This Week in StartupBase #23

Hey everyone 👋

One of mine this week, then back to normal.

Vitals is a menu bar app that tells you what is slowing your Mac down. Activity Monitor gives you a wall of processes. Vitals tells you which apps are eating your CPU, memory, battery and network, in plain words.

Built in 2 days, because it was a problem that annoyed me every day
Launched last week off a demo on X that went further than I expected
850 licences in the first week. Pay once, keep it forever
Updated almost every day since, mostly from replies people sent me

It is on Product Hunt today. An upvote would genuinely help.

→ Support Vitals on Product Hunt

Back to other people's startups next week.

Thanks, Atta

PrivacyRequests — Track privacy requests from intake through secure delivery

Privacy Requests is DSAR management software for startups and growing teams. It brings hosted intake, identity review, deadline tracking, assigned tasks, response approval, secure delivery, and audit trails into one workspace.

Teams can manage access, deletion, correction, portability, opt-out, and general privacy requests with case ownership, rem

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Top launches this week

Commune

Commune is a community platform for indie makers, builders, and founders. Most communities are a feed and nothing else. Commune connects the whole journey: your profile, your projects, your launches, your matches, and your reputation all live in one place. Post progress, questions, and milestones...

PrivacyRequests

Billion Dollar Homepage

The Billion Dollar Homepage is a 1,000 × 1,000 pixel advertising wall where brands and businesses buy blocks starting at $100. Each block contains 100 pixels, and other buyers can claim an occupied spot by paying 5% more while the previous spend remains credited. Browse the live wall, buy pixels,...

Transcribe Audio to Text

Transcribe Audio to Text is an AI-powered transcription tool that turns audio, video, and online content into accurate, editable text in minutes. Upload an audio or video file, paste a supported link, or record directly to generate a searchable transcript with timestamps, speaker recognition, and...

still. — AI headshots and portraits

AI headshots for LinkedIn, resume and CV, team pages, real estate listings and dating profiles. Upload 3 photos of yourself and still. returns 40 professional portraits in minutes, for $24. No model is trained on your face. Pick the look you need, from executive and corporate to freelance, modeli...

Supadrop

Supadrop turns ZIP, HTML, PDF, and image files into live websites without a build step, coding, or CLI. Each site gets a shareable subdomain, SSL, unlimited bandwidth, and a QR code. Update files without changing the link, connect a custom domain, deploy through an API or AI agent, and capture em...

ArkWarden

ArkWarden is an encrypted vault for your iPhone. You unlock it by drawing a pattern on a 5x5 grid, and every file inside is encrypted on the device with AES-256-GCM, so nothing is readable without that pattern. It is for people who want their private files encrypted and would feel comfortable han...

Interdown

Interdown is a real-time outage tracking platform that helps users see when websites, apps, internet providers, and online services are experiencing problems. It combines live outage reports, regional data, service status information, and user reports to give a clearer picture of what is happenin...

Felix Trade

Felix is a quant trading platform for developing, testing, and running systematic strategies. Research markets, turn ideas into trading rules, backtest performance and drawdowns, set capital and risk limits, and monitor automated execution from one workspace. Felix handles market data, risk contr...

Wizstar AI

Wizstar is an AI video creation platform for turning text, images, product links, scripts, audio, and reference videos into ready-to-publish content. It supports cinematic videos, product ads, shoppable ecommerce videos, talking avatars, lip sync, image generation, video translation, captions, vo...

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