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Oct 19, 2026 · What developers are building

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Token Factory Initializr — AI Model Configuration Generator

Open-source tool that aggregates AI model data from multiple sources into a unified, filterable catalog and generates gateway configs (LiteLLM, NewAPI, Bifrost) from selected models. Offers a public model API and a browse page.

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Invert Image Colors Online — Free Photo & Color Inverter

Free online image tool centered on color inversion: PNG/PDF/logo inverting, negative-to-positive, black-and-white conversion, plus compression, flip and rotate — 15+ tools. In-browser Canvas processing; images never uploaded or watermarked.

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Which Me

Which Me is a self-exploration assessment site for Chinese and English users, with fun quizzes, daily short tests, and full scales on personality, values, relationships, cognition, and interests. Full scales need server-side payment.

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Su Zhe AI Membership Store

Su Zhe AI sells ChatGPT membership activation via Alipay. Buy a card key, self-activate on the web; delivery usually takes 1–3 minutes, with 1-month subscription warranty. Also offers Gemini, Super Duolingo, and other AI memberships.

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AI Anime Generator

AI anime drawing site that generates anime characters, avatars, and Chibi images from text prompts or uploaded photos, with selectable art styles and aspect ratios plus ready-to-use prompts.

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Speaker

Native macOS voice-input tool with BYOK providers (Doubao, OpenAI, Qwen) plus Apple offline recognition on macOS 26+. Multiple customizable text-cleanup modes. No account or server; transcripts and vocabulary stay local. Free, open source.

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Whispek

AI voice dictation desktop app: hold a key to speak, release and tidied text lands at the cursor in nearly any app. Strips filler words and repeats, offers voice translation. Windows, macOS, Linux; free quota resets every 7 days.

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ToolKnit

Free, no-signup online toolbox covering PDF, image, audio/video and text tools with Chinese/English switching; PDF-to-image and image cropping run locally in the browser, while some tools have usage quotas or file size limits.

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aiMakeVideo

AI video/image creation workbench for text-to-video, image-to-video, image-to-image, with Seedance 2.5 and MiniMax H3. 10 templates turn one photo into a 15s vertical video without prompts. Credits from $9.9; 10 free on signup; 9 languages.

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Mackit

A dependency cache cleaner for developers: scans reclaimable caches left by Xcode, Node, Flutter, Go, Rust, Python and others, flags the risk of each item, and lets you decide what to delete to safely reclaim disk space.

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CatCatCode

Beginner-friendly GPT/Claude API access service with direct connections from mainland China, no VPN. Register for a key, then follow tutorials to configure Claude Code, Codex and more; monthly plans cost 99/199/299 CNY.

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AI Balance Manager

Windows anime desktop pet that tracks AI API balances, quotas and subscription expiry. Auto-checks DeepSeek, Kimi, SiliconFlow and OpenRouter via API key; manual expiry entry for ChatGPT, Cursor.

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MyBooks

Private ebook management service for individuals and families, built on Calibre + Vue. Create and share reading lists, sync via WebDAV, convert epub/azw3/pdf, turn epubs into audiobooks or podcasts, and push to Kindle and other devices.

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MyDict

Self-hosted dictionary service with one-click Docker deployment. Imports MDict, StarDict and ECDICT dictionaries, offering token-authenticated lookup and vocabulary-book APIs, a web dictionary UI, light/dark themes and usage statistics.

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MyReader

MyReader is a cross-platform e-book reader for MyBooks. It connects to self-hosted libraries, browses by tags, downloads and reads books, syncs reading data, and supports LaTeX formulas and custom dictionaries. macOS/Windows/Linux/Android.

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MyNexus

Turns e-books into a private searchable RAG knowledge base: import EPUB/PDF/TXT, auto-parse, chunk and embed, then answer questions via RAG retrieval. Includes admin for books, tasks and tokens; self-host core-api, worker and web-ui.

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Megaphone

Megaphone is an open-source launch toolkit: paste a URL to get a 0–100 launch-readiness score and top fixes, then let AI draft copy for 17 channels like Hacker News, V2EX, and Xiaohongshu, with online checks.

