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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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881 tools
ChatGPTFeatured
The general purpose AI assistant that set the standard.
ClaudeFeatured
A thoughtful assistant strong at writing and long documents.
MidjourneyFeatured
The benchmark for striking AI imagery.
CursorFeatured
An AI first code editor built for speed.
GitHub CopilotFeatured
AI pair programmer inside your editor.
JasperFeatured
AI writing built for marketing teams.
Reclip
Start with a video, link, image, or prompt. Repurpose, generate, polish, localize, and export content with Reclip's focused AI creator workspace.
Turnitin Report
Free Turnitin AI detector and Turnitin AI checker for essays, papers, assignments, and academic drafts. Get an AI score, paragraph report, and review suggestions before...
ThoughtLeadin
AI-first project management that creates the work around work.
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...
Spot the Cue
A friendly way to get better at reading social cues, tone, body language, subtext, group dynamics, conflict, pressure and manipulation, plus practice saying it out loud....
ESP32 Bowling System technical write
We looked around in our local community and found few places for people to gather together and have a good time.
FeralHq
Whether you run a SaaS company, ecommerce brand, or local business, Feral creates fresh social posts and image ads every day, ready to approve and publish.
Free ad
Generate 10 high-converting ad headlines instantly with AI. Free, no signup required. Works for Facebook, Instagram, Google ads and more.
PDF Insight
This is what PDF Insight does to a real client's pile: it reads, classifies and merges every slip into one correctly-ordered file.
Forth MCP
Works with Claude, ChatGPT, and any MCP client Give any AI client access to.
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.
Agent Memory Wiki
An experimental encyclopedia written by AI agents. Reading is open to anyone; contributions are open to any agent whose operator asks it to write one. Protocol at...
Kolega Code
Our terminal-native, multi-agent coding harness for full developer control on complex builds. Open source, resumable, and journaled end to end.
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...
Selvedge
A local MCP server that AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) call as they work, logging the why behind every change into a SQLite file under .selvedge/ next to...
Unitpost/email
Email component library that works in Outlook, Gmail, and Apple Mail. MIT. Install with npm or a Skill. No account.
Headless Tools
MCP-first SaaS tools for AI agents. URL shortener, pastebin, and a real send/receive mailbox.
TermRover
TermRover is a native SSH + Mosh terminal optimized for working with tmux on iPhone and Android. Browser-style tabs, one-tap prefix actions, and scrolling all just work.
Setoku
Setoku is an open-source MCP server that gives your AI a read-only view of the data you own (a company’s, a household’s, or your own), plus the context to use it correctly.
PixelUp
PixelUp is a lightweight, 100% offline AI video upscaler for Windows. Say goodbye to subscriptions, upscale your videos locally with CUDA and Vulkan hardware acceleration.
Jørnal
Yesterday's entry is on the page above, read it whenever; it can't be rewritten.
otaku
otaku is a free LLM frontend for roleplay with a web UI and a terminal. Runs on your machine, local model or cloud API, no infrastructure, one-command install.
bugzero
An AI agent that analyzes production errors from Sentry and opens GitHub pull requests with fixes, automatically.
Costbase
COGS monitoring for AI products. Paste one admin key per provider, Costbase discovers every API key and pulls usage straight from OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI's official...
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.
AI Photo Editor
Experience the easiest photo editing ever. AI Photo Editor offers one-click solutions that outperform complex traditional tools.
Getsocialclaw
The SocialClaw social media CLI posts and schedules to X, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and more from your terminal. JSON output, schedule files in git, validation...
SynCodeLive
A real-time collaborative code editor with an AI reviewer in every session. Share a URL, code together live, run JS and Python in-browser. No signup, free.
CodeTrain
CodeTrain is a Socratic AI coding tutor: it asks questions, reviews what you write, and runs your tests, but never writes the code for you. Free to start.
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.
MiniMax H3
MiniMax H3 (aka Hailuo 3) is a multimodal AI video generator. Turn text and images into cinematic clips with native audio and omni-reference, free to start.
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.
Bored People Chat
A safe, free chat room to talk with strangers. No signup, no ads, no bots. One shared room, moderated and welcoming.
Octomind Cloud
Octomind Cloud is live: persistent machines from $0.05/hr with real Docker inside, 21 models behind one key, and one wallet with caps you can see.
Essaycompass
Free college essay review with trait-by-trait feedback, benchmarked against accepted essays. AI-powered brainstorm and draft tool. Start free.
Keenable
Keenable is independent web search infrastructure for AI: our own crawler, index and ranking, and it gets better the more agents use it.
Scalix World
Scalix World is the AI-native neocloud: database, AI inference, functions, containers, and storage on one platform, operable by humans and AI agents.
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...
Local AI Clipboard Actions
Copy text, code, or an error. Press Cmd+Shift+V. Pick an action. Paste the result. On-device AI, no API keys, no cloud, no data leaving your Mac.
Prizm
Generate video, images, and voice from the best models, Veo, Kling, Nano Banana, ElevenLabs and more, on a simple prepaid balance. No subscriptions.
AI Workflow Builder
This demo shows how JointJS for React handles agent-building UIs: adding skills and prompts, wiring up tools, and defining agent behavior visually.
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.
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