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ElevenLabs rents you a voice: you upload a sample, it lives on their servers, and the bill arrives every month. Voicebox is that same studio as an app on your own computer — clone a voice from a few seconds of audio, pick one of eight speech engines, and nothing you record ever leaves the machine.
View on GitHub →Qwen3-TTS, Qwen CustomVoice and VoiceDesign, LuxTTS, two Chatterbox models, HumeAI TADA and Kokoro — switchable per generation, across 23 languages.
A global hotkey dictates into any text field using Whisper, so it replaces the cloud dictation subscription too.
A built-in MCP server means one voicebox_speak call and Claude Code, Cursor or Cline answers out loud in a voice you cloned.
The Prisma schema mixer 🍹
Convert, browse and clear cached images and files. Images you see online are never deleted immediately, unless you delete them of course. Most desktop apps have a cache directory, not all provide the tools to clear it. CacheMonkey not only lets you purge cache files, but browse and filter through them too.
Voicebox TTS + STT providers for Hermes Agent — voice cloning and Whisper transcription, fully local
CapCut puts a watermark on your work, locks tools behind $19.99 a month, and its 2025 terms took a perpetual licence to whatever you upload. OpenCut is the editor that appeared days after those terms — multitrack timeline, no watermark, no account, and your footage stays on your own machine.
View on GitHub →Open opencut.app and you are editing: multitrack timeline, split, snap, text, transform, and an MP4 export with no watermark and no bill.
The rewrite targets desktop, mobile and browser from one codebase, plus plugins, an editor API and headless batch rendering.
An MCP server is on the roadmap, so a coding agent could operate the timeline the way it operates your terminal.
HeyGen charges $29 a month to turn a photo into a talking avatar. This is the research model that does the same trick for nothing: hand it one still portrait and a short driving video, and it transfers the expression, the blinks and the head turns onto the photo — including onto a photo of your dog.
LicenceMIT code, but the LICENSE adds that InsightFace’s models are “for non-commercial research purposes only” — to use LivePortrait commercially you must “remove and replace InsightFace’s detection models,” and InsightFace ships vendored inside this repo.
View on GitHub →Trained on 69 million frames, with stitching and retargeting controls, and a published 12.8ms per frame on an RTX 4090.
A separate script animates a cat or dog portrait the same way — tested on Linux and Windows with an NVIDIA GPU.
Unzip it and double-click run_windows.bat. It is dated August 2024, and the repo’s last commit was June 2026.
[ICCV'25 Best Paper Finalist] ReCamMaster: Camera-Controlled Generative Rendering from A Single Video
[ICLR'25] SynCamMaster: Synchronizing Multi-Camera Video Generation from Diverse Viewpoints
[ICLR 2026] UniVideo: Unified Understanding, Generation, and Editing for Videos
Imagine giving your AI helper a big key ring. One connection lets it use thousands of apps, such as Gmail and Notion, to do everyday chores for you.
zapier.com/mcpBuffer charges per channel per month, so the cost grows every time you add a platform. Postiz is the same calendar — write once, schedule to every network, see what worked — except you run it on your own server and add as many channels as you want for nothing.
View on GitHub →Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, Reddit, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest, Threads, X, Slack, Discord, Mastodon, Bluesky and Dribbble.
The README says it outright: the self-hosted edition has every feature the paid cloud has, “free forever,” and you pay only for your own infra.
A public API plus Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex and Cursor integrations, an n8n node and a Make.com app.
Postiz Agents CLI - connect it to Claude / OpenClaw / etc, to schedule social media posts 🤖
Know when you are trending on GitHub
Convert your support channels into a Public FAQ with AI 💬
InVideo AI charges about $20 a seat to turn an idea into a short video. This does the whole chain for free on your own machine: it writes the script, works out what footage to look for, pulls the stock clips, records the voiceover, burns in the subtitles, adds music, and renders it vertical or wide.
View on GitHub →One subject in, finished videos out — multiple variants at a time, with task history and settings you can export and reimport.
Edge TTS needs no account at all. Azure, Gemini, MiniMax, Kokoro, Chatterbox and Fish Audio are optional upgrades, not requirements.
The README is explicit about it — a graphics card only speeds up local transcription and batch work.
Safety-first disk cleaner and space analyzer for macOS and Windows, with duplicate cleanup, app uninstall, startup management, system optimization, and maintenance.
快速提取音视频内容,整理成一份结构化的markdown笔记
本地优先的 macOS 与 Windows 语音输入工具,支持端侧 SenseVoice 识别、全局语音输入、文件转写及可选 AI 校对。Local-first voice dictation for macOS and Windows with on-device SenseVoice, typing into any app, file transcription, and optional AI proofreading.
Loom now bills per person per month to send a screen recording. OBS Studio is the free program the whole internet already records with — screens, windows, webcam, audio, all composited into scenes — and it has been free for thirteen years.
