DeepSeek
How vibe coders and indie builders use DeepSeek: 168 projects built with it and 26 built for it since May 2026.
Projects built with it
168
Share of stated stacks, 4 wks
1.1%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
-8%
Add-ons built for it
26
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
- Claude API 75
- OpenAI API 58
- Gemini API 48
- OpenRouter 29
- Ollama 26
- Qwen 22
- Kimi 21
- Groq 20
What's built with it
Latest projects built with DeepSeek
- Freekit — Connects VS Code to existing web AI chat accounts through browser automation, or to a local Ollama model, to generate and apply code changes.“I built Freekit, a free AI coding agent for VS Code that uses your existing web AI accounts (no API keys, no costs)”
- Calorie Dintis — Estimates meal macros and calories from a photo and logs them to a daily diary with goals adjusted for activity.“I’m 14, I bench 115kg, and I pull all-nighters to build an AI Calorie Tracker on FastAPI.”
- CrickCoder — Provides pay-per-use AI autocomplete and chat inside VS Code and JetBrains sidebars, billed at raw API cost plus a margin.“I got tired of $20 mo AI subscriptions, built my own pay-per-use plugin, and immediately got destroyed by free-tier abuse.”
- Arc PDF — Reads, annotates, edits, OCRs and summarizes PDF documents in a lightweight native macOS app.“I made an 11.6 MB PDF app that reads, annotates, edits, OCRs, and does AI — free on the Mac App Store”
- Drawva — Turns freehand whiteboard sketches into spatial data that an AI agent reads to add diagrams, charts, and live content on the canvas.“I Built a Whiteboard With Eyes”
- Indes.AI — Sends one question to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and DeepSeek at once and shows their answers side by side with an AI-merged synthesis.“I got tired of copy-pasting the same question into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and DeepSeek, so I built a tool that asks all four at once”
- visit-stats — Tracks website visits via a one-line embedded script and shows dashboards with totals, popular pages, date-filtered logs, and AI-generated traffic suggestions.“I built a website analytics system with FastAPI + MySQL + DeepSeek AI as a sophomore”
- Beli — Runs a self-hosted personal AI agent that keeps long-term memory, runs scheduled tasks, operates a browser, and messages the user on WhatsApp or Telegram.“I turned OpenMuse into Beli, a self-hosted personal AI agent that remembers, schedules, and messages me”
- Vehla — Combines many macOS utilities such as app launching, clipboard history, AI text actions, dictation, notes and window management into one command palette.“Vehla – I made a native macOS command center that replaces a bunch of apps I used every day”
- Among Us Jev — Plays Among Us in real time by having an LLM planner direct AI agents that control crewmates through the game.“Realtime Among Us Agents with Jev”
- Velora — Provides a desktop workspace where users attach repositories and documents, run coding agents, and review their proposed changes.“I built a Mac workspace that brings Codex, Claude Code and Ollama together”
- flexenv — Lets users build web apps with a visual, Lovable- and Retool-style builder that can be self-hosted on their own server.“I built a self hostable Lovable / Retool alternative”
- GPU Router — Routes LLM API requests across multiple discounted inference providers behind a single endpoint, choosing the cheapest provider for each request.“I built Openrouter, except you save 88% on GPT 6 Astra, 74% on Fable 5.1, 98% on GLM 5.3, and 400+ more models”
- ARN — Runs a terminal coding assistant that chats with Gemini or DeepSeek and creates or edits files in the current folder after confirmation.“I built ARN — a free native C++23 CLI coding agent for Gemini and DeepSeek”
- astra-flash-orchestrator — Routes coding build tasks from a premium Codex model to a cheaper DeepSeek Flash model that implements and tests them, with the premium model reviewing results.“I built an orchestration package that lowered my GPT-6 Astra usage by 98%”
Latest add-ons built for DeepSeek
- Skill Injector — Attaches uploaded markdown skill files as real file attachments into the chat box of multiple AI chat apps.“I built a Chrome extension that lets you attach the same "skill" file across ChatGPT, Claude, Qwen, DeepSeek etc instead of retyping context every time”
- AI Chat Exporter — Exports ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and DeepSeek conversations from the browser tab as PDF, Markdown, text, JSON, CSV or image, with selectable messages.“I got tired of copy-pasting ChatGPT threads into Notion, so I built anextension that exports them properly (code blocks, tables, the works)”
- MoveChat — Downloads and exports chats from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek.“I just hit 100 users with my Open Source extension 🥹🎉”
- phone-tunnel-pool — Exposes a DeepSeek harness running on a computer to a phone through a Cloudflare tunnel.“Made Deepseek Harness tunnel to your phone using cloudflared Repo link”
- ContextBridge — Exports and transfers selected parts of AI chat conversations to other chat models in Markdown, JSON, TXT, or PDF, with sensitive data redacted.“My first chrome extension! AI context exporter”
- ai-chat-exporter — Exports conversations from AI chat sites like ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini to Markdown, JSON, HTML, PDF and PNG, with parsing done locally in the browser.“is there actually a need for yet another AI chat exporter (for chatgpt.com, claude.ai etc) ?”
- deepseek-oi-api — Wraps the DeepSeek web chat interface in a programmatic API by reverse engineering it.“Made a reverse engineered api wrapper for DeepSeek web interface...”
- AiChatExporterPro — Exports conversations from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek and Grok into formats such as PDF, DOCX, Markdown, HTML, JSON, PNG, TXT and CSV, with selective export of prompts, responses and images.“My extension just crossed 500 Chrome users — and Firefox is already at 352”
- DSH Mobile — Provides a remote Android interface for controlling a DeepSeek harness.“DSH Mobile - DeepSeek Harness Remote (Android)”
- Ovrix Workspace — Adds a local browser sidebar for organizing saved AI chat conversations with folders, search, notes, tags and bookmarks.“I built a Chrome extension because I kept losing important AI conversations.”
- ExportPal — Exports AI chat conversations from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and other platforms into formatted PDF, Word, Markdown or other file formats.“I built a free Chrome extension that exports ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini chats to PDF, Word or Markdown — one click, nothing leaves your browser”
- AIMonitor — Shows usage quotas for multiple AI services in the macOS menu bar.“Vibecoded this for myself but might help other coders with tracking multiple ai token/agent quotas right from macOS menu bar”
- PromptMate — Stores reusable prompts with variable placeholders and inserts filled-in versions into AI chat sites via a sidebar.“Built a prompt library extension that injects into ChatGPT/Claude/DeepSeek/Kimi - would love feedback from fellow extension devs”
- AI Conversation Navigator — Adds a floating panel to AI chat websites that jumps between prompts in long conversations and supports bookmarks.“AI Conversation Navigator – A floating prompt navigator for 40+ AI chat platforms”
- AI conversation exporter — Exports ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and DeepSeek conversations as searchable, interactive offline webpages.“I built a Chrome extension that turns AI conversations into searchable offline webpages”