GitHub Copilot
How vibe coders and indie builders use GitHub Copilot: 73 projects built with it and 93 built for it since May 2026.
Projects built with it
73
Share of stated stacks, 4 wks
0.2%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
too few to tell
Add-ons built for it
93
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 (chat or unspecified) 18
- ChatGPT 17
- Python 12
- Codex 12
- Cursor 11
- Claude Code 10
- Claude API 10
- Antigravity 9
What's built with it
Latest projects built with GitHub Copilot
- HousingPal — Connects Hyderabad renters and owners directly for rentals, sales and land, with verified listings and online rental agreements.“6 months building HousingPal, a zero-brokerage rental platform for Hyderabad: what worked, what didn't”
- AskAIR — Routes each question to the AI model judged best for that kind of question and shows the answer in-app.“I added up what it costs to subscribe to 8 AI tools separately, so I built one app that picks the right one for each question”
- OmniNotch — Puts a multi-tool dashboard in the Mac notch with sales stats, AI usage tracking, a teleprompter, clipboard history, a file shelf, and music, weather, calendar and note widgets.“I know there are a hundred notch apps already. Here's why I built another one.”
- answerline — Returns the answers that ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot and Google Search show users, as structured JSON with text, sources and optional ads and shopping cards.“I built an API that returns what ChatGPT and Gemini actually show users, as JSON”
- AgenticView — Shows Claude Code and other coding agents as workers in a 3D office where they edit the project's real files and hand tasks to each other.“I built a 3D office where my Claude Code agents actually work: walk around, watch their monitors, slap them when they slack”
- Rename America — Lets users rename places in America by paying a token, with each rename raising the price of the next by one token.“I made a website that lets everyone rename places in America for 1 Token. Until someone renames it for 1 Token more.”
- Deploy Hatch — Deploys Git repositories as persistent apps and lets AI coding agents inspect, deploy, and recover them through a constrained MCP interface.“I’ve been building a deployment platform where AI coding agents can deploy and recover their own apps”
- inspecta — Compares copied Figma elements against their live web counterparts and suggests diffs that can be copied as prompts or sent to coding agents.“Copy paste figma to web”
- Layerbase — Hosts serverless and managed databases across 18 engines, with database branching.“Serverless and Managed Databases (with branching) for 18 Engines”
- My company is spying on my… — Parses local Sapience surveillance logs on a work PC into a SQLite database and generates an HTML activity report of the user's own captured data.“My company is spying on my productivity - Now I can see, too”
- Cyted — Tracks how often a brand appears in answers from AI tools and audits a website for SEO and AI visibility issues with suggested fixes.“Built an AEO SaaS, would love brutally honest feedback please”
- Forever Ledger — Lets people pay a dollar to publish their name with a short message on a searchable public ledger.“I vibecoded a website where your name can live forever!”
- AppScout — Lets people discover web and mobile apps through a feed that surfaces one app at a time.“Software Startups before they become profitable”
- unifi-map — Exports the network topology of a Unifi controller as drawio, dot, svg, png, or pdf diagrams.“Tool for exporting topology from Unifi network controllers”
- Overseer Hardware Monitor — Displays laptop and PC temperatures, storage health, and system info in one always-on-top window.“I don't have much people that will appreciate this in my circles, so I'll share here instead”
Latest add-ons built for GitHub Copilot
- Quba — Detects and masks sensitive personal data like names, IBANs and ID numbers as users type into AI chats, email and documents.“We built a Chrome extension that protects sensitive data before it reaches ChatGPT, Gmail or Docs. Looking for feedback”
- dotpals — Displays plain-language summaries of what AI coding agents are doing on your desktop, including file changes, test failures, retries, and approval requests.“[dotpals] - A desktop pal that tells you in plain words what your AI coding agent actually did”
- Formely — Generates structured prompts from a user's rough description, model, task type, tone, and format choices.“I got tired of writing vague prompts, so I built a free tool that structures them for you (with examples)”
- Font Intelligence — Recommends heading and body fonts, font pairings, and typography tokens for AI coding agents.“I got tired of AI coding agents choosing Inter for everything , so I built a typography skill”
- Skill Canvas — Lets users sketch Claude Code and GitHub Copilot agent workflows on a visual canvas and export them as standard agent and skill files.“Skill Canvas - VSCode visual workflow editor for Claude Code agents and skills”
- Vantage — Proxies coding agent traffic to show live token cost and quota use, enforces approval rules on agent actions, and warns when secrets are sent to the API.“See and control what your coding agent does”
- AI Token Limits — Shows remaining usage and reset times for AI coding tools like Claude, Codex, Cursor, Grok and GitHub Copilot on an iPhone.“I built an iPhone app to check Claude, Codex and Cursor usage away from my desk”
- CodeBurn — Tracks spending across AI coding tools by project, model and branch and flags unused setup that adds token costs.“[OS]CodeBurn: a free, open-source Mac app that shows what your AI coding tools cost and finds the waste”
- Pragma — Runs multiple coding agents in parallel, each isolated in its own Git worktree, with built-in Git and GitHub tools.“I wanted one place to manage agents, worktrees, PRs, usage limits, and mobile access. Here's what I built.”
