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DeepCell: Spreadsheets, Reports, and Slides in One .deepcell File
DeepCell is a deadline survival kit for office work: one .deepcell file connects a spreadsheet, a report, slides and a reasoning cheat sheet, so one edit updates the linked parts. Web app, CLI and remote MCP server, no account to start; Free plan, Teams coming soon, Enterprise custom. Official site, pricing page and agent guide fetched and checked 2026-10-26.
zCAD AI: Real Parametric CAD from a Text Prompt
zCAD AI is an AI-native platform that turns engineering descriptions or reference images into editable, dimension-driven parametric CAD parts and assemblies that export to STEP. Free Personal plan during Beta; Online Standard $58.90/user/mo (Beta price). Official site and pricing page fetched and checked 2026-10-26.
zCAD AI vs Meshy 2026: Parametric CAD or 3D Mesh?
zCAD AI vs Meshy 2026: both turn text into 3D, but the outputs are incompatible worlds. zCAD generates editable parametric CAD assemblies that export to STEP for engineering; Meshy generates game-ready textured meshes for assets. Both pricing pages fetched and checked 2026-10-26.
DeepInfer: DeepSeek's Production Inference Engine Goes Open Source
DeepInfer is DeepSeek's high-performance inference framework, open-sourced Apache-2.0 on 2026-10-20, supporting DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on NVIDIA SM100 GPUs and Huawei Ascend 950 NPUs. 21,914 stars in nine days. GitHub API, raw README, and third-party coverage checked 2026-10-25.
DigUp: Describe Your Files and Find Them Locally
DigUp is a free, MIT-licensed desktop search app that finds files by what they contain — photos, PDFs, documents, audio, video and code — using Google DeepMind's EmbeddingGemma 2 entirely on-device. 5,720 stars within 17 days. GitHub API, raw README, and third-party coverage checked 2026-10-25.
earshot: Give Your Coding Agent Ears
earshot is a CPU-only, MIT-licensed audio toolkit that turns sound into evidence a coding agent can reason about: describe, match, rank, find, compare, critique, and even forge sound effects in code. Runs locally as a CLI, Python API, or MCP server. 2,489 stars within nine days. GitHub API, raw README, and two third-party trackers checked 2026-10-24.
huashu-motion: Launch Films by Asking Your Coding Agent
huashu-motion is an MIT-licensed Agent Skill that turns Claude Code, Codex, or any skill-capable coding agent into a motion-graphics director: give it a product URL and a length, it proposes three directions, writes a shot list, composes an original score (ABC notation rendered from local samples), and opens a browser editor where you click a frame and ask for a change. 1,546 stars within six days. GitHub API, raw README, and two third-party write-ups checked 2026-10-24.
Beam: Run AI Agents on One Mac, Use Its Windows on Another
Beam streams the windows of one Mac (a headless mini running agents) onto another Mac as native, live windows with Dock icons and Cmd-Tab presence. Free 20 minutes a day; subscription $7/mo billed $84/yr; lifetime $199.
UseIt Studio: AI Design Agent That Produces Real Editable Design Files
UseIt Studio turns a one-sentence idea into an editable, print-ready design file with real dimensions, bleed, and dielines — pins, stickers, gift boxes, pop-up cards, brand kits. Runs in the browser or a Windows desktop app; credits-based pricing not published on the site.
Jockey by TwelveLabs Pricing 2026: Video AI Agent on API Plans
Jockey by TwelveLabs is the video intelligence agent that searches, understands, organizes, and assembles video libraries in plain language. Pricing read from twelvelabs.io 2026-10-22: Free $0/3 GB, Plus $29/mo 50 GB, Pro $99/mo 200 GB, Enterprise custom — annual 17% off.
Viktor.com Pricing 2026: Slack AI Employee at $100/mo
Viktor.com is an AI employee that lives in Slack and Microsoft Teams and works across 9,800+ tools. Pricing re-checked from viktor.com 2026-10-22: Free $100 credits, Team $100/mo for 40,000 shared credits, Enterprise custom.
Viktor vs Lindy 2026: Slack AI Employee Pricing Compared
Viktor ($100/mo for 40,000 shared workspace credits, no per-seat fee) vs Lindy (from $29.99/user/mo for 3,000 credits each) — both Slack-native AI coworkers. Both price pages re-read 2026-10-22.
Anatomy: A Claude Skill That Draws Machines, Not Diagrams
Anatomy is an MIT-licensed Claude Code skill that turns one line of text into a working isometric machine in SVG, WebGL or 3D. 17,003 GitHub stars, $0, checked 2026-10-20.
Gitai: A Git Built for AI Coding Agents (2026)
Gitai is an open-source Git variant for coding agents: semantic commit IDs, agent branches, mission manifests. 2,310 stars as of October 19, 2026.
Spira Maxima vs ngram 2026: Social Posts vs Explainers
Spira Maxima and ngram, both read from the vendors' own pages on 2026-10-16: free tiers, $15/$59 against $29/$59/$299, and the cost per second neither page prints.
IrisGo Pricing 2026: Free During Public Beta, No Tiers
IrisGo has no paid tiers yet — its download page says the public beta is free. What the AI Fund-backed Windows and macOS agent does, and who built it.
Kling vs Runway vs Luma 2026: AI Video Platforms Compared
Kling vs Runway vs Luma, 2026: entry tiers from $6.99 to $300/mo, three different free-credit rules and the per-second math. Official pricing checked 2026-10-15.
