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A unified feed of emerging software, developer tools, and early-stage market launches.
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May 23, 2026
Lilo, an open-source personal AI assistant.
An open-source, model-agnostic personal AI assistant with memory, skills, and tools, operating in a persistent cloud-based workspace, accessible via Telegram, email, WhatsApp, web, and mobile app. Differentiated by its visual GUI and comprehensive Telegram integration.
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May 22, 2026
Glimpse, a native macOS Markdown viewer with on-device AI features for summarization, key insights, and auto-glossary generation.
A fast, native, privacy-preserving Markdown reader that integrates on-device AI (Apple's FoundationModels) to enhance document comprehension without cloud dependency.
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May 22, 2026
Charm, a native macOS menu bar app for on-device spelling, grammar, and next-word prediction.
A 100% local, privacy-focused alternative to macOS autocorrect and cloud-based grammar tools, offering context-aware corrections and next-word prediction without data leaving the device.
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May 22, 2026
OSINT Arena, a browser-based game for practicing Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) skills.
A gamified platform for developing OSINT skills, specifically geolocation, image investigation, and digital forensics, presented as a "GeoGuessr for OSINT."
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May 22, 2026
Agent-estimate, a tool for estimating coding task effort at AI agent speed.
A specialized estimation tool for AI-driven development, providing agent-specific task sizing, human-equivalent comparisons, reliability horizon warnings, and multi-agent wave planning, calibrated against real-world agent performance.
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May 20, 2026
A header-only C library for a concurrent, lock-free self-balancing skip-list (splay-list).
A high-performance, concurrent data structure library for C, offering adaptive rebalancing and lock-free operations.
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May 20, 2026
A sparse, compressed bitmap index implemented in C.
A potentially superior alternative to Roaring Bitmaps and other existing bitmap index solutions, offering better compression and storage efficiency.
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May 20, 2026
Barstool, a macOS utility to customize and manage the menu bar.
A solution for macOS users who find the default menu bar cluttered, offering a cleaner aesthetic and consolidated information display.
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May 20, 2026
A search engine for 67K .AI domains, categorized and described by AI.
A specialized search and discovery tool for the .AI domain space, offering AI-generated structured categories and descriptions to facilitate niche identification.
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May 20, 2026
DDS Vibe Academy, a free, 31-class AI coding curriculum, and a demonstration of AI agent-driven website construction.
A comprehensive, free educational resource for AI coding, uniquely built and deployed entirely by AI agents, showcasing the capabilities of multi-agent AI infrastructure.
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May 19, 2026
Resilient – a composable async resilience toolkit for Rust applications. It provides fault tolerance mechanisms like rate limiting, circuit breakers, timeouts, bulkheads, and retry policies for interactions with other services or databases.
An async toolkit for Rust, inspired by failsafe-go, designed to handle fault tolerance for applications frequently calling external services or databases. It offers composable policies and fallback mechanisms.
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May 19, 2026
A tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator.
A map-centered, tactical submarine simulator focused nearly entirely on plotting and charting, offered as a free browser version with a full multi-platform release planned.
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May 19, 2026
Spud, a cross-platform remote control application.
Optimized for low-latency gaming, allowing a laptop to serve as input for a remote gaming PC connected to a TV.
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May 19, 2026
Clark-Browser, a 'Stealth Chromium' browser.
Fully open-sourced, perfect for agentic browsing, and compatible with Vercel's agent-browser and Playwright.
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May 17, 2026
An open-source AWS Evidence Scanner and Control Mapper for SOC 2 Type I readiness, featuring a paid, verifiable report and compliance co-pilot, operating under an open-core model.
Positioned as a transparent, verifiable, and cost-effective alternative to existing 'black-box' SOC 2 automation tools, specifically for lean, pre-series A AWS-Native teams. It emphasizes trust, depth, and auditor efficiency over generic compliance automation.
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May 16, 2026
Swpui, a TUI for case-aware search and replace.
A fast, ergonomic, case-aware search and replace TUI, superior to unmaintained alternatives and tools like fastmod/repgrep due to immediate feedback, emulating VS Code's search/replace experience.
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May 16, 2026
Incorporator, a Python library that turns any API/File into a typed Python graph with a pipeline, inferring Pydantic models from responses at runtime. It supports numerous data formats (JSON, XML, CSV, Parquet, etc.) and compression types, enabling automated data ingestion and transformation pipelines via CLI and JSON configuration.
Turn any API/File into typed Python graph with pipeline. Positions itself as an object-oriented, pipeline orchestrator for data ingestion, contrasting with SQL-like Python approaches and emphasizing async capabilities and Pydantic for strict typing and efficiency.
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May 16, 2026
Raybeam, a native macOS menu bar application for screen sharing, allowing users to share a draggable/resizable region, filter out specific applications, and annotate with hand-drawn notation.
A better way to screen share on macOS. Specifically targets the problem of screen sharing with ultra-wide monitors, offering features like hidden apps and notation that differentiate it from competitors like AnyFrame, which is described as laggy and more expensive.
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May 15, 2026
Visualization of tiny LLMs (16MB) from OpenAI's Parameter Golf.
A demonstration of extremely compact LLMs, highlighting their small footprint and basic language generation capabilities.
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May 15, 2026
A SwiftUI package for creating onboarding flows in iOS applications.
A comprehensive, customizable, and tested SwiftUI component for building engaging onboarding experiences in iOS apps.