I created an issue tracker for home use. It just displays list of issues with due date. You can filter by this week, month or all. You can edit the issues. That's all it does. No auth. No fancy frameworks. I have been more productive with this than any other todo or issue tracker app I've tried to use.<p>Seriously people just build something up for yourself. With AI to help we can come up with fully working prototype in no time. Maggie has term for this and she articulated far better than me in this post <a href="https://maggieappleton.com/home-cooked-software" rel="nofollow">https://maggieappleton.com/home-cooked-software</a>
> My favorite example is expense-tracking software.<p>> some angel investor . . . said, "what if we issued our own credit cards and then kept all the swipe fees for ourselves?" [in lieu of a monthly fee]<p>> employees were strong-armed into . . . those corporate cards . . . even if it meant losing out on literal thousands of dollars in cash back and rewards from their personal cards<p>So the employee should be able to benefit from allocating the company's spending to <i>their</i> card's swipe fees (where said rewards come from), but it's wrong when the company itself wants to benefit from the swipe fees on the transactions that they are <i>actually paying for</i> (via discounted expense software)?
i thought about doing something similar when i tried to find a simple solitaire game in the apple app store.<p>i want a simple game that i can use to kill 15 minutes while i'm waiting in line, but all the version in the app store have been gamified to the point that the game barely exists. so many notifications about daily quests, several different in game currencies, unlockable skins and trophies, accumulating XP to level up ... something.<p>i'd gladly pay the $0.99 for a version that stripped all that growth-hacking shit out of it.
Not sure if that is entirely valid observation.<p>Yes the app typically starts simple, but as people use it, they find that it not exactly fits their use case and they face dilemma. Continue to use and find workarounds or keep asking customer service to get this and that implemented to facilitate their use case. They may even say "I would pay extra for something like this!". Multiple this by thousands of different problems people face and at some point certain asks become recurrent. At which point it triggers board meeting and question what to do? It is not necessarily driven by the eternal chase of profit, but simply to make life easier for everyone. Customer service gets fewer requests and customers can actually use it for what they need.
Problem starts when someone new comes in to use the app and they didn't participate in the growth, so now the plethora of extra features may feel overwhelming.<p>I'd rather focus on apps where company puts stupid limitations or adds features that didn't seem to be driven by customers, but by marketing people. "WE NEED AI!!! EVERYONE TALKS ABOUT AI!!! PUT AI EVERYWHERE NOW!!!" followed by "We'll see what sticks, now aify everything!" of course lessons were not learned after "blockchain everything!" and "we need the cloud accounts for customers!" and "AJAX everything!!!"
This is great! What this page doesn't explain, though, is why the author will resist the urge to make more money when one of the products becomes popular.<p>The other products he talks about didn't turn shitty because the founders just hate babies, but because they like money. The author doesn't go into enough detail on why he doesn't like money.
I think it would be a better use of your time to create, and maintain, an index of non-fucked apps and services.<p>If I may, I would nominate both mcmaster.com and "Mountain Duck"[1].<p>[1] <a href="https://mountainduck.io/" rel="nofollow">https://mountainduck.io/</a>
There should be a platform like the opposite of what it is today. No wants to be featured there. Something people would want to not be there in that list or platform. Like imdb or but for those of worst products.<p>People wont buy it if it is on there.
Expense tracking software has always been a trash fire in my experience, and I’ve never come across one with an associated credit cards (maybe that’s harder to in Europe? Or just less incentivised since transactions fees are much lower)<p>I always assumed this was because it fell into the space where the people who choose the software (finance teams) differ from the people who will have to use it (everyone claiming expenses) - so any features offering UX improvements are deprioritised relative to features which help the finance teams.