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Sep 20, 2026 · What developers are building

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EasyChat: LAN File Transfer via Web on Any Device

Lightweight LAN transfer tool: install the mobile app, then any device on the same Wi-Fi opens a web page, scans the QR code and sends files or text. No signup, login or client install; direct local transfer, no cloud relay.

DTDesktop productivityDTMobile appDTWeb app
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NeatCompress

Batch compressor for audio/video, PDFs and images that runs locally via WebCodecs hardware acceleration and WASM, with no uploads. Supports target-size presets (WeChat 25/100MB, Discord 10/50MB), lossless merging, cropping and GIF export.

DTContent creationDTWeb appDTWeb
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codePro-cli

Desktop workbench for Codex CLI that organizes multiple coding sessions with a top dynamic island, project lists and session cards; a login-free interactive is available on the website.

DTSoftware developmentDTAgent orchestrationOriginal程序员版
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Grok Canvas

Image and video creation canvas that uses your own Grok account quota. Connect reference images to iterate on visuals, then continue into video generation, with multi-canvas management and locally stored works. MIT-licensed.

LanguageTypeScriptDTContent creationOriginal程序员版
0

Open-Source Online Exam and Training System

Open-source online exam and training system with question bank management, fixed or random paper generation, online answering and score lookup; combines course learning and exams in one self-hosted platform.

LanguageJavaDTResearch & learningDTWeb appOriginal程序员版
0

Legend of the Old Realm

A Chinese retro single-player action RPG with warrior, mage, and taoist classes, map exploration, and boss challenges, plus randomized gear affixes and sets.

DTLifestyle & entertainmentDTWeb appOriginal游戏版
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Fourier: A Video Engineering Framework for AI Agents

Video engineering framework for AI Agents. Videos are built from Scene, Component, Motion, Media and Data objects instead of timelines/keyframes. Agents reuse React/JSX, CSS and Motion APIs; its compiler re-renders only changed scenes.

LanguageTypeScriptDTContent creationDTAgent extensionDTLibrary / SDK
5

PI-Desktop: Local-first Desktop Workspace for AI Coding Agents

Local-first desktop workspace for AI coding agents, combining projects, persistent sessions, models, permissions, diff review, plugins and multi-agent collaboration in one place instead of switching between terminals, editors and tools.

LanguageTypeScriptDTSoftware developmentDTAgent orchestrationOriginalai-agent
4.7K

DatI: Controlled Semantic Database Gateway for Agents

Semantic gateway linking AI agents to enterprise databases. Configure terms and aliases, enable preset/parameterized SQL tools, and publish an MCP service with per-user permission isolation. Supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Doris.

LanguageJavaDTData & operationsDTSoftware developmentOriginalaccess-control
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TLSFlow: SSL/TLS Certificate Lifecycle Automation

SSL/TLS certificate lifecycle automation. Maps certificates, servers, sites and apps; agents, SSH, gateways and plugins handle precheck, backup, deploy, validation and rollback. Supports PEM/PFX/JKS/P7B on Windows/Linux and clouds; audit.

LanguageTypeScriptDTData & operationsDTWindowsDTLinux
12

Excel + Photoshop Batch Image Generator

Batch renders PSD templates with Excel data using Python: fills text, images and visibility via layer-name tags (#t, #i, #v), no Photoshop GUI needed (psd-tools/Pillow). Watches Excel changes or pastes clipboard data.

LanguagePythonDTContent creationDTLibrary / SDKOriginalbatch-image
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NotebookLM Batch Refresh for Google Drive Sources

Browser extension and userscript adding one-click batch refresh to Google NotebookLM: it scans and re-syncs all linked Google Drive Docs, Sheets and Slides, so knowledge bases pick up edits without manual per-source refreshing.

LanguageJavaScriptDTResearch & learningDTSkill / pluginDTBrowser
12

Google AI Studio Experience Enhancement Assistant

Browser extension enhancing Google AI Studio (Gemini developer platform): persists system prompts, auto-fills new chats, resizes chat text, and adds Ctrl/Cmd+I to toggle Grounding search and URL context, Ctrl/Cmd+J for new sessions.

LanguageJavaScriptDTSoftware developmentDTSkill / pluginDTBrowser
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Mimi: Floating Subtitles for Playing System Audio

Mimi captures system output audio, sends it to a chosen cloud service for speech recognition and translation, and shows the result in a movable floating subtitle window. Supports macOS and Windows; free and open source.

LanguageRustDTResearch & learningDTDesktop appOriginalaudio-capture
272

Layerive: A Local AI Image Creation Workbench

Open-source cross-platform local AI image workbench: projects with branchable version trees, text-to-image, image-to-image, inpainting, outpainting, text editing, batch jobs; connects to user-configured image APIs; data stays local.

