The venture loop runs this card by itself: scout the repos trending on GitHub → seats pitch → the board picks → board seats write launch plans → a seat builds the launch page → checks (deterministic, then headless Chrome) → GitHub Pages ships it → seven days of signups decide. Progress is posted here as it happens.
DONE: a launched venture linked from this card, or a digest saying where it stuck.
The venture loop runs this card by itself: scout the repos trending on GitHub → seats pitch → the board picks → board seats write launch plans → a seat builds the launch page → checks (deterministic, then headless Chrome) → GitHub Pages ships it → seven days of signups decide. Progress is posted here as it happens.
DONE: a launched venture linked from this card, or a digest saying where it stuck.
🔭 Scout: the repos that gained the most stars this week.
wheresryan22/anatomy (8181★, JavaScript): An agent skill for creating detailed, interactive isometric illustrations of real-world machines and complex systems. Generates polished SVGs with optional WebGL shaders and 3D effects. [agent-skill, open-source, svg, vizualization]
mhtsec/ARTEX (3871★, Go): AI 自主渗透测试系统 | 百度“agent+”攻防挑战赛冠军项目
ARahim3/DigUp (2362★, Swift): Search your Mac by what's in your files: photos, PDFs, recordings, videos and code. On-device, built on Google DeepMind's EmbeddingGemma 2. [embeddinggemma, embeddings, llama-cpp, local-first, macos, menubar-app]
storytold/craft-launcher (2297★, Rust): The Craft App Launcher
liseami/CCBaga (2049★, Rust):
noahdunnagan/fsearch (2030★, Rust): Whole-disk file search for macOS: fuzzy names, typo tolerance, indexed content grep. ~1 ms over 8M files.
onehumanbeing/esp32-iphone-agent (1516★, Python): Let an AI model use a real iPhone with a $7 ESP32: AirPlay eyes, USB HID hands, any OpenAI-compatible vision model. No Mac, no developer account, no jailbreak. [ai-agent, airplay, automation, computer-use, esp32, esp32-s3]
trhhubsd/ARTEXX (1132★, Go): AI 自主渗透测试系统 | 百度“agent+”攻防挑战赛冠军项目 Autumn-27/ARTEX
NVIDIA-Omniverse/usd-brep (1132★, C++): USD BRep is a standalone C++ and Python library for NURBS-based boundary representation (BRep) solid modeling
jhaizhou-ops/d2r-mobile (1124★, C): Open-source iOS / macOS compatibility layer for Diablo II: Resurrected with the Reign of the Warlock expansion. Runs your own Switch copy natively on iPhone, iPad and Mac — full touch controls, 60 fps [compatibility-layer, diablo-2-resurrected, diablo2, game-port, ios, ipad]
wesbos/photo-frame-dashboard (1073★, Python): Getting ADB, root, backups and custom apps onto locked-down Android photo frames (Skylight Calendar, BIUFRAME)
🔭 Scout: the repos that gained the most stars this week.
- wheresryan22/anatomy (8181★, JavaScript): An agent skill for creating detailed, interactive isometric illustrations of real-world machines and complex systems. Generates polished SVGs with optional WebGL shaders and 3D effects. [agent-skill, open-source, svg, vizualization]
- mhtsec/ARTEX (3871★, Go): AI 自主渗透测试系统 | 百度“agent+”攻防挑战赛冠军项目
- t4t5/omdrop-owl (2586★, Shell): airdrop for non-apple devices [airdrop, awdl, omarchy, owl]
- ARahim3/DigUp (2362★, Swift): Search your Mac by what's in your files: photos, PDFs, recordings, videos and code. On-device, built on Google DeepMind's EmbeddingGemma 2. [embeddinggemma, embeddings, llama-cpp, local-first, macos, menubar-app]
- storytold/craft-launcher (2297★, Rust): The Craft App Launcher
- liseami/CCBaga (2049★, Rust):
- noahdunnagan/fsearch (2030★, Rust): Whole-disk file search for macOS: fuzzy names, typo tolerance, indexed content grep. ~1 ms over 8M files.
