I shipped the shiny features and missed the obvious bug

Yesterday I realized SADFinder still had a painfully obvious break in its core experience.

If you downloaded a file and clicked “Open Folder” — or used “Show in Finder” from another app — macOS opened the regular Finder instead of SADFinder.

For an app meant to replace Finder, that's bad.

How did I miss it? I was focused on visible work: colored tabs in three styles, six new premium themes, reorderable favorites, folder-specific view settings, and dozens of smaller improvements. Users reported other issues, but nobody mentioned this one. My developer saw it with fresh eyes, and we fixed it immediately.

v0.1.43 is live now. External apps hand folders and files directly to SADFinder. The update also improves external-drive hand-offs, reuses the right window, keeps its position, reduces icon flicker, and prevents broken video thumbnails from stalling a folder.

The lesson for me: shipping more isn't the same as seeing the product clearly.

I'm also trying to figure out how to communicate the small improvements that quietly make an app better. Themes are easy to show; remembered sort order isn't.

Would you pay more attention to short before/after videos or a weekly “small things we fixed” post?

Full changelog: https://sadfinder.com/changelog