Today's picks
All three tools today are about waiting: waiting for a coding agent to finish, waiting for an MCP server to start, waiting to type the same text one more time. They take different approaches, and all are worth a look.
Bullet: a coding agent that's fast
Bullet is a YC S26 project. The two founders told a fairly honest story in their Launch HN post: they originally wanted to build an AI hedge fund, went through six pivots, got worn down by the waiting time of Claude Code and Codex, and built something faster themselves. The approach is a leaner orchestration layer plus model routing, so simple tasks skip the model's repeated reasoning and just execute. The homepage says "Fast, by design." The thread has 92 points, though some comments question how meaningful the benchmarks are. If you want to wait less, give it a try.
MCP-stama: a Rust MCP server under 10MB
Anyone who has used MCP tools has probably hit this: Node or Python MCP servers eat 200MB+ of RAM and take a second or two to wake up. mcp-stama is written in Rust, a single static binary with zero external dependencies, under 10MB of RAM and sub-millisecond tool responses. It ships fast_grep, git_snapshot and docker_watcher out of the box, and a one-line command injects it into Cursor, Claude Desktop or Windsurf. The project was posted yesterday, Apache-2.0 licensed, with 71 points on Show HN. If your agent feels slower by the day, this is worth a look.
Snippety: a template engine inside text snippets
Snippety is a snippets manager and text expander for macOS and iPhone, six years in the making. What sets it apart is a real templating engine: one snippet can contain fill-in forms, conditional blocks, live dates, even shell scripts and AI placeholders. Replying to a customer email, the same template writes different content depending on whether the plan is Premium or Free, so you don't maintain two snippets. It has 4.8 stars and about 1,100 ratings on the App Store. One-time purchase with no forced subscription, plus a CLI to expand snippets from the terminal.
All three showed up on HN in the last day or two. The first two are free, and Snippety has a free tier. Pick the one you're missing.