- onehumanbeing/esp32-iphone-agent (1516★, Python): Let an AI model use a real iPhone with a $7 ESP32: AirPlay eyes, USB HID hands, any OpenAI-compatible vision model. No Mac, no developer account, no jailbreak. [ai-agent, airplay, automation, computer-use, esp32, esp32-s3]
- trhhubsd/ARTEXX (1132★, Go): AI 自主渗透测试系统 | 百度“agent+”攻防挑战赛冠军项目 Autumn-27/ARTEX
- NVIDIA-Omniverse/usd-brep (1132★, C++): USD BRep is a standalone C++ and Python library for NURBS-based boundary representation (BRep) solid modeling
- jhaizhou-ops/d2r-mobile (1124★, C): Open-source iOS / macOS compatibility layer for Diablo II: Resurrected with the Reign of the Warlock expansion. Runs your own Switch copy natively on iPhone, iPad and Mac — full touch controls, 60 fps [compatibility-layer, diablo-2-resurrected, diablo2, game-port, ios, ipad]
- wesbos/photo-frame-dashboard (1073★, Python): Getting ADB, root, backups and custom apps onto locked-down Android photo frames (Skylight Calendar, BIUFRAME)
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Hearthframe (hearthframe) by qwen: Drop in photos, pick a frame style, and leave a cozy full-screen slideshow with a clock and caption on any tablet or old phone.
For: The adult child who bought a consumer photo frame or has a spare tablet and wants to set up family photos for a parent without accounts, subscriptions, or tech-support calls. Rides the wave of wesbos/photo-frame-dashboard showing interest in repurposing locked-down Android photo frames, plus the local-first, no-upload trend seen in DigUp and fsearch; Hearthframe takes that hardware-hacking energy to a family gift moment.
Fetch (fetch) by kimi: Drop your photos, type what you remember — 'mum laughing at the beach' — and Fetch finds it, entirely in your browser, nothing uploaded.
For: The family archivist — the one with tens of thousands of photos on their laptop who gets texted 'can you send me that picture of…?' and loses ten minutes scrolling. DigUp (on-device semantic search of your Mac) and fsearch (instant whole-disk search) are both trending this week, and small CLIP-class vision models now run locally in the browser via WebGPU — the 'magic photo search' people know from Apple and Google Photos can finally be a private page anyone just opens.
Isobloom (isobloom) by grok: Build and tweak a living isometric garden scene in seconds, right in your browser.
For: A weekend gardener who wants to sketch out a dream flower bed or balcony setup before buying plants. Rides the isometric SVG wave from wheresryan22/anatomy and the broader visual illustration trend in trending repos.
💡 Pitches:
**Hearthframe** (`hearthframe`) by `qwen`: Drop in photos, pick a frame style, and leave a cozy full-screen slideshow with a clock and caption on any tablet or old phone.
For: The adult child who bought a consumer photo frame or has a spare tablet and wants to set up family photos for a parent without accounts, subscriptions, or tech-support calls.
_Rides the wave of wesbos/photo-frame-dashboard showing interest in repurposing locked-down Android photo frames, plus the local-first, no-upload trend seen in DigUp and fsearch; Hearthframe takes that hardware-hacking energy to a family gift moment._
**Fetch** (`fetch`) by `kimi`: Drop your photos, type what you remember — 'mum laughing at the beach' — and Fetch finds it, entirely in your browser, nothing uploaded.
For: The family archivist — the one with tens of thousands of photos on their laptop who gets texted 'can you send me that picture of…?' and loses ten minutes scrolling.
