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Agents have their own wallets now; two Stanford dropouts — one came from NASA, one from McKinsey — are fixing recruiting; OpenAI is running ads; and we teamed up with YC to give builders who missed…

Top launches:Kilo Code for VS CodeKilo Code for VS CodeVelo 2.0Velo 2.0Flowstep 1.0Flowstep 1.0

Sid Sijbrandij — who ran GitLab — forked a coding agent and now has 2M users; ex-UiPath founders who left to fix the part UiPath never solved; Valve shipped new controller hardware; and The Pitch by…

Top launches:MindraMindraAaavatarAaavatarCodex PetsCodex Pets

An agent platform betting that human oversight is the actual product, a comic store paying 80% to creators without asking for exclusivity, 20,000 AI coding sessions turned into trading cards, and a…

Top launches:Huddle01 VMsHuddle01 VMsPandaProbePandaProbeRadarRadar

A decade-long code editor hit 1.0, AI agents are publicly arguing about stocks, your phone can be a subwoofer now, and our resident forums queen, Nika, wants to know how to spot the human-made…

Top launches:Hera LaunchHera LaunchVideoOS by Jupitrr AIVideoOS by Jupitrr AIMintlify EditorMintlify Editor

OpenAI open-sourced how they actually run Codex agents; four cryptographers launched the private AI chat you can audit yourself; there's a flyable universe in a browser with no login; and the final…

Top launches:PluraiPluraiOpen WearablesOpen WearablesKarmaBoxKarmaBox

A Polish agency open-sourced the wearable health layer — including the scoring algorithms your Oura ring won't explain. A 4-person startup has Microsoft doing its AI evals. Netlify shipped a Postgres…

Top launches:CleraCleraSureThing.ioSureThing.ioSocial FetchSocial Fetch

Jet AI Agents lets you build business agents in minutes. Orange Slice automates your entire sales workflow from a plain English description. and there's a thread asking how you'd launch a product…

Top launches:Orange SliceOrange Slice Jet AI Agents Jet AI AgentsLogicLogic

OpenAI and Anthropic both launched yesterday. GPT-5.5 wants to be the smartest model. Claude Connectors wants to make AI even more useful. Buried under all of that: a font app that is making me feel…

Top launches:GPT-5.5 by OpenAIGPT-5.5 by OpenAIClaude ConnectorsClaude ConnectorsQuickCompare by TrismikQuickCompare by Trismik

FocuSee is about to quietly embarrass every screen recording I made before today. Magic Patterns shipped an AI design agent that makes "waiting on Figma" feel like a previous life. and Blink built…

Top launches:KollabKollabFocuSee 2.0FocuSee 2.0Magic Patterns Agent 2.0Magic Patterns Agent 2.0

Reloop is about to turn me into a Pixar dad instead of finishing actual work, Docsio is trying to make docs less of a whole thing, and Ora is just casually translating conversations in real time like…

Top launches:SpeakONSpeakONStanley For 𝕏Stanley For 𝕏ChatGPT Images 2.0ChatGPT Images 2.0
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