Free software: Google, Notion, Supabase, etc. GitHub’s top 10 repos

0:00This week I have over 1,000 free software apps from brands you know. I have a simple tool that will copy any website. I have a free alternative to Google Drive, email, calendar, and the whole suite available to you. And I have an insanely popular Claude add-on that will allow you to be as smart as Warren Buffett. Let's find out. All that and so

0:18much more. Presented by Zapier, the AI automation company. Peter is back and we've got the top 10 GitHub repos of the week based on stars. This is what's trending and we're looking at number one most popular unfortunately is an AI Berkshire Berkshire Hathaway. Essentially, what this does is it analyzes stock for you and it lets you know whether it's a good investment and it comes at it from the perspective of four different traders. I say act cuz I'm not really into the trading AI tools. Having said that, this one's kind of interesting. I like how it brings in Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, brings in Duan Yongping, and Li

0:53Lu. I think none of this actually makes sense until you see an actual report which I have here for you which I ran using this. I said analyze SpaceX um as a value investor. This is the report it got. I actually used my design skill to make it look better. And this is what it said. It said, "AI business see valuation. Monitor. Don't chase this one." It said, "Look, the valuation at about $2 trillion is too much." Um Obviously, we all know SpaceX private

1:21for most of its life. It yada yada yada. I like how it starts to analyze it on six dimensions and where is this? As it goes through, you can see what Warren Buffett might say. It's a wonderful business, but you can pay too much for a wonderful business. At 30 to 40 times forward sales, you're not buying a company, you're buying a

1:39flawless future. And it's it's actually a really solid um research [clears throat] doc. What do you think about this? Well, we all want to get rich, don't we? So, I mean, technically, we should be giving this the thumbs up. But, uh yeah, I did actually look through the repo for this and all of the skills are written in Chinese, so it's quite opaque if you're not familiar with Chinese to kind of understand exactly what it's doing. You can click on English on the on the read me, but the actual underlying skills are all in [clears throat] Chinese. Uh but there's some tools that it uses for

2:10reading financial data and share prices and stuff like that. So, it's kind of well put together, but yeah, it's a little bit opaque just to to scroll through and look at. All right, that is number one. Let's look at number two. This one is a lot clearer. It's called Simple X Chat. The idea is that every chat app out there is asking asking you for something about you to connect it back to you. And the big thing that they ask for is a phone number. What Simple X decided to do is say, "We don't want any of it." In fact, I created an account. All you have

2:41to do is just say what name you want to you want to use, and that's it. You're ready to talk. It has some interesting backers. Jack Dorsey put $1.3 million into it. Vitalik put in 120 ETH into it. Um and it's got some real strong support. What do you think of this one? I haven't used it, but I know it was uh reviewed like the protocols behind it were reviewed by Trail of Bits. So, that's a kind of a trusted source in this area. Um so, it does have some credibility. It seems like there's money going into it, and I kind of like the thing which I think you might even going

3:15to show in a minute where you just use a QR code, as you can see in that image there. Um to you know, chat with other people. You're not got like a profile that people are searching for and you know, getting spammed on and everything. So, that's kind of cool. I like that aspect of it. Yeah, I hate how all the private messaging apps will still want access to my phone book so that they can then connect, and then you get spammed. Yeah, here. Uh if anyone wants to try it out, this is my account down there. I'm not big on texting, but for the next few

3:42days I'll be texting you back if you text me, and I'd love to hear from you if you're using to be the most popular user on there. Right. [laughter] Yeah. Um at least for a week until I move on. By the way, once again, we are doing great with the GitHub repo show. People are freaking loving it and I love all your comments. Thank you. I On the weekend, I just like go and I search and I feel great about myself. And so I figured, you know what? Let's start activating the community. I would love to get Matt Van Horn on here. We have featured two of his GitHub repos here in

4:12the past, even when they weren't top 10. I thought they were worth looking at. He is he's killing it and I want to bring him on here to talk. So please help me get him. That's his link right there on X and I'd love for your support on there. If you're not into it, just throw us a thumbs up. And if you want to subscribe to Peter, we'll have a link to him below so you can subscribe to him. Thanks for all the subscriptions and support and comments that you've given us. And if I could activate you a little more, help me bring Matt Van Horn, a great creator, on

4:37here to be part of the program. That's uh That's it. Let's go on to number three. We've talked about Open Montage before. This has been doing really well. What it does is it creates video by bringing in a lot of video tools that you already have access to and making them more available. Here's an example of what it's what it's done. You can add

