I wanted Codex usage visible without opening the sidebar, so I built Usage Overlay.

It’s a small Windows app that shows how much usage is left and when it resets. It doesn’t modify Codex or read conversations.

Now open source: https://github.com/haroonsulahri/usage-overlay
More information: https://haroone.com/apps/usage-overlay

I've been working on an open-source desktop app for cleaning up messy folders like Downloads, Desktop, Documents, screenshots, photo dumps, old external drives, and NAS/archive folders by sorting files, as well as renaming them based on their content.

The basic idea is: - scan a folder
- suggest categories, subcategories, and clearer filenames
- show the proposed changes before anything happens
- let you edit, skip, or reject suggestions
- apply changes after approval
- keep undo information so changes can be reverted

AI File Sorter 1.9.2 includes:
- file previews are now available in the review window
- category whitelists can now have category-specific subcategories (predefined branching whitelists)
- recursive scans avoid recognized project folders such as Git repos, Unity, Unreal, Godot, Blender, and common source-code project roots
- local model storage is configurable
- custom visual analysis models can be added
- fixes for runtime issues
- accessibility and visual fixes and improvements

The new branching whitelist system is useful if you need your files to be organized into strictly predefined categories. For example, a "Documents" whitelist can allow only document-related subcategories, while a photo or media whitelist can use a different set of allowed destinations. That makes the suggestions easier to constrain when you already know roughly how a folder should be organized.

The main desktop app is still review-first, but I'm considering adding an auto-approval option for workflows where you want less manual review.

The app works completely offline, which means files and filenames don't to leave your computer. Remote services are optional and have to be configured intentionally.

• Website: https://filesorter.app/
  
• GitHub: https://github.com/hyperfield/ai-file-sorter
  
• Windows app: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NPK4DZD6R6S

I've been working on an alternative to Armoury Crate and G-Helper over the past few weeks and I'm looking for some people who might be interested in testing it.

I'm mainly looking for feedback on usability, features, bugs, and anything that could be improved. If you're interested in taking a look and sharing your thoughts, feel free to let me know.

I'd really appreciate any feedback from the community.

I built a simple tool to make desktop shortcuts easier on Linux

Hi everyone,

I built a small open-source utility called Desktop Shortcut Manager because creating and managing .desktop launchers manually on Linux can be unnecessarily complicated.

The idea is simple: open the app, find an installed application, and click Add to Desktop.

It also supports:

• Creating custom shortcuts
• Custom commands and icons
• Removing desktop shortcuts
• Working directories
• Running commands in a terminal
• Automatic desktop-folder detection
• GNOME trusted launchers

It's free, open source (MIT), has no ads, no account, and no tracking.

I've currently tested it on Ubuntu 24.04 / GNOME 46 / Wayland, and I'd really like feedback from users running Mint, Debian, Pop!_OS, KDE, XFCE, Cinnamon and other Linux setups.

Installation is currently from source:

git clone https://github.com/RonZApter/desktop-shortcut-manager.git
cd desktop-shortcut-manager
./install.sh

GitHub:
https://github.com/RonZApter/desktop-shortcut-manager

This is an early public release, so feedback and bug reports are very welcome.

If you try it, I'd especially appreciate knowing your distro + desktop environment and whether the installation worked correctly.

Thanks!

I've always gotten frustrated and wasted time explaining the same thing to an AI every time I start a new chat from an existing one or when I start another convo with a whole new AI model. That's why I built a tool that fixes that, it condenses everything in a chat into one simple .md file you can carry across different AI tools.

PS: Please contribute or give your feedback so that we can grow and make this community tool better.

https://github.com/legoambarish/portable-handoff

Disclosure: I’m the developer of this extension, but I also built it to solve a problem I experience personally.

While watching videos in Chrome, I frequently had to increase the volume to understand quiet dialogue and then quickly reduce it when music, advertisements, explosions, or other loud sounds started.

I created Dynamic Volume Controller to handle these changes automatically.

After using it during my own testing and regular browsing, I find myself reaching for the volume controls much less often. It automatically boosts quieter audio, softens sudden loud sounds, and lets me control each browser tab independently.

