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I started doing the same but with macOS apps: https://lowtechguys.com

Reading about the author's projects in the past is actually what inspired me to do it.

I used Windows for a long time before as a power user (living my life in FarManager and WinAPI), then switched to Ubuntu with i3.

After finally switching to the Mac, I loved its simplicity and how it freed my mind from micro-managing the system, but I also noticed its shortcomings and how some things were better on Windows/Linux.

Nowadays I'm making small apps to overcome those macOS shortcomings, and help others find their carefree macOS setup where the system doesn't get in the way of real work.

And it's going pretty well! I've also shared the source of the framework [1] I'm using for these apps, so that I don't have to constantly reimplement payments, licensing [2], SwiftUI styles/components and utility functions on each new project.

[1] https://github.com/FuzzyIdeas/Lowtech [2] https://github.com/FuzzyIdeas/LowtechPro



rcmd looks great. Going to give that a try. Nice work!


Thanks! Hope you find it as useful as I did :)


Any chance you could add licenses and maybe a screenshot to each of those repos?


I haven’t open sourced them in that sense. I don’t want to maintain them for others to use. I just shared the source code for inspiration.




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