We Built an All-in-One Mac Tool in 3 Months (Because We Were Sick of Overpriced Apps)
We tried not to use AI to write this post - because the ideas are ours
(Okay, maybe some phrasing help 😋)
We built Brow in ~3 months
Two senior devs
No big team
Just Claude Max running at 100% almost 24/7 and a lot of trying something → seeing if it works → fixing it if it doesn’t → repeating
Why we built it
It started with a simple question:
What do we actually use on our Macs?
We looked at tools like Raycast (we’ve used it for years).
Great product - but in reality?
We were using maybe 5 - 10 plugins max
You install a lot of them…
But most of the time, you don’t even remember they exist
The other 99%?
Just noise
The problem
Mac apps that really solve the problems are expensive
And worse, they’re fragmented
Want to:
- limit battery charging?
- control fans?
- clean storage?
- fix your menu bar?
- connect Android phone?
- adjust display settings?
- and many more...
Cool
Now download 10–20 different apps
…and pay for each of them separately
Yeah, no thanks
What we did instead
We built the tool we wanted to use
Something that is:
- simple
- fast
- actually useful
- with a minimalistic design
One app that solves most real Mac problems
Not everything
Just the stuff people actually use
Built with Claude (and what actually worked)
We used Claude heavily, basically non-stop
But here’s the part most people get wrong:
1. Don’t start the feature implementation from scratch
If something already exists - ask claude to deeply research that topic first
Plan → then build.
This saves insane amounts of time and tokens
2. The beginning matters more than you think
Architecture is everything
Even with AI
We rewrote the core 3 times to get it right and push performance to the limit
Painful, but worth it
Now adding features is:
- faster
- cleaner
- way less buggy
3. Most “AI dev hype” is noise
Agents, MCPs, complex setups…
Honestly?
Didn’t matter much.
What worked:
- good prompts
- clear structure
- tight feedback loops (give Claude the ability to check what he did)
Build → check → fix → repeat
That loop wins
Pricing (and why)
We made almost everything free
Only AI features are paid - because they cost money for us.
No tricks
Distribution
No ads
No big launch
Just:
- SEO
- people finding it
- people using it
And we’re good with that
Why we’re sharing this
We’re building this for ourselves
And for people who are tired of:
- overpriced Mac apps
- bloated tools
- solving one problem per app
If that’s you - try it
Break it
Tell us what sucks
We’ll fix it
Goal
One app that fixes most of the stuff Apple didn’t
See ya
And Brow it 😄
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