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Tinycast is a free and open-source macOS launcher built as a lightweight alternative to tools like Raycast.

It includes app and file search, clipboard history, per-app hotkeys, custom shell commands, Apple Shortcuts integration, system actions, various window management features, notes, an emoji picker, calendar/meeting tools, and a calculator with unit/currency conversions.

Plus it's fully native (SwiftUI and AppKit), there's no telemetry and it can run your Raycast extensions.

GitHub: https://github.com/abue-ammar/tinycast

Not sure if it's okay to mention the name of the saas, but it's pretty irrelevant for the sake of the story.

This is a problem every product faces after a few years on the market.

A feature gets launched → add a section to the homepage.
Enterprise customers ask a question → add some copy to the homepage.
You enter a new market → add messaging to the homepage.
Someone wants to know about team sharing → add another explanation to the homepage.

None of these decisions are bad individually.

But after years of doing this, your homepage becomes a collection of everything you want to explain rather than the few things a new user needs to understand.

So they tried something different. They removed things.

Before: hero → 6 sections of copy → feature grid → testimonials → pricing
After: hero → feature grid → testimonials → 3 sections of copy → pricing

Half of the homepage gone and all the sections that only mattered to a small subset of visitors deleted.

Now someone could scroll past the hero and immediately see the 8 key things the product does, without reading hundreds of words first.

Result?

Visitor-to-trial conversion went from 2.65% to 4.80% (while traffic increased only ~2%). Translated: trial signups went from 2,423 to 4,464.

That's an 84% increase.

But I think the lesson is more interesting than the number: homepages don't necessarily get worse because you make bad decisions, they get worse because you keep making good decisions.

Maybe the right optimization isn't "What should we add?" but "What did we add over the last 3 years that the homepage no longer needs?”.

Neo is a free and open source novel writing software from the author of Silo, available for both macOS and Windows.

It aims to be a book-focused alternative to Scrivener with distraction-free UI, daily word goals, word sprints, and a NaNoWriMo-style progress chart, chapters and sections outlining, plus continuous autosave.

Drafts are organised by series, status or pen name and can be exported to PDF, docx, markdown or epub compatible with kindle direct publishing.

GitHub: https://github.com/hughhowey/neo

OpenSEO is a open source and self-hostable alternative to tools like Semrush or Ahrefs.

It connects with DataForSEO via API key and does keyword research, competitor and backlinks analysis, rank tracking, technical audits... plus the MCP server lets AI agents like Claude Code, OpenClaw, and Hermes use the SEO data directly.

GitHub: https://github.com/every-app/open-seo

Saw this project trending on github a few days ago and just had the time to give it a try.

It's a note tacking app similar to Obsidian (markdown based, notes stored locally in a vault, no proprietary formats, wikilinks...).

First impressions?

• The block editor (similar to notion) is handy for all those of markdown functions that I use once in a while and I'll never remember.
• Note organization is simpler. You can label notes with types like Project or Topic but those types don’t force you to fill certain fields or validate against a strict schema.
• Everything is synched with git. The vault becomes a git repo and every change is tracked by version control so you call roll back to a previous version, see changes with diff views, sync across multiple devices and so on.
• It works well with AI agents. This isn't really my use case but there's an AGENTS.md to explain agents how they should navigate an operate in your vault. This way you can use multiple agents like codex and claude code on the same vault. Plus a full MCP server, support for local models and different permission modes.

I've never been a power user of obsidian (and if your workflow depends on community plugins this isn't the tool for you), but Tolaria does pretty much what I expect from a note tacking app straight out of the box.

Yes, it's still a relatively new project and there are a few bug to fix, but I think we have one more candidate for a simple open source alternative to Obsidian.

GitHub: https://github.com/refactoringhq/tolaria

Still under heavy development an macOS-only, but it looks like a promising alternative to Logitech Options+ (remap buttons, drive DPI and SmartShift, and switch profiles per app) that doesn't require a Logitech account, telemetry, or cloud dependencies.

Source: https://github.com/AprilNEA/OpenLogi

Just thought to share to share a project I've recently fell in love with (not affiliated to the dev, if you have questions I'll leave a link to his profile).

It's a minimal markdown note-taking app I use as a distraction-free alternative to writing markdown in VS Code.

Just open the app
Cmd + New to create a new file
Cmd + Shift + M to toggle between Markdown or WYSIWYG
Cmd + Shift + Enter to enable focus mode
That's it

Plus it renders mermaid diagrams and kaTeX math, it's offline first so I don't need an account or an internet connection and I can use git to sync across devices.

You can also ask Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, OpenCode, or Ollama to help edit your notes (not really my use case).

And yes, it has a dark theme.

Source: https://github.com/erictli/scratch
Dev: Eric Li

Thought to share a new resource for those of you that are not on X.

It's a directory of software services that are (partially) agent-ready and answers questions like:

• Does it have MCP, CLI, or API?
• Can agents create accounts / provision resources autonomously?
• Plus more agent-specific details

Link: https://www.canagentsuse.com/
Built by Minh-Phuc Tran

Stumbled upon this hidden gem today.

It's self-hosted alternative to MyFitnessPal. You can track nutrition, exercise, body metrics, and health data while keeping full control of your data.

Plus you can set up goals and get long-term reports, have multiple profiles and family access, sync data from Apple Health, Google Health Connect, Fitbit, Garmin Connect etc. and of course chat with your health via an MCP server or chatbot.

Haven't had the time to test it yet but kudos to the dev team!

Source: https://github.com/CodeWithCJ/SparkyFitness