OpenSauce routes idle AI agent tokens — the unused computation that accumulates when AI agents sit between tasks — toward open source software projects. The foundational libraries, tools, and infrastructure the internet runs on are maintained by a small number of overworked volunteers. OpenSauce redirects excess capacity to support them, automatically.
Built at a hackathon in 6 hours. This one felt different from most projects I’ve been part of — it was my first time truly vibing on something as a team. Everyone was locked in on the same idea, making decisions fast, and actually having fun doing it.
As a designer, I came in expecting to own the visual layer and hand off specs. What happened was something else entirely: I was directly contributing to the codebase with AI — using Claude to go from planning the sitemap, to building the frontend, to fine-tuning the gamification mechanics like the card motion design. It felt like a superpower I didn’t know I had.
6 hours. A live product. A team that clicked.
I used Claude as a real collaborator across the whole stack:
Before touching any code, I worked with Claude to map out the product’s pages, content hierarchy, and user flows. This used to be a Figma exercise; here it was a fast back-and-forth conversation that went straight from idea to structure.
I hadn’t planned to write production code. But with Claude handling the translation from design intent to working HTML/CSS, the gap between what I was imagining and what was on screen collapsed. I was shipping real UI instead of annotating specs.
The gamification layer — cards that flip, stack, and animate as tokens are allocated — was the most satisfying part. I described the interaction, iterated on the feel with Claude, and refined until the motion was actually good, not just functional.
Use this section to log what you’re building, learning, or changing over time. Add entries newest-first.