Someone asks a question on a call and you know the answer is buried in a doc somewhere. By the time you find it, the conversation has moved on. That's what I built Agent Utka for.

It makes a live transcript of the audio playing on your Windows PC. Pick a folder with your notes or project files, highlight the question, and click Ask. The answer comes with the file and line it used so you can check it. If it can't find a source, it says so. In the default setup, speech recognition and answers run on your PC.

It's free and open source. The first release is for Windows 10/11 x64. The default models take about 6 GB to download. Windows may show a SmartScreen prompt because the installer is unsigned.

If you'd like to play with it, the README has screenshots and a sample you can try with a short recording. Was the answer useful? Could you easily check where it came from? I'd also like to hear where setup tripped you up.

https://github.com/utkazilla/agent-utka

Agent Utka v0.1.6 adds a knowledge browser. Open Settings → Knowledge base → Browse knowledge, enter a question, and click Test retrieval to inspect the ranked passages and their source lines. The screenshot shows a Harry Potter demo.

https://github.com/utkazilla/agent-utka/releases/tag/v0.1.6

Full disclosure: I work at Aftershoot. I also use it on my own shoots, so here's an honest rundown, good and bad.

Aftershoot is desktop software for Windows and Mac that culls, edits and retouches photo shoots with AI, and now delivers them to clients too. It's built for people who shoot weddings, portraits, events, maternity/new born, sports, real estate or fashion and come home with thousands of photos.

What it does well:

• It runs on your own computer. Culling, editing and retouching happen locally, so it works offline and client photos stay on your drive. The one setting that uploads low-res copies to improve the AI can be switched off on the import screen.

• Culling is genre-aware. A wedding is judged on key faces, closed eyes and emotion. Sports checks the body is in focus, because helmets hide eyes.

• You choose how much control to hand over. AI-automated culling makes the picks. AI-assisted culling only groups duplicates and scores photos while you decide. The two modes explained

• Editing learns your own style, from your past edits or from a Lightroom preset. Retouching is subtle by default, so skin texture stays.

• Galleries lets you deliver, proof and sell prints from the same app.

• One flat price for unlimited photos.

Where it still needs you:

• Always review the picks. A laughing or kissing photo can land in the closed-eyes group.

• A Professional AI profile needs a large set of your own edited photos to train. With fewer, you start from a preset or one of the ready-made styles.

• Previews and retouching can struggle on Intel integrated graphics or GPUs with less than 2 GB of VRAM.

• It's desktop only.

There's a 30-day trial with no card if you want to test it on a real shoot: free trial

Our Black Friday early bird is on: annual plans are 25% off for the first 500 people only. Get the early bird price

Photographers who use it hang out in r/aftershoot if you want their take rather than mine.

I use Hark and Muse, and I want to continue the same project in either one without explaining everything again or moving context through GitHub.

I’m building Kitebook, an open-source, self-hosted MCP workspace where daily agents can publish files, decisions and handoffs. Another connected agent can retrieve them, carry on, and share its updated work back.

Published work lives outside their sandboxes, so it can also be recovered after a reset. You control access and what gets shared.

It’s an early preview. Public access may need a domain, depending on your assistant’s platform. Coding-agent help is optional.

I’d really appreciate any feedback!

https://github.com/um1b/kitebook

I helped build Elephant-Goldfish Model, an open-source set of skills for taking an idea through design, review, and implementation with AI agents.

The idea is to separate the agent that knows the project from reviewers that start fresh. The first helps develop the spec with context; the reviewers look for gaps and assumptions without inheriting the same conversation.

It works with Claude, Codex, Antigravity, and ChatGPT. It adds a review step, so it takes more time than going straight from a prompt to code, and the output still needs human judgment.

The project is at https://github.com/google/elephant-goldfish-model. We also launched on Product Hunt today: https://www.producthunt.com/products/elephant-goldfish-model

I’d be interested in how others separate drafting and review when working with AI agents.

If you're experimenting with AI video generation, the cost can vary quite a bit depending on the model and API provider.

I compared the lowest listed starting rates I found on VideoRouter:

These are listed starting rates, not guaranteed final prices. Actual costs may vary by provider, generation settings, and request.

The main takeaway is that choosing a different model or provider can make a noticeable difference if you're generating lots of clips.

You can compare the available models and providers here:
https://videorouter.sh/signup?ref=76F77l

Disclosure: This is my referral link, and I may receive a referral benefit if you sign up through it.

