r/LaunchMyStartup

Hey everyone,

I've been working on a macOS app called ClearCut, and it started as something I built for myself.

I kept running into the same problem: doing simple file tasks on Mac means bouncing between multiple apps. Compress a video before emailing it? You need one app. Convert MOV to MP4? Another one, or maybe a terminal command. Merge a couple of PDFs? That's Preview. Resize a batch of images? Maybe some online tool that wants you to upload your files to their server.

None of these tasks are complicated. But the workflow of opening 3-4 different tools (or worse, uploading to random websites) for basic stuff always felt wrong to me. So I started building one app that just does all of it, locally.

What ClearCut does right now (41 tools across 4 categories):

• Video (14 tools) - compression with CRF control and codec selection, format conversion (MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM, AVI), frame-accurate trimming, resizing, speed adjustment, merging, rotation, GIF maker, watermark, captions, and a video downloader with 4K support
• Audio (10 tools) - extraction from video to MP3/AAC/FLAC/WAV, format conversion, basic processing
• Image (8 tools) - resize, convert, optimize across common formats
• PDF (9 tools) - merge, split, compress, encrypt/decrypt, and more

Everything runs 100% on your Mac. No cloud uploads, no accounts, no sign-ups. You drag a file in, pick a tool, and export. That's it.

What I focused on building:

I wanted something that feels like a native Mac app, not an Electron wrapper or a web view. ClearCut is built for macOS, optimized for Apple Silicon, and supports drag and drop. The goal was always: open the app, do the task, get the file, move on. No friction.

It's also localized in 13 languages.

Pricing:

All 41 tools are completely free to use, one file at a time, with no time limits or feature gates. You can use ClearCut forever without paying anything.

Pro is only needed if you want batch processing (multiple files at once), parallel job execution, professional format support, all encoding presets, 4K/8K downloads with playlist support, and no watermarks on GIF exports. There's a lifetime plan available if you want to own it forever with free updates.

What I'd love feedback on:

• Which tools do you actually reach for on a daily basis?
• Anything missing from your workflow that you wish was in one place?
• If you try it, where does it feel slower or clunkier than it should?

I'm actively working on the next update which will expand audio, image, and PDF workflows further. Happy to answer any questions.

Website: clearcut.pro Mac App Store: Download here

I cooked this amazing launch video in under 30 minutes using a AI tool named Clickcast , now I'm ready to launch 🚀

hey! i kept overwatering my plants so i made a small app to help with that 😭

it’s super beginner-focused and pretty simple, just trying to make plant care less stressful

still kinda testing it so if anyone wants to try it and give honest feedback i’d really appreciate it 🙏

https://dontletyourplantsdie.lovable.app

We noticed something while building and using productivity tools:

Most products focus on helping you save things
Very few help you actually go back to them

So we built Rewindly.

The idea is simple:

Save anything in one place, and when you want to revisit, instead of digging through everything, you just choose your time and mood, and it surfaces something relevant from your own saved content

Small shift, but it changed how we use saved links

We’re still early and trying to validate:

Do people actually want help revisiting content, or is saving enough?

Would really appreciate honest feedback

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/rewindly/fojbijikclookloadmkfgeflobplnlng

The thing nobody tells you about being bad at explaining things

It's not that you're bad at communicating.

It's that you're thinking in pictures and speaking in words.

Every time you've watched someone's eyes glaze over mid-explanation — that's not you failing. That's the format failing. Words are just a terrible container for visual ideas.

I've watched brilliant people lose arguments they were right about. Seen great ideas die in meetings because the person couldn't draw fast enough. Seen students fail exams on content they actually understood.

All of it comes down to the same thing: they couldn't make it visual fast enough.

Kreo is the tool I wish existed for every one of those moments.

Upload your notes → flashcards

Describe your idea → flowchart

Explain your product → working UI

Share your data → Excel, PPT, whatever lands

$1/month. No project setup. You just go.

Not a mockup. Not a description.

The actual thing.

Kreo takes whatever you throw at it — a thought, a PDF, a screenshot, a wall of text — and makes it visual and interactive on the spot.

Flowchart. Live UI. PPT. Excel. Flashcard deck from your lecture notes. Study guide from a textbook. Anything that should be shown instead of explained.

No project setup. No workspace. No onboarding. You open it, type or upload, and it's there.

The difference from v0 or Lovable — those are builders, you go there with a plan. Kreo is for the moment. Meeting in 20 minutes. Notes to study tonight. Concept you need to show right now.

The difference from Claude or GPT — they give you text back. Kreo renders the live artifact. You interact with it, copy it, download it. The output is the thing.

kreoai.vercel.app

What's the last thing you spent 30 minutes explaining that one visual would've solved?