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Oct 18, 2026 · What developers are building

Daily discoveries from developer communities, independent makers, and open source.

fakeloc — US Address Test Data Generator

fakeloc generates synthetic US street addresses and fictional profiles, pairing city, state, and ZIP from reference data for form validation, UI demos, and import/export testing.

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Master the Pixel: Image to Bead Pattern

Master the Pixel turns photos, illustrations, or pixel art into perler/fuse bead patterns. Adjust grid size and color count, match MARD, Perler, or Hama palettes, check thin lines, eyes, and outlines, then export patterns and bead counts.

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NeoDB Lite

NeoDB Lite is an unofficial Android client for NeoDB and compatible instances, letting users browse, search and mark books, films, music and games on mobile.

LanguageKotlinDTLifestyle & entertainmentDTMobile appOriginalactivitypub
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Weather Trip

A tool for finding travel destinations by forecast weather: filter global cities by temperature, rain and humidity, and compare city forecasts on a weather map. Bilingual Chinese/English interface.

LanguageTypeScriptDTTravel & mobilityDTWeb appDTWeb
1

SortLines

Browser-based text line utility: paste text to sort lines alphabetically, numerically, naturally or by length, plus dedupe, list diff, shuffle, reverse and keyword-list cleanup. Runs locally, no uploads, free, no signup.

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BeadPattern

Free bead-pattern and pixel-art generator that turns photos into Perler/Hama/Artkal official palette patterns and counts beads; runs fully in-browser with no uploads for privacy, and supports chart export plus a focused beading mode.

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Children's Chore

Free chore-chart and points-reward tool for families with kids aged 4–14: parents assign recurring tasks, kids check in by PIN/QR, parents approve points for custom family rewards.

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zippic

Browser-based image compression and format conversion tool with 19 image tools and batch processing for JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, GIF and JXL. Runs locally in the browser so files are never uploaded; free with no sign-up.

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EOR Employer Cost Calculator

Enter an employee's salary and hiring country to instantly compare monthly total costs across Deel, Remote and Playroll EOR platforms, including estimated employer social security taxes. Chinese UI, free, no sign-up.

DTBusiness & growthDTWeb appDTWeb
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apimodels.app

Multi-model AI API: one key accesses 150+ image, video, speech and LLM models through an OpenAI-compatible API. Multi-channel failover, failed calls not billed, async callbacks for image/video, pay-as-you-go below official. Requires coding.

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BeatBrowser

MIT-licensed Chrome extension and local MCP bridge that lets agents like Codex reuse existing browser logins to read pages and prepare forms in background task tabs, with pause and manual takeover.

LanguageJavaScriptDTDesktop productivityDTAgent extensionOriginalai-agents
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html-to-video: Render HTML Animations Frame-by-Frame to MP4

CLI that renders HTML/Canvas animations frame-by-frame in a headless browser and encodes them to H.264 MP4 with ffmpeg. No screen capture or AI video: real frame rates, exact frame alignment, deterministic repeatable output.

LanguageJavaScriptDTContent creationDTSoftware developmentOriginalagent-skill
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Broken links in the docs

Hi, A few links in the docs no longer work (404 / 410): | File | Link | Status | Replay | |------|------|--------|--------| | docs/free-music.md | | 404 | | Cheers,

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FSB: MCP Chrome Extension for Live DOM Control by AI Clients

MIT-licensed Chrome extension plus a local MCP server that lets Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other MCP clients drive your logged-in Chrome: open, click, type, upload, read live DOM. 69 MCP tools, no API key, encrypted credential vault.

LanguageJavaScriptDTSoftware developmentDTAgent extensionOriginalagents
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Runi: Free Open-Source Browser AI Assistant Extension

Free MIT browser AI assistant extension: sidebar chat, select-to-ask, page summaries and one-line form autofill. BYOK for DeepSeek, GPT or Claude (OpenAI/Anthropic protocols); chats stay local, data redacted, form submits confirmed.

