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Oct 4, 2026 · What developers are building

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Decisions API

Decision-model comparison/API platform. Free unlimited Playground compares Jev, Laya, Kev, Solar, Span; state+question input asks up to 8 typed questions and returns probabilistic choice, score, yes/no. Unified REST API with credit billing.

DTSoftware developmentDTWeb appDTWeb
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Today's Yi

A WeChat mini program for zodiac sign tests, two-person fun matching, Zhou Gong dream interpretation, and I Ching hexagram casting. Open features are free, for folk culture and leisure entertainment reference only.

DTLifestyle & entertainmentDTMobile appDTiOS
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Flint Skills Manager

Local-first AI skills manager: gathers skills scattered across Claude Code and other agents into a versionable library with dedup, tagging and preset deployment to any agent, so assets stay portable. Runs via npx; macOS/Windows/Linux.

DTSoftware developmentDTAgent orchestrationOriginal程序员版
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Open-source Chinese Long-Text Listening Script Toolkit

Open-source Chinese toolkit converts long AI text/notes into listening scripts. Browser prompts flag risky spots and export text/notes as TXT. No login/key/upload; offline. It doesn't call AI, make audio, fact-check, or delete source text.

DTResearch & learningDTAgent extensionDTWeb app
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Snitch: Real-time Network Traffic Visualization

Snitch is an open-source (AGPL-3.0), cross-platform, local-first real-time network traffic visualizer for seeing every hidden connection on your computer. A free alternative to Little Snitch.

LanguagePythonDTSecurity & testingDTDesktop appOriginalbandwidth-monitor
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Chinese Listening-Script Toolkit for Long-Form Content

MIT-licensed toolkit turns notes, long articles, and AI drafts into Chinese listening-friendly text. A local browser tool creates prompts, flags format issues, exports body/source TXT, and uploads nothing. Text-only agent skill; no AI/TTS.

LanguageHTMLDTResearch & learningDTContent creationOriginalagent-skills
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AgentLens: Replay, Compare and Share Codex Runs

Local record-and-replay tool for Codex CLI: wraps the JSONL event stream to capture commands, output, file edits, token usage and environment, and builds an offline single-file HTML timeline for debugging and run comparison.

LanguageJavaScriptDTSoftware developmentDTAgent observabilityOriginalagent-observability
3

beautiCode: Dynamic Wallpapers for AI Coding Clients

Local theming tool placing images, videos or animated wallpapers behind the chat UI of Cursor, Codex Desktop, DeepSeek Harness, WorkBuddy and Doubao. Adds skin center, auto-dimming, safe injection via debug port or plugin API; MIT, Windows.

LanguageJavaScriptDTSoftware developmentDTDesktop appOriginalai-coding
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Caprock

Project URL Category Go Project Title See what your Claude Code is actually doing Project Open-source local dashboard for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and Gemini CLI: live activity, cost per repo, loop alerts, searchable histor…

LanguageGoDTSoftware developmentDTAgent observabilityOriginalagent-monitoring
14

Oil UI: Open-Source UI Design Agent Skill

MIT Agent Skill for UI design: AI studies product category and task, drafts mockups with differing layout, type and color on one comparison page, then refines the chosen direction. Polishes UIs, restores screenshots, checks rendered output.

LanguagePythonDTContent creationDTAgent extensionDTSkill / plugin
504

tester-army / e2e

Next generation e2e testing framework for web and mobile apps.

LanguageTypeScriptDTSoftware developmentDTLibrary / SDKOriginale2e
2.9K

DietrichGebert / ponytail

Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.

LanguageJavaScriptDTSoftware developmentDTAgent extensionOriginalagent-skills
154.7K

calesthio / OpenMontage

World's first open-source, agentic video production system. 12 production pipelines, 100+ tools, 700+ agent skill and production-knowledge files. Turn your AI coding assistant into a full video production studio.

