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kvak.io

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kvak.io

Minimal Online Notepad

#Note Taking #Social Network #Twitter Tools 5 social mentions
rcmd Landing Page
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rcmd

rcmd makes app switching instantaneous!When you have a lot of apps open, finding and switching to them might feel too slow using Command-Tab or the Dock.Hold down the right side |⌘ command| and press the first letter of the app name to focus it.
Pricing:
- Paid
- $12.99 / One-off
I’ve created the rcmd app switcher (https://lowtechguys.com/rcmd) in 2 days, going from statically assigned hotkeys in my BetterTouchTool config to a real menu bar app with dynamically assigned hotkeys for my most used apps. A big part of that time was spent creating the icon, and copy pasting boilerplate code from my other app for the menubar UI. Coding the main functionality of the app took little time and it still remains one of the most fulfilling projects I’ve completed. Of course, I have invested a lot more time since then, especially in handling edge cases with odd keyboards, only because I wanted the app to be useful to as many people as possible. But it could have stayed the way it was as well, where a 2-day project was still solving a problem thousands of people had.

#Mac #Productivity #Developer Tools 43 social mentions
Supabase Landing Page
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Supabase

An open source Firebase alternative
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #Realtime Backend / API #Backend As A Service 428 social mentions
Hasura Landing Page
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Hasura

Hasura is an open platform to build scalable app backends, offering a built-in database, search, user-management and more.
Pricing:
- Open Source
If you are building a mobile or web app, and not an API product, not having to write your backend is totally underrated. Hasura [0] or Supabase [1] lets you have a solid backend from a solid Postgres schema you design, which the part that arguably matters the most, and not the lossy and error prone CRUD API interface to the db. This frees up a ton of time which you can then use to improve your user experience and iterate on your idea without churning through a ton of backend code. Having Postgres also helps a lot when you are just starting out and saves you a lot of upfront design and query planning cost you’d have with something like DynamoDB (which is pretty inflexible in ways you can query your data). [0] https://hasura.io/.

#GraphQL #Realtime Backend / API #API Tools 117 social mentions
Keep The Score Landing Page
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Keep The Score

An online scoreboard and leaderboard app that allows you to track points for anything
Pricing:
- Freemium
- Free Trial
- $7.0 / One-off
This. Here is a great post on it from a fellow indie-hacker: https://casparwre.de/blog/launching-a-product-without-a-login/ He built https://keepthescore.co/ precisely with this in mind.

#Live Scores #Gamification #Productivity 11 social mentions
CryptPad Landing Page
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CryptPad

CryptPad is a collaborative office suite that is end-to-end encrypted and open-source.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
- €5.0 / Monthly (Personal 5GB)
Https://cryptpad.fr/ should have everything you needed. Open source and end to end encrypted.

#Office Suites #Project Management #Office & Productivity 88 social mentions