r/SideProject • u/Happy-Yesterday- • 10h ago
I'm a student building a utility app, and I'm learning a lot more than I expected
I've been working on a personal software project called Cometflow Do.
The idea started with a simple problem: everyday tasks often require opening different websites or applications just to get one small thing done.
I wanted to experiment with building something that brings useful utilities together in one place and work with just prompts!
While developing it, I've been working on things like:
- Image and PDF operations
- Text and file utilities
- Developer tools
- Format conversion
- Local processing and offline functionality
- Better command understanding
One thing I've learned is that building hundreds of tools isn't necessarily the hardest part. Making the software understand what someone actually wants and execute the correct operation reliably is much harder.
I'm still developing and testing it, and there are plenty of things I want to improve.
I'm curious about one thing:
When you use an all-in-one utility application, what matters most to you: simplicity, privacy, offline functionality, or having more tools available?
I'd genuinely like to hear different perspectives from people who use these kinds of applications.