I just cut $1,200/year in software subscriptions after scrolling GitHub and X this week.
Video editors, Mac cleaners, live meeting translators, 3D stages.
I'm dropping my favorite repos below. Reply with yours so we can all bookmark.
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1/5 OpenCut (97,000 stars)
CapCut locked auto-captions behind a $19.99/month paywall ($240/year).
OpenCut runs multi-track timelines, local Whisper captions, background removal, and MCP cuts right in your browser for $0/month.
2/5 Mole (74,000 stars)
CleanMyMac wants $39.95/year just to clear system cache.
Mole replaces CleanMyMac, DaisyDisk, and AppCleaner with a single terminal command: `mo`. Wipes Xcode cache, node bloat, and app junk in seconds.
3/5 Pearcleaner (15,000 stars)
Prefer a native Mac UI over the terminal? This is the cleanest drag-and-drop uninstaller out there.
Hunts down hidden plist files, cleans Homebrew packages, and strips unused binary code to free up disk space.
4/5 Live-Translation
Meeting bots like Otter Business charge $240/year.
This repo captures Zoom or Meet audio on Mac, runs MLX Whisper locally, and shows translated subtitles on a floating glass overlay in under 1 second.
5/5 Blender MCP (33,000 stars)
Instead of burning $680+/year in AI video credits re-rolling prompts and hoping the camera moves right, builders wire Claude straight into a 3D stage to lock the lens and camera path first.
Video editors, Mac cleaners, live meeting translators, 3D stages.
I'm dropping my favorite repos below. Reply with yours so we can all bookmark.
🧵
1/5 OpenCut (97,000 stars)
CapCut locked auto-captions behind a $19.99/month paywall ($240/year).
OpenCut runs multi-track timelines, local Whisper captions, background removal, and MCP cuts right in your browser for $0/month.
2/5 Mole (74,000 stars)
CleanMyMac wants $39.95/year just to clear system cache.
Mole replaces CleanMyMac, DaisyDisk, and AppCleaner with a single terminal command: `mo`. Wipes Xcode cache, node bloat, and app junk in seconds.
3/5 Pearcleaner (15,000 stars)
Prefer a native Mac UI over the terminal? This is the cleanest drag-and-drop uninstaller out there.
Hunts down hidden plist files, cleans Homebrew packages, and strips unused binary code to free up disk space.
4/5 Live-Translation
Meeting bots like Otter Business charge $240/year.
This repo captures Zoom or Meet audio on Mac, runs MLX Whisper locally, and shows translated subtitles on a floating glass overlay in under 1 second.
5/5 Blender MCP (33,000 stars)
Instead of burning $680+/year in AI video credits re-rolling prompts and hoping the camera moves right, builders wire Claude straight into a 3D stage to lock the lens and camera path first.
