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MD Flow: read a folder of Markdown files without opening an editor

**Problem** I save a lot of notes, specs, and AI exports as .md files. Quick Look still shows the raw hashes and asterisks. Opening VS Code or Obsidian to read one file felt like starting the car to check the mailbox. I wanted Finder for Markdown. Folder on the left, rendered file on the right, click or arrow through. A reader, not another editor. Native Mac app, no vault, no plugins. Mermaid, KaTeX, callouts, and YAML frontmatter all render on the free tier. **Comparison** *Marked 2* ($13.99) is the closest thing and it is a good app. It is document-first: you point it at a file and it watches that file. MD Flow is folder-first, so you connect a folder once and arrow through everything in it. Marked 2 is also Mac only, where one MD Flow purchase covers Mac, iPhone and iPad. *Obsidian* is free and far more powerful, and if you live in a vault all day it is the better tool. It is also a vault-based editor with plugins and setup. MD Flow reads any folder with no vault, no config and no plugins, and it never writes to your files unless you explicitly rename or trash something. Worth being straight about the gap: MD Flow does not resolve \[\[wikilinks\]\] yet, so it is not a full vault reader. **Pricing** Free: 2 connected folders, 5 recent files, all the rendering above, offline, no account. Pro: $7.99 one time, not a subscription. Unlimited folders, search inside document contents rather than only filenames, PDF export, email drafts. One purchase covers Mac, iPhone and iPad. [h

AeroBar - Advanced Dock for macOS (Free, beta)

**Who I am and why I built this:** I am the developer. I switched from Windows to Mac a while back and the workflow adjustment was genuinely rough. The Dock hides. Open windows have no persistent visual reference. There is no taskbar. You end up cycling through Cmd+Tab or doing Expose just to find something you had open five minutes ago. I built AeroBar to fix that for myself, and eventually decided to release it. **AI Disclosure:** I used AI assistance to help write some of the code for this app, as well as to help draft this post. **What it does:** AeroBar is a persistent taskbar that sits at the bottom of your screen. It has a glass surface, a live tab strip showing every open window across all apps, a pinned app launcher, a Start Menu with an app browser and recent files, inline Spotlight search, and a Trash shortcut on the right end. It uses macOS Accessibility APIs directly to track, focus, minimize, and raise your windows in real time. It is not a theme or a skin on top of the Dock. **How it compares to what already exists:** The Dock shows app icons but not individual windows. HiDock and similar apps extend the Dock but still follow the same Dock paradigm. AeroBar takes a different approach: every open window gets its own tab. Click the tab to focus, click again to minimize, click a minimized tab to restore. No hunting, no cycling. That specific workflow is what Windows switchers miss most and what nothing else on Mac replicates. **What makes it different:** The windo

How SaaS startup guys get first 100 customers first, make fkn $500k ARR fast?

I am running a small AI company that has been building an offline security audit app, simply a fine-tuned small language model powering an Electron app that can audit GitHub and local code repos for security stuff. I always see these LinkedIn or X guys making $500k ARR or $1m ARR within months; how the fkk do they get that many customers without spending on ads? I can't even get 5 customers; damn it, I do suck at sales

Anthropic boss Dario Amodei calls for AI development to slow down

File Arbor: the file organizer I built because Hazel is Mac-only

My Downloads folder had turned into a write-only archive - I'd save something, never find it again, and every couple of weeks I'd sit there dragging files into folders by hand. Hazel solves this on macOS, but I work on Windows too and didn't want to write scripts to get the same thing there. So I built File Arbor to run the same rules on both. What it does: you set rules once, it keeps the folders sorted. - Watches any folder (Downloads, Desktop, Documents) at the same time - Conditions: extension, name contains/starts/ends, regex, size, age, and file content - it can read inside PDFs, DOCX and plain text - Negative conditions too, e.g. "everything except invoices" - Actions: move, trash, delete, run a command - Auto Mode sorts files the moment they land, or you can keep it manual - Destination paths take tokens: Downloads/ / , and EXIF ones like , , if you sort photos - Runs entirely on your machine. No account, no cloud, no telemetry. Windows 10+ and macOS 10.15+. Free: 1 folder, 2 rules, extension filter only, manual mode. Pro: $24.99 one-time, lifetime updates, 30-day refund. What it does NOT do, so nobody buys it for the wrong reason: - no renaming action - no duplicate finder - no syncing rules between machines - no AI categorisation - no Finder tag support https://filearbor.com Happy to answer anything, and genuinely interested in what rules people would want that it can't express yet.

