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Is this the end of OpenAI? Creating these videos with Tibo is so much fun😁 What do you think happens in part 2?

THIS GUY GOT TIRED OF SCREEN STUDIO'S MONOPOLY SO HE BUILT A FREE, OPEN-SOURCE VERSION the buttery auto-zoom and cursor animations everyone pays for? he rebuilt them and gave it away what it does: > records your screen with automatic cinematic zooms > smooth cursor animations and motion blur, built in > turns rough screen recordings into polished product videos > free and open source the moment a paid tool becomes "the standard," someone open-sources it. that someone just shipped

@marclou You're truly an inspiration, Marc! Never let anyone pull you down, and this habit of looking at everything optimistically will take you places even further. :)

I remember when I was making $50K/mo with ShipFast in 2024, some people said, “Yeah, but it’s just a boilerplate.” At first, I didn’t care. But after hearing it over and over, I started doubting myself. It created a small voice in my head that made me focus on building harder things, like my SaaS (DataFast) and my marketplace (TrustMRR). Yesterday, they made $8K while I was sleeping. Two years ago, I wouldn’t have believed it. @levelsio said, “Haters often have a grain of truth.” I understand that now. Somehow, thanks to them, I built harder things, helped more people, and got paid well for it.

THIS GUY BUILT THE FINDER REPLACEMENT APPLE KEEPS REFUSING TO finder has barely changed in years. so he built the file manager power users actually want, and made it free what it does: > dual-pane view so you can move files without juggling windows > cover flow is back for flipping through files visually > a pile of power features finder never shipped > completely free some of the best mac apps are just apple's own apps, finished

THIS SOLO DEV GOT TIRED OF LOSING ENTIRE WEEKENDS REBUILDING HIS DEV SETUP, SO HE BUILT "TIME MACHINE" FOR IT new mac, broken environment, and you're reinstalling everything from memory for two days. he turned all of that into one file what it does: > scans your entire development setup automatically > packs it into a single portable file > restore your whole environment on any mac > native, no fragile shell scripts to maintain every developer has rebuilt their setup from scratch and sworn "never again." he's the one who actually did something about it

A YEAR AGO THIS GUY SHIPPED AN APP SWITCHER FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN'T REMEMBER SHORTCUTS. IT'S STILL THE CLEANEST WAY TO SWITCH APPS ON MAC one year, hundreds of pieces of feedback, and it still does one thing better than anything built in what it does: > click your middle mouse button (or right command key) to pop a switcher > jump to any app or window instantly, zero shortcuts to memorize > a full year of refinement from real user requests > still fast, still native, still out of your way the apps that survive aren't the flashy ones. they're the ones that quietly removed a tiny daily annoyance and never stopped

THIS GUY BUILT THE NATIVE PRODUCTIVITY LAYER MACOS NEVER SHIPPED staging files, controlling media, compressing, transcribing audio, opening a quick terminal — all of it still means bouncing between six apps. it collapses them into one what it does: > drag and stage files from anywhere before dropping them where they belong > control media, compress files and transcribe audio in place > a quick terminal and handy HUDs on demand > fully customizable to your workflow apple gave you the desktop. he built the layer that actually makes it work

THIS SOLO DEV'S TIME-TRACKING APP HIT THE ALL-TIME TOP OF R/MACAPPS SO HE SHIPPED IT EVEN HARDER vu posted it, it became the sub's top post ever, and instead of coasting he turned every comment into a fix what it does: > automatically tracks your time on mac, no manual timers > everything stays 100% local, your data never leaves the machine > shows you where your focus actually goes > roadmap shaped entirely by user feedback the indie move isn't going viral once. it's reading every single comment and shipping the next morning

THIS GUY REWROTE HIS MECHANICAL-KEYBOARD-SOUND APP FROM SCRATCH AND IT'S WEIRDLY PERFECT your macbook speakers sit right under the keys. so this app uses them to make typing sound like a real mechanical keyboard what it does: > plays satisfying mechanical key sounds as you type, through the macbook's own speakers > completely redesigned and rewritten from scratch for v2 > highly polished (the original got featured by forbes back in 2023) > pure dopamine, zero practical purpose, and that's the point not everything has to solve a problem. sometimes "it just feels good" is the entire feature

THIS GUY BUILT A 1MB MAC APP THAT REPLACES SEVEN SEPARATE MENU BAR TOOLS running amphetamine + maccy + textsniper and four others was eating his ram and battery. so he packed all of it into one tiny app what it does: > clipboard history, OCR, screenshots, keep-awake and more in a single app > replaces amphetamine (stay awake), maccy (clipboard) and textsniper (ocr) at once > the whole thing is ~1mb, not 7 background apps > menu bar native, barely touches your resources we somehow normalized running 7 background apps to do what one 1mb app handles. he just refused to

THIS GUY GOT FED UP WITH SKETCHY IMAGE CONVERTER WEBSITES SO HE BUILT A NATIVE ONE THAT NEVER TOUCHES THE CLOUD every image converter is either a privacy-leaking upload site or a native app that's ugly, missing your format, or can't batch. so he built the one that isn't what it does: > convert, compress and resize images fully offline > batch process whole folders at once > side-by-side preview so you see quality before you commit > supports the formats the other apps always skip no uploads, no "hope for the best with your files" the entire "free online converter" industry exists only because nobody made the obvious native one well

