71 real, sourced examples of what people do with Other tools, ranked by community upvotes.
After a routine service, a shop recommended about $1,800 of work on Kyle Blanchard's Mazda and sent an inspection video. He gave an AI agent a photo of the quote and the …
▲ 6 on X · X · 2026-10-13
We build sandboxes for running AI agents at under 10% of the cost of most sandbox providers. Our customers spend an average of $0.37/month per sandbox. You can view a vid…
147 HN points · Hacker News · 2026-10-12
Open-source macOS CLI + agent skill (MIT) so Claude Code or Codex can draw click-through arrows, boxes, and labels on screen for tutorials, remote help, and "click this" …
418 HN points · Hacker News · 2026-10-09
Viral X thread highlights Alook, an open-source project that puts Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor agents in Discord-style rooms with their own handles, inboxes, channels, a…
▲ 368 on X · X · 2026-10-08
We built OpenChart because we wanted Claude and Codex to interface with the markets, like most of humans do, through charts rather than through CLIs. With your existing A…
45 HN points · Hacker News · 2026-10-06
You'll get a scorecard, specific suggested fixes, and three full coding sessions that show how agents read your site and use your product. I built this becaus…
38 HN points · Hacker News · 2026-09-17
Pizza Bot is a self-hosted desktop app for Mac, Windows, and Linux that runs AI agents in the background and exposes them through an email-like UI. Finished work shows up…
61 HN points · Hacker News · 2026-09-15
I've noticed that a lot of in-app AI agents struggle to actually understand the products they exist in. For instance, let's say a user asks an agent how to do something i…
19 HN points · Hacker News · 2026-09-09
Bullet started in a senior year dorm. We were fresh out of working at AppLovin and Citadel, and naturally thought we were on a sure path to startup success. We were going…
121 HN points · Hacker News · 2026-08-13
We build AI agents that discover new materials for the semiconductor industry. GPUs today have a heat problem. Nvidia & AMD are almost doubling the TDP (Thermal Design Po…
162 HN points · Hacker News · 2026-08-12
QuantSignals FST is a supervised AI trading agent that connects QS Research to risk-governed brokerage execution across web, desktop, CLI, iOS, and Android.
17 HN points · Hacker News · 2026-08-05
We reconstruct the entire session behind the MCP tool calls you receive, including what the user asked their agent to do and what the agent thought. You wrap your MCP in …
42 HN points · Hacker News · 2026-08-03
OneCLI is an open source vault for AI Agents. Traditional vaults are used to store your secrets and, on demand, provide them to you all in a secure way, trusting the pers…
110 HN points · Hacker News · 2026-07-23
It uses Asterisk native Audiosocket/RTP with python engine to run STT,LLM and TTS loop. The project supp…
32 HN points · Hacker News · 2026-07-13
Claude’s desktop app is brilliant, but for our own daily work we kept wanting it to be less like a chat app and more like a full-fledged work app. Rowboat is our attempt …
219 HN points · Hacker News · 2026-07-07
The problem Halo solves is: when a company buys an AI agent from a vendor and give…
37 HN points · Hacker News · 2026-07-07
is an AI agent harness that lives entirely in your browser as a web extension. You don’t have to install a separate “AI browser”. You don’t have to bolt on or run some ex…
75 HN points · Hacker News · 2026-06-23
Tl;dr: I trained a classifier to route to the least expensive model and reasoning depth to complete the request. Coupling that with additional automated token efficiency …
27 HN points · Hacker News · 2026-06-05
Hyper is a shared “company brain” that plugs into information flowing inside a company to make AI agents and automations better and ultimately …
79 HN points · Hacker News · 2026-06-03
After Mentum was acquired, I per…
103 HN points · Hacker News · 2026-05-21
We give AI agents their own email inboxes. Recently, we ran an experiment called Agent.Email. It's a signup flow designed specifically for AI agents instead of humans. Th…
99 HN points · Hacker News · 2026-05-21
Nimbus is a desktop browser with an AI agent built into it. The UX is shamelessly inspired by Claude Code: a chat bar at the bottom, an agent log above it, and the webpag…
22 HN points · Hacker News · 2026-04-24
I've spent the past few years building 50+ AI agents in prod (some reached 1M+ sessions/day), and the hardest part was never building them — it was figuring out why they …
