The Windows Store is pure garbage.

It can’t even perform he basic function of downloading right.

To get decent speeds you have to modify files.

I hope this backfires epically and they either stop trying these ignorantly developed gimmicks, or the fix their obvious and glaring issues.

Hi guys, haven’t posted about BuildNotch in a while, but I’ve been properly working on it again. I saw someone on the subreddit make an app that looks extremely similar to it (especially the clipboard part), so I decided to ship a new update for this, and make it even better.

BuildNotch is basically my little Windows notch for dev work quick tools, timers, auto-detected AI apps, even ones such as T3code, system stuff, all of these sitting up top, letting you switch between those tools whenever you want.

Just shipped v1.3.0 and this update is probably the most useful one yet:

• You can now resize every notch card individually, so you can actually make the layout fit how you work

• More devtools added

• UUID generator

• Base64 encode/decode

• New timers

• General improvements and cleanup

I originally made this because I wanted something that felt fast and always there while coding. I also really loved implementing the section for saving personal projects as repos, the github heatmap, and also the cool pomodoro timers that you can drag on your screen, wherever you want. Also the code playground is really cool (I know you guys don't write code by hand a lot these days but it helps me draft code in any language, very quick).

As you can see, here is a cool launch video of the new version. You can also check it out on the site: https://www.buildnotch.app/

I keep seeing this under indie apps lately. Someone posts something they made and there's immediately a guy calling it “AI slop” or “vibe coded” with literally nothing to back it up. You can spend months working on something and some random person can discredit the whole thing in two words. Then other people see it and the accusation sticks. The app can be buggy, insecure, copied, badly designed, you can call whatever you want it. Clean UI? AI. Modern website? AI. Gradients? AI. Ships quickly? Vibe coded. Uses AI anywhere in the workflow? Apparently the entire project is AI slop. "this looks AI made" isn't criticism. At this point it often just feels like another way of saying “I don't like it.”

I honestly think mods need to start doing something about baseless accusations like this. If you're going to accuse someone of faking their work or shipping AI slop, at least have something to back it up.

Nook is a small glass pill at the top of your screen. Hover it and it opens into a grid of tools; move away and it folds back.

What's in it: a timer, keep-awake, clipboard history, media controls, text out of any image or video (offline, with the OCR built into Windows), a color picker, Google Lens on any area, a font detector, draw on screen, QR codes, a calculator that answers as you type, voice memos, a system monitor, a calendar with reminders, and your Android phone (files both ways, notifications, screen mirroring).

It idles at 0% CPU and about 7 MB of memory, because it only redraws while something moves.

Two things worth knowing: it sends an anonymous once-a-day usage count (install id, version, Windows build, how often each tool is used) that you can turn off in Settings > Advanced, and the installer isn't code-signed yet, so SmartScreen will warn you the first time.

Free and MIT licensed: https://github.com/Geguchh024/nook

I'd love to hear which tool you'd use first, and what's missing.

Hi everyone,

I built Scribe for Windows because I wanted a straightforward way to dictate text without relying on cloud-based speech recognition.

Here's how it works: press Ctrl + Alt + D, speak normally, then press the hotkey again. Your text appears in the application you were already using.

Features

• Local speech recognition with no audio uploads

• Works offline after the initial setup

• Compatible with Windows 10 and 11

• Works in applications with a text cursor, without individual plugins

• Automatic punctuation and capitalization

• Optional filler-word removal

• Support for 23 languages

Scribe doesn't require a subscription for its lifetime purchase. Plans start at €19 for one device, with options for multiple devices.

The app can be downloaded and installed for free, so you can check compatibility before buying. One thing to be aware of: Windows may show a SmartScreen warning because the installer isn't signed yet.

I'm the developer, and I'd appreciate feedback on the app, especially from people who use voice typing regularly.

Website: https://atomai.pro/Scribe

I recently built a windows notch for myself, and started distributing it (trying) to others.
My last post included the initial version of notchi.

but this week I rolled out 1.2 with several features and bugs resolution -

Features including:

1. New Overview section - with hot mic controller, quick app bar.

2. New utilities section - honestly this is under progress, but added most of the utilities generally used. (This helps for integrating more features replacing the old utilities)

3. NRH - NotchiReqHub - lets you make light rest calls through the notch for testing your apis.
   (main reason this was created is because I use postman for api testing, and some times even for smaller apis I needed to open postman, so I wanted much smaller and handy one, hence notchireqhub)

4. File converter - I know this is generic and common, so it has to be included since I cant miss out on the common features.

