# RAT LABS (Mick Donahue)

> Indie builder: Apify actors, browser extensions and AI-native tooling.
> Portfolio of 29+ shipped products across web scraping, healthcare data, RAG/vector infrastructure, and browser extensions.

Homepage: https://ratlabs.tech/
All products: https://ratlabs.tech/projects/
Blog (by the same author): https://mickdonahue.io/
GitHub: https://github.com/labrat-0
Apify profile: https://apify.com/labrat011
X/Twitter: https://x.com/shiftmick

## Free browser-based tools

- QR Studio — generate and scan QR codes, no signup: https://ratlabs.tech/utilities/qr-studio.html
- Rat Badge — custom animated SVG badges for READMEs: https://ratlabs.tech/utilities/rat-badge.html
- RatVault Lite — local-only markdown knowledge vault with AI chat, no server: https://ratlabs.tech/ratvault-lite/
- Rat Facts — a 3D dot-grain brown rat with its CT-scanned skeleton, layer by layer, plus sourced rat facts: https://ratlabs.tech/rats/
- RatLabs — this site as a 3D browser game, plus a few hidden gems: https://game.ratlabs.tech/
- TimeLens — retro camera effects and instant polaroid prints in-browser: https://ratlabs.tech/lens/

## Product categories (see /projects/ for the full, current list)

- Extensions: LinkNest, QRNest, ScanNest (Chrome)
- Healthcare data: PubMed Scraper, NPI Contact Finder, FDA Drug Labels, Clinical Trials
- Intelligence/scraping: Google Maps Scraper, Reddit Scraper, LinkedIn Jobs, Gov Contracts, Academic Papers, UFO/UAP Sightings
- Open source: RatScale and others — see GitHub

Most scraping/data products are deployed as Apify Actors (MCP-compatible) and can be run programmatically or via Apify's MCP server.

## For AI agents

- Rat Radar: can an agent scrape a given site, and how? Weekly probes of 360+ public sites with verdicts, robots.txt and AI-crawler policy, plus an MCP server and JSON API. Start at https://ratlabs.tech/radar/llms.txt
- RatLabs Mesh: turn character art into game-ready 3D models (GLB), by hand or by asking any AI. A local studio (one Rust binary + Blender 4.2+) that is also an MCP server, so an AI client can drive it while the user watches. Code MIT: https://github.com/labrat-0/ratlabs-mesh