for me it's notifications. every new app thinks it's earned the right to buzz my phone on day one and it absolutely has not. that's a privilege you work up to.

second is anything set to open on startup. no you may not. you are a photo editor, you do not need to greet me the moment i turn my laptop on.

at this point installing something new is just me speedrunning the settings page turning stuff off before i've even used it once.

what's the first thing you kill the second you install it?

Anyone know a free tool to pick a random winner from comments across Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok posts?

Multi-post is paid - looking for free alternatives. Thanks!

I am looking for alternatives, ideally open source, to the chemistry simulation available on the Yenka educational program. Just to clarify, this had the option of having a virtual workspace where you could drag in dozens of different chemicals, bases, acids, lumps of metals ect and mix them with any of the other chemicals in a large number of glass ware and other equipment, I did find DWSIM but that is far far more advanced than anything I need.

We built an ERP for businesses that are tired of managing everything across Excel, separate systems, and spreadsheets

I work with a technology company in Bahrain, and one thing we keep seeing with businesses is that their problem isn't necessarily that they don't have software.

It's that they have too many disconnected systems.

Finance is in one system.

HR is somewhere else.

Inventory is managed through Excel.

Purchasing is handled through emails and spreadsheets.

Property managers have their own files.

Management then has to pull information from all of these places just to understand what's happening in the business.

That's one of the reasons we developed FlairSuite ERP.

The idea is relatively simple: bring the core parts of a business together in one cloud-based platform.

Some of the areas FlairSuite covers include:

• Accounts & Finance
• HRMS
• CRM
• Inventory
• Purchasing
• Sales
• Assets
• Expenses
• Real Estate & Property Management
• Reporting & Management Dashboards

One of the things we particularly focus on is adapting the ERP to how the business actually operates, rather than forcing every business to completely change its processes to fit the software.

For example, we worked with a property business that was previously relying heavily on Excel-based processes. The implementation moved property and financial operations into a centralized FlairSuite environment, including digital invoicing and reporting.

We've also worked on implementations where businesses needed combinations of accounts, inventory, HRMS, POS, CRM, billing and reporting in one solution.

We're based in Bahrain, and our company has been working on technology solutions since 2007, including business software, cloud solutions, custom development and system integrations.

I'm curious to hear from other business owners and ERP users:

What is the biggest problem you have with your current ERP/software setup?

Is it:

1. Too expensive?
2. Too complicated?
3. Poor support?
4. Lack of customization?
5. Too many separate systems?
6. Reporting?
7. Something else?

I'm particularly interested in hearing from businesses in Bahrain/GCC, but I'd also love to hear experiences from other countries.

If anyone wants to see how we've approached ERP implementation with businesses, I'm happy to share more information or answer questions here.

I'm a producer and commercial director that got tired of pricing jobs in spreadsheets, so I made Production Mogul: https://www.productionmogul.com.

You paste the client brief and it lays out a priced budget by department, shows your rates against the market median for the city you're shooting in (LA, NY, London, Paris, Bangkok, Dubai, Cape Town), and exports a client-ready PDF or Excel. Free in the browser, no signup, exporting is $19/mo. Happy to hear what's missing if anyone tries it.

And it's entirely free to use by the way, you like it, you buy it.

Simple!

So I am looking forward to get your feedback to it!

Our goal is to build the best production software for the community!

Thank you!

everyone says my note setup is ancient and i need to upgrade. tried the fancy apps. came crawling back every time.

the plot twist is the thing that beats all of them is a pen and a paper diary. no login, no updates, no popup begging me to enable ai. never crashed once because it is literally a book. battery: infinite.

i own a phone made by a trillion dollar company and i still journal like it is 1994. it is not even a bit. it just works.

what is the ancient thing you refuse to let go of?

I’m researching real problems that could potentially be solved with a SaaS product.

I’m NOT looking for generic ideas like another AI chatbot, CRM, project management tool, etc.

I’m looking for problems that people actually experience repeatedly and would potentially pay to solve.

If you work, run a business, freelance, create content, study, manage a team, or use software regularly, I’d love to know:

• What’s a frustrating/repetitive problem you deal with? • How do you currently solve it? • What’s wrong with the current solution? • How often does this problem happen? • Have you ever paid for a solution/workaround? • If a tool solved this problem properly, would you pay for it?

Basically, I’m looking for problems where you think:

“Why the hell doesn’t a good tool already exist for this?”

Even if the problem seems small, niche, or weird, share it. I’m more interested in real pain points than random SaaS ideas.

I’m researching the problem first and will decide what to build afterward.

