Python
How vibe coders and indie builders use Python: 1,023 projects built with it and 17 built for it since May 2026.
Projects built with it
1,023
Share of stated stacks, 4 wks
7.4%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
+13%
Add-ons built for it
17
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
- FastAPI 132
- SQLite 92
- JavaScript 86
- PostgreSQL 81
- React 80
- Claude API 71
- Claude Code 65
- Claude (chat or unspecified) 63
What's built with it
Latest projects built with Python
- Headwind — Imports cycling ride files and Strava exports into a self-hosted archive with ride history, performance trends, segments and health data.“Title: I wanted somewhere to keep my cycling history. It got slightly out of hand.”
- I got tired of uploading every… — Automates releasing digital products to Gumroad, Etsy, Lemon Squeezy, Payhip, and Ko-fi by bumping versions, packaging ZIPs with checksums, generating docs, and uploading in one command.“I got tired of uploading every release to 5 marketplaces by hand, so I automated it”
- Client report kit — Generates local HTML reports from checks already performed, separating confirmed issues, passed checks, hypotheses and unverified items.“A local reporting kit for web agencies: form confirmation is not proof of delivery”
- CyberGuard AI — Flags phishing emails and suspicious URLs in real time by combining email text, sender and domain signals, embedded links and security headers.“CyberGuard AI: Context-aware phishing detection using email, URL, sender and security signals”
- Phone Use — Lets an AI agent read an Android phone's screen and operate apps by tapping, swiping, typing and switching apps.“I open-sourced Phone Use: let an AI agent browse and operate your Android apps”
- Productivity breacher — Blocks chosen apps behind a user-set timer, then enforces a cooldown of 1.5 times the timer during which blocked apps are killed on launch.“I'm a kid, and I made and published my first ever project.”
- DeepTrade — Lets a user chat with a Telegram bot that researches stocks, drafts Upstox orders, and places them only after manual confirmation.“I spent 2 weeks fighting the Upstox API so I could talk to my broker on Telegram - open-sourced the whole thing”
- bestfilmsof — Ranks each year's films by a blended 0-100 score from audience, critic, Academy and box office data.“I wanted to watch the best film of every year since I was born, so I built a site that ranks them”
- resilient-async-scraper — Makes async HTTP requests for web scraping with HTTP/2 fingerprint matching, rotating browser User-Agents, and flagging anti-bot status codes like 403, 429 and 503.“My colleague was tired of manual scraping, so I built him a resilient async scraper in Python.”
- Would an offline ICS preflight… — Checks ICS calendar files offline and produces a review report flagging timezone, DST and floating-time issues without changing the originals.“Would an offline ICS preflight report help with your calendar handoffs?”
- Built a production-ready Python… — Provides a Python scraper template that handles retries, user-agent rotation, proxy configuration and rate-limit responses.“Built a production-ready Python web scraper template with built-in proxy & rate-limit handling (Open-source on GitHub)”
- JobForge — Tailors a resume to a job description by ranking and rewriting profile bullets and exporting a one-page ATS-friendly PDF.“Built a cv tailor that turns a JD into a 1-page ATS PDF — open source”
- Ramen — Deploys git-hosted Python MCP tools as canary-rolled workers on Kubernetes behind one load balancer, with OAuth sign-in, group roles, secrets and an audit log.“My side project: a self-hosted MCP server that deploys your AI agent tools across zones on Kubernetes”
- Python Automation Starter Kits — Packages reusable Python boilerplate for scrapers, Telegram bots, Tkinter UIs, FastAPI scraping APIs and RSS broadcasting into starter kits sold as a bundle.“I built a suite of 5 production-ready Python automation starter kits (Web Scraping, Telegram Bots, FastAPI REST, Tkinter UI)”
- TokenTV — Displays Claude and Codex AI usage limits on a small desk clock screen, with a computer sending the display over Wi-Fi.“TokenTV - AI usage limits on a tiny desk clock”
Latest add-ons built for Python
- codeTAC — Traces a UI action back to the components, server functions, database calls and external services behind it.“I built codeTAC to help me understand AI-generated code instead of treating it like a black box”
- Hussain Compiler — Runs Python code in the browser via WebAssembly, with an editor and interactive terminal supporting input().“I built Python Compiler, a lightweight Python IDE that runs in your browser”
- TraceLens — Steps through Python scripts frame by frame, showing variable state changes, and flags silent bugs in ML pipelines such as data leakage.“We built a "video player" for Python scripts that tracks runtime variables and catches silent ML bugs (Live Demo + Open Source)”
- Ormaos — Records a Python run's call tree, exceptions, and executed lines so coding agents can query it from the terminal.“I'm building a tool that records what happened inside a Python run, so coding agents can read it. Feedback before I build it?”
