PC_Workman / blog
Monday Grind Blueprint · #5

Most Developers Never Ship an .exe

They push to GitHub, say "clone the repo," and wonder why nobody tries their project.

By Marcin Firmuga·2026-04-27·2 min read·Monday Grind Blueprint #5

Most developers never ship an .exe. They push to GitHub, say "clone the repo," and wonder why nobody tries their project.

Today I'm releasing my second .exe build ever — PC Workman v1.7.2. Anyone can download it, double-click, and see what 800+ hours actually produced. The last .exe was v1.6.8 back in March. Since then:

~60 commits of real work that nobody could run without Python installed — until today.

This week's plan

PC Workman:

  1. Startup Manager — reads your registry, rates boot impact, shows what's safe to disable. Nothing removed without confirmation.
  2. Services Manager — 40+ services categorised and controllable, with TURBO auto-stop / auto-restore.

GuideAI: finalise all subpages so the QR-to-chatbot platform works end to end, and research the payment gateway — where GuideAI stops being a project and starts being a product.

Next week I start Umiejętności Jutra 3.0 — Google's AI certification through SGH, my first structured learning since tech school. Two days off to code first; from Wednesday I'm back behind the register, evening grind after shifts.

What are you building this week?

BuildInPublicPythonOpenSourceIndieHacker
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.
← #4A RAM Optimizer at Midnight, Alarm at 4:30#6 →Starting Google's AI Cert, Expanding hck_GPT
MF

Marcin Firmuga

Solo developer · HCK_Labs · building PC Workman in public

Every edition is written from that week's real commits. Newest posts premiere on LinkedIn - the archive lives here. More about me: my story.