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Hasselblad Film Back 3D Learning Tool

Bilingual 3D web tool to explore Hasselblad film back parts. A12/A16/A24 have disassembly and reassembly demos; 13 more models support layered viewing, rotate/zoom/hide and mobile use.

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WITHIN: A Walkable 3D Art Gallery in the Browser

A Three.js 3D art gallery in the browser with 18 painting and nature scenes, including Along the River During the Qingming Festival. Features chaptered viewing, free roaming, day/night switching, ambient sound and desktop/mobile controls.

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Tidytalk: On-Device Mac Voice Input with AI Cleanup

Free open-source Mac voice input: hold Option+Command to speak; on release it transcribes on-device (SenseVoice), uses AI to remove filler words, fix slips and add punctuation, then pastes clean text at the cursor. Includes live captions.

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koto: Copy, Migrate and Sync Agent Sessions Across Harnesses

koto is a CLI and desktop app that copies, migrates and syncs agent sessions across harnesses: browse sessions, copy any conversation turn into a new session while the original stays unchanged, analyze history and forks in a session tree,…

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Pixtale: Immersive Self-Hosted Cloud Photo Album

Self-hosted cloud photo album built with Next.js and shadcn/ui. Offers a waterfall grid with lightbox viewing for an immersive experience, aggregates storage across local, S3, and Telegram, and pairs with the Pixtale Sync desktop tool to a…

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Deskset: Rainmeter-Style Desktop Widgets for macOS

Rainmeter-style desktop widget engine for macOS, built with Swift/AppKit. Ships Stationery widgets (clock, weather, music, system monitor, notes, to-do), imports .ini/.rmskin skins, plus a Skin Studio live-preview editor. Free, GPL-3.0.

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Dev Workbench: Offline All-in-One Developer Toolbox

Offline browser-only developer toolbox bundling JSON formatting/validation, regex testing, JWT parse/verify/sign, text diff, chained encoders, and WebSocket debugging. Smart paste, JSON to TypeScript, URL-hash sharing, PWA;

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ruvnet / ruflo

🌊 The original agent harness. Deploy intelligent multi-player swarms, coordinate autonomous workflows, and build conversational AI systems.

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headroomlabs-ai / headroom

Compress tool outputs, logs, files, and RAG chunks before they reach the LLM. 20% fewer tokens for coding agents, 60-95% fewer tokens for JSON, same answers. Library, proxy, MCP server.

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jitwxs / 163MusicLyrics

Desktop utility that fetches and processes song lyrics from NetEase Cloud Music and QQ Music, handling batches and exporting lyric files.

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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.

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Lookout (for Slack)

Using Jev, Lookout watches Slack for time-sensitive messages and takes the action you choose instantly.

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Umbra Mail

A calmer, private Gmail. Emails can look like chat threads, newsletters go in one page, and AI is optional. No tracking, no server, open source.

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Beam.win

Keep your agents and builds running on a Mac mini or Studio. Beam brings their Terminal, browser and other app windows onto the Mac in front of you, each as its own window with a Dock icon and ⌘Tab presence. Encrypted between your Macs.

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croft

croft pulls data from APIs and files, transforms it with SQL or TypeScript, and keeps it fresh on a schedule. It all lives in one DuckDB file, every table gets a generated type, and Claude Code can drive it. Free, open source, no Python.

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CoolDock

Add live widgets, quick actions, apps, folders, search, stats, weather, calendars, reminders, and more into a beautiful second Dock beside your original Mac Dock.

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Planet-X

Spin a free 3D globe, play a country’s live radio, or dig to the other side of Earth. Leave a light for a friend, family member, pet or idol you’ve lost. Exploring is free and needs no account.

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readywhen

readywhen is the senior Personal Assistant that works inside WhatsApp. It has its own phone number, its own computer, and a project board that keeps track of everything on your plate. Call it. Message it. Voice-note it.

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Wally by Willow

Meet Wally, your new Scribe agent in Willow. Chat by voice to draft an email/slack/ prompt, rewrite highlighted text and keep refining it in the same conversation.

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AutoChart.eu

Upload an MP3 or FLAC and get a complete song folder for YARG and Clone Hero: drums (pro cymbals, 2x kick), guitar, bass and vocals with word-timed lyrics, Easy to Expert, all charted by our own AI model.