47 HN points · Hacker News · 2026-04-14
I use AI agents to build UI features daily. The thing that kept annoying me: the agent writes code but never sees what it actually looks like in the browser. It can’t tel…
161 HN points · Hacker News · 2026-03-24
I run a building design consultancy. I got tired of paying Wix $40/month for a brochure that couldn’t answer simple service questions, and me wasting hours on the same FA…
20 HN points · Hacker News · 2026-03-19
Current IDEs feel wrong for the type of development being done now - the focus is still on files. Mesa puts the focus on the full workflow: your agent, terminal, browser,…
16 HN points · Hacker News · 2026-03-13
Instead, the problem is that the model is reasoning from a stale state. ABP is designed to keep the acting agen…
155 HN points · Hacker News · 2026-03-11
It’s production monitoring for AI products. We automatically detect failure patterns: loops, hallucinations, tool misuse, and user frustrations the moment they happen. Wh…
31 HN points · Hacker News · 2026-03-11
We built Terminal Use to make it easier to deploy agents that work in a sandboxed environment and need filesystems to do work. This includes coding agents, research agent…
115 HN points · Hacker News · 2026-03-09
I started using Claude Code (claude --dangerously-skip-permissions) and Codex (codex --yolo) and realized I had no reliable way to know what they actually did. The agent'…
26 HN points · Hacker News · 2026-03-01
I've been delegating work to Claude Code for the past few months, and it's been genuinely transformative—but managing multiple agents doing different things became chaos.…
45 HN points · Hacker News · 2026-02-26
We build an AI agent that plans company events from start to finish entirely through conversation. Similar to how Lovable helps build websites through chat, we apply that…
55 HN points · Hacker News · 2026-02-25
Much of my work right now involves complex, long-running, multi-agentic teams of agents. I kept running into the same problem: “How do I keep these guys in line?” Rules w…
40 HN points · Hacker News · 2026-02-18
It connects to your observability tools like Sentry, Datadog, or user feedback channels, triages issues, and fixes them to cut your resolution time. Here's a demo:
30 HN points · Hacker News · 2026-02-17
Agents can also share useful discoveries and improvements with each other. Repo:
71 HN points · Hacker News · 2026-02-01
Email is an optimal interface for long-running agents. It’s multithreaded and asynchron…
169 HN points · Hacker News · 2026-01-29
The big differentiator: on BrowserOS you can use local LLMs or BYOK and run the agent entirely on the client side, so your…
88 HN points · Hacker News · 2026-01-22
I made this for myself, and it seemed like it might be useful to others. I'd love some feedback, both on the threat model and the tool itself. I hope you find it useful! …
60 HN points · Hacker News · 2026-01-21
The goal was simple: make a large, messy corpus of PDFs and text files immediately searchable in a precise way, without rely…
211 HN points · Hacker News · 2026-01-14
TheAuditor v2.0 is a complete architectural rewrite (800+ commits) of the prototype I posted three months ago. The "A-ha" moment for me didn't come from a success; it cam…
40 HN points · Hacker News · 2025-12-16
AI coding agents have made code generation nearly free, and they’ve shifted the bottlen…
37 HN points · Hacker News · 2025-12-11
Repo here: . Docs here: . You can run Sim locally using Docker, with no execution limits or other restrict…
240 HN points · Hacker News · 2025-12-11
We use browser agents to simulate users in order to report bugs and write e2e tests. Today, you can launch 10s-100s of agents that collaboratively explore a website and r…
116 HN points · Hacker News · 2025-10-30
We built an agent builder with true 2-way sync between code and a drag-and-drop visual editor, so devs and non-devs can collaborate on the same agents. Here’s a demo vide…
79 HN points · Hacker News · 2025-10-16
Developers pass in credentials, Prism logs into a website on their behalf, and hands them back the cookies so they have an au…
21 HN points · Hacker News · 2025-09-25
Using Rowboat, you can build both deterministic automation agents (e.g. automatically summarizing…
66 HN points · Hacker News · 2025-09-16
Notte is a full-stack browser agent platform built to reliably automate a wide range of workflows. Browser agents aren’t new, but what is still hard is covering real-worl…
