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Ingeniero Comercial/Terco/I.E./Motivador/Pinta🐒/Agus/Jose/ Sofi/Fer/Maxi/Mel👸🏼Factoring /Alma De👦🏻/IA 🤖/ Tidy/Tenis /🎾/38 Años/Co Founder Apps

Santiago, Chile
Joined June 2020
Replying to @macgems
@macgems Hi! I make Tidy, a $9 menu bar app that names files by reading what's inside them (on-device OCR) and tidies Downloads on its own. Just shipped 2.1 with 9 user-requested features. Happy to send a copy if it looks interesting: tidymacapp.com
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🧵 Why modern software feels like a scam and how a solo developer in Chile built a $9 lifetime alternative. A thread on subscription fatigue and taking back control of your Mac. 💻👇 1/7 Nowadays, if you want an app to clean up your computer, it’s $40/year. To organize your files? Another subscription. We’ve become renters of our own daily work tools. It needs to stop. 2/7 Sebastián, an independent developer, got sick of it. He thought: "Why should users pay month after month for tasks their own computer can easily handle locally?" That’s how Tidy was born. 3/7 Tidy is a tiny app that sits in your menu bar. No data tracking. No monthly credit card charges. You pay $9 ONCE, and it’s yours forever. What does it do? Automated magic using local AI. 4/7 While big corporations send your files to cloud servers for analysis (killing your privacy), Tidy leverages Apple Intelligence’s local Neural Engine. No one—not even us—sees your files. 5/7 It auto-renames chaotic screenshots by reading the text inside them, auto-trashes orphan .dmg installers, and cleans your desktop in a second based on rules you write in plain English. 6/7 Supporting indie developers is the only way to fight corporate subscription greed. You don’t need to spend a fortune to keep your Mac productive and clutter-free. 7/7 If you want to try it or support a solo indie project, grab it here: tidymacapp.com If you hate software subscriptions as much as we do, a RT helps beat the algorithm and spread the word! 🔄 #IndieHackers #BuildInPublic #macOS #AppleIntelligence #Productivity
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Tidy is live on Product Hunt today 🚀 The app that trashed its own installer — $9 once, no subscription, everything on-device. producthunt.com/products/tid…
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I bought my own Mac app today, just to test the checkout. Downloaded the .dmg. Dragged it to Applications. Opened it. Then I went looking for the installer to clean up. It was already in the Trash.
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Tidy had ejected the disk and trashed its own installer. Nobody told it to. That's just what it does. Its first act, seconds after being born, was cleaning up the mess of its own installation. 🧹
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