Spira Maxima 1.0 Pricing 2026: $0.09 per Second
Spira Maxima 1.0 read from spira.ai on 2026-10-15: free-tier limits, the $15 and $59 plans, and the two per-second prices the vendor page prints.
MangaTranslate Review: Real Page Test, Credits, Watermark
We ran a Japanese page through MangaTranslate's free guest quota on 2026-10-14 — four correct lines, bubbles in place, and a watermark on the result.
ngram Pricing 2026: Credits, Free Tier and AI Video Plans
Official ngram pricing read 2026-10-14: Free one-time 60s allowance, Basic $29/mo, Premium $59, Ultimate $299, and what 10 credits per second of AI video really buys.
ngram vs Synthesia 2026: AI Explainer Video Price Math
ngram (free 60s, $29/$59/$299) vs Synthesia (500 free credits/mo, $29/$89): both official pricing pages re-read 2026-10-14, plus the per-minute math both hide.
Onepin Review: A Validation Layer Over 30+ TTS Models
Onepin routes each script line to the best of 30+ commercial TTS models, scores it for accuracy, naturalness, noise and pronunciation, and fixes what fails. Pricing, limits and license facts checked against the official site, 2026-10-13.
HyperFrames: Write HTML, Render MP4, Built for Agents
heygen-com/hyperframes — 60,412-star Apache-2.0 framework that turns an HTML page into a deterministic MP4, driven by a coding agent through skills and a CLI. No license fee, no per-render charge, no team-size threshold; the only cost is compute. GitHub API, README, release feed, docs and npm checked 2026-10-11.
HyperFrames vs Remotion: Same Goal, Opposite Licenses (2026)
Two HTML/CSS-based frameworks that turn code into MP4, picked apart on the points that actually change your bill: license model, agent surface, render stack, and maturity. HyperFrames is Apache-2.0 with no per-render fee and no team-size threshold; Remotion is a custom two-tier license with a three person limit. Both verified same-day, 2026-10-11.
Coolify vs Dokploy 2026: Self-Hosted PaaS Costs Compared
Coolify (Apache-2.0, free self-hosted, Cloud $5/mo for 2 servers + $3 each) vs Dokploy (Apache-2.0 core, free self-hosted, Cloud $4.50/server/mo or $15/mo for 3) — official pricing pages and GitHub license files read 2026-10-09. Both bring-your-own-server; the split is flat pricing versus per-server pricing, and where the management layer runs.
Coucou: Approve Your Coding Agent From the Notch
Coucou is a free, MIT-licensed notch companion — 4,270 GitHub stars twelve days after launch — that shows Claude Code, Codex and Cursor sessions in your Mac notch and lets you Allow or Deny from there, with no account, no telemetry and no pricing page.
ReelMimic: Make a New Video in the Style of One You Love
ReelMimic is an MIT-licensed local project — 1,785 GitHub stars in its first ten days — that breaks down a reference video's rhythm and look, then has up to six AI agents build an original 2D animation of it on your own machine, billed to your Claude Code or Codex plan rather than to ReelMimic.
Wispr Flow vs Superwhisper 2026: Weekly Cap or Lifetime
Wispr Flow (Free 2,000 words/week, Pro $15/mo or $12/mo annual) vs Superwhisper (Free unlimited local dictation, Pro $8.49/mo, $84.99/yr, $249.99 lifetime) — official pricing pages re-read 2026-10-09. One charges a subscription and caps the free tier by the week; the other gives unlimited offline dictation for free and sells a lifetime key.
dots: An Open-Source Browser Built for AI Agents
dots is a free MIT-licensed agent browser — 2,620 stars in its first week — with a patched stealth Firefox, one identity per seed and your own OpenRouter key.
Magpie: Switch Every Coding Agent's Model From the Menu Bar
Magpie is a free open-source menu-bar gateway — 5,202 stars, MIT, no pricing page — that lets Codex, Claude Code and Gemini CLI run DeepSeek, Kimi or GLM.
GenOffice Review: Free Open-Source AI Office Suite
genspark-ai/genoffice - 8,551-star Apache-2.0 desktop office suite from Genspark with six editors (.docx/.xlsx/.pptx/PDF/HTML/Markdown), byte-preserving saves, a CLI, an agent skill and an MCP server. Free with BYOK; AI features otherwise run on Genspark credits whose paid plans sit behind a login wall. GitHub API, release feed, raw README, official site and two third-party reviews checked 2026-10-04.
Utopia Review: Open-Source Bitemporal Knowledge Graph
deeplethe/utopia - 8,047-star Apache-2.0 self-hosted enterprise knowledge application in Rust + PostgreSQL/pgvector: a bitemporal knowledge graph, an editable ontology that compiles axioms into rules, conflict detection, an append-only decision ledger and an MCP server. Free software, but you pay for Postgres and model inference. GitHub API, raw README, design records and a third-party pilot review checked 2026-10-04.
Graft: The Context Graph That Cuts Agent Tokens 42%
Graft is an MIT-licensed CLI (9,503 GitHub stars) that indexes your repo into a folder of linked markdown nodes so Claude Code, Cursor and Codex start oriented instead of blind. Install, 23-language coverage, benchmark numbers and caveats - all checked against the official repo and site on 2026-10-03.