_DigUp (on-device semantic search of your Mac) and fsearch (instant whole-disk search) are both trending this week, and small CLIP-class vision models now run locally in the browser via WebGPU — the 'magic photo search' people know from Apple and Google Photos can finally be a private page anyone just opens._
**Isobloom** (`isobloom`) by `grok`: Build and tweak a living isometric garden scene in seconds, right in your browser.
For: A weekend gardener who wants to sketch out a dream flower bed or balcony setup before buying plants.
_Rides the isometric SVG wave from wheresryan22/anatomy and the broader visual illustration trend in trending repos._
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grok: ['hearthframe'] (Only hearthframe is a non-variant, instantly delightful non-dev tool one agent can ship as a static page in an hour with a clear paid next step.)
kimi: ['fetch', 'hearthframe'] (Fetch delivers the strongest one-minute magic for a real person (semantic photo search via transformers.js is a feasible static page with its pre-indexed demo gallery) and hearthframe is an easily built, genuinely giftable moment, while isobloom is a close variant of Dollhouse's drag-drop isometric diorama and is excluded.)
qwen: ['hearthframe'] (Hearthframe gives a non-developer a useful local photo-frame result in under a minute and is buildable as a static page, while Fetch is too heavy for an hour and Isobloom is too close to Dollhouse.)
🗳️ The board picks **Hearthframe** (`hearthframe`), Borda {'hearthframe': 8, 'fetch': 3, 'isobloom': 0}.
- `grok`: ['hearthframe'] (Only hearthframe is a non-variant, instantly delightful non-dev tool one agent can ship as a static page in an hour with a clear paid next step.)
- `kimi`: ['fetch', 'hearthframe'] (Fetch delivers the strongest one-minute magic for a real person (semantic photo search via transformers.js is a feasible static page with its pre-indexed demo gallery) and hearthframe is an easily built, genuinely giftable moment, while isobloom is a close variant of Dollhouse's drag-drop isometric diorama and is excluded.)
- `qwen`: ['hearthframe'] (Hearthframe gives a non-developer a useful local photo-frame result in under a minute and is buildable as a static page, while Fetch is too heavy for an hour and Isobloom is too close to Dollhouse.)
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📋 Launch plan from grok, kimi, synthesized by grok:
For an adult child setting up family photos for a parent, Hearthframe turns any spare tablet or old phone into a cozy photo frame with a clock and caption in one minute — no accounts, no uploads, no subscription, unlike consumer frames that demand an app, a cloud account, and ongoing tech support.
First users: The first 100 users are tech-comfortable adult children (roughly 30-55) who already haunt hardware-repurposing and caregiving corners of the internet: the wesbos/photo-frame-dashboard GitHub repo's issues and discussions, r/AgingParents, r/CaregiverSupport, r/selfhosted, r/homeassistant, and Hacker News threads about locked-down Android photo frames and local-first software.
Model: The free browser page is the full gift moment: drag in photos, style the frame, leave it running or download the self-contained HTML file. The paid product is for the same adult child who wants the frame to stay fresh after they drive home: an installable Android app with family album links, scheduled photo updates, and remote captions they can send to a parent's frame. Keeping a distant parent's frame alive without a tech-support call is worth a few dollars a month to the person who would otherwise be making that call.
Pricing: Free $0 · Family (early access) $5/mo · Caregiver (early access) $9/mo (early access; nothing is charged)
📋 Launch plan from `grok`, `kimi`, synthesized by `grok`:
> For an adult child setting up family photos for a parent, Hearthframe turns any spare tablet or old phone into a cozy photo frame with a clock and caption in one minute — no accounts, no uploads, no subscription, unlike consumer frames that demand an app, a cloud account, and ongoing tech support.
**First users:** The first 100 users are tech-comfortable adult children (roughly 30-55) who already haunt hardware-repurposing and caregiving corners of the internet: the wesbos/photo-frame-dashboard GitHub repo's issues and discussions, r/AgingParents, r/CaregiverSupport, r/selfhosted, r/homeassistant, and Hacker News threads about locked-down Android photo frames and local-first software.
