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AI and indie maker tools
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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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.
A file
Two AI agents talk by taking turns editing one shared markdown file. No server, no framework. They edit it until they agree.
Open
Open-source RAG security toolkit with prompt injection detection, PII protection, secrets scanning, and retrieval integrity checks.
Lefts
Lefts is a very simple domain specific language for building complex machine learning workflows from simple ones.
A metadata
Generate cinematic AI videos and images with Image to Video, Text to Image, and other creative workflows. Built for creators, brands, and marketers.
Marginal
Track every LLM call's cost and slice it by customer, feature, model, any field you define.
Tail Panic
Tail Panic: command animals on a 25×25 grid to chase and escape. Write onFrame scripts, join bot matches and watch 3D replays.
VernLLM
The LLM call framework. Resilience, observability, and control for every call.
Chemistry AI
Chemistry AI is your online chemistry AI solver for step-by-step answers. Instantly solve chemistry problems, balance equations, and understand concepts. Free credits, no...
Nano
An AI-native security and observability platform for cloud, local, hybrid, and air-gapped teams. Sub-second search, detection engineering, OpenTelemetry, pivt AI, and...
Microlearning apps with a TikTok
Free microlearning apps that teach personal finance, AI literacy, and everyday knowledge in five minutes a day. One-minute lessons, deep dives, no ads.
SlideX
Use AI and agents to create editable presentations locally. OpenSlideX keeps your source close and exports HTML, MDX, and editable PPTX.
Home
Notebooker turns your saved sources into podcasts, stories, itineraries, timelines, discussions, and more - so you can learn, remember, and act.
Token Time
Screen Time, but for your tokens. Token Time meters every token your AI agents burn and taps you on the shoulder when it's time to take a break. Local, private, and...
Traceseal
Verifiable receipts, ground-truth verification and replayable governance for AI agent work. Cryptographic proof of what your agent did, verifiable by anyone.
Unique Gemstones for Your Strings
Turn any text, wallet address, username, or AI agent into a unique visual identity. Create avatars, NFT collections, digital signatures, and generative art.
Hunch
Hunch is a free macOS agent that works across your apps, browser sessions, files, and saved logins in the background while you keep using your Mac.
Billion Dollar Tweets
Billion Dollar Tweets be the favorite hire in the uncertain job market by being scary good at open source, check opensox.
1endpoint
1endpoint provides access to leading AI models through one API, with transparent token pricing for high-volume workloads.
Jolt
Jolt helps people keep their identity, content, and connections when they change apps.
RFL
The Robot Football League: 2v2 simulated Unitree G1 humanoids playing competitive football, three matches a day, streamed on Twitch and in spatial 4DGSx. The engine, the...
TensorSharp
TensorSharp is a native .NET GGUF inference engine with a CLI, Web UI, compatible APIs, Agent Skills, and optional sandboxed model-authored code.
Ringup
Ringup is the identity and payments layer for AI voice agents. Your agent knows who’s calling: recognize the caller, recall their context, and charge a saved card in one...
Perf
Compare 132 load, protocol, cloud, and enterprise performance testing tools. Curated specs, licenses, lifecycle status, and pick signals. Last verified 2026-08-12.
Bohay
Mission control for your AI coding agents. Run, watch, resume, and orchestrate Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, opencode and more from one terminal, with a live view of every...
wavecat
A fully local personal agent that watches your screen.
Foveon
Foveon, turn a Bayer photo into a Foveon X3 photo Foveon.
VoiceCite
VoiceCite turns what you know into deeply researched, citation-ready articles, written in your voice and structured so AI search actually cites you.
Caider
Caider turns GitHub issues into merged pull requests. Approve from anywhere; execution runs on your own Mac. Your code never leaves your machine.
Furniture Visualizer for Retailers
See-it-in-your-room for furniture stores on Shopify, Magento, BigCommerce, Woo, or custom. Catalog photos, no 3D. £0 setup, 500 free previews, then 10p.
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.
Robin
It helps you make the internet your own, customise the pages you already use, then automate the boring parts, and open the gate between websites, your experience, and your...
Service Catalog
Streamline your infrastructure management with AI agents. Automate code updates, create PRs across multiple repositories, and maintain infrastructure as code with...
Potatometer
To a program that reads HTML and does not run JavaScript, the YC directory is a blank page.
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...
Sidereon
One reference-validated GNSS and astrodynamics engine. A Rust core with first-class interfaces in Rust, Go, Python, C, Elixir, and WebAssembly.
AG Insights
Reasoning models are delivering named, quantified results in four use cases, software engineering, clinical documentation, compliance and customer service.
MatchShot
Get a professional AI dating profile audit in 60s. Optimize your Tinder, Hinge, and Bumble photos and bios to multiply your match rate. 100% Free.
Potassium
Native OpenClaw tools and skills for Infomaniak kDrive, Mail, kChat, URL shortener, and discovery workflows.
neolabs.fyi
An interactive map of AI neolabs, sized by valuation and grouped by lineage, geography, and research area.
Neverbell
Give your AI agent direct market access. Trade stocks, ETFs, commodities and crypto with leverage.
Contraband
CONTRABAND is a VR screening room for independent films, AI cinema, and documentaries. A shared virtual space where films screen at a set time, for a real audience.
Remove Background from Image
Remove the background from an image and download a transparent PNG with clean edges around hair and product detail. Free web-size download, no account.
Re
Re:Likes is a passage-level reaction library built on Clean Selection, with persistent likes, dislikes, partial erasing, and aggregate heatmaps.
Block Blast AI Solver
Play Block Blast online free and instantly solve any puzzle with our AI-powered Block Blast solver. No signup or download needed. Get best moves in seconds on any device.
TDQS
The description is the only thing an agent reads before it picks a tool.
Foundera
Validate your idea. Build the right product. Grow into a fundable startup. Get discovered by investors.
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.
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