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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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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.
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.
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...
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...
Open Envelope
The full technical specification for the Envelope team definition format, agent structure, workspace documents, adapters, variables, secrets, and access policies.
Rudrite Research
Interactive, animated, visual explainers of landmark AI & ML papers, attention & transformers, GPT-3, FlashAttention, Mixtral, Mamba, DeepSeek, and more.
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.
Trelk
Your personal knowledge base. Save articles, papers, and notes. AI connects your ideas. Remember what matters.
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.
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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...
The Ruby AI Newsletter
SerpApi is the world's leading provider of search data, pioneering APIs that turn search engine results into structured, developer-ready information.
Fabrika
Run a dozen coding agents without losing the thread. Fabrika turns each session into a task it runs, verifies, and brings back, only key decisions reach you.
Rayline
Rayline builds ARC, the orchestrator model that chooses the model and reasoning effort for every turn, plus Workshop, Arena, and the ARC API.
INT21
We are building self-improving AI systems for the software beneath modern AI. Our first product generates and optimizes low-level GPU software, then proves its work with...
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