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Reddit Now Blocking Firefox for Android with uBlock Origin?

I was recently bit by reddit's decision to block usage of old reddit when signed out, which was my normal mode of reading. Now, new this morning, I get this error when trying to sign into Reddit on Firefox w/ uBlock Origin: > An error occurred. Please disable any extensions or try using a different web browser to continue. Is this real life?

What if browser tabs didn't need to be tabs? I built this.

I built a way to bring web content directly into your desktop workspace. Turn any website into a widget, keep multiple pages together, embed content, or extract exactly what you need. Also, place it directly on your desktop, as a floating bubble, or even in your system status bar. Here are a few examples of what you can do: # Embed Content Bring content from other apps and websites directly into your workspace. Embed a webpage, widget, or custom content and keep it right where you need it. You can use embedded content for dashboards, tools, forms, media, or anything else you want to have quick access. # Multiple Tabs Organize related websites and workflows effortlessly inside a single Browser Content. Open as many tabs as you need, group them by project or topic, and switch between them instantly; all without cluttering your workspace or losing context. Keep research, tools, and references together in one clean, focused view so you can work smarter and stay organized. # Extract Content Extract only the content you need from any webpage. Instead of embedding the entire page, select a specific section or element and display only that content in your workspace. # Any Web as a Widget Turn parts of your favorite websites into simple widgets on your desktop. Keep dashboards, news, tools, stats, or any other web content close by without having to keep the full browser open. Place them wherever you want and have the information you need just a click away. \-- **Download Boxvy from th

File Arbor: the file organizer I built because Hazel is Mac-only

My Downloads folder had turned into a write-only archive - I'd save something, never find it again, and every couple of weeks I'd sit there dragging files into folders by hand. Hazel solves this on macOS, but I work on Windows too and didn't want to write scripts to get the same thing there. So I built File Arbor to run the same rules on both. What it does: you set rules once, it keeps the folders sorted. - Watches any folder (Downloads, Desktop, Documents) at the same time - Conditions: extension, name contains/starts/ends, regex, size, age, and file content - it can read inside PDFs, DOCX and plain text - Negative conditions too, e.g. "everything except invoices" - Actions: move, trash, delete, run a command - Auto Mode sorts files the moment they land, or you can keep it manual - Destination paths take tokens: Downloads/ / , and EXIF ones like , , if you sort photos - Runs entirely on your machine. No account, no cloud, no telemetry. Windows 10+ and macOS 10.15+. Free: 1 folder, 2 rules, extension filter only, manual mode. Pro: $24.99 one-time, lifetime updates, 30-day refund. What it does NOT do, so nobody buys it for the wrong reason: - no renaming action - no duplicate finder - no syncing rules between machines - no AI categorisation - no Finder tag support https://filearbor.com Happy to answer anything, and genuinely interested in what rules people would want that it can't express yet.

On Omarchy, my proxy moved from the tray into a terminal. clash-kit × Omarchy — perfect fit: · Linux/Win/MacOS · one-line npm install, zero GUI · TUI subs, nodes, latency tests · hot reload + TUN mode · tiling-workflow native npm i -g clash

-kit Your Omarchy proxy setup?👇

Reddit Now Blocking Firefox for Android with uBlock Origin?

I was recently bit by reddit's decision to block usage of old reddit when signed out, which was my normal mode of reading. Now, new this morning, I get this error when trying to sign into Reddit on Firefox w/ uBlock Origin: > An error occurred. Please disable any extensions or try using a different web browser to continue. Is this real life?

What if browser tabs didn't need to be tabs? I built this.

I built a way to bring web content directly into your desktop workspace. Turn any website into a widget, keep multiple pages together, embed content, or extract exactly what you need. Also, place it directly on your desktop, as a floating bubble, or even in your system status bar. Here are a few examples of what you can do: # Embed Content Bring content from other apps and websites directly into your workspace. Embed a webpage, widget, or custom content and keep it right where you need it. You can use embedded content for dashboards, tools, forms, media, or anything else you want to have quick access. # Multiple Tabs Organize related websites and workflows effortlessly inside a single Browser Content. Open as many tabs as you need, group them by project or topic, and switch between them instantly; all without cluttering your workspace or losing context. Keep research, tools, and references together in one clean, focused view so you can work smarter and stay organized. # Extract Content Extract only the content you need from any webpage. Instead of embedding the entire page, select a specific section or element and display only that content in your workspace. # Any Web as a Widget Turn parts of your favorite websites into simple widgets on your desktop. Keep dashboards, news, tools, stats, or any other web content close by without having to keep the full browser open. Place them wherever you want and have the information you need just a click away. \-- **Download Boxvy from th

Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?

