A curated list of indie-built AI startups — bootstrapped, pre-seed, and angel-funded products only.
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Last scanned: 9/30/2026
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awesome-ai-startups is an open-source ai agents skill for AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, and ChatGPT, built by nowork-studio. A curated list of indie-built AI startups — bootstrapped, pre-seed, and angel-funded products only. It has 121 GitHub stars.
Yes. awesome-ai-startups passed SkillsLLM's automated security scan — a dependency vulnerability audit plus prompt-injection heuristics — with no high-severity issues. You can read the full report in the Security Report section on this page.
Clone the repository with "git clone https://github.com/nowork-studio/awesome-ai-startups" and add it to your Claude Code skills directory (see the Installation section above).
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A curated directory of AI startups built by independent founders — bootstrapped, pre-seed, and angel-funded products from outside the big AI labs.
The goal: make useful indie AI products easier to find, share, and support.
Building one? Add your startup by opening a PR — see contributing.md for the format and inclusion criteria.