
From a SpaceX production floor to the tangled internals of restaurant software, Tucker Hawkinson has made a career of finding the hidden structure in difficult systems - and making it useful to the people on the other side of the screen.
stagewise is a frontend coding agent that lives inside your running web app on localhost. Instead of switching between a browser and an IDE, developers click on a UI element, describe the change in plain language, and stagewise edits the actual source code in the local codebase. Started by Julian Goetze and Glenn Toews and part of Y Combinator's Summer 2025 batch, it began as an open-source, framework-agnostic toolbar that has been downloaded more than 130,000 times and starred over 4,800 times on GitHub.
Directus is an open-source data platform that wraps any SQL database with an instant REST and GraphQL API plus a no-code admin app, letting developers and non-technical users manage content and data without building a backend from scratch. Founded on a project Ben Haynes started in 2004 and incorporated as a company in 2020, Directus has surpassed 30 million downloads and is used by organizations including Adobe, Bose, Tripadvisor, AT&T and the U.S. Navy.