Daily Launch Index: January 15, 2026.

On January 15, 2026, I recorded 100 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 (7 projects shared)

• Skillshare: Sync skills to all your AI CLI tools with one command — https://github.com/runkids/skillshare
• AgentDiscover Scanner – Multi-layer AI agent detection (code, network, K8s eBPF) — https://github.com/Defend-AI-Tech-Inc/agent-discover-scanner
• Mapping Nostr keys to DNS-based internet identifiers — https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/05.md
• Vm0 — https://github.com/vm0-ai/vm0
• Scripts to simplify setting up a Windows developer box — https://github.com/microsoft/windows-dev-box-setup-scripts
• Introducing tempo — https://github.com/galaxy-io/tempo
• Morphe is an Android app modification tool — https://github.com/morpheapp

03 AM (5 projects shared)

• Claude Code Remote – Access Claude Code from Your Phone — https://github.com/yazinsai/claude-code-remote
• Satya – Offline-first AI tutor for rural schools (Phi-1.5 and RAG) — https://github.com/aa-sikkkk/satya
• json-render — https://github.com/vercel-labs/json-render
• Let Apple's offline translation framework translation be your translation engine — https://github.com/novvoo/TranslatorProxy
• Encrypt Your .env in a Meme — https://github.com/thoughtlesslabs/memevault

04 AM (5 projects shared)

• Open Contribution Graph: A GitHub heatmap for anything you can POST — https://github.com/Tomer-Barak/contribution-graph
• Tjs: Fastest and most accurate JSON-schema validator — https://github.com/sberan/tjs
• Flashlight: Android app that lets you control torch brightness — https://github.com/rtvkiz/Flashlight
• Tract: Self-contained, TensorFlow and ONNX inference — https://github.com/sonos/tract
• Rickroll in Rustc — https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/main/tests/ui/attributes/check-cfg_attr-ice.rs

05 AM (5 projects shared)

• Headroom – Reversible context compression for LLMs(~60% cost reduction) — https://github.com/chopratejas/headroom
• Handy – free open source speech-to-text app — https://github.com/cjpais/Handy
• Mistral Vibe – Minimal CLI Coding Agent — https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-vibe
• Yori, I made a CLI tool that compiles natural language into C++ binaries — https://github.com/alonsovm44/yori
• Curl: We stop the bug-bounty end of Jan 2026 — https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/20312

06 AM (1 projects shared)

• Free, maintenance‑free semantic search and related posts for Hexo — https://github.com/SemanticSearch-ai/hexo-plugin

07 AM (3 projects shared)

• Mounty – Because I was too lazy to edit fstab — https://github.com/xndbogdan/mounty
• Codex Monitor: An app to minitor your (Codex) situation — https://github.com/Dimillian/CodexMonitor
• Sptfw – (unofficial) Spotify wrapped, how mediocre is your taste? — https://github.com/fwttnnn/sptfw

08 AM (1 projects shared)

• Win-link-router – route tel: links to WhatsApp (Windows) — https://github.com/karmaniverous/win-link-router

09 AM (7 projects shared)

• Aeph – A minimal TUI Markdown editor with task management — https://github.com/siki-712/aeph
• Blacksmith – AI Powered Penetration Testing — https://github.com/yohannesgk/blacksmith
• LevelDB is a fast key-value storage library — https://github.com/google/leveldb
• Getmaapp/signal-WASM v0.1.0 – Signal Protocol for the Web — https://github.com/getmaapp/signal-wasm
• S3mini(0.9.1) Tiny ts S3 client, now supports blobs and streams — https://github.com/good-lly/s3mini/releases/tag/v0.9.1
• Formbase – open‑source back end for HTML forms — https://github.com/formbase-dev/formbase
• A simple TUI video converter for the AV1 codec — https://github.com/framicheli/av1converter

10 AM (2 projects shared)

• WinDaisy – Try retro Windows colors on an old-school LOB app UI — https://github.com/cnkt/WinDaisy
• AI Code Guard – Detect security vulnerabilities in AI-generated code — https://github.com/ThorneShadowbane/ai-code-guard

11 AM (1 projects shared)

• Bazinga – Enforced engineering practices for AI coding — https://github.com/mehdic/bazinga

12 PM (3 projects shared)

• Zero-Copy SIMD Parsing for Unaligned Reads in Binary Protocols — https://github.com/Lunyn-HFT/lunary
• Unix v4 Source Code Commentary — https://github.com/unix-v4-commentary/unix-v4-source-commentary
• Pi-Mono Coding Agent — https://github.com/badlogic/pi-mono

01 PM (4 projects shared)

• Mole: Deep clean and optimize your Mac — https://github.com/tw93/Mole
• Independent Guest Virtual Machine (IGVM) File Format — https://github.com/microsoft/igvm
• Programming, Evolved: Lessons and Observations — https://github.com/kulesh/dotfiles/blob/main/dev/dev/docs/programming-evolved.md
• AI-SkillForge – Generate Anthropic Agent Skills from Natural Language — https://github.com/lhassa8/skillforge

02 PM (4 projects shared)

• Frontmatter Core – a build-time content layer for Astro — https://github.com/withfrontmatter/frontmatter-core
• Vibe – Claude Skill to let Claude Code read screen automatically — https://github.com/Blurjp/vibe
• I vibecoded a language server for web assembly — https://github.com/EmNudge/wat-lsp
• TinyCity – A tiny city SIM for MicroPython (Thumby micro console) — https://github.com/chrisdiana/TinyCity

