Claude Cowork
How vibe coders and indie builders use Claude Cowork: 20 projects built with it and 11 built for it since May 2026.
Projects built with it
20
Share of stated stacks, 4 wks
0.2%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
too few to tell
Add-ons built for it
11
Share of stated stacks, per week
Share rather than counts, so changes in how many posts a subreddit lets through don't show up as trends.
Often used with
What's built with it
Latest projects built with Claude Cowork
- Techleads.fyi — Looks up which technologies a company uses in its tech stack.“I gave Claude Opus 5.5 one prompt and got a 32-second launch video with a synced soundtrack. Here's the prompt.”
- CogniCore — Gives AI coding agents persistent memory across sessions using TF-IDF retrieval served over MCP, with exportable and importable memory bundles.“Three of us built a memory layer for AI agents between classes — 12K downloads, 64 stars, and now we're deciding whether to keep going”
- Photo Curator — Culls, deduplicates, and ranks trip photos locally by sharpness, burst similarity, and composition scores to surface the best shots.“I built a free photo-culling tool with Cowork - it takes 8,000 trip photos down to my best 50 (Cull → Dedup → Rank)”
- Built a dashboard with an MCP… — Pulls SEO metrics from an API, flags large spikes or drops, and compiles them into client reports that are emailed after review.“Built a dashboard with an MCP server for SEO + Claude. Does this count as vibe coding or just tool orchestrating?”
- I built my own CRM to go from… — Shows a focus queue of cold outbound leads due for action and lets the user draft, edit and send outreach emails from one screen.“I built my own CRM to go from 10-20 min/lead to ~1 min for cold outbound”
- Jon's Reminders — Sends scheduled reminders to people by SMS, created via a web dashboard or by texting a toll-free number.“I built jonsreminders.com (reminders via SMS) to remind family members about stuff.”
- inkluso.eu — Helps businesses and developers work out what they must do to comply with the EU European Accessibility Act.“Built inkluso.eu almost entirely through vibe coding. The flow state is real, but here is where the AI got stuck.”
- Broadcast 404 Live — Produces a daily automated news video channel where AI hosts write and deliver scripted news segments.“Trump's Freedom Fuel Network Has A Secret Owner | Broadcast 404 Live”
- Runwake — Monitors whether background jobs and scripts are still checking in on schedule and alerts when they stop.“I built a small heartbeat monitor for cron jobs/scripts”
- OKRnest — Populates an OKR management tool with a simulated company of AI agents that post weekly progress updates and rewrite quarterly OKRs for demos.“How i solved my sales demos by learning 30 AI agents to run a fake company”
- Test my iOS app about poop — Tracks where a dog poop bag was left on a trail so the user can find or remember it on the way out.“Test my iOS app about poop”
- Signal — Generates a daily curated feed of product ideas drawn from cited public demand signals.“Signal: a curated feed of ideas people keep asking for”
- IRONVAULT — Lets players build and run an ASCII factory on procedurally generated maps with inserters, furnaces and assemblers.“I vibed a Factorio/DwarfFortress inspired game with a little retro touch”
- FloraScout — Identifies plants from photos and combines species discovery, health checks, care tasks and chat in one app.“FloraScout is my first attempt to stop building launch-ready products and not launching them”
- I Used AI to Help Me with My… — Uses Claude Cowork to work through a backlog of website fixes, blog posts, and setup tasks for a VoIP SaaS.“I Used AI to Help Me with My Months Long Backlog VoIP SaaS”
Latest add-ons built for Claude Cowork
- Agent Awake — Keeps a Mac awake while local AI coding tasks run and allows sleep once they finish.“I built a Mac menu-bar app that stays awake for local AI tasks, then lets the Mac sleep”
- Context_OS — Keeps a folder-and-markdown knowledge system that stores project context, decisions and feedback so new AI sessions pick up where work left off.“A Second Brain you don't throw away after two weeks”
- product-manager — Generates a sequence of product management documents for AI coding tools, from market problems through to PRD and launch plan, routing from existing project files.“I built 18 PM skills for AI coding tools because my agent kept writing perfect docs about nothing”
- ClaudeLift — Exports Claude Cowork chats and files into portable bundles that can be resumed on other machines.“I created Git for Claude Cowork”
- Anthropic Claude Code (CLI… — Routes Claude Code and Claude Cowork to non-Anthropic language models instead of Claude models.“Anthropic Claude Code (CLI & Desktop) and Claude Cowork don't have to run Claude Models. I created a free tool that fully unlocks them to any model.”
- Hold My Lid — Keeps a MacBook awake with the lid closed while AI coding agents are running, and sleeps it when they go idle.“App to Keep your agents running while your macbook lid is closed”
- Subprompt — Captures photos, voice notes, or text tagged with labels and sends them with embedded prompt instructions to an LLM or a folder.“Subprompt - Camera/Voice/Text app to use with AI workflows”
- agentshark — Captures and inspects event-level traces of AI agent sessions, including tool calls and context usage, and exports them for sharing.“Need some feedback on this OSS tool called agentshark”
- TED Search API MCP Server — Lets an AI assistant query the EU TED public procurement database to find tender and award notices.“MCP Server: What's being purchased in Europe?”
- seed.show — Packs a folder of context files and a prompt into a short URL that AI agents can fetch and install with one shell command.“I built seed.show — context bundles your AI agent installs with one line”
- upskill — Lets coding agents search an indexed catalog of reviewed skill playbooks and follow the best match for a task.“Your AI agent is improvising. The right playbooks already exist.”
Pitched as alternatives to Claude Cowork
- My project has hundreds of… — Provides an open source reimplementation of Claude Cowork, a desktop-style AI assistant tool.“My project has hundreds of clones how can i get their feedback?”
- Zinley — Runs an AI agent that takes delegated goals across devices and tools, with its own phone number and email for outside contact.“I built Zinley — cowork-style AI with its own number, inbox, and people memory”
- Intentic — Provides a free, open-source, model-neutral sandbox where creators can publish extensions and earn revenue share from paid add-ons.“Stop building alone. We can build audience together.”
- gloowork — Runs agentic work tasks on a user's Mac, similar to Claude Cowork and ChatGPT Work.“Building a Cowork alternative”
- Open-Cowork — Runs delegated computer tasks through an agent that drives a browser, desktop, or cloud VM and pauses for approval on sensitive actions.“I built Open-Cowork, an open source alternative to Claude Cowork.”
- Treck — Captures clips from web pages into named project threads and uses AI to generate documents, quotes, CSVs or shareable web pages from them.“Clip from any page into project "threads", then let AI turn them into a doc, quote or web page”
- I use Obsidian + Claude Cowork… — Combines an AI chat with a notes store on mobile, letting users brainstorm with an agent, create, read, update and delete notes, and define custom skills.“I use Obsidian + Claude Cowork a lot at work, but I can't replicate that easily on mobile for my personal use because they require me to be tethered to the desktop. So I built a similar workflow but on mobile. This is a PoC. I wonder if anyone else has the same needs?”
- ChronoFlow — Executes small tasks across calendar, email, and code-hosting tools from typed or spoken requests.“I built an AI assistant that lets software engineers execute tasks across their tools with voice or text”
- Knolo — Hosts AI agents with built-in knowledge bases, third-party integrations and scheduling, configured from a plain-language description.“Tried building a Second Brain in Claude Code — 20M token estimate before writing a line of product. Then built it in 8 min for $1.70.”