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Notes on AI Tools & Developer Resources

Authors

MCP Servers (Model Context Protocol)

Best MCP Server Collections

From @hayesdev_ and @ericw_ai:

  • Someone collected 300+ MCP servers and open-sourced all of them
  • Essential for extending Claude Code and AI agent capabilities
  • Covers databases, APIs, file systems, and external services

Setting Up Claude Skills

From @gregisenberg:

  • Guide to setting up Claude Skills in under 15 minutes (for non-technical people)
  • Beginner-friendly video tutorial available
  • The trick to creating effective skills: be specific about the domain and task

Open-Source AI Tools

Voice & Audio

Chatterbox Turbo (from @LinusEkenstam):

  • Open-source voice model beating commercial solutions
  • Beats ElevenLabs Turbo & Cartesia Sonic 3 in independent reviews
  • 5-second voice cloning
  • Under 150ms time-to-first-sound
  • Supports paralinguistic tags

IMS-Toucan (from @tom_doerr):

  • Synthesizes speech in 7000 languages
  • GitHub: github.com/0xSojalSec/IMS-Toucan

Video & Media

Grably (from @tom_doerr):

  • Transcribes and downloads media from websites using Whisper AI
  • GitHub: github.com/ceorkm/grably

Video Extension Tool (from @beginnersblog1):

  • AI feature that extends any video by 7 seconds
  • Matches lighting, motion, and style automatically
  • Upload a clip, add a prompt, done

Learning & Education

DeepTutor (from @huang_chao4969):

  • AI learning assistant with 1.4K+ GitHub stars (5 days after release)
  • Understands and adapts to individual learning styles
  • GitHub: github.com/HKUDS/DeepTutor

Learn Your Way by Google Research (from @hasantoxr):

  • Uses LearnLM to transform any PDF into 5 personalized learning formats
  • Students using it scored 78% vs 67% on retention tests
  • The "textbook killer" for education

ChatTutor (from @tom_doerr):

  • AI teacher with electronic whiteboard
  • GitHub: github.com/HugeCatLab/ChatTutor

Infrastructure & DevOps

Tunnelto (from @tom_doerr):

  • Connects local web servers to internet URLs
  • GitHub: github.com/agrinman/tunnelto

Sessy (from @marckohlbrugge):

  • Open-source email observability for AWS SES
  • Stop paying for expensive SES wrappers
  • Built on Ruby on Rails
  • GitHub: github.com/marckohlbrugge/sessy

BillionMail (from @tom_doerr):

  • Self-hosted mail server and marketing platform
  • GitHub: github.com/Billionmail/BillionMail

Database & Analytics

sqlit (from @terminaltrove):

  • Lazygit-style SQL TUI for the terminal
  • Supports 10+ databases: Postgres, SQLite, Supabase, ClickHouse, DuckDB, etc.
  • Query history, autocomplete, and more

Domain Digger (from @tom_doerr):

  • Toolkit for domain analysis and DNS visualization
  • GitHub: github.com/wotschofsky/domain-digger

Design & Branding

Logo.surf (from @tom_doerr):

  • Generates logos and favicons from text
  • GitHub: github.com/airyland/logo.surf

Wordmark (from @tom_doerr):

  • Logo creator with Google Fonts and icon integration
  • GitHub: github.com/abhay-ramesh/Wordmark

Lucide Animated (from @d__raptis):

  • Open-source collection of smooth animated icons
  • Website: lucide-animated.com

Automation & Workflows

Visual Workflow Editor for Claude Code (from @tom_doerr):

  • cc-wf-studio for building Claude Code automations
  • GitHub: github.com/breaking-brake/cc-wf-studio

PinMe (from @GithubProjects):

  • Zero-config frontend deployment tool for static sites
  • Deploy to IPFS with a single CLI command
  • No servers, no accounts, no setup

Mobile & Communication

HTTPSMS (from @tom_doerr):

  • Turns an Android phone into an SMS gateway
  • GitHub: github.com/NdoleStudio/httpsms

WhatsApp Cloud Inbox (from @tom_doerr):