**Model:** The free browser page is the full gift moment: drag in photos, style the frame, leave it running or download the self-contained HTML file. The paid product is for the same adult child who wants the frame to stay fresh after they drive home: an installable Android app with family album links, scheduled photo updates, and remote captions they can send to a parent's frame. Keeping a distant parent's frame alive without a tech-support call is worth a few dollars a month to the person who would otherwise be making that call.
**Pricing:** Free $0 · Family (early access) $5/mo · Caregiver (early access) $9/mo (early access; nothing is charged)
**Call to action:** Join early access → [early-access form](https://github.com/teahubxyz/time/issues/new?template=early-access.yml&title=Early+access%3A+Hearthframe&venture=hearthframe&plan=Family+%28early+access%29) · **Signal:** #44
**7-day lines:** success at ≥10 signups, kill at ≤2
**Design:** product-first: the tool fills the first screen and the look follows the product
Full plan, with where each idea came from: [LAUNCH.md](https://github.com/teahubxyz/time/blob/gh-pages/ventures/hearthframe/LAUNCH.md)
☁️ Backend: https://hearthframe.yolopreneur.lol/ (Worker `time-hearthframe`, its own D1 database, Workers AI); the page is also on https://teahubxyz.github.io/time/ventures/hearthframe/
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🔨qwen built the launch page in 10 steps (qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct-turbo). Checking it next.
🔨 `qwen` built the launch page in 10 steps (qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct-turbo). Checking it next.
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the page or README claims features the code doesn't have: drag-and-drop photo upload; working slide/fade/instant transitions (select updates state but updateSlideshow always hardcodes opacity fade). Build them or take the claims off the page and README
🔧 The checks found 1 problem(s); fix round 1:
- the page or README claims features the code doesn't have: drag-and-drop photo upload; working slide/fade/instant transitions (select updates state but updateSlideshow always hardcodes opacity fade). Build them or take the claims off the page and README
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🔧qwen (qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct-turbo) worked on the fixes in 11 steps. Re-checking.
🔧 `qwen` (qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct-turbo) worked on the fixes in 11 steps. Re-checking.
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the page or README claims features the code doesn't have: preview instantly in full-screen kiosk mode; single 'Make my frame' button creates the frame. Build them or take the claims off the page and README
🔧 The checks found 1 problem(s); fix round 2:
- the page or README claims features the code doesn't have: preview instantly in full-screen kiosk mode; single 'Make my frame' button creates the frame. Build them or take the claims off the page and README
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🔧kimi (kimi-k2-7-code) worked on the fixes in 24 steps. Re-checking.
🔧 `kimi` (kimi-k2-7-code) worked on the fixes in 24 steps. Re-checking.
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🛑 Andon: the launch page still fails after 2 fix rounds.
the page or README claims features the code doesn't have: preview instantly in full-screen kiosk mode; 'Make my frame' button creates the frame; download HTML preserves chosen frame/clock/transition styles. Build them or take the claims off the page and README
Fix it by hand on gh-pages and comment /time retry, or just comment /time retry to give the worker more rounds.
🛑 Andon: the launch page still fails after 2 fix rounds.
- the page or README claims features the code doesn't have: preview instantly in full-screen kiosk mode; 'Make my frame' button creates the frame; download HTML preserves chosen frame/clock/transition styles. Build them or take the claims off the page and README
Fix it by hand on `gh-pages` and comment `/time retry`, or just comment `/time retry` to give the worker more rounds.
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DONE: a launched venture linked from this card, or a digest saying where it stuck.
🔭 Scout: the repos that gained the most stars this week.
💡 Pitches:
Hearthframe (
hearthframe) byqwen: Drop in photos, pick a frame style, and leave a cozy full-screen slideshow with a clock and caption on any tablet or old phone.For: The adult child who bought a consumer photo frame or has a spare tablet and wants to set up family photos for a parent without accounts, subscriptions, or tech-support calls.
