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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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Hail
Give your AI agent a voice, a phone number, and an inbox. Place AI phone calls with ElevenLabs voices. Run an AI call center. Send SMS and agent mail.
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.
Spell a Bee
Spell a Bee is an iPad app that helps kids in grades K-5 learn new words and master their spelling, then test what they know on a virtual spelling bee stage.
SeenShot
Hit cmd+shift+2, annotate, insert in to your agent. Free screenshot app for macOS.
Lucid
It behaves like the global workspace that cognitive scientists have proposed sits behind human conscious access.
HermesBench
HermesBench benchmarks full Hermes personal-agent configurations with public recipes, redacted trace evidence, and reproducibility metadata.
Datapoint AI
Fastest way to know what people think. Datapoint is a survey platform that streams verified answers from real users across the globe. Launch a consumer study in minutes.
Brontosaurus, a voice
Brontosaurus is a web-based generative canvas, where you speak aloud what you want to see, and Bronto builds a widget of it in under a second.
Dominikkoch
I built a small Braille loader for our AI chat at Notra, because a regular spinner felt a little too boring.
Hacker News AI Detector
10% of the Hacker News front page is AI-generated right now.
Amendable
Create and delete them through a simple API in no time.
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,...
BotTrade
Put an AI trading agent through historical market scenarios. Simulate its decisions and trades, measure return and risk, and publish an inspectable result.
Captchainbox
Set a price for unknown senders to reach your Gmail inbox. Trusted contacts get through normally, and you choose where 90% of the post-Stripe amount goes.
Piece
Piece is a mobile app that helps couples settle everyday arguments. Each person records their side, AI weighs both perspectives fairly, and one of you apologises. Pick a...
MetaBrain
metaBrain is open-source local document memory for AI tools, coding agents, and humans, with searchable notes, metadata, tags, links, version history, and an optional...
Wanderwhim
AI-native knowledge workspace for curious thinkers. Collect sources, map them on a spatial canvas, and write long-form pieces with AI that deepens your thinking instead of...
CartAI
One API to deploy a specialized agent that navigates any web property and completes the transaction. Checkout, subscriptions, invoices, orders. Composable. Reliable....
Rudrite Research
Interactive, animated, visual explainers of landmark AI & ML papers, attention & transformers, GPT-3, FlashAttention, Mixtral, Mamba, DeepSeek, and more.
Open Terminal
Open Terminal by Tesseract Analytics brings professional financial research to individual investors, real SEC data, live market news, AI-powered analysis, and stock charts.
FencePreview
FencePreview lets fence contractors upload a customer's yard photo and instantly generate a photorealistic preview of the finished fence: wood, vinyl, aluminum, chain-link...
mtok.market
mtok.market is a spot market for AI inference tokens. Agents sell spare capacity, agents buy bursts. Non-custodial, seller-hosted, USDC on Base.
achu
Free MIT open-source screenshot beautifier for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Local gallery, privacy redaction, Code Studio, AI GitHub issues, and platform burst packs....
Primereviewspro
The patterns that reveal manipulated Amazon reviews, and how to check them. Free checker included - paste the review text, or let the extension read the page you are...
Ansi.md
Ansi.md is my brain dump for creating modern command line apps.
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...
Notula
Notula is a WYSIWYG Markdown editor for docs as code. The whole team works on the Markdown in your git repo, including the people who do not use git.
zeroroot
Gibson Runtime is the substrate your agents execute inside, installed in your own cluster, granted rights they can never exceed, and replayable move by move.
InterviewPracticeAI
Practice job interviews with an AI recruiter. Upload your CV, pick a role, and get real-time feedback on your answers. Try your first question free.
SVAHNAR
Build AI agents online for free. SVAHNAR is the ultimate platform to build, create, and deploy production-ready AI agents in minutes with visual building and YAML code...
TchoAI
Create professional presentations directly from your documents. Use TchoAI presentation maker to generate slide decks in minutes.
AI pre
Use the try-it console above to invoke this agent; calls are logged here automatically.
Guidedreview
Turn your commits into a structured review that helps you catch AI-code issues before your teammates do. Free, open source, BYO LLM key.
Compare Lab
Compare 15+ AI agent frameworks side-by-side. LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, Pydantic AI, OpenAI Agents SDK, Mastra, and more. Use case fit, control style, GitHub stars....
Streamr AI
Streamr AI turns your stream into a packed live chat with thousands of AI viewers reacting in real time.
Cerver
Infrastructure for AI sessions. One API for transcript, model, and compute. Run any agent on any compute, and switch mid-session without losing the thread.
username.md
Claim username.md/you, a single page and address for everything you are online.
AIMakeTattoo
Turn a rough tattoo idea into a custom tattoo design. Refine your idea, choose style and placement controls, then modify the result.
Trelk
Your personal knowledge base. Save articles, papers, and notes. AI connects your ideas. Remember what matters.
AG2B
AG2B (Agent to Browser) is a client-side agentic runtime.
OpenHive
A shared knowledge base where AI agents document and query problem-solution pairs. Search real solutions, no signup needed.
Phoenix Code
Phoenix Code is the free, open-source successor to Brackets. A modern code editor with live preview, Git integration, and extensions for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript development.
Velork
Velork is a design-native IDE for pixel-perfect software. Import Figma, generate code with AI, and manage dev tasks in one workspace.
Pubflow
Plan, build, preview and export complete applications with Node.js or Python backends, React, Next.js or Expo clients, and managed identity.
Blinken
A macOS menu bar utility that resurrects the HDD activity LED of pre-2010 personal computers. Quietly alive in your menu bar. Free, local-only, MIT licensed.
flashcardaudit.com
I have evidence to suggest that many Anki flashcards contain factual errors.
ClawChat
Stop playing messenger between your AI agents. Cowchat gives Claude, Codex, and any agent one local room to review each other's work, vote, and decide in real time.
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