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T3 SidebarPlaysV1rgul's post says he rebuilt the T3 Code sidebar for Nous Research Hermes Desktop: Working, Input, and Done at a glance, pin, snooze, visible unsent drafts, token and API-equivalent cost, and Codex and Claude quotas pooled across accounts with a run-out forecast. The repository is V1rgul/hermes-plugin-t3sidebar. The license is MIT. It needs Hermes 0.23 or newer. Install is from Git, as an agent plugin and a desktop UI. The Limits page pools accounts in units weighted by plan. The behavior notes say the sidebar works in the selected gateway or profile, and does not silently add other accounts or servers. A snooze never stops or resumes the agent. It is a session list, not a replacement for Hermes or for T3 Code. The readme says it stores no credentials and sends no telemetry. The post says the quotas are pooled. It does not say a snooze pauses the run. This page did not install the plugin.T3 Sidebar · @V1rgul · Nov 8, 2026Developer tools · 1:14
YouFlowPlaysLengu's post says he built YouFlow for Android in October. No ads, no account, background play, Material 3 Expressive. Free and open source. The repository is jordan-jakisa/YouFlow, on the youtube-only branch. The license is GPL-3.0 or later. Copyright is held by the NewPipe contributors and by the authors of this fork. It is a fork of NewPipe. The YouTube parsing comes from NewPipeExtractor. The screens and the player are new. The readme says YouFlow is not affiliated with YouTube, Google, NewPipe, or TeamNewPipe, and does not use their name or branding. The post says he built it. It does not say the extractor is NewPipe's. This page did not play a video.YouFlow · @heylengu · Nov 8, 2026Consumer · 0:18
Learn with ClaudePlaysBaba's post says Claude writes the code in minutes, and a week later he cannot explain it. So he built a free plugin that quizzes you on the changes while Claude codes. npm i -g learn-with-claude, then learn-with-claude install. The repository is babakhalid/learn-with-claude. The license is MIT. It is a plugin for Claude Code. The agent critiques the request in the chat. The readme says the session is never blocked waiting for a quiz answer. The post says it quizzes you while Claude codes. It does not say Claude keeps going if you never answer. This page did not take a quiz.Learn with Claude · @BabaKhaliid · Nov 8, 2026Developer tools · 1:03
LahjaPlaysTarek's post says Hermes did not understand his Arabic, so he built Lahja for a Nous Research plugin hackathon. It keeps the dialect, keeps English as English, and learns new words with /stt-fix. Fully local. Word errors from 41% to 29%. The repository is Tarekkharsa/hermes-lahja. Lahja is Apache 2.0. The dialect model is Apache 2.0 as well. It runs whisper.cpp locally, with no API keys, and stores no audio and no transcripts. The known limits say English words inside Arabic sentences come out phonetically, and you fix the ones you use with /stt-fix. Numbers are written as words, not digits. The 29% is still a word error against stock Whisper on 13 dialects. The post says English stays English. The readme says those words come out as sound. This page did not send a voice note.Lahja · @tarekkh1997 · Nov 8, 2026AI · 1:28
TempoPlaysManuel's post says Tempo turns a photo of a messy list into sorted tasks. Say it, snap it, Tempo sorts it. The App Store listing is free. The minimum system is iOS 26. You speak, write, or capture a photo, then review what Tempo understood before it is added. Voice is transcribed on the iPhone. Understanding starts on the device, with Apple Intelligence where it is available. On a supported iPhone without it, you can download an on-device model. The workspace stays on the device. You can use it with no account. Calendar events stay separate from the tasks you create. Richer Siri actions are on iOS 27. The post says the photo becomes sorted tasks. The listing says you review first. This page did not photograph a list.Tempo · @CYBRTRK3 · Nov 5, 2026Productivity · 0:47
roborock-webappPlaysZarif's post says he built a self-hosted web app for a Roborock vacuum, because the official app was not hackable enough. Schedules, a queue, a live map. Browser or PWA. Open source, MIT. The readme says the recording is fake mode: a simulated robot in a synthetic apartment, sped up, with no account and no robot. A real run is Python 3.12. Commands were verified on a Qrevo L Pro. Other models may want different parameters. The web app has no login of its own. Anyone who can reach the port can drive the robot, so the readme says keep it on 127.0.0.1. The post does not say the film is a simulation, or that the port is the lock. This page did not start a clean.roborock-webapp · @zarifaziz_ · Oct 21, 2026Hardware · 1:08
InstantShotPlaysEsaia's post says InstantShot is open source, free on Mac or Windows, for screenshots with custom backgrounds. The readme says MIT. One shortcut snips a region into an editor with wallpapers, window chrome, size presets, arrows, and blur. Another shortcut copies text from the screen. OCR uses Apple Vision on macOS and Windows.Media.Ocr on Windows. No uploads, no accounts, no analytics. It lives in the menu bar or the tray, and it updates itself from GitHub releases after asking. The post does not mention the text shortcut, or the update check. This page did not take a screenshot.InstantShot · @esaia__ · Oct 20, 2026Design · 0:33
ae-motionPlaysDhananjay Singh's post says he built a free, open-source MCP tool for After Effects. The readme says it lets Claude and other assistants build, animate, preview, and render in a live project. The repository title says 65 tools. The readme says 73 tools in twelve groups, including comps, layers, keyframes, text, masks, effects, layout, 3D cameras and lights, and aerender. MIT. No price. It needs After Effects 2022 or later and Node.js 22.18 or later. The server talks only to 127.0.0.1 with a token. Arbitrary JSX stays off unless AE_MCP_ALLOW_JSX is set to 1.ae-motion · @dhaannjaay · Oct 9, 2026Motion · 0:40
