You've been friendzoned

gm friends and welcome back to the Leaderboard. In today's issue: a tool to manage your friendships, an AI IDE that skips the annoying setup, and the one good Windows feature has made its way to Mac.

P.S. Want your launch to be featured in this newsletter? Drop us a line with your pitch at editorial@producthunt.co 🫶

Friendzone is a privacy-first personal CRM for iPhone that keeps birthdays, notes, gift ideas, and catch-up nudges safely in iCloud. Import contacts, tag chats, and open one clean dashboard so you never blank on the little stuff.

🔥 Our Take: Remembering friends in your head is like bookmarking tweets, good intention, zero recall. Friendzone turns that chaos into quick nudges to be a decent human. No cringe “social score”, just a ping to text Sam before six months slip by, and every note stays on your phone, not an ad server.

Gadget is a browser IDE that shows up with the boring bits already handled: database, auth, testing, hosting, and an assistant that can scaffold routes or tables when you get lazy. Start a project, write code, hit deploy, and the app goes live on Gadget’s cloud—no AWS spelunking required.

🔥 Our Take: My last side project drowned in config before I wrote a single feature. Gadget lets you skip the yak-shave and get straight to building something people can click. If setup is the part you fake-smile through, this feels like hitting fast-forward.

DockDoor adds live window thumbnails to your macOS dock. Hover an icon to see every open window, then close, minimise, or drag it without fishing through Mission Control. There’s a Windows-style Alt+Tab switcher, it’s free, open-source, and it keeps your data on your machine.

🔥 Our Take: No more roulette when you’re trying to find the right Chrome window. A quick peek saves the wrist-gymnastics of flipping through ten apps, and you don’t have to pay or hand over analytics like with the old HyperDock clones. Small tweak, big sanity boost.

Kevin Londoño vented: “Why is it so hard to find someone who actually sticks around to build?”

Replies split three ways:

Reality-check crew: People bail once the honeymoon’s over—ship anyway and learn as you go.
Community hunters: Stop chasing a mythical co-founder and jump into hackathons, Discords, or build-in-public threads where momentum is shared.
Solo starters: Knock out a scrappy MVP yourself; nothing attracts teammates like a project that already exists.

The thread is half pep talk, half tough love—worth a scroll if your co-founder search is starting to feel like ghost hunting.