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Sep 17, 2026 · What developers are building

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Everyone Is an OPC

A Chinese-language knowledge base for one-person companies (OPC), gathering entrepreneurship case studies, monetization tutorials, tool recommendations, policy analysis and open-source projects.

DTBusiness & growthDTContent / resource
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PlayIQ

AI tool for rugby coaches that automatically analyzes match footage, identifies formations and routes, syncs a tactical board with video playback, and auto-generates scouting reports.

DTLifestyle & entertainment
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iloveepub

Free browser-based EPUB tool that compresses, merges, splits and converts ebook files, processing everything locally on your device with nothing uploaded.

DTResearch & learningDTWeb appDTWeb
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Birdview

An architecture visualization skill for AI coding agents. Before edits, it maps modules/files to touch with source evidence as a standalone interactive HTML, no deployment. Supports Codex, Claude Code, DeepSeek Harness.

LanguageJavaScriptDTSoftware developmentDTAgent extensionOriginalagent-tools
376

agent-isles

Open-source, locally run project that places AI coding agents on explorable 3D islands, where users collaborate with residents on real projects and learn to use agents by playing. Bring your own model key.

LanguageTypeScriptDTResearch & learningDTSoftware developmentOriginalai-agents
116

Pause a Moment for Traders

3-min break for traders: 30s settle, 60-90s mini-game, 60s wrap-up. 10 games (30-90s) for emotion cooling, attention switching, rule/impulse control (Schulte, Stroop, Go/No-Go). High-risk pause after losses.

DTLifestyle & entertainmentOriginal游戏版
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AgentMeasure: Auditing token and cost accounting tools

AgentMeasure audits AI usage and cost accounting tools. Its author reviewed ~110 token/cost trackers across the Claude Code, Codex, gateway and eval ecosystems, identifying five systematic metering bug classes (per-block double billing, re…

LanguagePythonDTSoftware developmentDTAgent observabilityOriginalagent-economy
215

Meme Whale: DeepSeek-chan Quotes Meme Gallery

Open-source meme and quote gallery for DeepSeek's anthropomorphic "blue fat fish / whale girl" character: waterfall browsing, tap to zoom, long-press or right-click to save, bilingual origin notes for each image, CDN direct links, and a fu…

DTContent creationDTWeb appOriginalai-girlification
28

sofagent: Open-Source FDE Harness Auditing AI Coding Assistants

sofagent is an FDE Harness (TypeScript/MIT) that adds an audit layer to AI coding assistants. A 24-rule git hook blocks secret leaks, out-of-scope edits and prompt injection before commit, with HMAC audit trails and snapshot rollback.

LanguageTypeScriptDTSoftware developmentDTSecurity & testingOriginalagent-audit
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alibaba / open-code-review

Fast, efficient, battle-tested at Alibaba's scale. Hybrid architecture code review tool: deterministic pipelines + LLM Agent, precise line-level comments, built-in multi-language ruleset (NPE, thread-safety, XSS, SQL injection), OpenAI & A…

LanguageGoDTSoftware developmentDTSecurity & testingOriginalagent
34.6K

Tencent / BrowserSkill

Let AI agents use your real, logged-in browser without interrupting your work. CLI + extension for browser automation across any shell-capable AI agent.

LanguageTypeScriptDTSoftware developmentDTAgent extensionOriginalagent
4.1K

cilium / cilium

eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability

LanguageGoDTData & operationsDTSecurity & testingOriginalbpf
25.3K

TencentCloud / Octop

A smarter, self-hosted AI assistant — multi-user, multi-agent.

LanguagePythonDTDesktop productivityDTAgent orchestrationDTWeb app
3.4K

n8n-io / n8n

Fair-code workflow automation platform with native AI capabilities. Combine visual building with custom code, self-host or cloud, 400+ integrations.

LanguageTypeScriptDTSoftware developmentDTData & operationsDTWeb app
205K

ascoders / weekly

A weekly front-end tech digest that curates and explains cutting-edge, practical front-end articles to help readers understand and learn the technology.

LanguageJavaScriptDTResearch & learningDTContent / resourceOriginalawesome
31.2K

shadow1ng / fscan

fscan is an intranet comprehensive scanning tool that performs one-click automated, all-round vulnerability scanning for internal network assets.

LanguageGoDTSecurity & testingDTCLIOriginalfscan
14.6K

zhayujie / CowAgent

Open-source super AI assistant & Agent Harness. Plans tasks, runs tools and skills, self-evolves with memory and knowledge. Multi-agent, multi-model, multi-channel. Lightweight, extensible, one-line install. (formerly chatgpt-on-wechat)

LanguagePythonDTSoftware developmentDTAgent runtimeOriginalai
47K

jeecgboot / JeecgBoot

Enterprise AI low-code platform that generates full-stack Java code and whole systems from one prompt. AI Skills create flows, forms, reports and dashboards; built-in AI chat, knowledge base, workflow orchestration and MCP plugins.

LanguageJavaDTSoftware developmentDTAgent extensionOriginalactiviti
47.9K

wangrongding / wechat-bot

🤖 Multi-platform IM AI Agent for Telegram, WhatsApp, Lark, and WeChat. Connects ChatGPT / Claude / Kimi / DeepSeek / Ollama / Pi for auto-replies, community analysis, contact management, and inactive-friend detection.

LanguageJavaScriptDTLifestyle & entertainmentDTVertical agentOriginalchatgpt
11.4K

RapidAI / RapidOCR

📄 Awesome OCR multiple programing languages toolkits based on ONNX Runtime, OpenVINO, MNN, PaddlePaddle, TensorRT and PyTorch.

