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Cave

A Palantir-like system that packages data, ontology, logic, actions, security, and operational workflows into a single CLI. It is local-first, using git-friendly text .cave files and sqlite3 instead of k8s-style complexity. The next planned step is extending the language with AST-style traversal, modification, and generation for arbitrary ASTs and better integration with external file types and the filesystem.

Builders @mirekrusin

Data & analyticsDeveloper tools

BetterCapture

A native, resource-efficient screen recorder for macOS that supports HEVC, H.264, ProRes 422/4444, HDR, and alpha channels.

Builders @jsattler

Creative tools & media

Keyboard pants

A wearable hardware project building 'keyboard pants' — pants with an integrated keyboard mechanism that works using magnets (the linked post summarizes the approach as 'TL;DR: magnets').

Builders @utopiah

Hardware & DIY

monohunter

This tool finds single long-period mono-transits in public TESS light curves — single-transit events that periodic pipelines like SPOC/QLP, which fold on a period, structurally under-find. It is designed so many people can each search under-covered targets and combine their machine-readable finds, with runs covering thousands of stars at a time.

Builders @Rinkia

Data & analyticsScience & research

Toy chatbot with OpenCode and GLM 5.3

This is a toy chatbot being built by vibe coding with OpenCode and the GLM 5.3 model, using open weights models and AI SWE tools like Mastra, LangSmith, and DeepInfra along the way. It will be open-sourced once meaningfully complete, after the repo is checked for secrets.

Builders @alex-moon

AI & automation

GitHub issues/PRs iteration loop orchestrator

This tool orchestrates iteration loops based on GitHub issues and pull requests. The author describes it as the actual useful output of the project and plans to open-source it as well.

Builders @alex-moon

AI & automationDeveloper tools

FeedSync

This tool syndicates RSS feed posts to Discord, designed to be simple to set up and run unattended ("just work", set and forget). A forthcoming feature uses an Elixir Lua runtime to build custom feeds by parsing HTML.

Builders @hsx

AI & automation

RiffRadar

This app generates better music recommendations on Spotify, experimenting with multiple recommendation algorithms that will soon be exposed as selectable options for its playlists.

Builders @vulkoingim

AI & automationCreative tools & media

Academa

A generative UI tool for education that uses AI to generate educational user interfaces.

Builders @sinaatalay

AI & automationEducation

Peachjam

A low-cost alternative to the Lovable app-building platform, aiming to include all of its features; currently in alpha.

Builders @tornikeo

AI & automationDeveloper tools

Datalog writebacks through derived columns

This is a client-side technique for enabling writebacks through derived (computed) columns in Datalog queries: any value appearing anywhere in a query — including string-transformed, concatenated, or arithmetic derivations — can be edited back to the underlying data, and the approach should work with any Datalog-based database. For example, a movie's title and rating can be edited through a derived card column.

Builders @Xmd5a

Data & analyticsDeveloper tools

Grovs

A self-hosted, privacy-friendly attribution and marketing suite for mobile apps, positioned as an alternative to the few dominant mobile measurement partners (Branch, AppsFlyer, etc.) without relying on their platforms.

Builders @dobreandl

Business & financeData & analytics

nadir.dev

This app runs daily technical knowledge tests, starting as a way for the author to check whether heavy reliance on claude-code had dulled their Ruby/Rails expertise, and now also covering non-technical topics for a broader audience.

Builders @gmitrev

Education

OnlineOrNot

OnlineOrNot is a managed uptime monitoring SaaS with support for HTTP checks, cron checks, and Playwright-based browser checks running across AWS regions, wired into highly available status pages. Recent work includes an MCP server with OAuth sign-in to expose the API to agents, a TypeScript SDK, a rewritten CLI built on that SDK, and a Terraform provider being reworked to cover the whole OpenAPI spec's surface area. The product is built directly on its public REST API.

Builders @rozenmd

Developer toolsInfrastructure & hosting

longlink

A GitHub-style platform for processes and data, described as 'GitHub, but for processes and data.'

