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New SaaS, smart apps, and the people shipping them. Every Tuesday and Friday.

· 7 min

The OpenMRS logo, a medical cross made of four colored arcs — the open-source medical records platform's GitHub avatar.

OpenMRS: The Free, Open-Source Medical Records Platform

OpenMRS is a free, open-source electronic medical records platform for under-resourced health systems — verified from its own GitHub repos, not a pitch deck.

  • #health
  • #teardown

· 7 min

GitHub organization avatar for Comfy Org, the team behind the node-based AI image generation engine ComfyUI

ComfyUI: How Node-Based AI Image Generation Works

ComfyUI swaps the single AI prompt box for node-based AI image generation — a visual graph monetized with paid partner nodes and a cloud version on a free core.

  • #ai
  • #design

· 8 min

GitHub avatar of Cathryn Lavery, creator of the Diagram Design AI skill that turns chat answers into editorial diagrams

Diagram Design: How the AI Diagram Skill Works

Diagram Design is a free, open-source AI skill with 52.6k stars that forces Claude and Codex to follow numeric design rules instead of default styling.

  • #ai
  • #design

· 6 min

The GitHub avatar for the ArtCraft organization, maker of the ArtCraft open-source AI creative suite

ArtCraft AI Creative Suite Is Trending on GitHub

ArtCraft is a free, open-source AI creative suite that gained 2,103 GitHub stars in a day — one of five Adobe-style apps from the same tiny team.

  • #ai
  • #design

· 6 min

Two people's hands reaching toward each other, symbolizing a donation app that pools money for a shared community fund.

Open Collective: The Donation App With a Public Ledger

Open Collective is an open-source donation app and platform that makes every group's budget public — verified from its own GitHub repos, not a marketing page.

  • #fintech
  • #teardown

· 5 min

A hand-sketched diagram with boxes and arrows drawn on paper, the look Excalidraw recreates on a digital canvas

How Excalidraw's Hand-Drawn Whiteboard Works (Rough.js)

Here's how Excalidraw's hand-drawn whiteboard works: not a font trick, but Rough.js, an open-source library that randomizes every line — verified in its code.

  • #design
  • #devtools

· 6 min

Terminal window with code on a dark background, the kind of session an AI coding agent runs in

ai-memory: Long-Term Memory for AI Coding Agents

ai-memory is a free, open-source memory layer for AI coding agents, letting Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor share context — built almost solo, shipped daily.

  • #ai
  • #devtools

· 5 min

A laptop screen showing lines of code, evoking a terminal running an AI coding agent

i-have-adhd: The Skill Making AI Coding Agents Blunt

A free, three-week-old GitHub skill called i-have-adhd hit #1 on GitHub Trending, gaining 3,882 stars in a day by rewriting how AI agents format answers.

  • #ai
  • #devtools

· 5 min

Hands typing on a laptop keyboard, representing the free screen reader software that blind and low-vision users rely on.

NVDA: The Free Screen Reader Built in the Open

NVDA is a free screen reader for Windows, open source and built by a small Australian team and global volunteers — verified straight from its GitHub repo.

  • #accessibility
  • #teardown

· 5 min

A hand-written checklist and planner on a desk — the paper habit tracker Habitica's gamified RPG design replaces

Habitica: The Gamified Habit Tracker Built Like an RPG

Habitica is a gamified habit tracker that makes you lose HP for skipped habits and earn gold for the ones you keep — the mechanic behind why it works.

  • #productivity
  • #design

· 6 min

Rows of code on a dark monitor, evoking a browser or terminal built for automated agents rather than human reading

Cloudflare's Agent Browser Ranked #8 on Product Hunt

On the same Product Hunt day, Cloudflare's Kitesurf ranked #8 while Soloop, a small independent startup, took #2 — the same agent-first bet, different outcomes.

  • #product-hunt
  • #ai

· 6 min

Marketer reviewing an AI workflow dashboard on a laptop

AI Automation for Marketers in 2026: A Field Guide

What AI automation means for marketers in 2026, where it pays off fastest, and the workflows worth building first. Written for the person doing the work.

  • #deep-dive
  • #for-marketers