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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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Familiar
Familiar listens while it speaks, so calls stay natural through interruptions, overlap and background voices. Fewer people hang up. More convert.
Meeting Notes Sync
Sync meeting transcripts, notes, and AI summaries from MacParakeet and Fellow into your vault.
Sentrint
A complete Sentrint report from a scan of a real public repository: every finding, what each one means in plain English, and the copy-paste fix prompt. No signup.
Sufiyan Khan
A voice layer for AI agents to write like a human. It bans AI vocabulary and em dashes, and injects plain-voice rules into Claude Code, Codex, opencode, Cursor, and more.
QuantSignals FST
QuantSignals FST is a supervised AI trading agent that connects QS Research to risk-governed brokerage execution across web, desktop, CLI, iOS, and Android.
Gnoseed
Learn Kubernetes, AI, Linux, Terraform and more with 6,000+ free online flashcards and quizzes. SM-2 & FSRS spaced repetition, no sign-up, works offline.
Nellailabs
NELL Builder helps founders validate an idea against current market evidence, build the go-to-market plan, and execute toward their first customers.
PantheonGPU
Open source GPU health testing, diagnostics, and performance validation for NVIDIA CUDA and AMD ROCm AI infrastructure. Read the source, run it yourself.
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.
Maven Tools
Get Maven JARs without Maven. Download Maven dependencies and transitive JARs as ZIP, for Ant builds, legacy projects, no-build setups, and offline environments. No data...
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...
Custodian Labs
from custodian_labs import Custodian model = Custodian( model="gpt-4o", system_prompt="You are a helpful assistant.
RouterFuel
RouterFuel is an async Rust LLM gateway routing to 330+ models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Mistral, and every model on OpenRouter) with semantic caching and...
Agile AI Development Lifecycle
A framework and methodology for transforming pre-AI software development lifecycle into AI-native development at scale.
PidgeIoT
Open-source IoT device management: config push, OTA updates, telemetry graphs, GPS tracks, and email alerts for ESP32 and nRF91 fleets. Free while in beta.
Wasmer SDK
Today we're releasing a new SDK that finally fulfills the mission of Wasmer: run anything, anywhere.
VelocityNote
A cross-platform, local-first Markdown notebook with optional sync and AI that runs on your own machine.
Zedra
Remote control for AI coding agents, with a dev workspace on your phone: terminal, editor, markdown, and git diff. Pair by QR for a direct encrypted tunnel. No VPN.
react-stereogram demo
Image URLs work with images served from your own project, but a remote image whose server doesn't send an Access-Control-Allow-Origin (CORS) header can't have its pixels...
Agent Monitor
An AI agent rewriting your codebase looks like scrolling text in a terminal.
Perf
Compare 132 load, protocol, cloud, and enterprise performance testing tools. Curated specs, licenses, lifecycle status, and pick signals. Last verified 2026-08-12.
Mocktail
Self-hosted mock API server + dashboard in one ~25 MB binary. Define endpoints, generate realistic data, test errors and latency, and inspect live traffic.
Okanode
See what companies are implementing with AI and the business results they achieve. Browse curated use cases by industry, function, outcome, technology, and deployment model.
Substructure
subs is an agent harness for the cloud. It runs an unprivileged agent loop with no system access. It uses MCP servers for tools. It can run locally or as a client and server.
Cronloop
Cronloop lets you automate your recurring work with unattended AI agents that run on a schedule. Just describe the job and connect the tools it needs. Every agent keeps a...
The Safe, Production
Puter.js is the backend for AI-generated apps. Use your existing AI coding tool to build production-ready apps with up to 90% fewer AI tokens. Auth, cloud storage,...
Brainstorm
Brainstorm is a local-first, AI-native operating system for knowledge management. Your apps, your data, and your AI all run on your machine, with optional end-to-end...
unslop.news
Show HN: I made a word building game supporting anagrams and one handed use.
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...
Tesserae, self
Free, open-source dashboard server for e-ink displays. Compose dashboards in a browser, render dithered frames, and push them over MQTT or REST to e-ink panels....
Vaultak
Vaultak is the operating system for safe AI agents. Monitor every action, enforce permission boundaries, and automatically roll back damage. Zero code changes with Vaultak...
InferAll
One API key for 120+ AI models across OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, NVIDIA NIM, Replicate, and Runway. 25+ free open-source models, published per-token pricing...
Needle2
An open 45M-parameter model for tool calling, device use, and structured extraction. Needle 2 runs as a 14 MB binary in 28 MB of session RAM.
Gene Inspector Pro
Create custom panels from genes and variants related to a condition or research question.
Mail client optimized for self
A self-hosted webmail client for people who run a lot of addresses across a lot of domains. One list, one keyboard, one container.
Pingularity
A self-hosted dashboard for your internet connection - monitor speed, latency, uptime, and outages on Linux, macOS, Windows, or Docker. One binary, zero telemetry.
Hydra, a local
Route to a target confidence of correctness, not just the cheapest model. Hydra samples models adaptively (SPRT), cuts AI API costs 70-85% along the way, and keeps...
Setoku
Setoku is an open-source MCP server that gives your AI a read-only view of the data you own (a company’s, a household’s, or your own), plus the context to use it correctly.
AI codebase analyser and auto
We added Python AI-app regex prefilters to getdebug and benchmarked against Bandit, Semgrep, and (attempted) vulnhuntr. Here's where each tool actually catches things, and...
KBlip
New AI model releases, LLM launches, and framework updates, GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama, and every other major model drop, tracked as it happens.
The Posting Substack API
The posting API for Substack authors. Draft, publish, and schedule posts via Python SDK, CLI, or MCP, without the browser editor.
CoOS
A small German AI lab researching human–agentic interaction. We build tools that let people and agents share a desk, predictable, observable, on European soil.
Supafork
Supafork is the AI Agent Native Version Control system, Git built for autonomous agents. Super-fast forks, instant branches, S3-backed agent filesystems, and full env...
Byteask
ByteAsk edits your repo from the terminal, then drives the sanitizers, the debugger, and your test suite before you see a diff. Built-in support for LLVM, GCC, gdb,...
ESP32 Bowling System technical write
We looked around in our local community and found few places for people to gather together and have a good time.
Open
Open-source RAG security toolkit with prompt injection detection, PII protection, secrets scanning, and retrieval integrity checks.
Potatometer
To a program that reads HTML and does not run JavaScript, the YC directory is a blank page.
Agent Memory Leaderboard
Each track keeps its own result table and detailed metric breakdown.
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