Mayank Gupta

I ship small Mac apps with AI agents and share what actually works.
→ Tidzy: find any file by what's in it
→ Copse: Mac fastest clipboard
Engineer @crowdlinker

[Mayank Gupta @mayank0324]

introducing tidzy 🎉

you never remember what a file is called.
you remember what was in it.

so that's how tidzy searches:

"wifi password" → the screenshot from march
"pdfs from gmail last week" → right there
"boarding pass" → even if it's eticket_83920.pdf

it reads the text in every screenshot, photo and pdf on your mac, and you can copy it straight out.

all on-device. nothing leaves your mac.
live today 👇

[Mayank Gupta @mayank0324]

@kingloves2code congrats King 🚀 “your mac didn’t fill up overnight. something grew” is a great line

[Mayank Gupta @mayank0324]

@TheAhmadOsman yolo mode is fine inside a container. on your actual laptop it’s a coin flip with your home folder

[Mayank Gupta @mayank0324]

@SamVale29 one sentence, one promise. stealing that for my next landing page

[Mayank Gupta @mayank0324]

@LLiepenieks a decade at least 😅 the day i could search inside screenshots, i stopped opening it

[Mayank Gupta @mayank0324]

I stopped opening Finder.

Tidzy replaces it on my Mac:

→ Every file sorted by what it is
→ Search the text inside screenshots, photos and PDFs
→ Ask in plain English: “invoice from gmail last week”
→ Clean up in one click
→ Undo anything

[Mayank Gupta @mayank0324]

@ghz86 no fastlane, just a few plain scripts. one builds and codesigns the app, one runs notarytool and staples, one makes the dmg, and a release script ties them together. it all runs on the command line tools

[Mayank Gupta @mayank0324]

my agent's first suggestion for my mac app was "install xcode".

i said no.

two mac apps shipped since then without opening xcode once. swiftpm, command line tools and one build script.

[Mayank Gupta @mayank0324]

100% on your Mac. Nothing uploaded.
https://t.co/OiYfMTmUxw

[Mayank Gupta @mayank0324]

@JustinasRoland0 same lesson here. replies did more for my account in two weeks than my own posts did before

[Mayank Gupta @mayank0324]

@maomao000211 it’s allowed 😄 the agent just suggests what most tutorials say. turns out you can push back

[Mayank Gupta @mayank0324]

@artizdat honestly, that’s the gap. i’m not keeping dsyms yet. the plan is to save them with every release and run atos, which comes with the command line tools too. good catch 🙏

[Mayank Gupta @mayank0324]

@SamVale29 and when the search is bad, the answer is confidently wrong. the search is the whole job

[Mayank Gupta @mayank0324]

@Al_Grigor i went the other way. i don’t write most of it anymore, but nothing ships until i’ve looked at it. that’s the one part i won’t hand over

[Mayank Gupta @mayank0324]

@GergelyOrosz @Lethain the tool choice quietly became a context choice. agents work best wherever the context is easiest to read

[Mayank Gupta @mayank0324]

@sainotsoai glad it helped 🙌 what are you building at springg?

[Mayank Gupta @mayank0324]

@sainotsoai same, that’s the part i was dreading too. turns out it’s all just terminal: codesign with the developer id cert, then xcrun notarytool submit and stapler staple. both come with the command line tools, so xcode never had to open. the dmg goes through the same steps

[Mayank Gupta @mayank0324]

@soltwagner Tidzy. it’s a smarter Mac finder: search inside your files, screenshots and pdfs included. “pdfs from gmail last week” just works, all on your mac

https://t.co/azidzdWkyn

[Mayank Gupta @mayank0324]

the most useful file in my mac app's repo isn't code.

it's DECISIONS.md.

every call we've already made, with the reason. when the agent suggests something we ruled out, it reads the file and drops it.

[Mayank Gupta @mayank0324]

@GMIDave try claude code. hand it a real repo and a small task, then watch it plan, edit the files and run the tests. that’s the week where it clicks

[Mayank Gupta @mayank0324]

thank you @GuptaPrachi0810 for sharing this 🙏

[Prachi Gupta @GuptaPrachi0810]

I've never posted on X before. Never felt the need.

But today I'm sharing my experience with Tidzy, a Mac app that finds any file by what's inside it. It saved me potentially lakhs and hours of stress, so it's worth talking about.

Here's my story 🧵👇