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3D printing experiments

3D printing projects centered on a used SV06+ printer and a friend's Ender that was resurrected using cleaning tools and tinkering research. Ongoing prints include parts trays, Skadis panels, a case for an old Framework mainboard, and instrument stands for workspace cleanup and repairing/reusing existing items, alongside sketching out printed items that could be sold.

Builders @chaosharmonic

Hardware & DIY

Basement cleanup with printed PLA tools

A home cleanup project for a basement with a mold problem, using the 3D printer to produce cheap PLA tools that can be discarded if they get contaminated, so expensive tools don't have to be sacrificed to the mold.

Builders @chaosharmonic

Hardware & DIYLifestyle & hobbies

terraform-provider-aws

The open-source Terraform provider for Amazon Web Services, an infrastructure-as-code plugin that manages AWS resources through Terraform. The commenter is actively contributing larger pull requests to the project.

Builders @autotune

Developer tools

Fabulae Orbilii

A Latin language audiobook site presenting both volumes of A.D. Godley's "The Fables of Orbilius", entertaining intermediate Latin stories written at the turn of the 20th century for use in British schools. Audio is delivered in restored classical Latin pronunciation with spoken nuances such as vowel nasalization, elision, and prodelision. A wav2vec2 model generates forced-alignment data so readers can follow along with the text as it is read aloud, and each word is enriched with pedagogical details including lemma, citation forms/principal parts, morphological segmentation and analysis, inflectional class with declension/conjugation tables, contextual lexical (L&S) sense, Classical Latin IPA pronunciation, UD-style syntactic function and relations, predicate valency, and concise English definitions. The documents are entirely XML, rendered in-browser via XSLT so the underlying XML structure is visible, with per-sentence provenance records showing the language model and parameters used for each enrichment task. The site UI is bilingual, viewable in Latin or English.

Builders @spudlyo

Creative tools & mediaEducation

lexera

A kanban board with full multimedia and document include support that saves to markdown and exports to Marp, used to manage teaching materials. It also serves as an editor for agentic programming, with each task represented as a card.

Builders @rspoerri

Developer toolsEducationProductivity

Beacio

A Safari extension that brings Web Bluetooth support to iOS, letting web pages in Safari communicate with Bluetooth devices. The author states it already works better than any third-party browser available on the App Store for this purpose.

Builders @wklm

Developer toolsHardware & DIY

searchforjobs.app

A job search tool that scrapes job postings from multiple sources and displays data visualizations, with a resume creator that optimizes resumes using the right keywords for a specific job posting.

Builders @enjoyyourlife

Business & financeProductivity

Verse Draft

An all-in-one writing studio where fiction writers can keep all the details for their universes in one place while crafting stories, novels, movie scripts, TV series, or stage plays.

Builders @Metricon

Creative tools & mediaProductivity

Talemancy

A fun, simple card game activity for writers looking for story ideas or stuck with writer's block, somewhat inspired by memories of playing Ultima IV as a teenager.

Builders @Metricon

Creative tools & mediaGames

Retro-computing gaming mouse

This retro-style gaming mouse is designed for retro-computing platforms including Amiga, Atari, and C64, supporting several protocol variants as well as USB. It includes a scroll wheel read using extended protocols introduced by recent adaptors from USB, and a configuration interface.

Builders @Findecanor

GamesHardware & DIY

Pick Up

A reading companion app for tracking books: users can track what they are reading, keep notes and reflections, view reading stats, and build out a personal bookshelf. The app has over 4,000 monthly active users and is built solo, with features added based on reader requests.

Builders @thedetailsguy

Lifestyle & hobbiesProductivity

OtaKit.app

A cheap, fast, and simple CDN-based over-the-air (OTA) updating tool for Capacitor apps, with support for React Native apps planned.

Builders @garymiklos

Developer tools

DFW Fractional FDE

A local AI-adoption consultancy for SMBs whose differentiator is in-person engagement: the consultant physically shows up at the client's office and talks directly with the team, betting that business development will become personal as AI-generated outreach and social posting decline in quality.