Next updates that I am planning:

1. network stats and details - comes under system section.

2. New ai section - integrates with AI ides like antigravity, claude etc and updates their usage and limits in the notch itself.

3. Notchi dairy UI improvements

Notchi has free trial - so feel free to try out and comment your feedback.

and if you think this is just another notch, vibecoded, low effort slop, feel free to skip or hate,

but if you genuinely want to try and criticize or feedback, that is much appreciated.

the video demo attached shows nrh, this one of the demos i created for showcasing :)

It puts together all your games from all supported platforms completely effortlessly. Zero config needed. Just install and play.

There are quite a few little things about using Windows that can become annoying over time.

Screenshots saved with meaningless filenames, copied text that disappears when you need it, having to copy and paste text into a translator, or constantly clicking windows just to change focus.

These aren't necessarily big problems, but they're the kind of small frustrations that add up.

That's the idea behind RYN — a collection of lightweight Windows utilities, each designed to solve a specific everyday problem.

Here are the current apps:

1. Tamer — Screenshot Organizer for Windows

If your Screenshots folder is full of files like Screenshot (247).png, you know the problem.

Tamer helps give screenshots more meaningful filenames based on the active application and text visible on screen.

The goal is simple: make screenshots easier to identify without manually renaming every file.

2. Whence — Clipboard History with Source Tracking

Ever copied something useful from Reddit, a PDF, or Discord, only to forget where it came from?

Whence keeps a searchable history of copied text and remembers its source.

It also includes keyboard shortcuts for searching, pasting, and returning to the original source in supported workflows.

3. Surprint — Screen Translator for Windows

Sometimes you need to translate text that appears on your screen but can't easily select or copy it.

Surprint lets you translate visible content from webpages, documents, games, and other applications.

It also supports offline translation workflows using local components, depending on the selected configuration.

4. HoverFocus — Focus-Follows-Mouse for Windows

Windows normally activates a window when you click it.

HoverFocus lets you toggle focus-follows-mouse using a keyboard shortcut, with additional options such as hover delay, auto-raise, hold-to-focus, and per-app rules.

Useful if you prefer controlling window focus with your mouse pointer rather than constantly clicking.

The idea behind RYN

Each application focuses on one particular problem rather than trying to become another massive productivity suite.

The collection is aimed at Windows users who appreciate small, practical utilities that fit into their existing workflow.

You can explore the apps here:

LINK IN COMMENT§

I'm also interested in hearing from other Windows users:

What's one small annoyance in your daily computer workflow that you wish had a simple solution?

I'm always interested in discovering problems worth solving.

I kept doing the same stupid thing during work:

Fill my water bottle in the morning… then get buried in meetings/code/messages and realize hours later that I barely touched it. 😅

So I built a small Windows app called Nudgekin.

It lives on your desktop and gives you gentle reminders to drink water while you’re working.

No complicated health dashboard.

No giant habit system.

Just a little character that pops up and reminds you:

hey, take a sip. 💧

It’s already available on the Microsoft Store, and I’d genuinely love some Windows users to try it and tell me what feels useful, annoying, missing, etc.

I’m also experimenting with something a little different:

letting you use an avatar of someone meaningful to you as your Nudgekin.

Maybe your kid, partner, parent — whoever gives you that small extra reason to take care of yourself.

Not sure yet whether that’s motivating or just weird 😂, so I’d love feedback on that too.

If anyone wants to try it:

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nq0p9nk02d3

I’m the developer, so feel free to be brutally honest. I’m still actively improving it.

Every time I reinstall Windows, I end up spending way too much time downloading the same applications, removing unnecessary software, checking runtimes, and configuring the system again.

So I decided to build something to simplify that process.

It's called RhemeSetup 2.1.

