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ideas i had at 3am or in the shower. most of 'em are never gonna see a git init. but writin' 'em down makes me feel productive without actually doin' anythin'. [✓] = shockingly, i built it. public ones get a link, private ones just get a name, 'cause they ain't ready to be seen by strangers.

  1. search across llm outputs in web - probably an extension might help
  2. group buy calculator for google play - need to have a splittin' mechanism
  3. cli application for tradin' - cursor for tradin', somethin' which will help traders
  4. link picker - pick all links from a site as an extension (reddit, discord)
  5. awesome list to bookmark - load awesome list to bookmark in chrome and vice versa
  6. openrouter for tools - kinda ipaas
  7. unnecessarily overengineered notetaker
  8. produce a random coin flipper - there is no thing as random for computers, so there will be multiple algos for no reason
  9. exploited tutorial hell - just a bunch of high quality tutorial lists ~ [✓] sorta, that's Awesome-GenAI. genai only, 'cause one hell at a time
  10. abusin' technology project
  11. db cleaner - auto sql with gut feelin's
  12. db backup tool - a cli tool which will ask to connect to the db with type and then ask for the output format
  13. kaggle model test script generator
  14. a researcher for finetunin', prunin', distillin', quantizin' - immediately collect and do after releasin' the model automatically
  15. a repo with all possible rag techniques
  16. open notebook lm
  17. monkeytype mcp or ai in there somehow
  18. shellgpt with better ui and fast
  19. a proper implementation of web search in terminal - [✓] built it as search-tool. my own searxng, 14 engines, one ranked list, zero api keys. google can track someone else now
  20. vim based browser
  21. live experiments - have a stupid question, find a way to experiment it with docker
    • for a question - clearly define: question, possibilities, a docker file which can run, 5 runs with logs, verdict
    • templates: docker, sh file, makefile, each programmin' language, multiple language, each os, api experiments, llm experiment, mcp experiment
  22. somethin' better than pydantic - it's just a stupid if condition check
  23. a tool if you pass github url, clone it - a terminal tool maybe
  24. agentify - versionin' for all of the components in an agent
  25. build a fuckin' agent - a simple interactive page to choose the frameworks for buildin' the agent
  26. how tech love each other - all the integration guides as a graph viz
    • every platform's integration pages mapped as nodes and edges
    • e.g. langchain → pinecone edge links straight to langchain's pinecone integration doc
    • finally see who's friends with who without diggin' through 12 docs sites
  27. website to cli tool
  28. a standard benchmarkin' platform with tools for benchmark llm, stt, tts, realtime, embeddin'
  29. bolna.ai clone - with better voice handlin' and meet functionality ~ [✓] the voice half is voice-ai, self-hosted on livekit, callable from a browser or a real phone. the meet half is still livin' in the shower
  30. ai assist in jupyter notebook
  31. examples finder - find example/cookbook/notebook/recipe folders in github trendin' repos
  32. a collection of pytorch models - model design, blocks, trainer, optimizer, tokenizer, dataset prep, inference
  33. esp32 mcp - connect claude to your home
  34. comparison of tables in vscode (sqlite, csv, excel, parquet) - preview changes
  35. rag engine - a python library with splittin' strategies and similarity metrics
  36. a framework to connect your agent to channels - [✓] that's channels. whatsapp, telegram, slack, twilio, email, the lot. webhooks in, replies out, my sanity sideways
  37. vibe kanban inside vscode
  38. native voice for openclaw - talk to claude code without typin' like a caveman
  39. what i did today - realtime data collector for your dev work
    • hooks into github, slack, and the rest of the dev tool circus
    • search, summarize, and spit out a dsr without typin' a word
    • integrates with meetings so hr finally stops askin' "what did you do today?"
