I Built Windows Desktop Apps to Fix My Own Annoying Workflows

Ping — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 01:41:16 +0000

I didn’t plan to build an app catalog.

I just wanted to fix one annoying problem: my C: drive kept filling up at the worst possible time (usually during releases, obviously).

So I built a cleanup tool for myself.

Then I built another tool.

Then another.

Now WPZ Studio has become a small universe of desktop apps.

The accidental roadmap

The pattern was simple:

Hit a repetitive pain point
Build a focused tool
Use it daily
Improve it when it annoys me again

Very glamorous. Very “indie dev meets chaos management.” 😄

What I ended up building

Instead of one app, it turned into a full lineup:

Productivity tools (clipboard, file utilities, zip/PDF/Excel helpers)
Utility + diagnostics tools (network checks, log analysis, cleanup)
Developer-focused tools (event log analysis, Terraform workflow support)
Plus education apps and even a desktop pet, because not every app has to be serious

If your computer has ever made you whisper “why are you like this,” I probably built something for that mood.

The website side

The repo is a GitHub Pages site that works as a live app catalog with:

category filters
keyword search
sorting
multilingual content

So yes, I built tools to save time, then built a site to organize the tools I built to save time.

The recursion is complete.

Why I keep doing this

I like shipping software that solves specific, boring, real problems:

“What changed in these two Excel files?”
“Why is this server acting weird?”
“How is disk space gone again?”
“Can this repetitive task just disappear?”

For me, good desktop software should be boring in the best way: reliable, fast to learn, and always there when needed.

If you want to explore WPZ Studio

🌐 Website: https://pudavidamai.github.io/wpzstudio/

🛍 Microsoft Store publisher page: https://apps.microsoft.com/search/publisher?name=WPZStudio