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105 field notes about automation. Quick, practical, no fluff.
WhatsApp API for Business: Official vs Open Source
Meta now charges for replies past 1,000 a month. Free gateways like WAHA and OpenWA break WhatsApp's terms. Which route fits which job, with prices.
Oct 22original№ 245A $10 chip that gives Meta's AI a body
Meta just published the blueprints to wire a cheap microchip into its Muse AI agent — giving it eyes, ears, and hands in the physical world.
Oct 8github№ 244AI Answers That Look Like Web Pages
A tiny tool turns your AI assistant's wall of text into a clean, readable web page — and does it faster and cheaper than you'd expect.
Oct 7github№ 242Type It, Print It: AI That Draws in 3D
An open-source tool lets AI agents turn plain-language descriptions into real 3D print files — no design software, no CAD training required.
Oct 5github№ 240Your AI Coworker, Without the Landlord
OpenDots gives you always-on AI coworkers with their own browser and files — open-source, any AI model, running on your own server.
Oct 3github№ 236One Click to Swap AI Models Across All Your Agents
Magpie sits quietly in your menu bar and lets you swap AI models across every coding agent on your machine — no settings buried, no keys to copy.
Sep 29github№ 234Ship Your AI App: Hosting, Domain, Payments Done
A free tool that takes an AI-built app and handles the full launch — hosting, database, domain, and payments — in accounts you actually own.
Sep 27github№ 233One Memory Layer for All Your AI Coding Tools
A tiny local tool reads your existing AI session history and shares what each tool learned with all the others — no subscriptions, no setup.
Sep 26github№ 229The Web Agent That Went Viral for Being Cheap
A new open-source web agent exploded to 16,500 GitHub stars in five days by doing one thing unusually well: running fast and cheap at scale.
Sep 22github№ 227Turn Any Document Into AI-Ready Text
Microsoft quietly built a free tool that turns PDFs, Word docs, and PowerPoints into clean text an AI can actually read — structure and all.
Sep 20github№ 225One Skill Set, Every AI Coding Tool
ECC is a shared skill library for AI coding tools — write your instructions once and they work across Claude, Cursor, Codex, and more.
Sep 18github№ 222The Browser That Remembers Every Site It Visits
Webcmd is an AI browser agent that builds its own memory of every site it visits — so each return trip is faster, cheaper, and smarter than the last.
Sep 14github№ 221Blume Watches You Code and Writes the Rules
Blume sits beside your AI coding assistant, notices when you keep correcting it, and quietly turns those corrections into permanent rules — all on your machine.
Sep 12original№ 219Google's Agent That Tests Android Apps in English
Google open-sourced ARTEMIS, an AI agent that takes plain-English instructions and runs real Android app tests — no technical setup, 99%+ success rate.
Sep 10github№ 216The AI That Gets Cheaper the More You Use It
Experiential watches how your AI tools work, then quietly trains a smaller model that handles your routine tasks — cutting costs by up to 97%.
Sep 7github№ 210One Skill, Every AI Tool Gets It Instantly
SkillKit lets you teach a behavior to one AI tool and instantly share it across 40+ others — no repetition, no drift between tools.
Aug 31github№ 207530 Image Prompts, Built to Be Reused
A free library of 530+ reverse-engineered image prompts that work like building blocks — so your AI visuals stay consistent without starting from scratch each time.
Aug 28github№ 206One Prompt, One Video, No Editor
MoneyPrinterTurbo turns a single topic into a finished short video — script, footage, voice, subtitles — with no editing software needed.
Aug 27github№ 204Before You Install That AI Skill, Scan It
NVIDIA built a free scanner that checks AI agent skills for hidden dangers before you run them — because one in four have real vulnerabilities.
Aug 26github№ 203Your Location History as a Travel Film
A free tool turns years of forgotten Google location data into a watchable travel film — privately, on your own computer, no uploads needed.
Aug 25github№ 200Your AI Agent, Your Browser, No Conflicts
ego-lite lets your AI agent use your real browser — logged-in accounts and all — without ever touching your open tabs.
