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Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-11

Tim Naoto Herder — AI & Agent Engineering

tim-herder.dev ↗ · Developer Corner · score 84.0
Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

A technical portfolio detailing AI-agent systems built for trivago’s accommodation-catalogue operations.

Why it surfaced

This is unusually concrete portfolio material: Herder describes a production Data Ops Hub and a newer agent platform with roughly 48 domain tools, four entry points, queued work, retries, cancellation, and bounded tool results. The site makes the progression from human-driven screens to an agent that takes work end to end unusually legible.

Lunch Through the Bee Veil

August 11’s newborn domains include a bee veil with a lockable lunch flap, a book designed to unfold over ten years, a Colombian missing-person and aid board, and a brick studio made by a dad and his 10-year-old co-founder.

This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-11 Domain Arrivals issue.