Johannes N

Johannes N

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Dad by day, dev by night.
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Hi, I'm Johannes — co-CEO at Swat.io and indie hacker building things I probably shouldn't be building at this hour. Over a decade of bootstrapping SaaS in Europe — building and scaling with no VC and no shortcuts. Started as a programmer, grew into product and leadership through curiosity and broad know-how. Driven by building things that last: products, teams, and sustainable growth over hype.

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Johannes N•

21d ago

showmd - Markdown was never meant to be previewed plain text

Ever asked yourself why all of those SKILL.md files are rendered in plain text in MacOS Preview? showmd is a free, native macOS Quick Look extension that renders Markdown beautifully. YAML frontmatter parsed into a collapsible metadata table — collapsed by default, one click to expand. No other viewer does this. Agentic AI XML tags — , , , and 17 more — rendered as labeled, bordered blocks instead of raw angle brackets.
Product Huntp/producthuntMike Kerzhner•

1mo ago

Vote selling on Product Hunt

Every day, after launching, makers are contacted on LinkedIn and X by people offering to sell votes. As the Product Hunt team, we are very much aware of this and really hate it. We have systems in place to neutralize this type of gaming. Every vote counts for a different number of points on Product Hunt. A couple examples:

  • An account with a recently created gmail address and no history of quality contributions on Product Hunt: this vote will count for 0 points. Yes, this might be a well intentioned user, but we take a conservative approach to protect the community. If the account has a company email or applies for verification on Product Hunt, that's a different story.

  • An account with a company email address linked to a legitimate LinkedIn account with a history of meaningful contributions on Product Hunt: this vote carries significant weight.

A couple questions for the community:

  • Are there specific accounts on Product Hunt that you suspect participate in vote selling? You can reply here or email report@producthunt.co

  • What would you want to see us do differently here?

Johannes N•

1mo ago

Holdor – Stop your Agents from sleeping - Your Mac stays awake. Sleep is for humans, not agents.

Holdor is a free, open-source macOS menu bar app that prevents sleep while Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, and other AI coding agents are running. Lock your screen, walk away, agents keep working.
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