After running a tech consulting business for a couple decades a life-changing event put me on the path to figure out what life is made of and what we spend our time, energy, and resources on. That led to starting a coaching business, publishing my 10th book last year, and completing the 300th podcast episode last year as well. I love the intersection of my logistics and creative brain and I love talking to people who are similar. I seem to attract them. I've built a dating site, a writing site, a library for Indie authors, my own coaching system, the system that manages my tech clients, and most recently the CheckMark app, which is a to-do app that lives on your phone and your desktop.
Thank you to everyone who upvoted, left thoughtful comments and engaged with our launch on social media! We're delighted to be finishing Trophy 1.0 at #3 with 323 points! We're collating all the questions and feedback and integrating it into our roadmap and plan to share product updates in this forum as we launch them each month.
We also have a few more launches planned for the coming months so stay tuned...
After launching Intrascope and finishing Top 10 Product of the Day, we wanted to open a quick discussion.
The biggest takeaway for us wasn t the ranking, but the conversations. We talked to teams who are already using AI daily and are struggling with scattered tools, separate API keys, lost context, and costs growing without visibility.
That s exactly why we built Intrascope: a shared AI workspace where teams bring their own API keys, work with shared context and Manifests, and keep usage and costs predictable.
CheckMark was designed selfishly for personal use. There's nothing to install but it acts like an ap on your phone.
It has a gold system, badges, awards and milestones to keep you engaged.
You can color code, swipe left to delete, swipe right to send to the future and even share with a friend for support and validation.
Advanced things like long term goals, regenerating tasks, the project library and the buddy system can all be grown into as you progress, so you won't feel overwhelmed.
I ve been building a small side project called Grok Dump.
Grok generates a huge amount of images on X every day politics, crypto, anime, NSFW, memes, random experiments but almost everything gets buried instantly in the Media tab.
Instead of trying to curate or improve the content, I treated it like what it really is: a dump.
Collect everything, tag it by what it s actually about, and make it searchable so people can dig for what they want.
We ve been running this with early users over the last few weeks and the response has been super encouraging So far, 30+ users have signed up, actively using the product and sharing feedback that s already shaping our roadmap.
To get more real-world usage and honest feedback, we re opening up FREE PRO access for the next 100 users.
At the beginning, my reason was very simple: I needed a job and I genuinely liked the product.
I graduated with a Marketing degree, but I never felt like I belonged in agencies or similar environments. It just wasn t for me. At the same time, I didn t have much experience in tech either. So I took a leap of faith and applied for a Customer Support role, almost blindly.
The early days were tough. I had no technical background, no real understanding of how apps were built, and everything felt overwhelming. But the product itself became my motivation. I started from the most basic things: learning simple technical terms, understanding how an app is structured, and slowly exploring how everything works behind the scenes.
We often see launch posts, milestones, and success stories. What we don t see as much are honest breakdowns of products that quietly stalled or failed.
I feel there s a lot of learning hidden there about timing, assumptions, and trade-offs.
Hey PH community! As we all rely on video calls more than ever, I'm curious about your biggest frustrations with tools like Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Jitsi, or even the infamous Cluey. Do clunky interfaces, poor AI integrations, or a lack of admin controls (like forcing video on for interviews) drive you nuts?
I'm thinking about adding video chat to Blimp (getblimpy.cloud), our AI-native productivity suite. Imagine an AI assistant that quietly takes minutes in the background (non-intrusive), auto-generates bullet-point actions as tasks in your project hub (ditching those sloppy AI emails), plus admin perks like mandatory video, global audio muting, and background video effects that don't slow down your video.
What are your top video chat pain points? Share below your ideas could shape this!
