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Hi HN,

I made an Android (iOS coming soon) app called Pebbles for the recurring chores of being an adult: car registration, filters, smoke alarms, dentist, appliance servicing, pet meds... the list of tiny obligations that somehow become emergency situations.

Idea: turn “boulders” into “pebbles” by reminding you early, consistently, and on a schedule that doesn’t make you hate your phone.

Highlights • Offline-first (no account required) • Granular recurring reminders + notification windows • Built for the “I’ll definitely remember” crowd (that's me)

Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pebbles.ap...

If you try it: tell me what’s missing, what’s annoying, and what you’d pay for (if anything) once sync exists.

Hey HN,

I had an annoying little problem so I built a tiny CLI to scratch the itch.

We trigger deployments via git tags for different environments (v0.0.0 for prod, s0.0.0 for staging, etc). With multiple devs in the same repo, my workflow became:

- Manually creating tags in GitLab’s UI

- Clicking around to see “what’s the latest tag for staging?” and “who last touched prod?”

- Squinting at raw git tags that aren’t very friendly for this use case

I wanted a way to see, increment, and push environment-specific tags without leaving the terminal.

So I wrote a small CLI that: - list – shows the latest tag per environment, plus who created it and how long ago

- bump [env] – lets you pick an env, finds the latest tag with that prefix, bumps the patch version, optionally adds an annotation, creates the tag, and pushes it to origin

It’s just a thin wrapper around git, no extra state or infra – basically a nicer UX for deployment tags, but this has been helpful for me so hopefully it can be helpful for you.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/youreit

I'm working on a product (board-game) and I'm struggling to build a market and get interest in the project.

The project isn't finished, but I'm trying to work on building a market to launch to when it's ready.

If you want to check out the project there's a free "print-and-play" version here: http://games.prettydamnneat.com (just click the button to trigger the download if you don't want to sign up).

How have you marketed your products or services and how effective were they?

I have just purchased my first home and I would like to make the most of it, but I have no idea where to start.

I'd like to setup maintenance schedules to make sure everything it looked after, and I love the idea of home-automation too.

Is anyone here in a, or been in similar situation and can share some advice?

I'm coming up to 2 years in my current position and a review is looming.

I feel I personally have added a lot of value to the company but I have a difficult time articulating it.

Do you have a particular method, or any tips & tricks that might have to best handle your performance reviews?