4:58music, you can add voice. Um, you can have it create from scratch or just use archived video that's free or or uh uh video that's free for you to use so that if you don't want AI slop, you can get that too. Any thoughts on this one? I like the fact that this brings together a lot of existing parts rather than building all of its own stuff from scratch. So, one of the things it leans on quite heavily is something called Remotion, which is a React framework that can be used to create videos in a programmatic way, basically using source code. And I don't I didn't see a lot of heavy use

5:36for years, but then a few months ago people realized that, wow, you can use AI to build the code that puts together cool videos. So suddenly Twitter was flooded with all of these illustration videos of people showing their projects off and products and screenshots and stuff. Um and so, you know, if you don't even want to use something like Open Montage, just go and look at Remotion cuz some of the stuff that it can produce is absolutely amazing. You know, I've used it with Claude code and told and told it, you know, "Demonstrate this project for me." and it'll pull together all the pieces, take the screenshots,

6:07and then whiz it together into a video. So, yeah, I like the fact that this brings together some really established parts and those parts are worth looking at separately as well. Yeah, right. Um yeah, and I've got this uh report for you all if you want it. There'll be a link to this in the description, too, and you can see what it's bringing together, what you have

6:22access to. All right. This uh interview sponsored by Zapier. I Listen, one of the things that we considered bringing on here is this. [snorts] This was a GitHub repo that just took off because what it does is it allows your agent to use AI, sorry, to use Google Workspace to get access to email, to calendar, to drive, etc. The person who created it did this post on X where he says, "Two months ago I was fired by

6:50Google for creating the Workspace CLI." This whole thing went viral. And so, I talked to him. I wanted to do an interview with him, and it didn't work out. I spent over an hour with him hand-holding me as I tried to use this to connect my Hermes agent to Google Workspace so my agent could have email, calendar, etc. It just did not work, and at the end of over an hour together, I said, "Justin, I think this is not going to make a good good video." He said, "I agree. I accept it." He said, "He The trouble is Google Cloud is just not meant to be as easy It's meant to be

7:23easier. It's just not as easy as it should be." So, then afterwards, I said, "You know what? If I want to connect Why Why didn't I think of this before? I'm just going to go to to zapier.com/mcp and I'll just use the checkboxes to give it access to all the things that I want

7:38to." And um and that's it. Now, I've done this before for my own Google account, but I realized I could just create a whole new account for my Hermes agent and then use Zapier MCP to connect it. Literally took less than 5 minutes and it just works. That's the beauty of Zapier MCP. It will connect your agent to all the tools that you want, over 8,000 tools, and it's available for free trial. Go try it out. And thanks to Zapier, we're going to add three special honorable mentions here to the list this week um that did not hit the list, did not hit the charts, but we think you

8:08need to take a look at. The first is Pony Tail. This is from you. Peter, what is Pony Tail? I'm actually surprised this didn't come up cuz it's had 70,000 stars really quickly. So, I think, you know, it is very popular. And I think that's because it just does something that a lot of developers want AI to do, and that is to implement the thing that they asked for in the most simple way possible. So, if you say, you know, like, can you put a color picker on a page? Don't just go and like find all these random React components and build this this infrastructure around it and just make

8:40everything really like what is the simplest like one line of code that will bam do that thing? And so, the example on the page right there is a date picker, for example. It's like rather than install hundreds of components to do things, just put in input type date, done. Um and so, I've actually used this with one of my agents. I didn't want to run this on everything cuz it sometimes oversimplifies. Sometimes you need that extra abstraction. But for doing like one-off scripts for like connecting to some a service or processing some data locally or whatever, you want it to be really really quick, really really

9:10simple, and just do things the direct straightforward way. This These are the skills that help you do that, and it basically uses this metaphor of a pony tail developer. I've never encountered this character in the wild, but uh there's a picture of uh the chap there. He's the sort of person that when you ask someone, "Oh, you know, look at my code." He'll say, "Oh, you could get

9:31rid of that. You could get rid of that." That's the pony tail guy, apparently. [snorts] And uh that's what it will do your agent. Yeah. Uh [laughter] I've heard it called the skill that makes your AI coding agent act like the laziest senior dev in the in the room. It doesn't want to do all the work.

