... software engineer at Ryware. Most of our days go into client work: web, mobile, cloud, and data systems. But we have a rule: when we build a tool we need ourselves, we make it good enough to give away. The code is public, so anyone can read it and judge our work for themselves. Here s what s out there so far, all free and open source: Headroom (my baby): a native Mac disk analyzer. It shows a treemap ... ... finds duplicates and developer caches, and tells you what s safe to delete before anything goes to Trash. Claude and other AI agents can use it too. No account, no telemetry, no subscription. MIT license. Nona : a self-hosted alternative

... When we first started our software we gave a discount to people who paid for a full year right away. I thought this would help us get money quickly to pay for our marketing tests. We got the money. It made a big problem for how we built our product. People who bought yearly made a decision on day one so we did not know if they really liked the tool until they had to pay after twelve months. People ... ... monthly have to decide every thirty days if they want to keep using the tool based on how value they get. If the product has problems or bugs they leave away

... added Tasks to ContextBerg for Mac. It uses your recent activity summaries and away-from-desk recaps to suggest what to do next. Tasks: Refreshes on launch, every two hours while the app is open, or manually Keeps supporting context with each suggested task Lets you set priorities and reorder tasks Uses open tasks as context for future work summaries We ve also added daily summaries and a setting to choose how long you need to be away

... number that is not spoken: what you will do if this deal does not happen. That number determines everything. We were negotiating a contract with a vendor. Their price was 40% above what we had budgeted. We had no alternative. They knew it. We paid. Six months later we were negotiating with a different vendor. Before the conversation, we spent two weeks building a fallback. It was worse than what we wanted but it was real and it worked ... ... negotiation, when the price came in high, we said we would use the fallback. They came down 25%. The difference was not tactics or confidence. It was that in the second case, walking away

... used to lose hard on vendor pricing because we went in with no alternatives. Bluffs never worked for us, and vendors could easily tell when we were stuck. Recently we started spending time setting up a realistic backup solution before any big pricing talk. Even if the backup isn't perfect having an actual alternative

... providing more value with the increase then you shouldn't worry about it and the can market the additional features without mentioning or justifying the price increase. If you are providing same value or taking value away (eg, product features remain the same, a feature is no longer free, etc) then you should expect people to complain. Comment from Aruna Sahoo(@aruna_polosofttech): In my opinion transparency matters most. Explain why the price is changing by comparing the new features ... ... Shivam Kushwaha(@shivam_kushwaha16): @busmark_w_nika  Yeah I agree going slowly gives people time to adjust and makes the change feel more natural Comment from Askim Stucki (@askim_stucki): I think the key is to handle old vs

... Small update from the two of us. Since launch, you've taken more than 120 breaks with him. Thank you! This week we taught him something new: he can be given away. You write a name and a few words, you get a link, and the person who opens it reads your note before they ever see the app. The note stays sealed until their plant sprouts. No referral code, nothing counted. Just a plant you bring someone, because ...

... Claude Code running behind a notes window. It reached a permission prompt and sat there while I kept working. I was on the same Mac the whole time. That felt worse than missing a finished task. I was not away. The terminal was simply not where my attention was. A reply on my first thread here changed how I think about this. @tristan666666 wrote that agent runs should not own your attention. The reply split the problem into two distances ... ... quiet awareness when you are at the desk, and a real interruption when you are away

... only 20 points away from becoming the #1 Product of the Day , and we d really love your support! Meridian is an open-source tool for developers that automatically creates your worklog and daily summaries, helping you make sure your work doesn t go unnoticed. If you have a minute, please check it out, support us on Product Hunt, and share your honest feedback . https://www.producthunt.com/prod... Getting to the top would be huge for our small open-source project ...

... Meridian is currently #1 on Product Hunt, and we are just 20 points away from becoming Product of the Day. We have spent the past three months building an open-source, local-first AI work journal that helps developers capture the work behind their work, including investigations, technical decisions, unexpected problems, and everything that often disappears from daily updates. Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to try Meridian, support our launch, and share Meridian. We are incredibly ...

... Threads. Because user behavior varies so much across networks, cross-posting across all three seems necessary to capture full reach, though it has some friction points: Re-formatting overhead: Adapting the same core update across different interfaces takes time away from user onboarding and bug fixes. Tracking conversations: Once posts are live, keeping track of where discussions are taking place across platforms gets fragmented very quickly. For those actively promoting their startups or launches on socials: Do you cross-post ...

... keep jumping between random sites + tabs. What I m optimizing for: Speed + focus (minimal UI, less distractions) Command palette ( K / Ctrl+K ) to jump to any tool instantly Favorites + recents so your daily tools are always 1 click away Mostly client-side (no signup, no tracking) Optional AI helpers for SQL/regex/code explain/commit messages (Gemini) Would love feedback from you: 1) Which dev utility do you use the most every week? 2) What s the #1 thing you hate about existing ...