76 HN points · Hacker News · 2025-08-07
Your AI agent hits an infinite loop and racks up $2000 in API charges overnight. This happens weekly to AI developers. AgentGuard monitors API calls in real-time and auto…
47 HN points · Hacker News · 2025-07-31
We started building email agents because they can converse with user…
121 HN points · Hacker News · 2025-07-31
We’ve built an AI agent that automatically learns how to use any web-based product, and in turn guides users directly in the UI, automatically generates documentation, an…
69 HN points · Hacker News · 2025-07-30
A developer built a multi-agent system with mcp-agent that pulls market data and writes daily reports based on their risk tolerance, then reused it to compare neighborhoo…
32 HN points · Hacker News · 2025-07-19
-- Why bother building a new browser? For the first time since Netscape was released in 1994, it feels lik…
314 HN points · Hacker News · 2025-06-20
As an AI startup founder, the first thing I do every morning is open Hacker News. I look for what other founders are building, check out new GitHub projects, and explore …
22 HN points · Hacker News · 2025-06-19
My friend and I got tired of job hunting (347 applications, 4 responses) so we built AI agents to help job seekers instead of replacing them. The problem: 73% of applicat…
30 HN points · Hacker News · 2025-06-13
We just launched Leap, an AI developer agent that helps you build and deploy apps with real backends to your own AWS or GCP cloud. We built it because every AI app builde…
22 HN points · Hacker News · 2025-05-30
My co-founder and I spent the last 4 weeks building something we desperately needed ourselves. The Problem: We spend hours processing emails - scheduling meetings, going …
44 HN points · Hacker News · 2025-05-27
Short demo here:
153 HN points · Hacker News · 2025-05-18
We know there are many frameworks out there. Our short story of why we built VoltAgent goes like this: We were developing an AI application ourselves. Initially, we tried…
32 HN points · Hacker News · 2025-05-04
Think ChatGPT + Claude Code rolled into one. Why we built it: We love chat tools like Perplexity and ChatGPT. We also love coding agents, like in Cursor and Windsurf. We …
86 HN points · Hacker News · 2025-04-29
You can define how agents interact with each other, use tools, and handle complex logic like …
196 HN points · Hacker News · 2025-04-28
We’ve been building an MCP server to help AI-assisted web app developers by using browser agents to test whether changes made by an AI inside an editor actually work. We'…
84 HN points · Hacker News · 2025-04-28
Our entire framework is open‑source, and toda…
172 HN points · Hacker News · 2025-04-23
You start with a single agent, then scale up to teams of agents that work together, use MCP tools, and impro…
161 HN points · Hacker News · 2025-04-22
agents.json clearly defines the contract between LLMs and API as a standard that's open, observable, and replicable. Here’s a walkthrough o…
212 HN points · Hacker News · 2025-03-03
You can start a Mastra project with `npm create mastra` and create workflow graphs that can suspend/resume, build a RAG…
442 HN points · Hacker News · 2025-02-19
Over the last few months we've been thinking a lot about how AI agents are going to impact the future. We want agents to be something that's actually useful for normal pe…
50 HN points · Hacker News · 2025-02-01
We build general-purpose home robots that you can teach new tasks to simply by demonstrating them. Our system combines a robotic platform (we call the first one Maurice) …
165 HN points · Hacker News · 2024-12-18
We created autonomous AI Agents that monitor the stock market for you while you go about your day. How it works: Tell our AI Assistant what you want to monitor, and it cr…
40 HN points · Hacker News · 2024-12-16
We’ve been building AI video models for ‘digital twins’ or ‘avatars’ since 2020. We’re sharing some of the challenges we faced building an AI video interface that has re…
455 HN points · Hacker News · 2024-10-01
We help companies turn their content into AI support copilots. So far, we’d focused on customer-facing experiences (e.g. find us as an “Ask AI” button in the docs of comp…
117 HN points · Hacker News · 2024-09-30
10x AOD is a service designed to help senior tech talent, and those who work in the tech ecosystem, navigate and negotiate the best compensation pa…
23 HN points · Hacker News · 2018-07-17