9:47Keeps it simple. I need to go apologize. There it is. The next one is Nextcloud server. I've had a situation, Peter, where my data was just too big to put on Google Drive. It was starting to get too expensive and I said, "How do I put it on my own system?" I didn't discover this. I found a solution that was way too complicated and I have it and I've lived with it. What I like about this is that it basically brings Google Drive and then it expanded to all the or as many of the Google features as it could into an open-source solution so that you can host your own data. Some

10:21people do it for privacy. I did it because it was getting too expensive to pay a monthly fee. I realized I could just buy the hardware once and move on and I really like this one. It's got great reviews. It has hardware that you can connect with it. Makes it really simple here. And [snorts] so, I like this. Um and then finally in the honorable mentions is this. I love Superhuman. I know that a lot of people can't pay the $30 a month for this email that will do things like uh write uh first drafts of responses in your name, organize your email, get you to

10:57inbox zero. This is a free version of that that you can self-host. You can go to their website and get it. Super easy to use. Super beautiful. Anyone on your team can implement this. I really like this system and I like how it connects to so many other tools uh that we know. You can't have it hosted by them or you

11:16can host it yourself. Have you tried this one or have you heard of inbox zero? Uh I've not. I'm only familiar with the concept of inbox zero which I try to adhere to unsuccessfully. Um the only problem I have with things like this is that you really are placing a lot of trust in a system and when it's something that has my name on it like email, like I'm very reluctant to hand you know, hand that over. So, I've really struggled to implement tools like this myself because I just don't want to have that like one poisoning the well moment where an email or a sentence gets

11:50out that's not me or is something you know, that I've not said. Um and then suddenly everyone's like, oh he's using AI for his email. Like I just can't deal with that. So, yeah, it's not for me, but I can see you know, a lot of people do use these things very successfully. So, I use it on one account but not my my personal account where I have all kinds of personal information. All

12:11right. Let's go on. Number four repo of the week is design.md from Google. We've seen this. It's been out there for a while. What it does is it it basically takes your whole style guide and lets all your agents use it to create good design that fits within your structure. Um I've got this video here. I just there's so many videos on this. It has done so well on X. I just like this guy for some reason. Here here he's showing you Google what this design.md is. It's literally like a file like a code file

12:41like a txt file. [music] And it has the name of the theme here and then the colors by hex code, the typography. It's just a full design system. Here it is creating it from a website. make it is this button here says you can import from website. And that's for me. and just paste in your website. So, let's paint paste in

13:03graysonsgraphics.com. Import. Use the design system from this website. Just try to make an app. My website right now points to paintfactory.shop which is my hand-painted clothing brand. [laughter] I like this guy for some reason. Um I think this is useful. I'm glad that it's here. Um what do you think? This is a formalization of something that's been going around for a while now, which is where you basically put together a design system in a markdown file. So, like the colors that your site uses, the fonts that it uses, English descriptions of, you know, the style and things like that. And this has

13:42been around for actually quite a while. It's just that now this group within Google, and I think I don't you can officially say this is Google as such, but these people within Google have basically come up with a more structured way to define these things. And, you know, there are some now in the wild. So, I know Vercel, the cloud company, for example,

14:02they have one at vercel.com/design.md. And if you take like your Claude code or your Codex or whatever and you tell it go and read this design.md and then build me a web page that, you know, follows this design system, then it will do a very good job of that. And it's actually quite fun to do so. So, like you can see there, for example, it literally goes into all the detail of every single type of style they use on their pages. So, if you want a page that looks like a Vercel design page, this actually works really well. I had a lot of fun playing with this. And yeah, it'd

14:33be cool to see if more sites use it. But it is literally just a markdown file with some, you know, front matter with the colors and things. You don't have to write it in this prescribed Googley way. You can just put whatever you like in there. But this is Google's take on, or a Google team's take on how to

14:49structure that file. I'm really big on these things, especially because anytime you ask AI, like even Claude desktop Claude code to create a PDF for you, it all looks like the Claude design. And if you have one of these, it's it'll transform it and make it look a lot better. All right, next. The number five of the week is code-based memory MCP. Your coding agent

15:13has amnesia. This solves it. We've talked about this before. Let's quickly talk about it now and then we can move on from it. But it's it's solving an important problem, right? Uh yes, so basically the idea is that rather than just let your agents loose on a massive code base, which you know, could be thousands, like they use the Linux kernel as an example, which is

15:35tens of thousands of files. Mhm. Uh and it's you know, it's many, many megabytes, hundreds of megabytes in size. Rather than letting your agent loose on that and try to figure out where it's going, what this will do is it will actually process your source code into a much more structured kind of smaller form um that then can be queried. So, you can say, "Oh, where is such and such a function defined within this entire code base?" Rather than say, "Oh, search all of the files for this particular text." It's basically just a takes things up another level in terms of being able to search through a

