PC_Workman v.1.6.3

AI-powered PC monitoring built on a dying laptop

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AI-powered PC monitoring built on a dying laptop

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AI-powered PC monitoring that explains what's happening, not just shows numbers. Voltage spike? CPU on 90%? PC Workman will show WHY and Explain! Features: - Time travel monitoring,debug issues from hours ago - AI diagnostics with HCK_GPT - Custom fan curves with profiles - Floating always-on-top widget - 2D system map - Cross-GPU support (NVIDIA/AMD/Intel) Built solo on dying hardware. 680+ hours. Four rebuilds. 24,000 lines of code. Free. Alpha v1.6.3.

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Launch tags:User Experience•Software Engineering•Artificial Intelligence

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Hey! I'm Marcin, and I'm launching something I built while working as an order picker in the Netherlands. The Honest Version: PC_Workman is alpha software. It has bugs. The UI will change. Some features are rough. But it works. And it solves a problem I had: monitoring tools that show numbers without explaining what they mean. The Journey Nobody Talks About: Nine months ago, I moved to the Netherlands for a warehouse job. Every evening after 10-hour shifts, I coded. Weekends. Holidays. All of it. My laptop hit 94°C during testing. Multiple times. It somehow survived. I lost my job December 22nd (three days before Christmas). Instead of panicking, I started rebuild #4. Four complete rewrites. 39,000 lines of code down to 24,000. Not adding features—deleting them. 29 features built and killed because they looked good on paper but were useless in practice. 680+ hours total. No team. No funding. Just Python, Claude AI as my co-founder, and way too much coffee. What Actually Works: Time Travel Monitoring - Click any point on the graph, see what was running hours ago AI Diagnostics (HCK_GPT) - Explains bottlenecks, not just numbers Fan Control - Custom curves, profiles, real-time RPM Floating Widget - Always-on-top CPU/RAM/GPU overlay 2D System Map - Visual component layout with compatibility checking Cross-GPU Support - NVIDIA, AMD, Intel What Doesn't Work (Yet): Antivirus may flag it (no code signing certificate yet—costs $200 I don't have) Occasional crash when exiting Minimal Mode UI still evolving Why I'm Here: Not for validation. Not for upvotes (though they're nice). I'm here because PC_Workman being on Product Hunt means something. It means nine months of warehouse shifts and late-night coding wasn't for nothing. It means one person with dying hardware can still ship something real. Try It If: -You're tired of Task Manager showing "87% CPU" with no explanation -You want to understand your PC, not just monitor it -You're okay with alpha software built by one guy -You believe good tools shouldn't require subscriptions Don't Try It If: -You need production-ready polish -You can't handle bugs -You want 24/7 support (it's just me) What's Next: v2.0 (Q2 2026): Local AI inference, auto-updates, code signing v3.0 (2026): Microsoft Store, full production release The Ask: Download it. Break it. Tell me what's wrong. That's how it gets better. If it helps you, that's the win. If you want to support continued development: Ko-fi link in my profile. If you can't support financially: feedback is just as valuable. Every bug report, every suggestion, every "this doesn't make sense" makes PC_Workman better. Links: Website: https://huckler2003.github.io/PC... Updates: @hck_lab Journey: linkedin.com/in/marcinfirmuga Thanks for being here. Thanks for reading. Thanks for giving PC_Workman a shot. Building in public means showing the messy parts too. Here they are. -Marcin Built between warehouse shifts Shipped despite dying hardware Free because it should be P.S. - The console window that pops up? That's the debug helper. If something breaks, attach that log when reporting issues. It's there to help, not to look professional.

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2mo ago

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Hey Hello! You know that moment when "quick fix" turns into 3 weeks of deep work? Yeah, that happened.
Started with: "Let's fix the chart data system" (estimated: 1 days)
Ended with: Complete rebuild of PC_Workman 1.6.8

What changed:
Built HCK_STATS_ENGINE from scratch
New data aggregation pipeline - hourly/daily stats, SQLite with WAL mode, crash-safe transactions. Real historical data instead of temporary placeholders.

Made AI actually intelligent
Context-aware assistant that learns your patterns. "Good morning, CPU spiked yesterday at 3 PM, Chrome again?" Knows when you game, work, or just browse. Proactive, not reactive.

70% performance boost
Main loop: 300ms → 1000ms. Widget pooling instead of destroy/recreate. Background threading for heavy telemetry. Canvas rendering orders of magnitude faster.

Fixed 2 critical bugs
Data aggregation multi-tier fallback (no more double-counting). Telemetry sanitization (system noise filtered out, 100% CPU cap).

Polish everywhere
Consolas mono-font, purple accents, defensive coding with winfo_exists() guards, deleted 500+ lines of dead code.

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12d ago

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PC_Workman v1.6.3: First .EXE Shipped After 6 Months of Solo Development

First time I packaged 680+ hours of solo development into something real people can actually download and use.

The journey:

December 22: Deleted 16,000 lines at 3 AM (wasn't good enough)

4 complete UI rebuilds
6 months of iteration
Yesterday: First .exe shipped

What changed immediately:

Real users found real bugs
Fixed them same day
Started real feedback loop

What PC_Workman does: Unified system monitoring (GPU, CPU, RAM, services, optimization, cleanup)

does what 3 separate apps do, in one place.

Really thank you for upvotes. I working for you users! <3

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2mo ago

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