Convert HTML to Markdown on a CPU with Microsoft MarkItDown
We tested Microsoft MarkItDown 0.1.8 on Oct 16: it converted Project Gutenberg ebook #4 (Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, HTML) to Markdown on an 8-vCPU Intel Xeon, CPU…
Other tools use cases
71 real, sourced examples of what people do with Other tools, newest first.
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- Convert HTML to Markdown on a CPU with Microsoft MarkItDown
- Remove an image background on a CPU with rembg
- Read an upside-down, blurry page scan with Indra OCR on a CPU
- Let your AI agent do the bookkeeping legwork in Dougs while you approve every change
- Answer the messages a support bot missed during a server outage, then switch the catch-up off
- Get a second opinion on a $1,800 car repair quote from the shop's own inspection video
- Agent37 – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents
- Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen
- Alook: open-source rooms for people and coding agents
- Ax-check.com – Can agents use your product?
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Remove an image background on a CPU with rembg
We tested rembg on Oct 16 with a self-made test image: a red circle with a yellow square on a green background. We ran rembg (MIT) with the u2netp model (Apache-2.0…
Read an upside-down, blurry page scan with Indra OCR on a CPU
We tested Indra OCR (first published Oct 10–13) on an 8-vCPU Intel Xeon, CPU only.
Let your AI agent do the bookkeeping legwork in Dougs while you approve every change
Tom Eberle open-sourced dougs-cli (MIT), an unofficial command-line tool for the French accounting platform Dougs, so an agent can work in their company's books…
Get a second opinion on a $1,800 car repair quote from the shop's own inspection video
After a routine service, a shop recommended about $1,800 of work on Kyle Blanchard's Mazda and sent an inspection video. They gave an AI agent a photo of the quote…
Agent37 – Low-cost agent sandboxes for running agents
We build sandboxes for running AI agents at under 10% of the cost of most sandbox providers. Our customers spend an average of $0.37/month per sandbox. You can view…
Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen
Open-source macOS CLI + agent skill (MIT) so Claude Code or Codex can draw click-through arrows, boxes, and labels on screen for tutorials, remote help…
Alook: open-source rooms for people and coding agents
Viral X thread highlights Alook, an open-source project that puts Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor agents in Discord-style rooms with their own handles, inboxes, channels…
Ax-check.com – Can agents use your product?
You'll get a scorecard, specific suggested fixes, and three full coding sessions that show how agents read your site and use your product.
Pizza Bot – An inbox for AI agents that work in the background
Pizza Bot is a self-hosted desktop app for Mac, Windows, and Linux that runs AI agents in the background and exposes them through an email-like UI. Finished work shows…
Give your AI agent on-screen guides that show users where to click
I've noticed that a lot of in-app AI agents struggle to actually understand the products they exist in.
Bullet – A Faster Coding Agent
Bullet started in a senior year dorm. We were fresh out of working at AppLovin and Citadel, and naturally thought we were on a sure path to startup success. We were…
Discovered Materials – AI agents to discover new materials
We build AI agents that discover new materials for the semiconductor industry. GPUs today have a heat problem.
Product analytics (and evals) for agent sessions on your MCP
We reconstruct the entire session behind the MCP tool calls you receive, including what the user asked their agent to do and what the agent thought. You wrap your MCP…
OneCLI – OSS credential gateway that keeps secrets out of AI agents
OneCLI is an open source vault for AI Agents. Traditional vaults are used to store your secrets and, on demand, provide them to you all in a secure way, trusting…
Self-hosted voice AI agent for Asterisk/FreePBX
It uses Asterisk native Audiosocket/RTP with python engine to run STT,LLM and TTS loop.
Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop
Claude’s desktop app is brilliant, but for our own daily work we kept wanting it to be less like a chat app and more like a full-fledged work app. Rowboat is our attempt…
Halo – open-source, tamper-evident runtime evidence for AI agents
The problem Halo solves is: when a company buys an AI agent from a vendor…
peerd – AI agent harness that runs entirely in your browser
is an AI agent harness that lives entirely in your browser as a web extension. You don’t have to install a separate “AI browser”.
