Stop reading about AI.
Go build something.
Every project here is one finished thing you make end to end — an agent that does a real job, AI inside a tool you already use, or a robot on your desk. Built the cheap way: the model works it out once, then your code runs it forever for nothing.
What do you want to make?
Agents that work
Assistants and tool-using agents that do a real job, on a schedule or on demand.Browse →🔌AI in things
Put a model inside something you already use — a sheet, a site, an inbox, a doorbell.Browse →🕸️Scrapers & crawlers
Pull data off the web reliably — and know when the page is fighting you.Browse →🤖Real robots
Pi and ESP32 builds with sensors, motors and cameras, where the model does the deciding.Browse →⌨️Programming with AI
Use AI to actually write software — and build the judgment to know when it's wrong.Browse →Projects worth your weekend
A bot that reads your inbox and texts you the important bits
Every morning at 7am, a Telegram message with the three emails that actually need you and a one-line summary of each.
A spreadsheet column that thinks
A custom =ASK() formula in your own spreadsheet. Drag it down a column of customer feedback and get sentiment, category and a summary in three columns.
A camera that texts you when a package arrives
A small camera by your door that watches for a delivery, sends you a photo and a description, and ignores the cat.
Getting AI to review your code and actually catch things
A command you run before committing that reviews only your diff against rules you set, and stays quiet when there's nothing to say.
A scraper that tells you when a page changes
A script that watches any set of pages — prices, job boards, policy pages — and messages you only when something you care about actually changed.
Most tutorials stop at the demo
Every project has been built
Not generated, not adapted from a README. If a project is published here, it ran on real hardware or a real account, and the parts that were annoying are called out.
The code is complete
No // rest of implementation. You can copy what's on the page and run it. Where something needs your key or your path, it says so at that line.
Built to cost nothing to run
Every project states what it costs to build and per month to keep alive — and most are engineered so the recurring cost is zero. Pay for judgment, never for execution.
Or follow a route from nothing to capable
Zero to your first working agent
Never built anything with AI before. Start here.
Make something physical
From never having touched a microcontroller to a working device.
Ship agents you can trust
For developers putting agents in front of other people.
Read this before you build
Bots are agents that stopped needing to think
A bot isn't the primitive thing agents replaced — it's the part of an agent whose decision has already been made, running reliably at zero marginal cost. Where to spend a model, and where not to.
10 min read →
Schedule the assistant, or schedule the codeTwo ways to make AI do something every morning
One route has a cost per run and the other doesn't. Invisible at once a day, decisive at a thousand — with the arithmetic, the task ceilings, and how to choose.
12 min read →
Why this all mattersWhen everyone can generate words, the only edge left is data nobody else has
Fluent writing is now free, so it signals nothing. First-hand data still can't be faked — and collecting it systematically is a bot problem a single person can solve.
12 min read →
Rather have it built for you?
Pick any build sheet, or describe the job. You get a scope and a fixed quote back, and everything runs on your own accounts.
What will it cost to run?
Put your volumes in and see what a task costs when a model judges every run, versus when it's code. Current API prices.
Do the arithmetic →
🎓Free course: The Practical AI Builder
Six short lessons on how working AI systems are put together, with knowledge checks and a certificate at the end. No signup, about 40 minutes.
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🤝Stuck? Find a helper
Tell us what you're making and we'll show you who can get you unstuck, build it with you, or build it for you. Small, hand-checked roster.
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One new build sheet a week
A new project every Thursday, written by a person who built it. No hype, no roundups, no "10 AI tools that will change everything".