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As a fellow Mac developer, this makes me really happy. Preview has been frustrating for years and Quick Look disappearing on click is one of those tiny annoyances that adds up. Love the "simple on the surface, obsessively refined underneath" approach. That's exactly the philosophy I try to follow with my own Mac apps. Quick question: does it support HEIC and RAW files natively? Those are the...
VistaThe image viewer macOS should have built.
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Hey everyone! I'm Kevin, the maker of Daydreamer. Honestly, I built this because I wanted it for myself. I spend a lot of time in front of my Mac, and most break reminders feel like interruptions. I wanted something that actually made me want to take a break. So I made Daydreamer. I use it every single day. The scenes, the music, the little quotes that show up during each break. It genuinely...
Daydreamer The break reminder for Mac you'll actually look forward to
I built Daydreamer because I wanted breaks to feel like something you look forward to, not just a popup telling you to stop. I use it every day.
Each break shows a beautiful full-screen scene with ambient music and an inspirational quote, from philosophers to filmmakers, healing words to timeless wisdom. Moments of calm that genuinely help.
It pauses during meetings, videos, and games, and Focus Mode dims distractions so you stay in flow. Hope it brings you as much joy as it brings me.
Daydreamer The break reminder for Mac you'll actually look forward to
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What does your ideal work break look like? 🌙
Hey everyone, I built Daydreamer because I was frustrated with break reminders that felt like interruptions, a blunt popup saying "stop working" just made me dismiss it immediately. So I asked myself: what if a break felt like something you actually looked forward to? That became the core idea behind Daydreamer, full-screen scenes, ambient music, and a quote to reset your mind. Each break is a...
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I built Daydreamer, a tiny macOS app that helps me slow down during work
I’ve been working on a new macOS app called Daydreamer. It started from a very simple feeling: during busy workdays, I often forget to pause. Not in a dramatic burnout way, just in the quiet “I’ve been staring at the screen for too long” way. Most break reminder apps I tried felt too cold or too mechanical. They reminded me to stop, but they didn’t make me want to stop. So I made something a...
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Hey Product Hunt! I built Gauss because I was tired of switching between Spotlight, a calculator app, a unit converter, and Google for currency rates — just to do quick daily math. Gauss lets you type naturally on every line: "150 USD to EUR", "5kg to lbs", "sin(45)", even "#FF5733 to rgb". Results appear instantly, no buttons needed. What makes it different from Numi/Soulver: - 4x cheaper...
GaussNotepad calculator for Mac with units, currencies &dev tools
Gauss is a notepad-style calculator for macOS. Type math the way you think — with words, units, and currencies — and get instant results on every line. No buttons, no equals sign, no separate conversion apps. 80+ unit conversions, 170+ live currencies, and developer tools like color conversion, base64, and timestamps. 4x cheaper than Numi ($4.99 vs ~$20). 7-day free trial, one-time license.
GaussNotepad calculator for Mac with units, currencies &dev tools
Kevinleft a comment
The "build once, deploy to many clients" problem is one I've been thinking about a lot. As a solo developer, the hardest part about offering services isn't building the automation itself, it's all the operational stuff around it: onboarding each client, managing their credentials separately, handling billing, and making sure one client's config doesn't break another's. The white-label portal...
CrossnodeVibe code AI agents and put them behind a payment wall
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The point about signal commoditization really resonates. As a developer, I get so many outreach messages that all follow the same template: "Hey [name], I saw your work on [project], we should chat." It's obvious when someone just plugged my GitHub profile into a tool. The 200K token research per batch is an interesting approach. If the agent actually reads what a prospect's company does,...
Cockpit AIRun revenue agents across every channel
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This solves a very real problem. When I'm working with Claude Code on UI tasks, the hardest part is describing which element I want changed and how. I usually end up writing long descriptions like "the button in the top-right corner of the second card" and hoping the agent understands. Having structured annotations with actual selectors and component hierarchy would make that so much more...
AgentationThe visual feedback tool for AI agents
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This is a real pain point. I use Claude Code every day and the number of times I've had to context-switch back to a PR just to fix a linting error or a small CI failure is frustrating. Having something that handles that automatically in the background would save a lot of mental overhead. Curious about a couple of things: 1) How does it handle PRs that touch multiple parts of a codebase? For...
Claude Code auto-fix Auto-fix PRs in the cloud while you stay hands-off
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As a developer, I think about this a lot. My personal rule is: I trust AI agents with tasks that are reversible, but not with things that are hard to undo. For example, I'm comfortable letting AI write code, generate drafts, or analyze data. If it gets something wrong, I can review and fix it. But I would not let it push code to production, send emails on my behalf, or make financial decisions...
How much do you trust AI agents?
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The database-first approach is really smart. I've seen too many vibe coding tools that generate beautiful UIs but fall apart the moment you need real data relationships or migrations. Starting from the schema forces the AI to think about data integrity before anything else, which is how experienced engineers actually work. Two questions: 1) Can you export the generated project and continue...
Zoer.aiBuild full-stack webapps from the database up
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Really useful tool! I use Claude Code daily and the costs do add up without you noticing. Having the per-model breakdown is great since I switch between Opus and Sonnet depending on the task. One thing I'm curious about: how does it handle the difference between Pro subscription usage and direct API token pricing? For example, Claude Code through the Pro plan has a different cost structure than...
Claude Usage TrackerSee exactly how much you spend on Claude, across every tool
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This is a brilliant experiment and I love the honesty in the findings. As someone who's been building products for 10 years (both Mac utilities and now an AI-powered financial podcast app), I've seen this from the other side. I actually use AI heavily in my own product pipeline. What struck me most is your point about the gap between a polished plan and real-world execution. AI is incredibly...
I asked AI to Build a Competitor to My Own Product. It Did. Here’s What I Learned.
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This really hits home. I've been coding for over a decade, and the AI tool that surprised me most wasn't the smartest one — it was the one that remembered what I was working on. When I use Claude Code to build my macOS app, the moment it stops feeling like a tool is when it says something like "based on the patterns in your codebase, you probably want this to follow your existing MVVM...
Why the best AI products feel less like tools and more like teammates
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Love seeing another native menu bar app done right. I also build a menu bar utility for Mac, so I know how tricky it is to get the UX right in that tiny popover space — you nailed the simplicity here. Two things that really stand out to me: fully on-device processing (privacy matters, especially for dictation), and lifetime pricing instead of yet another subscription. As someone who chose the...
CursorTalkFast local dictation that works in every Mac app
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I use both, and honestly the answer depends on what you're building. For my native macOS app (Swift/SwiftUI), Claude Code has been a game-changer. The terminal-based workflow fits perfectly when I'm already jumping between Xcode and the command line. It understands project structure really well — I can describe a feature and it'll navigate the codebase, find the right files, and make coherent...
Cursor or Claude Code?
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As a fellow Mac developer, this really resonates. I just went through the whole process of shipping a native macOS app — the coding part was honestly the easy part. It's everything after that eats your time: screenshots for every locale, writing descriptions, legal pages, pricing tiers across regions... The fact that this is a native Mac app and not another web dashboard is a huge plus. When...
Forvibe for macOSEverything between your build and the App Store
Kevinleft a comment
As a developer, I use AI agents daily for coding — and honestly they've changed how I work. But my trust level really depends on one thing: is the action reversible? Writing code? Sure, let the agent go wild. I can always review the diff and revert. Deploying to production? Hard no without me looking at it first. Sending an email to a client? Absolutely not. My rule of thumb after 10+ years of...
How much do you trust AI agents?