2026-02-28. Nomoyu Daily for Indie Developers (Issue 287)

📰 News

Customers who quietly leave are scarier than you think

When growth stalls, many people immediately think about acquiring new users. Teams often only look at how many new users come in each month, but rarely calculate how much growth space is eaten by customers who leave. New customer acquisition is usually steady, while churn grows proportionally with the total base. Once the absolute number of churned customers catches up with new acquisition, the business ceiling is completely locked.

To understand why people leave, many technical leaders like to show a survey when users cancel, offering a few single-choice reasons such as “too expensive” or “no time to use it.” This kind of data collection is self-deception. Most people just click the first option and close the popup, leaving the backend full of garbage data.

Some software asks users to write a few words about why they decided to leave. Those messy texts can be sent to a large model to extract themes. But do not rely entirely on the machine. Large models are best at finding averages and common topics. The truly valuable details, the complaints that wake you up, are often hidden in scattered phrases and still need human eyes to read them.

🔧 Solutions

Faceless

Faceless is an AI video generation tool that turns a topic into a faceless video with script, voiceover, background video, and text overlays, aiming to simplify content creation.

Corbel

Corbel is a tool that automatically maps a codebase, improving onboarding efficiency for new engineers and accelerating technical design, with support for local deployment.

🖥️ Software

Gabble

Gabble is a real-time video debate platform where users can debate humans or AI.

IndiePilot

IndiePilot is a customer-acquisition tool for indie developers, scanning subreddits and keywords 24/7, ranking high-intent posts with AI scores, drafting editable contextual replies, and managing multiple workspaces in tiers.

The Retirement Engine

The Retirement Engine is a retirement planning tool that validates portfolio sustainability under real uncertainty through year-by-year withdrawal simulation, Monte Carlo mode, spending and saving events, post-FIRE investing, monthly breakdowns, tax modeling, and visualization.

gif-x

gif-x is a privacy-first GIF creation tool that runs in the browser, processes everything locally with ffmpeg.wasm, requires no upload or server processing, collects only visit data, and can generate GIFs from video.

HeadJust

HeadJust is a macOS app that visualizes head movement through AirPods and Beats headset sensors, emphasizing visibility rather than forced correction, with session insights and local processing.

The Dough Lab

The Dough Lab is an iOS baking planner with recipe building, baking mode, starter tracking, reverse time planning, weekly plans, shopping lists, and baking logs, offered free without ads.

Request Interceptor Tiny

Request Interceptor Tiny is a Chrome extension that intercepts XHR and Fetch requests and replaces responses with custom JSON, supporting curl rule import for frontend API data mocking.

Scratchpad

Scratchpad is a web tool for entering formulas with instant rendering, showing results on demand in real time.

Foodoscope

Foodoscope is an AI menu scanning tool that recognizes dishes from a photo menu, estimates macros and calories, and logs food in two steps.

🎮 Games

Scalar

Scalar is a reasoning puzzle game where players use quantified clues to guess hidden countries or chemical elements.

🌐 Websites

Lyria

Lyria is a music generation platform based on Google’s Lyria3 model, supporting text-to-music generation, music style, duration, and professional parameter settings, currently focused mainly on English songs.

EasyEmailFinder

EasyEmailFinder is an independently built email finding tool that uses Google Places API, real-time site scraping, query expansion, and multiple verification steps to deliver high-quality pay-per-result email data.

Breathwork Tools

Breathwork Tools is a browser-based breathing exercise timer app with nine scientifically backed breathing patterns, offline use, session tracking, audio and visual cues, no ads or paywalls, and a lightweight single-HTML PWA experience.

BuildCode

BuildCode is a free platform for learning data structures by building real projects, emphasizing practice and progressive hints.

FuelOS

FuelOS is an AI-powered nutrition tracking tool that records meals by photo or voice, then automatically identifies food and analyzes its impact on energy and sleep.

Portfolio Compass

Portfolio Compass is an investment tracking tool with automated outreach, AI meeting preparation, email writing, and scoring to help founders raise funds more efficiently.

Mylo - Relationship Tracker

Mylo - Relationship Tracker is a relationship management and personal assistant app that remembers information about others from voice and text input and gives reminders in the right context.

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