Daily Launch Index: January 20, 2026.

On January 20, 2026, I recorded 119 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 (3 projects shared)

• Create-Vibe-App — https://github.com/hscspring/create-vibe-app
• LeetDreamer: AI-hallucinated LeetCode solution videos — https://github.com/joshribakoff/leetdreamer
• Opensync — https://github.com/waynesutton/opensync

03 AM (9 projects shared)

• Velox: A Port of Tauri to Swift by Miguel de Icaza — https://github.com/velox-apps/velox
• React Native for macOS — https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-macos
• RFC: A proposal to replace API integration with LLM Semantic Translation — https://github.com/kaylorjc-protocol/semantic-integration-layer-SIL-protocol
• Circe – Deterministic, offline-verifiable receipts for AI agent actions — https://github.com/wv26296-ux/circe-receipts
• Open Reimplementation of Google Widevine Content Decryption Module for Browsers — https://github.com/tchebb/openwv
• Idiomatic Rust – A peer-reviewed collection of Rust articles/talks/repos — https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/rust-cookbook
• Spotless-Keep your code spotless — https://github.com/diffplug/spotless
• Basis Universal v2 — https://github.com/BinomialLLC/basis_universal
• NATS Console – Open-Source Web UI for Managing NATS JetStream — https://github.com/KLogicHQ/nats-console

04 AM (2 projects shared)

• Hammer of JSON — https://github.com/andrewbaxter/hammer-of-json
• A simple fork of gpodder2go for lightweight self-hosted podcast sync — https://github.com/ijustlovemath/gpodder2go

05 AM (3 projects shared)

• Ulog – USB serial logger with auto session management — https://github.com/matterizelabs/ulog
• X algorithm has been open sourced — https://github.com/xai-org/x-algorithm
• Stashcast – Self-hosted custom podcast feeds for any media — https://github.com/jonocodes/stashcast

06 AM (1 projects shared)

• KAOS – The Kubernetes Agent Orchestration System — https://github.com/axsaucedo/kaos

07 AM (4 projects shared)

• Embabled: Agentic Flow from the Creator of Spring — https://github.com/embabel
• IncidentFox – open-source AI SRE with log sampling and RAPTOR retrieval — https://github.com/incidentfox/incidentfox
• Linux kernel framework for PCIe device emulation, in userspace — https://github.com/cakehonolulu/pciem
• SecCheckmate – Structured security checks during security assessments — https://github.com/amitgy/seccheckmate

08 AM (3 projects shared)

• QMD - Quick Markdown Search — https://github.com/tobi/qmd
• Pygments Swift – Swift-native syntax highlighting library — https://github.com/muonium-ai/pygments-swift
• LangGraph architecture that scales (hexagonal pattern, 110 tests) — https://github.com/cleverhoods/sagecompass

09 AM (2 projects shared)

• Remember Me – O(1) Client-Side Memory (40x cheaper than Vector DBs) — https://github.com/merchantmoh-debug/Remember-Me-AI
• Rerankers – Models, benchmarks, and papers for RAG — https://github.com/agentset-ai/awesome-rerankers

10 AM (2 projects shared)

• Rudimentary HDR support working on Xlibre — https://github.com/orgs/X11Libre/discussions/251
• I turned Dan Koe's viral content engine into Claude Code slash commands — https://github.com/vincentchan/AI-Content-Engine

11 AM (6 projects shared)

• I ported the OpenAI Codex review prompts to Gemini CLI — https://github.com/grainier/gemini-cli-codex-reviews
• Leta – Command-line LSP client for agentic coders — https://github.com/andreasjansson/leta
• Async HTTP handler plugin for the AWS SDK for Ruby, built on async-HTTP — https://github.com/thomaswitt/aws-sdk-http-async
• Pikchr.pl – Make Pikchr diagrams using Prolog — https://github.com/exlee/pikchr.pl
• TakaTime – Self-Hosted WakaTime Alternative (Go and MongoDB) — https://github.com/Rtarun3606k/TakaTime
• AGI basic building block in your terminal — https://github.com/bokan/claude-skill-self-improvement

12 PM (8 projects shared)

• AgentCommander - workflow engine for evolutionary code optimization — https://github.com/mx-Liu123/AgentCommander
• Ipfrs – A "Thinking" IPFS in Rust with Built-In Vector Search — https://github.com/cool-japan/ipfrs
• Xhttpy – unified HTTP API request tool (sync/async, stream/non‑stream) — https://github.com/hscspring/xhttpy
• Swim gossip protocol in Rust with mio/epoll — https://github.com/Paulius0112/swim-rs
• A Ring-0 deployment safety checklist(derived from CrowdStrike analysis) — https://github.com/systemdesignautopsy/system-resilience-protocols/blob/main/protocols/ring-0-deployment.md
• Hackable personal news reader in bash pipes — https://github.com/haron/news.sh
• Run untrusted code in VMs on Mac/Linux – 1-2ms warm start, domain filtering — https://github.com/dualeai/exec-sandbox
• Skillware — https://github.com/ARPAHLS/skillware