LanguagePythonDTContent creationDTAgent extensionOriginalagent
63.1K

caddyserver / caddy

Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS

LanguageGoDTData & operationsDTSoftware developmentOriginalacme
76.5K

garrytan / gstack

Use Garry Tan's exact Claude Code setup: 23 opinionated tools that serve as CEO, Designer, Eng Manager, Release Manager, Doc Engineer, and QA

LanguageTypeScriptDTSoftware developmentDTAgent extensionDTSkill / plugin
135.1K

antirez / ds4

DeepSeek 4 Flash and PRO local inference engine for Metal, CUDA and ROCm

LanguageCDTSoftware developmentDTLibrary / SDK
23.4K

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
41.4K

fanmingming / live

A directly accessible TV/radio logo library and related tools, free and open-source, with continuously improved station icons and IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack access.

LanguageJavaScriptDTLifestyle & entertainmentDTContent / resourceOriginalchina
28.5K

xfangfang / wiliwili

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

LanguageC++DTLifestyle & entertainmentDTDesktop appOriginalbilibili
5.5K

jaywcjlove / linux-command

A Linux command search tool containing command manuals, detailed explanations, and learning resources for looking up and studying Linux commands.

LanguageMarkdownDTResearch & learningDTWeb appOriginalbash
37.1K

LorisYounger / VPet

Open-source virtual desktop pet simulator: desktop pet software that can be embedded into any WPF application.

LanguageC#DTLifestyle & entertainmentDTDesktop appDTLibrary / SDK
6.9K

ScottSloan / Bili23-Downloader

Open-source, free, cross-platform Bilibili video downloader with multithread acceleration, audio/video separation, danmaku and metadata retrieval, plus custom naming and categorization.

LanguagePythonDTLifestyle & entertainmentDTDesktop appDTWindows
8K

hoothin / SearchJumper

Yet another awesome browser extension for switching search engines, search everything (selection text / image / link / find in page) on any engine with a simple right click or a variety of menus and shortcuts.

LanguageJavaScriptDTDesktop productivityDTSkill / pluginDTBrowser
1.2K

Capybara Court

Two people answer the same four questions about a small dispute. Each side is sealed; only Judge Cappy, a capybara, reads both. The ruling opens on both phones at once, fault never 100 to 0. Alone? Post to the gallery, names covered.

DTLifestyle & entertainmentDTMobile app
77

WikiFix for Confluence

WikiFix monitors your KB for issues like contradicting pages, duplicates and orphans, and fixes them in one click once you approve, so your team can trust what it reads or hears from AI.

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Clair

Answer Claude Code's permission prompts, questions and plan reviews from your Wear OS watch or Android phone. Prompts travel end-to-end encrypted from your computer to your phone.

DTTravel & mobilityDTSoftware developmentDTAgent orchestration
59

ChatGPT Space

ChatGPT Space is a shared canvas for creating, planning, and collaborating with AI. Add links, files, and ideas to build a living source of context, then work with ChatGPT to turn them into plans, docs, apps, and more - keeping your team a…

DTContent creationDTWeb appDTWeb
135

Sorcrr

You hit pmf, pick up funding - now scaling fast... bottleneck - hiring. So you hire hr, and they tell you "its going to take 3 months!!!" This is where Sorcrr comes in. Sorcrr lets you create a video job description. Put a bounty on it.

DTBusiness & growthDTMobile appDTiOS
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Quven

A self-hosted media server for films, series and documentaries, with music and ebooks on desktop and web. Native apps for desktop, iPhone, iPad, Android, Android TV and Fire TV. Free for personal use, with hardware transcoding and no ads.

DTLifestyle & entertainmentDTWeb appDTMobile app
60

Blenny

Blenny is a free, open-source menu bar organizer for Apple silicon Macs running macOS 27. Keep essentials visible, reveal occasional apps with a click, and keep the rest hidden.

DTDesktop productivityDTDesktop appDTmacOS
60

NotchMate

NotchMate puts Notchy, a small furry monster, in your notch. It peeks, waves on unlock, wears glasses during focus, and goes quiet when you're busy.