Builders @gburgett

AI & automationBusiness & finance

Optimem

This app is a spaced repetition learning tool that aims to be a user-friendly alternative to Anki and a more effective version of Duolingo.

Builders @mattvr

Education

D5S

Automation software built and dogfooded by its own team to automate the boring parts of running their company, steadily automating more and more of their operations.

Builders @mhog_hn

AI & automationBusiness & finance

R.U.S.E reimplementation

A spare-time reimplementation of the game R.U.S.E, worked on alongside other Three.js experiments.

Builders @mhog_hn

Games

Aqaris

A real estate management system with AI agents that automates mundane day-to-day tasks so managers can have more time.

Builders @djdule

AI & automationBusiness & finance

ApproveGate

A change management platform for production deployments that also helps teams produce and organize SOC 2 audit evidence.

Builders @chidog99

Developer toolsSecurity & privacy

GetSetReply

GetSetReply is a small suite of tools for SMBs covering cost models and coupon ladders for businesses. It integrates with restaurants' PoS systems to show exactly how much each menu item costs, what the margins are, and how much profit each dish brings in.

Builders @dbz

Business & financeData & analytics

Cricket

A visual scripting plugin for Figma, inspired by Grasshopper for Rhino, that brings node-based algorithmic design and Grasshopper-style data modeling to 2D graphics workflows.

Builders @mkdcrl

Creative tools & media

VeloOS

VeloOS is a from-scratch x86_64 UEFI operating system that aims to look like Windows Vista while behaving like Linux. Development so far includes a custom bootloader and legacy BIOS VGA text buffer, with current work on a real USB-HID keyboard driver and getting the OS to boot on real hardware. The project is source-available and open to collaboration with other low-level OS developers.

Builders @gtadesktop1

Infrastructure & hosting

AI apocalypse bunker designer

An AI system that designs AI apocalypse bunkers, with a stated concern that its agents might escape to ensure the product's success.

Builders @karim79

AI & automation

NoLoop

This iOS app blocks the Instagram and Facebook feeds, helping users reduce doomscrolling and cut back their social media usage.

Builders @itake

Productivity

flypath

This is a cross-platform development framework for web, iOS and Android native apps, built on the Server-Driven UI philosophy: the backend streams both code and UI to a frontend that just renders what it's told, enabling over-the-air updates. It follows a batteries-included Rails-like philosophy with an ORM, Postgres-based background and cron jobs, Django-style migrations, JSX emails, and an FFI built around a simple "use native" directive in the React Server Component fashion.

Builders @vmsp

Developer tools

AML for macOS

A collection of native AI/ML operators for TouchDesigner on macOS, combining TouchDesigner's node-based interface with features known from ComfyUI. It leans on macOS-exclusive frameworks to bring AI/ML capabilities to TouchDesigner and make the Mac a viable platform for this kind of creative AI work.

Builders @mickeyvanolst

AI & automationCreative tools & media

sei

A TUI written in Go for managing AI agent skills. It keeps a personal collection of agent skills in a dedicated git repository and copies individual skills into a project's .claude/skills/ directory for a session, then removes them when done, replacing manual ls, cp -r, and rm -rf commands with a few keystrokes.

Builders @primaprashant

AI & automationDeveloper tools

flaneurphoto.com

A personal photography website showcasing the author's photos online again, with soundscapes being composed to accompany some of the works.

Builders @le-flaneur

Creative tools & media

Nittany Nights / Indy After Five

Event promotion websites that surface live music shows and drink specials happening tonight by aggregating listings from local venues' Instagram accounts, so users don't have to check dozens of accounts themselves. Built on a custom site-parsing toolkit that removes friction with existing solutions and makes it easy to add new locations quickly to scale; currently running as the Nittany Nights and Indy After Five sites.

Builders @ipunchghosts

AI & automationCommunity & civicLifestyle & hobbies

EmojisTime

An emoji website aiming to be one of the best emoji resources on the web, hosted at emojistime.com.

Builders @steven123

Creative tools & media