- Pyxel — Provides a small retro game engine for Python with built-in pixel-art and sound editors, exporting games to desktop and web browsers.“I built a retro game engine for Python as a side project. Eight years later, people are shipping games with it.”
- pmanager — Runs and supervises application processes across multiple languages, with restarts, health checks, logs, and monitoring.“I made a universal process manager for Node, Bun, Python, Go, Rust, and more”
- MemorySync — Stores decisions and preferences from AI agent sessions and retrieves them in later sessions across tools via MCP.“I spent 2 years building and 0 days building an audience. Launched on Product Hunt, finished around #230 with almost no votes. Roast the product, not the launch.”
- aqqai-taint — Statically analyzes Python code with taint tracking to report injection, XSS, path traversal, SSRF, and secret-leak vulnerabilities only when a real source-to-sink flow is found.“Is your code Vulnerable ,or have you made your project using AI , Read and in % minutes you can make your code hack and bug proof”
- UnFlow — Records ML experiment runs as a graph of states and the code or argument changes between them, detecting redundant runs.“I built UnFlow: a tool to help researchers with ML experimentation”
- pyrig — Scaffolds and maintains the setup of Python projects.“Asking for survey participants for my project”
- PyNote — Runs Python notebooks entirely in the browser with a WYSIWYG markdown editor and no server-side saving or execution.“I built a zero-setup, serverless, WYSIWYG python notebook app that runs code using your browser”
- DryRun — Steps through Python code line by line, showing variable changes, loop iterations, and output.“Looking for feedback: I built a Python dry-run visualizer for beginners”
- guardog — Scans and redacts secrets such as AWS keys, JWTs and credit card numbers in large text payloads using a multithreaded C extension.“I got tired of Python's GIL bottlenecking our log sanitization, so I built a zero-copy C-extension that hits 571 MB/s (14x faster than standard regex)”
- Tkinter UI Craft — Generates Tkinter Python code from a visual drag-and-drop widget layout in the browser.“Tkinter UI Craft is a free, web-based drag-and-drop tool designed to accelerate Python desktop application development”
- AgentScan — Scans a public GitHub repo of a Python LLM agent by running adversarial test payloads against a cloned copy and reports confirmed tool-call bypasses.“Built an AI Agent Safety Scan Tool, Just Copy & Paste Any Github URL and See If Your Agents Are Trustable”
Pitched as alternatives to Python
- LUC — Provides a lightweight scripting language built on Lua that aims to be easier for beginners to learn.“I made a small beginner-friendly language”
- FrameCalc — Runs a browser-based library of over 150 physics and math calculators with live plots and one-click LaTeX output.“150+ physics and math calculators as a Next.js app, instant computing in the browser for scientists, engineers, students, etc”
- Godwit — Runs large mixture-of-experts language models on small Apple Silicon Macs by streaming expert weights from SSD as needed.“I built an engine in Swift that runs a 120-billion-parameter AI model on a 16GB MacBook Air”
- Keel — Interprets a statically-typed programming language with Rust-like syntax and full type inference, and can be embedded in other programs via a C ABI.“Keel 0.4 - A very fast statically-typed interpreted language inspired by Python and Rust”
- NumC — Provides header-only C++20 numerical math, ODE solvers, curve fitting, and plotting with native windows or SVG output.“I'm a physics student and I built a zero-dependency C++20 framework to do math and data plotting like in Python”
- SwiphtNum — Runs statistical analyses such as regressions, SEM and Bayesian models in a standalone spreadsheet-style macOS app.“[Project] SwiphtNum— A native macOS app for professional stats (SEM, Bayesian, and more) without the R/Python dependency headache.”
- Nearoh — Interprets a Python-like programming language implemented in C, with a tracing garbage collector and closures.“Runtime milestone for Nearoh: GC-backed environments, escaped closures, and object identity”