Aug 23github№ 199One Agent to Brief, a Crew to Execute
Firstmate lets you talk to one AI while a whole crew of agents works behind the scenes — handling routine noise and escalating only what needs you.
Aug 22github№ 197Your AI Agent Can Now See the Live Website
A real browser that runs inside your terminal so your AI agent can click, scroll, and read any webpage — no window switching, no extra screens needed.
Aug 20github№ 196Cursor Origin: AI Agents That Ship Their Own Code
Cursor just launched its own version control platform — so AI agents can write code, review it, and publish it without ever switching tools.
Aug 19github№ 195Your Team Chat, but AI Agents Live There Too
Cumora is a team chat app where AI agents don't just answer questions — they show up, remember things, and start conversations on their own.
Aug 18github№ 192AI Agents That Log Into Apps Without Seeing
Open Connector lets AI agents connect to Gmail, Slack, Stripe and 1,000+ services — without ever touching your actual credentials.
Aug 16github№ 189Brigade: Your AI Team, Running on Your Machine
Brigade puts a crew of AI agents on your computer — they browse, write emails, attend meetings, and message you like a colleague would.
Aug 13github№ 186A Free AI Analyst That Watches Markets Daily
An open-source tool that reads global stock markets every morning and sends you an AI-written summary — no subscription, no server, no ongoing cost.
Aug 10github№ 185Your iPhone, Controlled by an AI Agent
A small open-source tool lets any AI agent tap, scroll, and type on your iPhone — through your Mac, no hacking required.
Aug 9github№ 183The AI Agent That Rewrites Its Own Brain
Prime Agent is an open-source coding agent that doesn't just follow instructions — it remembers, inspects its own work, and adjusts its thinking mid-task.
Aug 7github№ 182Any Document, Clean Text, No Cloud Needed
Firecrawl's new open-source tool converts Word, PDF, Excel, PowerPoint and more into clean text — blindingly fast, and your files never leave your machine.
Aug 6github№ 181The AI Agent That Learns From Real Hackers
A plug-in that gives AI coding agents tested, real-world playbooks for security analysis — and gets smarter every time someone shares a case.
Aug 5github№ 178YC Open-Sourced the AI System Running Its Company
Y Combinator just released the internal AI agent system it used to run accounting, legal, and engineering — and to build itself.
Aug 3github№ 179Best Headless Browser for AI Agents: Layers, Prices
Engines, drivers, cloud browsers and agent frameworks by layer. Hosted browsers cost $0.02 to about $0.24 an hour, re-checked October 29, 2026.
Aug 3original№ 177Your AI Product Has a Back Door
PromptTrace is a free lab where you can watch real AI models get tricked — and finally understand what you're actually shipping to customers.
Aug 2x№ 171Your Logins, Their Own Tab: ego-lite
ego-lite gives every AI agent its own browser space inside your real Chrome session — so it uses your logins without ever touching your tabs.
Jul 28github№ 157Test Your Website in Plain English, Free
BrowserBash lets you test any website by typing a normal sentence — no technical setup, no monthly fees, and a free video replay of every run.
Jul 14github№ 155A Guard Dog for Your AI's Shopping Cart
Refuse watches every software package your AI installs and quietly blocks the ones with known security holes — before they touch your system.
Jul 12github№ 153Your Job Search, Handled by Claude
A free, open-source tool lets Claude write your tailored CV and cover letter, then check it won't get filtered out before a human ever reads it.
Jul 10github№ 152An AI That Tries to Break Your App First
Strix is an open-source AI agent that probes your website for real security holes — the same ones a hired hacker would look for, at near zero cost.
Jul 9github№ 151Your CV, Rewritten by Two AIs Fighting Over It
An open-source tool uses two Claude agents — one writes your CV, one tears it apart — so only the best version reaches recruiters.
Jul 8github№ 150Your AI Can Now Edit Word and Excel Files
OfficeCLI lets AI agents read, edit, and build real Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files — no Microsoft Office required, no setup headaches.
