January 3, 2026 AI-DIGEST BY MAURO SICARD
From Product Hunt
Product Hunt

Developer tools and privacy-focused apps dominated today. Several Claude Code integrations and MCP servers caught my attention.

DaysAround — Privacy-First Travel Tracker Track every country you've been to from your iPhone photos, scanned locally. Get days per country for tax residency, Schengen limits, and visa warnings. Nothing ever uploaded.
▲ 263 · apps.apple.com
Ultracite v7 — Zero-Config Linter & Formatter Opinionated, AI-ready code linter built on Biome (Rust). Generates rule files for Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot. Trusted by Vercel, Clerk, and ElevenLabs.
▲ 213 · ultracite.ai
Fluxer — Open-Source Discord Alternative Self-hostable instant messaging and VoIP platform. Fully FOSS, 5 years in development. For companies and communities who want to own their chat infrastructure.
▲ 132 · fluxer.app
NoteTabs — macOS Text Editor with Tabs Native Mac text editor with horizontal tabs like Notepad++. Auto-save, auto-restore, lightweight. For quick notes and plain text editing.
▲ 112 · apps.apple.com
Notchification — Build Progress in Your Notch Shows compilation and Claude Code progress in your MacBook's notch. Animated progress bar, confetti on completion. Works with Xcode, Android Studio, and Claude CLI.
▲ 101 · notchification.carrd.co
youtube-mcp-server — MCP for YouTube Transcription MCP server for AI agents to transcribe YouTube videos using Whisper. VAD-based segmentation, 99 language support, hardware acceleration via CUDA/MPS.
▲ 87 · github.com
Mnexium AI — Persistent Memory for LLM Agents Add persistent structured memory to your AI apps with a single API call. No vector DBs or pipelines needed. Chat history, semantic recall, and durable user memory out of the box.
▲ 84 · producthunt.com
From Reddit
r/singularity r/openai r/LocalLLaMA

A Google engineer's viral Claude Code experience and Gemini solving a 500-year-old mystery made waves today.

Google Engineer: Claude Code Built in 1 Hour What Her Team Built in a Year

Jaana Dogan, Google Principal Engineer responsible for the Gemini API, shared that Claude Code generated in 1 hour what her team had been building for distributed agent orchestrators at Google since last year.

"I'm not joking and this isn't funny." The result isn't perfect, but comparable to what Google built. A powerful demonstration of how fast AI coding tools are advancing.

x.com · r/singularity
Gemini 3.0 Pro Solves 500-Year-Old Nuremberg Chronicle Mystery Gemini 3.0 Pro decoded handwritten annotations in the 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle. The AI combined paleography, chronology, and theological context to explain circular notes that had puzzled scholars for centuries.
OpenAI President Greg Brockman Largest Donor to Trump Super PAC The latest filing shows OpenAI's president as the top donor to a Trump-aligned super PAC. Notable for the intersection of AI industry leadership and political funding.
New Grok Model "Obsidian" Spotted — Likely Grok 4.20 Beta testers report it's less lazy than previous Grok models, produces 3x more code. Step up for frontend/web design.
From Reddit
r/StableDiffusion r/comfyui

Z-Image-Turbo workflows and style conversion LoRAs are getting attention.

Z-Image-Turbo Style Guide — No LoRAs Required Tutorial showing different styles achievable with Z-Image-Turbo without LoRAs. 1024x1024 in 3 seconds on 8 steps with fp8. Examples range beyond the typical "1girl" category.
Anything2Real 2601 LoRA — Art Style to Photorealistic New version of the Anything2Real LoRA built on Qwen Edit 2511. Transforms any art style into photorealistic images. Specialized for style conversion workflows.
AI Metadata Viewer v1.0.7 — Speed Sorter for Image Culling Free local desktop app for viewing prompts, seeds, models. New Speed Sorter feature to cull thousands of images in minutes.
From Reddit
r/macapps r/selfhosted r/opensource

A beautiful radio app, game library manager for the *arr stack, and MacUpdater's discontinuation sparked discussion.

Roam FM — Global Radio in Your Menu Bar

macOS menu bar app with 40,000+ global radio stations. One click to roam through stations worldwide. Auto-hides stations in languages you understand, so it won't pull your attention.

Perfect for work background audio. See where you "landed" with the station's location display.

fm.houjoe.me · r/macapps
Questarr — Sonarr/Radarr-Style Game Library Manager Track your game collection with status labels (Wanted, Owned, Playing, Completed). Auto-search via Prowlarr, download via qBittorrent. Docker ready with cover-focused UI.
5TB Portable Media Server Build — Pi 4 + Jellyfin Complete build: Pi 4 in NASPI-lite case with 5TB HDD, 20000mah battery, dual WiFi adapters. Runs Jellyfin, connects to TV via HDMI. Truly portable media server.
MacUpdater Discontinued — Community Looking to Continue MacUpdater shut down Jan 1. The infrastructure tracked 150,000+ apps. Community organizing to potentially carry the torch. Looking for contributors.

Quick hits — tools, releases, and smaller updates.

Dockhand 1.0.6 — Docker Container Management UI Bug fixes and stabilization release for the Docker web interface.
Assets — Self-Hosted Net Worth Tracker January 2026 update. Real-time market data from Yahoo Finance API. Track wealth across portfolios.
WinDirStat Now Scans 4TB SSD in Under 2 Seconds Major performance improvement for the classic disk usage analyzer.
Signal Shifter 1.5 — Audio Device Management Now updates system default, adds input volume controls and device-change popups.