Solo founder building AI products from scratch.
Agentic AI engineer • privacy nerd • homelab tinkerer
7+ apps shipped, 1 person, $0 fundingak-builds.vercel.app United StatesJoined July 2026
Yard #3 is halfway done!
Late joins are closed, so the roster is locked: 30 builders, one theme, One Screen.
3 builds are already in:
🃏 DreamTeam by @ColdMorningGrit: draft any 5 X handles into AI-scored trading cards
🏴☠️ Red Flags by @toolcalls: paste a privacy policy, get a WANTED poster of what it takes
📜 The Kept Page by Jim Savvy: a line you don't want to lose, set like a page from a book
27 still cooking. Ship deadline is Fri 18:00 UTC, then the whole community votes all weekend.
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Best part of AI is shattering dev's egos, the worst part of this industry.
You are not special. Your code actually sucked like everybody else's. You were never the smartest person.
The things my sales guy BIL and designer brother are doing is beyond anything I have done.
@theo Google Tier wins once again
But what do you mean OpenAI has no large models worth using what about Astra it might have its... quirks but its not horrible
@creedants@codeclawd@chaseai__ Yes that is correct currently the hooks activate when taste vault is mentioned since some things might only need the taste vault in specific scenarios
Claude Code designs from its defaults because it doesn't know your taste.
So I built it a taste vault: design references written for the model, measured down to hex codes and easing curves, and a hook that loads them whenever a prompt looks like design work.
Open source link 👇
Submitting Red Flags to @HackyardSocial Yard #3.
Paste any privacy policy and you get a WANTED poster for the company: everything the policy lets it take, each charge quoted word for word from the text.
TikTok scores 83/100. Grade F.
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@thsottiaux For people who enjoy using voice this is a game changer. For plugins are we given the ability to create custom plugins or is it only standard official plugins?
@NerdSnipePod the music feels so eerie. Also I have a theory what if Theo imagined Ben the entire time since he has no one to nerd out with and Ben's voice is really just Theo voice acting without even knowing it and on screen its just AI
Anthropic is now slowly hard coding the fact that it doesn't want Opus to show its reasoning traces no matter what this is a screenshot from the "Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 Guide" @ClaudeDevs released. The guide is genuinely helpful its when you look closely. you find these
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