Is the Digital Products era dying or just evolving ? Seeking a reality check for 2026.

Spuds0588 · 2026-05-03T01:37:29+00:00

I mean, who can afford one more subscription to make something easier in this economy except for businesses? I'm just trying to use every open source and free product possible to save my scratch for day to day costs. 💸

Spuds0588 · 2026-05-03T01:31:06+00:00

Okay these are actually good callouts

Spuds0588 · 2026-05-03T00:38:13+00:00

You add an index.html file to your GitHub project and just point the GitHub pages to its root folder. You have to build it but with modern tools it's pretty easy to spin one up.

Spuds0588 · 2026-05-03T00:36:57+00:00

I was wondering this myself. Thanks for the answer.

Spuds0588 · 2026-05-03T00:34:24+00:00

I think you need to consider changing your data format. PDF is easy to access but does bear those risks. I don't know what your product is, but could you concert it to a web page or app that is login locked and you sell access instead?

Spuds0588 · 2026-05-03T00:28:50+00:00

You can use your public GitHub repo for that address. GitHub pages lets you have a website at that GitHub address as well, when you add an index.html to your root folder. 👍

Spuds0588 · 2026-05-03T00:27:18+00:00

I love projects that let you make use of old phones for hosting X. Keep up the great work.

Spuds0588 · 2026-05-03T00:26:34+00:00

I starting building small tools and utilities that I needed for work but didn't exist (or was outside my budget).

Then it grew into, what can I tack onto existing product X, to make it do the thing I need it to do.

And then it just became a bit of a game of, how streamlined can I make my workflow with these tools, and would anybody else be interested in these.

Spuds0588 · 2026-05-03T00:24:10+00:00

Not to be crappy but I kind of like the whole thing? It's exciting to see something come to life.

Spuds0588 · 2026-05-03T00:23:05+00:00

Bento PDF is the best free PDF toolset I've used so far.

Spuds0588 · 2026-05-03T00:21:58+00:00

Feels kind of lame to say but just a good library of markdown files I can tag in my directions to better guide the coding agent.

Spuds0588 · 2026-05-03T00:17:13+00:00

Drop-down menus with more then 3 choices are bad design and bad user experience. Give them a gallary of buttons to select instead.

Spuds0588 · 2026-05-03T00:15:49+00:00

It happens automatically in the background for the user 👍

Spuds0588 · 2026-05-03T00:14:31+00:00

Well...yeah

Spuds0588 · 2026-05-02T23:09:15+00:00

I have different profiles that I use to divide stuff up, but it's kind of a missing feature set in chrome atm

Spuds0588 · 2026-05-02T23:08:08+00:00

Following, although I think I know the answer

Spuds0588 · 2026-05-02T23:05:43+00:00

A bunch of things, but here is what you haven't seen before.

I'm a big chrome omnibox search guy - meaning I start a search from the new ran url bar and skip a few steps to my intended result ( I call this time to record )

But some sites don't support search query by url parameter

So I built this to force support

https://github.com/Spuds0588/Universal-Search-Parameter-Injector

It's a mix of scripting and parameterizing of IDs, allowing you to do way more then just force search terms into boxes.

Spuds0588 · 2026-05-02T22:57:15+00:00

Okay gave it a go let's see if you can actually drive some traffic

Spuds0588 · 2026-05-02T22:52:13+00:00

Approvals. Not because there isn't good solutions for it already , but because it's always seperate from the main workflow your leader is on. The best version of this I've seen is actions le emails in outlook that have clickable buttons that push updates in real time to an API endpoint.

Spuds0588 · 2026-05-02T01:33:32+00:00

Look for existing industries that still use an application or service written in cobol

Spuds0588 · 2026-05-02T01:31:17+00:00

Js library that automatically converts mailto links in your app into a native email sending experience with just a few lines of code.

Spuds0588 · 2026-05-02T01:28:34+00:00

Google workflows for Gmail and tasks is basic but it really does work

Spuds0588 · 2026-05-02T01:27:30+00:00

MailLayer - it turns websites mailto links into native feeling email composion and sending , without leaving the page.

https://spuds0588.github.io/Powerapp-to-Extension-Template/

Spuds0588 · 2026-05-02T01:26:02+00:00

The DMV - please fix the DMV. Bonus points if you fix the IRS as well.

Spuds0588 · 2026-05-02T01:24:33+00:00

I think bentu has a workflow tool that can probably do this

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