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Worth your time — 2026-w29

10 launches passed our fraud filters and a human read this week. Each one we'd install ourselves.

colibri ↗

Runs a 744B-parameter MoE model on a 25GB-RAM consumer machine in pure C, streaming experts from disk.

What we like

  • Genuine systems engineering — expert streaming makes an 'impossible' model size run locally
  • Zero dependencies and pure C means it will build anywhere

What to watch

  • Disk-streamed inference is slow by nature; this is a feat, not a daily driver
Juggler – an open-source GUI coding agent, by the creator of JUCE ↗

Open-source GUI coding agent by the creator of JUCE.

What we like

  • Author's track record (JUCE powers half the audio industry) earns a serious look
  • GUI-first agents serve developers the terminal-first wave skips

What to watch

  • Even the author jokes the space needs 'one more agent' — differentiation must show fast
Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem ↗

A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem (Ant).

What we like

  • Fresh runtime experiments can push the whole JS ecosystem forward
  • Ambitious full-ecosystem scope

What to watch

  • Node, Deno and Bun make this an extraordinarily hard market to enter
mimic ↗

Intercepts any application's traffic, then lets you call its internals from Python like a library.

What we like

  • Turning closed apps into Python-callable libraries is a powerful reverse-engineering primitive
  • Beats brittle UI automation for extracting app functionality

What to watch

  • Fragile against app updates and often against terms of service — know what you're automating
clodex-ide ↗

Local-first, zero-trust agentic IDE for verifiable autonomous software development.

What we like

  • Zero-trust plus verifiability directly targets the trust gap in agentic coding
  • Local-first keeps proprietary code off external services

What to watch

  • A full IDE is a heavy lift — maturity and ecosystem will lag incumbents
kill-ai-slop ↗

A field guide to AI-generated visual and copy tics, plus an agent skill that scans a project and strips them out.

What we like

  • De-slopping AI output is a fast-rising, real concern for shipped products
  • Pairs a human-readable guide with an automated scanner

What to watch

  • 'AI tics' are a moving target — the ruleset needs constant updating
Hackney – Compare Uber, Lyft, Waymo, and Robotaxi Prices ↗

Compares real-time prices and wait times across Uber, Lyft, Waymo, Robotaxi and more.

What we like

  • Cross-platform ride comparison is overdue as robotaxis fragment the market
  • Real-time wait times matter as much as price

What to watch

  • Ride platforms historically fight aggregators with API restrictions
YouTube Guitar Tab Parser ↗

CLI that turns a YouTube guitar-lesson video into a PDF of the tabs.

What we like

  • Extracts the actually-useful artifact from a 20-minute lesson video
  • CLI simplicity versus subscription transcription services

What to watch

  • Tab accuracy from video/audio recognition varies with recording quality
Davit, a Apple Containers UI ↗

A GUI for Apple's native Containers.

What we like

  • A visual layer over Apple Containers lowers the CLI barrier
  • Rides a new Apple capability early

What to watch

  • Tied to a young Apple feature — the ground may shift under it
Orbit – AR satellite tracker, watch 15k+ objects ↗

An AR satellite tracker showing 15,000+ objects (Orbit).

What we like

  • AR overlay of satellites overhead is a genuinely wondrous experience
  • Tracking 15k+ objects makes it substantive, not a toy

What to watch

  • AR accuracy depends on device sensors and clear skies

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