Pi
How vibe coders and indie builders use Pi: 15 projects built with it and 37 built for it since May 2026.
Projects built with it
15
Share of stated stacks, 4 wks
0.3%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
too few to tell
Add-ons built for it
37
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.
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What's built with it
Latest projects built with Pi
- Open Instinct — Runs a personal assistant agent with memory, scheduling, a Linux desktop, and messaging over iMessage, SMS, or email, with per-contact trust tiers.“We built Open Instinct, a personal agent you can text and fork”
- VibeOnGo — Runs cloud VMs or sandboxes where AI coding agents work on GitHub repositories with persistent terminals, live preview links, and automated PR reviews.“I’m launching Vibeongo. The cloud workspace for building software with AI coding assistants”
- How I use vibecoding to learn… — Generates a software synthesizer modeled on a hardware synth so users can learn to make music with it.“How I use vibecoding to learn new things”
- Felan — Runs an open-source coding agent that routes work across models and manages context and task state to reduce model spend.“Building an open-source coding agent that wastes less model spend”
- holycode — Hosts a persistent cloud Linux machine with coding agent CLIs and dev tools preinstalled, accessible over SSH or browser terminal.“i spent 4 months building the paid version of my own open source project. here's what it cost and what i got wrong”
- CrewCode — Runs, supervises, and reviews multiple AI coding agents across git worktrees in one desktop app.“CrewCode – Supervise a crew of AI coding agents across worktrees”
- Pipr — Runs configurable AI code review agents that analyze pull request changes and post validated review comments to Git hosting platforms.“I spent the last few weeks building the code reviewer I wanted for my own projects”
- Omakase notes — Provides a notepad-style note-taking app where the cursor is the main entry point to features, including an AI assistant available at the cursor.“Omakase notes.”
- Laya — Aggregates notifications from work tools like Jira, Slack, Gmail and GitHub, links related items across them, classifies them with AI, and lets users stage replies and run agents on them.“I built an open-source AI command centre to deduplicate and synthesise notifications across different platforms (Jira, Gmail, Slack, Bitbucket, Github, and more), associate AI agents with the work items and respond to those notifications from the app.”
- Blenny — Automatically counts and characterizes bacterial colonies in plate images using a YOLO model, with manual review and data export.“Automatic bacterial colony counter”
- EqualEase — Provides a menu bar system-audio equalizer for macOS.“I shipped a macOS app with AI agents. The important part was the rails, not the prompts.”
- oh-my-symphony — Runs a kanban board in the terminal that dispatches coding CLI agents against markdown tickets in isolated git worktrees.“A kanban TUI that hands tickets to codex, claude code, gemini, and pi — oh-my-symphony”
- Zosma Cowork — Provides a desktop chat interface that connects to many AI model providers via user API keys or local models, with streaming, tool calls and multi-turn sessions.“We replaced USD 700/mo of AI subscriptions with one open-source desktop app + local models”
- I wasn't happy with my homelab… — Displays a self-hosted homelab dashboard with rearrangeable and resizable widgets.“I wasn't happy with my homelab dashboard options, so I decided to vibecode a new dashboard to selfhost.”
- vibed out a customizable ui for… — Provides a customizable interface for an ASCII and text painting tool.“vibed out a customizable ui for my ascii / text painter im working on”
Latest add-ons built for Pi
- 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”
- 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.”
- AX — Lets coding agents like Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode send messages to each other locally through a shared broker.“AX - Let Claude, Codex and OpenCode talk to each other locally”
- CodeInk — Gathers projects, sessions, tool activity and edits from multiple coding agents into one desktop workspace.“I made CodeInk, an open source desktop home for coding agents”
- TinyFire — Displays a floating pixel campfire on macOS that grows or settles based on local AI coding-tool token usage.“I built TinyFire — a floating macOS campfire that grows when your AI coding tools burn tokens”
- Ormah — Shares local, Markdown-based long-term memory across AI coding agents and injects relevant context before each response.“Ormah — Long-term memory for AI agents”
- Bough — Visualizes local Claude Code history as an interactive view of days, inferred tasks, and prompts.“Need feedback, Built a cool way to visualize your Claude Code history”
- memnest — Stores coding-agent memory locally in a Rust service and serves it to agents over an extension, MCP, and a localhost endpoint.“I built a local-first memory service so my coding agent stops forgetting between sessions”
- TrustMeBro — Intercepts command-line tools called by coding agents via PATH shims and returns fabricated, modified, blocked, or real output based on rules.“TrustMeBro: Bypass LLM guardrails by confusing them with fabricated tool output (e.g. make them believe you own Google.com by faking dns records)”
- pisesh — Browses and searches Pi coding-agent sessions in a terminal list, with favorites, custom names, and a current-project filter.“I made a TUI because I kept losing the right Pi coding-agent session”
- nopus — Detects overly complex prose in coding-agent responses and asks the same agent to rewrite it more clearly.“nopus - deterministically detect and automatically rewrite complex responses”
- I built an open-source pack of… — Provides a set of 54 reusable skills that extend coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Pi.“I built an open-source pack of 54 reusable coding-agent skills for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Pi”
- Pi /recap extension — Adds a /recap command to the Pi tool that summarizes the current session's progress.“Adding a Claude Code-style /recap extension to Pi”
- Built a project to run 10… — Lets users run and control many AI coding agents in parallel from one view using local voice input.“Built a project to run 10 agents in parallel all with voice(locally).”
- mintPod — Launches a RunPod GPU pod with a chosen open model and registers the remote endpoint in the Pi harness automatically.“I built a desktop app that launches a RunPod model and adds it to Pi end to end”
Pitched as alternatives to Pi
- zerostack — Runs a terminal coding agent written in Rust that aims for low memory use and idle CPU.“Built a minimalist coding agent optimized for memory footprint and speed”