Daily Launch Index: January 13, 2026.

On January 13, 2026, I recorded 109 new product launches. This report provides a breakdown of what was built, how it was named, and the technology used to launch it.

This data helps you understand current market trends and see what competitors or fellow builders are working on right now. Use this index to find inspiration or to study successful launch strategies.

01 AM (5 projects shared)

• Minimal type-safe language for software architecture — https://github.com/tesserato/Tect
• Sherlock MCP server so you can use AI to do OSI research — https://github.com/Burnsedia/sherlock-mcp
• I made a physical app blocker with ESP32 — https://github.com/benjamin-feldman/esp32-blocker
• Hotdog – Performant Bun Based Web-Server Framework — https://github.com/shedtheshade/hotdog
• TR-100 Machine Report — https://github.com/usgraphics/usgc-machine-report

03 AM (4 projects shared)

• Selfhosted – One click self hosted apps — https://github.com/zdunecki/selfhosted
• Proc – A semantic CLI for process management — https://github.com/yazeed/proc
• LSP-Metals – Emacs Scala IDE Using Lsp-Mode to Connect to Metals — https://github.com/emacs-lsp/lsp-metals
• ProofLoop – Autonomous long-running agents with verifiable completion — https://github.com/exiw-ai/proofloop

05 AM (8 projects shared)

• Drizzle ORM schema to DBML/Markdown/Mermaid documentation generator — https://github.com/rikeda71/drizzle-docs-generator
• SlopScore – Contributor Reputation for GitHub PRs — https://github.com/hanzili/slopscore
• D2TS – Differential Dataflow in TypeScript (Used by TanStack DB and ElectricSQL) — https://github.com/electric-sql/d2ts
• A custom little core CPU architecture with a unique pipeline design — https://github.com/futureisAJASU/Architecture
• A script that turns 365 photos into a square year poster — https://github.com/0plus1/oneyear
• List of Claude Skills, resources, and tools for customizing Claude AI workflows — https://github.com/ComposioHQ/awesome-claude-skills
• Dev Browser: A browser automation plugin for Claude Code — https://github.com/SawyerHood/dev-browser
• Playwriter: Playwright MCP with 80% less context window — https://github.com/remorses/playwriter

06 AM (3 projects shared)

• GeoParquet Downloader for QGIS — https://github.com/cholmes/qgis_plugin_gpq_downloader
• Terminal Control Library for Odin Language — https://github.com/RaphGL/TermCL
• Incus-Sandbox-SDK — https://github.com/divyenduz/incus-sandbox-sdk

07 AM (3 projects shared)

• Arcane – minimal AI chat TUI — https://github.com/bm611/arcane
• Data Exfiltration via DNS Resolution — https://github.com/anthropic-experimental/sandbox-runtime/issues/88
• ArkhamMirror SHATTERED: Air-gapped investigative analysis, no Palantir required — https://github.com/mantisfury/ArkhamMirror/tree/shattered

08 AM (4 projects shared)

• Pdf-rfc3161 – Pure JavaScript library for RFC 3161 PDF timestamps — https://github.com/mingulov/pdf-rfc3161
• LoongFlow – Directed evolutionary search framework for LLM agents — https://github.com/baidu-baige/LoongFlow
• Statistical Rethinking (2026 Edition) — https://github.com/rmcelreath/stat_rethinking_2026
• Omni Animated Tiling WM for macOS (Niri and Hyprland) — https://github.com/BarutSRB/OmniWM

09 AM (6 projects shared)

• Stove – Kotlin-first E2E testing for JVM Back end apps(Ktor,SpringBoot) — https://github.com/Trendyol/stove
• Agnostic library without code, only specs and tests — https://github.com/dbreunig/whenwords
• Agent-browser by Vercel: Browser automation CLI for AI agents — https://github.com/vercel-labs/agent-browser
• Stoat: An open-source, user-first chat platform — https://github.com/stoatchat
• Oubli – Persistent fractal memory for Claude Code — https://github.com/dremok/oubli
• Agent Skills — https://github.com/skillmatic-ai/awesome-agent-skills

10 AM (2 projects shared)

• IsoCity is a open-source isometric city-building simulation game — https://github.com/amilich/isometric-city
• Pdftl – pdftk in Python with pipelines, AES-256, geometry and more — https://github.com/pdftl/pdftl

