# NextGen Interactive — Complete Technical & Product Corpus (llms-full.txt) Canonical Domain: https://ngi.video Video Studio (tools that run in your browser): https://ngi.video/console Public API Reference (read-only sandbox): https://ngi.video/api Video Tool List JSON: https://ngi.video/api/registry/tools Third-Party Licenses: https://ngi.video/licenses GPU Processing (private early access): https://ngi.video/#contact --- ## 1. Studio Overview & Architecture NextGen Interactive builds software across five core domains: 1. **Media & Video (`Video Studio`, `Kineflow`, `Overlook`, `brAutosub`, `Caption Flow`, `brFrame`)**: Media library discovery, in-browser compress, trim, join, contact-sheet and loudness tools at ngi.video/console, and GPU work (upscaling, overlap splicing, scene indexing, transcript search) in private early access. 2. **AI, Compilers & Decision (`Vox`, `GigMe`, `Ramada`, `GreaterFool`, `Velocicode`, `Hybrid Search Docker`, `brPrompts`, `brML`)**: Single-file full-stack language design (.vox), adaptive career skill diagnosis, honest outing recommendations compared against staying home, and clear bottom-line vs. exact-fact decision apps. 3. **Games & Worlds (`FableForge`, `Containment`, `Resonance`, `GovSim`, `Open Melvor`, `Cataclysm: Bright Nights`, `TaleHall`, `mcGreasemonkey`, `Mudlet DBE`)**: Browser-native visual novels, playable web RPGs, Godot 3D stealth games, and nonpartisan U.S. presidency & federal budget simulations. 4. **Neuroscience & Spatial (`NeuroGecko`, `Neuroscience Atlas Mapper`, `Vuzix AR Assistant`, `StereoDesk`)**: Smooth 3D MRI brain presentation decks, brain-atlas region mapping, and smart-glasses heads-up displays. 5. **Systems & Ops (`PeaceBoard`, `DirectFail Tax`, `brFinancier`, `Coolify Deploy Kit`, `mcpMarvin`, `Storage Tier`, `AI Dev Box`)**: Primary-source policy and treaty trackers, deterministic tax and financial ledgers, and safe server deployment tools. --- ## 2. Complete 40-Project Engineering Dossiers ### Video Studio - **Subtitle**: Browser Video Studio & Hosted Video Tools - **Tagline**: Open your own video in the browser, try preview filters, record a short clip, and search a subtitle file. - **Category**: Media & Video | **Tier**: FLAGSHIP - **Live Endpoint**: https://ngi.video/console - **Tags**: Runs in Your Browser, Clip & Frame Export, Subtitle Search - **Summary**: Browser video studio where you open your own clip, preview filters, save still frames and short clips, and search a subtitle file. A hosted processing service is in development. - **Why It Was Created**: Managing large video libraries usually means waiting minutes for media indexing, fighting fragile transcode pipelines, and jumping between separate apps just to compress, trim, upscale, or find a spoken quote. - **Why It Is Useful**: Compresses, trims, joins and checks your own videos with nothing to install, and the files never leave your device. - **Key Features**: - Live browser studio with a split-screen preview and instant clip export - Compress, trim, join, contact-sheet and loudness tools that run on your device - GPU upscaling, overlap splicing and scene indexing in private early access ### Vox - **Subtitle**: Single-File Full-Stack Programming Language • voxlang.org - **Tagline**: A programming language designed so you describe your data once and get a matching database, server, and client. - **Category**: AI, Compilers & Decision | **Tier**: FLAGSHIP - **Live Endpoint**: https://voxlang.org - **Public GitHub**: https://github.com/vox-foundation/vox - **Tags**: Rust Compiler, Declare-Once Stack, Open Source - **Summary**: Programming language and full-stack toolchain where defining your data model once automatically generates the database schema, backend API routes, and typed frontend client. - **Why It Was Created**: Modern web apps force teams to write the same data structure four times—in database migrations, backend models, API validators, and frontend types—creating bugs every time a field changes. - **Why It Is Useful**: Lets humans and AI coding assistants build complete, type-checked web applications in a single `.vox` file with APIs that stay in sync and strict compile-time error handling. - **Key Features**: - Declare-once data models that generate database tables, server endpoints, and TypeScript clients - Fast Rust-built compiler, type checker (`vox check`), and sandboxed script runner (`vox run`) - Built-in editor autocomplete (LSP) and AI assistant integration out of the box - Public open-source language specification and interactive documentation at voxlang.org ### FableForge - **Subtitle**: Browser Visual Novel Creator & Playable RPG • fableforge.to - **Tagline**: Make a character and walk around a living village, or start writing a branching story with art made for it. - **Category**: Games & Worlds | **Tier**: FLAGSHIP - **Live Endpoint**: https://fableforge.to - **Tags**: Instant Web Play, The Village RPG, Story & Art Studio - **Summary**: Web-native story studio and game platform where creators draft branching visual novels, generate consistent character and scene artwork, and publish games that play instantly in any browser. - **Why It Was Created**: Most indie writers have great story ideas but get blocked having to illustrate hundreds of scenes or package bulky desktop downloads before anyone can play their game. - **Why It Is Useful**: Combines branching story writing, cohesive artwork generation, and instant browser playback in one place—while also powering The Village RPG with live town exploration and turn-based combat. - **Key Features**: - Zero-install browser player for branching visual novels with cloud saves - Playable Village RPG featuring town exploration, quests, and turn-based tactical combat - Unified character portrait, scene background, and soundtrack creation workflow - Full project export to standard desktop visual novel formats you completely own ### GigMe - **Subtitle**: Interactive Career Coach & Skill Diagnostic • gigme.fableforge.to - **Tagline**: Practice job interviews, find out which of your skills hold up, and track which applications get replies. - **Category**: AI, Compilers & Decision | **Tier**: FLAGSHIP - **Live Endpoint**: https://gigme.fableforge.to - **Tags**: Live Mock Interviews, Skill Calibration, Outcome Tracking - **Summary**: Interactive career copilot that tests your real-world strengths, runs realistic practice interviews, surfaces high-fit roles, and tracks which applications actually earn human replies. - **Why It Was Created**: Job boards flood people with keyword-matched listings without telling them which skills they are actually missing or whether their application strategy is working. - **Why It Is Useful**: Guides you through focused modes for career discovery, mock interviews, skill practice, and application tracking, so you