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Lightyard

A browser-based puzzle game inspired by Trainyard, an iOS puzzle game that stopped receiving updates and is no longer on the App Store. Rather than a direct clone, it offers a similar-but-distinct puzzle experience, ships with a base pack of puzzles, and lets players export puzzles they design and submit them for inclusion in the base pack.

Builders @gcanyon

Games

LumifyHub

LumifyHub, a web project shared only by its domain name; the comment provides no details about its features, goals, or purpose.

Builders @saadn92

Portable X11 environment in POSIX shell/C

A custom portable X11 desktop environment built from POSIX shell and C, replacing nearly every stock component—menu, bar, window manager, and hotkey daemon (terminal kept to avoid carrying terminfo)—so the pieces run independently on Linux and BSD. AI assistance is used to write the components quickly, with the goal of a stable environment that functions as intended forever and can't be disrupted by upstream developer changes.

Builders @ocd

Infrastructure & hosting

Multi-agent harness IDE

This IDE is built around the author's workflow and supports multiple AI agent harnesses (e.g. Claude Code, Codex, pi, opencode), makes git worktrees much easier to work with, and includes its own code review workflow. It is used by the author's coworkers and friends and has increased their productivity compared to VS Code, Zed, or Cursor.

Builders @jmvoodoo

AI & automationDeveloper tools

Dipstick Alerts

A website that keeps U.S. car owners informed about vehicle issues that car makers communicate to dealerships, offering a better experience than the NHTSA's website for finding these communications.

Builders @schultetwin1

Lifestyle & hobbies

Bad Apple on my kernel (OS)

A personal operating system kernel project that plays the 'Bad Apple!!' animation on the author's own kernel.

Builders @medbar

Infrastructure & hosting

NoNews

This app is a bilingual (EN/ZH) signal radar that reads official and first-party feeds directly (Federal Reserve, SEC, ECB, DOJ, CFTC, ArXiv, GitHub releases, GDELT), clusters duplicate coverage into a single event card, and measures how far ahead of mainstream coverage each signal lands. Every card links back to the original source with no full-text republication, and lead-time stats accumulate into a monthly index.

Builders @NoNewsIo

AI & automationData & analytics

Country Guesser

A daily country-guessing game built to teach players about the world as they play. It uses Wikipedia and factbook.json for country information and incorporates several original game ideas the creators plan to keep experimenting with.

Builders @jkoff

EducationGames

Kviklet

Self-hosted database access management tool that provides code-review-style approval workflows for SQL statements before they run in production. Includes a Postgres proxy and a MySQL wire proxy so developers can keep using psql or DataGrip while every statement is logged, with SSO support and no password sharing.

Builders @jascha_eng

Developer toolsSecurity & privacy

Going Blue

An expedition weather app that delivers detailed weather forecasts over low-bandwidth satellite messengers such as Garmin inReach, ZOLEO, and iPhone satellite messaging. It uses an rANS entropy coder fitted on historical weather forecasts to compress about 100 time periods (~4 days of hourly data) into a 160-character message using just a couple bits per variable on average.

Builders @aaasen

Data & analyticsLifestyle & hobbies

Chatter

A self-hosted, almost feature-complete alternative to Discord for running chat communities.

Builders @sphyrna-029

Community & civic

Context-Link

A white-label RAG API that powers better, more tailored AI features in SaaS products. It indexes customer websites by default and also supports Notion, YouTube, email, and custom connections as data sources.

Builders @oliaukus

AI & automationDeveloper tools

Cubicle Rebels

A refreshed consulting webpage used to restart a DevOps, infrastructure, and fractional consulting business.

Builders @davidchua

Business & financeInfrastructure & hosting

XMPP-based side project

A small side project built on top of the XMPP protocol; the specific idea and features are not described.

Builders @davidchua

Roomba stair lift

A stair lift for a Roomba robot vacuum that fits into a small box and can be retrofitted onto any stairs, letting the vacuum travel between floors on its own. It also carries laundry up and down the stairs.

Builders @achllle

Hardware & DIY

OtterCalc

A web-based natural language calculator similar to Soulver, supporting multiple languages and an AI mode. It can generate a small notebook from a problem description using AI, while the actual calculations run on a deterministic engine; collaboration features are currently in development.

Builders @fasouto

AI & automationProductivity

Hammer Labs

A platform for studying when healthcare AI agents are wrong and when they should refuse to answer (judgement). It generates synthetic healthcare claims — utilization and case mix drawn from published data, priced using real fee schedules and contract terms, with differing payer behaviors — and plants errors on purpose so a correct answer exists before any model runs. On top of the data it builds benchmarks for overreach, refusal, errors by record type, and detection time, plus small MCP tools that refuse when evidence is missing, with every number including its source, date, and basis.

Builders @kthakore

AI & automationBusiness & financeData & analyticsHealth & fitness

AgentPlugin

An Apache-2.0 licensed open-source MCP plugin, part of Hammer Labs' suite of small MCP tools that refuse to answer when evidence is missing.

Builders @kthakore

AI & automationDeveloper tools

US Energy Cost Explorer

A free map-based tool for exploring electricity and natural gas costs across the US. Users can compare states, follow prices over time, and examine bills and energy burden, making energy affordability data easier to access and understand.

Builders @ebaumer

Data & analytics

MarketGround

A web tool for exploring location demographics on a map: draw an area or select a travel time around a location to view its population, income, housing, and nearby businesses, including daytime versus nighttime population to gauge who is around a potential store or restaurant during business hours.

Builders @ebaumer

Business & financeData & analytics

Foreclosure Data Hub

This platform aggregates foreclosure auction data across the US. It pulls from 20+ sources, normalizes records from county sites and auction platforms, deduplicates properties, and enriches them with property/location data, with ongoing work on data freshness and coverage.

Builders @qwikhost

Business & financeData & analytics

Jane Street protocol emulator ASIC competition

The Jane Street protocol emulator ASIC competition, a hardware-adjacent challenge the author is considering picking up as a potential next project, noting that although they are not really a hardware person it may be within reach.

Builders @anitil

Hardware & DIY

Butter micro ecommerce app

A micro ecommerce app that lets the builder's daughter sell her butter to family and friends, with no payments or shipping involved.

Builders @bradly

Business & finance

MyTinyCafé

A PWA that helps people be the barista at home and take free online orders from friends and family.

Builders @krlx

Lifestyle & hobbies

Kronikle

An app for local libraries that creates public display interfaces for showcasing their events.

Builders @krlx

Community & civic

Breaka clubs for kids

This platform runs clubs that teach kids to code and hand-draw their own computer games, currently piloted in schools. Its main experience lets kids build and play their own RPG in the browser on school iPads, built on a fork of the Godot engine tuned for constrained browser devices. It also streams games directly to iPads, including a modded version of Overcooked! 2 that teaches kids to code, delivered via a custom Kubernetes system that spins up game pods on demand backed by time-sliced NVIDIA GPUs, using Cloudflare's TURN relay over TCP since UDP is blocked on school networks.

Builders @Benjamin_Dobell

EducationGames

Book of Revenue

Open-source, self-hosted revenue recognition and analytics tool for Stripe, described as the first open-source revenue analytics option for Stripe. Built by a former Stripe engineer who worked on revenue recognition and analytics there.

Builders @tanin

Business & financeData & analytics

Canine

This is a self-hosted, FOSS platform that turns a Kubernetes cluster into a Heroku-like experience, making it easy for developers to deploy and host small projects. It has grown to roughly 2,000 active developers and is built in Rails + Stimulus.

Builders @czhu12

Developer toolsInfrastructure & hosting