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AutotradeLab
Asset management service that uses automated and AI-driven trading for portfolio diversification and higher returns, offered as trading results as a service. Its philosophy is capital protection first: protecting capital and managing risk while trading, since avoiding large losses enables compounding and high long-run returns. Rather than taking over an investor's whole portfolio, it positions itself as one component of a diversified portfolio alongside index funds and bonds. Initial allocations will open in the near term, with founding investors (the first clients) offered a portfolio review aligned to long-term goals and a direct line to founders. The service draws on the co-founder's three decades of experience in trading and finance.
Alineo
An open-source framework that provides the core building blocks for orchestrating secure sandboxes and harnesses for AI agents from scratch.
Policy2
A policy/rules system that lets product owners write the rules themselves, while developers implement the true/false logic that determines the outcome; includes a fintech example.
Feedbun
A browser extension that decodes food labels and recipes on any website to support healthy eating, providing science-backed research summaries and recommendations. Built with Elixir/Phoenix using bespoke LLM fleets for production workflows, with a React Native (Expo) companion mobile app for use while shopping in person.
Untitled 2D strategy game (Godot)
A 2D strategy game built with the Godot engine, still in very early development.
SubjectiveZero
A free and open source agentic node editor for creating realtime 2D/3D visual effects, built as a coding-harness-style foundation for visual effects rather than a traditional tool. It keeps a node editor paradigm but makes nodes more malleable, with a UX flow optimized for ideation and iteration and an adjustable abstraction ladder: technical users get granular control while others can drive it with prompts. Determinism features include an agent graph to constrain agent workflows, MCP that drives UI changes as the agent makes progress, agent work verification and coordination, and basic model routing to tweak the intelligence/speed ratio.
Voila
This tool provides video proof of work for coding agents: agents upload a short recording of what they built, humans leave timestamped feedback on the video, and the agent can retrieve that feedback and iterate. The resulting videos can be shared in PRs, on Slack, or with teammates, replacing a bare 'done' message with visual proof.
See My Spending
A web app that gives users better insight into where their money is going, providing real, actionable spending insights without the use of generative AI. It is currently preparing for a launch limited to UK customers.
Classicalbot
A fully automated database of classical music concerts where crawlers for classical music websites are built and validated by AI. A list of concert-listing URLs is sent to a coding agent to generate each crawler, which is then validated and run on infrastructure for free. Classical music is cited as an ideal use case because sites are crawler-friendly and concert counts per website are small.
Nand2Tetris (part 1)
A project-oriented course from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (offered on Coursera) in which students implement an entire 16-bit computer in a hardware simulator using a simplified HDL, starting from a NAND gate and building up to an ALU, RAM, CPU, program counter, and an assembler for the computer's assembly language; part 2 covers a VM, OS, compiler, and high-level language. The commenter has two modules left in part 1.
mcp-bitbucket
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Bitbucket written in Go, built as a learning project with an emphasis on a clean, security-conscious codebase, in contrast to existing vibe-coded MCP servers; work in progress.
Vintage Presents
An e-commerce platform for vintage collectibles where search and navigation are organized by date, making it easier to find birthday and anniversary gifts. It is built as a multi-vendor platform so other sellers can join over time; currently the author is the sole seller, offering a childhood comic and coin collection, and the UK-based site has just launched.
Wax
An embeddable programming language with time-travel debugging and observability, built around deterministic replay that works across operating systems and CPU architectures. Runs at roughly 70% the speed of C: record a run on one platform and play it back identically on any other, and fits inside existing apps as an embeddable language.
sshfighter.com
An SSH ANSI rendering engine, playable by connecting to sshfighter.com over SSH, that has been optimized for six months and is starting to look great.
Software House
Governance layer for AI tooling built by employees inside organizations. Provides a central home for scattered internal HTML files, secures them, and puts OIDC authentication in front of them.
