I started building a PC cleaner and accidentally built a Windows control center

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NotchClean started with a fairly small idea:

make system cleanup something you could access without opening another large utility window.

So I put the cleaner inside a tiny notch at the top of Windows.

Then I needed system stats.

Then media controls made sense.

Then clipboard history.

Then a temporary File Shelf.

Somewhere along the way, the cleaner stopped being the whole product.

The direction I’m increasingly interested in is:

a lightweight control surface for the things Windows users reach for repeatedly throughout the day.

I’m launching NotchClean here tomorrow, but before that I’d love one piece of brutally useful feedback:

Looking at this product concept, what would make you install it - and what would make you uninstall it after five minutes?

I’d much rather hear the second answer now than after launch.

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