bartosz@idct:~$ idct --whoami
AI-first software,
built in the open
IDCT is an AI-first software studio from Szczecin, Poland. We design and build AI-powered products, the real-time backends behind them and the open-source tools developers rely on.
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NAME
idct - AI-first software studio from Szczecin, Poland
SYNOPSIS
idct [--ai] [--realtime] [--native] [--open-source] <your-idea>
OPTIONS
- --ai
- AI-first product development LLM features, agents and automation designed into the product from the first sketch, not added once everything else is finished. Chromis runs its AI on the phone, with no uploads.
- --realtime
- Real-time backends Event-driven systems on NATS and JetStream, and Go and PHP services that stay fast under load. This site streams its admin updates through NUTS.
- --native
- Native apps Cross-platform desktop apps in Go and Fyne like Helena, and Android apps like Chromis and Whaaack!.
- --open-source
- Open-source tools Libraries and tools published on GitHub and free to use, from NATS clients for PHP and a Symfony Messenger transport to a Caddy module.
AUTHOR
Written by IDCT in Szczecin, Poland, since 2011: from public-sector portals and a sportsbook backend to FinTech platforms, reverse vending machines and the NATS tools below. Our full history is on the about page.
$ ls -l ./software
cd ./software →| Mode | Lang | Price | Name | About |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| -rwxr-xr-x | go | free | helena* | Native API client for Windows, macOS and Linux. Collections are plain YAML. |
| -rw-r--r-- | go | free | nuts | NATS JetStream to Server-Sent Events, as a Caddy module. |
| -rwxr-xr-x | kotlin | free+ads | whaaack! | Whack-a-mole with fruit. The score is milliseconds survived. |
| -rwxr-xr-x | dart | free+ads | chromis | Photo editor with on-device AI cutout and object removal. |
| -rwxr-xr-x | dart | free | sticker maker | Photos into stickers: on-device cut-out, captions, GIFs. |
| -rwxr-xr-x | c# | free | gentastic | FLUX and SDXL image generation on your own GPU, for Windows. |
| -rw-r--r-- | php | free | symfony-nats-messenger | Symfony Messenger transport for NATS JetStream. |
| -rw-r--r-- | php | free | php-nats-jetstream-client | Async NATS and JetStream client for PHP. |
| -rw-r--r-- | php | free | idct-sftp-client | SSH, SCP and SFTP file transfers for PHP. |
| -rwxr-xr-x | rust | free | wsl-tray | Tray indicator for WSL2: on/off, CPU and memory, one-click shutdown. |
| -rw-r--r-- | go | free | go-fyne-pretty-view | Fast JSON, XML and text viewer widget for Fyne. |
| -rw-r--r-- | php | free | php-rapid-cache-client | Minimal Redis and Valkey client for PHP. |
| -rwxr-xr-x | c# | free | rabbit-going-nats | RabbitMQ queue to NATS Pub/Sub bridge. |
| -rwxr-xr-x | c# | free | pos-printer-pdf-generator | HTML to PDF receipts for CUPS POS printers. |
$ helena --version
helena 0.9.1
A fast API client you can keep in git. Collections are plain YAML files, and there is no account and no cloud.
windows · macos · linux · ~35 MB · BSD-4-Clause · free
$ cat testimonials/featured.txt
"During this time he showed great programming and algorithmic skills in every task he was working on."