Two weeks ago I had 26 stars. Today I have 58. I didn't buy ads — I just kept shipping every week like a maniac.
The first 4–5 months felt like talking to yourself: 30–100 views. But now people noticed. They went to the repo, read the code, and decided this thing is actually worth something. That hits different than 30k views ever could. The best part is people asking, suggesting, shaping hck_GPT with their own questions.
Shipped
- Polish language support — PC Workman finally speaks the language I think in. Over 300 lines of hand-written translations across Dashboard, Settings and My PC. About 50% done; the rest is still being expanded.
- Settings page — now fully functional and persistent (sidebar auto-hide, notifications, TURBO thresholds, units, debug mode and more).
- 23 new hck_GPT intents from community suggestions — another 23+ already waiting in the comments.
- HackerNoon article in review — my fourth piece, a full deep-dive into what PC Workman actually is now.
Scarred: Polish translation looked easy until random widgets decided to ignore the language switch and stay in English forever. I spent an evening hunting ghosts in the UI. Also discovered that some English labels sound genuinely weird translated straight into Polish.
Monday I'm adding the next batch of community intents, with screenshots. Your questions are literally becoming features. A small but real community is starting to shape the project — 10 months ago I had zero of this.
This is the project behind the post. PC Workman is a free, open-source Windows system monitor
with an offline AI assistant - everything described here is real, shipped code.
Download it or read the source.