6 Launches in One Day: The DD Empire Expansion
TL;DR
Five new apps and a Chrome extension shipped today.
Last updated: May 7, 2026
6 New Launches In One Day#
Today the empire grew by five apps and one Chrome extension. All shipped on the same day, all under developersdigest.tech, all wired into the same auth, deploy, and monitoring spine that runs the rest of the portfolio.
Here is what each one is, why it exists, and where to follow along.
ssl-watch - Free SSL + DNS Monitor#
ssl-watch is a free SSL, DNS, and domain expiry monitor. Paste a domain once, get email or Slack alerts before a certificate, nameserver, or registration silently breaks production. Every dev I know has been bitten by this at least once. Most paid options are bundled into uptime suites you do not need. ssl-watch does the one thing.
Coming soon: /apps/ssl-watch.
ctx-peek - See Inside Your Claude Code Context#
ctx-peek takes a Claude Code transcript and shows exactly what is in the context window - token by token, file by file, with bloat hotspots highlighted. If your agent suddenly gets dumber after 30 minutes, this is usually why. ctx-peek tells you which files are eating the budget and what to prune.
Coming soon: /apps/ctx-peek.
modelpick - Pick The Right Model In 4 Questions#
modelpick is a decision-tree wrapper over the AI Models directory. Answer four questions about your task - latency tolerance, context size, modality, budget - and get back the optimal model, provider, and a price estimate per million tokens. It exists because nobody should have to memorize the difference between Sonnet 4.5, 4.6, and 4.7 to ship a feature.
Coming soon: /apps/modelpick.
dd-pulse - Live Status For Every DD App#
dd-pulse is the live status and metrics dashboard for the entire DD portfolio. Uptime, deploy state, weekly active users, all in one page. We built it for ourselves first - running 25+ Coolify apps without a unified pulse view was getting silly - and then realized other multi-app builders need the same thing.
Coming soon: /apps/dd-pulse.
og-forge - Branded OG Images In 200ms#
og-forge is a hosted OG-image API. Pass a URL or params, get back a branded preview card in roughly 200ms. Templates ship for blog posts, repos, products, and changelog entries. Every DD app already burns hours on per-product OG generators. og-forge collapses that into one endpoint with caching and a decent default look.
Coming soon: /apps/og-forge.
dd-extension - The Empire In Your Omnibar#
The Chrome extension is the connective tissue. Type dd in the omnibar, hit space, then a slug - dd ssl-watch, dd modelpick, dd traces - and you are in the right app. It also surfaces live status from dd-pulse and lets you save snippets straight into the content engine. If you use more than two DD apps a day, this is the launcher you want pinned.
Install link drops with the public release.
Empire Stats After Today#
The portfolio now spans 17 products across 6 categories - observability, content, agents, education, marketplaces, and developer utilities. Roughly 70% of active surface area is AI-coding focused: agent tooling, model selection, context inspection, traces, skills, MCP servers. The rest is the infra that makes the AI-coding work pay rent - auth, payments, status, OG images, SSL.
Same Coolify cluster. Same Convex + Clerk + Stripe stack. Same push-to-deploy pipeline. The cost of adding the sixth thing today was lower than the cost of adding the second thing six months ago, which is the entire point of building an empire on one spine instead of six.
What Comes Next#
Each of the five apps is in coming soon state today. Public betas roll out across the next two weeks, in roughly the order listed above. The Chrome extension goes to the Web Store once we finish the review prep.
If you want to be in the first wave, the /apps directory is the source of truth - every product gets a status pill the moment it goes live. No newsletter blast, no countdown, just the page updating.
Six things shipped today. We will keep going.
FAQ#
What launched in the DD empire expansion?#
Five apps and one Chrome extension shipped on the same day: ssl-watch (a free SSL, DNS and domain expiry monitor), ctx-peek (a Claude Code context inspector), modelpick (a four-question model picker), dd-pulse (a live status and metrics dashboard for the DD portfolio), og-forge (a hosted OG-image API) and dd-extension (an omnibar launcher for DD apps).
What does ctx-peek show about a Claude Code session?#
ctx-peek takes a Claude Code transcript and shows what is in the context window token by token and file by file, with bloat hotspots highlighted. It tells you which files are eating the context budget and what to prune.
How does the DD Chrome extension work?#
Type dd in the Chrome omnibar, hit space, then an app slug such as dd ssl-watch or dd modelpick to jump straight to that app. It also surfaces live status from dd-pulse and lets you save snippets into the content engine.
When will the new DD apps be available?#
All five apps launched in a coming soon state, with public betas rolling out over the following two weeks in roughly the order listed. The /apps directory is the source of truth, and each product gets a status pill the moment it goes live.
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