Reef: Open-Source Self-Improving Agent Infrastructure
Reef is an Apache-2.0 framework (7,481 GitHub stars) that turns an inference server into a learner: serve requests, report feedback, and Reef trains the model weights or the agent harness and publishes versioned releases. Install, recipes, hardware needs and caveats - checked against the official repo and docs on 2026-10-03.
Impeccable: An Open-Source Design Language for Agents
Impeccable is an Apache-2.0 design skill (72,630 GitHub stars) that stops Claude Code, Cursor and Codex from shipping the same purple-gradient AI tells. Install, commands, detectors and caveats - checked against the official repo and site on 2026-09-30.
Octop: Tencent's Self-Hosted AI Assistant for Teams
Octop (TencentCloud/Octop, MIT) runs a multi-user, multi-agent AI assistant in one self-hosted process — web dashboard, CLI, IM channels, cron, RAG and browser automation. Stars, features and install facts checked against the official repo on 2026-09-30.
Agent Reach: One Installer, 15 Platform Connectors
Agent Reach is an MIT-licensed Python CLI that configures platform connectors (YouTube, Reddit, X, Bilibili, Xiaohongshu and more) for AI coding agents. Installed locally and checked with its own doctor command.
CLI-Anything: Make Desktop Apps Agent-Native
HKUDS/CLI-Anything (50,909 GitHub stars, Apache-2.0) runs a 7-phase pipeline that generates a tested, JSON-emitting CLI harness for any software — GIMP, Blender, LibreOffice, OBS and 14 more — so AI agents drive real tools without screenshots. Facts checked against README, hub site and GitHub API on 2026-09-29.
Huashu-Report: An Agent Skill From 41 Reports
Huashu-Report is an MIT-licensed agent skill for producing institutional-grade research reports, built by dissecting 41 top-tier reports (Stanford HAI, McKinsey, OpenAI and others) into quantified style and structure rules.
Knap: Obsidian's Template Language for Markdown
Knap is an MIT-licensed template language from the Obsidian team that renders structured data into Markdown without executing arbitrary JavaScript. It already powers Obsidian Web Clipper and Importer.
Monocolor Print: A One-Ink Editorial Image Skill
mono-color-skill is an MIT-licensed image skill (v1.2.0) that directs an image model to produce controlled one- or two-ink editorial print visuals — posters, zines, portraits and packaging briefs — while preserving a visual system rather than copying a reference.
Muse Spark 1.3 Pricing: $1.25/M Frontier Model
Muse Spark 1.3 pricing, context window, benchmarks and the Contributor tier - read from Meta's official model API docs on 2026-09-29, with no scorecards of our own.
wechatDownload: Batch-Download WeChat Articles
wechatDownload is a Windows/macOS desktop tool for batch-downloading WeChat Official Account articles to html, md, pdf and docx, with MCP and Skill support. The repository has no LICENSE file, so it is not open source in the legal sense.
Best Claude Code Tools 2026: Cost & Gateway Picks
The tools that cluster around Claude Code: cost and caching optimizers, OpenAI-compatible gateways and routers, and community pets — with the compatibility questions that matter.
Best Codex Tools 2026: Trackers, Tutorials, Pets
The useful tools built around OpenAI Codex: reset and usage trackers, long-form tutorials, and community desktop pets — what each one is actually for, checked September 2026.
Best Coding Agent Pets: The Desktop Companion Gallery
What coding-agent desktop pets are, where to browse thousands of them, and the licensing and setup caveats — focused on community galleries rather than any single mascot.
Caveman: Cut Coding-Agent Token Bills
Caveman is an open-source AI cost-optimization toolkit and cloud platform for Claude Code, Codex and other OpenAI-compatible agents: model routing, auto caching, prompt compression and waste detectors, with savings measured instead of guessed.
EZMaker AI: Free Online AI Photo Editor with No Signup
EZMaker is a browser-based AI photo editor and image generator that requires no account and lists no paid plans: generation, background and object removal, upscaling and style transfer.
Has Codex Rate Limit Reset Today? Live Status
Watch OpenAI's reset announcements on X and get one answer: has Codex's global limit reset today? Source post shown.
HeyClicky: A Mac AI Buddy That Sees Your Screen
HeyClicky is a Mac AI companion by founder Farza: press a hotkey, it sees your screen and talks you through any app, or runs agents on your behalf.
Hindsight: Agent Memory That Learns, Not Recalls
Hindsight is an MIT-licensed memory system that lets agents learn over time, splitting facts, entities and relationships into four memory networks.
LifeOS by Daniel Miessler: An Open-Source AI Harness
LifeOS is an open-source AI harness that carries your goals, standards and context into Claude Code, Cursor or Codex — a current-to-ideal-state loop built around evidence, intent engineering and composable execution units.
MoneyPrinterTurbo: 126K-Star Open-Source Short Video Factory
harry0703/MoneyPrinterTurbo — the 126,516-star MIT pipeline that turns a topic or your own script into a finished HD short video: LLM writes the narration, stock APIs fetch footage, Edge TTS narrates free, MoviePy/FFmpeg render, and it publishes straight to TikTok, Instagram and YouTube Shorts. GitHub API, raw README, release feed and third-party reviews checked 2026-09-28.
MoneyPrinterTurbo vs Hypit 2026: Two Video Jobs
The two biggest open-source AI video workflows solve opposite ends of the same line: MoneyPrinterTurbo (126,516★, MIT, Python) assembles a finished short from a topic using stock footage and free Edge TTS; Hypit (17,091★, Apache-2.0 with conditions, TypeScript) clones an existing video into an editable SVML composition and renders 100 variants. Prices, licenses and pipelines verified 2026-09-28.