16:09structured code base without it just being plain text files. There is actually some structure behind it, and that will improve the agent's behavior. Uh this Reddit post that I showed was from the creator talking about the problem he had and how he's solving it, and uh I'll have a link here if you want to see people's responses. So far, it's

16:26it's been decent. Um and it's been popular. Let's move on to the next one. Number six for the week is no mistakes. This is a smart safety net for your code before you share it with your team. I wrote this up on how it works using Gemini. What How would you explain this? So, it's kind of unusual, at least for me, to see someone actually make a Git proxy server. And so, what that means is that this kind of sits in between where you're developing and say something like GitHub or your company's repo or whatever. Um this sits in the middle, and then you can push code into it with this, you know,

17:04no mistakes thing, and then it will kind of set up this extra environment, and test your code, and improve it, and stuff like that before it then goes on to the final destination, which, you know, it's It's of a cool way of doing it. Um I'm not sure it's how I would do it. I'd rather just run the tools locally and you know, improve my code locally, but uh there are concepts like continuous integration and things like that where you do have services running on a remote server improving things and then reporting back to you. So, this is just kind of taking that idea and doing it

17:36with like AI reviews of code as well. So, yeah, it's cool to see someone do it, but uh yeah, the proof will be in the pudding as I say. This one is the newest of all of them. It was created just a few months ago, April 2026. It's moving fast, but like you said, let's see the proof in the

17:55pudding. Number seven, AI website cloner template. This is if you want to copy a website that you own with an easy way to do it, keep the code simple afterwards. That's what it's about. I will hit mute on this and and then play it here. You can see the original on the left. You can see the copy on the right. You can see that he's not scrolling at the exact same speed for some reason, but you get the picture, right? The site is similar and if I scroll a little bit further through here, you can see how he

18:26did it. Easy to do. What do you think of this? What's the purpose? So, this I mean, the way they pitch it is like let's say you've got an old WordPress site that you know, is decades old and you want to create like a new static site or something of that kind of nature in a modern way that's nice and secure and very simple to deploy. You can in theory point this at your old site. It will, you know, work out what the design is, uh work, you know, find all the content and then can reproduce that in a a different way for you. Um and I mean, I cynically said when I

19:00first saw this that, you know, I think people will actually probably just use this to rip off other people's designs and I guess people could do that, too, but uh of course, you shouldn't. Um but yeah, so it It just adds a lot of wrapping around something that are actually really good at. Like, you could actually take Claude code, point it at a site, and ask it to do this already. Um so, this just kind of adds an extra little bit of wrapping around that and turns it into a command that you can run and so on. So, um if you need that extra nicety, then uh yeah, this could be for

19:27you. I see it. My wife had a Squarespace site that she'd been paying for for years, and it was just clunky, and I didn't like how the interface was, and I didn't like that you had to pay every month for it, and I didn't like all the tools that she had to use if she was using it. And so, I just told Claude code to copy it, and it wasn't super easy. I I did it before the slash loop command was out there, but it worked, and I was able to

19:52do it just using Opus 47 or Opus 46. It's not that hard to do. I would have actually used this for simplicity. I I get that value. Yeah, I mean, this gives you the the extra guardrails, you know, along the process, essentially. If you don't want to sort of sit there and, you know, put 20 different prompts in and fix this, fix that, this will help kind of get it to a more finished

20:12point like in a one-shot. Speaking of my wife, she woke up this morning, and she showed me her ring. Our engagement ring is missing the diamond. It fell out. It is shocking. She's looking all over the place for before, yeah. Ah, it happened before to you? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, like, we're talking about a couple hundred-dollar

20:32ring, so I I wouldn't get too upset. Uh I wonder. No. Yeah, I I don't know how we'll find it, but we'll see. Maybe the kids can find it. [snorts] All right. I'm a little anxious about that. Let's move on to the next one. [snorts] Ling bot map. All right, you feed it a stream of camera frames, it reconstructs a 3D scene in real time. It is actually incredible to watch this. I've got some video here for you on Twitter, but I think the one they have on GitHub is the best one for you to see. Here is the output. So, you've got in turn inside

21:07place, uh you've got outdoors driving video. It's basically piecing the map together. Here it is working. The top right, you can see the video. The bottom, you can see the map being created from it. Interesting project. Tools for something like this can be pretty expensive. I told you we're thinking about moving to Mexico for a year, and so we decided to rent out our house while we're away, and they sent people over to really map the place with

21:35intense hardware. And I I don't know that this is a solution for them, but for simple use, you don't need that intense hardware and that whole setup. You just run around like a maniac like they are in this. Anything to add on this before we move on? Um no, just that there are a lot of models that do this type of thing, and it seems to be increasingly popular. And I think it'd be so cool to, you know, what if you could just take a you know, a bunch of pictures around your house, and then just like load it into a game or something like that, you know, you

