I Built Windows Desktop Apps to Fix My Own Annoying Workflows

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

Question for fellow builders: what’s one tiny-but-annoying workflow you wish someone would turn into a desktop app next?