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Coagent

This AI agent for real estate agents lets users manage their CRM with voice/chat, provides personalized property feeds based on what prospects and clients actually like, automatically routes field work such as pop-by visits, and automates showings with shareable itineraries and map tracking of both the agent and the client, including adding coffee stops.

Builders @darvid

AI & automationBusiness & finance

mklogo

This agentic logo generation service creates logos that vectorize into high quality brand assets and delivers a complete brand package, including favicons and OG images.

Builders @darvid

AI & automationCreative tools & media

Gleanary

This personal knowledge management system for macOS features a chat-first interface that lets users store any link and chat with their library and knowledge graph, and automatically files and categorizes saved content.

Builders @darvid

AI & automationProductivity

Cadenya

This is an agent runtime that connects to an existing API or MCP, letting users link a conversation UI directly to their API without the usual agent plumbing.

Builders @btables

AI & automationDeveloper tools

WPMaven.ai

This AI agent creates, runs, and grows a business for its owner: it handles all marketing, including UGC videos across social media, plus sales follow-up and closing sales. Owners can manage the business from WhatsApp, receive weekly reports on their phone, and approve or edit anything before it goes online.

Builders @wpmaven

AI & automationBusiness & finance

Pahunchi

A free personal safety app for women that simulates a realistic phone call with AI voice responses in the user's language (currently Hindi and English), so they can pretend to be on a call when alone in a cab or getting out of a bad date. During the call it can share location and play a voice note.

Builders @Avijit_Thawani

AI & automationSecurity & privacy

Screensnipe

A screenshot and screen recording tool built as a personal replacement for Snagit, focused on speed and including exactly the features the author needs with no extra bloat.

Builders @vucetica

Creative tools & media

Babel Nexus

Babel Nexus is a web app that offers free ebook applications, including a "Beyond the Public Domain" section that recently gained several new free ebook apps. After billing issues with its previous hosting, it is being rebuilt on the author's home computer using PowerShell and VS Code, with plans to host it long-term on Railway; the currently live site is a placeholder.

Builders @NishanStepak

Education

staaash

Self-hosted cloud drive, a Google Drive alternative that runs on your own server. The v2 release adds a desktop app with sync, redesigns the whole web app, and follows a near-complete rewrite of the codebase.

Builders @itsmeares

Infrastructure & hosting

Zd

A simpler, more extensible Markdown variant, developed with a principle of only accepting code written personally by the author.

Builders @tel

Developer tools

Embeddable language between Lua, Koka, and Erlang

A simple, embeddable programming language whose design sits somewhere between Lua, Koka, and Erlang, built under the author's principle of personally written code with occasional AI-assisted speculative experiments to benchmark design decisions.

Builders @tel

Developer tools

Marginalia index C++ port

A C++ port of Marginalia's search index code. The rewrite incorporates optimizations that drastically cut pointer chasing and relies primarily on an io_uring-based buffer pool population strategy with rare naked preads.

Builders @marginalia_nu

Data & analytics

Channel

Email, messaging, and social media platform with zero AI-generated content, aiming to get rid of the AI slop that has consumed the internet.

Builders @Aeroi

Community & civic

aix

A CLI and package-file system for AI tool configuration, like npm and package.json but for AI config. It standardizes AI configuration in one place so it can be shared with others and installed to tools such as Claude, Codex, and Cursor.

Builders @yokuze

Developer tools

Classifieds.fyi

A platform for creating private, invite-only classifieds for a community, supporting buying/selling listings, job boards, and vacation rentals, with housing support coming soon.

Builders @yokuze

Business & financeCommunity & civic

mcp-server-tauri

A Tauri 2 CLI and MCP server that lets an AI agent work inside a Tauri app, with abilities to debug, take screenshots, and run JavaScript.

Builders @yokuze

AI & automationDeveloper tools

worx

A self-described rough ('slop') attempt at high bureaucracy software, made to fill a gap the author perceived in that space; people the author knows have checked it out.

