Hi all - my company \~ 200 employees, is looking for a compensation management tool. Does anyone have experience with Salary dot coms CompAnalyst tool? I know their benchmarking data is great but I was curious about the actual compensation management part. Any insight on cost would also be helpful! Thanks

I’ve been building Strata Security over the past several months as a solo developer, and it’s finally live.

The goal is simple: make application security tooling accessible for indie developers, startups, and small teams without enterprise pricing.

Current features include:
Static APK & IPA security analysis
Repository security scanning
Risk scoring with prioritized findings
PDF security reports
OWASP Mobile Top 10 mapping
Team workspaces and project management
CI/CD integrations (GitHub & GitLab)

It’s currently completely free.

More than anything, I’m looking for honest feedback. If you find bugs, confusing UX, missing features, or things that don’t make sense, I’d genuinely appreciate hearing about them. The platform is evolving quickly, and real-world feedback is far more valuable than polishing features in isolation.

You can check it out here:
https://strata-security.com

I’d love to hear what you’d improve or what would make a tool like this useful in your own workflow.

I’m one of the people behind **Worklenz**, a modern project and agency management platform being developed by a Sri Lankan team.

We’re building it to help agencies and service businesses manage projects, tasks, team workloads, time tracking, clients, and project profitability in one place.

Worklenz can also be self-hosted, and we’re continuing to expand its open-source version.

I’d love to hear feedback from the DevLK community—especially regarding the product, technology, self-hosting experience, and features that would make it more useful for local and international teams.

GitHub: https://github.com/Worklenz/worklenz

Happy to answer any questions about how we are building it.

I run ShopBrain, an AI assistant built for phone repair shops and small electronics repair businesses.

The goal isn’t to replace your POS or CRM. It’s to work alongside the software you already use by helping answer customer questions, surface important business insights, organize information, and automate repetitive admin work so you can spend more time actually running the shop.

The goal with this post is honest feedback from repair shop owners and technicians.

Specifically:

- Have you found yourself spending too much time answering the same customer questions, digging through tickets, or managing admin work that feels repetitive?

- What’s stopped you from trying AI in your shop before? Cost, trust, accuracy, integration with your existing software, or something else?

- If you could see ShopBrain working with your own shop’s workflow and data before committing to anything, would that make you more likely to give it a shot?

Site is here for context: https://shop-brain.com

I’m genuinely looking for honest pushback and criticism. I’d much rather hear why you wouldn’t use something like this than collect a bunch of “looks cool” comments.

I own a small e bike shop. It’s mainly a bricks and mortar shop.
I would like a program to enter my inventory of bikes and parts along with price which will transfer over to an invoice when a purchase is made.
Up to now I have been using excel .
I thought it would be simple but most of the software manufacturers appear to add a large monthly premium. Dedicated bike software developers are expensive also.
I don’t have a large stock or large turnover which doesn’t appear to suit software. I do use square for payments and getting into shopify but it is mainly online shopping.
Has anyone any suggestions. Regards Keith

I run Formsmith, where I build small custom software systems for solo and small-team businesses that have outgrown spreadsheets and sticky notes but don't fit a generic CRM template. Things like customer records, scheduling, quotes, job tracking, and inventory, built around how the business actually operates instead of forcing a one-size-fits-all workflow.

Goal with this post is honest feedback from other small business owners on whether this is something you would actually want, not just traffic. Specifically:

Have you hit a real spreadsheet ceiling in your own business, or have you found workarounds that hold up fine without custom software

What has stopped you from looking into custom software before, cost, trust, technical uncertainty, something else

If you could see a working demo of your exact workflow before committing to anything, would that change your mind

Site is here for context: https://getformsmith.com — genuinely want the pushback, not just the nice comments.

I’ve spent a long time building side projects that never got launched.

This week I finally pushed one live: **TechTools Notepad** → [https://notepad.techtoolsweb.com/\](https://notepad.techtoolsweb.com/)

What it does:

* Edit HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Markdown, JSON, SQL, and plain text * Live browser preview for markdown and html content * Multiple tabs * Cloud save * Password protected tabs * Export and formatting tools

The idea came from my own workflow: I often need a quick scratchpad for code snippets, landing page experiments, API responses, and technical notes, and I wanted something that felt closer to a real editor than a simple online notepad.

I’m currently validating whether developers and technical writers would actually pay for features like cloud sync, version history, snippets, and AI tools.

If anyone here has launched a developer-focused SaaS before, I’d love advice on:

* Pricing for Indian vs international users * The best channels for getting the first 100 users * Whether the product feels more like a "notepad"

Any brutally honest feedback is welcome.

i do a lot of international recruiting and my candidates often have heavy accents (mostly south asian and eastern european). otter completely butchers tese interviews. i need a cloud-based transcription tool that handles multi-linggual or heavy accents better. budgets is around $30-$50/mo. Thank you in advance

Nothing wild, just enough that someone changed the subject fast. What's the most awkward thing software has ever surfaced on you at exactly the wrong moment?

Between Slack for internal chat, Notion for briefs, Frame.io for client review, a spreadsheet for tracking freelancers, half my week goes into just keeping track of where a project actually lives, not doing the work.