Jul 7github№ 148T3MP3ST: AI That Tries to Break Your AI
A self-hosted platform that sends swarms of AI agents to attack your AI product — so you find the weak spots before your users or competitors do.
Jul 5github№ 147A Trick That Cuts Claude API Bills by 60%
A small open-source tool converts Claude's text inputs into tiny images — and because of how Claude charges for images, that can slash your bill by more than half.
Jul 4github№ 146Any Website Can Now Have an AI Copilot
Alibaba released a free tool that lets users control any website with plain English — no extensions, no rewrites, just one line of code.
Jul 3github№ 145Your Codebase, Explained to AI Agents
OpenWiki auto-writes the internal documentation that AI coding agents need to navigate your project — and keeps it fresh every day.
Jul 2github№ 143When AI Agents Get Their Memory Poisoned
A free, open-source tool now acts as a bodyguard between your AI agent and its memory — quietly blocking attacks before they cause real damage.
Jun 30github№ 142Ask AI to fix a bug, right inside GitHub
OpenTag lets you @mention an AI agent in GitHub or Slack and it does the work there — no copy-pasting, no switching tabs, no extra logins.
Jun 29github№ 140Four AI analysts, one investment thesis
AI Berkshire sends four independent Claude agents to research the same company at once — then a fifth one reconciles what they found.
Jun 27github№ 139Run Five AI Coders at Once, Compare Results
Orca is a free desktop app that runs multiple AI coding agents side by side — so you can pick the best result instead of hoping for one.
Jun 26github№ 138The AI Code Bouncer That Ships Clean PRs
No-mistakes sits between your AI coding assistant and GitHub, quietly refusing to ship anything until it passes a full quality check.
Jun 25github№ 137The Google Tool That Outlived Its Creator's Job
A Google engineer built the fastest way to connect AI agents to all of Google Workspace — then got fired. The tool still works, and it's worth knowing about.
Jun 24github№ 131OpenMontage: Your Prompt Becomes a Finished Video
OpenMontage is an open-source system that takes a plain-language prompt and handles the research, script, footage, editing, and music — delivering a finished video.
Jun 18github№ 125The AI Coder That Remembers Everything
Xiaomi just released a free AI coding agent that keeps its memory between sessions — and outperforms Claude Code on standard benchmarks.
Jun 12github№ 120Read the Internet for Free, No API Keys Needed
Agent-Reach lets your AI assistant browse Twitter, Reddit, YouTube and more without paying platform fees — a small tool with a surprisingly large surface area.
Jun 7github№ 115Cut Your AI Bill Without Touching Anything
Headroom quietly compresses what your AI reads before it reads it — slashing API costs by up to 95% without changing how anything works.
Jun 2github№ 111AI Agents Work Best When They're Not Fully
A widely-shared principles guide reveals that the most reliable AI products are mostly structured code, with AI sprinkled in at precisely the right moments.
May 29github№ 109Webwright Review: Reusable Browser Automation Scripts
Webwright is Microsoft's open-source browser agent for turning long web tasks into inspectable, rerunnable Python and Playwright scripts.
May 27github№ 107Websites That Talk to AI Agents Directly
Google's new WebMCP standard lets AI agents interact with websites cleanly — no guessing, no fumbling — and Booking.com, Shopify, and Expedia are already on board.
May 24original№ 105Turn Any Book Into an Audiobook, Free
abogen converts EPUBs, PDFs, and text files into chaptered audiobooks with synced captions — offline, free, and surprisingly polished.
May 22github№ 100OpenWA Review: Self-Hosted WhatsApp API Gateway
A free, open-source way to connect WhatsApp to your own tools and bots, run on your own server, with one honest warning worth reading first.
May 19github№ 97Your WiFi Is Already Watching the Room
A $9 sensor and your existing WiFi router can detect people, measure breathing, and estimate body posture — through walls, in the dark, no camera needed.
May 16github№ 95The AI that actually knows your week
OpenHuman quietly reads all your tools every 20 minutes and builds a private memory of your work — so it never starts from scratch.