22:01can be running around your house playing Counter-Strike or whatever it is. Um that would be quite fun, but uh yeah. You know what? This is why I wanted to include this tweet. It isn't the kind of thing I could just run on my phone. It requires Nvidia GPU. This is not This is not yet ready for me

22:19to start using. No, but bear in mind that the artifacts that can be produced from this can run on more efficient hardware. So, if, you know, for example, there was a service where you could upload um all these different photos to it created like a 3D model of an environment or something like that, then of course you could then access that

22:36model and use it on your local hardware. You don't necessarily have to be the one doing this process. But, if you do want to do it, then these are the models that you would use. All right. That's number eight. Let's go on to number nine. This is free for Dev. It is a collection of free tools. You know how companies really want developers to sign up and use their software because once they do, these companies get to land and expand. Everybody else on the company starts to use it or the company starts to rely on it. And so all these companies we know about, Google Cloud

23:08Platform, Amazon Web Services, and so many others, will give you free access if you're a developer. This is a collection of them. You can actually see it right here. You can just scroll through it. I used Claude to put together some of the famous brands that you can see on there. You You said that

23:25you've linked to this before. Yeah, so cuz I run a lot of development newsletters, this actually comes up quite a lot and it's been around about 11 years now. And one of the things I really like about it is that out of all these kind of curated lists you get, this one is very heavily maintained. So, you know, it's kept up to date, which is good cuz a lot of these free offers will come and go. So, this is something that is worth checking not just once, but, you know, every several months. Or if you just need anything like it has so many things on it, like, you know, free DNS hosting and

23:57what sort of web hosting can you get and email and you know, are there places that you can run compute for free and it's literally a flood of things. There's like over a thousand things on here. In fact, you might even need an AI agent just to go through it and find out what it is that you could actually use from it. So, uh yeah, but always the only thing to to watch out for is that sometimes companies will offer free tiers, but there may be some kind of catch on the back end that, you know, there might be a subscription or you know, if you overrun it, it might go

24:26into something that's quite expensive. So, always be careful, you know, with these things, but the list itself is is very sound and very good. So, this is actually it has come up in Hacker News. I've got it in the controversy section of the report. Um again, it's available for download. What people do say, "Yeah, it is free, but then you also have to pay for." And this has come up quite a bit that you don't

24:48always get a fully free everything. No, I mean, AWS is a good example of that. I mean, they have a free tier that, you know, you can have like a small VM running and uh you get a certain amount of transfer for free and things like that, but it's so easy like to step outside that golden path suddenly fall into a morass of you know, billing and stuff like that and some of these things that you know, offer free tiers will still want your credit card details beforehand so that if you do fall off of that golden path suddenly you're being charged for something. So just be careful. I mean there are some

25:20really good deals out there, but yeah, be careful. It is a good collection. Final one for the week is Orca desktop IDE that runs many AI coding agents in parallel each in its own work tree. I explained to you before we got started why what I thought it was and you corrected me. So I'll let you explain this one. So you know, imagine you've got something like an IDE. So you've got something like VS code for example, which has lots of you know, different text editors within it. Well, now imagine if you change that I to an A and you had an agentic developer

25:53environment. [snorts] The idea of that is that basically it's a desktop app where you can load in multiple agents all at the same time. So you can have multiple different you know, code X or Pi or Claude code all running at the same time on a single project and you can kind of see and orchestrate them all within that app rather than having lots of different terminal windows open and losing them

26:15and stuff like that. There've been a whole bunch of tools like this over the years. Um well, I'll say over the years. I mean literally like in the last 18 months. It feels time is going by way too quickly for me. Um but this is just another entry into that basically. Um you know, there's a big feature set here of how it works, but yeah, it's cool. Like if you do if you've just got lots of agents working on a project and I don't tend to use

26:38many at a time because I'm old. Uh but if you do like having like 10 different agents running at the same time on the same project, this could help you bring that all into one app and keep tabs on it a lot better. And [snorts] a mobile uh mobile access people are really loving. Um though I'm surprised it doesn't have

26:56that many reviews on on Apple App Store. Yeah, it's very new though. Okay. Uh yeah, new Rebo mid-March 2026. All right. This is this week's top 10 list. I've got last week's top 10 list which people went nuts for, especially the voice dictation app which I've been hearing a lot of. There's a link for it right down on the screen and of course you could subscribe to me and Peter right below this video and I'll see you on the next

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