03 PM (6 projects shared)

• OBS Studio 32.1.0 Beta 1 available — https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases/tag/32.1.0-beta1
• Ctrl – Open-source AI OS where each app has an AI that knows its data — https://github.com/CtrlAIcom/ctrl
• AI to turn YT Videos into Bullet points — https://github.com/francescovaglia/kliply
• Romek – CLI to inject local Chrome cookies into headless Playwright — https://github.com/jacobgadek/romek
• Supercharge Your Bun Workflow with bun-tasks — https://github.com/gxy5202/bun-tasks
• Daily News Aggregator and Reader — https://github.com/lucianmarin/news

04 PM (6 projects shared)

• Echovlm: Medical Imaging Report Generation Model for $5 — https://github.com/vukadinovic936/echovlm
• Echovlm: Medical Imaging Reports for $5 — https://github.com/vukadinovic936/echovlm/discussions/1
• Next.js Boilerplate 6.1 – a Next.js starter I've maintained for 5 years — https://github.com/ixartz/Next-js-Boilerplate
• Should I turn my open-source project into a product with a $5k budget? — https://github.com/Luthiraa/julie
• Anthropic's official plugin gets the core principle of the Ralph Wiggum wrong — https://github.com/0livare/ralph-wiggum-ai
• Cacoco: Sbardef Editor Written in Rust — https://github.com/lizzieshinkicker/Cacoco

05 PM (8 projects shared)

• Winslop: De-Slop Windows — https://github.com/builtbybel/Winslop
• Puff – pyproject.toml formatter (built by Claude Code) — https://github.com/leonkozlowski/puff
• RagTune – EXPLAIN ANALYZE for your RAG retrieval layer — https://github.com/metawake/ragtune
• Please Let Me Read – The Web Was Once Good:( — https://github.com/subranag/declutter
• A security-oriented Go compiler — https://github.com/kevin-valerio/cybergo
• A minimal execution-time control gate for agentic systems (open source) — https://github.com/Rick-Kirby/execution-control-layer/releases/tag/v1.2.0
• I'm building an open-source AI agent runtime using Firecracker microVMs — https://github.com/moru-ai/moru
• Rewrite of the homu bors implementation in Rust — https://github.com/rust-lang/bors

06 PM (5 projects shared)

• Lore – search and link AI coding sessions to commits — https://github.com/varalys/lore
• Control Claude permissions using cloud-based decision tables — https://github.com/rulebricks/claude-code-guardrails
• A-MEM – Memory for Claude Code that links and evolves on its own — https://github.com/DiaaAj/a-mem-mcp
• Okiro – spin up ephemeral codebases for parallel AI coding — https://github.com/ygwyg/okiro
• Gas Town — https://github.com/steveyegge/gastown

07 PM (8 projects shared)

• Tusk Drift – Turn production traffic into API tests — https://github.com/Use-Tusk/tusk-drift-cli
• Are open source maintainers going to be the main sufferers from LLM — https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/10205
• Google Flights TUI — https://github.com/spacegauch0/flights-scraper-effect
• Observer Theory Extension — https://github.com/SASenchal/Observer-Theory-Extension
• JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3 — https://github.com/juicedata/juicefs
• Stdskill – The skill for wicked coding agents — https://github.com/ZeroAurora/stdskill
• Visualize OpenUSD in Rerun — https://github.com/art-e-fact/usd-rerun-logger
• 1Code – open-source Cursor-like UI for Claude Code — https://github.com/21st-dev/1code

08 PM (9 projects shared)

• Modern Java Swing Button – Pure Java 2D rendering, zero dependencies — https://github.com/myvalovec/modern-java-swing-button
• Fault: A lightweight C++20 crash handler and panic library — https://github.com/Ridrik/fault
• Immich Is Spreading Misinformation — https://github.com/immich-app/immich/issues/25283
• TeletextSignals – Local RAG over 25 Years of Swiss Teletext News — https://github.com/r-follador/TeletextSignals
• Pg-safeupdate: A PostgreSQL extension requiring criteria for UPDATE and DELETE — https://github.com/eradman/pg-safeupdate
• Bldr – polyglot build system for monorepos — https://github.com/GriffinCanCode/bldr
• Crystal Unified – Search compressed archives without decompressing — https://github.com/powerhubinc/crystal-unified-public
• GoGen – A simple template-based file generator written in Go — https://github.com/zaheershaikh936/gogen
• The Hessian of tall-skinny networks is easy to invert — https://github.com/a-rahimi/hessian

09 PM (4 projects shared)

• Using Git to attribute AI-generated code — https://github.com/mesa-dot-dev/agentblame
• Turn GitHub Contributions Graph into Space Shooter Battle Field — https://github.com/czl9707/gh-space-shooter
• Yacv (Yet Another Compiler Visualizer): LL and LR Parser Animations — https://github.com/ashutoshbsathe/yacv
• React hook for real-time voice with Gemini Live API — https://github.com/deflectionrate/gemini-live-react

10 PM (1 projects shared)

• Ghostty Ambient – Terminal theme switcher that learns your preferences — https://github.com/gezibash/ghostty-ambient

11 PM (5 projects shared)

• Offline voice input keyboard for Android using Nvidia's Parakeet v3 — https://github.com/notune/android_transcribe_app
• Run Dia2 TTS Without a GPU — https://github.com/khariha/dia2-easy-tts
• Nametag: A simple, effective Personal Relationship Manager — https://github.com/mattogodoy/nametag
• Infinite Deterministic Data — https://github.com/jgddesigns/stateshaper
• Tldraw pauses external contributions due to AI slop — https://github.com/tldraw/tldraw/issues/7695