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I launched my first software product — here's what I built and why

DEV Community·bojanmarata2·24 days ago
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A few weeks ago I got tired of manually sorting my Downloads folder every week. Hundreds of files — PDFs, invoices, screenshots, installers — all dumped in one place. I kept telling myself I'd clean it up later. I never did. So I built something to fix it. DeskGuard is a local desktop utility that automatically organizes your files, runs scheduled backups with version history, and lets you undo any move with one click. No cloud. No account. No subscription. It runs entirely on your machine. You set rules like: Move all .pdf files → Documents/Work Move anything named "invoice" → Finance/Invoices Archive files older than 30 days → Archive/Old Drop a file in your Downloads folder and within 10 seconds it's gone — moved exactly where it belongs. The watchdog runs silently in the system tray and you never think about it again.…

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