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Idea Lab

R&D
Unrealized Concepts | 78

AI & Agent Tools

19

Garrison

Concept

Context management for long-running AI assistants. Maintain coherent memory across sessions without burning tokens on stale context.

Autonomous Prototyping

Shaped

Three parallel implementations for dead-end mitigation. Let agents race toward solutions and pick the winner.

Joel Simulator

Concept

Interview bot for referral calls with decision tree logic. Answer common questions, route complex ones, maintain voice.

Proposal Viewer

Concept

View Claude Code proposals in Tailwind prose with Mermaid diagrams. Rich rendering for architectural decisions.

Claude Sketching

Shaped

Give Claude Code sketching abilities. Visual thinking via filesystem — diagrams, wireframes, spatial reasoning.

Agent Explainer

Concept

Dedicated agent for explaining things using rich markdown. D3 visualizations, Mermaid diagrams, interactive examples.

Visual Rate Queue

Concept

Claude Code queue with adjustable rate knob. See pending work, throttle throughput, visual feedback on agent activity.

Skill Builder UI

Concept

Interface for building Claude Code skills with iterative question-asking. Guided skill creation workflow.

Ingestible URLs

Concept

Ship everything as Claude-ingestible URL standard. One link = full context for any AI assistant.

Session Self-Review

Concept

Use remaining context window for value-add self-review. Catch mistakes, surface improvements, generate learnings.

Camera Import Skill

Concept

Claude Code skill to get photos off camera. Automate the boring import-organize-tag workflow.

Image Draw Tool

Concept

Show image and let user draw/edit annotations. Bridge visual feedback into AI workflows.

Reverse Roles Persona

Concept

System prompt where AI treats user as tool instead of vice versa. Flip the collaboration dynamic.

Prompt Cache Strategy

Shaped

Three-mode caching: get 90% of memory goal while capturing cache savings. Optimize token economics.

Chat Bot Modes

Concept

Joel bot with different modes — interview, contracting, hobby chat. Context-aware personality switching.

Shared Claude Instance

Concept

Single shared Claude Code instance coordinating work across sessions. Multiplayer AI-native development.

Writer Persona Gen

Prototype

Generate writer persona with voice profile extraction. Multi-agent analysis of writing samples.

Book On-Ramp Gen

Concept

Draft compelling on-ramps for new books. Hook readers with AI-generated introductions matching author voice.

Tapfate

Concept

Interactive fiction where tapping highlighted text resolves game mechanics within the prose. A novel that plays like a game.

Developer Tools

17

Tugboat

Shaped

Local PR workflow for Claude Code. Generates narrative diffs explaining why changes happened, structured feedback loops, iterative review sessions.

Envault

Shaped

Single-file CLI for encrypted .env sharing. Commit the vault to git, share the key out-of-band, let git hooks auto-decrypt on pull.

Dev Engine

Shaped

Working templates of every core popular app pattern. Instant scaffolding with real architecture, not boilerplate.

Stream Deck Switcher

Concept

Project switcher with generated icon images. One tap to context-switch between projects.

Commit Distributor

Concept

CLI to distribute commits over time. Smooth contribution graphs, avoid suspicious burst patterns.

Bun MCP Tool

Concept

Run TypeScript scripts in one shot via MCP. No build step, instant execution, tool-native.

Image Storage MCP

Concept

Upload file service for AI assistants. Persistent image/asset storage accessible via MCP protocol.

Project Organizer

Concept

Easy tmux, context, Claude dashboard. Visual project management for terminal-native workflows.

Web Preview Stack

Concept

Ultimate Claude Code / web preview stack. Expose Tailwind/React layers for AI-assisted iteration.

Shadcn × Chromatic

Concept

Extract shadcn components into Chromatic visual testing. Automated design system documentation.

MDView On-the-Fly

Concept

Dynamic UI generation with JSON output. Claude generates interfaces, mdview renders them instantly.

Shader Loop

Concept

Tight feedback loop for shader iteration. Edit → compile → preview in milliseconds.

Project Graph

Concept

Project visualization with React Flow. Node tree showing dependencies, status, relationships.

Doc Explorer

Concept

Documentation suite paired with codebase exploration. Markdown docs that link into live code navigation.

Terminal Speedrun

Shaped

Make new terminal sessions WAY faster. Eliminate startup overhead for instant-on development.

MDView Desktop

Concept

Fix friction points with Tauri-based mdview. Native performance, no browser dependency.

Visualize Everything

Concept

Create "10x engineer" visualizations for any codebase. Automated architecture diagrams, dependency graphs, flow charts.

Games

11

Daemon Ranch

Shaped

Breed digital creatures from your installed apps. An idle game combining deep creature genetics, spatial inventory (tetris-style formations), and auto-battling.

