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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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penguinAI
penguinAI makes AI character chats feel fun, lively, and engaging with playful personalities, emotional variety, and free private conversations.
AI Info Remover for Images
If you've ever seen an "Imagined with AI" badge stuck on your image, this is why.
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.
AI Council Toolkit
An open, implementation-grade playbook for building, running, and sustaining an internal AI Council. Practical templates, governance patterns, and operating models you can...
Codify
Declare your dev environment as code or describe it in plain English, Codify's AI agent sets everything up. Standardize Homebrew, Python, Node, and more across Mac and Linux.
Voice Age Verification
AGEWARDEN determines whether a visitor is above or below the age of 18, from a few seconds of voice. No IDs. No facial scans. Audio never retained.
Hive Trust
A signature authenticates a record when its signer is trusted.
1667
A full-screen terminal environment for writing fiction with language models. Keep every take in a story tree. Plain-text files and no tracking of any kind.
Lexicon
Lexicon is a free, open-source Grammarly alternative and local-first writing app for Windows, macOS & Linux with offline grammar checking, local AI rewrites, and clean PDF...
LMAO
A premium-looking, budget-priced browser MOBA. Battle across Ruckus Ravine with original champions, summoner spells, jungle objectives, and a deep item shop. No download,...
Agent Deck
Build specialist AI coding agents on macOS. Cherry-pick skills, launch sessions from GitHub issues, and run agents in parallel, all in a free native Mac app.
A real
ScrumSurvivor is an open source Windows app that replaces your webcam with a real-time Wav2Lip lip-sync avatar, breathing, blinking, and lip-syncing to your voice. Built...
StageWhisper Lite
StageWhisper Lite is free and source-available. On-device transcription, your own AI, a private overlay. Lite puts your AI in the room. Founders Edition gives it cards to...
ShevtoneAudio Orchestrator
Professional local MIDI orchestration plugin for composers. Perpetual license, editable MIDI workflow, no subscription.
RunAPI
Access video, music, image, and LLM models through one unified API. Integrate Kling, Suno, Flux, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek with predictable pricing and...
S4Ready
Profile, validate, deduplicate and repair legacy SAP master data, then export Migration Cockpit-ready bundles for Bank, Customer, Supplier, GL and more.
Hiver
Fast, replayable sandboxes for every browser, file, network, and tool action.
Mailgent
Give your AI agent a real inbox, vault, calendar, and verifiable identity, plus a USDC wallet to pay for what it uses. One API.
Hezo
Hezo lets you create and manage teams of AI agents to get real work done.
AI Cell Enrichment Workflow API
Enrich any dataset with AI. Upload a CSV, pick your columns, and AmpleData searches the web to fill in missing data automatically. No code required. Works for leads,...
Meetless
MLA watches your Claude Code and Codex sessions, captures decisions as work happens, detects stale or conflicting instructions, and steers each agent before it acts. You...
InferCrane
Connect, deploy, observe, optimize, release, and recover production inference across managed APIs, serverless GPUs, dedicated capacity, and your cloud behind one stable...
Build A Harness
Aielia is an open-source, self-hosted AI assistant that runs an 11-layer harness every turn and stops for your approval before sending email, paying, or running commands....
Plansera AI, E
AI intake that reads your client’s evidence, checks E-2 eligibility, and produces a submission-ready, designed business plan, flat $100 per plan.
Puremint
Give Claude a memory file and it slowly fills up with repeated rules, dead dates and facts that stopped being true. Here's a free skill that goes through it with you and...
Two Pillars Protocol
A proposed maturity model for software engineering in the AI era, measuring both individual cognitive capacity (Mixer Mode) and organizational meta-software readiness...
Orthogonal
Discover, call, and pay for 800+ endpoints from 50+ verified providers, through one integration. Pay per call, no subscription.
A beautiful and local
Quincy is a Mac PDF reader for working through dense documents: ask the page questions, summarize sections, quiz yourself, take notes, and read selected text aloud.
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...
Skim
Skim is a free, open-source email client for Windows with a built-in AI copilot. Native Rust core, ~5 MB installer, offline-first, instant search, bring your own AI key.
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.
Nearest
A dating app for AI agents, profiles, swipes, matches, and the occasional heartbreak. One command and yours joins. Affection is all you need.
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...
homebutler
Know what changed on your server since last time, and which of it is worth acting on. Report, map, doctor, and backup drills in one Go binary: CLI, web, JSON, or MCP.
Rayline
Rayline builds ARC, the orchestrator model that chooses the model and reasoning effort for every turn, plus Workshop, Arena, and the ARC API.
Bored People Chat
A safe, free chat room to talk with strangers. No signup, no ads, no bots. One shared room, moderated and welcoming.
HolaClaw Desktop App for OpenClaw
HolaClaw installs and runs OpenClaw securely on your Mac in one click. Customize your assistant and talk to it from Telegram or the menu bar.
Agent Search Engine
Search hundreds of AI agents, MCP servers, and frameworks, coding, voice, browser, and autonomous agents, independently verified and refreshed weekly.
Sipp
Sipp is an open-source AI runtime and endpoint client for browser WebGPU, native GGUF inference, trusted providers, and self-hosted gateway workflows.
Pacific Slate
A self-hosted AI system that remembers, works in the background, and runs on hardware I own. What it does, and the design decisions behind it.
Margarita
Margarita is an agentic scripting tool where you write plain text scripts, with state, loops, and LLM calls, and run them against any model.
Frontier AI Lab Jobs
Explore frontier AI lab jobs by department and function across OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI, with role maps, job links, and context on how top AI labs are organized.
VeriTrooper
Audit AI answers against your own sources and produce portable, independently reviewable evidence.
Evaluator
The technical assessment that grades how skillfully candidates work with AI: reading its output, fixing it, prompting it, and overriding it when it is wrong. Scored...
Framein
Framein is the local work-state layer beneath your AI coding agent harness: task contract, challenge loop, model-switch capsule, and validation gate.
Whissle Gateway
The whole Whissle voice stack behind one gateway, reverse proxy, real-time WebRTC pipeline, and the agent runtime. Run the lightweight backend (no model weights) on a...
Ardent, a code
The AI Agent that adapts to your business, not the other way around.
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.
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