LanguageTypeScriptDTContent creationDTDesktop appDTWindows
203

affaan-m / ECC

The agent harness performance optimization system. Skills, instincts, memory, security, and research-first development for Claude Code, Codex, Opencode, Cursor and beyond.

LanguageJavaScriptDTSoftware developmentDTAgent extensionOriginalai-agents
263.5K

cloudflare / security-audit-skill

A coding-agent skill for multi-phase security audits with independently verified, machine-readable findings

LanguageJavaScriptDTSecurity & testingDTAgent extensionDTSkill / plugin
17.8K

anthropics / claude-code

Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal, understands your codebase, and helps you code faster by executing routine tasks, explaining complex code, and handling git workflows - all through natural language commands.

LanguageTypeScriptDTSoftware developmentDTVertical agentDTCLI
147K

AstrBotDevs / AstrBot

AI Agent Assistant & development framework that integrates lots of IM platforms, LLMs, plugins and AI feature, and can be your openclaw alternative. ✨

LanguagePythonDTSoftware developmentDTAgent runtimeOriginalagent
40.7K

nilaoda / N_m3u8DL-RE

Cross-platform stream downloader supporting MPD, M3U8 and ISM formats, with English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese localization.

LanguageC#DTContent creationDTCLIOriginaldash
8.8K

XIU2 / CloudflareSpeedTest

Tests Cloudflare CDN latency and speed, selects preferred IPs, and finds the fastest IP; also works with other CDNs and sites with multiple resolved IPs.

LanguageGoDTData & operationsDTCLIOriginalcdn
29.1K

ScottSloan / Bili23-Downloader

Free, open-source, cross-platform Bilibili video downloader with multi-threaded acceleration, separate audio/video streams, danmaku and metadata fetching, plus custom naming and categorization.

LanguagePythonDTLifestyle & entertainmentDTDesktop appOriginalbili23
7.6K

xfangfang / wiliwili

Third-party Bilibili client that runs on all major PC platforms as well as PS Vita, PS4, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch.

LanguageC++DTLifestyle & entertainmentDTDesktop appOriginalbilibili
5.5K

521xueweihan / HelloGitHub

A curated collection that shares interesting, beginner-friendly open source projects on GitHub, helping developers discover projects worth learning from.

LanguagePythonDTResearch & learningDTContent / resourceOriginalawesome
177.8K

fanmingming / live

A directly accessible TV and radio icon library with related tools. Permanently free, fully open source, continuously improved channel logos, and supports IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack access.

LanguageJavaScriptDTContent creationDTContent / resourceOriginalchina
28.4K

fmz200 / wool_scripts

A collection of configurations and ad-blocking rules for proxy clients such as Loon, Surge, QuantumultX, ShadowRocket, and Egern.

LanguageVim SnippetDTData & operationsDTContent / resourceDTiOS
5.7K

xifangczy / cat-catch

Cat-catch is a browser extension for sniffing web page resources, letting users detect and capture resources loaded by a page.

LanguageJavaScriptDTContent creationDTBrowser
22K

Answers by Context.dev

Answers by Context.dev turns web research into a single API call. Define a task and your desired JSON structure. Answers finds sources, researches the web, and returns structured data with source URLs.

DTResearch & learningDTSoftware developmentDTAgent extension
154

Embedful

Embedful helps SaaS teams build and launch customer dashboards in minutes. Connect your existing data, create secure customer-facing dashboards, and embed personalized analytics directly into your product.

DTData & operationsDTWeb appDTWeb
74

Minicart

Minicart helps makers, creators, and resellers launch and run an online store without learning ecommerce software. Minicart gives you a store and an AI team to help run it.

DTBusiness & growthDTVertical agentDTWeb app
161

YABAI

Textbooks teach Japanese that stops at the classroom door. YABAI is the other half: 308 real slang, internet and fandom words, each on a card built around giant Japanese typography.

DTResearch & learningDTWeb appDTWeb
80

Termphin

SSH that survives a locked phone, a lost signal or a switch to mobile data. A small agent holds the shell open on the server and puts you back on the same screen. htop and vim draw properly. SFTP, keys, snippets and tunnels included, free.

DTSoftware developmentDTMobile appDTiOS
115

ManyPI

Define your ideal customer. ManyPI finds them on the live web, verifies their email, validates their pain points and emotional buying triggers, then sends hyper-personalized outreach that turns those signals into sales.