View on GitHub →Every release ships a Windows installer, Apple-silicon and Intel DMGs, and an Ubuntu .deb. Nothing to compile.
Scenes and sources, picture-in-picture, filters and green screen, an audio mixer, Studio Mode, and a virtual camera that makes OBS your webcam in Zoom.
Started October 2013, 77,000-plus stars, 32.2.2 is the current stable and version 33 is already in release candidate.
The first pass on any recording is deleting the dead air, and it is the dullest hour of the week — which is part of what a Descript subscription buys back. This is a single command that does that pass on a file and then hands the edit to whatever editor you already use.
View on GitHub →That is the whole command. It finds the silence by loudness and cuts it, with margin padding so the result does not feel clipped.
Export an edit list to Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut Pro, ShotCut or Kdenlive — or just the clips — and finish where you always do.
The latest release ships Linux x86-64, ARM64 and ARMv7, macOS Apple-silicon and Intel, and Windows x64 and ARM64.
After Effects and Canva make you build each video by hand. Remotion makes video out of React code, so one template plus a spreadsheet becomes a thousand finished MP4s — and because it is code, you can ask a coding agent to write it for you.
LicenceFree for individuals, non-profits and for-profit companies with up to 3 employees; any larger company “is required to obtain a Company License” from remotion.pro (LICENSE.md).
View on GitHub →Build it agentically, interactively with drag and drop, or programmatically — the React code stays the truth and you can switch at any point.
Local headless Chrome, AWS Lambda, Vercel or in the browser, plus a Player component and an Editor Starter if you want to ship a video tool of your own.
Batch rendering on your own infrastructure, plus a library of elements, effects, shapes, transitions, captions and sound effects.
A skill for Claude Code and Codex CLI that routes bulky, already-decided work — boilerplate, test stubs, the same edit across many files — to GPT through Codex, Gemini or a cheaper Claude subagent, while your main model plans and checks every diff. He also sent skillview, which puts every skill, plugin and MCP server you have installed into one table.
View on GitHub →Praj saw the Sep 25 episode open with Jev making decisions fast and cheap, and he uses it the same way: his main model plans the work and reviews every diff, and a model he is already paying for does the bulk typing.
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An open content-rating standard for books and stories: instead of one vague star or a pile of content warnings, every work gets spice, heat, darkness and transgression in one string, written SHOW S3·H4·O2·W5. The repo holds the v2.1 spec, machine-readable data with a JSON Schema, and a Claude skill that rates a chapter with evidence. Free under CC BY-SA 4.0.
View on GitHub →Lani built the SHOW Standard for indie, romance and romantasy authors, readers and platforms that want a shared vocabulary for what is actually inside a book.
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A small open-source skill that keeps Karpathy’s four coding rules — think before coding, simplicity first, surgical changes, goal-driven execution — and adds a gap check: if a missing fact would change the result and the agent cannot look it up, it asks at most three questions, each with a recommended default. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Gemini.
View on GitHub →Anshuman built it to stop coding agents from filling in the blanks and shipping a guess. If nothing is missing, it skips the questions and just does the work.
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A skill that authors a narrated presentation and publishes it to a shareable watch URL, with free narration that runs on your own machine. Nick’s bisque.today is where those presentations get shared — a YouTube for AI-authored talks.
View on GitHub →Nick recently quit his job at Google to work on Bisque full time, and asked for the audience segment pointing out that Andrew would be extremely early: the repo had one star, his own.
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Install Docker and Container, type container, and you land in a persistent Linux workspace with Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode already set up, so an agent can work without touching your real computer. More than 1,200 people use it.
Kevin, whose magic-compact was on the Sep 11 show, built it for people who watch the channel, want AI to build something, then quit after installing six tools and hitting thirty error messages — especially on Windows. It is his most popular project.
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MemHooks drops small recall cues in the folders where they matter, so an agent that has the right fact stored actually thinks to go and look. Aron also sent Token-Terminator, which strips repeated tool output before it reaches the model while keeping the original exactly recoverable — its benchmark cuts a worst case from 651k tokens to 80k.
View on GitHub →Aron sent two tiny repos he thought fit the hidden-find radar. His point with MemHooks: long-term memory can store exactly the right fact and still fail, because the agent never thinks to look for it.
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A ranker for real-estate photos that runs on your own machine: open vision models (CLIP and SigLIP) score staging, clutter, how usable the room looks, brightness and composition in about 285 ms a photo on an M1 laptop — no GPU, no cloud.
View on GitHub →Yatin’s team wanted to know which photo to lead a listing with, rather than only A/B testing it, so he built the ranker — then open-sourced it because the approach is useful well beyond that one problem.
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A dashboard that runs on your own network for watching your agent machines, sending tasks to them, and taking over the controls, all over Tailscale — a private link between your own devices.
