Win32
How vibe coders and indie builders use Win32: 20 projects shared since May 2026 were built with it, and 1 were built for it.
How to read this
We count the projects builders share on Reddit each week. A project is counted once, in the week it first appears in our sources — that’s not necessarily when it was built or launched. Because some weeks are busier than others, we compare each tool's share of the projects that say what they're built with, not raw counts, so a busy week doesn't make everything look like it's growing. “Up 70%” means a tool turns up in 70% more of those projects than before. In the Oct 5 – 11 edition, the last 4 weeks are Sep 14 – Oct 11, compared with the previous 8 weeks, Jul 20 – Sep 13; the last 12 weeks are Jul 20 – Oct 11.
Projects built with it
20
Share of stated stacks, last 4 weeks
0.3%
Adjusted trend, last 4 weeks vs previous 8 weeks
too few to tell
Add-ons built for it
1
Share of stated stacks, each week
Share rather than counts, so changes in how many posts a subreddit lets through don't show up as trends.
Often used with
- C++ 7
- Python 4
- Direct2D 3
- Gemini API 3
- C# 2
- Electron 2
- GitHub Pages 2
- Groq 2
What's built with it
Latest projects built with Win32
- GpuThermalGuard — Monitors NVIDIA GPU temperature, power and game metrics on a customizable desktop and in-game overlay, and applies a lower power limit when thermal protection triggers.“My GPU thermal guard grew into a customizable desktop and in-game dashboard — I just released v1.0”
- Horadric — Shows each coding agent session as a desktop tile that highlights when it needs input and opens the real CLI in a terminal.“Horadric: every coding agent you run, as a tile on your Windows desktop that lights up when it needs you”
- Sharminda — Tracks time spent in Windows apps locally and sends roast-style desktop notifications when unproductive apps are overused.“I was wasting too much time on YouTube, so I built a Windows app that tracks screen time and brutally roasts me in Hinglish”
- GhostCanvas — Shows an AI-generated interview answer overlay on Windows that is hidden from screen sharing and recording, using live or offline speech transcription.“I built GhostCanvas — an invisible Windows AI interview assistant with local Whisper and Gemini Flash (₹499 lifetime)”
- Dameview — Displays images in a fast Windows viewer with tabs, split view, a command palette, and a gallery panel.“I built a Windows image viewer with Direct2D and WIC (a single 3.6 MB executable)”
- Plethora Keraunos — Turns plain-text requests into Windows configuration changes such as installing packages, switching primary monitors, and toggling settings, with optional Git snapshots of machine state.“I built Plethora Keraunos: A 100% offline, air-gapped system & multi-monitor orchestrator for Windows”
- antigravity-bluetooth-remote — Maps a cheap Bluetooth selfie remote's volume keys to toggling dictation and submitting prompts in Google Antigravity on Windows.“Turned a cheap Bluetooth selfie button into a physical push-to-talk clicker for Google Antigravity”
- Smart Crosshair — Draws a transparent overlay crosshair that samples the pixels beneath it and inverts its color to stay visible on dark or bright backgrounds.“Got tired of losing my crosshair against dark or bright backgrounds in games, so I built a native C++ dynamic overlay tool (Zero hooks, <7MB RAM)”
- WinFocus — Dims all background windows and desktop elements whenever a window is clicked, keeping them clickable.“I built a lightweight Windows 11 tool that auto-dims inactive windows for deep work (like HazeOver for Windows)”
- Dynamic Edge — Provides a dockable Windows top-edge or side-edge widget bar with media controls, a clipboard history shelf, a timer and stopwatch, and a shake gesture to toggle it.“I built Dynamic Edge: A fluid, native WinUI 3 island & edge dock (Media player, clipboard shelf, stopwatch/timers, and mouse shake toggle)”
- justCursor — Lets users design custom mouse cursors and cursor effects in a DirectX-rendered sandbox.“justCursor”
- I've been developing this… — Plays built-in melodies on a synth where the user controls the rhythm by clicking or pressing space.“I've been developing this interactive synth for 20 years. Started in the mid-2000s in pure FASM assembly, now completely rewritten in C++/Win32 API!”
- BentoDesk — Groups desktop files, folders, and shortcuts into collapsible zones that expand into grids on the Windows desktop.“I built BentoDesk, an open-source native Windows desktop organizer in Rust”
- Magisor — Captures the screen area around the cursor when the mouse is shaken and sends it to an AI vision model to describe what is there.“Built a Windows clone of Google's upcoming Magic Pointer feature: Shake your mouse anywhere on screen and AI tells you what it sees”
- SwiftSlate Desktop — Replaces trigger commands typed at the end of text in any Windows app with AI-transformed text, offline snippets, or local shell command output.“[PROMO] SwiftSlate Desktop: System-wide inline AI text transformer for Windows (Free, BYOK, Zero-Dependency, 1-Line PowerShell Install)”
Latest add-ons built for Win32
- OMEGA X — Frees memory, pauses background services, and adjusts power plan and process priorities to speed up a Windows PC.“Built a free Windows optimizer from scratch — real Win32 APIs, no fake benchmarks”