Commercial
15 records filed under this subject, newest first, each with what it is, what it cost and where the builder got stuck.
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092Phone HarnessA Python library and an agent skill that put a real iPhone or Android phone under a coding agent’s hands: the agent reads the screen through OCR or the accessibility tree, taps and types through HID events or adb, and then looks again to check what happened. Nothing is installed on the phone and there is no jailbreak — on a Mac the phone is an iPhone Mirroring window, elsewhere it is adb over USB or Wi-Fi.ClaudeClaude CodeCodex+2
036HeadroomA compression layer that sits between an agent and the model it calls: tool output, logs, file reads, RAG chunks and conversation history are shrunk on the machine that runs it, and the originals are kept in a local store so the model can ask for any block back.ClaudeClaude CodeCline+7
028Gemini CLIGoogle’s terminal agent for Gemini, Apache-2.0, with the unpaid tier handed to Antigravity CLI.Gemini
024Codex CLIOpenAI’s coding agent for the terminal, written in Rust after a rewrite from TypeScript.CodexGPT
021Base44A solo founder’s prompt-to-app platform, sold to Wix about six months in.ClaudeGPT
020Browser UseGives a model a browser instead of a screenshot: the page is converted to text the model can act on.GPTClaudeGitHub Pages
019Bolt.newPrompt to running app, in the browser tab, with no local toolchain.BoltClaude
018ClineAn open-source coding agent that reads files, runs terminal commands and edits across a repository.ClaudeGPTOllama
016Cal AITwo teenagers, a calorie-tracking app, and a distribution channel nobody else used.ClaudeCursor
013OpenHandsAn open-source software engineering agent that started as a tribute to Devin — and outlived the name.ClaudeGPTDeepSeek
012CrewAIAgents get a role, a goal and a backstory; a crew runs several of them on one task.GPTClaude
006DifyA visual workspace for building agentic workflows and RAG pipelines, run from Docker or from the vendor’s cloud.GPTClaudeDeepSeek
005CursorThe editor that made “AI-native IDE” a category instead of a feature.CursorClaudeGPT
004Chatbase“ChatGPT for your docs” turned into a real business by staying boring.GPTSupabase
002PhotoAIOne person, a model pipeline, and a business that out-earned the portfolio around it.GPT