Why this site exists

Over the years I kept getting the same kind of message. From friends, family, people around me: "What was that tool you recommended again?" Or: "Which keyboard would you buy?" Or: "What was that tiny adapter you were so weirdly convinced by?"

At some point I noticed that I was telling the same recommendations for the third, fourth, fifth time. Not because it annoyed me. Quite the opposite. I like good stuff. I like when a product, a tool or some small piece of nonsense solves a real problem cleanly.

So now this site exists.

How recommendations happen for me

I rarely just buy something. Once a topic catches me, I usually go way too deep. Reviews, forums, GitHub issues, Reddit threads, spec sheets, bad YouTube comparisons, good comments under bad YouTube comparisons. All of it.

Not because I need to find the objectively best thing. That almost never exists. I want to find the thing that fits my use case so well that nothing surprises me afterwards.

What belongs here

This is not a testing lab. I am not measuring keyboards with fantasy scores or building tables where every product ends up with 8.4 out of 10 points.

This is where I put stuff I would actually use or already use:

• Software that removes work or makes a workflow noticeably better.
• Hardware that stops being annoying after buying it.
• Gadgets that are not just funny for a week, but stay.
• Experiments that worked surprisingly well.
• Small toys that make me want to message someone immediately: "Look at this."

Why I am making it public

First, because I want an archive for myself. I want to know a year from now why I liked something, which variant I meant and what I actually cared about.

Second, because I want recommendations to be easier to share. Instead of sending three voice notes again, I can send a link. Here, this is what I mean. Read this and you will know whether it fits you too.

Third, because good recommendations on the internet have become strange. Too many affiliate lists, too many "top 10" articles, too many texts where you can tell after three paragraphs that nobody actually used the thing.

What to expect here

Opinion before neutrality. If something is mediocre, it does not get in. If something has weaknesses, I will write them down. And if I use an affiliate link, it is not because a manufacturer paid me, but because this site is allowed to cover its own costs somehow.

That is the whole idea: good stuff, honestly recommended, in my words. For friends, family, random readers and my future self, who will absolutely forget what that one perfect thing was called.