Independent UK developer behind Microapps Studio. Building Mac apps & creative tools, including @MicroNotch and @KordraUK. Sharing what I ship and learn.
Nottingham, England
Joined February 2026
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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 MicroNotch.app with code: MICROX20
Thank you to all who have helped me along the way and shared my updates.
Happy notching.
Like hat you see upvote us on producthunt.com/products/mic…
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The more AI writes my code, the more my job turns into reading.
I write less than I ever have. I've never read more diffs.
Turns out the skill that matters now isn't typing fast. It's spotting the one line that's wrong in 400 that look fine.
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By 4 Nov my Mac app's brand account had replied 27 times. Average: 2.9 impressions a reply. Its 8 originals averaged 12.
My own replies brought most of my 13.8K impressions in 4 weeks.
So the brand account posts demos only now. Did brand account replies ever work for you?
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5 rules I use so AI coding agents don't wreck my codebase 🧵
1. Commit before every run. Undo should be one git reset, not an archaeology dig.
2. Ask for the list of files it plans to touch first. If it's 14 files for a typo, stop it there.
3. Big model for planning and gnarly bugs, cheaper model for the actual edits. "Analyse the whole codebase" is how you burn a week's quota before lunch.
4. Read the diff before you accept. Every time. The tool matters less than the habit.
5. Let it run unattended only when the change is boring. Config, auth and build settings get watched step by step.
Which one did you learn the expensive way?
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Got a refactor that touches half the repo?
Try this Claude Code setup. Fable 5.2 owns the plan. Opus 5.5 subagents take one task each. Fable checks each result before handing out the next job.
Copyable prompt in the first reply ↓
ALT Fable conducts opus does the work
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Quick question for my feed:
Have you ever wished there was a tool that just handled the problem without making everything more complicated?
I spent months building exactly that. MicroNotch is live on KittyLaunch today.
Curious to hear what you think:
kittylaunch.com/p/micronotch
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we just launched MicroNotch on ShipDesk.dev.
Mac Productivity Tools & Dictation
an upvote would mean a lot:
shipdesk.dev/p/micronotch?re…
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If you've downloaded MicroNotch and tried a 3 day trial, I'd like to hear what you think. What's working, what's annoying, what's missing?
Recent updates added macOS 15 Sequoia and Intel Mac support, plus Codex approvals from the notch and terminal. Tried them yet?
Replies or DMs both welcome.
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Claude wanted permission to run a command.
I was in another app. I approved it from the notch and carried on.
New in MicroNotch 1.1.6, along with macOS 15 support, so if you're on Sequoia you can finally try it.
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Adam Godsall | Microapps Studio retweeted
MicroNotch 1.1.6.1 is out, with a terminal right in your notch.
Open it from Code Sessions, get to a shell prompt in about 50 ms, and run Codex or Claude Code without leaving what you're doing.
The update is waiting in the app. Full notes at micronotch.app/changelog
Before shipping a terminal inside MicroNotch, I wrote down performance budgets first, then tested against them.
Panel opening: 88 ms, same as the last release. One mode got 3.5% slower, inside my 10% budget.
• Terminal to first shell prompt: 36–56 ms. Budget was 500.
• 50,000 lines while hidden: 117 ms, zero frames drawn.
"Feels fast" isn't a target. Write the number down before you measure.
@micronotch #buildinpublic
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MicroNotch is live on DevHunt today. I'd love your upvote: devhunt.org/tool/micronotch
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My best-performing reply yesterday got 813 views.
It wasn't about my app. It was a joke about my dog deciding when the workday ends.
Still learning that people follow people, not products.
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Nobody warns you that launching an app makes your dog feel like the second product.
Leo and I are taking the afternoon off. Who else's pet keeps them honest about screen time?
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Adam Godsall | Microapps Studio retweeted
1.1.5 is live. (Build 11)
See calls, reply to Messages, and approve Codex commands, all from the notch.
• 3rd-party AI for non-Apple Intelligence Macs
• Apple Notes
• 8 languages
• macOS 15+ now supported
3-day free trial (everything unlocked) → micronotch.app
Pricing, plainly.
Paste lists $29.99 a year or a lifetime plan. Wispr Flow has a free plan, and Pro at $15 per user a month.
Both run on more devices than a Mac. MicroNotch puts clipboard history and English dictation in one £14.99 launch licence for two Macs.
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Before I came back to writing code full time, I ran a homecare business with my wife.
Biggest lesson I brought back to software: the customer who complains is giving you a free roadmap. The one who quietly leaves is the one to worry about.
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Adam Godsall | Microapps Studio retweeted
Building blocks for interactive UI, ready to use as a library, skill or mcp with Claude Code, Cursor or Codex.
44+ transitions, 30+ interactive components
transitions.dev
Coffee, finally ☕
Hey, I'm Adam, an indie dev in the UK.
This week I launched my Mac app, MicroNotch, and it's been a bit manic. It was great chatting with so many of you, though. Thanks to everyone who tried it, asked questions, or just said hi.
Funny thing: I ended up replying to most of those comments with the app's own voice dictation. My fingers are very grateful.
Now it's a quiet Sunday brew, and back at it tomorrow.
Hope you all had a good week too.
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