May 14github№ 91The Browser That Looks Human (Because It Is)
CloakBrowser is a free, open-source browser built for AI agents that need to browse the web without getting blocked — and it costs nothing where competitors charge hundreds a month.
May 10github№ 89It Watches You Work, Then Writes the Instructions Itself
A small Mac app sits quietly in your menu bar, watches you repeat the same task three times, and then writes a detailed playbook your AI agent can follow — in your voice, with your logic baked in.
May 8github№ 88A coding agent that works all night for almost nothing
An open-source AI agent that can read and edit an entire codebase in one sitting — at a fraction of the cost of the big names.
May 7github№ 85When One AI Agent Isn't Enough
Ruflo turns Claude into a self-organizing team of AI specialists that split the work between them, and it's free to run yourself.
May 5github№ 86OpenClaw: one AI assistant in every chat app you use
Self-hosted AI gateway that puts the same assistant into WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, iMessage and more. Open source, MIT-licensed, runs on your own machine.
May 5github№ 81One call, many agents working in parallel
Sandcastle lets you spin up multiple AI coding agents at once — each working in its own isolated space — and then quietly merges everything back together.
May 2github№ 80Your task list, running itself
OpenAI open-sourced a tool that turns a project management board into a team of coding agents — each ticket gets its own worker that runs until the job is done.
May 1github№ 76The AI that breaks into your systems before attackers do
PentAGI is an open-source AI agent that runs full security tests on your systems autonomously — no specialist required to set it in motion.
Apr 28github№ 73Hugging Face built a robot intern that trains AI models
An open-source AI agent that reads academic papers, finds datasets, and trains machine learning models — without anyone holding its hand.
Apr 25github№ 66AI can now edit video by writing HTML
A new open-source tool turns plain web code into rendered video — which means AI agents can finally produce video content without touching a timeline.
Apr 19github№ 65What if your AI developer never forgot a step?
Archon gives AI coding tools a fixed process to follow — so every task runs the same way, every time, no matter the model's mood.
Apr 18github№ 64The Agent That Teaches Itself
A tiny AI agent that gets smarter and cheaper every time it completes a task — and reportedly built its own codebase without a human ever touching the keyboard.
Apr 17github№ 62Google's AI Knows What Your Files Really Are
Google open-sourced the AI it uses to scan billions of Gmail and Drive uploads — and it identifies file types with 99% accuracy in the blink of an eye.
Apr 15github№ 61A text prompt walks in. A finished video walks out.
An open-source project that works like a tiny film studio on your computer — you describe a video, it writes the script, plans the shots, and produces the whole thing while you sleep.
Apr 14github№ 59What if your docs actually worked?
A small YC-backed agency figured out how to fix broken developer docs in weeks, not months — by letting AI do the tedious parts and humans do the thinking.
Apr 12original№ 58Teach Your AI to Speak Less, Think More
A tiny add-on makes Claude respond like a caveman — and somehow that cuts costs by up to 87% while keeping every useful answer intact.
Apr 11github№ 53A real email address for your AI agent
Molted gives AI agents their own managed mailbox — with built-in safety rails so they can't spam your contacts or leak sensitive data.
Apr 7web№ 54One person. One AI. 740 job offers evaluated.
Someone built an AI-powered job search system for themselves, used it to evaluate 740 offers and write 354 tailored CVs — then got hired as Head of Applied AI.
Apr 7github№ 51Drop a receipt. Get tidy accounts.
TaxHacker is a free, self-hosted app that reads any receipt or invoice — in any language — and turns it into clean accounting data, automatically.
Apr 5github№ 48One tool turned a solo coder into an overnight dev team
A small open-source tool called OMX quietly turned a single AI coding assistant into a coordinated team of agents — and someone used it to do a week's worth of work in one night.
Apr 2github№ 43One Plugin, Thirty-Two AI Teammates
A new plugin for Claude Code gives you an instant team of 32 specialized AI agents — architect, designer, librarian, and more — without writing a single line of setup.