The idea is to bring several useful Windows maintenance and setup features into one desktop application:

• Install and uninstall applications through Winget

• Browse an application library

• Check essential runtimes

• Apply system tweaks and performance settings

• Monitor CPU and RAM usage in real time

• Keep track of operations through an activity log

• Switch between Turkish and English

• Customize the interface with different themes and accent colors

It's built with Electron, Node.js, and vanilla JavaScript.

The project is open-source under the MIT license.

GitHub: https://github.com/rheme18/rhemesetup

I'm still improving it, so I'd genuinely appreciate feedback.

What feature would you expect from a tool like this that isn't included yet?

so like the title said, I made it.

it's open source, it's lightweight, and it's simple.

anyway, here is the GitHub link: Window Locker - GitHub

if you like it I would really appreciate if you comment on this post.

hi guys,

this is fjord: a browser built fully in python using pyqt6 and qt web engine, so its chromium underneath. its all one 25k line .py file, you just run it. or if ur lazy, just download the exe.

stuff its got:

• COMMAND PALETTE :)

• different styles: macos, windows and default

• adblock that uses the ubo lists

• eco / normal / turbo modes, eco puts background tabs to sleep to save ram

• a scratchpad where you can drag links, images and text to save them

• site time budgets so you can limit how much time you spend on each site

• picture in picture that pops out when you scroll a vid (plus a cute little media player with an audio visualiser

• sticky notes on pages!!

its still in beta (v0.5.1) at least for now so its prob still rough around the edges. ive only really tested it on my own setup so pls tell me if it works!

github: https://github.com/gargoyle-coder/fjord_browser

happy to answer anything about how it works :)

p.s. before you start spamming "vibe coded slop" or "just another arc replacement", do know that i did use a little bit of ai but i wouldn't consider this slop.

My Downloads folder was a disaster, and every organizer I tried either dumped everything into “Images” and “Documents” or moved things without asking. So I built Onyx.

• It looks at file names and the folders you already have, and proposes a structure (AI or offline rules, your choice)

• You review every move as a folder tree or a list, untick anything, then apply

• One click puts everything back

• It doubles as a file explorer with tags, previews for images/PDFs/video, and Ctrl+K quick find

• The AI can run fully on your PC with Ollama, so file names never leave your computer

Free for personal use, Windows 10/11, no installer: https://github.com/Barbaqueda/onyx/releases/latest

It’s a new project, so I’d really like to hear what breaks or what’s missing. I also have only 2 stars on the github repo, and I would really appreciate some love (here and on github) if you like it. This is my first app (I have a different game excavatorio) I have ever published anywhere.

A fast new app that replaces "Everything" and "Agent Ransack" does image search by similarity and includes OCR to find text in pictures and older PDFs.

DugUp

Windows: Download the installer — choose DugUp-Setup-….exe under Assets. The green Code button downloads the source code, if you want to read it, so you can understand how DugUp works and adapt it to your needs.

Find files by what you remember about them: words in a document, text on a scanned receipt, the meaning of a passage, or what a picture shows. Choose your folders, let DugUp index them, then search from its window or with Win+Shift+F.

Your files stay on your computer, where all indexing and search processing happens. No account, telemetry or crash reporting — and no cloud service needed to search your files.

Beta 0.2.2 · Windows 11 · Linux supported, with less desktop testing

What you can do

• Find documents by the words they contain. Search file names and text in PDFs, Office and OpenDocument files, plain text and HTML.

• Read words in images. Find receipts, screenshots and scanned pages by the text on them, using OCR.

• Search by meaning. Ask in your own words, or combine meaning with word matches.

• Find pictures by appearance. Describe a scene or find pictures like one you already have.

• Organize pictures and copies. Preview descriptive photo names, review similar pictures, and find identical files before removing extras.

• Search from anywhere. Keep DugUp in the tray and press Win+Shift+F to bring up a small search box.

• Let Claude search for you (optional). Turn on cloud search access, choose the folders it may see, and ask Claude to find files in a conversation. It can search, never change anything.

The built-in Windows volume mixer always drove me crazy when I'm gaming with Discord open and music in the background, I'm constantly hunting for the right app to turn down.