Builders @Sau1707

Developer tools

StoryStarling

This service creates custom hardcover children's books written from scratch around any idea, rather than swapping names into pre-set templates. It focuses on titles that are hard to find in bookstores, such as bilingual stories with parallel text and non-fiction books for kids with hyper-specific obsessions like tunnel boring machines or wastewater systems.

Builders @storystarling

Creative tools & media

Today I Will Destroy You

A game featuring a melee combat system inspired by Sekiro, Tunic, the Zelda games, and Death's Door. The melee combat system is currently in prototyping, with a playable build available on itch.io.

Builders @piinecone

Games

Survive 10 Waves

A browser game built from scratch with no prior game development experience, created using AI as part of an experiment, with the game currently being prepared for publication on Steam.

Builders @trungdq88

Games

scikit-verify

A verification tool that traces Python and NumPy programs into SymPy formulas and checks them symbolically across all execution branches.

Builders @aadyachinubhai

Developer tools

Audioguidekit

An open-source, React-based audio player built primarily for museums and tour guides. Its flexible design and architecture let it deliver sequential audio guides and support any use-case that requires sequential audio playback.

Builders @agilek

Creative tools & mediaDeveloper tools

codeplug.org

A web-based CPS (customer programming software) that uses modern web platform features together with the historically stable open-source CHIRP drivers to program channels into amateur radio equipment.

Builders @jasiek

Hardware & DIY

Resterm

Terminal API client that uses .http files as the source of truth, treating API definitions as code rather than collections like in tools such as Postman, Bruno, or Yaak. Supports gRPC, GraphQL, websockets, SSE, local mocks, and SSH/Kubernetes access.

Builders @unkn0wn_root

Developer tools

Three Bears Travel

A travel blog where the author publishes long-form written essays about their travels.

Builders @svg7

Creative tools & mediaLifestyle & hobbies

Quantral

Quantral tracks stock sentiment and crowd wisdom on social networks for investment purposes, helping users discover hot stocks and see the track records of people who mentioned those stocks on finx and /r/wsb. Congressional trading is planned as an additional data source.

Builders @0x70dd

Business & financeData & analytics

Common

A UK-based 'big data' charity that undertakes big data projects in service of human flourishing, collects and synthesizes datasets from hostile actors or freedom of information requests, and collaborates with other charities to build useful tools that facilitate effective coordination.

Builders @savgore

Community & civicData & analytics

Marks out of Tenancy

The UK's largest and most active landlord review platform. It aggregates, hosts, and queries tenancy review data, with systems for estimating how many people live in a property, checking for HMO licensing to detect illegal or rogue landlords and illegal short lets, and longitudinal data collection on tenant-landlord housing conflict that informed the increase of the rent repayment order threshold in the renters rights act.

Builders @savgore

Community & civicData & analytics

Multicoder

Multicoder is a VS Code extension providing a single GUI for launching and working with any ACP-compatible coding agent, including Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Qwen. It requires no new subscription or user ID since authentication is handled by the agent harness, letting users work with their existing subscriptions in one UI without mental switching cost.

Builders @xkam

AI & automationDeveloper tools

ChatOctopus

An AI agent built for content creators.

Builders @moinism

AI & automationCreative tools & media

Pho

A keyboard-driven terminal UI (TUI) for reviewing pull requests across multiple repositories, designed as a fast, direct replacement for GitHub's web UI for most day-to-day review workflows.

Builders @stag

Developer tools

Localhero

This tool provides on-brand automated translations for product teams, running mainly as a GitHub Action that translates new strings on pull requests against a glossary and style guide. It has MCP integration so assistants like Claude Desktop and ChatGPT can find every key needing changes and organize the work while Localhero keeps the copy on-brand, letting PMs, designers and others bulk tweak copy without touching git. It has also deepened Lingui and Django support.

Builders @arvida

AI & automationDeveloper tools