... little more, and might come back for the community or the paid stuff later. A $17 e-book sale would earn less than that trust is worth. The resale rights part was the scarier decision. It felt like giving away the product twice. But the people who resell them link back, talk about the brand, and effectively distribute it for me. It's still early and I'm figuring plenty out. Curious how others here think about free vs

... recruiting tool where privacy usually takes a back seat to features. Mark as readReplyAward View Upvote 5h ago Unread Cansu the no-login share flow is genuinely smooth, felt like sending a link and not signing my life away Mark as readReplyAward View Upvote 7h ago Unread Devran T ktas Tried it out and the single-link sharing feels really clean, no logins or weird redirects. Curious how the crypto actually holds up once it scales past early adopters ... ... actually respected you" is a pitch that resonates instantly because everyone has LinkedIn frustration. Rebuilding recruiting with respect as the foundation addresses a systemic problem that affects millions of professionals daily. Your PH launch is active. Recruiting and LinkedIn alternative

... thing. Getting those first users is a completely different challenge. Instead of spending money on ads, I d rather give the app to people who are willing to try it and share their honest feedback. I m giving away 100 lifetime licenses for PanicMode . Just use the coupon code PRODUCTHUNT at checkout to get a 100% discount . You can find the app here: https://www.panicmode.app If you end up using it, I d love to hear what you think ...

... Problem Dropshippers and e-commerce sellers spend hours manually researching competitors checking their ads, estimating revenue, tracking SEO, and collecting winning creatives. It's time-consuming, fragmented, and takes away

... hard to believe, but after months of late nights, Playistry is about 25 days away from launch. The idea started with one question: What if supporting local businesses felt more like playing than shopping? Over the past few months I've been building, testing, and talking with local business owners to create something that's simple, fun, and genuinely useful. I'm excited (and a little nervous!) to finally share it with the community soon. Thanks to everyone ...

... tracking my tasks + habits + long term goals + reflection journaling etc - my own app :) chat gpt + claude - chat gpt for generating mocks, general idea brainstorming etc., claude for design & implementation warp + iterm - where i code -> moved away from vs

... package or a fire. That's basically the gap Pushary fills, same hook idea you've already wired, but the event carries a real handoff (done vs blocked vs

... After months of building, testing, redesigning, and fixing problems we never saw coming, Kognis is now just days away from launch. One thing I've learned is that building the product is only half the battle. The other half is deciding when to stop improving and start shipping. Along the way we've dealt with: AI creating duplicate events from the same information Reworking workflows multiple times Endless testing sessions Features that looked great on paper but didn't work ...

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... everyone, Historically I founded @Nack AI , And it did quite well. But we eventually packed it up. So, I've been away from product hunt for 3 years since. Now, I'm working on a new product solo I'm getting ready to get back involved. But one of my big apprehensions was that historically I know a lot of people used to essentially do 100s of "if you like my product, I like yours" kinda behaviour in the background ...

... reading Nika's thread here about free vs paid features. Really made me think. Link: https://www.producthunt.com/p/ge... ( shout-out to @busmark_w_nika ! ) She talks about giving generalized advice for free, but charging for specific, tailored help. That's a good framework. But most product owners figure this out after they build, not before. That's backwards. Your free tier should be designed before you write a single line of code. Because it's not just a marketing tool ... ... filter. It's the first thing users see. If you get it wrong, you either give away

... cost of a full rewrite is $200,000 $400,000. Add 6 12 months of lost revenue during the rewrite. Total loss per company: $2 3 million . The highest cost is not the engineering budget. It is taking engineers away from building new features to fix old systems . The AI Factor: Accelerating the Problem AI coding tools (Claude, Cursor, Copilot) have lowered the barrier to "getting something running" to an unprecedented level. They have also significantly advanced the arrival ... ... something breaks in a way no one anticipated. Not because the code was wrong. Because the environment was different. Comment from Imed Radhouani(@imed_radhouani): @justin_ram  That is a radical approach. Most teams are afraid to throw away

... this guide isn't just a quick summary. We're going to go deep. We'll explain exactly what Snaply is, how it works, why privacy matters so much for dictation tools, how it stacks up against every major alternative, who it's best for, and how to get the most out of it. Whether you're a solo professional, part of a team, or evaluating dictation software for an enterprise deployment, this is the most complete breakdown ... ... find. Table of Contents Why AI Dictation Matters in 2026 What Makes a Truly Great Dictation App What Is Snaply? Snaply's Core Features: In Depth Why Privacy Is Non-Negotiable for Dictation Snaply vs