We could however share the ideas of what we're building so that other people could build sometime similar to fill their own needs or the ideas could be incorporated in to other projects
A lot of random things come to mind for me, like I started (but for now abandoned) some kind of picture icon viewer by date on Linux desktop. A lot of smartphone file viewers display pics this way automatically and it lets you look at what pics you've accumulated day by day, but I didn't see this feature on different Linux file viewers (and it was apparently a requested feature others were looking for).
So what have you built privately with AI that you might like to share ideas about?
edit: alternatively, are there any things you'd like to see others create (and I suppose a comment about what holds you back from creating them)?
People are building things with AI all the time at work, and with no outlet for it, security violations are running rampant.
Pando gives employees a safe place to put these, and reduces the burden on IT and security teams when dealing with them.
- Macros: MyFitnessPal replacement, track my macros, meals/presets/custom food items, also pulls from OpenFoodFacts. MCP support so I can tell an agent “Log my normal breakfast” or “log the sweet potato beef meal for dinner with 2 tortillas”
- Foreman: My software factory (https://joshstrange.com/2026/10/12/there-are-many-like-it-bu...). Every one of these is highly custom/personal so it probably won’t be interesting for me to go into a lot of detail. But suffice to say, I am successfully shipping code through my factory for both my side business and my day job.
- Quartermaster: tool to scrape (via a browser extension) my purchase history at various retailers, including Amazon and Kroger (grocery store). Small web UI to view/filter the data, MCP to interact. I can see purchase price over time, quantity over time, and even things like “price per TB over time” for things like hard drives due to a tagging system that lets me slice and dice the data however I want.
- Vendors: a small web app for my mom to track the vendors she recommends (she’s a real estate agent) to clients so that when they ask for a painter, she can go filter down to the painters, select the people she wants to recommend, and copy all of their contact information into a text/email.
- Amdi: my catch-all app/platform for things small enough to not warrant (yet) their own project. This contains my own little chat interface that hooks into all the data sources above and provides rich UI for certain operations. It’s incredibly custom to me and how I think/work. My favorite features are all around my plex library, letting me cut a clip, find a clip (smart subtitle search), find out what else I’ve seen an actor in for the show I’m watching (using my watch history), and a bunch of metadata around my media exposed to the LLM.
The sidebar has a tree view of the filesystem, defaulting to where I keep my wallpapers (adjustable in the settings). The wallpapers are shown as thumbnails on the right, size adjustable.
There is an option to show them recursively, so all the wallpapers from subfolders show up in one view, rather than having to navigate the folders. There are options for favorites and a few filters.
There is a preview mode, which is invoked by hitting the space bar, like a custom QuickLook. If previews in full screen, with a mock menu bar and dock, so I can see what it will actually look like before setting it. In this view I can also use the arrows to flip through the wallpapers and use shortcuts to favorite them, or apply it as the wallpaper.
I have some planned updates to it, but thats the core functionality at the moment.
It’s a niche tool for my use; to create animated image assets in a fraction of the file size to a comparable GIF.
There are still issues with preparing work in Illustrator so my next step will be to work ok some form of plug-in that can export prepared artwork for use in the animator.
Again niche but hopefully getting the next set of PCBs off to the manufacturer later this week.
I can publish to iOS store if anyone is interested or share source, but you can vibe code your own in an hour for a couple bucks.
Free to use, no accounts, no subscriptions.
https://trysojourn.app
I was using Claude to bounce ideas for parenting with a focus on biblical principals. Trying to really understand how to discipline my children without provoking them, for example.
I was pleased with the experience but Claude did not make it easy for me to dive deeper into scripture. I wanted a different LLM chatbot experience that was focused on less chatting and more scripture reading.
I TestFlighted it out and friends liked it so I ended up publishing it.
I think Android would be supported first but no specific timeline for it yet.
Also ai helped me build an offgrid setup for said garage because the garage has no power. Helped me size things out, gave me diagrams, etc. Also has already provided me with a way to setup an automatic generator startup when the battery is low. I havent set that up yet, but its in the pipeline.
I started and then abandoned a really deep circuit simulator, which was going to be able to emulate full actions and code eventually.
aaaand lastly, ive spent the last 2 months in the evenings with ai building a complex rts game in godot, its almost 1.0 ready. Sadly the ai im using has been really struggling to turn out quality 3d models, so thats probably going to be on me, which will delay significantly.
would i like to share them? maybe, probably, on thing that keeps me from sharing is the lack of shiny packaging which i almost never have time to put in to.
Basically, a modulith framework you can fork out to microservices. I don't get to claim to solo dev the next Bing thing, but I have codified and learned a lot of distributed system best practices and explored Spring and Convergent consistency methods.