spend time on roles you can genuinely win. - **Key Features**: - Coaching modes: Auto-Calibrate, Mock Interview, Skill Coach, Career Desires, References, and Role Triage - Verified skill profile that separates tested strengths from self-reported resume claims - Focused role matching that keeps core strengths separate from stretch career exploration - Honest application outcome tracker measuring time invested and real employer response rates ### Containment - **Subtitle**: Modern-Era Tabletop RPG Platform • containment.fableforge.to - **Tagline**: A modern-day tactical tabletop campaign that players join in the browser, with character sheets that handle gear math. - **Category**: Games & Worlds | **Tier**: FLAGSHIP - **Live Endpoint**: https://containment.fableforge.to - **Tags**: Live Virtual Tabletop, Rules-as-Code, Automated Visual QA - **Summary**: Live modern-era tactical D&D 5e campaign world running on Foundry VTT v14, complete with custom operative character sheets and a compiler that turns Markdown notes into playable game rules. - **Why It Was Created**: Running heavily customized tabletop RPG campaigns online usually means hours of fragile manual data entry and plugin updates that break character sheets right before game night. - **Why It Is Useful**: Lets game designers write classes, gear, and rules in plain Markdown files that automatically compile into ready-to-play virtual tabletop items—verified by automated browser tests before every session. - **Key Features**: - Automated rules compiler converting plain-text Markdown into playable tabletop compendiums - Custom tactical operative character sheets with automatic gear weight and combat math - Safe cloud deployment pipeline that upgrades game rules without wiping player campaign progress - Automated visual verification suite testing character sheets and scenes before launch ### Ramada - **Subtitle**: Night-Out & Activity Planner for Tucson • ramada.fableforge.to - **Tagline**: Tell it what you're in the mood for tonight in Tucson, and it ranks places against simply staying home. - **Category**: AI, Compilers & Decision | **Tier**: FLAGSHIP - **Live Endpoint**: https://ramada.fableforge.to - **Tags**: Live Weather & Traffic, Stay-Home Baseline, Pick Your Mood - **Summary**: A Tucson night-out planner that checks the clock, live weather, drive time, and the mood you pick, then ranks the best places to go tonight against simply staying home. - **Why It Was Created**: Map apps and event sites dump hundreds of pins on a screen without answering the real question: 'Given the weather, drive time, and my energy right now, what is actually worth leaving the house for?' - **Why It Is Useful**: Lets you pick a mood, a time, and how long you have, shows clear pros and cons for every venue or trail, and honestly tells you to stay in when nothing beats a night at home. - **Key Features**: - Compares local venues, trails, libraries, and events against a realistic staying-home baseline - Mood choices: Anything, Something to do, Meet people, Be around people, Get things done, or Unwind - Real-time weather, daylight window, and drive-time awareness for tonight or the weekend - Transparent preference controls so you can see and adjust why any spot was recommended ### GreaterFool - **Subtitle**: High-Stakes Decision & Risk Analyzer • ftt.fableforge.to - **Tagline**: Talk through a risky decision and see the exact odds next to the plain bottom line before you commit. - **Category**: AI, Compilers & Decision | **Tier**: FLAGSHIP - **Live Endpoint**: https://ftt.fableforge.to - **Tags**: Decision Science, Math vs. Bottom Line, Bias Trap Alerts - **Summary**: Interactive decision workbench based on cognitive psychology's Fuzzy-Trace Theory—placing exact financial odds side-by-side with the real-world bottom line so you can reason clearly under risk. - **Why It Was Created**: Spreadsheets and standard AI chatbots reduce big life or financial choices to a single average number, ignoring whether a bad outcome could wipe you out. - **Why It Is Useful**: Shows both the exact numerical math and the plain-English categorical risk side-by-side, flagging common psychological framing traps before you commit. - **Key Features**: - Side-by-side breakdown of exact financial math vs. real-world bottom-line downside - Automatic alerts for framing traps like loss aversion, sunk-cost thinking, and false certainty - Real-time streaming analysis that walks through tradeoffs step by step - Live interactive decision studio at ftt.fableforge.to ### PeaceBoard - **Subtitle**: Primary-Source Policy & Humanitarian Monitor • board.fableforge.to - **Tagline**: A weekly page of new federal filings and humanitarian data, with a link to each original document. - **Category**: Systems & Ops | **Tier**: FLAGSHIP - **Live Endpoint**: https://board.fableforge.to - **Tags**: Primary Sources, Weekly Change Log, Cited Evidence - **Summary**: Weekly public-interest tracker that monitors official Federal Register filings, statutory congressional review windows, and international humanitarian indicators with direct document citations. - **Why It Was Created**: Fast-moving news feeds bury official government filings and humanitarian reports under commentary, making it hard to see what actually changed from one week to the next. - **Why It Is Useful**: Pulls directly from primary government and humanitarian records into a clean weekly scoreboard where every number links to its source document and methodology notes. - **Key Features**: - Automated tracking of official Federal Register notices and 15-day statutory review countdowns - Clear week-over-week change indicators separated from long-term historical totals - Direct source-document links and explicit data-coverage caveats on every card - Public RSS feeds and transparent correction history at board.fableforge.to ### DirectFail Tax - **Subtitle**: Transparent Solo-Business Tax Calculator • tax.fableforge.to - **Tagline**: Sort your freelance business expenses with rules you can read, then fill in your Schedule C numbers. - **Category**: Systems & Ops | **Tier**: FLAGSHIP - **Live Endpoint**: https://tax.fableforge.to - **Tags**: Live Web App, Schedule C Math, Readable Rules - **Summary**: Clear, rule-based tax bookkeeping and Schedule C calculation web app built for independent developers, freelancers, and single-member LLCs. - **Why It Was Created**: Commercial tax prep sites hide straightforward self-employment tax math behind dozens of upsell screens and black-box questionnaires. - **Why It Is Useful**: Categorizes business expenses with transparent rules you can inspect, calculates exact Schedule C and quarterly estimated tax lines, and lets you export clean records anytime. - **Key Features**: - Transparent rule engine for categorizing software, cloud hosting, and contractor