Petdex: 4,800+ Open-Source Desktop Pets for Agents
Petdex is a free gallery of open-source desktop pets for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and others — browse, preview, install.
SessionWatcher: A Menu-Bar Tracker for AI Coding Usage
SessionWatcher is a native Mac and Windows menu-bar app that reads the usage data coding tools already store and shows live limits, reset times and token cost; paid from $6.99 one-time.
Snapgen AI: Multi-Model Video, $20/mo Veo Offer
Snapgen AI aggregates Veo, Grok, Seedance, Kling and image models behind one interface, with a limited $20/month Veo subscription and pay-as-you-go credits. What it does, what it costs, and the caps behind the "unlimited" banner.
Swerve AI: Chat with 80,000+ AI Characters in the Browser
Swerve AI Web is a browser-based AI character chat platform — create an original character or talk to community characters, with private stories and scenes. Plans run $5–$39/month; facts and pricing checked against the official site on 2026-10-20.
Archify: Diagrams Your AI Agent Renders and Verifies
tt-a1i/archify — 70,713-star MIT agent skill that turns a codebase or any described system into interactive, validated architecture / workflow / sequence / data-flow / lifecycle diagrams as one self-contained HTML file. Typed JSON IR, deterministic validation, Git-pinned source evidence, PNG/SVG/ WebM export. GitHub API, raw README, and release feed checked 2026-09-24.
Dograh: Self-Hosted Open-Source Vapi Alternative
dograh-hq/dograh — 5,715-star BSD-2-Clause voice agent platform: visual workflow builder, telephony, MCP-native, BYOK or bring Dograh's own LLM/STT/TTS stack, self-host in one Docker command. Repo JSON, README, cloud pricing page checked 2026-09-23.
Hypit: Turn One Viral Video Into 100 Editable Variants
Hypit is an open-source CLI that gives Claude Code and Codex a video language: point it at a reference video and the agent clones the workflow.
Hypit vs OpenStory 2026: Video Cloning vs Script-to-Shot
Two open-source AI video stacks, opposite starting points: Hypit (14,397-star agent CLI) turns an existing video into an editable project; OpenStory (640-star BYOK web platform) turns a script into a shot list. Both bill you in AI credits. Apache-2.0 with conditions vs MIT; verified 2026-09-23.
BrowserSkill: Agents Use Your Logged-In Browser
Tencent/BrowserSkill's bsk CLI + extension lets AI agents drive your real logged-in browser. MIT, 6.3k stars, README lists Hermes Agent and 8 other harnesses. Checked 2026-09-22.
Colibri: Run 744B MoE on 25GB RAM in Pure C
JustVugg/colibri is an Apache-2.0 inference engine in pure C that streams MoE experts from disk, running frontier 744B-2.8T models on 25GB consumer RAM. 36.8k stars, speed caveats, checked 2026-09-22.
DeepSeek Harness (dsh): Plugin-First Open Agent Harness
deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness is an MIT-licensed, plugin-first open-source agent harness in developer preview. Entry point, breaking-change warning and star count checked, 2026-09-22.
DSH Desktop: Unofficial DeepSeek Harness App
anywhere-labs/dsh-desktop packages DeepSeek Harness into a Windows/macOS desktop app. 28k stars in 39 days, MIT, README's own non-affiliation disclaimer. Checked 2026-09-22.
Firstmate: An Agent Distro for Crews of Coding Agents
kunchenguid/firstmate — "Talk to one agent. Ship with a crew." 6,906 stars, MIT, macOS/Linux. An agent distro that turns one chat session into a supervised fleet of coding agents in disposable git worktrees. GitHub API + README checked 2026-09-22.
Matt Pocock Skills: 267k-Star Agent Skill Pack
mattpocock/skills — 'Skills for Real Engineers', MIT, 267,007 stars as of 2026-09-22 (GitHub API). 25 plugin-manifest skills out of 38 SKILL.md files in the tree, what that gap means, and the pack's real limits. Checked 2026-09-22.
MetaGPT: The Multi-Agent 'AI Software Company' Framework
FoundationAgents/MetaGPT is the MIT-licensed multi-agent framework from the FoundationAgents team, but the repository has had no pushes since 2026-01-21. Status and star count checked, 2026-09-22.
Open Code Review: Alibaba's AI Code Review CLI
alibaba/open-code-review: MIT-scale 39k-star AI code review CLI, Apache-2.0. BYOK LLM endpoint or delegation mode, 1/9-token claim. Repo facts checked 2026-09-22.
OpenAI Plugins: Codex Plugin Examples & Registry
openai/plugins — the successor to openai/skills for Codex plugin examples. 7,093 stars, JavaScript, last push 2026-09-18 (GitHub API, same-day check). 62 plugin folders in the recursive tree, no root LICENSE. Checked 2026-09-22.
OpenAI Skills: Deprecated Codex Skill Catalog
openai/skills — OpenAI's original Codex skill catalog, 27,528 stars as of 2026-09-22 (GitHub API). Self-deprecated in its own README in favor of openai/plugins; no root LICENSE, per-skill LICENSE.txt. 44 skill folders in the tree, .experimental referenced by the README but gone from main. Checked 2026-09-22.
OpenClaude: Open-Source Agent Fork With a License Gray Zone
Gitlawb/openclaude is code derived from Anthropic's proprietary Claude Code CLI; modifications MIT where legally permissible. License notice, status and star count checked, 2026-09-22.
