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Four months ago, I was sitting on an upside-down bucket in my garage, surrounded by plastic totes, dust, and tools I had apparently bought multiple times because I could never find them. I decided I was finally going to catalog everything. Years ago, I had used Sortly, so I downloaded it again and started the painful process: Open box. Take photos. Add items. Next box. Two hours later, halfway through Box 3, I hit the 100-item limit. The next plan was $49/month. I just stared at my phone. $49/month..! to remember which plastic tub contains my drill bits. A rational person would have either paid for it or bought a Sharpie. Unfortunately, I've been developing software for 20+ years, so my brain chose option #3: I'll build my own I put the lid back on the box, walked inside with my laptop and told my wife. She sighed! She knew what that meant. For the next four months, I spent nights and weekends building what eventually became Finoo - basically a simple way to photograph your storage boxes, let AI identify what's inside, and search for things later. Last week I finally finished the first public version. So technically, I saved myself a few hundred dollars a year by investing roughly 300 hours of unpaid engineering labor. Peak developer economics. But I genuinely had a lot of fun building it, and I'm putting it out as a free public beta for anyone else with a chaotic garage, workshop, attic, or storage room: ( finoo.app ) If you have a messy storage space, I'd love some blunt feedback. Also curious: what's the most ridiculous thing you've ever built purely because you refused to pay for something?   submitted by   /u/OkCommunity6018 [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/9/16 22:25:54