01 PM (6 projects shared)

• BlueMouse – AI Code Generator with 17-Layer Validation — https://github.com/peijun1700/bluemouse
• Sutskever 30 Essential Papers:Complete NumPy Implementations with Visualizations — https://github.com/pageman/sutskever-30-implementations
• The Zen of Reticulum — https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/blob/master/Zen%20of%20Reticulum.md
• Tycostream – turn Materialize views into real-time GraphQL APIs — https://github.com/tycoworks/tycostream
• Coni – Trust-first Claude Cowork-style agent with permission prompts — https://github.com/coni-ai/coni
• Ocrbase – pdf → .md/.json document OCR and structured extraction API — https://github.com/majcheradam/ocrbase

02 PM (6 projects shared)

• cm – a TUI to monitor multiple Docker container logs side-by-side — https://github.com/rehrumesh/cm
• APIsec MCP Audit – Audit what your AI agents can access — https://github.com/apisec-inc/mcp-audit
• Mother MCP – Manage your Agent Skills like a boss-Auto provision skills — https://github.com/dmgrok/mcp_mother_skills
• Remove/Bypass Google's SynthID AI Watermark — https://github.com/00quebec/Synthid-Bypass
• Gate0 – Zero-allocation, deterministic policy engine in Rust — https://github.com/Qarait/gate0
• Oauth2-forwarder – web oauth2 for dev containers — https://github.com/sam-mfb/oauth2-forwarder

03 PM (14 projects shared)

• Flet: Build realtime web, mobile and desktop apps in Python — https://github.com/flet-dev/flet
• PIICloak – Open-source PII detection API (31 entity types, self-hosted) — https://github.com/dimanjet/piicloak
• A C library written in Rust for querying kernel configuration file — https://github.com/synalice/kconfq
• Claude Skill Editor — https://github.com/mtct/skill-editor
• Osprey API Tester – VS Code API Testing from NestJS Controllers/DTOs — https://github.com/jeremi-24/osprey-api-tester
• Agentic Code Reviewer — https://github.com/richhaase/agentic-code-reviewer
• D-engine – Embeddable Raft consensus for Rust — https://github.com/deventlab/d-engine
• A CLI tool that stores Claude Code chats in your Git repo — https://github.com/Legit-Control/monorepo/tree/main/examples/legit-code
• I built an open source alternative to bloated workout apps — https://github.com/house-of-giants/opentrainer
• Agent Skills – Open Trusted Catalog of AI Agent Skills: Claude,OpenAI,Vercel,GH — https://github.com/dmgrok/agent_skills_directory
• Wallpaper that grows as you ship — https://github.com/JulienAvezou/growth-wallpaper-macos
• Feedback Zu VelinScript 3.0.0 (AI‑Native System Definition Language) — https://github.com/SkyliteDesign/velinscript
• Awesome-Animal-Care — https://github.com/omkar-foss/awesome-animal-care
• JQ-Synth – Generate jq filters from input/output examples — https://github.com/nulone/jq-synth

04 PM (9 projects shared)

• ChartGPU – WebGPU charting library, 1M+ points at 60fps — https://github.com/ChartGPU/ChartGPU
• Mastra 1.0, open-source JavaScript agent framework from the Gatsby devs — https://github.com/mastra-ai/mastra
• SolScript – Write Solidity, compile to Solana programs — https://github.com/cryptuon/solscript
• Primes: Prime number projects in 100 programming languages — https://github.com/PlummersSoftwareLLC/Primes
• Better-Docker-ps: Because `Docker ps` is annoying and does not fit my terminal — https://github.com/Mikescher/better-docker-ps
• Blockrand – Verifiable entropy using local secrets and Drand beacons — https://github.com/blockrand-api/blockrand-js
• Open Coscientist – modular implementation of DeepMind's AI Co-scientist — https://github.com/jataware/open-coscientist
• Talaria – Decompiling Hermes bytecode to pseudocode — https://github.com/moleium/talaria
• Picocode – a Rust based tiny Claude Code clone for any LLM, for fun — https://github.com/jondot/picocode