OpenSquilla: A Token-Efficient AI Agent with a Local Router
TokenRhythm/opensquilla is an Apache-2.0 microkernel agent whose local model router routes each turn by cost. Stable release, platforms and star count checked, 2026-09-22; token-saving percentages not claimed without primary proof.
OpenWorker: Andrew Ng's Local-First, Governed AI Coworker
andrewyng/openworker is an MIT-licensed desktop AI coworker by Andrew Ng with hard governance floors and check-in approvals. Download status, Windows caveat and star count checked, 2026-09-22.
PenguinHarness: A Transparent Multi-Agent Auto-Dev Platform
PenguinHarness is an Apache-2.0 open-source RSI harness for multi-agent development — actively pushed, cost claims unverified.
Ponytail: The Lazy Senior Dev Skill for Agents
DietrichGebert/ponytail makes AI agents write less code. 143,613 stars, MIT, npm package, works with 20 agents. 'The best code is the code you never wrote.' Checked 2026-09-22.
WeKnora: Tencent's Open-Source RAG Knowledge Base
Tencent/WeKnora turns documents into a queryable RAG + agent + self-maintaining wiki. MIT (third-party components excepted), 28.4k stars, Go. License clarified from LICENSE original text. Checked 2026-09-22.
Worktrunk: Git Worktree Manager for Parallel Agents
max-sixty/worktrunk is a Rust CLI for git worktrees built for parallel AI coding agents - branch-name addressing, lifecycle hooks, copy-on-write build caches. 8,278 stars; LICENSE file proves dual MIT OR Apache-2.0. Checked 2026-09-22.
ego-lite: Give AI Agents Their Own Browser Space
citrolabs/ego-lite runs human and AI agent in separate browser spaces with real logged-in sessions. Stars, MIT license, macOS-only caveat checked, 2026-09-21.
Heretic: Automatic Censorship Removal for LLMs (AGPL-3.0)
Heretic (p-e-w/heretic) is an AGPL-3.0 tool that removes safety alignment from language models automatically, using directional ablation plus an Optuna-based parameter optimizer. ~32k stars. Copyleft and use-case compliance caveats apply.
InSpatio-WorldFM: An Early Real-Time 3D World Model
inspatio/worldfm targets real-time multi-view consistent spatial reasoning on consumer GPUs. Apache-2.0 code, core model caveat, ~800 stars — an observe-list entry, checked 2026-09-21.
ipatool: Download App Store Packages From the CLI (MIT)
ipatool (majd) is an MIT-licensed Go command-line tool to search the App Store across iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, visionOS, and macOS and download .ipa or .pkg packages with your own Apple ID. ~11k stars. Stats checked 2026-09-21.
Lumiko: $9 Lifetime Auto-Zoom Screen Recorder for Chrome
Lumiko is a free Chrome screen recorder that watches your cursor and clicks, then generates cinematic zoom-and-pan moves automatically — no keyframes. Pro is a $9 one-time lifetime price (list $29) covering 3 devices, removing the watermark and unlocking 4K exports. Everything renders locally in the browser, no account required. Pricing and features checked against lumiko.dev, the Product Hunt launch, and the Chrome Web Store listing on 2026-09-21.
Lumiko vs ScreenCursor (2026): $9 or $49 for Auto-Zoom?
Two Chrome-extension screen recorders that add cinematic zoom and pan for free — except one is actually free. Lumiko (launch week, $9 lifetime, webcam bubble, 4K) versus ScreenCursor ($49 one-time, no trial, 1080p cap, Windows/Linux desktop capture). Prices checked against lumiko.dev and screencursor.com on 2026-09-21 and 2026-09-16 respectively.
MiniMind: Train a 64M LLM From Scratch in 2 Hours
MiniMind trains a ~64M-parameter language model from scratch on a personal GPU — about two hours and a few dollars of compute, step by step.
OpenSCAD: The Open-Source Programmatic CAD Tool
OpenSCAD models real objects with code rather than mouse clicks. Stars, license (GPL-2.0-or-later with CGAL exception) and workflow facts checked, 2026-09-21.
OpenSEO: Free Semrush Alternative, Real Costs
OpenSEO (every-app/open-seo) terms-and-repo check: MIT license, ~20k stars, BYO DataForSEO key economics, the no-auth Docker default and the 28% hosted markup - verified against the live repo and openseo.so docs on 2026-09-21.
OpenStory: Open-Source BYOK AI Video Platform
openstory-so/openstory turns a script or one-liner into a shot-by-shot AI video with character consistency, built on TanStack Start + Bun with BYOK via fal.ai and OpenRouter. MIT license, stars, and facts checked 2026-09-21.
OpenWhispr: Open-Source Dictation, Free Local Tier
OpenWhispr is an MIT-licensed cross-platform dictation app with unlimited local transcription and paid cloud plans. Stars, license, pricing and features checked against primary sources.
Patent Disclosure Skill: CNIPA Patent Agent Skills (MIT)
A CNIPA patent workflow as an agent-skill bundle: mine design docs and code for patentable points, run prior-art checks, draft disclosures.
Remotion: Make Videos Programmatically in React
Remotion generates videos from React code and renders them server-side, including Lambda-scale batch rendering. License tiers differ between individuals and companies over 3 people.
screenshot-to-code: Turn Screenshots into Frontend Code
abi/screenshot-to-code turns screenshots, designs and screen recordings into HTML/Tailwind, React or Vue code, and the repo, model weights and license are all public.
