Rainbow Popcorn Factory

Freshly popped ideas from AI, data & software. This is where Patrick Hess shows what he works on: AI, data, software, EU compliance, and learning and play apps. Every project is its own popcorn flavour.

  • Home base + 18 projects · 5 worlds
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Home base

COM2U Trade, service and consulting in IT and communications

Com2u is the company behind all the projects here: since 1997, customer-focused solutions for industry and private clients, from measurement technology and image processing to software development and networking.

„We offer innovative solutions for your problem.“
  • Since 1997
  • Measurement & image processing
  • Software development

AI & Development

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AI-Server

ai-server.org

In development

A platform for AI agents in coding, testing, documentation and project management – integrable into existing workflows via API.

  • KI-Agenten
  • API
  • Self-hosted
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AI-Server is a platform for specialised AI agents in software development. The agents take on clearly defined roles – from writing and testing code to documentation and project management – and plug into existing workflows through an API.

  • Agents for coding, testing, documentation and project management
  • API for integration into existing workflows and tools
  • A self-hosted option for those who want to control data and operations themselves
  • API service billed through token packages

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Developer2u

developer2u.de

Live

A platform connecting companies with experienced software developers who use modern AI tools and autonomous agents.

  • Entwickler
  • KI-Tools
  • Projektbasiert
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Developer2u brings companies together with experienced software developers who use modern AI tools and autonomous agents as a matter of course. Booking is project-based, without long-term commitment and without middlemen.

  • Developer pool to browse (“Browse Developers”)
  • Project request with duration, budget range, skills and start date
  • On-demand access to experts and more efficiency through AI agents
  • Developers with real project experience

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Vision2U

vision2u.app

Live

Open-source platform for modular, visual image-processing workflows with 200+ functions, OCR, object detection and an AI assistant.

  • Bildverarbeitung
  • Open Source
  • KI-Assistent
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Vision2U is an open-source platform for assembling image processing as a visual workflow. Python and React form the base, and an optional AI assistant helps with building. The site’s motto: “Complex image processing. Clear, visual workflows.”

  • OCR with PaddleOCR (CPU) and object detection with Ultralytics YOLO (.pt models)
  • Read and generate barcodes and QR codes, blob analysis
  • Camera (OpenCV) and video as sources
  • Portable .v2u projects

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OrganAIzer

organaizer.app

Early Access

Appointments, tasks, knowledge, voice and AI connections in one workspace – self-hosted and provider-neutral.

  • AI Workspace
  • Self-hosted
  • Open Source
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OrganAIzer is a personal AI workspace. Appointments, tasks, knowledge, voice, resources, planning and AI connections come together in one working surface. The project was created by Patrick Hess in Munich and is open source.

  • Appointments and resources: schedule appointments, rooms and people automatically
  • Hermes assistant: tasks in dialogue by voice or text
  • Tasks: recurring, research, images, OCR
  • Voice: read aloud, dictation, real-time dialogue

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UniversityOfAI

university-of-ai.org

In development

The concept of a fully AI-centred university: hands-on, online, and open to anyone without prior knowledge.

  • KI-Hochschule
  • Lernen
  • AI Agents
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UniversityOfAI is the concept of a fully AI-centred university. Its motto is “We don’t just teach AI – we create with it.” Teaching uses real tools, real datasets and real projects.

  • Entry modules: programming and maths foundations for AI
  • Introduction to AI tools such as ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot and no-code AI, plus prompting
  • Deep dives on AI agents, LLMs, multimodal AI and automated testing
  • Entrepreneurship, research projects and student life as programme areas

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AI-Mentor

ai-mentor.org

Live

A questionnaire with an introductory video; results by DISG, OCEAN (Big Five), MBTI and a “JWT Index”.

  • Persönlichkeit
  • DISG
  • OCEAN
  • MBTI
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AI-Mentor invites you to discover your own personality: “Find your personality”. A short introductory video explains the process, followed by a questionnaire.

