Yesterday's Top Launches: 5 Tools from February 16, 2026
Five new developer tools launched yesterday, focusing on challenges like spam filtering and workflow efficiency.
Yesterday brought another wave of digital innovation, with a particularly strong showing in new developer tools and productivity aids designed to streamline our increasingly complex workflows. From combating spam to structuring entire lives inside a single app, these five products each tackle a distinct modern challenge. Let's dive into what launched.
SpamShield
For anyone running a website with a contact form, newsletter signup, or any kind of user input field, spam is a constant low-grade headache. SpamShield aims to be the cure. It’s an AI-powered defense system that operates behind the scenes to filter out bot submissions and spam, promising to let real leads through without forcing visitors to solve annoying CAPTCHAs.
The appeal here is clear: better user experience and a cleaner inbox. Instead of relying on puzzles that can deter actual humans, SpamShield uses intelligent detection to identify malicious activity. This is a freemium tool, so small site owners or developers can likely get started without an upfront cost, making it accessible for testing on a personal blog or a new client project. If it works as advertised, it could save a significant amount of time otherwise wasted on sifting through garbage submissions. You can explore the details of SpamShield on its project page.
SlickyBrain
The quest for the perfect productivity system is a modern odyssey, often involving a scattered array of apps for notes, tasks, goals, and reference materials. SlickyBrain makes a bold claim: it’s a complete life operating system built entirely within Notion. The idea is to stop the constant context-switching between tools and bring everything—your goals, projects, tasks, ideas, and knowledge—into one centralized, "aligned" system.
By leveraging the flexibility of Notion, SlickyBrain likely offers a set of templates and databases that are pre-connected, theoretically allowing your progress in one area to automatically reflect in others. The promise is compounded progress, where organizing your work actually feels like moving forward. As a free product, it’s a low-risk option for Notion power users who feel their current setup is too fragmented. It’s worth a look for anyone who believes their productivity tool should be a cohesive system, not just a collection of lists. Find out more about SlickyBrain.
Lunair
Video content is king, but video production has traditionally been a queen-sized pain, requiring significant time, skill, or budget. Lunair steps into this space with a powerful proposition: instant, studio-quality explainer videos generated from a simple text description. You describe your idea—say, "a 60-second video explaining how our new API endpoint works"—and Lunair's AI generates a fully branded, production-ready animated video in minutes.
The key differentiator mentioned is the lack of templates; the AI creates a unique video based on your description, not from a pre-set library of scenes. This could be a massive boon for marketers, solopreneurs, and educators who need to produce professional-looking video content quickly and without a design team. As a paid service from the start, Lunair is clearly targeting users for whom video is a serious business need, not a casual experiment. See how it works for yourself at Lunair.
Prompt Library
As AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude become integral to our daily work, a new problem has emerged: prompt chaos. Your best, most effective prompts for writing, coding, or brainstorming are scattered across different chat histories, impossible to find when you need them. Prompt Library is a desktop app that solves this by giving you a centralized place to save, organize, and instantly reuse your prompts.
The mention of a "global shortcut" suggests you can likely pull up your library from anywhere on your computer, making it seamless to insert a proven prompt into any conversation. This tool speaks directly to the growing need for AI workflow optimization. It’s moving from simply using AI to using it efficiently and consistently. With a freemium model, it’s easy for any heavy AI user to start organizing their most valuable prompts. You can check out the Prompt Library to bring order to the chaos.
MoodTalks: AI Girlfriend Chat
Launching into a very different category is MoodTalks, an AI girlfriend chat app designed for personal conversation. The app offers friendly, supportive, and engaging chats tailored to your current mood and interests, positioning itself as a companion available to talk anytime.
This type of application continues to spark discussion about the role of AI in personal life and mental well-being. While it provides a non-judgmental ear, it’s important to recognize its limitations compared to human connection or professional support. As a free mobile app, it’s easily accessible for those curious about AI companionship. Its launch highlights the diversifying applications of conversational AI, expanding beyond productivity into the realm of personal interaction. Learn more about MoodTalks: AI Girlfriend Chat.
Quick Links
For more detailed information on any of yesterday's launches, visit their project pages: