I got annoyed enough to build my own tools.
25 years of writing software for others. Now I'm building the ones I always needed — self-hosted, no lock-in, no bloat. Shipped in the open, one problem at a time.
I used to think successful products started with brilliant ideas. Now I suspect most started because someone got annoyed enough to build a solution. That's this. Every tool here is something I needed, couldn't find good enough, and built myself — in the open, self-hosted, no VC pressure, no lock-in.
● LIVE SavePosty
Your read-it-later, bookmark manager, and content library in one place. Capture articles, videos and links from any browser — organize into collections, tag, search, and read offline. Like Pocket, but yours to keep.
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One dashboard to track 40+ launch directories, manage daily distribution, monitor KPIs, and plan MRR milestones.
Sits between your apps and any provider — SES, Mailgun, SendGrid. Templates, queuing, retries, failover. Swap providers without touching code.
AI short-form extraction. Feed it a long recording, get ranked, reframed clips for TikTok, Reels and Shorts — smart framing and export presets baked in.
Drag-and-drop form & multi-step flow designer with conditional logic, branching and validation. Embed anywhere as an iframe or modal. No code.
A Chrome extension that captures complete pages in one click. Premium adds cloud sync, history, and cross-device access.
A Chrome extension that grabs YouTube videos via a local companion server. Simple, private, no cloud middleman.
Discovers trailers from studio channels, enriches metadata with AI, and schedules re-uploads at scale. For hands-free content ops.
A few more problems I'm quietly working on. Some will ship, some won't — that's part of building in the open.
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Gabriel
Gabriel le Roux
Software engineer for 25+ years, now building for myself. Every tool here started as something I needed and couldn't find good enough — so I built it. No team, no VC, no roadmap committee. Just me, showing up every day and shipping things that work.