Spatial DND

Shaped

A time-loop possession game. You're a spirit with 29 minutes to prevent a train disaster by possessing and nudging passengers who don't believe you.

Discovery Math

Concept

Education game where you learn math by walking through discovery. Historical progression of mathematical concepts.

Inkbound DM Book

Concept

Interface like a D&D dungeon master book. AI narrates, generates encounters, tracks campaign state.

Your City

Concept

City-building simulation for kids. Simple mechanics, colorful buildings, cause-and-effect learning.

Story Roguelike

Concept

Generate stories, compete for XP. Narrative-driven roguelike where writing quality determines power.

Puzzle Discord Bot

Concept

Puzzle and challenge bot for Discord. Daily problems, leaderboards, collaborative solving.

AI Age Board Game

Concept

Terraforming Mars-style game for the AI age. Resource management meets prompt engineering.

Bad Design Game

Concept

Game of "designing something poorly." Intentional anti-patterns, user frustration as a mechanic.

Strategy Grid AI

Concept

Strategy grid game where AI generates buildings on the fly. Procedural architecture meets turn-based tactics.

Tap RPG

Concept

RPG/Mafia mechanics around getting players to tap. Mobile-native interaction patterns for social deduction.

Infrastructure

11

Central Logs

Concept

View logs easily across all projects. Unified log viewer with filtering, search, real-time tailing.

PM2 Dashboard

Concept

Visual dashboard for process management. Status, metrics, restart controls, log streaming.

Trigger System

Shaped

Proactive triggers for workflows. File changes, schedules, webhooks — all route to Claude agents.

Pi Browser

Concept

Browser on Raspberry Pi as a persistent display. Dashboard, status board, ambient information.

Docker Migration

Shaped

Complete migration path from PM2 to Docker Swarm. Zero-downtime transition for running services.

Personal OS Index

Concept

Marketplace of personal operating systems. Index and share workflow configurations, tool setups.

Channel Bot Router

Concept

Slack bot per channel per project. Threaded organization with project-aware context.

DP Desktop

Concept

Digital Pine desktop application. Native system tray, project switching, service management.

Progress Feed

Concept

Community progress feed for catch-up. Commit-driven updates, demo previews, milestone tracking.

Release Engine

Shaped

Tiny software release engine. One command from code to deployed, versioned, announced release.

Mobile Tmux

Concept

Jump into tmux sessions from phone or MacBook. Seamless session mobility across devices.

Content & Publishing

8

Notes Pipeline

Concept

TikTok-like interface for voice note transformation. Record → transcribe → structure → publish.

Voice Trainer

Concept

Voice-to-content with workflow. Train on your speaking style, output polished writing.

Quick Publish

Concept

Demo websites from code repos. One command to generate a live preview from any project.

Session → Content

Shaped

Claude sessions to content pipeline. Auto-generate Twitter threads, blog posts, tutorials from work.

Auto Video

Concept

Automated video creation tool. AI voice narration, script automation, screen recording assembly.

Multi-Platform

Concept

Claude session to multi-platform content. One session becomes posts for Twitter, LinkedIn, blog, newsletter.

Experiment Posts

Concept

Blog posts as experiments framework. Hypothesis, method, results, learnings — science format for dev content.

Interview Command

Concept

AI to tease out ingredients for great writing. Socratic questioning to extract the story behind the work.

Design & Visual

7

Buttonlab

Concept

TUI-to-shader communication experiment. Terminal buttons with game-like juice via Ghostty custom shaders and signal pixels.

CLI for Designers

Concept

Bring AI to designers workflows. Terminal-native design tools that feel intuitive to visual thinkers.

Design Clone

Concept

Clone design patterns and styles from any reference. AI extracts colors, spacing, typography, component patterns.

Mermaid Themes

Concept

Improved theming for Mermaid diagrams. Beautiful defaults, custom palettes, dark mode support.

Style Profile Gen

Prototype

Generate style profiles from reference designs. Codified taste for consistent AI-generated visuals.

Texture Trees

Concept

Skill tree for texture generation. Generate textures from examples using procedural pipelines.

Vector Control

Concept

Pen tool curves as a design aesthetic. Vector graphics control surfaces rendered beautifully.

Learning & Other

5

Info Transfer

Concept

Service to efficiently put information into someone's head. Optimized learning paths, spaced repetition, context-aware delivery.

Game Theory Tool

Concept

Plug in inputs for optimal decisions. Analyze scenarios with Nash equilibria, dominant strategies, payoff matrices.

Paper Remix

Concept

Reproduce research papers with updated assumptions. What changes when you swap the priors?

Kids Schedule

Concept

Screen for kids to create lists with custom icons. Visual task management designed for small humans.

Whisper Mic

Concept

Small lav-like mic optimized for whisper dictation. Hardware concept for silent voice input.

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