11 AM (2 projects shared)

• Theus – I built a framework to make AI-generated code safe to run — https://github.com/dohuyhoang93/theus
• Hato – Task Runner with Checklist — https://github.com/midry3/hato

12 PM (6 projects shared)

• Diffray – Open-source multi-agent code review CLI — https://github.com/diffray/diffray
• Aurora – open-source cross-platform music player (lossless) — https://github.com/bbbneo333/aurora/releases/tag/v1.0.0
• Haraltd – A cross-platform Bluetooth daemon with a JSON-based RPC — https://github.com/bluetuith-org/haraltd
• Autotunnel – K8s On-Demand Port Forwarder — https://github.com/atas/autotunnel
• FreeMarker Support for Zed Editor — https://github.com/debba/zed-freemarker
• Policy-governed AI system for offline deployment in expertise deserts — https://github.com/thepoorsatitagain/Tutor-to-disaster-expert

01 PM (2 projects shared)

• An Light-Weight Game Launcher — https://github.com/alhilajmedia-dotcom/mabids-game-launcher
• Quixote: An open-source event indexer for EVM blockchains (Rust and DuckDB) — https://github.com/bilinearlabs/quixote

02 PM (6 projects shared)

• CausaNova – A deterministic logic engine to prevent LLM hallucinations [pdf] — https://github.com/petzi2311/CausaNova-Whitepaper/blob/main/CausaNova_Whitepaper.pdf
• FastScheduler – Decorator-first Python task scheduler, async support — https://github.com/MichielMe/fastscheduler
• StatefulSet Backup Operator v0.0.3–Configurable snapshots, Redis tested — https://github.com/federicolepera/statefulset-backup-operator
• Overflow: React Flow component library for user-friendly diagrams and flows — https://github.com/synergycodes/overflow-ui
• AI Mime – Record and parameterize workflows for Computer Use agents — https://github.com/prakhar1114/ai_mime
• Proton TUI – Unofficial ProtonVPN Terminal Client in Rust — https://github.com/cdump/proton-tui

03 PM (9 projects shared)

• Add custom icons to macOS Finder sidebar favorites — https://github.com/ivg-design/SidebarFavorites
• TabDog – Open Source, Manage the browser tabs/apps from menu bar — https://github.com/sung01299/tabdog
• Memtui – A terminal UI for browsing Memcached like a file tree — https://github.com/nnnkkk7/memtui
• Lsferreira42/figlet-go: A figlet Golang rewrite — https://github.com/lsferreira42/figlet-go
• 26x speedup on BitNet sparse ops with AVX-512 and 2-bit encoding — https://github.com/microsoft/BitNet/pull/365
• Inference-Time Constitutional AI — https://github.com/mdiskint/Hearth
• I wish rust had keyword arguments — https://github.com/tcdent/kwarg-rs
• Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever — https://github.com/19-84/redd-archiver
• Inline comment translation in Neovim for faster code reading — https://github.com/noir4y/comment-translate.nvim

04 PM (4 projects shared)

• Protocol, libraries for sending, receiving OpenTelemetry data using Apache Arrow — https://github.com/open-telemetry/otel-arrow
• Debug your AI application in web browser — https://github.com/yiouli/pixie-sdk-py
• Past Tense: a language for programs never to be run again — https://github.com/rottytooth/PastTense
• Why MCP-based ChatGPT Apps fail in practice (and a minimal working starter) — https://github.com/shuddha2021/chatgpt-app-starter-kit

