First solo launch! Need your brutally honest feedback on my open-source app 🙏
Hi Product Hunt! 👋 I'm Changmin, a solo developer from Korea.
Today, I launched my very first project, and to be honest, I'm a mix of terrified and excited.
I built a lightweight macOS utility called ScreenTranslate. The idea came from my own daily frustration: I was reading English open-source docs, and my focus kept getting destroyed by the tedious loop of "Copy → Switch to browser → Google Translate → Paste → Read → Switch back."
I desperately wanted a UX where I could understand text instantly without the active window ever changing. So, I built a tool where you just drag over any text (even locked PDFs or images) to get an instant popup translation.
Since I built this to scratch my own itch, I made it fully open-source. If it can save even a few developers from that context-switching fatigue and keep them in the flow, I’ll consider this a huge win.
Building it was the fun part, but launching is a whole different beast. I'd love to learn from the veteran makers here:
What is your #1 piece of advice for a first-time launcher?
Could you check out my launch and roast my pitch or UX?
Launch page: https://screentranslate.filient.ai/
GitHub: https://github.com/hcmhcs/screenTranslate
Thanks for reading and for your support! 🚀
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