Productivity apps used to help us do more. Now they're doing more to us AI features nobody asked for, paywalled basics, and ClickUp dashboards that need their own onboarding.

The average company now runs 275 SaaS tools and flushes ~$18M/year on unused licenses.

So let's cut through the noise: $1,000, one productivity app what's the first feature you ADD and the first one you KILL?

Drop your build below.

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Whether you are a beginner looking for your first open-source PR or a senior dev looking for a meaningful civic-tech project, we’d love your help!

A month ago, I had shared civiclens - a civic media platform designed to empower Kenyan citizens to document, verify, and hold leaders accountable for the state of public infrastructure and services across all 47 counties. Several people suggested we make it open-source and that's what I have just done

The Problem: Too often, public infrastructure (roads, water, schools, healthcare) falls into disrepair, and it's hard to keep track of exactly where the issues are and who is responsible for fixing them.

The Solution: civiclens a website that acts as a national ledger. Citizens can capture photo or video evidence of issues, geotagged to their exact ward, constituency, and county. The platform then automatically links the report to the responsible elected officials (MCA, MP, Governor, Senator).

We also implemented a weighted trust-scoring system where the community can verify or dispute reports, ensuring the platform remains a credible, self-governing ledger that journalists, NGOs, and policymakers can rely on.

The Tech Stack: We just open-sourced the entire codebase! It’s built with a modern stack:

• Frontend: React 19, TypeScript, Vite 6, Tailwind CSS v4, Framer Motion
• Mapping: React Leaflet
• Backend/DB: Supabase (PostgreSQL + PostGIS for spatial queries + Auth + RLS)
• Media: Cloudinary

Links:

• 🐙 GitHub Repo: https://github.com/Ml-gur/Civic-evidence-kenya
• 📖 Check out our CONTRIBUTING.md to see how to get started!

Would love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or answer any questions you have about the architecture!

I thought you guys joke when you say people get paid 35k for a senior role until it happens to me.

Tell me if you have experienced this as well;

Last week I received a call from some guy I don't even remember applying to his firm. A mzungu who speaks a bit of Swahili to try and show me he is really invested in the Kenyan market as he said it.

We talked but I realised he was more interested in my personal life and a particular Real estate Automation project I am working on (took almost half the interview time) more than the interview itself and the role he said he was to offer me which was a very very different role from the project even to a point of asking me to share the code for my project.

I was ok to share it until we got to salary where he mentioned he is going to pay me handsomely - thate fae (35 sausand Kenya shilling) a month working 5 days from 8 to 6 and for bonuses and benefits,he told me -'you will grow with the company'. I've never worked in an office that has only worked remotely but had he a better offer I could have considered it.

You recruiters really need to be serious man. Have you guys experienced this.