This Week's Picks: AI Monitoring, Agent Orchestration, Side Project Buddies & D&D Thermal Printing
Happy Sunday. A few quirky finds from this week's scroll through HN.
AgentLens — Is Your AI Feature Actually Being Used?
Everyone's shoving AI into their products these days. The usage data? Usually murky. Dashboards show "steady call volume growth" — but you can't tell how many of those calls are frustrated retries.
AgentLens takes a smarter approach. It doesn't just track clicks, it captures silent abandonment. One example: an AI report generator with a 54% abandon rate. Uptime monitoring showed green the whole time, but users were getting garbage outputs and quietly giving up. It offers two views — Product and CS — so different teams see what matters to them.
Timely tool for PMs and AI feature owners. Early access is open.
Invoker — A Kanban IDE for AI Agents
AI Agent tools are everywhere, but most are still chat interfaces. Invoker flips the script: a native desktop IDE built around a kanban-style task board.
Run multiple agent tasks in parallel. Completed tasks land in a "Human Review" column. Approve, modify, or reject. Built-in code editor, terminal, and diff viewer. Native Mac app at 120fps. For someone who juggles too many parallel threads, this beats hopping between fifteen chat windows.
Public beta. Free to download.
Let's Jam — Find Someone to Build With
Biggest obstacle to finishing a side project? The tech? Time? I think it's the loneliness. Hacking away at 3 AM with nobody to bounce ideas off — that's where projects go to die.
Let's Jam fixes that. Post your idea or browse what others are looking for collaborators on. I scrolled through and found everything from an AI Talent Tracker (monitoring who leaves OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) to a Vitamin D ritual treat (turning supplements into a daily moment of pleasure). Help wanted: frontend, backend, marketing, video editing — something for everyone.
If you've got a side project you've been meaning to start, this might be the push.
Sales & Dungeons — Thermal Printing for Your TTRPG
This was my favorite find this week. Sales & Dungeons is an open-source tool that uses a thermal receipt printer to print item cards, character sheets, and maps in real time during TTRPG sessions.
Picture it: your party finds a magic sword in a tavern. The DM clicks a few buttons, the thermal printer whirs to life, and out comes a physical item card with stats and flavor text, handed straight to the player. Instant immersion.
Supports custom HTML/Nunjucks templates, with AI prompt-based template generation coming soon. If you play TTRPGs and care about tactile props, this is a fun little tool. On itch.io and GitHub.
