r/MadeInCanada

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Made right here in the Manitoba prairies, this 34 troy ounce set of lobotomy tools for a collector.

I make handmade silver art in the Canadian Prairies and was asked by a client to make a set of lobotiny tools in finesilver. Thanks for looking!

u/frustratedwithevery1 — 7 days ago

Handmade leather wallets

Here are some of the wallets handmade all the way from cutting, saddle stitching to finishing at my home studio in Vancouver. Full grain leather I source is Italian.

u/Calm-Philosophe — 7 days ago
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Two weeks ago you told me what makes buying Canadian clothing difficult. I got a little carried away fixing it 😅

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Hi everyone,

I posted Trendsly here about two weeks ago, and honestly I expected a few brand suggestions and maybe a bug report or two.

Instead, you gave me a pretty serious wishlist 😅

You asked for size and audience filters, clearer Made in Canada evidence, a better distinction between brands and retailers, better screenshot search, and an explanation of what happens to saved data. You also sent me a huge list of smaller Canadian labels I had missed.

I went through the comments one by one and ended up changing a lot more than I planned.

The directory now has 235 verified Canadian fashion entries. I also rebuilt the brand page because a lot of you were right that the claims were not clear enough.

Canadian-founded, Canadian-owned, Canadian-based, and Made in Canada now mean different things on Trendsly. Each claim links to the evidence behind it, and Made in Canada only appears when there is product-level origin information.

Search can now be narrowed by audience, sizing system, size, category, price, availability, sale status, and manufacturing origin.

Screenshot search is also a lot less clumsy now. You can select one garment, correct its category, crop another area, search the full image, or split an outfit into as many as four pieces.

Somehow, I also ended up with a Chrome extension in beta.

What I like most is that Trendsly is finally starting to feel like the thing I originally wanted it to be: somewhere to start when you want to support Canadian fashion but do not already know all the right brand names.

Canada has so many great smaller labels. A lot of them are just surprisingly difficult to find unless somebody tells you about them. If Trendsly can make that a little easier—or introduce one shopper to a label they otherwise would have missed—that feels worth continuing.

The attached image shows what the brand page actually looks like now. It has A–Z discovery, filters for region and brand type, clearer evidence explanations, and separate ways to explore Canadian-founded, Made in Canada, and Indigenous-owned or founded labels.

The full experience is available in Canadian French. There is no registration, saved items remain in your browser, and search rankings are not sponsored.

If you try it, please give it one real job. Search for something you actually need, upload a screenshot, or try finding something in your size.

If it gets the answer wrong, tell me exactly what you searched. That is honestly more useful than just hearing that it looks good.

And if I am still missing a Canadian label, send me its official website and any origin evidence you can find.

Try it here: https://trendsly.ca

Brand directory: https://trendsly.ca/brands

Thank you again. I definitely have a bad habit of trying to improve everything at once, but the list you gave me was genuinely useful.

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u/MatchUpSocialguy — 9 days ago

What are you most interested in?

Hey all *waves*! I am u/spyeagle100 one of the new mods implemented to this group.

I would like to know what you are most interested to see here? Is it products made in Canada 🇨🇦? Services? Are we wanting a list maintained to make it easier to find Canadian products?

How many here are Canadian? Made in Canada or have choosen to make the greatest country in the world your home?

Finally, how many here are from outside of Canada but just have an interest in Canadian products? (We just make them better 😆)

Lets introduce ourselves, say hello 👋 and make some new cool friends! ❤️

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u/spyeagle100 — 10 days ago

Cue - A Canadian Simple Couple / Business Partner Productivity App

I built a fun and slightly silly (but highly productive) project called Cue - Control Without Confrontation because I could feel small work frustrations starting to follow us home with my business partner, who also happens to be the love of my life.

We run an e-commerce business together, and as it grew, there were constantly things that needed to get done. Order this. Send that. Follow up with someone. Fix something before noon. Normal business stuff.

The problem wasn’t the work. It was the follow-up.

I’m very Type A. I like knowing what needs to happen, when it needs to happen, and I’m probably guilty of setting deadlines that are more ambitious than they need to be. But weirdly, I also hate asking someone close to me the same thing twice.

So I’d ask once, wait, wonder if it was done, wait some more, then eventually say:

“Hey, did you get a chance to do that thing?”

And even when the question was completely reasonable, it started to feel like nagging.

That gets old very quickly when the person you’re following up with is also the person you live with.

At some point I remember thinking: this would be so much easier if something else could do the awkward part for me.

I still wanted visibility. I still wanted to know what was due. I still wanted things moving. I just didn’t want every unfinished task to turn into a tiny relationship negotiation.

So I built Cue.

The basic idea is pretty simple.

I tell Cue what I need someone to handle and when.

Cue asks them.

They choose whether they can do it and agree to a time.

Then Cue follows up with them for me.

If they’re on track, I don’t need to hear about it. If they need something from me, Cue brings me back in.

That’s really it.

We also deliberately made the main view just Today and Tomorrow instead of another giant weekly task list. Usually there are only a few things that actually matter today. Everything else can wait.

There are also two visual styles because I wanted the app to feel a little more personal than the average productivity tool: Modern, which is clean and calm, and Retro, which has a more playful old-school feel. Same Cue underneath, just two completely different moods depending on what you like looking at every day.

The biggest surprise for us was how much calmer that made the business feel.

We weren’t spending as much time mentally tracking whether the other person had done something. We weren’t constantly interrupting each other with little follow-ups. And when work was over, there was less business tension bleeding into our actual relationship.

The way I think about it now is:

If I could do everything myself, I wouldn’t need Cue.

Cue is for the stuff that still matters to me, but depends on someone else.

I get the control I need without having to become the person constantly reminding everyone.

The iPhone app is the main experience, but the person you Cue doesn’t need the app.
They can receive the request and respond by text.

I’m also trying to keep the philosophy pretty simple: free, no AI pretending to run your life, and no need to hand over a bunch of sensitive personal data.

It’s basically a small tool for people who are a bit too Type A to stop caring, but not confrontational enough to enjoy chasing people.

That’s me, apparently.

If that sounds familiar, I’d genuinely love to know whether this is a problem other founders, couples, roommates, or teams run into too.

Made in Montreal!

Cue - Control Without Confrontation <-- Early waitlist available!

u/ExplanationClean6285 — 11 days ago