TimesFM 3.0: Google's Open Forecasting Model (33K Stars)
TimesFM is Google Research's open-source time-series foundation model for zero-shot forecasting. Version 3.0 adds native multivariate prediction, but the 3.0 weights ship under a non-commercial license — code and older checkpoints stay Apache-2.0.
vphone-cli: Boot a Virtual iPhone on a Mac (MIT)
vphone-cli (Lakr233) boots a virtual iPhone inside macOS using Apple's Virtualization.framework and PCC research VM infrastructure, with five firmware variants from patchless to jailbreak. Apple Silicon and macOS 15+ are hard requirements. Stats checked 2026-09-21.
VoiceInk: Open-Source Mac Dictation, $25 One-Time
VoiceInk is an open-source, on-device macOS dictation app that runs Whisper locally via whisper.cpp, so your audio never leaves your Mac — optional cloud enhancement only touches text, never audio. From $25 for one Mac (2026-09-19); free forever if you build from source. Apple Silicon and macOS 14.4+ only.
Narrative: A Chat-Based AI Video Editor From $20/Month
Narrative (usenarrative.ai) is an AI-first video editor where you upload footage, describe the edit in chat, refine it turn by turn, and keep every version on a timeline you can still edit manually. Facts checked against the official site and Product Hunt on 2026-09-18: plans are $20, $40, and $100/month billed monthly with a 3-day trial, 4K no-watermark renders, and credit allowances from 2,000 to 10,000 per month; code PRODUCTHUNT adds 500 launch credits.
Oats: Free, Open-Source Meeting Notes That Stay On-Device
Oats is a free, open-source notetaker that records meeting audio on your Mac or Windows machine with no bot in the call, then writes the summary.
Oats vs Granola: Free Local Notes vs $14 Cloud
Oats (free, open-source, MIT, fully offline meeting notes for Mac and Windows) vs Granola (cloud AI that enhances the notes you type, free tier with limited history then $14/user/mo). Pricing and feature differences checked against ariso.ai, the Oats GitHub repo, and granola.ai/pricing on 2026-09-18.
PhraseVault 3.0: A $29 Lifetime Text Expander for AI Prompts
PhraseVault 3.0 is a local, source-available text expander for Windows and macOS that opens a search box instead of making you memorize abbreviations — a $29 one-time license, 14-day no-card trial, 30-day refund, offline library that never leaves your disk, and a new 3.0 option to PIN-lock individual sensitive snippets. Pricing checked against phrasevault.app and the Product Hunt 3.0 launch on 2026-09-18.
Voiskey: AI Voice Typing That Rewrites for Your Audience
Voiskey is a cross-platform AI voice typing app (iOS, Android, macOS, Windows) built around "expression intelligence" — it shapes dictated text for who's reading it instead of sanding everything flat. Pricing checked against the official site, the US App Store listing, and Product Hunt launch coverage 2026-09-17: free to start, Pro at $29.99/mo or $129.99/yr on mobile.
Marqly 6.0: AI Bookmark Manager for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor
Marqly 6.0 adds an AI Assistant over your saves, an AI Organizer for bulk filing, and an MCP server that pulls your bookmark library into Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor. Pricing checked against the official site and Product Hunt launch coverage 2026-09-16: Free up to 2,000 bookmarks, Pro $39 first year then $72/year (about $6/month billed annually).
ScreenCursor: $49 Lifetime Auto-Zoom Recorder Inside Chrome
ScreenCursor is a Chrome extension that turns every click, drag, and keystroke into an automatic zoom while you record, then exports a finished 1080p MP4 without uploading anything. Lifetime license $49 (rising to $79), 3 computers, no subscription. Checked against the official site and Product Hunt 2026-09-16.
Anysite: $30/Month Flat Data Layer for AI Agents (550+ MCP)
Anysite is a live web data layer that plugs into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and Codex over MCP or REST API — 550+ sources, 3,500+ endpoints, no credits on the MCP line. Pricing checked against the official site and Product Hunt launch coverage 2026-09-15: MCP $30 / x5 $99 / x15 $199 flat, API usage-based from $49/mo for 15,000 credits.
Loqua Pricing 2026: The $22 Voice-Typing Translation App
Loqua is a Mac + Windows voice-typing app that translates mid-sentence into 100+ languages and reads your screen. Current pricing: Free (8,000 words/week, no card), Pro $22/mo or $18/mo billed annually, 30-day Pro trial. Numbers checked directly against the current official pricing page on 2026-09-15.
Loqua vs Wispr Flow 2026: Translation vs Meetings Fork
Loqua (Free 8,000 words/week, Pro $22/mo or $18/mo annual) vs Wispr Flow (Free 2,000 words/week desktop, Pro $15/mo or $12/mo annual, Growth from $23/$18) — pricing and feature differences checked against both official pages 2026-09-15. Loqua is now the pricier option and the only one with mid-sentence translation; Wispr Flow is cheaper, runs on iOS today, and records meetings on-device with no bot joining.
AI Toolbox: One Extension for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini & Grok
AI Toolbox is a free Chrome extension that adds folders, full-text search, a prompt library, and conversation export inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok. 40,000+ users, 4.7/5. Pricing checked against the official site and the Chrome Web Store 2026-09-13; price re-verified 2026-09-17.