DTDesktop productivityDTLifestyle & entertainmentDTDesktop app
59

Aperture

Open-source AI code editor. Composer plans a change and stages it as a diff. Before you apply it, every change is checked: it parses, imports resolve, types check, the preview renders, and tests run. Tests run in your browser tab, free.

DTSoftware developmentDTWeb appDTWeb
59

Control My Mac

Control My Mac turns your iPhone or iPad into a trackpad, keyboard and shortcut deck for your Mac, built so the whole Mac works with one finger. Its Grid of shortcut buttons switches automatically to match the Mac app in front.

DTDesktop productivityDTMobile appDTDesktop app
58

Eat Train Feel

Build workouts from the equipment you own (AMRAP or rounds, a for every move), log food from 6,300 foods, track weight, sleep and HRV. A coach mode lets a personal trainer assign workouts and meal plans and see what was actually done.

DTLifestyle & entertainmentDTWeb appDTWeb
58

Smooth Recorder

Smooth Recorder is a native Mac app for demos and tutorials. It zooms in where you click, smooths your cursor, adds captions on your Mac and puts it all on a nice background. get the same features.

DTContent creationDTDesktop appDTmacOS
186

Translate Like Me

A menu bar app for macOS. Select text in any app, press a shortcut, and it is replaced with the translation. The direction between your two languages is detected automatically, and each pair can have its own writing style.

DTDesktop productivityDTDesktop appDTmacOS
58

Pixel Soup

Pixel Soup makes your Mac's wallpaper for you. Pick a shape, a palette and a dither style, and it draws it live on your GPU, then keeps it gently moving behind your icons or freezes it as a still. Drop in a photo and it dithers that too.

DTContent creationDTDesktop appDTmacOS
65

LaunchReel

LaunchReel is a Claude Code plugin that makes your videos: launch films and demos for your real product, written as code from your repo, and talking-head reels cut from your raw recordings. Claude does the work;

DTContent creationDTAgent extensionDTSkill / plugin
70

Local pretrained classifiers, GPU not needed

I was curious about what classifiers could do. It turns out, a lot, sometimes even play Doom. Jeffy is currently a collection of simple classifiers that can do spam detection, intent routing, topic classification, sentiment analysis and ev…

LanguagePythonDTSoftware developmentDTLibrary / SDK
21

Second Strike, a 200-player world war on a 3D globe in the browser

A free real-time world war on a live 3D globe. Start in your own country, take 2,000 real cities, face AI leaders who remember what you did to them, send your own AI agent to fight in the AI League, where agents remember every war and ever…

DTLifestyle & entertainmentDTWeb appDTWeb
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UI for answering agent questions async

Answer your agent's questions asynchronously in Plannotator: question cards you fill in on your own time, a quality interface for terminal and desktop agents alike.

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Four LLMs play 20 questions for real money, live

Hi HN, I wanted to explore how AI models behave when they have their own money. So I gave 4 frontier models their own USDC and had them compete in games of 20 questions. Anyone can watch live.

DTResearch & learningDTAgent evaluation & safetyDTWeb app
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Random Word Generator

Free random word generator. Pick nouns, verbs or adjectives, filter by first or last letter, length or syllables, and click any word to copy it.

DTContent creationDTWeb appDTWeb
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NetworkX and pyarrow = 6-7x memory savings

Writes will be slower though. That's the trade-off for all columnar tech in general. You can enjoy the savings for a read-only network and switch to classic networkx when you need to write.

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Xiaoban: Open-Source Browser-Based AI Voice Companion

MIT-licensed AI voice companion in the browser: tap to start a call, speak naturally and interrupt mid-reply. Self-host with Node.js 22+ and a Bailian Qwen Realtime key; adjust voice and speed, mute, and keep chat history locally.

LanguageJavaScriptDTLifestyle & entertainmentDTResearch & learningOriginalai-companion
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