expenses - Instant Schedule C and quarterly estimated tax worksheet calculations - Clean CSV and JSON import/export with zero account lock-in - Tests check tax brackets, caps, and deduction math ### Public API reference - **Subtitle**: Public Endpoint Reference & Read-Only Sandbox • ngi.video/api - **Tagline**: Read this site's public endpoints, try the read-only ones from your browser, and get the OpenAPI spec. - **Category**: Media & Video | **Tier**: FLAGSHIP - **Live Endpoint**: https://ngi.video/api - **Tags**: Read-Only Sandbox, OpenAPI 3.1, Public Endpoints - **Summary**: Reference for this site's public endpoints, with a read-only sandbox that sends GET requests and shows the raw reply. - **Why It Was Created**: Anyone scripting against ngi.video needs one plain page that says what each public endpoint accepts and returns. - **Why It Is Useful**: Shows each public endpoint with an example request, sends the read-only ones from your browser, and links the machine-readable OpenAPI spec. - **Key Features**: - Example requests for health, the capability list, link data and early-access intake - Read-only sandbox that sends GET requests and shows the raw reply - Video tool list showing what runs in your browser and what is in private early access - Machine-readable OpenAPI 3.1 spec (/openapi.json) and AI context docs (/llms.txt) ### mcpMarvin - **Subtitle**: AI Assistant Bridge for Amazing Marvin • marvin.fableforge.to - **Tagline**: Let your AI assistant read today's schedule and add or check off tasks in your Amazing Marvin planner. - **Category**: Systems & Ops | **Tier**: FLAGSHIP - **Live Endpoint**: https://marvin.fableforge.to/health - **Tags**: Live Cloud Service, AI Task Bridge, Instant Local Sync - **Summary**: Bridge service that lets AI assistants read your daily schedule, create tasks, and check off completed work in the Amazing Marvin planner. - **Why It Was Created**: People who organize their day in Amazing Marvin wanted their AI coding and planning assistants to check today's agenda and log tasks without manual copy-pasting. - **Why It Is Useful**: Connects directly to the desktop app for instant response times and automatically falls back to the cloud service when you are away from your desk. - **Key Features**: - Instant local desktop connection with automatic cloud fallback - Lets AI assistants read today's schedule, add tasks, and organize projects safely - Live cloud health endpoint running at marvin.fableforge.to ### Resonance - **Subtitle**: First-Person Sci-Fi Immersive Sim - **Tagline**: Sneak, hack, fight, or talk your way through every mission in a first-person sci-fi harbor city. - **Category**: Games & Worlds | **Tier**: SYSTEM - **Tags**: Godot + Jolt 3D, Multiple Playstyles, Cybernetic Implants - **Summary**: First-person 2057 sci-fi immersive simulation built in Godot where every mission inside Meridian Harbor can be tackled through stealth, terminal hacking, combat, or conversation. - **Why It Was Created**: Classic Deus Ex-style immersive sims—where every locked door has multiple creative solutions and cybernetic upgrades change how you explore—are rare in modern open-source game engines. - **Why It Is Useful**: Showcases a full-scale 3D game architecture in Godot combining limb-specific health, neural augmentations, spatial inventory, and automated visual scene testing. - **Key Features**: - Cybernetic augmentation system covering vision, movement, stealth, and defensive upgrades - Tactical HUD tracking limb-by-limb health, energy reserves, and stealth visibility - Multi-path level design where stealth vents, hacking, and combat are all first-class options - Automated camera test harness that renders and verifies lighting and combat scenes ### GovSim - **Subtitle**: Open-Source U.S. Presidency & Budget Simulator • github/govSim - **Tagline**: Play a fictional U.S. president for two terms and see how budget choices change everyday family budgets. - **Stat**: 32 turns across two terms (source: https://github.com/brbrainerd/govSim/blob/master/src/engine/units.ts#L8) - **Category**: Games & Worlds | **Tier**: SYSTEM - **Public GitHub**: https://github.com/brbrainerd/govSim - **Tags**: Open Source (MIT), Federal Budget Sim, Two Presidential Terms - **Summary**: Nonpartisan U.S. Presidential simulation where you govern across 32 quarterly turns—balancing the federal budget, negotiating with Congress, and seeing how policies affect everyday family budgets. - **Why It Was Created**: Most political games treat governing as simple partisan sliders instead of showing how tax rates, spending bills, and interest rates actually play out for real households. - **Why It Is Useful**: Lets players test real federal budget tradeoffs against a sourced economic baseline and inspect the monthly dollar impact on typical families across different regions. - **Key Features**: - Oval Office command desk tracking approval, congressional support, inflation, jobs, and national debt - 32-quarter campaign spanning two full presidential terms and legislative negotiations - Kitchen-Table Impact view showing how policy choices change monthly household budgets - Built-in policy explainers alongside the economic model ### Open Melvor - **Subtitle**: Clean-Room TypeScript Idle RPG Engine - **Tagline**: Train crafting, gathering, and combat skills in an idle RPG that keeps progressing while you are away. - **Stat**: 28 skills to train (source: Open Melvor game source: the skill list has 28 entries (checked 2026-10-16)) - **Category**: Games & Worlds | **Tier**: SYSTEM - **Tags**: 28 RPG Skills, Mod Sandbox, Offline Progress - **Summary**: Clean-room TypeScript idle RPG engine featuring 28 interconnected crafting and combat skills, instant offline progress catch-up, equipment loadouts, and a safe modding sandbox. - **Why It Was Created**: Idle RPG fans and mod creators needed a fast, open web engine with zero proprietary assets that could run custom progression packs and community mods reliably. - **Why It Is Useful**: Calculates offline character progress when you return, supports a multi-tab inventory bank and full combat arena, and keeps community mods from breaking the core game. - **Key Features**: - 28 crafting, gathering, and combat skill systems with mastery progression - Full combat simulator, equipment loadout manager, and multi-tab searchable item bank - Sandboxed mod loader that keeps community scripts from breaking the core game UI - Compact cloud-ready save format with instant offline progress calculation ### py2so (Velocicode) - **Subtitle**: Automated Python-to-Native Speedup Compiler - **Tagline**: Point it at slow Python code and it builds faster native versions, keeping only the ones whose output matches exactly. - **Category**: AI, Compilers & Decision | **Tier**: SYSTEM - **Tags**: Python → Native C/Rust, Auto-Verified