u/Altruistic_Order1993 — reddlx

my phone buzzes all day and the messages that matter get buried. made some mockups, be honest with me

this is a little embarrassing to admit. i get around 150 notifications a day. group chats, news, app spam, and somewhere buried in there an actual message from an actual person. and those are the ones i miss.

a few weeks ago a friend texted me something that mattered and i didn't reply for like 5 days. not because i didn't care. i just never saw it under everything else. that feeling of "oh no how long has this been sitting there" is the thing i'm trying to kill.

so i started designing something for myself. i'm calling it Your Move.

the idea is dead simple. it looks at your notifications and shows you the people who are actually waiting on a reply, important ones first, and it writes a first draft of the reply so you can just send it and move on. android only. and everything stays on your phone. the app has no internet permission, so it literally cannot send your messages anywhere. that part is non negotiable for me, i'd never install something like this if it phoned home.

i made 3 screens. the main list, the setup flow (it has to ask permission to read your notifications, which i know is a scary thing to ask), and the screen you see when you're all caught up.

it's not built. these are just mockups. before i spend months coding it i really want to know:

would you use this, or is it just me with this problem

would you ever let an app read all your notifications, and if not, is there anything that would actually change your mind

the auto draft, helpful or creepy

not selling anything. no link, no email signup. i honestly just want to know if i'm alone in this or if other people feel it too.

u/Altruistic_Order1993 — 11 days ago

▲ 1 r/WesternDigital+1 crossposts

I got tired of my BeeStation becoming a junk drawer, so I built a local-AI organiser that can't lose files. Looking for ~10 honest testers.

I own a BeeStation and the same thing happened to me as probably half of you: it turned into the place every scanned receipt and IMG_xxxx.pdf goes to die. The cloud tools that "fix" this want to upload everything to their servers to read it, which is the exact opposite of why I bought a private drive.

So I built Filora. It runs a small AI entirely on your own Mac (nothing is uploaded, it's built to refuse any non-local connection), reads what's actually inside your documents, and proposes clean names + a tidy folder structure. You see a before/after preview and approve it. The part I care most about: it never deletes anything, and every run is one-click undoable, verified byte-for-byte. I was not going to trust a tool with my own files unless it literally couldn't lose them.

It's macOS for now (Windows is in beta. I'd rather not have you fight a security prompt while testing). It needs a free local AI helper (Ollama) — one install, the model downloads inside the app with a progress bar, no terminal.

I'm not really trying to sell anything today. I want to know if this is actually useful to people who aren't me. If ~10 of you with a messy BeeStation/Synology folder would try it and tell me where it's wrong, I'll send you the build. And one blunt question I genuinely need answered: if this worked well for you, would you pay £39 once for it? Yes/no, brutal honesty appreciated — a "no" is more useful to me than a polite "maybe."

Happy to answer anything in the comments.

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u/Altruistic_Order1993 — 11 days ago

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How do you distribute your small software to customers?

I’m currently considering building a very small desktop app and I’m unsure about how to market and distribute it. I’ll explore the idea beforehand to see what I need to learn before I start building.

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u/Altruistic_Order1993 — 1 month ago