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881 tools for people who ship. Every entry is a factual listing drawn from the product’s own site. 15 of them have been hands on tested and scored by a named editor.
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Appaloft
Run appaloft up and this folder becomes a live URL, folder deploy without git. An open-source Railway alternative and self-hosted PaaS path. appaloft setup agent writes...
Wolbarg
Why most local multi-agent workflows don't need PostgreSQL for semantic memory, and when they actually do.
Sleuth Io
sx 2.0 is out: a native app for Mac, Windows, and Linux that lets anyone share AI skills with their team, no git and no terminal required.
Blocks.ai
Connect your agent to the world. Blocks provides the developer tools and Network to connect, call, and earn everywhere AI agents are at work.
Tokenstead
Track the latest open-weight AI models, agent harnesses, and tooling. See what runs on your hardware, who's running what, and honest cost comparisons.
Prelo
Modern stacks made websites fast to build and impossible to hand over, Prelo ends with a WordPress-style studio your client already knows. MIT licensed, self-hosted, no...
Canopii Trust Index
Continuously scanned, security-scored registry of MCP servers. Tool-poisoning, injection, supply-chain, and credential risk, one score per version.
AIFCC
Claude Code, Codex, Gemini and MiMo run with full sudo inside a hardware-sandboxed Linux desktop on your Mac. The guest cannot escape, so your real Mac stays untouched.
Forte
Deploy from GitHub and get authentication, payments, security, autoscaling, monitoring, and per-request debugging built in, from first launch through scale.
Backprompter
Build AI agents from plain-language prompts, test them with mock users and scored evaluations, then deploy as a chat app, embed, or API, no backend, database, or secrets...
Getting Started
Command-line interface for managing RevOS resources, tables, scores, segments, actions, cubes, organizations, and more.
CI/Lock
CI/lock collects trusted telemetry across every checkpoint between commit and production, CI/CD builds, security scans (SAST/DAST/SBOM), runtime + cluster integrity...
Benhoyt
I used an AI agent to make a big update to my GiftyWeddings.com website, taking it from a gift registry to a full website builder in 275 commits.
Sidereon
One reference-validated GNSS and astrodynamics engine. A Rust core with first-class interfaces in Rust, Go, Python, C, Elixir, and WebAssembly.
Tmppr
Local GitHub-style pull requests where your agents can open work, run CI, review each other, trigger follow-up agents, and merge through enforced gates.
Windrunner
Organize hierarchical work items with entries for decisions, findings, answers, and evidence.
Offline Flock Navigation
A native Android app that routes you around automated licence-plate readers, offline, on your phone. ALPR cameras are modelled as directional wedges, not circles, so you...
AI News Report
A folder of code can now run its own commands on your computer as soon as an AI coding agent opens it. The trick hides in the folder's own git settings, in a file called .
Marginal
Track every LLM call's cost and slice it by customer, feature, model, any field you define.
How Riffn works
Riffn links your iPhone to a coding agent running in a repo on your own computer, over Tailscale. Start a session, pocket the phone, and keep working by voice while you...
NeoBox
A native macOS Neo Geo emulator with built-in Geolith, CRT shaders, save states, gamepad hot-swap, and per-game memory cards. No setup. Just play.
Traccia
Traccia is an AI agent control plane for observability, evaluation, governance, and runtime policy enforcement across production AI systems.
Sipp
Sipp is an open-source AI runtime and endpoint client for browser WebGPU, native GGUF inference, trusted providers, and self-hosted gateway workflows.
InferCrane
Connect, deploy, observe, optimize, release, and recover production inference across managed APIs, serverless GPUs, dedicated capacity, and your cloud behind one stable...
Talos
An autonomous agent you can hand a shell to. Every tool call passes a gate that grants authority for exact arguments, once, for 30 seconds, and logs the verdict.
Auto Learning Agents, a self
Self-host the free, open source Auto Learning Agents platform in minutes with Docker. Clone the repo, add your API keys, and run your own AI agents.
Ship Stacks
Full-stack templates that ship on day one. Auth, OAuth, Stripe, S3, email, AI chat, and Docker, already wired across 17 production-ready backends in 10 languages. Pick a...
Sapporta
Sapporta is a TypeScript and SQLite framework for building small database applications with generated APIs, editable grids, forms, reports, and row-scoped authorization.
Sovereign AI Registry
Compare AI vendors on data residency, training defaults, retention, subprocessors, certifications and EU AI Act role. One row per vendor × product × deployment, every...
Memoars
Memoars is a user-owned, encrypted memory layer that carries approved context across AI assistants while keeping you in control of what is learned, changed, and forgotten.
Slopsift
Catch AI writing tells with a custom-trained NLP parser, not a word list. SlopSift runs locally in your browser, CLI, or VS Code, with exact, explainable findings.
A file
Two AI agents talk by taking turns editing one shared markdown file. No server, no framework. They edit it until they agree.
Generativeide
GIDE (GenerativeIDE) is a privacy-first, model-agnostic AI code editor. Run local models offline or connect your own API key. Zero token costs on local AI. Air-gap ready.
ClaudeThings
Turn Claude Code from one generalist into a team of 89 specialist agents, 122 skills, and 181 slash commands, installed in one command. Build, ship and market a product...
AG Insights
Reasoning models are delivering named, quantified results in four use cases, software engineering, clinical documentation, compliance and customer service.
Orthogonal
Discover, call, and pay for 800+ endpoints from 50+ verified providers, through one integration. Pay per call, no subscription.
RequestGuard
Create CAPTCHA-gated short links with optional expiry and password protection. Bots cannot follow.
Nitpicker
Open-source AI that reviews GitHub PRs, roasts your variable names, and deploys on Lambda, Cloudflare Workers, or GitHub Actions. LGTM is not in its vocabulary.
PassControl
Give every AI agent its own identity, scope and budget. PassControl checks each model call while keeping provider keys out of agent environments.
AnalystAIPack
It will happily tell you to "check the file for anything malicious," suggest a plugin that does not exist, or skip the one step that actually matters.
cooked
Camera stays on your device, the photo is sent only to other players, never a server.
Stonefold
Companies are starting to let AI agents take real actions in their systems. Stonefold is the checkpoint that keeps those actions inside rules your organization approved,...
Potatometer
To a program that reads HTML and does not run JavaScript, the YC directory is a blank page.
DeepSQL
DeepSQL is a fully context-aware database agent: it monitors workloads, optimizes slow queries, and ships BI dashboards for Postgres and MySQL.
CapyToolkit
Access a growing collection of free browser utilities for hardware testing, dev work, audio, and security. 100% client-side. Zero uploads. Try them now.
Tape Music Suite
Multiplatform, multidevice and peer-to-peer networked. Desktop + NAS + Mobile. Fully integrated and cohesive library management, playlist building, auto-tagging and...
Agent Memory Leaderboard
Each track keeps its own result table and detailed metric breakdown.
Meeting Notes Sync
Sync meeting transcripts, notes, and AI summaries from MacParakeet and Fellow into your vault.
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