Yesterday's Top Launches: 5 Tools from September 22, 2026
A roundup of five launches from yesterday reviews a service-business automation platform, a chat-driven storefront builder, an Evernote export tool, a phone SSH client, and generative music driven by a Caltrans camera, none of which has enough early votes for a community ranking, and points first to Termphin and Harbor.
Yesterday’s launch window was an odd mix: a service-business automation platform with a spreadsheet full of pricing comparisons, a chat-driven storefront builder, an Evernote escape hatch, a phone SSH client, and a piece of generative music running off a Caltrans camera over the 101. Five products, five very different ideas about what software should take off your plate. None of them landed with enough early votes to show a community ranking yet, so what follows is a straight read on what each one actually does, with the parts I’d push back on included. If you’re tracking new developer tools alongside everything else, the two worth your attention first are Termphin and Harbor.
Mycel
Mycel wants to be the last pair of eyes problem solved. You feed it one past deliverable, a close, a proposal, a report, a shortlist, and it learns how your firm writes them, then drafts every future one and parks it in an approval queue. Nothing ships without you signing off, and edits you make during approval feed back into the model.
The pitch is aimed at shops where every draft crosses one desk: agencies, bookkeepers, recruiters, GEO and web studios. The pricing argument is blunt, comparing its own starter plan at $3,588 for twelve months against an offshore contractor at roughly $14,400 a year and a hire at $80,000 plus six weeks of ramp. The most interesting number on the page is the editing chart, showing the share of each draft rewritten falling from 94% in mid-August to 0% on September 1 and 5% in the latest week. Five data points is a thin basis for a “90% less editing” headline, and the offshore comparison conveniently assumes you never improve a contractor’s work. Still, the desks are concrete, the audit trail and back-office surface look genuinely useful, and free self-hosting under Apache-2.0 with your own model key is unusually generous.
Minicart
Minicart’s angle is that if you can text, you can run a store. Photograph something you make, answer a few questions, and it writes a listing, suggests a price and spins up a site on your own domain. Three named AI teammates handle the rest: Sloane on storefront, Milo on marketing, Logan on logistics. Sellers already on Etsy, Shopify or eBay can paste a link and pull their catalog across, read-only, so the existing shop keeps running.
The bulk edit flow is the strongest bit. Ask it to raise every red necklace by five dollars and it returns the affected items with old and new prices, ticking boxes for you to approve. Naming the AI teammates is a little theatrical, and the economics question is whether a small card fee plus a paid plan beats Shopify once you’re doing real volume. For a maker with forty listings and no interest in a dashboard, it’s a reasonable shortcut.
Harbor
Harbor is a direct attack on Evernote’s broken promise, and it says so on the page. The pitch: one private home for notes, scans, photos, audio and handwriting, searchable down to the text inside a scanned invoice, with optional zero-knowledge encryption on the notebooks you choose rather than the whole library. It runs natively on Mac, Windows, iOS, Android and web, works offline, and connects to ChatGPT or Claude via API, CLI and MCP instead of shipping its own weaker assistant.
The written promises are the notable part. No price increase for three years, then capped at 10% a year. Stop paying and the account goes read-only with full export intact. One plan at $99 a year. A price promise is still a promise rather than a contract, and bring-your-own-AI means the intelligence is only as good as the subscription you already have. But the OCR search, the selective encryption and the honest exit path make this the most straightforward recommendation in the batch.
Termphin
Mobile SSH has the same failure every time: the screen locks, the socket dies, and your deploy dies with it. Termphin puts a small open-source Rust agent on the server to hold the shell open, so the phone is just a window onto a session that keeps running. Reconnecting is a reattach, not a new login.
Around that sit an SFTP client with a syntax-highlighted editor, resumable transfers, snippets with execution history, ProxyJump bastion chains, port forwarding and a device-bound AES-256-GCM key vault behind your fingerprint. Rendering is native Flutter rather than a webview, which is the reason htop and vim draw correctly. It’s free, ad-free and open source, which is hard to argue with. The catch is Android only. If you carry an iPhone, this one isn’t for you yet.
The 101 Plays Itself
Ten sampling patches, two per lane, laid onto the road surface of Caltrans CAM 618 at Moorpark St in Studio City. The browser reads them fifteen times a second, and when asphalt stops looking like asphalt, that’s a note. The patches also form a 13.4-metre speed trap, so speed and vehicle length get read off the tarmac and fed into sixteen stackable voices. Detection and synthesis run client-side, no server, no samples, nothing pre-recorded. Come back at 3am and you’ll hear an almost empty freeway. It won’t change your workflow, but it will change how long you leave a tab open.