Tools and software I used long enough to have a real opinion. Some of these I built myself when nothing on the market fit. Others are apps and products from other makers I put through the same testing.More coming as I try them.
Checking a plain box stopped doing it for me, so I built a habit tracker where every check-off celebrates. Here’s how Dopamine Dealer works, the two goals I ran through Goal Rx, and what’s free versus Pro.
I built Subscription Graveyard to track canceled subscriptions, plan the ones on the fence, and catch renewals before they bill. Here’s what’s buried in mine.
Every ingredient in the same row as the step that uses it. I built a Chrome extension that prints recipes that way, and this is what cooking from it is like.
I built Resume Prune because tailoring my resume with a plain AI kept padding it and hiding what changed. This is what it does, and what I flag first.
My emergency fund never stuck because it was a blob inside general savings, so I gave it its own aquarium. The buckets turned out to be the real feature.
I lost every energy observation by morning, so I built a two-second slider log that ranks what charges me against what drains me. A phone call charges me.
My side income kept vanishing, so I built a bill payoff tracker that aims every payment at my smallest bill first and grows a garden as bills fall.
Three things my bio link tool was doing to my affiliate commissions, my traffic, and my FTC compliance. Plus the free replacement I built.