  40. open interview notetaker - kinda open source fireflies.ai
    • a bot that joins your google meet and zoom calls
    • transcribes the whole thing in realtime
    • open source so you ain't gotta sell your soul to fathom or otter
  41. a framework with native platform agent - every backend/frontend/fullstack framework out there and not one ships an agent by default
    • platform agent = an agent that lives inside your app and actually knows your platform - so users can just chat with it to get stuff done instead of clickin' around
    • a buncha frameworks are slowly switchin' into this, baking the agent right into the platform instead of bolting on a chatbot later
    • not just backend api stuff - it's about every element you build. an api, a frontend button, a form, a toggle, anything a user touches
    • when you build the element you just describe what it does, and the agent learns it - "this button exports the report", "this endpoint creates an order", "this form updates the profile"
    • so the agent can actually drive the whole app - click the buttons, hit the endpoints, fill the forms - on behalf of the user
    • flip the config to true and a chat tab shows up in your fullstack app, no extra wirin'
    • basically the openapi boolean vibe - one flag and it's just there
    • don't even gotta build a whole new framework - could just be a plugin you bolt onto an existing one (django, next, laravel, whatever) and it brings the agent along
  42. pydantic but parallel - validate every field and condition at once instead of one by one
    • pydantic bails on the first fail, i want the full list of what's broken
    • instead of "x api key missin' from env", show "x, y, z env vars missin'"
    • super useful for llm output validation - one round trip to fix everythin' instead of playin' whack-a-mole
  43. hackathon farmin' with codin' agents - find every hackathon worth enterin', then let claude code actually build the thing
    • step one is boring: an aggregator over devpost, unstop, mlh, hackerearth - filtered by stack, prize, and how much time's left
    • step two is the fun part - hand the problem statement to an agent and let it run end to end while i sleep
    • open question whether an autonomous submission is impressive or just spam. probably depends entirely on whether it wins
  44. cli auth that follows you between machines - log into gh on one mac, sit down at another, already logged in
    • every cli hides its creds somewhere different - gh in the keychain, aws in ~/.aws, docker in config.json, npm in .npmrc. no standard, no sync, no mercy
    • settin' up a new laptop means re-authin' eight tools through eight browser tabs, every single time
    • basically 1password for the tools that never got the memo about oauth
    • whole thing lives or dies on the encryption tho. sync the tokens badly and you haven't built a product, you've built a very convenient breach
  45. vibe github - vibe kanban but the board is just github, and the tickets run themselves
    • github projects is already a kanban board, so quit buildin' another one. just read that one
    • anythin' that shows up - a fresh issue, a pr comment sayin' "can you rename this" - gets picked up and actually finished
    • the session runs in github actions, so nothin' lives on my laptop. i can shut the lid and the work keeps happenin'
    • sessions are pullable tho - if the agent goes off the rails you yank it down and finish it local like a normal person
    • end goal is openin' github monday mornin' and half the column already moved to done without me touchin' a key
  46. os wide mcp - let the agent see my live chats and every terminal that's actually runnin' ~ [✓] half of it
    • every mcp out there reads files and hits apis. not one of 'em can see the log scrollin' in tmux pane 3 right this second
    • read the live terminals - tmux panes, iterm tabs, the vscode one i forgot i opened - so "why did it crash" don't need me copy pastin' a stack trace like it's 2011
    • same deal for chats. slack, discord, whatsapp, imessage ~ the context is always sittin' in a dm and never in the repo
    • the machine already knows what i'm doin'. the agent is the only one in the room that don't
    • privacy wise this is a keylogger with good branding, so it stays local or it don't get built
    • [✓] the terminal half got built, twice, 'cause one wasn't enough. agent-eye lets an agent read and nudge the other claude and codex sessions on my mac, herdr-mcp lets it boss around every pane in herdr. the chats half is still a keylogger waitin' for a lawyer
  47. claude drives my actual chrome - my profiles, my logins, and a cursor that moves like a human on mild caffeine ~ [✓] built it as browser-hand. the bank profile is read-only, 'cause i know myself
  48. a companion app for my car - the venue knows its fuel level and refuses to share ~ [✓] that's car-mate. logs trips, remembers i parked in b2 again, does km/l so i stop doin' math on receipts
  49. remove claude as co-author from my git history - it wrote the code, i'm takin' the credit. that's just management ~ [✓] claim-your-code. on brew and scoop, so the theft is cross platform
  50. llm as the teacher, a tiny fast model as the student - fine-tune a decision model on your own data in one line ~ [✓] decisionsmith. on pypi and everythin', like a real adult
  51. let gemini stare at my dataframe and tell me what's interestin' - skip the part where i stare at it myself ~ [✓] GemInsights. sorry, data analysts
  52. agents that job hunt for me - find it, research the company, tailor the resume, fill the form ~ [✓] job-hunter. does everythin' except actually get me hired. i still press submit, like an adult
  53. legal advice from an llm - rag over the legal stuff so it cites instead of vibes ~ [✓] Legal-Advisor-LLM. not a lawyer. neither is the bot. please don't sue either of us
  54. give the mac notch a job - babysit my ai agents from the top of the screen ~ [✓] mac-notch. the black rectangle finally pays rent
  55. an expense tracker that finally shows where the salary goes - spoiler: it goes ~ [✓] money-logs. android, web, and a rust backend nobody asked for
  56. a penpot mcp that don't need a browser tab babysat forever - just talk to the api ~ [✓] penpot-mcp. the official one can keep its tab
  57. one cli for the whole pypi ritual - uv, poetry, hatch, twine, keyring, all of it, minus the 2am regret ~ [✓] kinda, pypictl. info and name work. the other eleven plans are vibes
  58. an evaluation library for llm and rag apps - is it right, is it grounded, is it rude ~ [✓] ragrank. was perfect when i built it. now it has issues. classic
  59. click-ops ui for streamin' pipelines - cdc in, sql generated, sinks out ~ [✓] realtime-datapipes. risingwave does the work, streamlit takes the credit
  60. scripts that click websites so i don't have to - one per website that annoyed me once too often ~ [✓] scraper-buddies. it's a monorepo of grudges

if you're actually crazy enough to build any of these, ping me. i'll jump in as a collaborator, hype man, or at the very least the guy who opens issues and never closes 'em. seriously tho, don't let these die in my shower thoughts - hit me up.