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buddylist

A free desktop app for macOS (Apple Silicon), Windows and Linux that puts Claude Code, Codex, Gemini and OpenCode in an MSN-style buddy list. Use separate Git worktrees for separate jobs, or group-chat agents in a shared folder.

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Framefields

Framefields is a high-performance, code-first video engine powered by native WebGPU in Node.js. Built for AI agents and engineers, it replaces bulky creative suites with a single npm package: motion graphics, Photoshop-grade VFX, 3D scenes…

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Switch Lab

Buying mechanical keyboard switches is a guessing game. Specs and YouTube videos don't tell you how a switch will sound and feel on your own desk.

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Lancetta

Lancetta is a native macOS menu-bar app that tells you when and how to use Claude Code and Codex.

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Tori

Tori AI support agent learns your product in depth from the content you already have, then delivers accurate answers to even the most complex customer questions through a UI you can fully customize.

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Own 1

Own 1 is a fanless personal AI computer that runs two local LLMs and eight agents on your desk, from $3,899 with no subscriptions or per-token costs.

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WhatsApp MCP running free on Cloudflare

I wanted my humble Claude on mobile to access my WhatsApp messages but the only options I could find either required WhatsApp Business or an actual server to run Baileys on.

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Qwen3-4B with the AI writing tics trained out

A small open model, fine-tuned on a MacBook Air, that writes without em dashes, "not X, but Y" or lists of three, with no system prompt. Answers on 40 held-out prompts, the training rounds, and how to run it.

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KiviDB, a faster Redis-compatible memory database and vector cache

Hi all, So I have been working on this project KiviDB from February 2026. It started as a project for me to understand rust, having a product with no GC pauses, memory blow up after snapshots and getting OOM on running pods, and that was a…

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Yila – A Codex for Scientific Research

The Codex for research: real papers from OpenAlex, PubMed, arXiv, and Wanfang, across scoping, search, reading, and drafting. Cited reviews, annotated PDFs, and posters.

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iFolo Note: A macOS Sidebar Notes App

前阵子让 muse 整理云资产,发现早年藏箱子底的项目 ` 和辛苦拿下的 ICP 备案号一直在吃灰,还有 claude 的 tokens,索性拯救了一下尸山代码,搓了一个 macOS 侧边栏笔记:iFolo Note.按我自己使用习惯来的,大家可酌情使用,可提提意见!免费,免费,免费! ### 为什么要造这个轮子? 每天面对 IDE 和 多 Agent 终端,我在 Mac 上随手记东西一直很割裂: * **重型软件太重**:只是想临时贴段 JSON 、记行命令或闪念,用 Notion 、Obsidian 甚至系统备忘录都得 `Cmd + Tab` 切窗口,打断思路。 * **桌面便签太乱**:贴多了像牛皮癣,过后根本找不到。 我想要的只是一个**平时完全隐形、需要时从屏幕边缘一秒滑出、写完立刻缩回去,AI 时代还支持可控 mcp**的轻量容器。 ### 核心特点 1. **无感边缘呼出**:常驻屏幕侧边,鼠标贴边或快捷键秒开。全屏写代码、开会时随叫随到,不抢焦点,用完即走。 2. **原生丝滑体验**:拒绝套壳卡顿,深度优化了滑出帧率与输入延迟,后台常驻几乎零感。 3. **Markdown 混排直出**:代码片段、Todo 、临时链接所见即所得,无需在源码和预览模式间反复横跳。 4. **不只是临时草稿**:支持双链与标签整理,纯本地 Markdown 存储,目前还没做云端同步、s 5. 3 同步啥的,Mac 侧边栏记下的碎片灵感,随时能在 iOS 端继续整理,数据完全自主。 --- 目前 Macos 端已稳定,后期计划 windows 端,欢迎大家体验,免费、免费!: 👉 **官网**:

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VibeStart: AI-Native TypeScript Full-Stack Scaffold

AI-native TypeScript full-stack scaffold: Vite toolchain, TS monorepo, strict lint (oxlint, ultracite) with AGENTS.md AI rules, an agent skill to pick a stack and generate projects, e2e-tested combos, `vibestart upgrade` template sync.

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