AI Automation Builders

CEO of Late Checkout. Ships community-driven products and shares startup ideas and build-in-public frameworks twice a week on The Startup Ideas Podcast.

Builds and open-sources God's Eye View, a browser-based spy-satellite simulator rendering real open-source spatial intelligence on a photorealistic 3D globe.

AI SEO researcher who reverse-engineers how LLMs like ChatGPT pick and cite sources by reading raw network traffic, sharing detailed technical writeups.

Runs live technical teardowns of how AI engines like Perplexity and ChatGPT retrieve and cite sources by reading their network streams, publishing verifiable AI SEO research and tools.

Builder of Sodium, a tool that turns a website's existing features into WebMCP tools so AI agents can discover and use the site directly.

Builds and shares reusable skills for designing with AI agents, including a Refactoring UI-based plugin for polishing interfaces.

Indie maker who built Infinite Slop, an endless interactive AI-generated live stream where chat prompts drive the next video, powered by a fine-tuned fast video model.

Builds and open-sources developer tools, including workout-guide, a framework-neutral npm package with 302 open exercise illustrations.

Post-PhD builder who experiments with LLM behavior, llms.txt discovery, and RAG-style query endpoints, sharing detailed writeups of his tests.

Security-focused builder who develops and shares open-source AI harness systems like LifeOS (PAI) and publishes tactical meta-prompts for optimizing AI coding and agent setups.

Builds and shares developer tooling for AI coding agents, such as Bash Guard, a Claude Code PreToolUse hook that blocks commands touching paths outside the repo.

Creator of Skills for Designers and Engineers, an open-source collection of AI skills for building higher-quality UI, alongside animations.dev.

Builds and shares Claude-style skills for designers and engineers, including a skill that picks the right UI library instead of hand-rolling components.

Builds and shares agent skills for coding assistants, including Visual Explainer, which generates rich HTML pages and slide decks for diagrams, diff reviews, and project recaps.

Edinburgh-based freelance web developer building full-stack Laravel/Vue apps, generative art, and experimental WebGL demos like HTML-in-Canvas.

Ships open source tooling and shares practical scripts, like pulling backlinks for any domain for free via Common Crawl's web graph.

Security-focused writer who builds and shares AI harness optimization prompts, skills, and workflows in the Claude Code ecosystem.

Security-focused writer building and sharing meta-prompts and AI 'harness' optimization workflows in the Claude Code ecosystem.

Shares concrete patterns and "idea files" for building AI-automation systems, like an LLM-maintained personal wiki you hand to your coding agent to build.

Author of a Claude Code prompt patcher that rebalances the system prompts to reduce corner-cutting, with documented A/B test results.

Builds and open-sources GBrain, an opinionated OpenClaw/Hermes agent brain with skills, recipes, and evals for personal AI agents.

Created the tufte-viz Claude Code skill that applies Edward Tufte's data visualization principles to generate simpler, cleaner charts.

Builds codegraph, a pre-indexed local code knowledge graph that auto-syncs on code changes to reduce tokens and tool calls for AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Gemini.

Builds and open-sources small creative web tools, like a halftone-dots image effect with smooth morphing.

Builds and open-sources composable Claude Code agent skills for Polymarket prediction-market trading, including a scanner, edge analyzer, strategy advisor, and paper trader, with a security audit and paper-trading-first design.

Creator of Animations.dev who teaches web animation and shares a motion vocabulary for prompting AI to produce better UI animations.

Builds and open-sources gbrain, an opinionated OpenClaw/Hermes agent brain that lets Codex, Claude, and other agents share persistent, compounding memory across a dedicated server.

Builds and ships Claude Code skills, including /last30days, an AI agent skill that researches any topic across Reddit, X, YouTube, HN, and the web and synthesizes grounded summaries.

Creator of index.how, a designer's vocabulary reference that ships as an installable skill for Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor to help articulate precise design intent to devs and AI.

Builder of the illo agent skill, which turns articles and ideas into editorial illustrations using reference-locked, recurring character packs with built-in QA and re-rolls.

SEO and AI specialist who writes about making websites agent-ready and ships free tools and specs like an OKF bundle generator and EntityMap for AI search.

Builds and ships the Hermes Agent at Nous Research, openly sharing engineering reports like token-cost evaluations and tool optimizations.

Co-founded June and the company that became Lyft; now ships agent-first open-source tooling — including the Printing Press, a CLI-factory and library of agent-native CLIs.