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July 10, 202611 new
- 🟡Nobody remembers when the furnace filter was last changed
- 🟠If you got hit by a bus, your family couldn't access anything
- 🟠Flaky tests erode trust in CI and nobody tracks which ones
- 🟡Twenty years of photos, thousands of near-duplicates, no way to decide
- 🟢You highlight passages in books and never see them again
- 🟡Language apps teach you words but never make you speak them
- 🟡Newsletters pile up unread until you archive them all in shame
- 🟢Deciding what's for dinner every single night, forever
- 🟢Every brand's 'medium' is a different size and returns are the tax
- 🟢Game night spends its first 45 minutes arguing about which game
- 🟢Realizing on Friday night you're out of a prescription until Monday
June 29, 2026initial catalog · 39 problems
- 🟡No simple way to see which subscriptions auto-renew this week
- 🟢Turning a screenshot of a recipe/instructions into a checkable list
- 🟡Splitting a group trip's costs without everyone installing the same app
- 🟠The 200-open-tabs problem: 'I'll read it later' but later never comes
- 🟡Google says open, the door says closed — no trusted source for real hours
- 🟢'What can I cook with only what's already in my fridge?'
- 🟡Forgetting the personal details of people you've met
- 🟡Losing receipts and missing warranty windows on stuff you bought
- 🟢A messy brain-dump that never becomes actual organized tasks
- 🟡Splitting household chores fairly without passive-aggressive sticky notes
- 🟡Studying a long PDF/textbook with no time to make flashcards
- 🟢'Is this message/email a scam?' — older relatives keep asking
- 🟢Never knowing who has the stuff you lent out
- 🟠Can't spot what triggers your recurring headaches/flare-ups
- 🟢The group chat that can't decide where to eat
- 🟡Dreading dependency updates because you don't know what actually changed
- 🟡Comparing two job offers when commute, taxes, and cost-of-living differ
- 🟡Killing houseplants because generic 'water weekly' advice is wrong
- 🟢Blanking on gift ideas for someone you actually know well
- 🟢Re-buying books/games/board games you already own
- 🟢Out of ideas for what to do with a bored kid in the next 30 minutes
- 🟢Paying for subscriptions you forgot you don't use
- 🟠Finding what's happening locally this week without a Facebook account
- 🟢Never finishing books because there's no sense of pace
- 🟡Walking out of a doctor's appointment having forgotten half your questions
- 🟢Dense legal/medical/government letters nobody can actually understand
- 🟡Images across a site with no alt text, and writing it by hand is a slog
- 🟢Spending 40 minutes fighting a regex that should take 2
- 🟢Pasting a cron expression into Google for the hundredth time
- 🟢A wall-of-text stack trace when you just want the one line that matters
- 🟡Looking up the same word for the fifth time because it never sticks
- 🟡Generic interview prep that ignores the actual job you're applying for
- 🟡Wanting envelope budgeting without handing an app your bank login
- 🟠Wanting a price-drop alert without signing up for yet another deal site
- 🟢Meetings end and the action items evaporate
- 🟢'When do I actually need to leave?' math you do wrong under pressure
- 🟡Habit trackers that punish you for one missed day until you quit
- 🟡A cryptic charge on your statement and no idea what it is
- 🟡In a multi-pet household, nobody knows if the dog was already fed