  • WhatsApp inbox for the Cloud API built with Next.js
  • GitHub: github.com/gokapso/whatsapp-cloud-inbox

WhatsApp API (from @tom_doerr):

  • REST API for sending WhatsApp messages
  • GitHub: github.com/felipeDS91/whatsapp-api

AI Models Worth Knowing

MiniMax M2.1

From @akshay_pachaar:

"Devs are calling it 'Claude at 10% the cost'"

Benchmarks:

  • 72.5% SWE-Multilingual (beats Sonnet 4.5)
  • 88.6% VIBE-bench (beats Gemini 3 Pro)
  • 100% open-source

Claude 4.5 + Gemini Strategy

From @MervinPraison:

"Claude 4.5 is the best coding brain — but it's expensive. Gemini Flash is fast and basically unlimited — but its architecture decisions can be messy. The trick? Use one as the architect and the other as the builder. For free."

Learning Resources

Engineering Blogs to Follow

From @NikkiSiapno (12 blogs to become a better software engineer):

  1. Meta Engineering - engineering.fb.com
  2. Netflix TechBlog - netflixtechblog.com
  3. AWS Architecture - aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture
  4. Microsoft Engineering
  5. Uber Engineering
  6. Stripe Engineering
  7. Airbnb Engineering
  8. LinkedIn Engineering
  9. Dropbox Tech Blog
  10. Cloudflare Blog
  11. GitHub Engineering
  12. Spotify Engineering

AI Engineering Resources

From @Bhavani_00007:

  • GitHub repo with 75+ AI Engineering projects
  • Covers LLMs, RAGs, and real-world AI agent applications
  • All 100% open-source

From @AvinashSingh_20 (Free AI/ML learning path):

  • Project-based tutorials: github.com/practical-tutorials/project-based-learning
  • Hands-on ML: github.com/ageron/handson-ml3

RAG Courses

From @tut_ml:

  • Best RAG Courses collection: mltut.com/retrieval-augmented-generation-tutorials

Automation Strategies

YouTube AI Agent

From @mikefutia:

"This n8n agent scrapes top-performing YouTube videos in any niche... Pulls full transcripts... And extracts every hook, angle, and theme automatically."

Stack: n8n + Airtable

Social Media Automation

From @SimslearnAi:

  • Automate Instagram, TikTok, X, FB & LinkedIn
  • Auto content generation
  • Smart scheduling
  • Analytics tracking
  • Cross-posting
  • Stack: n8n + AI Agents + APIs

Developer Productivity Tools

Supabase Features

From @dshukertjr:

  • Free easy-to-use cron job scheduler
  • Configure from dashboard
  • Send HTTP requests or call database/edge functions periodically
  • View history of past jobs for debugging

TensorTrade

From @quantscience_:

  • Open-source Python framework for algorithmic trading
  • Uses Reinforcement Learning (AI)

Puter

From @HeyPuter:

  • A computer in your browser
  • Free and open-source

Medium Unlocker

From @0x0SojalSec:

  • Bypasses paywalls on Medium
  • GitHub: github.com/inulute/medium-unlocker

Scraping & Data

2,622 Scraping APIs

From @tom_doerr:

  • Collection of scraping APIs for developers
  • GitHub: github.com/cporter202/scraping-apis-for-devs

Firecrawl

From @recap_david:

  • Scrapes product images from any e-commerce site
  • Pairs with AI to generate product videos automatically
  • Saves ~$30K per collection shoot

Security Tools

shcheck (from @tom_doerr):

  • Checks security headers on websites
  • GitHub: github.com/santoru/shcheck

Face Recognition (from @tom_doerr):

  • Detects and recognizes faces in real time
  • GitHub: github.com/abatsakidis/FaceRecognition

Key Insights

From @tengyanAI on the future:

"For 20+ years, software ate the world. Now, AI Agents are eating software. Bairong started selling 'AI Workers' — they call it Results-as-a-Service (RaaS)."

From @chatgpt21:

"A single person with an idea could act as the 'CEO' of a 10,000-agent company in 2 years. You will have 'software as a thought' not as a service."

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