Three small tools I’m building: call your Mac, check repo setup, and paint GitHub pixels
Hi makers — I’m Manan, the builder behind three projects. I’d appreciate feedback from people who actually have these use cases.
DialDo — https://dialdo.com/
A personal phone number for your Mac. Call, authenticate, and ask it to find files, summarize a PDF, or run an approved workflow. Apple Silicon Macs; $9.99/month. Your Mac needs to be awake and online, and app automation can fail when interfaces change.
Reporun — https://reporun.app/
A free, open-source desktop app that reads a public GitHub/GitLab repo’s requirements, checks your installed tools, and shows commands for you to review before running them. It helps with setup; it does not sandbox or guarantee the project will run.
GitPixelPush — https://gitpixelpush.com/
A browser canvas for contribution-graph art. Draw pixels and preview the plan before creating clearly labeled backdated empty commits. The art is intentionally artificial, and the repository says so.
Which one solves a problem for you? I’d especially like to hear the first task or repo you’d try, and what would make you hesitate.
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Reporun is the one that solves a problem for me. Half of setting up a project is discovering what it silently expects: the Java version an emulator needs, the CLI that isn't on the PATH, the flag the package manager wants on this machine. Showing the commands for review instead of running them is the right call. One idea: many repos now keep a notes file for coding agents, and that's often exactly where those quirks are written down, much more than in the requirements files. Reading it too would make the first run a lot smarter.