Daily Launch Index: January 18, 2026.

On January 18, 2026, I recorded 107 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.

02 AM (8 projects shared)

• I created an MCP that lets AI debug runtime code (breakpoints, stepping, etc.) — https://github.com/ai-debugger-inc/aidb
• Serpl – a pleasant TUI for regex and fixed-string search and replace — https://github.com/yassinebridi/serpl
• App to spoof GPS location on iOS without jailbreaking — https://github.com/acheong08/ios-location-spoofer
• Headroom (OSS): Cuts LLM costs by 85% — https://github.com/chopratejas/headroom
• My way – 18-agent autonomous workflow for ClaudeCode – issues to deploy — https://github.com/avifenesh/awesome-slash
• Gollem – Go framework for agentic AI app with MCP and built-in tools — https://github.com/m-mizutani/gollem
• Agam Space – Self-hosted, zero-knowledge, E2EE file storage — https://github.com/agam-space/agam-space
• Smalloc: A Simple Memory Allocator — https://github.com/zooko/smalloc

03 AM (4 projects shared)

• A self-custody medical records prototype (lessons learned) — https://github.com/Mzhvnn-tch/sehati-apps
• OSS Document Templates – Opinionated repo doc templates for open-source projects — https://github.com/Code-Cause-Collective/repo-oss-doc-templates
• Oh My PI: coding agent CLI, unified LLM API, TUI and web UI libraries — https://github.com/can1357/oh-my-pi
• MetaXuda – 1.1 Tops GPU Runtime for Apple Silicon ML (Rust and Metal) — https://github.com/Perinban/MetaXuda-

04 AM (4 projects shared)

• Turkish Sieve Engine – GPU-Accelerated Prime Number Generator — https://github.com/bilgisofttr/turkishsieve
• SkillHub – NPM for AI agent rules, share team standards across 13 AI tools — https://github.com/cloudvalley-tech/skillhub
• StarFetch – A lightweight, modern system fetch tool in Rust — https://github.com/Linus-Shyu/StarFetch_Core
• Intuitive TUI for Ghostty Terminal Configuration — https://github.com/intaek-h/ghofig

05 AM (7 projects shared)

• Open-Source DLP for LLMs — https://github.com/dorcha-inc/ceil-dlp
• Monitor Claude/Codex usage on Linux via browser cookies (no API keys) — https://github.com/NihilDigit/waybar-ai-usage
• 30min video analysis for $0.003 via frame-tiling and Vision API — https://github.com/unhaya/vam-seek-ai
• 300X fast clustering with rust-louvain for nodes — https://github.com/FastBuilderAI/rust-louvain
• Quantum Name Service (QNS)- Path to Web5 — https://github.com/aevov/qns
• Task Orchestrator – Production Safety for Claude Code Agents — https://github.com/TC407-api/task-orchestrator
• Tunnl.gg: Expose Localhost to the Internet — https://github.com/klipitkas/tunnl.gg

06 AM (3 projects shared)

• Figma-use – CLI to control Figma for AI agents — https://github.com/dannote/figma-use
• GibRAM an in-memory ephemeral GraphRAG runtime for retrieval — https://github.com/gibram-io/gibram
• I Replaced Vector DBs with Optimal Transport (Open Source Project)) — https://github.com/merchantmoh-debug/Remember-Me-AI

07 AM (3 projects shared)

• LibreblogRSS – a simple Android RSS reader that mimics social timelines — https://github.com/LibreBlogOrg/LibreblogRSS
• Image-to-text working out of the box — https://github.com/rene-ajm-veerman/nicerApp-WebOS-5.10.z/blob/main/NicerAppWebOS/scripts.maintenance/ollama.image-to-text.AI.py
• Bigocheck: Empirical complexity analysis for Python (Zero Ops) — https://github.com/adwantg/bigocheck

08 AM (3 projects shared)

• Prime-C-19 – Replacing Attention with a Physics Pilot on a Riemann Manifold — https://github.com/Kenessy/PRIME-C-19
• ZenRead: Track your reading progress and history — https://github.com/sumant1122/ZenRead
• ChaosBSD: FreeBSD drivers go to get beaten into shape before upstream — https://github.com/seuros/ChaosBSD-src