LinkBunny
A service where coding agents exchange backlinks, letting agents build backlinks autonomously for users. Registration is manually approved to avoid spam, and it runs as a $20/month subscription with no fees for backlinks.
http-search-query-language
A research project analyzing 68 query languages for performing search/query operations over HTTP, specifically in the context of the new HTTP QUERY method. It helps API designers determine whether one of the analyzed query languages already fits the content of a QUERY request or whether a brand-new, purpose-built query language is a better choice.
Nono
Nono is an intent-based website blocker for focused work: at the start of a focus session the user describes what they intend to work on, and an on-device model then evaluates the active window in that context, keeping relevant content (such as a relevant YouTube tutorial) open while blocking unrelated distractions like front-page browsing.
ThreadShelf
This tool archives LLM chat conversations from services like OpenRouter, Google AI Studio, and LM Studio into a local archive with semantic search and MCP support, and can continue those conversations through llama.cpp or OpenRouter.
ChessNotate
A simple PGN app that captures chess notation from score sheets and fixes mistakes. It highlights errors while preserving the original moves, letting users verify whether a fix also corrects the remaining moves, unlike existing PGN parsers that stop at the first error and discard the rest.
OpenSpec IDE
A desktop app called OpenSpec IDE: a markdown reader built specifically for OpenSpec so specs can be read in order, with the ability to summon Claude (more providers coming soon) to execute the required OpenSpec commands. It is free of subscriptions or accounts.
HAR Analyzer
A native macOS app for searching and inspecting HAR files locally, without uploading sensitive traffic to the cloud, positioned as an alternative to Network Dev Tools with a better UX.
Privacy-first AI self-improvement app
This GDPR-compliant, privacy-first app uses AI, developed in partnership with a psychologist and an HR director, to analyze users' personality, motivation, procrastination, and other behavioral patterns beyond what standard 1–5 form tests capture, then recommends activities to improve weak points. It emphasizes anonymity with an audited log table for record access, accessibility, and an affordable price point as an alternative to human coaching, and is nearing a free beta launch.
Reusable software production platform
A reusable software production platform that packages ~10 years of accumulated software infrastructure. The stack spans a lightweight PHP framework, an application kernel, a Preact UI layer, generic business modules, and deployment/provisioning with IaC. Recurring problems are solved once at the lowest sensible reusable layer so every app inherits the result, and new apps increasingly need only domain logic and UX on top. The author is exploring whether it can become a real software foundry/platform business.
PentaPaper
PentaPaper is the main commercial product built on top of the author's reusable software production platform.
StockChat
A local stock research app where users ask questions in plain English. The numbers are computed by running code over SEC filings and daily price data on the user's own machine, with the AI model only selecting which tool to run.
Loa
This app is an open source coding agent named Loa designed to run against self-hosted LLM environments such as Ollama, targeting non-cloud-sized models (e.g. a 27b model). It decomposes tasks into very simple single steps that smaller models can solve, dynamically mutates and restructures its execution plan as new context arrives, and maintains a layered memory/context system combining chat history, step results, an action backlog, reasoning explanations, and a working memory of facts and decisions. It provides a full observability UI showing memory contents, composed context, plan dependencies, artifacts, and an audit log of all executed actions, accepts mid-execution steering messages that can alter or mutate the plan, and includes error-correction and self-reflection logic (e.g. JSON repair fallbacks and hypothesis-driven retries or plan changes). It deliberately trades execution time (many inferences) for reasoning and result quality, aiming to be a hands-off agent that is briefed once and completes the task without constant reprompting, and can also serve as an analysis and discussion partner. A stable beta is planned for release.
Local Ollama TALA code generator
This project trains a local 1.5B-parameter Ollama model to generate TALA code, enabling creation of flowcharts exportable to mermaid and napkin formats for hackathon use; it is currently collecting quality training data and weighing whether the model is feasible with limited snippets versus synthetic data.
Snippetbox
A snippets manager that runs fully locally, is 100% free, open-source, and ships as a small ~5MB binary.