05 PM (16 projects shared)

• AxonFlow – a control plane for production LLM and agent workflows — https://github.com/getaxonflow/axonflow
• DebtBomb – Make TODOs expire and automatically create Jira tickets — https://github.com/jobin-404/debtbomb
• Executorch-Ruby: Run PyTorch Models in Ruby via ExecuTorch — https://github.com/benngarcia/executorch-ruby
• I made a TypeScript to native code compiler via CLR and NativeAOT — https://github.com/tsoniclang/tsonic
• NVMI – Open-Source – lightweight real-time Nvidia GPU monitor in Python — https://github.com/msrmdhcc/nvmi
• Chinese localization Issue: command line arguments are translated — https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/4111
• Agent-overseer: manage your army of coding agents in the browser — https://github.com/troyshu/agent-overseer
• Eigent: The Open Source Cowork Desktop to Unlock Your Exceptional Productivity — https://github.com/eigent-ai/eigent
• GitHub to Gitea Bulk Migrator — https://github.com/zacharyreese/GiteaMigrator
• Pic-Standard – Open Protocol for Agentic AI Safety — https://github.com/madeinplutofabio/pic-standard
• Vector: A high-performance observability data pipeline — https://github.com/vectordotdev/vector
• Revup: Upload once to create multiple, relative GitHub PRs — https://github.com/Skydio/revup
• Shimmytok – Pure Rust GGUF tokenizer (no C++, no extra files) — https://github.com/Michael-A-Kuykendall/shimmytok
• The Tulip Creative Computer — https://github.com/shorepine/tulipcc
• Ayder – HTTP-native durable event log written in C (curl as client) — https://github.com/A1darbek/ayder
• Titan – a distributed orchestrator with dynamically mutable DAGs — https://github.com/ramn51/DistributedTaskOrchestrator

06 PM (5 projects shared)

• Tribute: Discover and fund the open source projects your code depends on — https://github.com/jshchnz/tribute
• LeetCode CLI – Interview timer, solution snapshots,collaborative coding — https://github.com/night-slayer18/leetcode-cli
• Nukitori is a Ruby gem for HTML data extraction — https://github.com/vifreefly/nukitori
• Fluid.sh – Make Infrastructure Safe for AI — https://github.com/aspectrr/fluid.sh
• Contrakit: Predicting Model Hallucination Before Training — https://github.com/off-by-some/contrakit/tree/main/examples/hallucinations

07 PM (7 projects shared)

• Topic2Manim Now Has a UI — https://github.com/mateolafalce/topic2manim
• A bounded work queue in C with explicit invariants — https://github.com/Emmanuel326/mutex_condvar
• MiniJinja is a powerful but minimal dependency template engine for Rust — https://github.com/mitsuhiko/minijinja
• Async bulkhead for Java with explicit overload semantics (v0.3.0) — https://github.com/janbalangue/async-bulkhead
• Serverless Compute Platform for AWS — https://github.com/acikelli/hyperp
• VibeOs: You're still arguing about which model is better? — https://github.com/kaansenol5/VibeOS/blob/main/README.md
• SkyPilot: One system to use and manage all AI compute (K8s, 20 clouds, Slurm) — https://github.com/skypilot-org/skypilot

08 PM (5 projects shared)

• A simple resume generator written in Rust — https://github.com/naamanu/rcv
• A simple colorful CLI wrapper around curl for easier terminal usage — https://github.com/naamanu/gurl
• Generate brag documents from your Git history — https://github.com/naamanu/bragbot
• Claude Code Orchestrator v2.1 – Ralph Wiggums — https://github.com/reshashi/claude-orchestrator
• A lightweight comment convention for better human–AI collaboration — https://github.com/ovidiuiliescu/AiComments

09 PM (8 projects shared)

• NFR Breaking Shannon Entropy with Instance-Specific LSTM,Arithmetic Coding — https://github.com/AFKmoney/NFR-Compressor
• ConvertX – Self-hosted online file converter — https://github.com/C4illin/ConvertX
• Dict –- Dictionary Library in C — https://github.com/cecinuga/hmap
• Fnm – Fast and simple Node.js version manager, built in Rust — https://github.com/Schniz/fnm
• yolo-cage: AI coding agents that can't exfiltrate secrets or merge their own PRs — https://github.com/borenstein/yolo-cage
• V2.4.9 – Environment Variable Validation for SvelteKit and Next.js — https://github.com/Chrilleweb/dotenv-diff
• Run and Compile LLMs in PyTorch on WebGPU — https://github.com/jmaczan/torch-webgpu
• JVM Rainbow – Mixing Java Kotlin Scala Clojure and Groovy — https://github.com/Hakky54/java-tutorials/tree/main/jvm-rainbow

10 PM (3 projects shared)

• Plezy – alternative Plex client built with Flutter — https://github.com/edde746/plezy
• BmuS Backup tool now supports Docker — https://github.com/back-me-up-scotty/bmus
• Open Source Agent Toolkit — https://github.com/getlago/lago-agent-toolkit/pkgs/container/lago-agent-toolkit

11 PM (1 projects shared)

• A curated list of academic papers and resources on Physical AI — https://github.com/keon/awesome-physical-ai