  • Questionnaire with statements on a scale from −100% to 100%
  • Choice of context: family, work, friends
  • Results by DISG, OCEAN (Big Five) and MBTI
  • Plus a “JWT Index”

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Data & Security

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Katastrophenmelder

katastrophenmelder.de

Live

SMS alerts only for truly significant disaster events – complementing NINA, KATWARN and cell broadcast.

  • SMS-Warnung
  • DACH
  • Warnsystem
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Katastrophenmelder sends SMS alerts only for truly significant disaster events. Its motto, in German: “No news is good news.” If no SMS arrives, you can assume nothing major has happened.

  • Continuous data collection from warning channels and news portals
  • Text analysis to link reports about the same event
  • Scoring by keywords, frequency, updates and multi-channel sources
  • Measures to minimise false alarms

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PublicEvidence

publicevidence.eu

Early Access

A free proof of existence for documents via timestamp anchored in a blockchain – no account, your file stays with you.

  • Zeitstempel
  • Blockchain
  • Time-Lock
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PublicEvidence offers a free proof of existence for documents: a timestamp anchored in a blockchain. No account is needed, and the file never leaves your device – only a fingerprint (hash) is used.

  • Timestamp via hash, blockchain-anchored, no account
  • Secure sharing with a password and multiple backups
  • Make changes to documents visible
  • Time-lock: encryption in the browser, opening only at a chosen time via drand (League of Entropy)

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SunriseTradingSystems

sunrisetradingsystems.com

In development

A research and demonstration project: AI and neuro-fuzzy systems for analysing financial data and forecasting trends.

  • Neuro-Fuzzy
  • Backtesting
  • Forschung
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SunriseTradingSystems, STS for short, is a research and demonstration project around AI-assisted market predictions. The home page promises “AI-Powered Market Predictions”: AI and neuro-fuzzy systems should help keep an overview in ever-changing financial markets.

  • Technology: infrastructure, modules, training and testing, news aggregation, anomaly detection
  • Trading: market overview, forecast, news overview, sentiment, security
  • Depots and trading data after login
  • A demo to try out

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EU Compliance

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EU Product Identity

euproductidentity.eu

Early Access

Import Excel/CSV, validate, let suppliers fill gaps via link and publish the product passport with a QR code.

  • Digitaler Produktpass
  • ESPR
  • QR-Code
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EU Product Identity is software for the Digital Product Passport (DPP). Manufacturers and importers can import product data from Excel or CSV, have it validated and publish it as a public passport page with a QR code.

  • Excel/CSV import with validation: error rows are reported with row numbers before saving
  • Missing data via supplier link, no account required for the supplier
  • Public passport page with QR code as PNG or SVG
  • Hosted reference page per customer

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Battery Identity

batteryidentity.eu

Early Access

Mandatory from 18 Feb 2027 for EV, LMT and industrial batteries over 2 kWh – import, validation, supplier link and QR code.

  • Batteriepass
  • EU-Batterieverordnung
  • 2027
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Battery Identity is battery passport software for manufacturers and importers. It runs “powered by EU Product Identity” and is aimed at anyone who must provide a battery passport from 18 February 2027.

  • Data template to download
  • Import with validation
  • Supplier link for missing data
  • Public passport page with QR code, German and English

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Learning & Play

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Mischen.Jetzt

mischen.jetzt

Live

A virtual shuffle and randomiser app with cards: coin, yes/no, dice and word sets.

  • Zufall
  • Würfel
  • Wortsets
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Mischen.Jetzt is a virtual shuffle and randomiser app. The page consists almost entirely of a row of coloured, rounded cards, each with an icon and a word.

  • Coin
  • Yes/no
  • Dice
  • Word sets, which provide the words on the cards

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Der Klimawandel

derklimawandel.de

Live

A claim fact-check on climate change, with sources.

  • Thesen
  • Faktencheck
  • Quellen
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DerKlimawandel.de is a claim fact-check. The site shows a common claim and expands counter-arguments with sources beneath it. Important for understanding: the site does not put the claim forward, it refutes it.