I nerfed our coding agents on purpose
Tl;dr: I trained a classifier to route to the least expensive model and reasoning depth to complete the request. Coupling that with additional automated token efficiency…
Hyper – Company brain to power agentic development
Hyper is a shared “company brain” that plugs into information flowing inside a company to make AI agents and automations better and ultimately…
Runtime – Sandboxed coding agents for everyone on a team
After Mentum was acquired, I…
Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP
We give AI agents their own email inboxes. Recently, we ran an experiment called Agent.Email.
Nimbus – Browser with Claude Code UX
Nimbus is a desktop browser with an AI agent built into it. The UX is shamelessly inspired by Claude Code: a chat bar at the bottom, an agent log above…
Kelet – Root Cause Analysis agent for your LLM apps
I've spent the past few years building 50+ AI agents in prod (some reached 1M+ sessions/day), and the hardest part was never building them — it was figuring out why they…
ProofShot – Give AI coding agents eyes to verify the UI they build
I use AI agents to build UI features daily. The thing that kept annoying me: the agent writes code but never sees what it actually looks like in the browser.
Dumped Wix for an AI Edge agent so I never have to hire junior staff
I run a building design consultancy. I got tired of paying Wix $40/month for a brochure that couldn’t answer simple service questions, and me wasting hours on the same…
Mesa – A collaborative canvas IDE built for agent-first development
Current IDEs feel wrong for the type of development being done now - the focus is still on files. Mesa puts the focus on the full workflow: your agent, terminal…
Open-source browser for AI agents
Instead, the problem is that the model is reasoning from a stale state.
Sentrial – Catch AI agent failures before your users do
It’s production monitoring for AI products.
Terminal Use – Vercel for filesystem-based agents
We built Terminal Use to make it easier to deploy agents that work in a sandboxed environment and need filesystems to do work.
Logira – eBPF runtime auditing for AI agent runs
I started using Claude Code (claude --dangerously-skip-permissions) and Codex (codex --yolo) and realized I had no reliable way to know what they actually did…
Mission Control – Open-source task management for AI agents
I've been delegating work to Claude Code for the past few months, and it's been genuinely transformative—but managing multiple agents doing different things became…
TeamOut – AI agent for planning company retreats
We build an AI agent that plans company events from start to finish entirely through conversation. Similar to how Lovable helps build websites through chat, we apply…
Trust Protocols for Anthropic/OpenAI/Gemini
Much of my work right now involves complex, long-running, multi-agentic teams of agents. I kept running into the same problem: “How do I keep these guys in line?”
Sonarly – AI agent to triage and fix your production alerts
It connects to your observability tools like Sentry, Datadog, or user feedback channels, triages issues, and fixes them to cut your resolution time. Here's a demo:
Zuckerman – minimalist personal AI agent that self-edits its own code
Agents can also share useful discoveries and improvements with each other. Repo:
AgentMail – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes
Email is an optimal interface for long-running agents. It’s multithreaded…
BrowserOS – "Claude Cowork" in the browser
The big differentiator: on BrowserOS you can use local LLMs or BYOK and run the agent entirely on the client side…
yolo-cage – AI coding agents that can't exfiltrate secrets
I made this for myself, and it seemed like it might be useful to others. I'd love some feedback, both on the threat model and the tool itself. I hope you find it useful!…
OSS AI agent that indexes and searches the Epstein files
The goal was simple: make a large, messy corpus of PDFs and text files immediately searchable in a precise way, without…
TheAuditor v2.0 – A “Flight Computer” for AI Coding Agents
TheAuditor v2.0 is a complete architectural rewrite (800+ commits) of the prototype I posted three months ago.
Autofix Bot – Hybrid static analysis and AI code review agent
AI coding agents have made code generation nearly free, and they’ve shifted…
Sim – Apache-2.0 n8n alternative
You can run Sim locally using Docker, with no execution limits or other…
Propolis – Browser agents that QA your web app autonomously
We use browser agents to simulate users in order to report bugs and write e2e tests. Today, you can launch 10s-100s of agents that collaboratively explore a website…
Inkeep – Agent Builder to create agents in code or visually
We built an agent builder with true 2-way sync between code and a drag-and-drop visual editor, so devs and non-devs can collaborate on the same agents.