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FollowAlongPlaysUnnati's post says a how-to video does not know you did the step wrong, so she and SKakade21 built an AI that watches your hands, catches the mistake live, and tells you how to fix it. The repository is unnatibshah/followalong. The license is MIT, copyright 2026 Samruddhi Kakade and Unnati Shah. Muse Spark writes the steps and judges what geometry cannot. SAM 3.1 measures what is there. A shared limiter keeps every learner under one API key's 60 requests a minute. Checks and questions wait and still get through. The live coach's looks are the first to be skipped. Demo videos use stock footage the uploader could not relicense, cut into steps and left otherwise unchanged, under CC BY 3.0. The post does not name the 60-a-minute cap, or the stock footage. This page did not open the camera.FollowAlong · @notunosh · Nov 5, 2026AI · 2:19
Design AgentPlaysAbdullah's post says he open-sourced design-agent: on-brand design and motion from a chat thread. Deep Agents plus HyperFrames, into ad cards, launch films, and decks in Slack. The repository is authrain-cloud-abdullahformuli/design-agent. The license is Apache 2.0. You need a LangSmith account. Managed Deep Agents is in public beta on LangSmith Cloud, and you need a model key. The readme says API keys never enter the thread. Each thread gets a LangSmith sandbox with Chrome, FFmpeg, and HyperFrames. A footer shows the cost so far. The post does not name LangSmith, the beta, or the key. This page did not ask it for a card.Design Agent · @abdullahformuli · Nov 2, 2026AI · 0:48
Host-CasterPlaysElix's post says Host-Caster keeps the music playing while AI hosts read the calendar between songs, and judge the playlist. Coming soon to Android. Try it at host-caster.com. Self-host the repo. The license is AGPL-3.0. The readme says it already runs in the browser and as an Android and iOS app, and works offline with no account. The hosted free plan is $0 if you bring your own AI and voice. Voices included is $7.99 a month, about 68 hours of Host-Caster voices. When the model is offline, slow, or at a limit, the hosts read scripted lines. The post says coming soon to Android. The readme does not. This page did not play a station.Host-Caster · @eliautobot · Oct 31, 2026AI · 1:08
BobHeadPlaysPranjal's post says BobHead is an open-source ComfyUI app that turns footage into a big-head video and keeps the original motion and dialogue. The repository is jalrobustvfx/BobHead. The app license is MIT. Model weights are downloaded from their publishers and are not in the app download. It needs Windows 10 or 11, an NVIDIA CUDA GPU, and internet for setup. The demonstrated machine is an RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell with 96 GiB of VRAM. The readme says the minimum VRAM has not been established, and a separate-machine install has not been validated. The preview GIF loops with no sound. Dialogue is in the MP4. The post does not name the 96 GiB machine, or say the weights stay outside the repo. This page did not render a clip.BobHead · @JalPranjal · Oct 30, 2026AI · 1:55
Developer Tool Launches
CoolantPlaysAndrew's post says macOS fan policy does not care if the CPU and GPU are at 100% and the battery overheats, so he built a fan control that should keep the Mac healthy long-term. Free and open source. The repository is arterialist/coolant. The license is MIT. It is for macOS 14 or newer on Apple Silicon. Reading the SMC needs no privileges. Writing a fan needs root. Releases are not notarized, because there is no Apple Developer ID, so macOS refuses to open a downloaded copy until the quarantine flag is cleared. Apple does not document the temperature keys, so no tool can prove its absolute numbers. The post says it should keep the machine healthy. The readme says the degrees cannot be proven. This page did not change a fan.Coolant · @Arterialist · Nov 8, 2026Developer tools · 0:15
LucidlyPlaysValerio's post says he built Lucidly to show when Claude Code is working, stuck, or needs you, at a glance. Free, open source. No installation needed, just npx @vale-dinap/lucidly, and it requires Node 22.18 or newer. The repository is vale-dinap/lucidly, on the master branch. The license is Apache 2.0, copyright 2026 Valerio Di Napoli. It opens in the browser on that folder's Claude Code session. The readme says it is a viewer, not a controller. It does not send commands to the agent, approve or block actions, or change how the agent behaves. The current target for development and testing is Claude Code. The post says no installation. npx still fetches the package, and the thing that needs you still has to be answered in Claude. This page did not open a session.Lucidly · @valedinapoli · Nov 7, 2026Developer tools · 0:58
NotchiPlaysThe post says a MacBook notch was wasted space, so Notchi puts what's playing in any app into the notch, moves volume and brightness there, and takes notchi notify from the terminal. Free and open source. The repository is hardikdhingra150/Notchi. The app is GPL-3.0. The plugin SDK is MIT. Built-in themes and assets are CC BY 4.0. The readme says it is not affiliated with the other open-source project named notchi. Since macOS 15.4, only Apple-signed processes can read what is playing, so Notchi loads a tiny helper into /usr/bin/perl. The post does not name that helper, or the license split. This page did not hover a notch.Notchi · @Snifferz_haadd · Nov 7, 2026Developer tools · 0:24
LightpathPlaysAayush's post says Lightpath is an MCP server so an agent stops asking you to click and report back. It clicks the button itself and sees every line that ran, in the browser and on the server, plus the lines that did not. The repository is Unknown-333/Lightpath. The license is MIT. Node 22.12 or newer. Chromium only, Chrome or Edge, because coverage uses the DevTools Protocol. Node backends. A Python agent is a preview and is not joined into click traces yet. run_action does click, Enter, and Space, with fields filled first. Not hover, drag, file upload, dialogs, popups, or iframes. An answer is at most 16,000 characters. When a trace is bigger, the least-used files are left out. The post says every line. The readme leaves some out. This page did not click a button.Lightpath · @Aayush__Paudel · Nov 7, 2026Developer tools · 0:14
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