Parity, Benchmark Gate - **Summary**: Automated Python optimization engine that pinpoints the slowest functions in a codebase, compiles them into native machine extensions, and only keeps builds whose output matches the original exactly. - **Why It Was Created**: Rewriting slow Python loops in C or Rust by hand takes days of debugging, and unverified auto-generated native code can silently change program results or even run slower. - **Why It Is Useful**: Profiles real program bottlenecks automatically, tests candidate native builds in an isolated sandbox, and guarantees every shipped `.so` extension produces identical outputs at measurably higher speed. - **Key Features**: - Automated bottleneck profiler that focuses compilation effort where it actually saves wall-clock time - Multi-compiler build harness that compares native C and Rust extension candidates automatically - Strict output-parity verification gate that rolls back any build that differs from Python behavior - Zero-downtime hot-reload and AI coding assistant integration for continuous optimization ### Kineflow - **Subtitle**: Edit Video by Editing Text • Browser Studio - **Tagline**: Edit a talking-head video by deleting words from its transcript, and the matching cuts happen on the timeline. - **Category**: Media & Video | **Tier**: SYSTEM - **Tags**: Text-Driven Editing, Auto Silence Removal, Browser Timeline - **Summary**: Browser-based video editor where deleting a sentence in the spoken transcript automatically cuts the matching clip on the video timeline—paired with one-click silence and retake removal. - **Why It Was Created**: Cutting talking-head videos, interviews, and podcasts in traditional timeline editors takes hours of zooming in on audio waveforms to snip out pauses and stumbled lines. - **Why It Is Useful**: Lets you edit a video as easily as editing a document while keeping full control over a multi-track timeline, audio waveforms, and color presets. - **Key Features**: - Automatic silence, pause, and repeated-take detection for talking-head recordings - Two-way synced transcript and multi-track video timeline in the browser - Interactive audio waveform scrubbing and one-click color grading presets - Automated checks on timeline cuts and export accuracy ### NeuroGecko - **Subtitle**: Interactive 3D Brain MRI Slide Decks • github/neurogecko - **Tagline**: Rotate and slice real brain scans in three dimensions right inside your presentation slides without crashing the browser. - **Category**: Neuroscience & Spatial | **Tier**: SYSTEM - **Public GitHub**: https://github.com/brbrainerd/neurogecko - **Tags**: 3D MRI in Slides, WebGL Memory Pooling, Open Source - **Summary**: Web presentation platform built for neuroscience researchers to slice, rotate, and inspect real 3D MRI brain scans live inside browser slide decks. - **Why It Was Created**: Neuroscientists giving talks usually have to paste flat 2D screenshots into PowerPoint because embedding multiple 3D brain viewers in browser slides crashes graphics memory. - **Why It Is Useful**: Automatically recycles 3D graphics memory as you flip between slides so speakers can explore live 3D brain volumes and poll the audience in real time without browser crashes. - **Key Features**: - Live 3D MRI brain volume slicing and rotation directly inside presentation slides - Automatic WebGL graphics memory pooling for multi-slide 3D decks - Built-in live audience Q&A and interactive code demonstration slides - Open source and ready for academic lectures and lab meetings ### Cataclysm: Bright Nights - **Subtitle**: C++ Survival Roguelike Systems Fork - **Tagline**: Wire up base power, batch your crafting, and sort storage faster in a custom build of Cataclysm: Bright Nights. - **Category**: Games & Worlds | **Tier**: SYSTEM - **Tags**: C++ Game Engine, Base Power Grids, Data Validation - **Summary**: Custom C++ engineering branch of the open-source survival game Cataclysm: Bright Nights focused on base power grids, batch crafting quality-of-life, and faster turn simulation. - **Why It Was Created**: Late-game survival bases often turn into tedious inventory chores and awkward wiring between solar panels, vehicles, and base appliances. - **Why It Is Useful**: Makes wiring base power networks and running bulk crafting jobs smooth and intuitive while staying compatible with standard Bright Nights saves. - **Key Features**: - Unified electrical grid simulation connecting vehicles, batteries, and base appliances - Streamlined batch crafting and automatic storage-zone sorting - Faster turn simulation in crowded city areas - Backed by automated C++ and data validation tests ### brFinancier - **Subtitle**: Private Multi-Account Financial Analytics - **Tagline**: Import your bank statements, sort spending with your own rules, and see your monthly burn rate and runway. - **Category**: Systems & Ops | **Tier**: SYSTEM - **Tags**: Private Ledger, Runway Forecasts, Cent-Exact Balances - **Summary**: Self-hosted personal finance and multi-account analytics dashboard that tracks spending trends, savings rates, and cashflow runway without sharing bank credentials with third parties. - **Why It Was Created**: Commercial budgeting apps require handing over live bank passwords to external data brokers and constantly miscategorize recurring expenses. - **Why It Is Useful**: Keeps your entire transaction history on your own private database while giving you instant monthly burn-rate, net-worth, and category trend charts. - **Key Features**: - Automatic multi-account statement import with duplicate transaction detection - Custom categorization rules that retroactively update historical charts - Clear monthly burn-rate, savings-rate, and cashflow runway dashboards - Tests that verify cent-exact balance reconciliation ### TaleHall - **Subtitle**: One-Click Cloud Tabletop Campaign Host - **Tagline**: Host a tabletop campaign for friends with add-on versions locked in, so nothing breaks right before game night. - **Category**: Games & Worlds | **Tier**: SYSTEM - **Tags**: Virtual Tabletop, Version-Locked Mods, Cloud Saves - **Summary**: Multiplayer tabletop RPG hosting platform that spins up ready-to-play Foundry VTT worlds with locked, compatible mod versions and cloud-backed maps and character sheets. - **Why It Was Created**: Game masters often lose an hour before every session fixing broken community add-ons or troubleshooting local router port-forwarding so friends can connect. - **Why It Is Useful**: Pins exact working add-on versions for each campaign and stores maps, tokens, and character progress safely in the cloud. - **Key Features**: - Reproducible campaign manifest that prevents add-on updates from breaking game night - Cloud-synced character sheets, items, and scene data across sessions - Fast cloud delivery for