make the internet fun again

gm legends, happy Friday.

Today’s lineup: a little app that swaps one doomscroll for a daily anonymous postcard exchange with a stranger, a Mac cleaner that turns your chaotic desktop into a quick swipe game instead of a Sunday chore, and a local text-to-speech tool that lets your Mac read anything out loud without punting your words to the cloud.

Lost Post is a worldwide question-of-the-day app dressed up as anonymous postcards. Once a day you get a single prompt, write your answer, and send it out into the world. The next day you receive a stranger’s response from somewhere on the planet, complete with stamps, designs, and a little sense of place, plus simple reactions so you can let them know it landed.

🔥 Our Take: Not everything has to be an AI agent or a growth hack. We still need apps that are a bit weird, full of whimsy, and built purely to make people think for a minute and feel less alone. Swapping one doomscroll for a daily postcard from a random human is exactly the kind of internet we could use more of.

Mona Truong shared how her brain used to be stuck on tiny dramas, likes, stories, crushes, who texted back, until she hit the “I don’t even know who I am” wall and started asking bigger questions instead.

Her point is simple: CEOs aren’t born, they start by asking better questions. Who do I want to become? What can I actually build? What problems do I care enough to solve?

Replies from folks like Nika, Karishma, Bhavin and Robert all circle the same theme: growth comes from reflection, revisiting your answers as you change, and pairing ambition with things like empathy, trust and honesty.

If you’re in that in-between phase of “I want more, but I’m not sure what that is,” this thread is basically an invitation to start with better questions, not perfect plans.

MacOS Desktop Declutter turns your pile of random screenshots and half-read PDFs into a fast swipe session. It lets you flick files left to trash or right to keep, spots duplicates and large junk, and groups similar stuff so cleanup feels more like a tiny game than another admin chore.

🔥 Our Take: Desktop clutter usually goes like this: promise to tidy later, make one more folder, never open it again. Turning cleanup into a low stakes swipe game is just dumb enough in a good way to finally clear out that endless wall of screenshot_final_v7.png without feeling like work.

Kokori is a macOS text to speech app that runs entirely on your machine. You get 50+ voices, speed and pitch control, a simple menubar UI, and a local API server so your apps can hit localhost instead of a metered cloud key.

🔥 Our Take: Cloud TTS is great right up until you blow through credits just testing prompts or remember you sent a bunch of sensitive text to some random endpoint. This gives you the same modern voices, but fully local and effectively unlimited, which is exactly what you want when you are wiring TTS into tools and know you are going to hammer it.