Independent software brand

Mr.D Apps

Ideas into useful software.

Built by software enthusiasts with startup mindsets—and a desire to share practical tools with the open-source community.

Public products · open tools Built in public

01 / Apps

Products built for real work.

From everyday services to regulated and cloud work, each product starts with a clear problem worth solving.

01Home services
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HandyHive

Find verified local help and book trusted skills with clear pricing.

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HandyHive connects customers with verified professionals, students, and skilled neighbours for everyday services. Search, scheduling, transparent pricing, verified reviews, and secure payment replace the uncertainty of finding help through disconnected listings.

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02Regulatory intelligence
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RafiHive

Turn scattered regulatory information into traceable working intelligence.

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RafiHive helps regulatory teams find, organize, and work with changing requirements without losing the source behind an answer. Regulatory affairs specialists shape the workflows alongside engineers, making domain expertise part of the product rather than an AI afterthought.

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03Cloud compliance
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ScanComb

Turn cloud evidence, controls, and risk into structured compliance work.

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ScanComb brings cloud findings, controls, supporting evidence, and risk into one structured compliance workflow. It reduces spreadsheet-driven evidence collection and makes gaps easier to understand, prioritize, and prepare for review.

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02 / Open source

Open-source tools made to remove the busywork.

A selected set of utilities for faster, clearer engineering and cloud operations.

DevOps Setup

Bootstrap consistent Windows and macOS engineering workstations.

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DevOps Setup installs or updates consistent workstation profiles on macOS and Windows from one maintained package list per platform. It reduces manual onboarding and configuration drift across developer, cloud, container, infrastructure, and security tooling.

PowerShell · GitHub

AITO

Set up and measure token-efficient AI coding workflows.

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AITO configures a token-efficient workflow for GitHub Copilot and Claude Code, then measures the result instead of promising an invented saving. It reduces repeated repository reading, oversized build output, and session-by-session setup without replacing the project’s own tools.

Shell · GitHub

Terraform ECS / Fargate

A practical AWS reference stack for containers, storage, and data.

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This ready-to-fork Terraform starter wires ECS Fargate, an application load balancer, ECR, EFS, and optional CloudFront and PostgreSQL together with sensible defaults. It gives small container projects a coherent AWS baseline without rebuilding the infrastructure relationships.

HCL · GitHub

CostHive

Rank AWS cost opportunities by the money they can actually save.

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CostHive brings several open-source FinOps tools behind one read-only AWS scan and produces a consolidated, dollar-ranked report. It replaces scattered dashboards with a prioritized list of actions, estimated monthly savings, and confidence levels.

Python · GitHub

SentryHive

Produce evidence-grade AWS security reports from trusted scanners.

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SentryHive runs established AWS security scanners through one read-only command and normalizes their findings. Consultants and auditors get one traceable, client-ready HTML, PDF, Markdown, or JSON report instead of reconciling several toolchains and output formats.

Python · GitHub

03 / Journal

Notes from the build.

Product decisions, engineering lessons, regulatory intelligence, and open-source work—shared while the ideas are still useful.

Jul 24, 2026
Product practice · 2 min read

Why domain expertise belongs in the product loop

AI can accelerate regulated work, but useful software begins when domain specialists shape the product itself.

04 / The brand

The name stays simple. The work does the talking.

Mr.D is an independent brand for software enthusiasts with startup mindsets, plenty of ideas, and a commitment to sharing useful open-source tools.