Table of Contents
This is the list of every app I built for myself. Most of them replaced a commercial app I used for years: Alfred, Path Finder, OBS, Hazel, TextMate, Fantastical. The others do a job no app did the way I wanted. Each one has its own note with the story, the numbers and how it's built.
They all started the same way. I describe what I want in 1 line, my agent studies how I use the old app, asks me its questions with a recommended answer for each, writes a spec, and builds the app once I approve it. Then I use it every day and keep changing it. Why I work this way: see The era of personal software is here.
The apps
41 apps. 29 of them replaced 33 apps I used to run. The other 12 do something no app did for me before.
Writing and files
| App | What it does | Replaced |
|---|---|---|
 Notee |
Markdown editor for my notes, with workspaces |  VS Code |
 Textee |
Text editor and clipboard scratchpad |  TextMate |
 Stickee |
1 sticky note of to-dos, full screen on demand |  Stickies |
 Filee |
Dual-pane file manager |  Path Finder |
 Lastee |
Recent files: 1 hotkey copies the newest path |  Trickster |
 Foldee |
Folders in every Open and Save dialog |  Default Folder X |
 Sortee |
Sorts, renames and moves files by rules |  Hazel |
 Geminee |
Finds duplicate files and folders, trashes or links the copies |  Gemini 2 |
 Handee |
Copies files between the Mac and iPhone or iPad |  AnyTrans |
 Imagee |
Image viewer with presets, WebP and ImageKit upload on 1 key |  Preview,  ImageOptim |
 Tablee |
SQLite and CSV viewer and light editor, read-only until I press ⌘E |  TablePlus,  Easy CSV Editor |
 PDFee |
PDF app: view, compress, fill, sign, redact and rearrange, 1 key per tool |  PDF Squeezer,  Nitro PDF Pro |
Keyboard and desktop
| App | What it does | Replaced |
|---|---|---|
 Launchee |
Keyboard launcher for apps, files, URLs and scripts |  Alfred |
 Clipee |
Clipboard history | Alfred |
 Snippee |
Text expander |  Espanso |
 Shotee |
Screenshots in 1 key, with an annotation editor |  CleanShot X |
 Tilee |
Tiling window manager in Hammerspoon |  Amethyst |
 Dictee |
Local dictation: hold Caps Lock, speak, paste |  Wispr Flow |
 Shelfee |
Every menu bar icon by name in 1 menu, the others hidden |  Bartender |
Communication and time
| App | What it does | Replaced |
|---|---|---|
 Emailee |
Mail app for my personal mailboxes |  Mail |
 Calendee |
Keyboard-first week calendar |  Fantastical |
 Clockee |
World clock card in the screen corner, with the next meeting in the client's time | Nothing: new |
Media and studio
| App | What it does | Replaced |
|---|---|---|
 Hifee |
Music player for my lossless library and Apple Music |  Audirvana |
 Recordee |
Screen and camera recorder with scenes |  OBS |
 Pitchee |
Records and edits demo videos | Nothing: new |
 Webcamee |
Virtual camera that keys out my green wall |  ATEM Mini |
 Movee |
Movie tracker with watchlists and AI picks |  IMDb |
 Lightee |
Key Lights, Hue lights and Night Shift from 1 panel, 1 key or 1 command, with presets |  Elgato Control Center,  Shifty |
 Playee |
Video player with frame grabs for notes, bookmarks and clip export |  VLC,  IINA |
 Tubee |
Video downloader: 1 hotkey saves the video in my browser tab |  Pulltube |
Work and NicAI
| App | What it does | Replaced |
|---|---|---|
 NicAI CC |
Control centre for what my AI delivers | Nothing: new |
 Eventee |
B2B events: people, meetings and follow-ups | Nothing: new |
 Prospectee |
Outreach sequences drafted in my voice, sent after my review | Nothing: new |
 Reachee |
A personal prospecting page per SDR, ticks synced back |  Excel |
 Intakee |
Files every new file: dedupes it, checks privacy, routes it to the right folder | Nothing: new |
 Pulsee |
Watches the Mac and my AI jobs: 1 alert per failure, with the fix in the text | Nothing: new |
 Deckee |
Every deck in 1 searchable library, presented on the shared screen | Nothing: new |
Home and admin
| App | What it does | Replaced |
|---|---|---|
 Receiptee |
Matches missing bank receipts with invoices, uploads after my OK | Nothing: new |
 Scanee |
1 scanner button to an OCR'd, filed, searchable archive | Nothing: new |
 Familee |
Private family iPhone app around our shared calendar | Nothing: new |
 Sentree |
Camera window on the Mac when a person is detected outside | Nothing: new |
What they have in common
- Built with Claude Code. I don't write the code. I decide what the app does, test it and ask for changes.
- Speed first. Every app has measured speed budgets, and each one has to beat the app it replaces. Speed is the main reason I switch.
- Only what I use. Parity with what I used in the old app, plus the 1 to 3 things I always wanted. Everything else waits for version 2.
- 1 look. Every app uses my own design system, the same as this site: black and white with red, and the hexagon edelweiss logo in every icon.
- Built for my agents too. Each app has a command-line interface with JSON output. My Claude Code sessions read an app's state and run its actions without the window, so NicAI can drive every app. See What is NicAI and NicAI CC: the command centre for my Claude Code sessions.
- Private by default. The apps run on my Mac and keep my data local. A few repos will go public once they're clean.
Where the list comes from
The tables are generated from 1 data file, so this page stays current: each new app gets a record and an icon, and a script rebuilds the tables and the overview graphic. Apps whose note isn't public yet appear without a link.
NicAI
Written by NicAI, Nic's AI assistant, for his personal knowledge base. Researched and drafted by the model, not hand-written by Nic. Verify anything you plan to act on.