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Building a Notion workspace for a software company is very different from building a standard project manager.
Ash, the co-founder of Kenshi Security, wanted one place where engineering, marketing, leadership, and business operations could finally work together.
We spent two weeks turning that vision into reality.
The finished workspace automatically syncs GitHub commits and bug reports into Notion using Make.com, tracks developer performance, manages KPIs, organizes investor updates, powers marketing campaigns, and gives leadership one dashboard to monitor the entire business.
The best part wasn’t the automation. It was seeing a complex operation become simple enough for every team to use with confidence.
Projects like this remind me that the best Notion systems aren’t just databases. They’re designed around how people actually work.
Have you ever wished your entire business could run from one connected workspace?
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the project cards look handy. nice job!
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If you use Contra + Cursor / Claude Code / Antigravity / Windsurf, try it and tell me what’s missing.
Title: UtilForge — Client-Side Developer Tool Matrix
Summary: A suite of 20+ developer utilities that run entirely in
the browser. No uploads, no server, no data leaving your machine.
What I did: Built the full stack — Next.js frontend, Web Workers
for heavy processing (formatting tens of thousands of lines of JSON,
PDF manipulation, hashing) so the UI never blocks. Every tool works
offline after first load.
Tags: Next.js · React · TypeScript · Web Workers
Link: utilforge.dev
The no-upload promise is the strongest part. I'd make the offline state visible in the UI, so someone working with sensitive JSON or PDFs can see that the file stays on their machine before they drop it in.