- shallnot — Checks that every requirement in a ticket has a passing test tagged with its ID, and sends coding agents back to work when one is missing.“Made a tool that sends a coding agent back to work when part of the ticket has no passing test”
- Guardrail by NEAT — Runs a local proxy between AI coding agents and LLM APIs that blocks further requests once a spend cap is breached.“After an untracked runaway loop burned our API budget at my last startup, I built a local-first spend firewall for AI agents”
- Your Best Clip Is Buried In A… — Finds the best clips inside long videos so creators don't have to watch them in full.“Your Best Clip Is Buried In A Video Nobody Finishes. I Built A Free Tool That Digs It Out.”
- Grid Console — Puts tasks from local coding agents on a board and shows each card's session, questions, planning notes and changed code for review.“I built a workspace for coding agents. Looking for early testers.”
- React Native Agents — Provides a set of 24 specialist AI coding prompts for React Native tasks that are routed to relevant problems and PR file changes.“I built 24 specialist AI agents for React Native because generic coding agents kept missing mobile-specific problems”
- Smart Prompt Pro — Rewrites rough prompts into more detailed, structured prompts for AI chat platforms via a Chrome extension.“I built Smart Prompt Pro to turn rough AI prompts into structured prompts. Looking for honest feedback”
Pitched as alternatives to GitHub Copilot
- 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.”
- Cairn — Tracks personal finances across iPhone, iPad, and Mac by importing Apple Card data, read-only bank feeds, and CSV files, with on-device transaction categorization.“Cairn: Privacy focussed, serverless personal finance tracking app”
- Sylvester — Shows balances, holdings and recent activity from connected brokerage accounts in a macOS menubar app.“Sylvester, connect all your brokers to your menubar”
- Sinatra — Runs a cloud coding agent that takes assigned Linear or GitHub issues and returns pull requests, reviewing its own changes before they reach a human.“my wife kept asking for small fixes to her website, so i spent 3 months building a cloud agent to do them”
- I built a local AI coding lab… — Runs a local AI coding setup on a base 16GB Mac Mini as a replacement for cloud coding assistants like Copilot.“I built a local AI coding lab on a base 16GB Mac Mini - full walkthrough (goodbye Copilot?)”
- Bookee — Captures spending from photographed receipts using AI to extract merchant, total and line items into a shared multi-currency family ledger.“My family's spending is in three currencies and mostly cash. No budgeting app could see it, so I built one that reads receipts.”
- Seeker — Builds a local knowledge graph from uploaded company documents and lets users chat with an AI that cites sources and can create files with approval.“i built your company's AI 'assistant'—I know, 'another AI?', but the AI isn't what makes it different, hear me out...”
- awesome-open-ai-developer-tools — Catalogs open-source alternatives to paid AI developer tools, with a cheat sheet mapping proprietary products to open equivalents and known-weakness notes for each entry.“I catalogued the open-source replacement for every paid AI dev tool I was using”
- I was tired of one hundred nine… — Tracks weekly spending against a set budget on an iPhone, stored locally with no account or bank login.“I was tired of one hundred nine budgeting subscriptions, so I built a private one you pay for once”
- ForthWrite — Generates email reply drafts inside Gmail and Outlook web that mimic the user's writing style and learn from their edits.“I built a Chrome extension that writes emails in your voice out of the box, and gets better with time”
- Iris — Runs a local AI coding agent driven by structured YAML task files that limit which files it can read, change, or delete.“I built an AI agent for controlled vibe coding”
- Hermes — Keeps a local terminal coding agent on task across long tool-call chains by injecting goal state and compressing old tool results.“Built a local-first terminal coding agent. Wanted to share it.”
- Folio — Lets freelancers share branded client portals where clients approve deliverables, comment, and pay invoices via magic links.“Building a simple client portal for freelancers. Looking for honest feedback before I push it.”
- Ledger AI — Analyzes uploaded bank statements (PDF or CSV) with AI to surface subscription waste, spending spikes, and anomalies.“Built a finance app where you just upload your statement — no bank login needed”
- YUSPEC AI — Lets users chat with an engine-aware AI in the browser to edit GitHub-hosted game project files and commit approved diffs.“Built a browser-based AI coding tool specifically for game devs — no install, connects directly to your GitHub repo”