LanguagePythonDTSoftware developmentDTLibrary / SDKOriginalchineseocr
7.9K

LorisYounger / VPet

VPet is an open-source virtual desktop pet simulator that lets you raise and interact with a pet on your desktop, and can be embedded into any WPF application as a component.

LanguageC#DTLifestyle & entertainmentDTDesktop appDTLibrary / SDK
6.8K

Die With Me

An AIM buddy list for your AI usage. See friends’ Claude Code and Codex allowances as little mascots on your Mac. Set a status, visit their rooms, and unlock a chatroom when your allowance runs low.

DTLifestyle & entertainmentDTDesktop appDTmacOS
105

NovaSynth by Noveum

Simulate realistic callers at scale with custom personas, scenarios, interruptions, noise, accents, and network conditions.

DTSecurity & testingDTAgent evaluation & safety
162

CREEM 2.0

Creem 2.0 is the money platform for the AI building era: sell software and digital products globally, with payments, taxes, payouts, affiliates and usage billing handled for you - The all in one platform for AI builders to turn what they…

DTBusiness & growthDTWeb appDTWeb
478

Zella

Zella records your screen or camera and edits the video for you, on your own Mac or iPhone. Nothing uploads, no account, no subscription. Free at 1080p with no watermark.

DTContent creationDTDesktop appDTMobile app
94

AskDeck

Every other AI deck tool makes you sit at a laptop and type a prompt. This one you can call. Brief Eric by phone, SMS, email or web — or from inside Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor via MCP.

DTContent creationDTVertical agentDTAgent extension
77

Opyt

Opyt turns the people and topics you already follow into a knowledge base. Point it at your X bookmarks, Substack subscriptions, blogs, GitHub repos or arXiv papers, and it pulls in their archives.

DTResearch & learning
77

The Forge by Bob's Workshop

The Forge gives you an entire development, sales, and marketing team. Describe what you want to build in plain language. They plan it, design it, build it, and deploy it. No code required.

DTSoftware developmentDTVertical agentDTWeb app
80

MacSentinel

MacSentinel brings Mac monitoring, diagnosis, storage analysis, and cleanup into one native workflow.

DTDesktop productivityDTDesktop appDTmacOS
85

Pitchfire for Startups

Pitchfire for Startups is a new channel to reach investors. Upload your pitch deck, get matched to VCs with our AI, and let Pitchfire hype your startup with an email intro. Pitchfire brings investors and startups togethr.

DTBusiness & growthDTWeb appDTWeb
88

Blanc

Blanc is a free desktop browser for macOS, Windows and Linux. Its floating Island replaces the tab strip and toolbar, while ad and tracker blocking runs at the network layer. Optional Patron adds Named Workspaces.

DTDesktop productivityDTDesktop appDTmacOS
89

Figo

Figo watches your competitors so you do not have to. Every week it checks their rankings, new pages, blog posts, Google Ads, Meta ads, TikTok ads, Instagram, Facebook and Reddit, plus what ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity say when bu…

DTBusiness & growthDTWeb appDTWeb
95

Higgsfield API

Higgsfield API is one authenticated, asynchronous API for generative media. Call Seedance, Kling, Soul, Grok Imagine, Wan, and 50+ frontier models through the same request lifecycle — submit, poll or webhook, download.

DTContent creationDTLibrary / SDK
148

Modaal for Android

Modaal for Android let you ship one app to both stores with your own AI agent - no rebuild. Rather than one React Native codebase that draws the same screens on both phones, Modaal shares the logic, not the screens: your agent writes real…

DTSoftware developmentDTAgent extensionDTLibrary / SDK
243

Text Agent Store

Meet all the agents you can text. Agent Store is a directory of AI agents that live inside a contact in your phone book. Browse an ecosystem of texting agents, and send one text to start using them today. No account, no download, no setup.

DTLifestyle & entertainmentDTWeb appDTContent / resource
228

Bitrise Remote Dev Environments

Bitrise RDE gives you cloud Macs & Linux machines that start in seconds, the same machines, stacks and caches as your CI. Give every agent its machine and run them in parallel via MCP, or attach VS Code, Cursor or Claude Code.

DTSoftware developmentDTAgent runtimeDTMCP service
286

Share your AI Setup, Learn from others

I kept seeing engineers share what they were building with AI; however, I was always more curious about how they worked. Which agents did they use? What skills and tools had stuck or been thrown out the window?

DTResearch & learningDTWeb appDTWeb
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OpenDocBot – bring your own model to Word, Excel and PowerPoint

I got tired of the lock-in and black-box nature of AI inside MS Office. One vendor decides which models you can use, where your document data goes, and what the agent is actually allowed to do. And when it fails, you can'

DTContent creationDTDesktop productivityDTVertical agent
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Compute:Arena – Community submitted local AI benchmarks

Benchmarking AI models on real hardware is way harder than it looks. Between AMD, NVIDIA, Apple Silicon, Intel, and Qualcomm, plus hundreds of open source models and quants, getting the test bench right is a challenge. So we'

DTResearch & learningDTAgent evaluation & safetyDTCLI
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Turing-Jail: A Real-Time Text Game Powered by Jev

A text game Turing-Jail built on Jev's fast responses, turning an earlier chat-style text challenge into real-time input feedback. No registration required; Jev could replace many intent-understanding and choice scenarios at lower cost.

LanguageTypeScriptDTLifestyle & entertainmentDTWeb appDTWeb
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