View on GitHub →Alex built AgentScreen for people running Hermes across several computers, and says it lets you take control “just like Grokbot does.” He has no idea how to charge for it.
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ManuView runs a manuscript past five adversarial reviewers — methods, domain expert, editor, statistician and devil’s advocate — and checks every reference against Crossref, OpenAlex and Retraction Watch. It can run fully offline, so unpublished work never leaves your machine. MIT licensed, with a web version too.
View on GitHub →Bishal, a PhD who maintains ManuView, saw researchers paying consultants $39 to $1,800 and up per paper just to catch the flaws that get papers desk-rejected, while generic chatbots are too agreeable and make up citations.
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A Claude Code mod (command /glanceflow) that replaces the stream of tool calls with one checklist above the prompt: the plan in plain English, live progress per step, and a clear “Needs you” when Claude is waiting on you. One button flips to Details with the code plus time, models and tokens per step, and it writes a plain-English team report. MIT licensed.
Andreas, co-founder and CTO of SigniVoice, watches the weekly GitHub roundup and built GlanceFlow for the non-engineers on his team, who had started using Claude Code and found it overwhelming.
Building something? Send it to hi@TheNextNewThing.ai
A small Windows app: point it at an e-book window (he tested the Kindle app) and it turns the page, takes a screenshot, and repeats to the end, then uses Windows’ built-in OCR to rebuild the text as a single file you can hand to an AI, or a PDF of the pages. It breaks no copy protection, so it is for books you own. Free and open source.
View on GitHub →Christopher, author of the novel Dealing with Murder, heard Andrew say on the show that he was not sure how people give a whole book to an AI to follow — so he built Book Snapper as a proof of concept.
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Sends Paperclip agent requests — hiring another agent, spending budget, or a question that needs answering — to Slack or Telegram, where you tap Approve or fill in a short form and Paperclip records the decision under your own account. There is deliberately no AI in the bot, so nothing an agent writes can talk it into approving something. One Python file, MIT licensed.
View on GitHub →Christopher’s team at sthreelabs runs a small team of agents on Paperclip, from the Sep 25 episode, and kept wanting to answer agent requests without opening the dashboard — especially when he is remote and would otherwise set up a tunnel or wait until he is back at the office.
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An open benchmark and inference engine for big AI models on ordinary computers: instead of loading the whole model into memory, where normal runtimes crash or freeze, the weights stay on a fast NVMe drive and Kura streams the next layer in while the processor works on the current one. One-command install, with a terminal interface and an OpenAI-compatible API server.
View on GitHub →Fraol wrote in to say he had built a tool he wanted Andrew to look at, and offered to walk him through it.
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James’s second repo, written in Rust: fast web scraping that is built to be hard to detect and to fix itself when a page it depends on moves. Early days, with a site at netweir.com.
View on GitHub →James says his second repo has dropped, it is still in the early stages, and it is the first time he is adding some vibe coding into the mix, so “we will see how it goes.”
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A self-hosted “family office” for Claude Code or Codex: one command gives a full risk profile for any ticker (value at risk, Sharpe, drawdown, beta) from a fresh clone, your data stays in a private SQLite ledger on your own machine, and guardrails block a risky action when its inputs are missing instead of guessing.
View on GitHub →Ossie watches every Top 10 episode and built it on one rule: agents propose, typed code computes — so every number an agent quotes comes out of a tested Python calculator you can run yourself.
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A note-taking and knowledge-management system with AI, built on the beads practice (vakana) of Madagascar, and made to work on a phone. Site at vakana.mg.
View on GitHub →Donovan, a YouTube follower from Madagascar, based it on the Vakana beads practices of his Malagasy ancestors. He has just open-sourced it and would love the show to give it its first star.
Building something? Send it to hi@TheNextNewThing.ai
A completely offline Android password manager with local sync between your own devices — no account, no cloud service in the middle.
View on GitHub →Simon has been watching Andrew’s videos for ages and is building a whole host of completely offline Android apps. plain-vault is the first one he feels happy sharing, with a few more ready soon.
Building something? Send it to hi@TheNextNewThing.ai
A self-hostable tool that brings agents like Claude Code and Codex into shared Slack, Teams or Discord channels, working alongside the people already in them.
View on GitHub →Lisa asked Andrew and Corey to review Switch — whether the agents can genuinely work together, how much setup it takes, and how permissions and costs are handled.
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A free, local-first security review tool: it scans code on your own machine with networking off by default, flags exposed credentials, unsafe execution patterns and risky configuration, can block unsafe commits, and shows evidence of what it checked. AI review is optional. Still early, at v0.1.0.
View on GitHub →John, founder of BlackSnow Intelligence with a background in cybersecurity governance, risk and compliance, noticed that AI code-review tools and scanners can themselves leak source code, credentials or sensitive context to outside services.
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