I keep seeing people assume you need a huge team to build something meaningful.

This list collects examples that say otherwise: Instagram had 13 employees at acquisition, WhatsApp had 55, Craigslist generates ~$1B/year with about 50 people, and BuiltWith does $14M/year with a single employee. The Wright brothers are on there too.

Good ammunition for the next time someone says your team is too small to matter.

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💻 datasette: 11.1 k ⭐

I had a SQLite file I needed to share with non-technical colleagues. One command turned it into a searchable website.

datasette generates a browsable web interface from any SQLite database — filtering, search, automatic REST APIs, and one-click deploys to the cloud. Plugin system for custom visualizations, authentication, and export formats. Even runs in the browser via WebAssembly.

If you have data that other people need to explore, datasette removes every excuse for not sharing it.

Check it out here: https://amplt.de/UnripeGummyWin

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💻 applied-ml: 29.6 k ⭐

We never stop learning in machine learning.

Whenever I need to read up on a new topic, I go back to Eugene Yan's Applied ML list -- a curated collection of papers and tech blogs from companies sharing how they actually do data science and ML in production.

Great resource for bridging the gap between academic ML and real-world systems.

Check it out here: http://amplt.de/EverlastingIgnorantProgress
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💻 distil-whisper: 4 k ⭐

Knowledge distillation doing what it does best.

Hugging Face's distil-whisper takes OpenAI's Whisper and compresses it to 756M params (down from 1.55B), delivering 6x faster speech recognition while staying within 1% word error rate. Works as a drop-in with the Transformers pipeline or as a speculative decoding assistant alongside full Whisper. English-only for now.

If you do anything with speech-to-text, this is the practical tradeoff that actually matters.

Check it out here: http://amplt.de/UnrulyAchingBid
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💻 gradio: 42.7 k ⭐

I built an ML model and wanted to let people try it without spinning up infrastructure. Gradio gave me a shareable web UI in three lines.

Define your function, pick input/output components, call `launch()`. Gradio builds the web interface, handles file uploads, and generates a public URL for anyone to try — while computation stays on your machine. 30+ built-in components, works with any Python function, free hosting on Hugging Face Spaces.

If your model lives in a notebook and nobody else can use it, Gradio is the fastest path from "it works on my machine" to "try it yourself."

Check it out here: https://amplt.de/MatureLegalMobile

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Hideously late to the party as always, but we've just started watching Stranger Things...

I get the hype now; it's really rather good, isn't it? 😄

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Every time I've written annotation guidelines, I started from scratch. Not anymore.

Eugene Yan breaks down what good labeling guidelines look like, using real examples from Google and Bing Search. The structure: explain why the task matters, define every term, then show step-by-step decision-making with challenging examples. It's deceptively hard to get right.

If your ML pipeline involves human labels, this saves you from learning the hard way.

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As a scikit-learn contributor, I wish this course existed when I started.

The official scikit-learn MOOC, built by core devs at INRIA, teaches predictive modelling from preprocessing to model evaluation. It is free, hands-on with Jupyter notebooks, and focused on building the right intuition rather than just running code.

This is the most methodologically sound ML intro course I know of.

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💻 pynimate: 359⭐

I needed animated bar chart races and did not want to leave Python for it.

pynimate takes a pandas DataFrame with time-indexed data and turns it into animated visualisations -- bar chart races, line plot animations, and more. Pure Python, MIT licensed, pip installable.

Nice tool for conference talks or social posts when a static chart does not tell the story.

Check it out here: http://amplt.de/VengefulUnripeHunt
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💻 prompttools: 3 k ⭐

I have been testing prompts by vibes. That is not engineering.

prompttools lets you systematically compare prompts across 10+ LLM providers and 7+ vector databases, all running locally. Export results as CSV, JSON, or to MongoDB. There is even a Streamlit playground for non-coders.

If you are building anything with LLMs, structured prompt evaluation saves you from yourself.

Check it out here: https://amplt.de/SpitefulLuminousBread
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