09 AM (9 projects shared)

• iTerm2 MCP Server – Let Claude see and control your terminal panes — https://github.com/sumchattering/iterm2-mcp-server
• Tempo – A stablecoin payments blockchain built with Reth SDK — https://github.com/tempoxyz/tempo
• Alloy – Rust library for connecting apps to Ethereum-based chains — https://github.com/alloy-rs/alloy
• Lance – Open lakehouse format for multimodal AI datasets — https://github.com/lance-format/lance
• Spritedrop: Persistent Taildrop file receiver for sprites.dev — https://github.com/kylemclaren/spritedrop
• Hot Macropad – a user-level Linux macropad daemon using evdev and Bash — https://github.com/nejdetckenobi/hot_macropad
• Sed-bin: a sed to C translator written in sed — https://github.com/lhoursquentin/sed-bin
• Consent-O-Matic — https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic
• Robin Hood hashing for modern audiences — https://github.com/rip-create-your-account/hashmap

10 AM (5 projects shared)

• Git Travel Guide – The open source travel guide on GitHub Actions — https://github.com/ateliti99/git-guide
• Finite – NixOS Flake for Pi-Hole and Unbound on Raspberry Pi — https://github.com/wh1le/finite
• Xenia – A monospaced font built with a custom Python engine — https://github.com/Loretta1982/xenia
• Dotagents: All of your hooks, commands, skills, and AGENT/Claude.md files — https://github.com/iannuttall/dotagents
• md-review – CLI tool for reviewing Markdown with inline comments — https://github.com/ryo-manba/md-review

11 AM (3 projects shared)

• Ferki-Escalator 1.1 – Standalone Linux auditor, now without libcap — https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/ferki-escalator
• Apex Agent – Connect the Browser to AI via MCP — https://github.com/RTBRuhan/ApexAgent
• Picoruby-calculator: Write and execute Ruby anywhere with this M5Stack Cardputer — https://github.com/engneer-hamachan/picoruby-calculator

12 PM (2 projects shared)

• ArchitectGBT MCP:Intelligent Model Selection for AI-Assisted Dev — https://github.com/3rdbrain/architectgbt-mcp
• RqLui – A free open-source webui for Rqlite written in Quasar — https://github.com/Suleman-Elahi/rqLui

01 PM (6 projects shared)

• LlmSHAP – Multi-threaded input importance for prompts and RAG context — https://github.com/filipnaudot/llmSHAP
• I went from literature/language to Rust systems programming in under a year — https://github.com/whispem
• Beszel: Lightweight server monitoring hub with historical data, Docker stats — https://github.com/henrygd/beszel
• With AI coding we can just make our own editors — https://github.com/posix4e/minivim
• SMath Units, RCPC Initiative — https://github.com/JTRSoftware/Project_RCPC/tree/main/ReadyToShare/sMath
• Straw – HTTP Liquid template engine — https://github.com/moritzrinow/straw

02 PM (6 projects shared)

• Daily-web: your daily-updates web feed — https://github.com/garyo/daily-web
• Seamless codebase-relevant context enrichment for prompts — https://github.com/arterialist/magic-prompt
• Ringmpsc: Lock-free MPSC channel in Zig achieving 50B messages/second — https://github.com/boonzy00/ringmpsc
• Go-brrr – Benchmarks Go vs. Go and declares a winner anyway — https://github.com/jackprscott/go-brrr
• Frida UI - A web ui for frida.re — https://github.com/adityatelange/frida-ui
• SmallPebble – minimalist deep learning library in <1000 lines of Python — https://github.com/sradc/SmallPebble

03 PM (3 projects shared)

• VelinScript 2.5 – A modern language for AI‑API development — https://github.com/SkyliteDesign/velinscript
• IssueWhiz – Automated Issue Triaging — https://github.com/pierotofy/issuewhiz
• Fastrender: Experimental New Browser Engine — https://github.com/wilsonzlin/fastrender

04 PM (7 projects shared)

• A CLI that shows AI coding rate limits and auto-rotates accounts — https://github.com/arctic-cli/interface
• I built a fail-closed watchdog for ESP32/Arduino in C++ — https://github.com/weareqrystal/qrystal_uplink_sdks
• PostWoman is a open source Postman alternative for macOS X — https://github.com/King-Bong-Software/postwoman
• Dcert – a CLI to debug TLS handshakes, certs and latency in one place — https://github.com/SCGIS-Wales/dcert
• Rails engine for building production-ready LLM agents — https://github.com/adham90/ruby_llm-agents
• Claude Code Tips — https://github.com/ykdojo/claude-code-tips
• Tetris-React — https://github.com/MichaelHoste/tetris-react