Mar 28github№ 41A Query Language That Speaks Human, Not Code
TinyFish built infrastructure for AI agents to interact with the live web at scale — and AgentQL lets you point at any element on any page using plain English instead of brittle CSS selectors.
Mar 27github№ 38Your Calendar, Contacts, and Messages — Inside Claude
A small Mac app quietly bridges the gap between Claude and your actual life — calendar, messages, contacts, reminders, and location included.
Mar 25github№ 37The AI That Actually Does the Work
DeerFlow is an open-source AI agent that does not just answer questions, it plans the work and finishes whole projects on its own.
Mar 24github№ 29A browser built for robots, not humans
Lightpanda runs 11x faster than Puppeteer and uses 9x less RAM. An open-source headless browser purpose-built for AI agents and web scraping.
Mar 17github№ 25Teaching AI Agents to Use Desktop Software
A new tool lets AI agents operate desktop software like GIMP or Blender the same way a human would — but faster, quietly, and without anyone touching a mouse.
Mar 13github№ 24The AI Agent That Remembers What It Learned
Hermes Agent remembers past conversations, learns from mistakes, and connects to Slack, Discord and Telegram. Free, self-hosted, built by Nous Research.
Mar 12github№ 23A Full AI Team, Ready to Hire
100+ ready-made AI agent personas in one repo - frontend devs, brand managers, growth leads. Copy-paste into Claude, ChatGPT or any AI tool.
Mar 11github№ 21An AI that runs 100 experiments while you sleep
Andrej Karpathy just released a tiny tool that lets an AI agent run experiments on its own, all night, and hand you the results by morning.
Mar 9github№ 20AI agents that can't leak your passwords — even if tricked
IronClaw is an open-source runtime that lets AI agents do real work without ever seeing — or accidentally exposing — your API keys and secrets.
Mar 8github№ 19What if your whole company was run by AI agents?
Paperclip lets you build a fully staffed AI organisation — with a real org chart, budgets, and accountability — that actually runs itself.
Mar 7github№ 18The AI That Tries to Break Your App Before Anyone Else Does
Shannon is an open-source AI that actually attacks your own web app to find real security holes — not just a list of warnings, but proof that something is broken.
Mar 6github№ 17Your Brand on Reddit, Without the Hours
A free, set-it-and-forget-it system that watches Reddit for your brand name and pings you when someone mentions it, so you don't have to.
Mar 5original№ 15The invisible wall that keeps AI agents from breaking things
Alibaba just open-sourced the safety layer that lets AI agents actually do things — without putting your real systems at risk.
Mar 3github№ 14Your WiFi Router Can Already See You
A new open-source project turns an ordinary WiFi router into a sensor that can detect where people are, how they're breathing, and whether someone has fallen — no camera required.
Mar 2github№ 12Your Spreadsheet Can Now See the Future
Google quietly embedded a powerful AI forecasting model inside Google Sheets — and you don't need to know anything technical to use it.
Feb 28original№ 10The Web Scraper That Fixes Itself
Scrapling watches websites change and quietly updates itself — so your data pipelines don't break every time a competitor redesigns their homepage.
Feb 26github№ 7Windmill turns small automations into proper tools
An open-source platform that takes your team's little scripts and automations and gives them a proper home — with scheduling, logs, and a real interface.
Feb 23original№ 5n8n: connect everything, pay nothing
n8n lets you automate anything between your apps — Slack, email, CRM, spreadsheets. It's free, it's visual, and you own the whole thing.
Feb 22original№ 4Scheduled tasks that run themselves — inside your database
Supabase can run tasks on a schedule — daily reports, data cleanup, reminders — without any extra tools or monthly fees.
Feb 21original№ 3Your own Zapier, for free — and it talks to AI
Activepieces is like Zapier but free, open source, and its 280+ integrations work directly with AI agents like Claude.
Feb 20original№ 1Let AI write your follow-ups
Your CRM knows when you last talked to someone. AI can use that to write follow-ups that actually sound like you.
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