Prism – Let browser agents access any app
Developers pass in credentials, Prism logs into a website on their behalf, and hands them back the cookies so they have…
Rowboat – Open-source IDE for multi-agent systems
Rowboat is an open-source, AI-assisted IDE for building and managing multi-agent systems with a copilot. You can build deterministic automation agents, or start…
Browser AI agent platform designed for reliability
Notte is a full-stack browser agent platform built to reliably automate a wide range of workflows.
AgentGuard – Auto-kill AI agents before they burn through your budget
Your AI agent hits an infinite loop and racks up $2000 in API charges overnight. This happens weekly to AI developers. AgentGuard monitors API calls in real-time…
AgentMail – Email infra for AI agents
We started building email agents because they can converse…
An AI agent that learns your product and guides your users
We’ve built an AI agent that automatically learns how to use any web-based product, and in turn guides users directly in the UI, automatically generates documentation…
Nxtscape – an open-source agentic browser
-- Why bother building a new browser? For the first time since Netscape was released in 1994, it feels…
EchoStream – A Local AI Agent That Lives on Your iPhone
As an AI startup founder, the first thing I do every morning is open Hacker News. I look for what other founders are building, check out new GitHub projects, and explore…
Job Compass – AI agents that help you find jobs, not replace you
My friend and I got tired of job hunting (347 applications, 4 responses) so we built AI agents to help job seekers instead of replacing them. The problem: 73%…
Leap – Full-stack AI developer agent that deploys to AWS
We just launched Leap, an AI developer agent that helps you build and deploy apps with real backends to your own AWS or GCP cloud.
Non-intrusive AI agent to automate email driven workflows
My co-founder and I spent the last 4 weeks building something we desperately needed ourselves. The Problem: We spend hours processing emails - scheduling meetings, going…
A web browser agent in your Chrome side panel
Short demo here:
VoltAgent – Open-Source Observability-First TS AI Agent Framework
We know there are many frameworks out there. Our short story of why we built VoltAgent goes like this: We were developing an AI application ourselves. Initially, we…
Memex is a Claude Code alternative built on Rust+Tauri for vibe coding
Think ChatGPT + Claude Code rolled into one. Why we built it: We love chat tools like Perplexity and ChatGPT. We also love coding agents, like in Cursor and Windsurf. We…
Sim Studio – Open-Source Agent Workflow GUI
You can define how agents interact with each other, use tools, and handle complex logic like…
Web-eval-agent – Let the coding agent debug itself
We’ve been building an MCP server to help AI-assisted web app developers by using browser agents to test whether changes made by an AI inside an editor actually work…
Cua – Open-Source Docker Container for Computer-Use Agents
Our entire framework is open‑source…
Agents.json – OpenAPI Specification for LLMs
agents.json clearly defines the contract between LLMs and API as a standard that's open, observable, and replicable.
Mastra – Open-source JS agent framework, by the developers of Gatsby
You can start a Mastra project with `npm create mastra` and create workflow graphs that can suspend/resume, build…
We're building a desktop app for browser-based AI agents
Over the last few months we've been thinking a lot about how AI agents are going to impact the future.
Innate – Home robots as easy to program as AI agents
We build general-purpose home robots that you can teach new tasks to simply by demonstrating them. Our system combines a robotic platform (we call the first one Maurice)…
A real time AI video agent with under 1 second of latency
We’ve been building AI video models for ‘digital twins’ or ‘avatars’ since 2020.
Inkeep – Copilot for Support (think Cursor for help desks)
We help companies turn their content into AI support copilots. So far, we’d focused on customer-facing experiences (e.g. find us as an “Ask AI” button in the docs…
Agent on Demand – Negotiate Your Dream Job Offer
10x AOD is a service designed to help senior tech talent, and those who work in the tech ecosystem, navigate and negotiate the best compensation…
Answer the messages a support bot missed during a server outage, then switch the catch-up off
Freelance automation developer Dmitry Prozorovsky runs an n8n-based AI support bot for a motorcycle-gear shop's VK community.