high-resolution battlemaps, tokens, and music - Tests covering campaign startup and data sync ### mcGreasemonkey - **Subtitle**: Minecraft 1.20.1 Automation Modpack - **Tagline**: Build factories in a Minecraft modpack where overlapping mods share one set of ores and recipes, tuned for multiplayer servers. - **Category**: Games & Worlds | **Tier**: SYSTEM - **Tags**: Minecraft 1.20.1, Unified Progression, Server-Tuned - **Summary**: Curated Minecraft 1.20.1 factory and automation modpack with unified crafting recipes, tuned multiplayer server performance, and one-click pack updates. - **Why It Was Created**: Large community Minecraft modpacks often have five incompatible versions of the same copper ore, broken crafting recipes, and severe server lag once players build large factories. - **Why It Is Useful**: Merges overlapping mod items into one clean tech tree and verifies every crafting recipe and server performance setting with automated checks. - **Key Features**: - Unified ores, fluids, and machine progression across dozens of mods - Pre-tuned multiplayer server settings for smooth tick rates around large factories - Automated client and server modpack updater - Automated validation checks that catch broken crafting chains ### Mudlet DBE Suite - **Subtitle**: Real-Time Visual Combat HUD for Text RPGs - **Tagline**: Turn fast-scrolling combat text in a text-based RPG into live health bars, cooldown timers, and an automatic room map. - **Category**: Games & Worlds | **Tier**: SYSTEM - **Tags**: Visual Combat HUD, Auto-Mapper, Playtested UI - **Summary**: Graphical heads-up display and automation suite for fast-paced text RPGs in Mudlet—turning scrolling walls of combat text into live health bars, cooldown timers, and an interactive map. - **Why It Was Created**: Real-time text RPGs scroll dozens of lines per second during combat, making it nearly impossible to track health, energy, and exits by reading raw text alone. - **Why It Is Useful**: Translates high-speed game text into a clean visual dashboard with live gauges, status alerts, and automatic room mapping. - **Key Features**: - Live graphical gauges for health, energy, stamina, and opponent status - Reliable state-driven combat helpers and cooldown trackers - Interactive room map with automatic pathfinding between areas - Playtested UI and automation refinements ### Overlook (ytfloat) - **Subtitle**: Click-Through Floating Video Player for macOS • Swift - **Tagline**: Keep a see-through video floating over your work on a Mac while your clicks pass straight to the app below. - **Category**: Media & Video | **Tier**: UTILITY - **Tags**: Native macOS App, Click-Through Window, Opacity Slider - **Summary**: Lightweight native macOS menu-bar video player that keeps a semi-transparent, click-through video floating over your code editor or full-screen workspace. - **Why It Was Created**: Standard browser Picture-in-Picture windows cover up parts of your screen, block mouse clicks on the app underneath, and cannot be made translucent. - **Why It Is Useful**: Lets you watch a coding tutorial, lecture, or stream while working—your mouse clicks pass straight through the floating video to the editor or game behind it. - **Key Features**: - One-hotkey click-through mode so the floating video never blocks your mouse - Smooth adjustable transparency slider that stays visible across full-screen spaces - Tiny native Swift app living quietly in the macOS menu bar - Supports both Mac App Store and standalone desktop builds ### Caption Flow - **Subtitle**: Podcast Quote & Timestamp Finder • Web + CLI - **Tagline**: Paste any phrase from a podcast to find the exact second it was said, and read captions as clean paragraphs. - **Category**: Media & Video | **Tier**: UTILITY - **Tags**: Instant Quote Search, Readable Transcripts, Podcast Tool - **Summary**: Podcast transcript tool—used in production for 'Through The Corporate Glass'—that turns fragmented subtitle files into clean paragraphs and finds the exact timestamp of any quote. - **Why It Was Created**: Raw `.srt` subtitle files chop every sentence into short fragments filled with timecodes, making it painful for podcast editors to read show notes or locate a specific guest quote. - **Why It Is Useful**: Stitches chopped captions back into readable paragraphs and lets you paste any phrase to jump straight to the exact hour, minute, and second it was spoken. - **Key Features**: - Instant quote-to-timestamp search across multi-hour podcast episodes - Automatic sentence reconstruction that turns short caption chunks into clean paragraphs - Browser workspace paired with fast command-line batch scripts - One-click start/end timestamp export for cutting social media highlight clips ### brAutosub - **Subtitle**: Private Local Video Captioning Pipeline • Python + C++ - **Tagline**: Find the videos in your folders that have no subtitles and caption them for free on your own computer. - **Category**: Media & Video | **Tier**: UTILITY - **Tags**: Runs on Your Computer, Auto SRT/VTT, Zero Cloud Fees - **Summary**: Automated local speech-to-subtitle tool that scans your media folders for uncaptioned videos and generates accurate `.srt` and `.vtt` subtitles right on your own computer. - **Why It Was Created**: Cloud transcription services charge by the minute and require uploading private recordings, while basic local transcription scripts often repeat phantom lines during quiet pauses. - **Why It Is Useful**: Runs privately on your own computer at no cost, remembers which videos are already captioned, and automatically cleans up repeated lines during silent sections. - **Key Features**: - Scans nested folders automatically to find videos missing subtitle files - Normalizes audio levels before transcription for clearer speech recognition - Built-in cleanup pass that strips repeated phantom phrases during silence - Resumable batch queue that never re-processes already-captioned videos ### brFrame - **Subtitle**: '100 Years Ago Today' Digital Photo Frame Service • github/brFrame - **Tagline**: Wake up to a historical photo taken exactly a century ago today, captioned and sent to your digital frame. - **Category**: Media & Video | **Tier**: UTILITY - **Public GitHub**: https://github.com/brbrainerd/brFrame - **Tags**: Open Source, Daily Archival Photos, Wi-Fi Photo Frames - **Summary**: Automated daily curator that finds standout historical photographs taken exactly 100 years ago today, formats museum-style captions, and sends them to Wi-Fi digital photo frames. - **Why It Was Created**: Digital photo frames usually loop the same old folder of phone pictures instead of showing something new and conversation-starting each morning. - **Why It Is Useful**: Turns any Wi-Fi photo frame into a daily '100 Years Ago Today' exhibit—automatically cropping for the frame's