Port of call: Show HN & the open web · 52 vessels logged in October · Last board update 20 OCT 2026

New AI software, logged as it docks.

Every day people ship small, strange, useful things built with or for AI. Most sink without a trace a day after their launch post. This board keeps the ones worth a second look, with one honest sentence on each.

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FS-05220 OCTJev CardsA picture quiz where you try to beat a vision model. Humans vs. pixels, ongoing.Skipper: totisjosema · shipped 20 OCT▲ 58DOCKED TODAYFS-05120 OCTPenmentorClaude marks up your handwritten math the way a teacher would. Red pen not included, red ink implied.Skipper: abdullahalharir · shipped 20 OCT▲ 57DOCKED TODAYFS-05020 OCTLights-on Software FactoryBoilerplate for running a 'lights-on' software factory with Claude Code. A starter kit for agent-heavy shops.Skipper: gojkoa · shipped 20 OCT▲ 17DOCKED TODAYFS-04919 OCTDeslop ModelA Qwen3-4B fine-tune with the AI writing tics trained out. It's never going to delve again.Skipper: erikkannike · shipped 19 OCT▲ 154ARRIVEDFS-04819 OCTStrotCompile an LLM's intent once, then run the decisions locally. Fewer API calls, smaller bills.Skipper: solohunter001 · shipped 19 OCT▲ 23ARRIVEDFS-04618 OCTSphinxA pre-ship hook that quizzes you on the code your AI wrote. Rude, and probably necessary.Skipper: critiquebrowser · shipped 18 OCT▲ 252ARRIVEDFS-04718 OCTWhatsApp MCPA WhatsApp MCP server running on Cloudflare's free tier. Plugs your agent into the chat app your relatives actually use.Skipper: zoozla · shipped 18 OCT▲ 155ARRIVEDFS-04517 OCTLlmspeedTry before you buy a GPU: it shows how fast a local model would feel on hardware you don't own yet. Cheaper than finding out the hard way.Skipper: albinstman · shipped 17 OCT▲ 329ARRIVEDFS-04316 OCTStarSkirmish BenchPits Gemini 4 Argon against StarCraft. Benchmarks are dry; zerg rushes are not.Skipper: __cayenne__ · shipped 16 OCT▲ 254IN PORTFS-04416 OCTrStationA shared research lab for your AI agents, so they stop reinventing each other's notes.Skipper: stephenchung · shipped 16 OCT▲ 60IN PORTFS-04215 OCTBlastLoopA structure-first coding method for AI agents. More playbook than product.Skipper: rossleeshaw · shipped 15 OCT▲ 16IN PORTFS-03814 OCTBlumifyTracks what AI leaders say and how their views change over time. Receipts, as a service.Skipper: gcsydney · shipped 14 OCT▲ 119IN PORTFS-03914 OCTGraphicleA Rust port of Graphify that adds memory for coding agents. Because agents forget faster than goldfish.Skipper: KarLexAI · shipped 14 OCT▲ 48IN PORTFS-04114 OCTOpenLumeAsk a technical question and get an animated explainer you can interrupt mid-sentence. Like a lecture you can actually stop.Skipper: shadaba · shipped 14 OCT▲ 17IN PORTFS-04014 OCTFFramesPitched as the first short movie built with code and AI. Pull up a crate and watch.Skipper: neogoose · shipped 14 OCT▲ 14IN PORTFS-03113 OCTPDFtoMP3Turns your existing OpenAI subscription into an audiobook maker. Reuses something you already pay for, which we respect.Skipper: janpmz · shipped 13 OCT▲ 174IN PORTFS-03013 OCTSolidCraftParametric CAD written in Rust, open source, with MCP support. So your agent can draft brackets now.Skipper: bherbruck · shipped 13 OCT▲ 145IN PORTFS-03613 OCTPulse LocalA Mac budgeting app whose AI models run on your own machine. Your spending habits stay home, where the shame belongs.Skipper: niztk · shipped 13 OCT▲ 122IN PORTFS-03513 OCTParsimonyAn open-source benchmark for how much code AI models add. Measures bloat, the one metric nobody brags about.Skipper: lasu · shipped 13 OCT▲ 77IN PORTFS-03413 OCTDeslopOxlint rules that catch the patterns AI-generated TypeScript leaves behind. Lint for the slop era.Skipper: maharshi365 · shipped 13 OCT▲ 32IN PORTFS-03313 OCTSaysoFree, open-source dictation for Mac, Windows and Linux. All three, which is rarer than it should be.Skipper: watzon · shipped 13 OCT▲ 25IN PORTFS-03213 OCTMemorySyncA memory layer for AI agents, so they don't introduce themselves to you every time.Skipper: mohd_rafay · shipped 13 OCT▲ 22IN PORTFS-03713 OCTJevcrawlA web crawler for AI agents with no LLM in the crawl loop. Deterministic, cheap and fast.Skipper: rayenmlayeh · shipped 13 OCT▲ 21IN PORTFS-02712 OCTAtticusA hold-to-talk voice assistant for macOS that runs on Claude -p. Push the button, talk, done.Skipper: SaarthRanka · shipped 12 OCT▲ 116IN PORTFS-02912 OCTBlokkilyAn experimental pattern-first DAW (music software) that