05 PM (3 projects shared)

• nextdnsctl – A CLI for managing NextDNS profiles declaratively — https://github.com/danielmeint/nextdnsctl
• Opal Editor, free Obsidian alternative for markdown and site publishing — https://github.com/rbbydotdev/opal
• Figma-like Canvas for running Claude Code agents — https://github.com/AgentOrchestrator/AgentBase

06 PM (7 projects shared)

• Emu8910: A tiny, fully featured AY-3-8910 emulator (TypeScript) — https://github.com/lunar-rf/emu8910
• Terravision – Generate Cloud architecture diagrams from Terraform code — https://github.com/patrickchugh/terravision
• Help – GitHub Terminated Without Notice, No Broken Rules — https://github.com/nicoandmee/
• LinuxMate generates reproducible Linux setup script — https://github.com/Henkster72/LinuxMate
• Flux 2 Klein pure C inference — https://github.com/antirez/flux2.c
• Rcarmo/textual-webterm: Yet another web terminal, but with style — https://github.com/rcarmo/textual-webterm
• Claude Agent Skill for Terraform and OpenTofu — https://github.com/antonbabenko/terraform-skill

07 PM (8 projects shared)

• Zpace – See which node_modules, venvs, and caches are eating your disk — https://github.com/AzisK/Zpace
• ttl: traceroute with MTU discovery, NAT/IX detection, route flap alerts & more — https://github.com/lance0/ttl
• Crow: Crobots robotic combat for training World Model AIs — https://github.com/dcgrigsby/crow
• Experimenting with 4D Gaussian Splatting via one-click Python Plugins — https://github.com/shadygm/Lichtfeld-ml-sharp-Plugin
• MacPacker: Preview archives on macOS without extracting. Extract single files — https://github.com/sarensw/MacPacker
• Your Agents can now orchestrate Ralph using skills! — https://github.com/davidkimai/ralph-zero
• Nvidia's CUDA libraries are generic and not optimized for LLM inference — https://github.com/Venkat2811/yali
• Microslop: A Web Browser Extension — https://github.com/4O4-wasd/Microslop

08 PM (6 projects shared)

• Temptations of an open-source browser extension developer — https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670
• RambutanMode: A mediawiki extension to add the nickname "rambutan" to all people — https://github.com/cryptograss/RambutanMode
• Whenwords: An Open Source Library Without Code — https://github.com/dbreunig/whenwords
• Iro-CUDA-FFI – Rust orchestrates nvcc‑compiled CUDA C++ kernels — https://github.com/tribe-iro/iro-cuda-ffi
• Stop manually syncing rules between Claude, Cursor, and Codex — https://github.com/nanxiaobei/ai-global
• psmux: Terminal multiplexer for Windows – tmux alternative — https://github.com/marlocarlo/psmux

09 PM (4 projects shared)

• Vq – a Rust library for reducing the storage size of vector embeddings — https://github.com/CogitatorTech/vq
• PolyMorph – Open-source APE / Zig / WASM polyglot malware detector — https://github.com/xonoxitron/polymorph
• Metrique: A high performance Rust metrics library designed for wide events — https://github.com/awslabs/metrique
• Perry – self-hosted dev environments over Tailscale — https://github.com/gricha/perry

10 PM (2 projects shared)

• Simple GIS on Potato — https://github.com/blue-monads/potato-apps/tree/master/cimple-gis
• Let's send email on port 36245 — https://github.com/umrashrf/mailexp

11 PM (4 projects shared)

• AI Contributions to Erdős Problems — https://github.com/teorth/erdosproblems/wiki/AI-contributions-to-Erd%C5%91s-problems
• Potatoverse, Platform for Apps — https://github.com/blue-monads/potatoverse
• Ralph-template – Autonomous AI agent loop in a single folder — https://github.com/bernatsampera/ralph-template
• Deploy multiple apps on the same VPS with a single command — https://github.com/amirkarimi/docklift