Three indie launches, one theme: less noise, more control (community, time-tracking, menus)
Hey PH π
I've been heads-down building a few things that, looking back, all scratch the same itch: modern software has gotten noisy, scattered, and weirdly hard to own. Here are three launches, in the order they're closest to my heart right now β I've put a discussion question at the bottom and would genuinely love your feedback.
1. RinGuard β one calm, invite-only home for your whole community
Most communities live across five WhatsApp groups and a half-dead Facebook page. Important stuff gets buried, nobody's sure who's actually a member, and the same questions get asked every week. RinGuard pulls it into one ad-free, no-algorithm space: events + RSVPs, topic channels, a members directory, a local guide, and a marketplace β with tiered access so the right people see the right things.
β https://www.producthunt.com/products/ringuard?launch=ringuard
2. Koppl β privacy-first time tracking you can self-host (even on a Pi)
Most time-tracking tools park your team's attendance data on a cloud server, usually outside the EU. Koppl flips that: run it as a managed service in German data centers, or self-host it entirely on your own hardware. Mobile GPS check-in/out, breaks and shifts, leave requests, CSV exports, auto-checkout, and built-in DE/CH/AT/NL labor-law compliance.
β https://www.producthunt.com/products/koppl?launch=koppl
3. DishDraw β every menu in one app; search the dish, not the place
Restaurant info is a mess: menus are PDFs, half the links are dead, and almost nothing shows the real dish, the portion, or an up-to-date price. DishDraw makes menus searchable β type "schnitzel," see every place that serves it, sorted by distance, with real prices and portions. Menus are crowd-sourced from photos and cleaned up with AI + human review before they go live. Starting in Berlin, built to scale to more cities.
β https://www.producthunt.com/products/dishdraw?launch=dishdraw
The discussion bit: For those building or using tools in this space β do you still trust the "we'll host your data for you" convenience, or has the tide genuinely turned toward self-hosting and ownership? And for consolidation apps (community, menus, whatever): what's the one feature that finally makes you abandon the scattered status quo?
Happy to answer anything about the build, the stack, or the go-to-market. π
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