Over the past months I faced a frustrating reality: on the German IT market, many companies evaluate developers not by their technical expertise, but by their German language level.

Opportunities were closing before I even had the chance to demonstrate what I can actually do. That was discouraging.

But instead of giving up, I turned to the one thing that has always kept me going - programming.

This time, I poured everything I have into a project of my own.
Not just my coding skills, but every role I had ever learned to play: product owner, architect, developer, tester, even SEO.

All my knowledge, all my experience, all the lessons I’ve collected over years in IT - I put them into this product.

The result is Developer Productivity Hub - a space where you can organize boards, notes, code snippets, and track your time. It’s minimalistic, detail-oriented, and created with love for users who want to stay focused and productive.

Modules

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Boards:

Kanban style boards with ability to create / modify columns, create / edit tasks, change task type and contents.

When you work on several projects you might want to have a control over them via multiple boards, giving them proper names etc.

Snippets:

Allows you to create reusable pieces of code which you can easily copy and paste where you need it. It supports markup and syntax highlight for multiple programming languages. Also there is a possibility to assign tags to your snippet to easily search for it later on.

Notes:

It's just plane notes, nothing fancy. It just gives you a side-by-side ideas holding editor that you can use later on or basically anything you want to write. It supports rich text editing with images.

Timers:

Theres are multiple types of timers. Currently there are Work and Pomodoro timers.

Work timer - provides you with a working time management. It tracks separately how much time you've worked, took a pause and overtime, depending on what is target time for a day. It's convenient to use such a type of timer in case when you have fixed time contract and / or you are the person who easy overtime. This thing can help control your time. Also you can create one work timer per project if you have multiple projects e.g. you are freelancer.

Pomodoro timer - I guess this one is well known for its technique. The main idea to increase focus while not overstrain yourself. The difference of this timer from other implementations is that this timer automatically switches between focus time and breaks without needing to do it manually.

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The live version is available here: https://softfocus.app/

I’d be happy if you give it a try and share your feedback.