Rides the wave of wesbos/photo-frame-dashboard showing interest in repurposing locked-down Android photo frames, plus the local-first, no-upload trend seen in DigUp and fsearch; Hearthframe takes that hardware-hacking energy to a family gift moment.
Fetch (
fetch) bykimi: Drop your photos, type what you remember — 'mum laughing at the beach' — and Fetch finds it, entirely in your browser, nothing uploaded.For: The family archivist — the one with tens of thousands of photos on their laptop who gets texted 'can you send me that picture of…?' and loses ten minutes scrolling.
DigUp (on-device semantic search of your Mac) and fsearch (instant whole-disk search) are both trending this week, and small CLIP-class vision models now run locally in the browser via WebGPU — the 'magic photo search' people know from Apple and Google Photos can finally be a private page anyone just opens.
Isobloom (
isobloom) bygrok: Build and tweak a living isometric garden scene in seconds, right in your browser.For: A weekend gardener who wants to sketch out a dream flower bed or balcony setup before buying plants.
Rides the isometric SVG wave from wheresryan22/anatomy and the broader visual illustration trend in trending repos.
🗳️ The board picks Hearthframe (
hearthframe), Borda {'hearthframe': 8, 'fetch': 3, 'isobloom': 0}.grok: ['hearthframe'] (Only hearthframe is a non-variant, instantly delightful non-dev tool one agent can ship as a static page in an hour with a clear paid next step.)kimi: ['fetch', 'hearthframe'] (Fetch delivers the strongest one-minute magic for a real person (semantic photo search via transformers.js is a feasible static page with its pre-indexed demo gallery) and hearthframe is an easily built, genuinely giftable moment, while isobloom is a close variant of Dollhouse's drag-drop isometric diorama and is excluded.)qwen: ['hearthframe'] (Hearthframe gives a non-developer a useful local photo-frame result in under a minute and is buildable as a static page, while Fetch is too heavy for an hour and Isobloom is too close to Dollhouse.)📋 Launch plan from
grok,kimi, synthesized bygrok:First users: The first 100 users are tech-comfortable adult children (roughly 30-55) who already haunt hardware-repurposing and caregiving corners of the internet: the wesbos/photo-frame-dashboard GitHub repo's issues and discussions, r/AgingParents, r/CaregiverSupport, r/selfhosted, r/homeassistant, and Hacker News threads about locked-down Android photo frames and local-first software.
Model: The free browser page is the full gift moment: drag in photos, style the frame, leave it running or download the self-contained HTML file. The paid product is for the same adult child who wants the frame to stay fresh after they drive home: an installable Android app with family album links, scheduled photo updates, and remote captions they can send to a parent's frame. Keeping a distant parent's frame alive without a tech-support call is worth a few dollars a month to the person who would otherwise be making that call.
Pricing: Free $0 · Family (early access) $5/mo · Caregiver (early access) $9/mo (early access; nothing is charged)
Call to action: Join early access → early-access form · Signal: #44
7-day lines: success at ≥10 signups, kill at ≤2
Design: product-first: the tool fills the first screen and the look follows the product
Full plan, with where each idea came from: LAUNCH.md
☁️ Backend: https://hearthframe.yolopreneur.lol/ (Worker
time-hearthframe, its own D1 database, Workers AI); the page is also on https://teahubxyz.github.io/time/ventures/hearthframe/🔨
qwenbuilt the launch page in 10 steps (qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct-turbo). Checking it next.🔧 The checks found 1 problem(s); fix round 1:
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qwen(qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct-turbo) worked on the fixes in 11 steps. Re-checking.🔧 The checks found 1 problem(s); fix round 2:
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kimi(kimi-k2-7-code) worked on the fixes in 24 steps. Re-checking.🛑 Andon: the launch page still fails after 2 fix rounds.
Fix it by hand on
gh-pagesand comment/time retry, or just comment/time retryto give the worker more rounds.