THIS GUY WAS ANNOYED YOU CAN'T CONVERT A FILE BY JUST RENAMING IT, SO HE BUILT THE FEATURE MACOS IS MISSING "it's 2026, why can't i convert a file by changing its extension?" he saw that post and actually built it what it does: > lives quietly in your menubar > detects when you rename a file's extension (say .png to .jpg) > instantly converts the actual file to match > no app to open, no upload, no dialog the best features feel less like new software and more like the os finally working the way you always assumed it did

THIS DEV SPENT 4 MONTHS BUILDING A MAC WINDOW MANAGER BECAUSE HE WAS TIRED OF DRAGGING WINDOWS AROUND 10 years a developer and he was still wasting minutes a day just arranging windows across monitors. so he fixed it what it does: > snaps and tiles windows without memorizing 50 keyboard shortcuts > actually snaps between windows, not just static positions like rectangle > built native for mac, not a cross-platform port > currently in beta the whole "power user" tax was memorizing shortcuts. he just deleted the tax

THIS INDIE DEV BUILT A MAC APP THAT TRACKS WHERE YOUR TIME ACTUALLY GOES, 100% ON YOUR MACHINE you think you spent the day "working." it quietly shows you the truth what it does: > automatically tracks every app and window you touch, no timers to start > everything stays 100% local on your mac, nothing uploaded > clean reports of where your hours really went > built by a solo dev who's been on mac 10+ years turns out the scariest productivity app is just an honest mirror

THIS GUY BUILT A MAC APP SWITCHER FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN'T REMEMBER KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS nobody actually remembers cmd-tab-tab-tab to the right window. so he made switching apps a single click what it does: > tap your middle mouse button (or the right command key) and a clean switcher pops up > jump straight to any open app or window, no muscle memory required > two new menu styles to match how your brain works > fast, native, and stays out of your way the best mac utilities don't add features. they delete the thing you were quietly dreading

THIS GUY BUILT A MAC APP THAT SHRINKS ALMOST ANY FILE, COMPLETELY OFFLINE pdfs, images, video, whatever — drop it in and it comes out smaller, without uploading a single byte what it does: > compresses almost any file type from one app > runs 100% offline, nothing leaves your mac > drag, drop, done > no accounts, no upload caps, no "premium" wall the entire "compress your file online" industry is just a native feature nobody bothered to ship. until him

@adamlyttleapps iPhone peeps are mostly consumers. But when it comes to SaaS, people are on their laptops/computers, more focused on using things for their business so the usage is much higher. It comes with its pros and cons like you can charge a much higher fee while apps are cheaper.

SaaS is such a different game from apps On an app you give away some stuff for free and people use it *like a normal person would* But the second you have a single free feature available on SaaS so many free plans start maxing it out almost instantly On prelauncher I had image gen available on the free trial and I just got hammered My app MAKETOON has unlimited image gen for over a year. And most people generate 8, maybe 10 at max Is there a reason for this? It’s been eye opening

@tankots @WisprFlow Improve it using with airpods.

Calling all haters of @WisprFlow - give me your biggest issue with Wispr. Yes I will personally read through each and every comment and have our team right some wrongs.

THIS GUY SHIPPED HIS FIRST EVER MACOS APP AND IT HIT 15,000 USERS IN 3 MONTHS live wallpapers on mac were either bloated (wallpaper engine) or missing the basics like lock screen and multi monitor support. so he built the one that wasn't what it does: > live wallpapers for both your desktop AND your lock screen > multi monitor support across up to 7 displays > wallpaper playlists that auto rotate > native swift, the whole thing is a ~6mb dmg > free, with a one time lifetime pro launched in january. one tweet went viral, 1,000 users overnight, now 15k+ active and 92 TB of wallpaper served your first app doesn't need to be clever. it needs to be the obvious thing everyone else made too heavy

AN EX AI ENGINEER GOT SICK OF CLOUD TEXT-TO-SPEECH SO HE BUILT ONE WITH 150+ VOICES THAT RUNS 100% ON YOUR MAC every tts tool today is a cloud subscription that caps your usage and trains on your data. he flipped every part of that what it does: > 150+ natural, expressive voices > runs entirely on your mac, nothing ever touches the cloud > no login, no credit quotas, genuinely unlimited generation > one time purchase with free updates. no subscription > fast local generation built on apple's MLX framework "private" and "unlimited" used to be the expensive tier. now they're the whole pitch the moment local models got good enough, the entire ai-tts-subscription business model became optional. this is what that shift looks like in practice

THIS SOLO DEV BUILT AN 11MB PDF EDITOR BETTER THAN ADOBE every "pdf editor" today is a bloated cloud app that really just annotates. he wanted one that actually edits the file, on your machine, fully offline what it does: > real content editing, not just annotations (handles the complex XObjects the big names choke on) > native c++ / pdfium engine with a thin flutter ui, ~11mb. no electron, no web wrapper > 100% offline. it never even asks for internet permission, your docs never leave your mac > completely free with every feature unlocked. no ads, no sign up > already on mac, linux and android (4.7 stars), ios in review it's a free app one guy out-engineered the entire category from his bedroom the whole industry shipped 500mb of cloud and subscriptions to do less than 11mb of native code does offline. the gap was never the tech. it was that nobody bothered