DTBusiness & growthDTVertical agentDTWeb app
91

Harbor

A private second brain: notes, scans, PDFs and recordings, searchable with OCR, handwriting included. One-step Evernote import. Native on Mac, Windows, iPhone, iPad, Android, web and CLI. Full export on every plan.

DTResearch & learningDTDesktop productivityDTWeb app
126

Morsa Signals

Morsa Signals gives developer-tool founders and GTM teams practical GTM and SEO/GEO workflows in one place.

DTBusiness & growthDTWeb appDTWeb
130

Launchie 1.6.1

Apple removed Launchpad in macOS 26 and kept it out of 27. Launchie brings the grid back: arrange apps your way, unlimited folders, Spaces for separate app pages, and instant search. Free to use, Pro is a one-time purchase.

DTDesktop productivityDTDesktop appDTmacOS
88

Mycel

Mycel runs the work your service business sells - clients, deliverables, approvals, invoices. Each job runs in a disposable sandbox that never holds a credential, and nothing reaches a client until you approve it.

DTBusiness & growthDTWeb appDTWeb
236

Scrapboard Cloud 4

With a 12-year heritage behind the Scrapboard series, Scrapboard Cloud 4 brings the classic concept of a digital bulletin board—recreating the cozy feel of a family refrigerator door—right to your iOS devices.

DTContent creationDTMobile appDTDesktop app
69

SmartPause

macOS routes the media key to whatever it last remembers, so YouTube keeps playing and Apple Music opens. SmartPause finds the app actually outputting audio and pauses that. Two apps playing? One press switches, double press plays/pauses.

DTDesktop productivityDTDesktop appDTmacOS
67

The 101 Plays Itself

A live Caltrans traffic camera on the US-101 in Studio City, playing itself as music in your browser. Real traffic on the southbound 101, this minute.

DTLifestyle & entertainmentDTWeb appDTWeb
96

Epismo OS

Epismo keeps your team’s AI work in a Case: the result, the decisions behind it, reviews, and the next step. Switch between AI tools or teammates without a re-brief.

DTDesktop productivityDTAgent orchestrationDTWeb app
84

I created an open source locally usable full fledged AI platform

hi to all the readers this post is for my recent opensource project called ENZO now answering what is enzo so enzo is an opensource platform where i clubbed all the free available api for anyone use under one hood with more than 2000 model…

LanguageTypeScriptDTSoftware developmentDTResearch & learningOriginalai
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Set, offline Markdown note-taking app with device-to-device sync

Hi HN. I am an avid user of Notion ( https://notion.so ) and really like the ergonomics of its block-based editor, but with how the product is evolving I felt I was missing a simple "single-player" experience of just taking notes…

DTDesktop productivityDTDesktop appDTWeb app
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Will Jev pull the lever in the trolley problem?

The Jev benchmark you've all been waiting for: Will Jev pull the lever in the trolley problem? Don't think too much about it :) Place whatever you'd like on each side of the tracks, and GPU (my startup's AI system, whee!

DTResearch & learningDTAgent evaluation & safetyDTWeb app
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Text-me: a personal agent that learns your pace

Hey, I built text-me because every productivity app I tried gave me one more place to be and maintain. Meanwhile my life actually happens over email, messages, calendar, college, Kindle, reading, and Substack.

DTDesktop productivityDTVertical agentDTiOS
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Pace — Open-Source Desktop GUI for the Pi Coding Agent

Pace is an open-source Electron desktop workbench for the Pi coding agent. Driven by the official Pi SDK and local session logs, it offers visual execution trajectories, diff review, token and cost breakdowns, subagent tracing, and plugin…

LanguageTypeScriptDTSoftware developmentDTAgent observabilityDTDesktop app
4

Qi: AI Go Review — macOS Go App Launches

Qi: AI Go Review is a macOS Go (weiqi) app for game review; basic review is free to download. With further features planned, lifetime pricing is set at ¥98, with a limited-time ¥68 early-supporter price in the China region.

DTLifestyle & entertainmentDTResearch & learningDTDesktop app
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All-in-One Weibo Web Beautifier and Blocker Extension

Chrome extension and userscript for the Weibo web UI: card layout and 5 day/night themes with custom colors, hideable sidebar and composer, keyword/regex/source/super-topic filtering, ad and AI-content cleanup, UID-based user lists with im…

DTLifestyle & entertainmentDTSkill / pluginDTBrowser
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Jev AI Playground: Primitives for LLM Uncertainty

Jev AI Playground experiments with three LLM primitives: Live Choice for structured selection, Noul for ambiguity and missing info, and Score for rating candidates, turning uncertain AI decisions into controllable, verifiable flows.

DTSoftware developmentDTAgent extensionDTAgent evaluation & safety
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