Daily Launch Index: March 16, 2026.

On March 16, 2026, I recorded 93 new product launches. This report provides a breakdown of what was built, how it was named, and the technology used to launch it.

This data helps you understand current market trends and see what competitors or fellow builders are working on right now. Use this index to find inspiration or to study successful launch strategies.

01 AM (3 projects shared)

• Simple command-line tool and Emacs package for managing diary entries
• Lockstep – A data-oriented programming language
• The 8kB state container that replaces the infrastructure you'd otherwise rebuild

04 AM (6 projects shared)

• Cog – A cognitive architecture for Claude Code (just Markdown files)
• Open Source tool to detect On-Call Burnout from incident response patterns
• Attention Residuals: Rethinking depth-wise aggregation [pdf]
• Clock-accurate FPGA replacement for NES PPU
• Warp-types: GPU shuffle UB becomes a compile error (Rust, Lean proof, zero cost)
• Search for Apple Messages

05 AM (2 projects shared)

• Agentic Trust Framework (ATF)
• Performance: 53% faster parse+render, 61% fewer allocations

07 AM (7 projects shared)

• Metropolis – A system monitor that turns your processes into a living city
• Excalihub – Chrome Extension to extend Excalidraw's capabilities
• Pywho – Python Environment Inspector
• Block ads system-wide on Android using local VPN-based DNS filtering
• Virtual iPhone (iOS26) on Apple Private Cloud Compute (PCC) research VM
• Cursor Rules and Prompts
• Neuroscope: Real-time "x-ray vision" into LLMs' minds

08 AM (8 projects shared)

• Flame – A PureScript Front-End Framework Inspired by the Elm Architecture
• Bb-browser – Turn the web into agent-friendly CLI
• List of Rules for Cursor
• MCP Remind: MCP Has Its Own Place
• Vizit – Generate and organise visualizations from Jira using AI agents
• SH4ZAM – Fast Math Library for the Sega Dreamcast's SH4 CPU
• Shard – Stop watching one AI agent code for 45 min. Run four at once
• A curated list of AI slops

09 AM (5 projects shared)

• WebMCP
• ASAT (Advanced Spreadsheet Alteration Tool)
• Generate, Clean, and Prepare LLM Training Data, All-in-One
• Would maintaining such an open-source project be helpful to my career?
• OpenCLI – Turn any website into a CLI, reusing your Chrome login

10 AM (2 projects shared)

• Node File Trace – determines which files a Node application needs to run
• Paseo – Run coding agents from your phone, desktop, or terminal (FOSS)

11 AM (5 projects shared)

• Agile ain't as bad when done by clankers
• AI agent autonomously used BoTorch to predict CFPB enforcement actions
• Open source Chrome extension to customize Veesion alert notification sounds
• Dictare – Open-source voice layer for AI coding agents (100% local)
• Promptfoo: Test your prompts, agents, and RAGs

01 PM (6 projects shared)

• Reverse Captcha for Agents
• Waves: Bluetooth Channel Sounding Tool
• JavaScript Minification Benchmarks
• Scryer – Visual architecture modeling for AI agents
• LLMonster Rancher
• Vibecheck – lint for AI-generated code smells (JS/TS/Python)

05 PM (5 projects shared)

• A modern iperf3 alternative with a live TUI, multi-client server, and QUIC
• Build Claude Code Local Business Static Sites in Minutes
• HypergraphZ – A Hypergraph Implementation in Zig
• Codex Shortcut – Turn Your Codex into Claude Cowork
• Python 100 days (translated from Chinese)

06 PM (8 projects shared)

• Rambles on Compile-Time C++
• Until They Make an MCP-Arena
• Release ReadyPC v1.0: First Public Release · Gloom-Team/ReadyPC
• A local AI workspace with dynamic routing and Docker-sandboxed
• Cool GitHub Copilot Metrics Dashboard
• Todo or else, a CLI for enforcing Todo deadlines
• Claude Code's permission system misses compound commands – here's a fix
• ReadyPC: An open-source Windows optimizer for speed and gaming – built with Rust

07 PM (8 projects shared)

• Avalonia WebView Is Now Free and Open Source
• LLM Memory Storage that scales, easily integrates, and is smart
• Autoresearch for SAT Solvers
• Smart glasses that tell me when to stop pouring
• All Linus rants from 2012 to 2015
• Open-source agent first AEO monitoring platform
• Metrify – open-source annotation-driven Micrometer metrics for Spring Boot
• 3D-print your brain from an MRI scan, in the browser

08 PM (15 projects shared)

• MaximusLLM – Train 262k-vocab LLMs on a single 16GB GPU
• ZFS NAS Chezmoi – A One Binary ZFS Management Portal (Golang)
• AI Tool Center
• AgentClick – Human-in-the-loop review UI for AI coding agents
• Templated prompts that travel with you over SSH
• Simple, standalone tools for working with multimodal data
• LTX-Desktop-WanGP
• Run.dev – A single Rust binary that replaces MAMP, Nginx for local dev
• Reckless Drivin' (2000) ported to native SDL2 for macOS and Linux
• Why Replit's $9B Valuation Looks Cheap
• OpenShell: Nvidia's sandbox for AI agents like OpenClaw
• Investing Withous Bias or Emotion
• Godom – a Go framework for local apps using the browser as the UI
• Gitblurb – CLI tool that generates PR descriptions from your Git diff
• Headcount Zero: How to Build an AI-Run Company with Paperclip

09 PM (7 projects shared)

• AI agents framework for TypeScript and Deno
• Theorem_ledger.md
• macOS ElevenLabs Scribe v2 app
• AI Governance That Runs: Building a Deterministic Execution Gate
• Kbot – Terminal AI agent that learns your patterns, runs offline
• Don't template YAML, poke it
• Vt100wasm – Python and JavaScript bindings for Rust vt100 compiled to WASM

10 PM (3 projects shared)

• API tests as files instead of Postman collections (Skivvy)
• OpenAI Codex Game Studio Plugin
• Created a tool that prevents accidental pasting of PII in AI prompts

11 PM (3 projects shared)

• Pg_TypeScript: Write Postgres Functions in TypeScript
• Cnsplots: A Python library for Cell, Nature, and Science quality plots
• Stream0, the messaging layer for AI agents. HTTP-native, event-driven