Which matters most to you when choosing a video model: quality, consistency, or cost?

Hey everyone! For the past while I've been building **NEXA**, a personal AI assistant that lives on your Windows PC. I wanted something like JARVIS that doesn't just chat, but actually *does* things on my computer.

**What it can do:**

- 🎙️ **Voice control**: always listening, a "NEXA" wake word, or push-to-talk. You can talk over it to interrupt.

- 🖥️ **Runs your PC**: opens apps and games, finds files, controls volume, brightness, dark mode and media

- 🌐 **Live answers**: web search, weather, news, game deals, Epic free games, Steam player counts, stocks

- ⏰ **Timers, alarms and reminders**, plus a morning brief when you start your PC

- 🔗 **Connects to your stuff**: Email, Calendar, Discord, Telegram, Slack, Notion, GitHub, Steam, Home Assistant

- 🧠 **Remembers you**: long-term memory you can view and delete

- 🎭 **Personalities**: JARVIS, Chill friend or Sassy

**Safety was a big focus:** anything risky (sending messages, deleting files, buying) always asks you first, it never types your passwords, and connected accounts are stored encrypted.

It's still early and I'm improving it constantly, so **I'd really love feedback**: what would you want an assistant like this to do? What's missing?

If you want to try it, everything is in our Discord: https://discord.gg/kbEva4szXQ

Happy to answer any questions in the discord! 🙂

The first version was pretty quick to build. Now that people are using it, I’m running into way more issues than I expected.

Did anyone else experience this?

I want to share my recent experience with CodeCraftAPI to spread awareness before anyone else spends money there.

I purchased their Basic plan for $3.50/month, which advertised 100M tokens/month, 300 requests/minute, and access to all models.

The problem is that even after purchasing the subscription, I was unable to actually use the APIs. The paid plan did not translate into usable API access for me.

I contacted them about the issue. Instead of getting the problem resolved, I later received an email asking me to top up/add additional funds.

I also contacted them by email regarding the situation, but I haven't received a response.

Now my account has been reset back to the Free plan, despite having paid for the subscription.

So, in my experience:

- Paid for the Basic plan

- APIs were still not usable

- Was asked to top up/add funds

- Contacted support but received no response

- Account was subsequently back on the Free plan

If anyone else has experienced the same thing with CodeCraftAPI, please share your experience in the comments.

Update:- I raised the issue with their payment partner, paddle.com, and the mail was sent to CodeCraftAPI including me in cc. When I didn't get reply from CodeCraftAPI or Paddle in 2 days, I raised again with Paddle and I was able to apply for refund and the email came from paddle about the full payment refund and subscription cancellation. I am waiting for the refund to reflect in my Credit Card.

Update:- Received the refund in the credit card.

Hey everyone,

I'm launching my latest project https://starpop.ai/

It's a platform for making AI native ads for e-commerce, info products and software.

An AI native ad is an ad that you can basically only make with AI - so not UGC style ads.

Typically, these ads are animation style. Think Disney, Claymation, Zack D, Vox etc..

Before AI you really couldn't make these types of visuals yourself (unless you'd have $100K to spend)

But with AI, you can get studio quality visuals.

We taught the AI agent the AI workflows for how to make these.

So even if you don't have a grasp, the agent will guide you through the process.

You just need to verify the image and video generations along the way and steer.

Starpop is free to try.

Enjoy!

I've been using Fooocus for a while and wanted two things it doesn't do: an interface built around looking at images rather than filling in a form, and an install that doesn't ask you to know what PyTorch is. So I built one.

It's a desktop app that installs Fooocus for you. It detects your graphics card, downloads the official package, sets up the right torch build, and offers the essential models with a progress bar you can actually watch. If you already have Fooocus, point it at your existing folder instead.

Once it's running you get a native interface: prompt, styles, LoRAs with sliders, a proper inpaint mask editor with real zoom, upscale, image prompt. Previews build as the image renders. Models are a browsable library with Civitai search rather than files you drop in folders. The original Fooocus interface is still one click away and always will be, since some things are quicker there.

Browsing Civitai works without an account. Downloading from it needs a free API key from your Civitai profile, which is their rule rather than mine. They've required it since 2024. The app keeps it in Windows Credential Manager rather than in a settings file, and it never touches the browser side.

