November 15, 2026  |  read online →

early.tools 082: bb is Featured!

In this edition: Until, Obsessed, CoDuck, Underdog, Freya, bb.

Yo earlies. ☼

Welcome to edition #82 of the early.tools newsletter, now reaching 2,951+ readers. Every Sunday, you get a quick rundown of launch updates and the most notable pre-launch startups worth watching. I'm Julian Paul, and I track tools as they move from Waitlist → Alpha → Beta → Launched, so you catch the products that matter early.

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→ Featured Listing

bb by @sawyerhood | Listing

bb is an open source, local-first IDE for developers who work with coding agents. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Pi, OpenCode, Grok, omp and Hermes all run inside it, each in its own thread, and one agent can spawn and manage another. Almost anything in bb can be changed with a single prompt, such as building a Linear plugin with a sidebar panel, CLI command and agent skill. Many of its own features, including GitHub integration, agent memory, scheduled jobs and remote access, are plugins. A CLI lets scripts, cron jobs or chat bots spawn threads. bb is MIT-licensed and free, and agents run on the user's own provider subscriptions.

→ What changed this week (Nov 9 – Nov 15)members

14new tools went live

27new founders

8new resources

→ Top listings

8 more went live (Waitlist 2 · Alpha 3 · Beta 2 · Early 1).

Until by @DylanJRatcliffewaitlist

Git-backed tickets where you write and approve the plan, coding agents claim the jobs, and a review agent checks code against the plan.

Obsessed by @mikebodgeearly

An iPhone app that turns any web page, feed, price or creator into an AI agent that watches it for you, summarises your whole stack at a glance and pings you on…

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CoDuck by @liamgadamslaunched

Type one sentence and get a full-stack web app with Postgres, auth, email, Stripe payments and hosting, deployed to your own domain.

Underdog by @0xSigilbeta

A personal assistant for email, calendar, meeting notes, dictation and errands that runs its own models locally on your Mac, so content stays on your computer.

Freya by @alpsencerozturkearly

English text-to-speech model with male and female voices, a free browser playground and an API, ranked first among models on a blind realism benchmark.

→ New in the resource catalogue

	ruks.org (People) — A catalogue of 1,000+ designers, illustrators, photographers and studios, from firms to individual contributors.
	MiroFish (Build) — An open-source swarm-intelligence engine that simulates thousands of agents to forecast outcomes, from markets to public opinion. AGPL-3.0.
	frontrun (Business) — AI deal sourcing that tracks what top investors and founders follow and surfaces startups before their round, with drafted founder outreach.
	dotstore (Startup) — A curated, ranked store of web apps – productivity, design, AI and developer tools – that open in any browser.
	Bazzly (Distribution) — Finds Reddit users who have shown interest in what you sell and replies to or DMs them, with you kept in control.
	devl (Design) — Free components, blocks, screens, motion and illustrations on coss ui – copy the source or install with the shadcn CLI.
	Nevo’s Brain (Build) — A free MCP server that gives your AI agent the distribution playbook behind Postiz: finding niches, catching hypes, picking channels and…

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