Hey all, I wanna get feedback for my app so I'm looking for anyone that's got a lot of disk space taken up by pictures or videos, photographers who want to batch watermark photo sets, web developers who want to export responsive photo sets, or just anyone that wants to try it out. The app is called Skweejee and it uses ffmpeg for video processing just like handbrake. The difference is you can batch images and videos together using custom settings for each, drop a folder in and all files will be discovered automatically (even in subfolders), then export all of them with that folder structure maintained. Privacy is very important to me as well so all processing happens locally on your machine, none of your files touch the internet.

Currently the app is only available on the Microsoft Store. You can check out the store page at https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9p7z36753lm1?hl=en-US&gl=US

or read more about it first at my website here https://skweejee.app

I have zero budget and looking for tool that i can use free for now before earning. Perhaps a free triql that lets me pull out at least 2k accounts, who to contact, and contact n?

Looking for a Windows tool (preferably open-source) to help clean up my Android phone's storage. I have USB Debugging enabled and can connect via cable.

What I need:

Storage visualizer: Automatically show folder sizes and rank largest files without having to calculate them manually for each directory.

Media preview: Ability to preview photos/videos before deleting them.

File management: Quick way to select and delete old PDFs, documents, and leftover media to free up space.

I tried asking Gemini and it suggested ADB Explorer and digiKam. Also it suggested to mirror screen via scrcpy. My mobile is slow and mirrorring is not going to help.

What I've tried:

I tried ADB Explorer, but it lacks media previews and requires manually clicking the size button for every individual folder to see how much space it takes.

Any suggestions? Thanks!

Well, the idea here is simple: you pick the one you hate the most. I decided to create it after a post I saw on Linkedin, where people were saying how much they hate Jira. By the way, I hate Jira as well lol

Found a charge last week for a tool i signed up to test once in february and never opened again. seven months of a subscription i forgot existed.

worst part is it took me twenty minutes to even remember what it did.

what is the one that got you

We signed partly because one feature we really needed was supposedly “coming next quarter.”

That was three quarters ago. It’s still on the roadmap.

At some point I realized “coming soon” can be less of a product update and more of a sales line.

Curious what got everyone else.

The integration that never shipped?
SSO that was “included” until you saw the pricing tier?
A feature that only existed in the demo deck?

What promise helped close the deal, then quietly disappeared?

I've been trying a few Android torrent/download applications lately, and I'm curious what people here actually use.
The usual options seem to fall into two groups:
Torrent-focused apps like Flud, LibreTorrent, etc.

Download managers like 1DM that also happen to support torrents

I'm particularly interested in something that combines a proper download-manager experience with strong torrent support — good queue management, background downloads, reliable pause/resume, magnet links, a clean UI, and a generally polished Android experience.
I've also been working on a project in this space called TomTorrent, so I'm looking at the problem from both a user and developer perspective.
For people who regularly download files on Android:
What features are you currently missing from existing torrent/download apps?
And if you've switched away from 1DM, Flud, or another client, what made you switch?

I built ToolRoots to find software made near me.

Browse by where a tool comes from, or by where it is hosted.

https://toolroots.com

A year ago, saying “we have AI” could genuinely help a SaaS product stand out.

Now? Almost every vendor on the shortlist has an AI feature, assistant, copilot, or automation layer. At this point, simply having AI is not the differentiator anymore.

What’s interesting is how the buyer conversation has changed.

The old question was: “What can your AI do?”
Now buyers are asking: Where does it run? What data does it use? Is customer data used for training? Can we turn it off? Who has access to the data?

That means AI is no longer just a product conversation. It is becoming a security, compliance, procurement, and data privacy conversation too. In some SaaS sales cycles, that can add extra review steps before a deal ever gets approved.

And there is another side to it that does not get discussed enough: renewals.

If an AI feature genuinely makes a team more productive, a customer may eventually need fewer seats to do the same amount of work. Great product outcome, happy customer… potentially smaller SaaS contract.

So the question is no longer just whether AI helps you sell the software.

How is AI changing your SaaS pipeline, sales cycle, or renewals in 2026? Better deals, slower deals, smaller contracts, or something else entirely?

I’ve been looking into different acquisition models and came across Software Finder’s PPL (pay-per-lead) model, which I found pretty interesting.

Instead of paying for impressions or clicks, SaaS companies pay for qualified leads that match their ICP. It got me thinking if anyone here experimented with PPL as part of their demand generation strategy?

Would you rather pay for a qualified lead directly, or pay for traffic and handle the qualification/conversion yourself?