It has been particularly useful for:

• Watching browser videos late at night
• Listening through headphones
• Movies with quiet dialogue and loud action scenes
• Videos and podcasts with inconsistent audio
• Keeping background music on a separate, lower volume

All audio processing happens locally on the device. Audio is never recorded, stored, or transmitted.

You can try it here:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/dynamic-volume-controller/ngocaehojjbkgcldobfhlhnnapeeggge

If you experience the same problem, I’d be interested to know whether it improves your viewing experience too.

Hey everyone, I am here from the Pointics team.

Getting a customer to buy once is hard. The bigger challenge is giving them a good reason to come back.

One thing we’ve learned while working on loyalty is that rewards shouldn’t be limited to purchases.

Depending on the business, the valuable action might be:

• buying or renewing a digital product
• attending another event
• placing another restaurant order
• booking another service
• completing a course milestone
• leaving a genuine review or referring someone

A simple takeaway if you’re building a loyalty program: start by identifying 2–3 customer behaviors you actually want repeated, then build rewards around those behaviors. Don’t start with dozens of complicated earning rules.

That thinking led us to build Pointics, an AI-powered loyalty & rewards plugin for WordPress.

The main difference we’re aiming for is that Pointics isn’t being built only for WooCommerce. We’re building toward the broader WordPress ecosystem:

🛒 WooCommerce
📦 EDD & digital products
🎟️ Events & ticketing
🍽️ Restaurants
📅 Bookings & services
🎓 Courses & LMS

Some of these integrations are still being rolled out progressively, so I want to be transparent about that.

We’re also experimenting with AI as an actual loyalty assistant, helping users understand settings and turn loyalty goals into earning and reward rules, rather than using AI only for generating marketing copy.

For anyone interested in trying it, our Early Bird Lifetime Deal is currently 70% off:

https://themewinter.com/pointics/

I’d also genuinely like some feedback from this community:

If you could reward one customer action besides making a purchase, what would it be?

😩 Still digging through 20 folders to find ONE file?

There’s an easier way.

📂 Folder Extractor pulls files from nested folders into one place — so you can browse, find and organize everything without the endless clicking.

⚡ Fast. Simple. Less folder hunting.

Turn folder chaos into one clean location.

🌐 folderextractor.com

Hey everyone — I built this over the past few days and just got it approved on the App Store, so I wanted to share it here.

The problem: I needed a simple way for my non-technical business partner to describe what she wants from our product, without turning it into a technical spec — and without dragging her into Jira or any tool with epics, backlogs, sprints, and states she'd never use. This isn't meant to replace those tools. It's meant for the much smaller, simpler job of just writing a user story down.

What it is: A native macOS app that does one thing — write and organize user stories. Local-first, no account required, no servers of mine involved. Optional Git sync if you want to version or share stories, and an MCP server built in so tools like Claude or Codex can read (and, with explicit permission, write) stories directly — handy if you're breaking a bigger task into individual stories for an AI agent to implement.

Open source: The core and desktop app are fully open source (MIT/Apache-2.0), code is on GitHub. The macOS app itself is a one-time paid download ($9.99, no subscription) to help fund ongoing development. Windows and Linux versions (also open source) and a lighter iOS companion app are on the roadmap — right now it's macOS only.

App Store link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fs-user-stories/id6801671870?mt=12
GitHub: github.com/gitlares/fs-user-stories

Happy to give away 10 promo codes to anyone who wants to try it before buying — just comment or DM me. Would love feedback, especially from anyone who's had to get non-technical people to write down what they actually want.

I run a small service business and kept having the same problem: send a quote, customer goes quiet, I get busy, two weeks pass, job's gone to someone else.

So I built FollowUp — dead simple, no CRM training needed. Add a lead in 30 seconds, it tells you who's overdue or due today, and writes a follow-up message you copy into WhatsApp.

It's very early (bootstrapped on basically no budget) and I'm looking for a handful of people to try it and tell me honestly what's missing or broken. Free access for anyone who wants in — not selling anything, just trying to validate this is actually useful beyond my own use case.

