Brand-new projects with only a handful of stars that turned out to be genuinely useful. We review dozens of small repos every day, and most don't make it. These did.
SnapDock is a small menu bar app for Apple Silicon Macs that launches or switches to apps using keyboard shortcuts. Pinned Dock apps get Option+1 to Option+0 automatically, and you can add your own shortcuts for other apps.
Could replace Snap, Apptivate
OpenShelf is a free Mac menu-bar app that lets you start dragging a file, tap a key, and drop it on a wheel of actions. It converts, edits, shelves or AirDrops files without opening another app, and works offline.
Lampline is a self-hosted tool for building, testing and running AI phone agents on your own computer or servers. It can import agents from Google's Dialogflow CX and CX Agent Studio, and it can test any phone agent by ringing it with an AI caller.
Could replace Vapi
Tellyscope is an Android phone app that connects to your Android TV, Google TV or Fire TV over Wi-Fi using ADB. It lets you turn off unwanted pre-installed apps, install apps, send files and check how the TV is running, with no root and no PC.
Each candidate is under four months old, has 10 to 300 stars, was updated in the last three weeks and has a licence. We read its documentation as sceptical reviewers, and it only becomes a gem if it scores at least 4 out of 5 for usefulness and for polish. Demos, thin wrappers and half-finished ideas are left out. Small projects can change fast, so check the licence and recent activity before you rely on one.