Builders @xeonax

Business & finance

Xi

A custom agent harness called Xi featuring a code mode written in Clojure, guardrails enforced by rules, and multi-player support.

Builders @floscr

AI & automationDeveloper tools

recvmail.net

A service that provides email receiving so AI agents can sign up for accounts that require email verification. Built to solve the problem of agents having no way to receive verification emails during account registration.

Builders @zmj

AI & automationDeveloper tools

Propaganda Narrative Tracker

This tool tracks propaganda narratives, monitoring how they spread or evolve.

Builders @MonkSe

Community & civicData & analytics

PlusPoint

This marketing tool helps local businesses get ranked by ChatGPT, improving their visibility in AI-generated answers.

Builders @MonkSe

AI & automationBusiness & finance

birding.live

A birding website that helps people look up bird sightings in their area, with a focus on sightings classed as rare. It aggregates many open data sources (eBird, OSM, Nominatim, etc.), will remain free, and plans to add a mailing list for alerts when birds are spotted in areas of interest.

Builders @talking_penguin

Lifestyle & hobbies

Vela

Vela is a new desktop environment built on wlroots with a custom Vulkan 1.4 renderer, aiming to outperform Plasma. It focuses on fractional scaling, sharpness, and usability. The author is building a benchmark suite reporting roughly 40% less RAM usage, 40% faster input lag, lower CPU usage in some activities, and better responsiveness under high CPU load. The taskbar/start menu placement is customizable.

Builders @BrandoDev_it

Infrastructure & hosting

Gave

A native iOS and iPadOS wish list app for families where followers can see which wishes are free, reserved, or bought so nobody receives duplicate gifts, while recipients never see the status of their own wishes since the server never sends that data. Features include a "Hide status" switch, private notes and secret gift ideas, upcoming birthday and holiday tracking with preparedness indicators, an MCP server for connecting AI agents, and deep integration with Spotlight, Siri, deep linking, notifications, and Apple Intelligence. It is free with no ads, subscriptions, analytics, or affiliate links, with data hosted on a server in Norway; built with native SwiftUI on iOS 26 and a Laravel and Postgres backend.

Builders @glasskaar

Lifestyle & hobbiesProductivity

Spomeniks map

A hobby project presenting a map of spomeniks (monuments), shared via its GitHub repository.

Builders @mudroljub

Lifestyle & hobbies

iPad Kids Tutor

This iPad app helps kids prepare for exams by letting them take a photo of a problem they struggle with and generating a plan for working through the issue, using Claude and Codex on the backend. It initially targets math problems but works for any subject, aiming to steer kids toward solving problems themselves rather than asking Gemini for solutions.

Builders @suls

AI & automationEducation

Home Assistant room touch panel

This product is a smart home control system integrated with Home Assistant that puts a touch panel in every room to run predefined actions. It aims to make smart home control widely available and more affordable than relying on mobile or web apps. An alpha version is working and a panel redesign is in progress, built with Rust and Slint, with plans to eventually produce the company's own affordable devices.

Builders @mateioprea

Hardware & DIY

MiSTerVision

A CRT-friendly Jellyfin and Plex client for MiSTer FPGA written in Go. It adds Plex support, improved UX and performance, and fills in compatibility gaps in Jellyfin support, letting MiSTer FPGA owners stream self-hosted movies and shows on a CRT-connected display. Released publicly with roughly 25 releases over a few months.

Builders @trentnix

Creative tools & media

HyperServer

A Go framework for building server-rendered web apps with HTMX. It uses standard net/http handlers and html/template, requires no ORM, and makes authentication, sessions, and storage optional. Designed as a reusable library rather than a starter repository to copy; currently labeled experimental, with a functional and fast blog built on it and plans to use it as a platform for other web projects.

Builders @trentnix

Developer tools

DualPlayer

A browser-based movie player that plays two audio tracks from the same film on different devices at the same time, so one viewer can listen to the original language in headphones while another hears the dub on speakers. It requires no installation or account, and the movie file never leaves the user's computer.

Builders @ivanzinoviev

Creative tools & media