05 PM (10 projects shared)

• Humanizer: Claude Code skill that removes signs of AI-generated writing — https://github.com/blader/humanizer
• Dbt-LLM-evals – Monitor LLM quality in your data warehouse — https://github.com/paradime-io/dbt-llm-evals
• A bunch of projects I did over the last year — https://github.com/korrectional/Every-Week
• SLOK – A Kubernetes operator for declarative SLOs and error budgets — https://github.com/federicolepera/slok
• BlitzBrowser – Browsers in Docker with user data storage and proxy — https://github.com/blitzbrowser/blitzbrowser
• Reduce LLM token costs 40-60% for structured data — https://github.com/prashantdudami/toon-converter
• Create promo videos for your projects with Claude Code — https://github.com/alentodorov/create-promo-video
• k crash course — https://github.com/kparc/kcc
• Ergon – A Durable Execution Library — https://github.com/richinex/ergon
• Xv6OS – A modified MIT xv6 with GUI — https://github.com/danko1122q/xv6-os

06 PM (6 projects shared)

• Queuert – Node.js background jobs that live in your database transaction — https://github.com/kvet/queuert
• Modal Agents SDK — https://github.com/sshh12/modal-claude-agent-sdk-python
• The Void (2025) — https://github.com/nostalgebraist/the-void/blob/main/the-void.md
• codex-subagent-skill - add subagents to Codex CLI — https://github.com/iipanda/codex-subagent-skill
• GitHub – rcarmo/textual-webterm: Yet another web terminal, but with style — https://github.com/rcarmo/textual-webterm
• Model Blackboxes End Here – SRCP Semantic Responsibility — https://github.com/deepseek-launch-community/global-launch-blueprint/discussions/8

08 PM (13 projects shared)

• gRPC from the Browser, Streaming and HTTP/2 without gRPC-web — https://github.com/emmveqz/grpc-browser-native
• OpenSplitDeck – a Steam Deck-like controller with custom hardware and firmware — https://github.com/tommybee456/OpenSplitDeck
• Sharpie – Self-hostable AI prompt playground — https://github.com/heyrtl/sharpie
• Stitch-MCP, a universal MCP server for Google Stitch — https://github.com/Kargatharaakash/stitch-mcp
• Quango – A C89 CLI pathfinding puzzle game — https://github.com/gsekulski/quango
• Sast+LLM Security Scanner that filters false positives and fixes issues — https://github.com/9M6/vulnsink
• LLM-friendly debugger-CLI using the Debug Adapter Protocol — https://github.com/akiselev/debugger-cli
• Demo: On-device browser agent (Qwen) running locally in Chrome — https://github.com/RunanywhereAI/on-device-browser-agent
• Open-source tool for converting docs into .md and loading into Postgres — https://github.com/pgEdge/pgedge-docloader
• Run Claude Code from WhatsApp — https://github.com/gokapso/claude-code-whatsapp
• SWE-gen: Scaling SWE-bench task generation — https://github.com/abundant-ai/SWE-gen
• Curl closing their bug bounty due to overload and abuse — https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/20312
• Is building a search-adjacent New Tab Chrome extension a dead end? — https://github.com/LuoShenKui/DirectGO

09 PM (5 projects shared)

• Simplex, a workflow specification language for autonomous agents — https://github.com/brannn/simplex
• Sandvault: Run AI agents isolated in a sandboxed macOS user account — https://github.com/webcoyote/sandvault
• WP-CLI and Abilities API for Wordfence — https://github.com/trueqap/wpcli-for-wordfence
• Install "original" ralph and even schedule to run when quota available — https://github.com/lucastononro/ralph-installer
• Driftcheck – Pre-push hook that catches doc/code drift with LLMs — https://github.com/deichrenner/driftcheck

10 PM (3 projects shared)

• OpenHiggs – Chain ComfyUI workflows with approvals and load balancing — https://github.com/jaskirat05/OpenHiggs
• Raps – Rust CLI for Autodesk Platform Services (0ms Deps, MCP Support) — https://github.com/dmytro-yemelianov/raps
• Docklift – Probably the cheapest and fastest way to deploy web apps — https://github.com/amirkarimi/docklift

11 PM (4 projects shared)

• Claude Chill: Fix Claude Code's Flickering in Terminal — https://github.com/davidbeesley/claude-chill
• JustHTML 1.0.0 Released — https://github.com/EmilStenstrom/justhtml
• A curated list of academic papers and resources on Physical AI — https://github.com/keon/awesome-physical-ai
• macOS Stats: Local Privilege Escalation via Exposed XPC Method — https://github.com/exelban/stats/security/advisories/GHSA-qwhf-px96-7f6v