LanguageTypeScriptDTContent creationDTResearch & learningOriginalai-agent
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StoneSVN: Open-Source Cross-Platform SVN GUI Client

Cross-platform SVN GUI client for Windows, macOS and Linux. Manages multiple working copies; block-level shelving, selective commits, file history, image previews and SVN property editing. Built with Tauri, Rust and Vue 3; MIT.

LanguageRustDTSoftware developmentDTDesktop appOriginalcross-platform
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mlabonne / llm-course

Course to get into Large Language Models (LLMs) with roadmaps and Colab notebooks.

DTResearch & learningDTContent / resourceOriginalcourse
83.9K

Comfy-Org / ComfyUI

The most powerful and modular diffusion model GUI, api and backend with a graph/nodes interface. The fastest local inference engine in the world.

LanguagePythonDTContent creationDTWeb appOriginalai
138.5K

sngyai / Sequoia-X

An automated A-share stock screener that scans multiple technical patterns, runs automatically after market close, and pushes the results to Feishu.

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d2l-ai / d2l-zh

Dive into Deep Learning (d2l-zh): a runnable, discussion-friendly deep learning textbook for Chinese readers. Its Chinese and English editions are used for teaching at over 500 universities in more than 70 countries.

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81.9K

soybeanjs / soybean-admin

Clean, elegant and powerful admin dashboard template built on Vue3, Vite, TypeScript, Pinia, NaiveUI and UnoCSS, providing a front-end foundation for management panels.

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15.1K

xifangczy / cat-catch

A browser extension by xifangczy that sniffs and captures web page resources, helping users detect and download media or other files.

LanguageJavaScriptDTContent creationDTSkill / pluginOriginalchrome
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nilaoda / N_m3u8DL-RE

Cross-platform, modern stream downloader for MPD/M3U8/ISM. Available in English, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.

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8.9K

forthespada / CS-Books

A collection of 1000+ classic computer science books, personal notes and article resources covering C/C++, Java, Python, Go, data structures and algorithms, operating systems, backend architecture, computer systems, databases, networks, de…

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27.5K

MeetPaw

MeetPaw is a lightweight macOS menu-bar app that puts your meetings one click away. Spin up an instant Google Meet, Zoom, or Microsoft Teams link the moment you need it.

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Inbox Zero

Inbox Zero Mail is an open-source email client for Gmail and Outlook. Fast, keyboard-first, and free to use, on web, Mac, Windows and iPhone, with all your accounts in one inbox.

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Gravity Notes

Gravity is a notes app built on Andrej Karpathy's append-and-review note. Everything goes into one list, newest at the top. Old notes sink, and a swipe brings one back. You pay once, and your notes stay on your devices.

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Vampire Crawlers™

From the somehow triple-BAFTA‑winning creators of Vampire Survivors, Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors turns the snowballing thrill of Survivors into a hyper turn‑based, card‑driven BLOBBER with rogue-lite element…

DTLifestyle & entertainmentDTDesktop app
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Tomo for ChatGPT

Ask ChatGPT for a Tomo course on black holes and a game drops into the chat. Quick questions, hearts on the line. Any topic, even the chat you’re in. Pick your teacher, from The Professor to The Pirate. Add Tomo from Plugins in ChatGPT.

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Popcraft

Paste one URL into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Claude Code and your agent can plan, cost-preview and generate video, images, music and SFX with Seedance 2.5, Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0, Nano Banana Pro and 20+ more. OAuth sign-in, no API key.

DTContent creationDTAgent extensionDTMCP service
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Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse

Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse are Amazon's new personal AI devices that help you remember what matters. Frontier is a wearable for your wrist or clothing, while Eclipse attaches magnetically to your phone.

DTDesktop productivity
85

SpeechFast

Hold fn and talk. SpeechFast types clean text at your cursor, in any app. Everything runs on your Mac. The speech model is downloaded once; after that, no audio and no text ever leaves your machine.