So I built Fluent Mixer. You drop your running apps into four groups Game, Chat, Media, Aux and each group gets a single volume slider and a mute button. Turn the whole "Game" group down without touching Discord, mute "Media" with one click, etc.

A few things I tried to get right:

• Drag or click any app into a group

• A quick panel from the system tray for fast tweaks

• A floating "Island" mini-mixer that stays on top and auto-hides when you go fullscreen in a game, so it never covers anything

• Lightweight, runs quietly in the tray, starts with Windows

It's on the Microsoft Store.

I'm the solo dev — would genuinely love feedback on what's missing or annoying.

Hi everyone,

I'm a software engineer building a local-first Windows productivity suite in Rust as a side project and I'd love some honest feedback.

The original motivation was simple: I was frustrated by how fragmented my workflow had become across different tools.

The project currently focuses on:

- Instant file and folder search
- Fuzzy search
- Content search inside documents
- OCR search inside images and PDFs
- Rich file previews
- Clipboard history
- Notes
- Voice search and dictation
- Command palette for launching actions, commands, and tools

Everything runs locally on the device. No accounts, no cloud dependency, and no telemetry.

Some additional features include time tracking, privacy auditing, and a collection of offline productivity tools

A few questions:

1. Which feature stands out the most?

2. What feels unnecessary?

3. Is there anything you wish Windows had built in that is still missing here?

4. Would you personally use something like this, and if not, why?

I'm looking for brutally honest feedback before I continue investing time into it.

Thanks!

I'm the developer of EyeBlink. I kept noticing that during long coding and writing sessions I would stare at the screen without blinking, while pop-up break reminders kept interrupting what I was doing.

EyeBlink adds a small eye that floats in a corner of the Windows desktop and blinks every few seconds. You can drag it, resize it, lower its opacity, or change the blink interval. There are no notifications, sounds, camera access, or account. It does not track your eyes or claim to treat a medical condition; it is simply a visual habit cue. EyeBlink is also available for macOS.

If you want scheduled breaks, apps like Stretchly are a better fit. EyeBlink is for the moments between breaks when you want a quiet reminder that's always in sight.

It costs $4.99 once for a lifetime license, with a 14-day refund. Windows and macOS versions, plus an interactive preview: https://geteyeblink.app/en

I'd be interested to hear whether a subtle desktop cue would be useful in your setup, especially if you spend a lot of time in full-screen apps.

FlashView is very fast no account, no cloud, no subscription, no tracking software. I built it because I was tired of waiting for my tools to import and index before I could even look at my photos after a shoot. It's built for viewing and culling large folders even recursive quickly.

How it's different:

- No catalog, no import, no database. Open a folder (optionally with all subfolders) and start browsing right away.
- Stays fast with tens of thousands of images. Previews load in the background while you keep working.
- RAW support out of the box for Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm and more, plus JPEG, PNG, TIFF and PSD.
- Non-destructive edits: sliders, presets, cropping and blurring of faces or license plates. Your originals are never touched, and you can export to JPEG.
- Ratings saved as standard XMP, so other apps can read them too.
- 100% local: no account, no cloud, no subscription, no tracking.

Platform: Windows. The UI is available in English and German.

There's a free 60-day trial with all features. I'd really appreciate feedback, especially from people coming from Lightroom, Photo Mechanic or similar tools. What would you need to switch?

Website: https://flashview.net

Hi! I made an app for notes and more on your pc. While working on it, I added more popups for different purposes because why stop at notes? It has all sorts of stuff, and I will add more in the future(any suggestions are welcomed). Now it has a pdf editor, word, radio, zip opener/maker, video recorder, qr code maker and many more. I am still working on it, but i posted it here because the most of it is ready. I didn't want to charge money on it, but I want to post it on app store too and apple is greedy like...always. If you want to try it, I offer a 7 day free trial, let me know what you think of it.

Here is the link.

Hear it first! (https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9wzdncrdrbr7)

Hey guys, im looking for some unlisted apps.

• Lara Croft Go for Windows 10

• World of Tanks Blitz for Windows 10 Mobile

• Call of Duty Heroes for Windows 10

• Ducktales Remastered for Windows 10

• Castle of Illusions for Windows 10

• Teslagrad for Windows 10

Does someone have these?