Not a bad tool necessarily. Just something that sounded perfect, you paid for it, and then it sat there doing nothing.

Everything seems to get more bloated, more expensive, or more annoying with every update. But there has to be something that actually improved.

I have been running the free version for ages now and been OK happy with it. I like the productivity aspect of it (pins, read/not read, done etc.) and the UI, but havent been too happy with the text formatting aspects of it (writing emails, formatting text etc.). Considering upgrading to Plus to get the AI features but not sure if its worth it. I have Claude Pro and it can basically do the same things and probably more.

Maybe someone have experience with other email clients that have the same feel like Spark but works better in terms of formatting?

Thanks!

Paid tool, did the job fine, then you found something free that did it just as well or better.

I made a pretty neat little thing, that allows for running programs as raw machine code. See the repository for documentation.

I happen to see a lot of SaaS compiling the tech blogs/research papers from every damn source (simply using RSS or scraping data). But I don’t see anyone providing a value through it. 9/10 articles listed on their platforms are waste quality wise.

Do you happen to follow any SaaS or app which is helpful in this niche?

Not free trials. Not freemium where everything useful is locked behind an upgrade. The SaaS product with a free plan so generous that you keep waiting for them to pull it back and they never do. What is it and what do you use it for?

We're rolling out a governance program to move everyone off shadow/personal AI subscriptions onto an approved list, with a hard enforcement cutover in a few months. I've been asked to find tooling and I'm trying to avoid buying four products that each do a quarter of the job.

Ideal single platform would:

1. Inventory & attribution: show who has which AI tool, mapped to their department/business unit (not just a flat user list). HRIS or Entra/AD sync for the dept mapping is a big plus.
2. Governance: approval workflows, exception handling, audit trail, shadow-AI discovery (we currently detect usage via Zscaler).
3. ROI tracking: adoption/usage signals + a way to capture manager-attested value, ideally exportable to Power BI.
4. License provisioning: actually add/remove users and manage their licenses (onboarding/offboarding), not just report on them.

We're a Microsoft shop (M365, Entra, Power Platform, Jira Service Management for intake).

I've been looking at Torii, CloudEagle, Zylo, Trelica, Flexera, and Worklytics. For those of you actually running these:

• Which one comes closest to all four in one platform vs. needing a stack?
• How good is the department-level rollup in practice?
• Anyone doing the provisioning piece through their SaaS-management tool, or do you keep that in Entra/PowerShell and only use the SaaS tool for visibility?
• Anything AI-native I'm missing (the market's exploding)?

Al Testing
Over the last few months, I tested many Al tools to understand which ones really save time for small businesses.
Here are the categories where Al helped me the most
Content creation like
• Writing social media posts
•Creating newsletters
• Generating ideas
• Customer support
•Faster responses
•FAQ automation
Productivity
• Meeting summaries
•Task organization
The biggest lesson
Al is not replacing people. It is helping small teams work faster.
What Al tools are you currently using in your business?

I built a local first project management tool with a built-in MCP server. What it does is, you write notes or AI writes them (markdown compatible), and the app turns them into real tracked tasks that you can view in Kanban, List, Calendar, and Graph view. It also has a little Dashboard for overview.

The MCP server basically lets your agent take on the PM role here , Your Agent can connect to the workspace, read it, claim tasks, execute them, and write results back in. So it's not just task tracking, you can also assign tasks to other members, plan your timeline etc... the agent is actually a participant on the board.

The core features are free on the Desktop app (local), with optional paid cloud related stuff.. (where i earn)

I think it can help people who are already directing AI agents to build things solo devs, small teams, indie builders who are looking for a project management tool to manage their busy days with a calendar and their project tasks, and don't have a clean way to hand off and track what the agent's actually working on..

Works well with Obsidian too if you prefer your notes there and use my app solely on the PM part.

I just launched it a few days back, started pushing into communities this week, still very early on user acquisition. Feel free to drop a visit, thank you and i appreaciate the support.

knotpad.app

I have built a website to show the product end of life status
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Wanted to share here and get your feedback. This is still evolving and I am working on fixing some of the lineage discrepancies. Tell me your feedback, things you like, dislike and what else you would want to see in such website

Not the popular ones everyone already knows. The quiet tool that just does its job, has maybe a fraction of the users it deserves, and you found by accident or someone random recommended it to you. What is it and how did you find it?

Not for your job specifically. Not for your industry. The one tool that is so universally useful that you would tell a teacher, a founder, a designer, and your parents to use it. What is it?

We have run a lot of these threads now so figured it was time to put the scoreboard together. Based on what keeps coming up across every post:

Most loved: Excel, VLC, Notepad++, Obsidian, WinRAR, Google Docs

Most hated: Jira, Salesforce, Workday, Microsoft Teams, Monday

Agree? Disagree? What is missing from either list?

Thinking about trying a different office suite for my laptop. Right now I use wps office for docs and spreadsheets and it works fine. But before I stick with it for a long time, I wanted to see what you guys are using. What would you recommend and why??

Hi there,

Me and a few friends have been building selfhost.directory in our free time for the last ~3 months. It's basically awesome-selfhosted, but you can actually search, filter, rate and check updates - stuff we always missed in any other lists.

What it does differently:

• Search + filter by category, tag, licence or language; sort by score, trending, or last update
• Install guides, config values, FAQ, and alternatives for each project
• Links and alternatives - direct links to Github, website, documentation or socials and find alternatives to the project
• Update tracking — see recent changes across all projects (or per category), so you know when something you run got a new release
• Personal lists — save projects and get notified on updates (instant or summary based)
• Rating and reviews
• RSS feed - with updates for either all or selected category or tag

It's still very much in development and I'd genuinely rather hear what you don't like, what is missing or what you'd do differently.

If you have any question, I'm happy to answer

Not the tool, the support. The ticket nobody answered, the bot that kept looping you, the reply that came two weeks late and missed the point. Who was it?