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A niche interactive database that pulls manufacturer-recommended 3D printer filament settings (temps, speed, enclosure, drying) and lets you compare materials and brands.
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A friendly Mac menu-bar ghost that nudges you about quiet threads, birthdays, and turns your texting year into story cards.
Weird Finds · score 82.0
The Toddler Office — Free Toddler Keyboard Game & Pretend Play
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A pretend-play “office” that runs on your real keyboard, with hold-to-exit rules and no accounts or tracking.
Content & Blogs · score 82.0
Well Described — the journal of the felt experience of illness
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A peer-reviewed, open-access digital journal that publishes first-person illness accounts—explicitly designed to bridge bedside subjectivity and machine learning.
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An open-source, airgapped NFC hardware wallet project focused on “clear signing” with build steps and auditable hardware/data flow.
Useful Tools · score 82.0
NoTrace: metadata remover for iPhone photos/videos
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A privacy tool that shows what your photos leak (GPS/device/timestamps/AI provenance) and strips it on-device—no account, “Data Not Collected.”
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A privacy-first, local-only, open-source Android parental control pitched as an anti-stalkerware threat model—built to be checked, not believed.
Developer Corner · score 82.0
Backpay — the “data union” that claims to pay you for AI coding telemetry (counters only)
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An open-source meter for AI coding tools that claims it only collects usage counters (not prompts/code) and routes 50% of revenue back to members.
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A stained-glass studio site that treats past one-of-one works like an “archive,” with direct inquiry for new pieces.
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A family-focused “private social engine” that loudly rejects algorithms, ads, and public discovery—positioned as digital sovereignty infrastructure rather than another social app.
Oddly Specific · score 82.0
The Neighborhood Gamers — printed loud, run by the block
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A member-run Oakland gaming collective with dues, keys, votes, and a very specific weekly calendar of open builds, throwdowns, swap meets, and first-timers’ clinics.
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Invitation-only dating/social evenings where you take a candid survey and get matched—quietly, with “no swiping, no theater.”
Developer Corner · score 82.0
Eval-first AI tooling, with shipped repos and a human-judge philosophy
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A working catalog of eval-first LLM tools (Anton Scout, Coherence Keeper, Jellybook, Son of Anton) built around CI-gated, replayable evaluations.
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A personal reading blog that treats books like emotional philosophy, with post titles that feel like mini-essays.
Civic & Public Life · score 82.0
Prior Authorization Accountability: a delay-to-risk calculator
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A public-interest tool that estimates excess mortality risk from insurance prior-authorization delays, with confidence intervals and sourced methodology.
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A local boba “radius” map with rankings, wishlist, and very opinionated tasting notes.
Developer Corner · score 82.0
MoleBench: a free in-browser molecule studio + real chemistry calculators
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Build molecules from name/SMILES, view 2D/3D, then run RDKit properties and even quantum/DFT-style calculations—no install, no login.
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A privacy browser extension that doesn’t just block trackers—it poisons their data with realistic fake events.
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An open-source, privacy-by-design local AI tool that warns WhatsApp users about scammy messages, plus a community pilot model.
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A memorial/documentation page for the 1982 KMart warehouse fire, wrapped in an interactive “live counter” and sourced like a living archive.
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A personal site that reads like a memoir’s front porch: essays framed as “rooms,” with updates on a completed manuscript and forthcoming publications.
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An olfactory-language-model pitch with a surprisingly structured product story, pricing, and a developer API—delivered as a straight-faced joke.
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A faith book launch built around a hilariously specific road-trip game: hunting yellow cars to learn to “see Jesus everywhere.”
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A Japanese creative “micro poetry roulette” + “white paper” memo web app site, explicitly built via dialogue with AI—part diary, part interactive writing toy, part internet-critique manifesto.