Pastea: $22.49 Lifetime Clipboard Manager With MCP Hooks
Pastea is a macOS clipboard manager that saves every screenshot, snippet, link, and code block you copy, with search, OCR text extraction, and an MCP endpoint so AI tools can read your clips. $22.49 launch price for the first 50 buyers. Facts gathered 2026-09-13; price re-verified against pastea.app 2026-09-17.
Scriptly: The iOS Teleprompter That Follows Your Voice
Scriptly is a free public-beta iOS teleprompter that scrolls your script by tracking your speech, adds Apple Watch record controls, and keeps scripts local with no account required. Pricing and claims checked against the official site, Terms page, and Product Hunt 2026-09-12; currently $0 in beta.
Scriptly vs Jupitrr Cut 2026: Prompter vs Recorder
Two new teleprompter apps took Product Hunt in September 2026 with opposite bets: Scriptly scrolls by listening to your voice; Jupitrr Cut splits scripts into scenes and edits the jump cuts for you. Prices and features checked against both official sites 2026-09-12.
Tucky: Edge-Docked macOS Notes With a Built-In Agent (240-Credit Tier, No Published Price)
Tucky turns the edge of your Mac screen into a fanned-out note strip with an encrypted local store and a built-in agent. Five notes are free; a signed-in account keeps unlimited notes with 240 credits, and no dollar price is published on the official site as of 2026-10-26.
Hermes v0.21.0 Pantheon: Is It Worth Upgrading?
Hermes v0.21.0 adds cron memory, multi-profiles, vault-backed secrets and an egress firewall. What to upgrade for, checked against release notes and docs.
Kilo Code: Open-Source Coding Agent for 500+ Models
Kilo Code is an open-source (MIT) agentic coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains, and the CLI that fronts 500+ models through one gateway at the provider's rate with zero markup. Official-information entry, checked against the public GitHub repos and third-party reviews 2026-09-11; no hands-on test, no score.
Storyflow: AI Creative Planner That Reads Your Whole Board
Storyflow is an AI creative-planning canvas — an infinite board of story blueprints and 200+ tactic templates, with an AI that reads your whole canvas. Pricing checked against storyflow.so on 2026-09-11: Plus $7.99/mo, Pro $14, Max $39 (billed annually); the free plan does not launch until late 2026.
Clipto: Local AI Memory Over Terabytes of Footage (MCP)
Clipto indexes video, audio, photos and documents on your own machine and lets AI agents query them through MCP — no cloud uploads. Free download, then Pro at $9.99 for the first month and $12.49 per month billed yearly.
Jupitrr Cut: Scene Teleprompter That Edits Your Jump Cuts
Jupitrr Cut records a script scene by scene, trims the silence around every take, and auto-stitches a clean jump-cut video — free on iOS and Android with in-app purchases. Checked against official pages and store listings 2026-09-10.
Dictantor: On-Device Voice Notes With No Subscription
Dictantor records meetings and ideas on iPhone or Apple Watch, transcribes on-device, and charges nothing — no account, no subscription, and no per-seat pricing to negotiate later.
Granola vs Otter.ai 2026: Bot-Free Notes vs 300 Free Minutes
Granola ($14/user/mo, bot-free) vs Otter.ai (300 free minutes, Pro $8.33/mo yearly) — prices and caps re-checked against both official pages 2026-10-06.
Agnes AI's Free Multimodal API: What the Prices Reveal
Agnes AI's text, image and video APIs bill ¥0 today — but the official pricing page prints crossed-out list prices beside every zero. Read the strikethroughs.
ModelScope API-Inference: 2,000 Free Calls Daily, One Catch
Alibaba's ModelScope gives 2,000 free API calls a day across Qwen, DeepSeek, GLM and MiniMax. Quota rules and the model catalog were verified against the vendor pages same-day.
vibeX Pricing: Claude Opus App Builder, Metered by the X
vibeX is an AI "vibe coding" platform that builds web apps, 3D, and games from a single prompt. Its pricing runs on "X" credits across four tiers — Free, Pro $39/mo, Ultra $99/mo, Business $299/mo. Official page verified 2026-09-08.
AMD Radeon Token Factory: A Free OpenAI-Compatible Model API
AMD's Radeon Cloud gives every developer account a free OpenAI-compatible model API — auto-issued key, 30 RPM per key, daily spend cap reset at midnight Beijing time. Rate limits verified from official docs 2026-09-07.
Cline API: 462 Models, 14 Free — Agent Turned Model Gateway
Cline (70K-star coding agent) sells model access at api.cline.bot: 462 models on 2026-10-14, 14 of them free. What's verified vs community-claimed.
Keenable: Web Search API for Agents, 100K Free Monthly Calls
Keenable sells web search as an API for AI agents: 100K free requests per month, then $4 per 1,000 requests pay-as-you-go, with no annual commitment or seat minimum.
Mano-P (Mininglamp): OSWorld #1 Agent Uploads Your Screen
Mininglamp's open-source computer-use GUI agent, Apache-2.0, 2.8K stars. OSWorld #1 among specialized models at 58.2% — and Claude Sonnet beats it by 14 points. Cloud screenshot upload is the default; local needs a 32GB M4 Mac. Verified 2026-09-07, repo stats re-read 2026-10-14.
AITOPIA: Zero-Code AI Agent Marketplace, 70% Revenue Share
AITOPIA is a no-code AI agent marketplace where builders create and sell agents. The platform claims "up to 70% revenue share" — but the actual tiered structure isn't fully disclosed on the homepage.