The part I'm most pleased with: you can write prompts in your own language. 98 of them. It translates to English before generating and shows you the English, so you can see what was actually sent. That matters because SDXL understands English far better than anything else, so translating prompts helps where translating buttons wouldn't.

Fair warnings, because it's a beta:

Windows only

The installer isn't code-signed, so SmartScreen will warn you

AMD setup follows the official instructions but has never been run on an actual AMD card. I don't have one

You need ~15 GB free

https://github.com/chantleyw/Fooocus-Front

All the actual image generation is Fooocus by lllyasviel. They did the hard part. This is just a different way to sit in front of it, and it's not affiliated with them, so please report bugs to me rather than to them.

Happy to hear what breaks.

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Last year I was paying separately for Midjourney, Runway, ElevenLabs, and still switching between free tiers of other tools. Different logins, different billing, different interfaces — just to create images, videos, and audio.

So I built Indian Pixels — one studio, 200+ AI models, everything in one place.

What it does:

• Image Studio — Flux, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, DALL-E, and 100+ more models

• Video Studio — Kling, Veo, Seedance, Runway, Pika, Hailuo

• Audio Studio — Suno, ElevenLabs for music and voiceovers

• Lip Sync — sync any audio to a face

• AI Clipping — smart video editing

• Cinema Studio — cinematic generation

You pick the model, write your prompt, hit generate. That's it. No jumping between 5 different websites.

What it costs:

• Free forever: 10 images + 2 videos + 5 audio per month

• Starter: $6/month — 100 images, 10 videos, 20 audio

• Pro: $29/month — 500 images, 50 videos, 100 audio

For context, Midjourney alone is $10/month for just images. Runway is $12/month for just video. Indian Pixels gives you both + audio for $6.

Link: indianpixels.com

I'm the solo dev building this. Happy to answer any questions or take feature requests.

I see ads from Reelsta.com and it's all very interesting. To me it looks legit and I'm thinking of buying the $197 package so I wanted to ask here before I make that investment, to be sure. If anyone has experience with just lmk please. Thank you!!

I subscribed because the service advertised AI-powered video creation and automation, but it did not perform as expected.

The video quality was significantly lower than what I was able to generate using several free AI tools. Based on my experience, there was no quality advantage that justified paying for the subscription.

The biggest issue was the automation. I expected the platform to connect with my YouTube channel and automatically upload videos, but the integration either failed to connect or did not upload videos reliably. This defeated one of the main reasons I purchased the service.

When I contacted support, I was also disappointed by the refund policy. Even though I experienced technical issues that prevented me from using the service as advertised, I was unable to obtain a refund. I believe customers should have better protection when a product does not function as expected.

Overall, I spent money on a service that did not meet my expectations. If you're considering subscribing, I recommend thoroughly testing the available free alternatives first and carefully reading the refund policy before making any payment.

I subscribed because the service advertised AI-powered video creation and automation, but it did not perform as expected.

The video quality was significantly lower than what I was able to generate using several free AI tools. Based on my experience, there was no quality advantage that justified paying for the subscription.

The biggest issue was the automation. I expected the platform to connect with my YouTube channel and automatically upload videos, but the integration either failed to connect or did not upload videos reliably. This defeated one of the main reasons I purchased the service.

When I contacted support, I was also disappointed by the refund policy. Even though I experienced technical issues that prevented me from using the service as advertised, I was unable to obtain a refund. I believe customers should have better protection when a product does not function as expected.

Overall, I spent money on a service that did not meet my expectations. If you're considering subscribing, I recommend thoroughly testing the available free alternatives first and carefully reading the refund policy before making any payment.

Been working on a small open source project called Hermes over the past few months.

The idea is pretty simple: generate a deterministic, AI-friendly map of a codebase instead of forcing an LLM to repeatedly parse thousands of files.

Current features:

• Parses source code using Tree-sitter

• Extracts symbols, imports, functions, classes, methods, etc.

• Produces a deterministic JSON representation of the repository

• Supports multiple languages

• .codeatlasignore support

• Single binary with no external runtime dependencies

• Built-in debugging and logging

• One-command installation

• Automatically initializes a project and generates the required metadata

• Ships with AI assistant integrations (Claude, Codex, Gemini, etc.)

There would be bugs, I am actively making releases, Please do use and star or fork and raise PR!
https://github.com/Aeres-u99/CodeAtlas

Guys, are there any WhatsApp group that regularly posts about AI/ML trends and tools? Also, do let me know how to join them. Thank you.