Adam Godsall | Microapps Studio

Independent UK developer behind Microapps Studio. Building Mac apps & creative tools, including @MicroNotch and @KordraUK. Sharing what I ship and learn.

[Adam Godsall | Microapps Studio @godsall_dev]

With the official product launch on product hunt, today has been extremely busy.

So for 14 days only grab a further 20% off your lifetime purchase of https://t.co/7lgVMUdU2W with code: MICROX20

Thank you to all who have helped me along the way and shared my updates.

Happy notching.

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@JamesMontemagno Nice idea. Fumbling the next command mid-demo is how every live demo dies. Does it handle multi-line snippets, or one command per paste?

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@DanKornas Once you run more than two agents, the bottleneck stops being the work. It's noticing one has been sat waiting for you for ten minutes.

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@web3devop Both, honestly. Claude Code when I'm still working out what to build, Codex when the plan's clear and I just want it done. The real skill is noticing which mode you're in.

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@victor_bigfield Claude Code goes down and suddenly everyone remembers they have a landing page. Best forced marketing day of the month.

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@axhiii88547 The one whose limits I hit least mid-task. Running out at 4pm with a half-finished refactor costs way more than the $20.

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@iamlukethedev 482 PRs in a day is wild. Continuing a stopped subagent after a crash is the one I'd care about most. Losing a long agent run to a dropped terminal is the worst feeling in AI coding.

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@ujjawalasthana Agree with most of this. AI makes building cheap, so the temptation is to build everything. The real cost was never the code, it's owning it at 2am when it breaks. Build what makes you different, rent the rest.

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@RahulNK "Which pane needs me" is the real problem with running agents in parallel. The work isn't the bottleneck, noticing it's waiting is. Nice one for making it open source.

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@arammelkoumov Seven sessions gone in one restart hurts. I commit before every agent run partly for this, but the context is the bit you can't get back. How are you restoring it, saved transcripts?

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@nguyenphusi13 The leftover dev servers are the sneaky ones. Three sessions in and I've got four dev servers fighting over ports. Does watch-my-ram kill them for you, or just warn?

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@thevibefounder Fully agree. It's my own voice, it shouldn't need a server. That's why I built MicroVoice in MicroNotch fully on-device: hold Fn, talk, done.

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@itsvlady Same here. Voice built into one tool never sticks, because the habit is holding one key in every app. My test: does the text land where the cursor is, without a stray full stop?

[Adam Godsall | Microapps Studio @godsall_dev]

Every week someone posts "I rebuilt this paid app in an hour."

Good. They should.

The first version was never the hard part. The hard part is still answering the support email in month six, when the hour-long version has gone quiet.

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@ezra_sf @micronotch Parakeet plus a tiny cleanup model is a lovely setup. Nothing leaving the machine is the whole pitch for dictation, honestly. Are you planning to release it, or keeping it as your own tool?

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@attacomsian Nice, local and cloud is the right mix. Some days you want it private, some days you want the big model. How are people splitting between the two so far?

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@YoureNetWorthIt Ha, local models arguing with a "chief of staff" sounds like most meetings I've been in. Did you end up giving one of them the final say, or just cut it down to fewer agents?

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@antoresc Never taking focus is the right call, nothing worse than an approval eating half a sentence. Smart to lean on the documented hooks too, and being upfront in the README about what might break is more than most do.

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@maomao000211 Congrats on shipping! Per-screen vs global is such a good call. It's exactly the bit nobody thinks about until they plug in a second display. Which mode are people picking so far?

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@anupamrjp https://t.co/b2bExnEwQ2