CustomGPT.ai Pricing 2026: Knowledge Base Chatbots From $99
CustomGPT.ai builds AI chatbots on your own knowledge base. Pricing verified from the official pricing page: $99/mo Standard ($89 annual), $499/mo Premium ($449 annual), with query limits that are still tight at the entry tier.
ElevenAgents: ElevenLabs Voice + Chat (SOC 2, HIPAA)
ElevenAgents by ElevenLabs is a voice-capable AI agent platform with enterprise-grade compliance: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS L1, and data residency options. Pricing is via ElevenLabs's credit system.
i-have-adhd: A 27K-Star Skill That Fixes Verbose AI Output
i-have-adhd (ayghri/i-have-adhd) is a 140-line Markdown skill file for coding agents that reshapes output for ADHD readers — lead with the action, number steps, skip tangents. 27K stars, zero dependencies, zero cost.
Kopai: Per-Message Expert AI Agents on Product Hunt
Kopai is a marketplace for expert AI agents where you pay per message, not by subscription. It's early-stage — 262 followers on Product Hunt, supply side still small.
OpenMAIC: Multi-Agent Classroom (39.4K Stars, MIT)
OpenMAIC (THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC) is an open-source multi-agent interactive classroom platform from Tsinghua University. Switched from AGPL to MIT at v0.3.0 — a deliberate commercialization signal.
Orca (stablyai): 80K-Star Parallel Agent IDE, Free Shell
Orca is an open-source ADE for running a fleet of parallel coding agents in separate worktrees. Free (MIT), but every agent you run costs a separate subscription.
Qwen Code: Open-Source Terminal Coding Agent (Apache 2.0)
Qwen Code (QwenLM/qwen-code) is a 27K-star open-source coding agent that lives in your terminal. Free under Apache 2.0 — you bring the API key and pay for tokens by usage.
T3 Code: Remote Control for Your Local Coding Agent (Free)
T3 Code (pingdotgg/t3code) is a free open-source mobile companion app that lets you monitor and steer coding agents running on your desktop. Works with your existing subscriptions.
Zetik (Newsbang): Personal AI News Agent at $14.99/Month
Zetik is a personal AI intelligence agent that monitors the web for you. Pricing verified from the App Store: $14.99/month (Plus) or $149.99/year (Pro). The official website lists no pricing at all.
Is Hermes Studio Open Source? We Read the License (2026)
Hermes Studio calls itself open source everywhere. The LICENSE file says Business Source License 1.1, non-commercial only. What's real, what's not, checked 2026-09-03.
OpenViking Review 2026: Agent Memory Like a File System
OpenViking is Volcengine's open-source context database for AI agents. Stars, license, benchmarks and deployment facts checked against primary sources.
Firecrawl Pricing 2026: What the API Actually Costs
Firecrawl turns any site into LLM-ready markdown: free tier included, paid plans from $16/mo — scrape, crawl & extract pricing checked vs official pages.
Gamma Pricing 2026: Credit System and What $9 Buys
Gamma's 2026 plans — Free (400 signup credits), Plus $9/mo (1,000 credits), Pro $18/mo (4,000 credits + API), Ultra $90/mo (20,000 credits) — plus what its AI credits really meter, checked against gamma.app and 2026 third-party trackers on September 24, 2026.
HeyGen Pricing 2026: What 600 Credits Actually Buy
HeyGen's 2026 plan ladder — Free (3 videos/mo), Creator $29 ($24 annual, 600 credits), Pro from $49 (1,000 credits, 4K), Business $149 + $20/seat — plus the credit-system math and the $5 pay-as-you-go option, checked against heygen.com on September 22, 2026.
MediaCrawler: 66K-Star Weibo/Xiaohongshu Scraper
A free Python scraper for Weibo, Xiaohongshu, Douyin +5 more Chinese platforms — open-source, but the non-commercial license blocks business use.
Cursor Pricing 2026: The $8-$200 Ladder That Replaced Pro
Cursor pricing was rebuilt on 2026-10-12 into a Free / Plus $8 / Premium $30 / Super $100 / Ultra $200 ladder shared with Grok. Every figure below is from the live official page.
GitHub Copilot Plans 2026: Free to $100, in Credits
GitHub Copilot plans after the April repack: Free vs Pro vs Business limits, premium requests and credits, checked against official docs same-day.
Mobius Day 0-1 Test Log: A Self-Evolving Agent OS
Mobius Hands-On: we installed and ran a self-evolving agent OS - seven walls hit, the genuinely good part, and an honest in-progress verdict.
ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini: 2026 Prices and Limits
ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini on their paid tiers: real limits, recent price moves and which one fits which job - terms and prices checked late August 2026.
DeerFlow 2.0 Review: ByteDance's 81K-Star Harness
DeerFlow 2.0 terms-and-repo check: MIT license, self-host requirements, the open-issue pile and ByteDance Cloud funnel - verified against the live repo.
A Solo Creator's AI Stack in 2026 (Real $100-200/mo)
A solo creator's real AI stack: one configured agent, ChatGPT Plus for Codex, Perplexity for research - pricing re-checked October 2026, no video editor.
Perplexity Pricing 2026: Free vs Pro $20 vs Max $200
Perplexity's July 2026 repack in plain numbers: Free $0, Pro $20/mo, Max $200/mo, weekly caps instead of 'unlimited' - checked vs official pages.