nowfound

Dev tools · August 4, 2026

Vibe Buddy

Hardware for AI coding

Vibe Buddy launched on August 4, 2026 with 161 votes, #187 of 23,274 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches.

What it does

Vibe Buddy is a small desktop robot that keeps Codex and Claude Code usage limits and task status visible while you work. See when your AI is working, needs your input, has finished, or has hit its usage limit—without opening another tab.

A tiny orange desk robot made to keep Codex and Claude Code task status and usage limits in sight.

A tiny desk robot that keeps your Codex and Claude Code task status and usage limits visible while you work. Meet your AI hardware. See your limits, what is done, and what needs you without opening another tab. Keep your Codex and Claude Code usage percentages and reset times visible. See when your AI needs an answer or approval—and when it’s done working. One local companion keeps both tools visible on the same little screen. 81 × 54 × 25 mm / 3.2 × 2.1 × 1.0 in — small enough to live beside your keyboard. Keep it plugged in over USB-C, or unplug it and move it around your desk. Every photo and video shows the working prototype. Nothing is AI-generated. Vibe Buddy is still a working…from vibebuddy.sh

Does a similar job

all alternatives →
  • Vibe PocketDec 2025 · vibepocket.com · ▲135

    Run AI agents like Claude Code, Codex, Opencode on mobile

  • Claude 22023 · claude.ai · ▲248

    It was quite interesting to vibe code this artifact. I learned some basic ideas about commitment scheme and hash cryptography in the half and hour spent on this. One of the few times vibe coding left me feeling enriched rather than drained. What do you think?

  • VibeAroundApr 2026 · vibearound.ai · ▲102

    Keep your vibe coding agents around.

  • VibeScan2025 · vibescan.io · ▲320

    Ship AI code with confidence.

  • VibeKit CLI2025 · vibekit.sh · ▲153

    The safety layer for your coding agent

  • VF
    Vibecoders – Find software engineers that are good at vibecoding2025 · ▲17

    If you are concerned about AI replacing your coding job, fear not! Just level up and get very good at vibecoding. "Vibe coding is the art of leveraging AI tools to their fullest potential in software development, creating a seamless fusion between human creativity and machine intelligence. It represents a paradigm shift where developers orchestrate AI systems rather than writing every line manually." The big tools out there are cursor, cline, aider, and Claude Code. https://andrewarrow.dev/ This site was made with Claude Code from just 1 prompt. Go ahead and register and give…

More dev tools this month

the category →
  • /dev/null▲468

    a social network for devs

    Dev tools · 2d ago · dev-null.sh

  • open-source IDE for thoughtful software design. Contribute to devdotfast/whiteboard development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Dev tools · 27d ago · github.com

  • Contribute to reladraw/reladraw development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Dev tools · 25d ago · github.com

  • OpenBot▲362

    Grok Bot alternative: free, local, open-source, multiplayer

    Dev tools · 22d ago · openbot.run

  • Talanoa▲340

    Hi HN, I’m a fullstack developer, and honestly, I’ve lost count of how many side projects I’ve worked on over the years. But one idea kept coming back to me: a different kind of email client. It first came to me in 2014: “What if we could handle emails more like conversations?” Every year, I’d revisit this concept in my “Build Notes.” Ten years later, no one had built exactly what I had in mind — so I finally decided to do it myself. That’s how Talanoa was born. I wanted something focused on people, not timelines. I was tired of marking messages as unread just to remember to reply later, or…

    Dev tools · 20d ago · talanoa.email

  • CoreSpeed▲332

    One MCP for everything your agents need: apps, memory, tools

    Dev tools · 27d ago · corespeed.io

Source: Product Hunt launch ↗

Launched alongside, August 2026

the whole month →
  • TL

    Life & fun · Aug 2026 · louisabraham.github.io

  • Hey Noah▲656

    A proactive AI executive assistant for founders

    AI · Aug 2026 · heynoah.io

  • Hey HN, We recently built Clipto. It’s a tool that lets you search over terabytes of video, audio, and images on your computer, without relying on the cloud. Motivation: we probably all had this similar experience, we know a moment exists in a video or audio, but finding it takes hours scrubbing the timeline. You can send all the media to process in the cloud, but it’s slow, expensive and raises privacy concerns. So we decided to build our own on-device media search engine. How it works (high level): 1. We ingest video, audio, image; normalize formats via ffmpeg; run content analysis to…

    Work · Aug 2026 · clipto.com

  • Hello HN! I found that picking out plausible but diverse skin tones for my digital art and game development projects was kind of difficult, and I got curious about if there was a way to define a color space that made it easy. I've built a color picker and procedural generation algorithm based on the space as well as a bunch of other fun js features and demos throughout the page that use the equations. If you find it interesting, I have lots of explanations of how I built it and what properties the space has. The methodology might be a bit shaky, but hopefully the result is as helpful for…

    Life & fun · Aug 2026 · toneyalexander.github.io

  • AdAnt AI▲620

    Claude for viral, high-converting social ads

    AI · Aug 2026 · adant.ai

  • Astute▲606

    Automate your B2B brand going viral, with new media creators

    AI · Aug 2026 · company-app.joinastute.com