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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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ZenResume
Build a free ATS resume in minutes. Use our 2026 tech templates and AI to pass resume scanners. Instantly download your PDF, no hidden fees.
Bacon
Bacon is an ad network for AI coding tools. Install the plugin, see occasional clearly-labeled ads in your terminal, and earn a share of the revenue your attention makes....
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...
Custodian Labs
from custodian_labs import Custodian model = Custodian( model="gpt-4o", system_prompt="You are a helpful assistant.
UnslopAI
A writing tool that preserves your voice through AI editing. Fixes cadence, structure, and lexical density. Not just synonyms.
Synapse
Network intelligence platform. Diagnose, analyze, and monitor every layer of your internet-facing stack from a single command center.
Nellailabs
NELL Builder helps founders validate an idea against current market evidence, build the go-to-market plan, and execute toward their first customers.
TokenPath
One API to ground every generated token in its source, for output from any model. TokenPath measures attention directly, not the LLM's self-report, to return...
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.
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...
Traccia
Traccia is an AI agent control plane for observability, evaluation, governance, and runtime policy enforcement across production AI systems.
InferCrane
Connect, deploy, observe, optimize, release, and recover production inference across managed APIs, serverless GPUs, dedicated capacity, and your cloud behind one stable...
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...
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.
Orthogonal
Discover, call, and pay for 800+ endpoints from 50+ verified providers, through one integration. Pay per call, no subscription.
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.
frontend-design-pro
A skill pack an AI coding agent loads while it writes frontend code. It routes one of 19 skills per request, holds the output to 61 machine-checked constraints, and ships...
VelocityNote
A cross-platform, local-first Markdown notebook with optional sync and AI that runs on your own machine.
Selfship
When 300 customers hit the same wall, Selfship finds the exact moment it goes wrong and opens an eval-backed pull request. You review, you merge.
_done
Real-world tasks your agent can't do alone - Made by _done Ask.
unslop.news
Show HN: I made a word building game supporting anagrams and one handed use.
Voice API
Self hostable voice AI API for building production voice agents with a typed REST API, webhooks, and a developer dashboard.
Ship
Assign an issue to SHIP. An agent team of specialists autonomously covers your SDLC, following your practices, verifying, proving, and reporting every change.
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...
Imperavi
A developer-controlled UI and integration layer for adding AI suggestions, reviews, reports, and writing tools to Redactor. Use your own backend, prompts, and model.
Inkfold
Inkfold gives power users and teams one shared memory across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and every AI tool they pay for. Stop re-explaining yourself every time you switch....
scribe
A single-binary CLI that turns your git repos, coding-agent sessions, and self-sent links into a curated, semantically searchable knowledge base. Cross-project,...
Gene Inspector Pro
Create custom panels from genes and variants related to a condition or research question.
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.
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,...
SinghOS
A done-for-you autonomous productivity system. One Telegram bot captures everything. AI triages it. Notion organises it. Built for founders and operators running multiple...
Zipbox
Set up Claude Code in the cloud in one click. zipbox boots a disposable sandbox where Anthropic’s agent launches itself at first boot. Your first Tiny box is free.
Envy
Envy is a free, fast Markdown notes app for Mac. Every note is a plain .md file stored locally, no account, no sync service, no subscription, no lock-in. 6.0 MB. Source is...
SigmaShake
Generative AI agent guardrails mapped to MITRE ATLAS AML.M0020: deterministic ALLOW, DENY, ASK, FORCE at the tool-call boundary. Honest-agent. Not a sandbox.
Reality Kernel
Reality Kernel is an execution-layer security engine and cryptographic audit ledger for autonomous AI agents. Deterministic execution boundaries, kernel-level eBPF...
GridPath
GridPath is a desktop AI agent for Excel. Parallel workflows. Multi-workbook context. Reversible changes. Lightning speed. Works with your Claude and OpenAI subscription.
Apertis
Give coding agents and AI apps one governed path to models, budgets, and fallback, 30+ providers and 500+ models behind one OpenAI-compatible API, with spend caps,...
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