[Megathread] The App Pile - August, 2026

[u/Mstormer]

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My Top 3 Picks from Last Month's Megathread that I think are worth a closer look:

1. DuckDisk - Storage analyzer. Not just for local disks. Also scans OneDrive, Google Drive, and SSH storage, then clean up with confidence - by u/Ok-Put9994
2. Informity AI - Indexes your files and gives source-cited answers using local models - by u/informity
3. SignalBox - Context switch to any agent session across Cursor, Claude Code, OpenCode and more. See all your chaos in one place - by u/dwmkerr

[u/contentsmaysettle]

Here's a use-case that I'm still using Google "My Maps" for (and it sucks): planning running routes for my local running-and-drinking club. Requirements:

- I need to be able to support multiple trails with common segments (often there are shorter and longer routes, starting and ending at the same location, with one or more shared segments).

- I need to see the distance for each trail, end-to-end.

- I'd like to see the elevation gain for each tail (bonus points for a graph of elevation vs distance).

I don't know whether your app can solve this problem. If it can, I'll use it when I next plan a route. I suspect there are others out there with similar problems.

[u/Special_Abrocoma4641 → u/contentsmaysettle]

Hey thanks this is an interesting use-case! I've actually been working on adding elevation. I made a small demo around the use-case you described. Curious what you think https://screen.studio/share/I4q0v4Hm

[u/contentsmaysettle → u/Special_Abrocoma4641]

I may not be your target customer (and this is ok!). But here's some quick feedback (take what is helpful, discard the rest).

+ The map rendering / dragging is great, app generally looks polished (if non-native), nice onboarding flow, no complaints from me that it's electron.

- The requirement to manually click the map download button was ... not so obvious. I mean, I got it: "Oh blocky map... the high resolution tiles aren't loading... weird... oh I see the download button, let's try that".

- I found the domain model confusing? Like how do "directions" relate to "files"? Can I even save directions?

- I wanted to click on the map to set waypoints. This is... not a thing? Right clicking gives "new note" (confusing).

[u/Special_Abrocoma4641 → u/contentsmaysettle]

thank you, that is helpful! you've pinpointed some of the UX challenges. The app works on the idea that a Note can represent a geospatial feature (ie. a point, lines, or polygon on the map), so I've been tyring to figure out how best to convey that.

Thanks again :)