  • One claim per view, counter-arguments expandable
  • Source references for every argument
  • Navigation to page through more claims: back, sources, info, list, next
  • Overview of claims (“Thesis Overview”)

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Art & Culture

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nonprofitart

nonprofitart.de

In development

A gallery for masterpieces, digital art and photography under free licences (CC0, CC BY, public domain) with ready-made attribution text.

  • Offene Kunst
  • CC0
  • Gemeinfrei
  • Galerie
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nonprofitart is a platform for artworks under free licences. The site describes itself as “a home for open art” and brings together masterpieces, digital art and photography that you may look at, download and reuse, as long as you follow the licence terms of each work. Its guiding idea is stated on the site itself: culture should not sit behind paywalls.

  • Discover home page with selected works, a random discovery (“Surprise me”) and rows such as Trending, Most loved or Newly added
  • Gallery with filters for category (Historical, Digital, Photography), epoch, licence, source, medium, artist, tags and orientation
  • Public-domain-only filter and year range for targeted searching
  • Four views: masonry, even grid, list with details and wall

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Lissabon Azulejo Generator

rainbowpopcornfactory.com/apps/lissabon-azulejo

Live

A web app that generates tiles inspired by Portuguese azulejos: patterns, colour palettes, borders, corners and export as SVG or PNG.

  • Azulejo
  • Kachelmuster
  • SVG
  • Generator
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Lissabon is a browser-based generator for decorative tiles, inspired by the traditional Portuguese ceramics known as azulejos. The app runs entirely in the browser: you set patterns, colours and details and immediately get a tile you can download as SVG or PNG. This project is a small art workshop, not a service with an account or a server.

  • Nine pattern families: geometric, floral, ornamental, striped, checker, radial, Celtic, Moroccan and baroque
  • Seed-based generation: same seed, same tile
  • Several colour palettes, including traditional Portuguese, blues and earth tones, plus freely chosen background and foreground colours
  • Sliders for stroke width, fill opacity and complexity

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Mandala Studio

rainbowpopcornfactory.com/apps/mandala

Live

A browser studio for generating, colouring and exporting mandalas, tilings, fractals and polygon patterns, with around 52 colour palettes.

  • Mandala
  • Ausmalen
  • Fraktale
  • SVG
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Mandala Studio is a studio that runs entirely in the browser for generating, colouring and exporting mandalas. It needs no backend, no build tools and no dependencies. You generate a pattern, colour it in with a click and download the result as an image or vector graphic.

  • Four pattern types: mandala (radial), tiling/parquet, fractal and polygon/geometry
  • Six style presets for mandalas: random, floral, geometric, kaleidoscope, minimal and ornament
  • Sliders for symmetry (3 to 24 sectors), rings, complexity and roundness
  • Regenerate, vary and direct seed input for reproducible results

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ArtImagePrompt

rainbowpopcornfactory.com/apps/artimageprompt

Live

A prompt builder for AI images: describe a subject, pick style, technique, colour palette and composition from templates, optimise the prompt and generate an image.

  • KI-Bilder
  • Prompt-Builder
  • Stil & Technik
  • Gemini
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ArtImagePrompt is a tool that turns a short subject description into a detailed image prompt for AI image models. Instead of searching your memory for technical terms, you choose building blocks from templates: an art style, a technique, a colour palette and a composition. The app combines everything into one prompt, can have it improved by Google AI and generates an image on request.

  • Subject description as the basis of the prompt
  • Templates for style (41), technique (66), colour palette (21) and composition (15), each with its own preview symbol
  • Assembly into a finished image prompt with one click
  • Prompt optimisation with Google AI for more clarity and detail

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About me

I am Patrick Hess and I build software with and for AI: from image processing and work environments to tools for EU requirements. Some of it is serious, some playful. The company behind it is Com2u.

More about Com2u → com2u.de ↗

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Contact

Questions or ideas? Send me an email (the address is assembled by a script so spam bots cannot harvest it).

ed.u2moc@sseh.kcirtap

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