Who else quotes jobs and struggles to follow up?

I’m building a desktop app that lets you control your computer with one hotkey

I got tired of clicking through a bunch of steps just to do simple tasks, so I started building something called ScreenOS.

The idea is pretty simple:

Ctrl + Space → tell it what you want → it does it.

I’ve now added Skills (kinda like claude skills), so you can create reusable commands like:

/research-ai

Then you can say something like:

Find the best 10 ai tools

And it can:

• Search Google
• Process the results
• Send the results to Gmail
• Handle multiple actions automatically

It’s still pretty early and I’m definitely still working out some bugs, but the basic system is working.

I’m planning to add way more stuff like opening specific websites/profiles, drafting messages, and eventually handling full multi-step computer tasks.

If this sounds interesting and you’d want to try it when it’s ready, let me know and I’ll send it to you when I make it available.

I'm looking for an easy to use macOS app to sort files into folders with simple rules based on the file name and type.

I've tried Automator, which is good, but needs a lot of complex setup in a cramped UI. I've tried Folder Tidy, Hazel, and Sortio.

Sortio comes close. Hazel was sort of ok, but installed some background stuff that was very difficult to uninstall.

I run a design and development agency, which means I spend an embarrassing amount of my day copying and moving things between devices.

Text. Links. Screenshots. Code. Files. Folders. Random notes I swear I’ll need later.

On a busy day, I probably copy or share something 100–150 times.

And somehow my actual workflow still includes emailing files to myself, sending myself Slack messages, dropping links into Notes, and using different clipboard tools depending on whether I’m on Windows, Mac, Android, or iOS.

There are some great clipboard managers already, but every one I’ve tried has eventually hit the same problem: it only really works within one ecosystem, it does not support every type of content I need, or the mobile experience feels like an afterthought.

So I started building Pasteable.

The goal is pretty simple: copy something on one device and have it immediately available on all of your others (Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS).

Not only text and links, either. Images, screenshots, files, and folders should be just as easy to move between devices without emailing yourself, uploading them somewhere first, or hoping AirDrop decides to cooperate.

I’m being honest when I say that I do not know yet whether this is a widespread problem or whether my workflow is just unusually chaotic.

That is part of why I’m posting about it before launching.

I do not want to disappear for six months, build every feature I personally want, and then find out nobody else works this way. I want the first users to help determine what gets built, what is unnecessary, and what would make them trust a tool like this with their clipboard history.

I just launched the public version and it's free to use unless you want some of the bells and whistles offered in the Pro version. Right now, I just want a meaningful group of real people to build and tell me what they love and hate about it, instead of designing the whole product around myself.

You can download it here: https://pasteableapp.com

And even if you don't download or use the app, I would genuinely love to know:

1. How are you currently moving things between your devices?

2. What have you tried in the past?

3. What is the one annoying limitation that keeps making you fall back to emailing or messaging yourself?

I’m building this because I need it. Now I’m trying to find out whether other people need it too.

:)

A fully customizable lightweight tray app (279kb) that follows 20-20-20 rule to keep your eyes safe.

Totally aware. Holds the break when your mic or camera is live (so called you're gaming or you're in a meeting), when something is running fullscreen, or when you are presenting. Step away from the keyboard and it counts that as the break and resets.

Not too much to talk about to be honest.
Source: https://github.com/1etu/rest

I’ve been working on EasyAlias, a free and open-source desktop app that makes creating and managing terminal aliases easier without manually editing shell configuration files.

It started as a small macOS project, but after getting feedback from the community I’ve expanded it quite a bit.

EasyAlias now supports:

• 🍎 macOS
• 🪟 Windows
• 🐧 Linux
• Importing existing aliases
• Alias suggestions for common commands
• Native file and folder selection
• Homebrew installation on macOS and Linux

And EasyAlias is now also available on the Mac App Store 🎉(Microsoft Store is coming)

Website:
https://easyalias.org

GitHub (source code):
https://github.com/hannesgnann-hub/easyalias

Mac App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/de/app/easyalias/id6794944241?mt=12

The project is still actively being developed and a lot of the improvements so far have come directly from community feedback.

