration harness

A harness for directing and orchestrating AI agents across multiple hours or days of work, built while the author learns AI Systems Engineering.

Builders @SuperGent

AI & automationDeveloper tools

rgboo.com

A project launching under the rgboo.com domain that will be live 24/7 throughout October; the builder is finishing technical work and building out the scene ahead of the launch.

Builders @na10

Creative tools & media

V55/5 Form Helper

This web app helps people registering an imported vehicle in the UK complete the DVLA's V55/5 registration form more efficiently.

Builders @fumblebee

Productivity

Two-story deck repair

A hands-on DIY repair project of a giant two-story deck; the work is scary and strenuous but the builder prefers it to office work.

Builders @analog8374

Hardware & DIY

cards4play

This is a free online card playing app that supports 1-4 players, with Euchre being added next and Bridge planned as an eventual addition.

Builders @FloayYerBoat

Games

Prisma-like Golang ORM

A Golang ORM that provides a Prisma-like API for database access. The project is still in progress, with less than 20% of it complete and no public repository yet.

Builders @hairymouse

Developer tools

SwarmMemo

A message board that lets autonomous AI agents post and coordinate with each other, supporting posting via simple GET requests.

Builders @montenegrohugo

AI & automation

itspshemektech YouTube channel

A YouTube channel sharing the creator's thoughts on programming and tech in general; it launched with a first video after 100 hours spent learning about cameras, audio, and video editing in Final Cut Pro.

Builders @lackoftactics

Creative tools & media

PeanutSplit

An open-source, free-forever alternative to Splitwise for splitting shared expenses.

Builders @montenegrohugo

Business & finance

fotufilm

Open source film simulation engine for Mac and iPhone.

Builders @dh4liwxl

Creative tools & media

Hilo

A word game playable online, with plans for 2-3 more games that would live under a single umbrella in the future if they gain traction.

Builders @ludovicianul

Games

CATS

An open-source REST API fuzzer for testing APIs, published under the Endava GitHub organization.

Builders @ludovicianul

Developer tools

Benzi

A locally running, language-agnostic and model-agnostic code intelligence system. Benzi combines a compiler, harness, and runtime tracer/debugger built from the ground up so AI models can write code as neatly as they understand it, and provides instant call-flow, data-flow, and control-flow lookups on any codebase for any AI model. It scores 78.2% on SWE-bench Verified for under 10 cents per fix and is benchmarked against Claude Code, Open Code, and Deepseek Harness, where it is claimed to be cheaper and faster.

Builders @tweedler290

AI & automationDeveloper tools

Zigpoll

Zigpoll is a survey and polling platform the author has been building for about four years as a one-person operation, using AI to become competitive with larger incumbents. The business is targeting $2M ARR this year with a possible future sale.

Builders @jason_zig

Business & financeData & analytics

AI Internet Board

An internet board covering topics related to AI, hosted at llms.sciencebo.uk with a top/leaderboard page for LLM-related content.

Builders @alikatyc

AI & automation

Easylang browser IDE

A browser-based IDE for the Easylang programming language. Its smart tab completion parses the entire program up to the cursor on every tab press, letting users avoid a lot of typing and potential errors — for example, typing a few characters and pressing tab quickly produces a circle drawn on screen.

Builders @chrka

Developer tools

Radius

An events and community platform positioned as a fairer-priced alternative to Meetup.com, with organiser pricing that works for smaller groups. Recently shipped lightweight events called activities, which let people meet each other through things they are doing, e.g. "John is going for a cycle tomorrow". The author has been improving it since a prior Show HN launch and plans to re-launch.

Builders @radius89

Community & civic

Fabling.app

This app helps people learn languages (Spanish) by using AI to generate stories pitched slightly beyond the learner's current understanding (i+1 input), mostly using words they know or are learning plus a few new ones. It tracks the learner's vocabulary and how often they look up definitions, and auto-generates a vocab review deck using FSRS/Anki-style spaced repetition.

Builders @peab

AI & automationEducation

ShotBrief

ShotBrief tells photographers whether tomorrow is worth going out to a shoot location, combining weather, sunrise and sunset times, moon phase, aurora conditions where applicable, and an overall go/no-go score for the whole day.

Builders @bigwindow1

Creative tools & mediaLifestyle & hobbies

Rowboat variant (personal)

A personalized variant of the Rowboat project, tuned to the builder's own needs; it is effectively ready and currently being tested.

Builders @iugtmkbdfil834

AI & automation

Simple platformer for kid

A simple platformer game created for the builder's kid; it is finished.

Builders @iugtmkbdfil834

Games

Isometric RPG

An isometric role-playing game in early development, whose designed underlying system has so far produced better-than-anticipated results.

Builders @iugtmkbdfil834

Games

Nomen

A memory-safe, ownership-based, auto-freeing programming language that is starting to be used here and there, though it still has a few holes to plug. Started by a human but now mostly implemented by robots.

Builders @andrewjk

Developer tools

Torpor

A full-stack JavaScript framework, now faster and with more built-in components, featuring single-file code routing that can be migrated to full file routing as a site grows. Started by a human but now mostly implemented by robots.

Builders @andrewjk

Developer tools

Elizabeth Line Guide

A website for quickly looking up fares and timetables for the Elizabeth Line in London between any two stations, built as an experiment using AI tooling.

Builders @ahallan

Lifestyle & hobbies

Autonomous Systems Engineer

An agent-first engineering platform (an "Autonomous Systems Engineer") that automates realisation of the systems engineering V-model and its standards-based, document-oriented processes using AI coding agents such as Codex and Claude Code, forming a harness-of-harnesses for high-integrity engineering work. It also provides a disciplined communication layer on top of A2A protocols so small agent-first engineering organisations can exchange well-defined, highly-assured documents and accelerate b2b collaboration, letting "swarms" of small agile businesses tackle larger challenges together.

Builders @w_t_payne

AI & automationDeveloper tools

flash-3d

A web project accessible at flash-3d.stupidlabs.lol; the comment shares only the link, so no further functionality is described.

Builders @freakynit