supports MCP. Your agent can jam now.Skipper: androsynth89 · shipped 12 OCT▲ 84IN PORTFS-02812 OCTMana Figma cloneClaims a fully featured Figma clone from Opus 5.5 in 3 hours and 8 prompts. Bold claim; go poke it yourself.Skipper: behzadhaghgoo · shipped 12 OCT▲ 40IN PORTFS-02511 OCTMiraAI-guided walking tours. A tour guide who never runs late.Skipper: bleonard · shipped 11 OCT▲ 16IN PORTFS-02611 OCTPlimsollA self-hosted sandbox for running the code your AI agent writes. Seatbelts for agent code.Skipper: cagster · shipped 11 OCT▲ 16IN PORTFS-02411 OCTLittleguysClaude Code, Codex and OpenClaw agents living in your Mac menu bar. Tiny coworkers, tidily stacked.Skipper: herval · shipped 11 OCT▲ 15IN PORTFS-02310 OCTNagareA simple to-do app for iPhone and Mac that your agent can use too.Skipper: shmilia · shipped 10 OCT▲ 16IN PORTFS-02209 OCTBig Arrow on the ScreenAn agent that can literally point at things on your screen. Finally, a way for the robot to say 'no, THAT button.'Skipper: franze · shipped 09 OCT▲ 421IN PORTFS-02109 OCTEdi Life OSA self-hosted life dashboard with an MCP server, so your AI can see the whole picture if you let it.Skipper: edris0077 · shipped 09 OCT▲ 41IN PORTFS-01708 OCTJevmanAI decision models playing Pac-Man. The ghosts don't care how many parameters you have.Skipper: felix089 · shipped 08 OCT▲ 82IN PORTFS-02008 OCTRembrandtA free, open-source, fully local Lightroom alternative with AI. No subscription, no cloud.Skipper: thesnarkitecht · shipped 08 OCT▲ 47IN PORTFS-01608 OCTAI Agent on a NokiaAn AI agent on a Nokia 110. A feature phone gets an AI agent, mostly to prove it can be done.Skipper: anupray · shipped 08 OCT▲ 33IN PORTFS-01908 OCTPockettyAn iPhone SSH terminal that pings you when an agent is stuck. Babysitting, but with push notifications.Skipper: lukeed · shipped 08 OCT▲ 32IN PORTFS-01808 OCTAI SRE ArenaAn open benchmark that for AI SRE agents running on Kubernetes. Finally, someone to blame at 3 AM.Skipper: emrahsamdan · shipped 08 OCT▲ 24IN PORTFS-01307 OCTAgent.reviewsA review site where the reviewers are AI agents. Yes, it's as strange and interesting as it sounds.Skipper: screm · shipped 07 OCT▲ 73IN PORTFS-01207 OCTNanoMuseAn open-source AI agent that runs on your phone and your computer.Skipper: ilreb · shipped 07 OCT▲ 68IN PORTFS-01407 OCTPinrailA desktop inbox where coding agents queue up for your review. Your agents take a number and wait their turn.Skipper: pnezis · shipped 07 OCT▲ 27IN PORTFS-01507 OCTTerseA Claude Code plugin that halves reply length by cutting filler. We're fans of the cause.Skipper: lowenbjer · shipped 07 OCT▲ 25IN PORTFS-01106 OCTOpenChartAn open-source TradingView alternative with your own AI agent riding along. Not financial advice, just good software.Skipper: Warren93 · shipped 06 OCT▲ 45IN PORTFS-00906 OCTCity2026A low-poly SimCity 2000 clone built by Opus 5.5. Mayors of a certain age, please report to the dock.Skipper: drdator · shipped 06 OCT▲ 37IN PORTFS-01006 OCTJotbusAn encrypted scratchpad that multiple coding agents can share. A group chat for agents, with encryption.Skipper: shake-n-fries · shipped 06 OCT▲ 28IN PORTFS-00804 OCTSCMSearch every photo and every video frame on your Mac with AI. For anyone whose camera roll has become a landfill.Skipper: allenleee · shipped 04 OCT▲ 184IN PORTFS-00703 OCTOffrunOne workspace for managing every coding agent. For people whose terminal tabs have started breeding.Skipper: arunbhatia · shipped 03 OCT▲ 78IN PORTFS-00602 OCTLDraw NovaOpen-source AI that generates Lego builds. Step-on-it risk: purely digital.Skipper: antelocnova · shipped 02 OCT▲ 170IN PORTFS-00502 OCTPi podRuns the pi coding agent in sandboxes on your own server. Lets the agent loose without handing over your laptop.Skipper: edverma2 · shipped 02 OCT▲ 121IN PORTFS-00402 OCTPi Codex ConnectorsBrings all the Codex plugins into the pi agent. Plugin portability, done by hand so you don't have to.Skipper: alexandroskyr · shipped 02 OCT▲ 22IN PORTFS-00101 OCTBreadcrumbRecords everything on your Mac and manages context for AI. Total recall, opt-in.Skipper: jv22222 · shipped 01 OCT▲ 49IN PORTFS-00301 OCTGrapheneA data analysis toolkit built for your coding agent to use.Skipper: kcmarr · shipped 01 OCT▲ 32IN PORTFS-00201 OCTKccA C compiler built with an LLM on a $100/month budget that can boot the Linux kernel. Read the post before you scoff.Skipper: temo_pacheco · shipped 01 OCT▲ 19IN PORT
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