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Stoa for Mac turns the folders you already use into rich visual galleries — no importing, no library lock-in. Browse photos and videos with adaptive layouts, keyboard-first navigation, comments, reactions, color tags, and pinned media that bring a more personal feel to your private library. Then lean back and let Stoa’s infinite autoscroll gallery turn your media into a flowing visual stream. Pair it with Stoa Saver, a free companion screensaver from our website.
Stoa for MacBeautiful media browsing for the folders you already use
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Howdy Product Hunt — I built Stoa media browser because I wanted my local folders to feel less like file management and more like a modern web browsing experience. A lot of us are used to visually rich interfaces online, with context like reactions, comments, and pins. But when it comes to our own local media, the experience usually falls back to plain folders or cumbersome photo apps. Stoa is...
Stoa for MacBeautiful media browsing for the folders you already use
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I'm busier than ever, mainly because the roadblocks are removed. You hit on a good point: when the tools exist to do more, then more is expected from each of us. When email was adopted in business, everyone used email and fax machines were left behind.
Since the rise of AI, do you feel that your job is at risk? And what about certain professions?
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Even if machines eventually handle every practical job, people could still create new forms of trade, craft, and exchange, because the impulse seems to be baked-in to human behavior, at least so far. Humans who grow up with full AI automation on-demand, could have a very different mindset. Early in life, people may develop the big picture mindset just by using automations repeatedly. Thinking...
Will we work for AI or will AI work for us?
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No real streaks, but I definitely fall off the map while deep in developer mode or the post-productive exhaustion phase.
Why did you lose your Product Hunt streak and what was your record?
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The dream future is when coding agents can handle everything start-to-finish, but we're not there yet. Even using the highest-end models, it's still best to give it tasks in small, focused-scope chunks. AI can certainly handle larger context tasks than it could a year ago, with much less errors, but it's still neccesary to feed it tasks at a digestible rate.
We let AI write our code for a week. Here is what actually happened.
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Great insight. Those early users really do reshape the priorities. I had similar experience. Keep the cognitive load minimal by hiding advanced controls. The power users will uncover them, which becomes a nice moment of discovery. Everybody wins.
Your first 50 users will teach you more than your last 5,000 lines of code
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I love to see local running AI tools. Congrats on the launch! I'm also a big fan of one-time cost simplicity. However, some people may think the price is too steep for their usage. If there was an option to buy a one month license at $10, those folks wouldn't go away empty handed. Sometimes people need a tool just for a short time and can only justify a small spend. They may use it for a month,...
MelonSoundYour Local AI Music Studio for macOS
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This is the way. When the job can be done on local hardware you already own, it feels wasteful to rent offsite tokens.
talatRealtime meeting notes that don’t leave your Mac
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The wow factor of VR wears off. One thought I always go back to is that people generally don't like wearing glasses. Unless you need them to see or block the sun, there had better be a big advantage to having something resting on your face all day.
Meta is ending its Metaverse project, in which it invested $80,000,000,000.00
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Yeah, I heard about Replit and wondered how it could actually work. There's a bit more than just coding needed to get on the app store.
Apple Cracks Down on ‘Vibe Coding’ Apps
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This brings back memories! The first time I saw a Mac as a kid, it had those eyes in the menubar that followed the mouse pointer.
PixelClawA tiny pixel crab that lives on your Dock
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Yeah, this took some iteration on my side too. My first instinct was to gate features behind a subscription. After running through the onboarding flow a few times, it started to feel like I was asking people to pay before they’d really had a chance to experience all aspects of the product. I ended up moving toward a fuller free experience. My thinking is that free should be enough for someone...
How do you decide what features should be free and what should be paid?
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Lately I've found myself switching to the 5.4 models in Cursor more often than the built-in 4.6 models. Code results are about the same, but GPT models seem to do a better job of explaining the reasoning.
GPT‑5.4 mini and nanoFast and efficient models optimized for coding and subagents
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This makes a lot of sense. Most of our computers already function as a personal knowledge base, even if it's completely disorganized. It will take some time for trust to warm up to tools like this, but they seem inevitable. Even if the AI runs locally, having a way to easily wipe the AI's memory (clear cache, like a web browser) should provide peace of mind.
LoreCursor for your memory. 100% private, open-source & free.