Stop building admin dashboards

gm legends, happy Wednesday.

Today’s lineup: a Postgres viewer that lets you peek and poke at real data without maintaining some dusty internal admin, an agent builder that turns plain-language process notes into actual automations, and a tiny Mac helper that finally replaces the old “stuff everything into a folder called desktop” move with a real clean-up.

Simpl is a pleasant Postgres browser for working with real data. Simpl gives you a fast UI to browse tables, follow relationships by clicking through, filter with type-aware fields, and make quick inline edits without spinning up a whole internal tool. It connects straight to your database, runs queries in real time, and is a one-time purchase instead of another monthly line item.

🔥 Our Take: Sometimes you just want to open prod, check what is actually in there, tweak a value or two, and leave. Simpl keeps that boring job simple instead of turning it into “let’s build an admin app” or “let me remember psql flags from memory.”

We’re officially in nominees season for the Orbit Awards: AI Workflow Automation.

This category is the “how did I ever do this manually” corner of AI. The tools that connect the messy middle. They route requests, hand off tasks, chase down follow ups, update systems, and generally keep work moving while you’re doing literally anything else.

The products in the running are n8n, Taskade, Zapier , Trace , Relay.app , Gumloop , Lindy, Wordware, Airtop .

Now we want the stories behind the automations. Which one is running your daily ops? Which one replaced a dozen tabs and a recurring headache? What workflow did you set up once and never looked back?

Vellum lets you build AI agents by just describing the task in normal language. It asks follow up questions, wires up the tools, and turns that into a workflow you can run from a UI, on a schedule, or through an API. You get a clear view of each step, so you can see what ran, what broke, and tweak the logic without touching a tangle of scripts.

🔥 Our Take: Devs already have editors and agents that do magic for code while everyone else is still copy pasting into random chats. This goes after that gap and says ops, sales, support, finance and product folks should get proper agents too, without begging an engineer every time something changes. The interesting part is how much busywork you can hand off once the process in your head is finally written down and running on its own.

Tidey cleans up your cluttered desktop in a couple of clicks. Instead of dragging everything into sad little piles, it sweeps your files into a clean, organized layout so you can actually see your wallpaper again and find things without hunting.

🔥 Our Take: The classic move is Select All → New Folder → name it “Desktop” and pretend that counts as sorting. Tidey is basically that muscle memory turned into a proper reset button, so you get the same instant relief without the fake organization.