I use claude for most of what I do, and Fable is largely overkill for me and frequently burns through my Max plan's session credits in minutes (!) when just doing an initial mobile app planning with 4 agents. After I waited out the timeout period 6 hours later, and I picked up again, the cache had timed out so it burned through 2% of the session in less than a minute. Opus 4.8 is now my goto and I will be avoiding 5 until I see a reason to switch back. 4.8 is 'good enough' for what I need and has been a great value. It mostly gets things right. Most of what I do is web and mobile , largely cloud backend.

[OS] SpareDisk: Free Disk Space. Open Source with Pay whatever you want for Notarized app

**Problem:** I saw lots of Disk Space Cleaner with > $10 price, which are basically a good interface for your Mac native storage. I built [SpareDisk](https://sparedisk.minilabs.cc/) over the last few days, kept it bare minimum in terms of bloat features but focused on speed, parallelism, and queue management. You can review your whole file system without hanging the computer. This is version 1. I have tested it well over multiple laptops. ***The code is open source, and if you can compile it: use this version for free, you can customize your design and stuff.*** If you want to get an Apple notarized app ready to use using the source code and future updates, you can download it from the website or app store for "pay whatever you want" (minimum $4.99). **Comparision:** [DiskBuddy](https://diskbuddy.com/) has inspired the project. This was initially sold at $12, and users complained about [memory leaks](https://x.com/almeidamarcell/status/2098445073750917371?s=20), [permission issues](https://x.com/iniyanai/status/2097630796001780055?s=20), and app blocks when you run Duplicate File Finder. SpareDisk is App Store friendly(App is pending for review). It is sandboxed, following Apple's permission guidelines and memory optimisation. SpareDisk features include: * Mac storage overview * Treemap, sunburst and list views * Folder, external drive and network share scans * Large files and older files * File type breakdowns * Duplicates verified by file contents * App removal and related

Show HN: Liniora – Ever thought about replacing your project manager?

Hi HN, the title could be a little bit aggressive sorry for that... Basically i am Computer engineer graduated recently but i was and still working remotely for approx. 3 years with the same foreign company in EU. and i noticed that we are always somehow lose the context of a ticket -- even though we are using the popular project management systems -- so i decided why not build something that can fix our context loosing problems and with some improvements. here i created Liniora. an AI powered project management system. basically the core idea is to link the tools that we use to gather information about tickets in one place. i integrated Google meet for the meetings transcripts so you do your meeting it automatically got registered and indexed. You discuss about a bug in Slack thread so you mention @Liniora app and it will handle the bug context and create a ticket for you. We have the version control also connected so you create a ticket with ability of creating a separate branch with one-click for both Gitlab and Github. you have as well the Pull request controlled in our place inside the app. lets suppose you have a ticket and you created a branch called 'USER-325-create-login-form' then you merged to staging or production ? it will be automatically flagged with staging/production badge so you know what tickets are done. there are a lot of interesting features i wanted to describe but i will just let you guys discover and i will be very happy about your feedback. Than

Betterswitch - a native macOS window switcher with workspaces

Hey r/macapps! I built Betterswitch, a native macOS window switcher with Workspaces. I originally started building it for myself because I wanted a simple and native way to switch directly between windows, while keeping the experience close to macOS. **Problem** Command + Tab switches between apps rather than individual windows. When you have multiple windows open across different apps, getting to the exact window you want can take more steps than it should. Betterswitch gives you a visual switcher for jumping directly between individual windows with a single shortcut. Alongside window switching, I added Workspaces. You can create and rename workspaces, assign apps to each one, and quickly move between different setups for work, study, development, or anything else. Betterswitch can hide apps from your previous workspace and bring forward or launch the apps assigned to the workspace you're switching to. You can also customize the switcher style, keyboard shortcut, glass appearance, and other parts of the experience. **Comparison** Compared to alternatives like AltTab, Betterswitch takes a more focused approach to window switching on macOS. Betterswitch is built around a native, Apple-style experience with a clean interface, customizable switcher styles, live window previews, and control over the glass appearance. The biggest difference is **Workspaces**. Instead of only switching between open windows, Betterswitch lets you create separate environments for different tasks, ass