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Understory of the Month May 2026 · +35

🤖Sim Studio

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Sim is the collaborative workspace to build, deploy, and monitor AI agents and workflows. Used by 100,000+ builders.

⭐ Very popular: 29k stars, gaining about 56 a week

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repo profile

vintage 2025 1 year old
delivery product
language TypeScript
license Apache-2.0

momentum

total stars 29k
stars added last week +56
HN peak 240 pts 8mo ago
binary downloads 39 total · GitHub releases
used by 26 repos & packages
commits / week 175 accelerating · +44% vs prior mo
issues closed 65% ~3d to close, median
contributors 60
release cadence weekly
last activity today

durability

backing VC-backed Y Combinator
openness permissive
bus factor 1 solo
top-author share 56% 6 mo

bus factor = how many people it takes to cover more than half the commits (6 months). 1 is a solo project; higher means the work is spread across a team. top-author share is the single busiest author's slice of those commits.

since we covered it

monthly average + 2k/mo (+37%/mo) · + 24k total since PR#13

why it's a big deal

  • Gives teams one workspace to build, deploy, and monitor AI agents instead of stitching together separate tools for editing, scheduling, and logging.
  • Ships connectors to Slack, Notion, HubSpot, Salesforce, and databases plus support for every major LLM, so agents can act across systems a business already uses.
  • Can be self-hosted via a single Docker Compose command and run against local models through Ollama or vLLM, which keeps data and inference in-house for teams that cannot use a managed cloud.

under the hood

  • Built as a Turborepo monorepo on Next.js with the Bun runtime, PostgreSQL with pgvector and Drizzle ORM, Better Auth, and Zod validation.
  • Uses ReactFlow for the visual workflow editor, Socket.io for realtime updates, Zustand and TanStack Query for state, and Shadcn plus Tailwind for the UI.
  • Runs agent code in isolation using E2B for remote execution and isolated-vm for sandboxing, with Trigger.dev handling background and scheduled jobs.

Radar summary, generated from the project's public sources

star history

PR#13 · 5k29k now Jan 2025Aug 2026
  1. PR#13 5k 2025-07-23
  2. now 29k + 24k since first covered

curve is sampled from GitHub's star history, plus our own daily readings since we covered it; the dashed stretch is before we first covered it, the solid line since. figures at coverage are the numbers we printed then (approx.), current count is live.

understory

Deep in the understory, shipping hard, still flying under the radar.

+37 understory score output 100 · clout 63
Aug 2025 Jul 2026
  • output, commits & releases
  • clout, star velocity

output = commits & releases; clout = star velocity, both 0 to 100 monthly indices; the gap where output runs above clout is the understory. The understory →

covered in

  • PR#13 2025-07-23 below the radar

    Visual AI Agent Workflow Builder

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