screen, typesetting the date and story, and delivering it every morning. - **Key Features**: - Daily scheduled curator pulling top archival photography from exactly a century ago - Automatic image layout with crisp museum-style date and caption overlays - Direct delivery to connected Pix-Star Wi-Fi photo frames - Public open-source project with automated rendering and delivery tests ### brUpVideo - **Subtitle**: Higher-Resolution Video Upscaler for Consumer GPUs • Python - **Tagline**: Upscale long videos to higher resolution on a home graphics card, in small tiles, and keep the audio. - **Category**: Media & Video | **Tier**: UTILITY - **Tags**: Higher-Resolution AI Upscaling, Tiled Upscaling, Keeps Audio Intact - **Summary**: Batch video upscaler that upgrades low-resolution clips to a sharp, higher resolution on standard home graphics cards and keeps the audio track. - **Why It Was Created**: Running AI video upscalers on full-length recordings usually crashes consumer GPUs with out-of-memory errors, fills drives with temporary image files, and strips the original audio. - **Why It Is Useful**: Processes each frame in tiles sized for graphics memory, streams the sharpened video directly into an encoder without giant temp folders, and keeps all original audio and chapters intact. - **Key Features**: - Tiled frame upscaling sized for consumer graphics memory on long videos - Direct streaming to modern H.265/AV1 encoders without huge temporary folders - Automatic preservation of original audio tracks and chapter markers ### Krita AI Box Select - **Subtitle**: One-Drag Smart Cutout Plugin for Krita • Python - **Tagline**: Drag a box around anything in a Krita painting and get a clean cutout selection on its own layer. - **Category**: Media & Video | **Tier**: UTILITY - **Tags**: Krita Plugin, Instant Cutouts, Runs Locally - **Summary**: Plugin for the Krita painting app that turns a simple rectangular box drag around any character or object into a clean, pixel-accurate selection mask. - **Why It Was Created**: Tracing around characters or props by hand with the lasso tool in Krita is slow and breaks creative flow during illustration and concept art. - **Why It Is Useful**: Drag a quick box around any subject on your canvas and immediately get a clean transparency mask on a non-destructive layer—running on your own computer. - **Key Features**: - Dockable tool panel built right into Krita's workspace - One-drag box selection that snaps cleanly to complex object edges - Runs locally on your machine with zero cloud subscriptions ### Neuroscience Atlas Mapper - **Subtitle**: 3D Brain Coordinate-to-Region Lookup • Python - **Tagline**: Load a spreadsheet of brain scan coordinates and get a table naming the brain region each one falls in. - **Category**: Neuroscience & Spatial | **Tier**: UTILITY - **Tags**: Brain Imaging, Batch Coordinate Lookup, Publication Tables - **Summary**: Research tool that takes lists of 3D brain scan coordinates `(x, y, z)` and automatically identifies which anatomical brain regions they fall into across standard atlases. - **Why It Was Created**: Brain imaging studies report activation peaks as raw `(x, y, z)` numbers, forcing researchers to look up each coordinate one by one across multiple brain atlases. - **Why It Is Useful**: Reads a spreadsheet of brain coordinates and outputs a publication-ready table showing the exact anatomical regions and overlap percentages around each point. - **Key Features**: - Batch `(x, y, z)` brain coordinate lookup across standard neurological atlases - Adjustable search radius around each activation peak - Exports clean CSV and Markdown tables ready for research papers ### Vuzix AR Assistant - **Subtitle**: Smart Glasses Live Captions & Hands-Free HUD • Android - **Tagline**: Read live captions of a conversation and follow checklists hands-free on the display of your Vuzix smart glasses. - **Category**: Neuroscience & Spatial | **Tier**: UTILITY - **Tags**: Smart Glasses HUD, Live Subtitles, Hands-Free - **Summary**: Heads-up display app for Vuzix smart glasses that projects real-time conversation subtitles, checklists, and voice lookup cards directly into your line of sight. - **Why It Was Created**: Smart glasses have tiny displays and small batteries, so standard phone apps look cluttered, drain power, and are hard to read outdoors. - **Why It Is Useful**: Uses high-contrast, glanceable text designed specifically for optical waveguides so you can read live captions or follow step-by-step checklists completely hands-free. - **Key Features**: - High-contrast outdoor-readable HUD layout tuned for smart-glass lenses - Low-latency live speech captions and touchpad/voice navigation - Hands-free camera snapshot lookup for reading signs and labels ### StereoDesk - **Subtitle**: 3D Spatial Workspace for XR Glasses & 3D Monitors - **Tagline**: Arrange browser panels and media at comfortable depths in three dimensions when you wear XR display glasses. - **Category**: Neuroscience & Spatial | **Tier**: UTILITY - **Tags**: XR Glasses, Side-by-Side 3D, Eye-Comfort Controls - **Summary**: Browser-based 3D workspace renderer for XR display glasses (XREAL, Viture, Rokid) and 3D monitors, giving you adjustable depth and eye-comfort controls. - **Why It Was Created**: Modern XR glasses can display sharp side-by-side 3D video, but regular desktop windows have no depth adjustment and can cause eye strain. - **Why It Is Useful**: Lets you arrange workspace panels and media in comfortable 3D depth layers right from your browser with adjustable eye-spacing controls. - **Key Features**: - Real-time Side-by-Side and Top-Bottom 3D display modes - Fine-grained depth and convergence sliders for long-session eye comfort - Runs directly in the browser on any machine connected to XR glasses ### Coolify Deploy Kit - **Subtitle**: Zero-Downtime Container Rollout & Health Verifier • Node.js - **Tagline**: Deploy your self-hosted site and only call it done once the live address answers cleanly three times in a row. - **Category**: Systems & Ops | **Tier**: UTILITY - **Tags**: Zero Dependencies, Pinned Releases, Live Health Gate - **Summary**: Lightweight deployment script that triggers self-hosted Coolify container rollouts, streams live build logs, and verifies the live site passes consecutive health checks before finishing. - **Why It Was Created**: Many deployment scripts report 'success' the moment a build starts—long before the new container is actually serving traffic. - **Why It Is Useful**: Drops into any repository with zero external packages, pins the exact git commit, and waits until the live production URL responds cleanly three times in a row. - **Key Features**: - Pins exact git commit SHAs so every production release is traceable - Streams real-time container build logs and surfaces errors