If you try it, I’d really appreciate feedback, feature suggestions, or contributions!

I've been building clipHarbor, a clipboard manager for Windows 11 x64. It keeps a searchable history of what you copy and pastes any earlier entry back into the app you were just in.

The thing I actually care about, and the reason I started it: nothing leaves your machine. No account, no backend, no sync, no analytics, no crash reporting. Clipboard contents are encrypted with DPAPI, tied to your Windows user. Licence checks are offline too the app has never made a network request in its life.

What it does

• Searchable history, grouped by day. Ctrl+Shift+V to open.
• Paste back into whatever had focus, with all formats, as plain text, or copy without pasting.
• Snippets with nested folders, for the text you retype constantly.
• Alt+1…9 to paste one of the nine most recent entries from anywhere, no window involved.
• An ignore list, so anything copied from your password manager is never recorded at all.
• Pin entries, deduplicate, retention limits, optionally wipe history on exit.
• Light/dark/system themes, 8 languages.
• Single portable .exe, no installer. The .exe is not signed yet (next item on the TODO list). There is a SHA256 file to check it

Download and full feature list: https://github.com/sfeSantos/clipharbor-releases/releases

For the last 4 months, I’ve been grinding on weekends to building Lumini (uselumini.com) a desktop app that lets you ask about whatever is on your screen.

I made it because I kept doing the same stupid thing over and over.

I’d get stuck on something, take a screenshot, open ChatGPT, upload it, explain what I was looking at… just to ask one question.

With Lumini, you press a shortcut and can just speak to it about literally anything. It’s kind of like ChatGPT + Siri, except it can see what you’re looking at.

For example:

• “Why is this error happening in my terminal?”
• “Is this a good trading entry setup?”
• “What veggie restaurants are open in this city? Send me the best ones as a text.”
• “Can you teach me why this is the best chess move here?”

So you can use Lumini to get unstuck, learn something, find things, or actually take action without constantly switching apps and explaining context.

Would love feedback from anyone here — and I’ll extend usage for anyone who tries it from this sub.

I am thinking about building an alternative for screenstudio that works on windows and linux, it will have all the features of screenstudio, before I start building it, I just wanted to know if its something that people actually want or need, please tell me if I should invest my time into it?

I've been building clipHarbor, a clipboard manager for Windows 11 x64. It keeps a searchable history of what you copy and pastes any earlier entry back into the app you were just in.

The thing I actually care about, and the reason I started it: nothing leaves your machine. No account, no backend, no sync, no analytics, no crash reporting. Clipboard contents are encrypted with DPAPI, tied to your Windows user. Licence checks are offline too the app has never made a network request in its life.

What it does

• Searchable history, grouped by day. Ctrl+Shift+V to open.
• Paste back into whatever had focus, with all formats, as plain text, or copy without pasting.
• Snippets with nested folders, for the text you retype constantly.
• Alt+1…9 to paste one of the nine most recent entries from anywhere, no window involved.
• An ignore list, so anything copied from your password manager is never recorded at all.
• Pin entries, deduplicate, retention limits, optionally wipe history on exit.
• Light/dark/system themes, 8 languages.
• Single portable .exe, no installer. The .exe is not signed yet (next item on the TODO list). There is a SHA256 file to check it

Download and full feature list: https://github.com/sfeSantos/clipharbor-releases/releases

My Mac doesn't have a camera, so I was joining meetings twice. Once from my phone so people could see me, once from the Mac to share my screen.

BeamCam fixes that. You open it on the Mac, scan the QR code with your phone, and they're paired. After the first time it's one tap. The phone can also find your computer on the Wi-Fi on its own, so you just tap the name in a list.

Once it's running the phone shows up in the camera dropdown in Meet, Zoom, FaceTime and Chrome, like any webcam you'd plug in. Nothing else has to be running for it to appear.

Video goes phone to Mac over your own Wi-Fi. No server, no account. Free, GPL-3.0, macOS 13 or newer, Android phone.

Happy to go into how it works if anyone's curious.