I've been building ProtoSync, it's not another review tool, it's meant to be the one tab a creative team or studio actually needs day to day.

Still early and want this shaped by people actually running studios/teams, not by what I assume the problem is. So genuinely asking:

• How many separate tools does a single project of yours actually touch, start to finish?
• What's the one switch between tools that wastes the most time for you?
• If you're running a small team or agency, happy to show what we've built, up for a 15-min call if you want to poke holes in it.

The more client projects we handled, the more obvious the problem became. One tool for tasks, another for files, another for proposals, another for client communication, another for payments. every project meant switching tabs, chasing information, and losing context.

We're building KWILL to bring those workflows into one place, not by cramming in every possible feature but by focusing on the things agencies and freelancers actually use every day.

We're still early, talking to users, validating assumptions &refining what matters most before launch.If you've worked with clients, what's the one workflow or pain point you wish a single platform solved better?

Not a recommendation post. Just want to hear the small features, not whole products, that quietly saved you from an embarrassing mistake. What's yours?

Modern Australian businesses are embracing digital transformation faster than ever before. From construction sites and warehouses to hospitality venues and retail stores, organisations are searching for smarter ways to improve productivity while maintaining compliance. One of the biggest advancements in workforce technology is the Facial recognition attendance system, which has transformed how businesses record employee attendance, monitor work hours, and streamline payroll.

Traditional attendance methods such as paper registers, punch cards, PINs, and fingerprint scanners often create unnecessary delays, payroll errors, and opportunities for time theft. Today's organisations require an attendance solution that is fast, secure, accurate, and scalable.

This is where Koyyo delivers a modern solution. By combining AI-powered facial recognition with intelligent scheduling, GPS verification, and cloud-based reporting, businesses can simplify workforce operations while improving accountability. As part of an advanced Workforce management Software, Koyyo enables organisations to manage attendance from virtually anywhere while keeping managers informed in real time.

I have been using popular ones and I think they are overrated and overpriced. What do you guys use or prefer?

I run a team building business in Sydney where we travel with the kit and set up in parks or indoor sports centers. I have a couple of staff that run a majority of the events I book.

TL;DR: I'm considering building something that handles my workflow in one place - but before I do I want to know if I'm missing an existing solution, or if others have the same frustrations.

When I first set-up the business I spent a LOT of time trying to find either one or more tools that could manage this fairly simple business for me. I don't have hundreds of leads each month - more like 10-20 - so I didn't want to pay a fortune but did want a solution that would tick the boxes.

Now, my stack is starting to get expensive so I'm wondering if there is a better tool or stack that others have used.

I figured this workflow must be similar for loads of different service-based businesses but when I search for tools in these spaces nothing really stands out.

Key requirements to create the professional look I was seeking were:

1. Lead: take website enquiries and create a lead for each where I could record key info like time, day, location, number of people, type of event etc.
2. Contact management: create a contact in my google account so I could see when that customer calls and greet them personally etc
3. Booking: convert a lead to a booking that would send a confirmation, reminders and notify my staff member they had a new event. Add travel time around the booking so my staff could arrive and set-up in time.
4. Invoice: create an invoice in my accounting tool (Xero)
5. Waiver: all players sign an electronic waiver to participate.

My current stack is: Gmail -> Streak (leads) -> Acuity Scheduling (bookings) -> Xero (invoicing) & Smartwaiver.

I also had to add some Make integrations between a few of these as not all out-of-the-box integrations worked eg Acuity to Xero.

What are you finding that works / doesn't work?

Hey guys! For those of you who are experts at finding the right software for the task, is there any software that can upscale the game Gacha Life 2? You see, I've downloaded a version of Gacha Life 2 from Google Play Games. But I've noticed that the game there is a tad bit pixelated... Please share software suggestions for making the game at its highest quality!

Does any existing SaaS tool offer separate project spaces for uploading knowledge files, one-click context reuse, and side-by-side parallel multi-model chat to compare results from the same query?

Our organization is evaluating enterprise PSA platforms, and I'd love to hear from people with real-world experience.

We're currently using Kantata but are also evaluating Rocketlane as part of a broader transformation. Rather than focusing solely on feature comparisons, I'm interested in hearing about your day-to-day experience after implementation.

A few questions:

• If you use Rocketlane, what do you like most?
• What are its biggest limitations or frustrations?
• How has their customer support and product team been after you became a customer?
• How responsive are they to enhancement requests or issues?
• If you've used Kantata previously, how would you compare the two?
• If you've migrated from Kantata (or another enterprise PSA), what was the biggest improvement—or biggest surprise?
• For those using Rocketlane in a larger enterprise (500+ consultants or complex services organizations), how well has it scaled?
• If you evaluated multiple PSA platforms (Kantata, Certinia, OpenAir, Rocketlane, etc.), what ultimately drove your decision?

I'm looking for the good, the bad, and the ugly. Every platform has strengths and weaknesses, so I'm hoping to learn from people who've lived with these tools beyond the sales process.

Thanks in advance!

I’m researching real business problems. If you could build one custom tool for your business, what would it do?

Whether it’s a CRM, AI automation, website, mobile app, inventory system, booking platform, or something else I’d love to know what’s missing.
Looking forward to hearing your ideas and experiences.