DTDesktop productivityDTDesktop appDTmacOS
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Tower 18 for Mac

Tower 18 for Mac is here! This update is all about improving the Tower experience in the terminal: the Tower Command Line Tool can now take you straight to any view in Tower (History, Blame, the Working Copy, Branches Review, and more) wit…

DTSoftware developmentDTDesktop appDTCLI
123

3AM Super Intelligence

Meet 3AM, the AI on-call engineer for systems you can’t rewrite. It finds the root cause, rehearses the fix, and resolves the incident with one tap in Slack, all from inside your network.

DTData & operationsDTVertical agent
93

Krea 3

Krea 3 is a fast AI image editing model built for creators and production teams. Edit images in under 8 seconds at native 2K resolution for just $0.06 per image.

DTContent creation
72

Openbroca

Openbroca is a native Swift AI dictation app for Mac, with a ~6.5 MB download. Press a shortcut, speak naturally, and get clean text right where you're typing.

DTDesktop productivityDTDesktop appDTmacOS
80

MyLens

MyLens is AI for live 1-1 presentations at scale. You add your raw sources, say what matters, and invite your audience.

DTBusiness & growthDTVertical agentDTWeb app
157

Latch

Latch locks distracting apps until you scan your key, and the key lives where you have to walk: an NFC sticker on the fridge, a printed QR code, or a number of steps. No account, no ads, no analytics. iPhone and Android; Pro is $9.99 once.

DTLifestyle & entertainmentDTMobile appDTiOS
74

shim-cli

An open-source hook and local proxy for Claude Code, Codex, Copilot CLI and VS Code. In Claude Code it masks secrets and personal data in tool results before the model reads them, and shim watch shows what a session sent and cost.

DTSoftware developmentDTSecurity & testingDTAgent observability
140

500 clocks in one 6.3 MB HTML file by Opus 5.5

Lately I've been testing frontier models by having them create self-contained web pages that display clocks--sort of my personal version of Simon Willison’s pelican-on-a-bicycle metric.

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CallSitter – bot that answers my calls and wastes scammers' time

Anyone else get a lot of dumb scam calls? These days I mostly get them on my mobile. I used to just ignore them, but then I got fed up and built a bot that answers my calls and wastes their time. It runs on OpenAI Live 1.

LanguageTypeScriptDTLifestyle & entertainmentDTVertical agent
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Fast, secure JSON Formatter with side-by-side JSON diffing

I wanted a simple clean looking website for all my JSON related work that is why I built this site . Here I built a side-by-side diffing which you should try!! Well I would like you to test the site and give me some feedback on how it is!!

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JSynth – Visual Programming Editor for Julia

A visual editor for Julia: wire inputs, functions and plots together on a canvas, run the design with Julia, and see every value on its node. Exports to plain Julia scripts. Windows, Linux and macOS.

LanguageC#DTSoftware developmentDTDesktop appOriginalavalonia
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Play Martin:No Filter Fighters

Martin Fighters is an online gaming website dedicated to Martin No Filter Fighters, a fast-paced browser fighting game inspired by the Martin universe. Visitors can play directly in their browser without downloading additional software.

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Native iOS and macOS Douyu Live Streaming App

Swift-native Douyu live streaming client for iOS and macOS, rewritten from dart_simple_live with only the Douyu channel. Supports VOD playback and keeps danmaku with an AI timeline. Not publicly released.

LanguageSwiftDTLifestyle & entertainmentDTMobile appOriginalai-chapters
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SciForge: A Local-First Research Agent Harness

Local-first research agent harness unifying literature search, reading, SSH experiments, figures and writing: 24 skills (DSH/Claude Code compatible), 46 tools, 7 recipes, 8 local web pages, Python 3.12+FastAPI, MIT.

LanguagePythonDTResearch & learningDTAgent orchestrationOriginalagent-harness
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DLNA Mirror V1.1: Cast Your PC Screen to DLNA

Windows desktop app that mirrors your PC screen and audio as an HTTP-TS stream and discovers DLNA players on the LAN for screen casting. Movies stream at ~3-4s latency; a screenshot-based slide mode runs at ~1s for PPT. Free, no ads.

DTTravel & mobilityDTDesktop productivityDTDesktop app
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