We build Simplify, and before that we were the customer with the problem.

Our own consultancy, OneBonsai, ran on eight separate tools: HubSpot for CRM, invoicing in another tool, Notion for docs, BambooHR, a recruiting tool, an expense tool, a scheduling tool, and a Google Sheet for cash flow that one very tired person maintained by hand.

Every Friday, someone spent three and a half hours retyping the same numbers between four of those tools. Not because it was hard. Because the tools didn't share anything, so a person had to be the connection between them.

We moved our own 25-person team onto Simplify and wrote up what actually happened, including the parts that didn't improve. Migration took longer than our own homepage promises. We kept two of the old tools on purpose. Statutory accounting still sits with our accountant, that part doesn't change.

I've been building a product that rethinks the paper receipt turning it into a digital touchpoint that helps retail and food businesses actually retain and understand their customers, instead of losing them the moment they walk out the door.

The core problem I'm trying to solve: most small and growing businesses have no idea who their repeat customers are, no easy way to reach them again, and no simple way to understand what's actually driving sales. Existing solutions tend to require heavy POS replacements or enterprise-level data tools, which puts them out of reach for a lot of business owners.

What I'm building includes digital receipts, automatic loyalty recognition, a simple customer dashboard, and plain-language AI insights (like flagging at-risk customers or peak hours) designed to sit on top of a business's existing setup rather than replacing it.

I'm still in active development and testing with real merchants, and I'd genuinely like input from this community, especially if you've built something in retail tech, loyalty, or POS-adjacent spaces:

I run eight small browser tools and use Search Console data to choose one change at a time. InvoicePad had 1,090 impressions and zero clicks in the last 28 days. The query 'web development invoice' alone had 75 impressions and no clicks, so today I rewrote only the page title and redeployed it.

The free template is here: https://invoicepad.net/web-devel...

Every time I was in the middle of a project, I'd hit a credit wall.

Top up. Generate a few more lines. Hit the wall again.

I built VocalAI to kill that model completely.

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Hey PH community

I've been using AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, aider ) to work with open source repos, and I noticed a scary gap:

You git clone a project, you point an agent at it, and before you type a single command, code can already run.

A .git/hooks/pre commit, an npm postinstall, a .envrc, a VS Code task set to folderOpen, a CLAUDE.md that tells the agent to curl | bash none of these show up in a normal diff review.

I built Codex Desktop Custom Models because experimenting with alternative model providers inside one desktop installation can quickly mix sessions, automation state, ports, and provider-specific configuration.

Instead of modifying the main Codex setup, the project creates isolated desktop profiles. Each profile can have:

I built CodexPigeon around a simple concern: changing an AI coding agent s instructions while it is already in the middle of a turn can make the agent s state harder to reason about.

Instead of injecting a message into active work, CodexPigeon uses a repository-local Markdown mailbox.

I built CodexControl after using multiple Codex accounts and realizing that switch the auth file is not enough for a reliable desktop workflow.

The app is local-first and focuses on two jobs:

I built Toolboard because my browser workflow was fragmented across too many single-purpose extensions.

It started with a small set of utilities and eventually grew into 83 tools for inspection, capture, conversion, productivity, and optional AI-assisted workflows.