immediately - Requires consecutive live HTTP 200 health checks before marking a deploy complete ### Storage Tier - **Subtitle**: Smart NVMe-to-Archive Disk Space Manager - **Tagline**: See which big folders sit unopened for weeks and move them to an archive drive without breaking file paths. - **Category**: Systems & Ops | **Tier**: UTILITY - **Tags**: Reclaim SSD Space, Dry-Run Preview, Checksum Verified - **Summary**: Disk space manager that finds old multi-gigabyte project folders hogging your fast SSD and safely moves them to archive drives without breaking file paths. - **Why It Was Created**: Raw video footage, game builds, and AI model files quickly fill up fast SSDs while large external or archive drives sit half empty. - **Why It Is Useful**: Shows you exactly which large folders you haven't opened in weeks, previews how many gigabytes you'll save, and moves them with full checksum verification. - **Key Features**: - Scans across fast SSDs and archive drives to spot cold space-hogging folders - Mandatory dry-run preview showing exact gigabytes reclaimed before moving a single byte - Checksum-verified transfers that preserve symlinks so existing scripts keep working ### Hybrid Search Docker - **Subtitle**: One-Command Local Semantic + Keyword Search • Docker - **Tagline**: Search your own documents and code by meaning and by exact words at once, without sending anything to the cloud. - **Category**: AI, Compilers & Decision | **Tier**: UTILITY - **Tags**: Meaning + Exact Match, Runs Locally, One-Command Setup - **Summary**: Ready-to-run Docker search stack that combines AI meaning-based search with exact keyword matching so you can search local documents and codebases privately. - **Why It Was Created**: Keyword search misses documents that use different phrasing, while pure AI vector search often misses exact product names, part numbers, or error codes. - **Why It Is Useful**: Blends both search styles together in a single local `docker compose up` stack—finding both conceptual matches and exact terms without sending data to the cloud. - **Key Features**: - Combines AI concept matching with exact keyword and code-symbol lookup - Pre-configured Docker containers with built-in health checks - Runs locally with no per-query API costs ### brPrompts - **Subtitle**: Version-Controlled AI Review & Engineering Playbooks - **Tagline**: Reuse written checklists for planning features and reviewing code, so AI-assisted work meets the same bar every time. - **Category**: AI, Compilers & Decision | **Tier**: UTILITY - **Tags**: Code Review Rubrics, Spec Templates, Git-Versioned - **Summary**: Curated collection of engineering playbooks, security review checklists, and specification templates for keeping AI-assisted software development rigorous. - **Why It Was Created**: One-off chat prompts quickly get lost and fail to enforce consistent quality, security, and testing standards across projects. - **Why It Is Useful**: Gives engineering teams repeatable checklists for planning features, stress-testing assumptions, and reviewing code before it ships. - **Key Features**: - Multi-step code quality, accessibility, and security review checklists - Clear specification and task-breakdown templates - Version-controlled in Git so improvements are shared across all projects ### brML - **Subtitle**: Clean PyTorch Training & Benchmark Helpers • Python - **Tagline**: Run small machine-learning experiments with the hardware setup handled for you and clean logs you can compare. - **Category**: AI, Compilers & Decision | **Tier**: UTILITY - **Tags**: PyTorch, Reproducible Runs, Apple Silicon + NVIDIA - **Summary**: Lightweight Python toolkit for running reproducible machine-learning experiments, cleaning datasets, and logging training metrics without heavy framework bloat. - **Why It Was Created**: Testing a small model idea in PyTorch often takes hundreds of lines of repetitive setup code just to handle GPUs, random seeds, and metric logs. - **Why It Is Useful**: Handles device setup across NVIDIA GPUs and Apple Silicon automatically and records clean, comparable experiment logs in a few lines of code. - **Key Features**: - Automatic hardware setup across NVIDIA CUDA, Apple Silicon, and CPU - Clean experiment metric logger and automatic disk-saving checkpoint cleanup - Fast dataset deduplication and throughput timers ### brPerformanceTracker - **Subtitle**: 7 Days to Die Stutter & FPS Diagnostic Mod • github/brPerformanceTracker - **Tagline**: Find out what causes lag spikes in your survival game server by logging frame-rate dips, memory pauses, and enemy counts. - **Category**: Games & Worlds | **Tier**: UTILITY - **Public GitHub**: https://github.com/brbrainerd/brPerformanceTracker - **Tags**: Open Source (C#), Anti-Cheat Safe, Finds Lag Spikes - **Summary**: Lightweight diagnostic mod for 7 Days to Die that records frame-rate drops, memory spikes, and active enemy counts so players and server hosts can pinpoint what causes lag. - **Why It Was Created**: When a survival server stutters during a horde night, players and admins have no easy way to tell whether the lag came from memory cleanup, enemy AI, or building physics. - **Why It Is Useful**: Logs clean performance timelines during live gameplay without tripping Easy Anti-Cheat, showing the exact cause of every frame-rate dip. - **Key Features**: - Tracks frame-rate dips, frame-time spikes, and memory pauses during live play - Correlates active enemy and entity counts against frame-rate drops - Public open-source C# mod compatible with standard servers ### PG Bot Tools - **Subtitle**: RPG Combat & Loot Log Analyzer - **Tagline**: Turn raw game logs into charts of damage per second, item drop rates, and experience gained each session. - **Category**: Systems & Ops | **Tier**: UTILITY - **Tags**: Loot & DPS Stats, Log Parser, Session Analytics - **Summary**: Analytics toolkit that reads raw RPG game logs and turns them into clear charts for damage-per-second, rare item drop rates, and session XP progress. - **Why It Was Created**: MMO and RPG clients write thousands of lines of combat and loot events into raw text files that are impossible to summarize by hand. - **Why It Is Useful**: Turns messy game logs into searchable tables so players can compare gear loadouts, verify real drop rates, and track leveling speed. - **Key Features**: - Live parser for combat damage, item drops, and skill XP gains - Session-over-session comparison tables for testing different gear builds - Automatic alerts when a farming session hits unusual drop streaks ### Hammerspoon Workstation - **Subtitle**: One-Keystroke macOS Window & Audio Automation • Lua - **Tagline**: Press one shortcut to lay out windows across all your Mac monitors and switch audio to the right device. - **Category**: Systems & Ops | **Tier**: UTILITY - **Tags**: macOS Productivity, Multi-Monitor Tiling, Instant Hotkeys - **Summary**: macOS workstation automation suite that snaps windows into clean multi-monitor layouts, switches apps instantly, and routes audio to the right headphones or speakers. - **Why It Was Created**: Dragging code editors, browsers, and video timelines across multiple monitors by hand wastes time dozens of times a day. - **Why It Is Useful**: Lets you press a single shortcut to arrange your entire multi-monitor workspace and automatically switches audio devices when you plug in studio gear. - **Key Features**: - Instant multi-monitor window snapping and saved workspace layouts - Single-keystroke app switcher for code, terminal, and browser windows - Automatic headphone and microphone routing rules ### AI Dev Box - **Subtitle**: Safe Sandboxed Container for Coding Agents • Docker - **Tagline**: Give AI coding tools a ready-made sandbox with compilers and browsers installed, so they never touch your personal files. - **Category**: Systems & Ops | **Tier**: UTILITY - **Tags**: Safe Sandbox, Pre-Installed Compilers, One-Command Start - **Summary**: Pre-configured Docker workspace where AI coding assistants can compile code, run browser tests, and install packages safely without touching your personal files. - **Why It Was Created**: Running automated coding tools directly on your main laptop risks accidental edits to personal folders, system settings, or private keys. - **Why It Is Useful**: Spins up a clean, isolated container with Node.js, Python, Rust, and Playwright already installed—keeping your host machine completely protected. - **Key Features**: - Comes pre-loaded with Node.js, Python, Rust, and headless browser test tools - Strict folder isolation so tools only see the project you share with them - Starts in seconds locally or on a remote development server --- ## 3. Video Studio Tools Tools marked “In your browser” run at https://ngi.video/console on your own files, and nothing is uploaded; the open-source software they use is listed at https://ngi.video/licenses. Tools marked “Private early access” are GPU work that is not open yet; ask at https://ngi.video/#contact. ### `compress` — Smart Video Compress - **Availability**: In your browser - **Category**: compression - **Summary**: Re-encode a video to H.264 (MP4), VP9 or AV1 (WebM) in your browser with WebCodecs, falling back to FFmpeg (WebAssembly) when WebCodecs can't. Shows the measured size before and after. - **Why Useful**: No upload: the file never leaves your device, and the before and after sizes are measured, not estimated. ### `upres` — 2× / 4× Video Upscaler - **Availability**: Private early access - **Category**: enhancement - **Summary**: Upscales lower-resolution footage 2× or 4× with edge-preserving detail recovery and lossless audio passthrough. - **Why Useful**: Older archives, game captures, and compressed web clips often look soft on modern 4K displays. The upscaler reconstructs crisp edges frame-by-frame and preserves the original audio track without re-compression. ### `seamless_cut` — Seamless Overlap Splicer - **Availability**: Private early access - **Category**: editing - **Summary**: Finds the exact matching frame and audio waveform between two overlapping recordings and joins them without a visible jump cut. - **Why Useful**: When a recording is split across two files with a few seconds of overlap, manually lining up the exact frame and audio sample in an editor is tedious. Seamless Overlap Splicer automatically aligns both visual frames and audio waveforms. ### `neural-cut` — Semantic Clip Search (Neural Cut) - **Availability**: Private early access - **Category**: search - **Summary**: Searches a video collection for scenes by spoken words or visual meaning and extracts the matching moments. - **Why Useful**: Finding a specific 15-second moment inside hours of unedited footage usually means scrubbing timelines by hand. Neural Cut indexes transcripts and visual keyframes so teams can jump straight to matching clips. ### `concatenate` — Lossless Segment Merger - **Availability**: In your browser - **Category**: editing - **Summary**: Join clips that share the same codec settings and resolution into one file by copying packets, without re-encoding. Clips that don't match are refused, not silently converted. - **Why Useful**: No upload: join camera or screen-capture parts on your own device without re-encoding them. ### `segment` — Keyframe Video Chunker - **Availability**: In your browser - **Category**: editing - **Summary**: Cut one range or split a video into equal parts in your browser. Keyframe mode copies packets without re-encoding; frame-accurate mode re-encodes. - **Why Useful**: No upload: cut or split a recording on your own device; keyframe mode finishes in moments because nothing is re-encoded. ### `srt_search` — Subtitle Search - **Availability**: In your browser - **Category**: search - **Summary**: Search the lines of an .srt file you load and jump the video to any cue — in your browser. - **Why Useful**: Editors and researchers often remember a phrase but not when it was said. Load the video and its .srt in the console, search for the phrase, and click a line to jump to it. Nothing is uploaded. ### `visual_index` — Scene Keyframe & Caption Indexer - **Availability**: Private early access - **Category**: search - **Summary**: Extracts representative keyframes whenever the camera scene changes and generates searchable visual descriptions. - **Why Useful**: B-roll libraries and silent footage have no dialogue to search. Scene Keyframe Indexer detects camera cuts, saves clean thumbnail frames, and tags them so footage is searchable visually. ### `live-portrait` — Expressive Portrait Animator - **Availability**: Private early access - **Category**: enhancement - **Summary**: Transfers natural head movement and facial expressions from a driving video clip onto a still character portrait. - **Why Useful**: Lets storytellers, game developers, and presenters animate character portraits using a reference performance clip with smooth edge compositing. ### `thumbnailer` — Contact Sheet Thumbnailer - **Availability**: In your browser - **Category**: editing - **Summary**: Capture evenly spaced, frame-accurate frames from a video and lay them out as one PNG or JPEG contact sheet, in your browser. - **Why Useful**: No upload: get a one-image overview of a video on your own device. ### `loudnorm` — Loudness Normalizer (EBU R128) - **Availability**: In your browser - **Category**: enhancement - **Summary**: Two-pass EBU R128 loudness normalization with FFmpeg compiled to WebAssembly, run in your browser. Video is copied; audio is re-encoded to AAC at the original sample rate. - **Why Useful**: No upload: bring a voice or music track to a standard loudness on your own device.