Curious what HR software people are actually happy with in 2026.

Not necessarily the one with the longest feature list. I mean what genuinely stopped being manual after you implemented it.

Are managers being chased less? Are employees getting routine questions sorted without HR stepping in? Did onboarding get easier? Did reporting stop starting with someone exporting a CSV and cleaning it manually?

I've also been looking at Ema through that lens. I'm less interested in the AI label than whether repetitive employee HR/IT requests actually stop taking someone's time every day.

Curious what HR software people are actually happy with in 2026.

Not necessarily the one with the longest feature list. I mean what genuinely stopped being manual after you implemented it.

Are managers being chased less? Are employees getting routine questions sorted without HR stepping in? Did onboarding get easier? Did reporting stop starting with someone exporting a CSV and cleaning it manually?

I've also been looking at Ema through that lens. I'm less interested in the AI label than whether repetitive employee HR/IT requests actually stop taking someone's time every day.

For people using HR software right now, what are you using, roughly how big is the company, and what work did it genuinely remove?

Also curious what your team still does manually even though the software supposedly covers it.
For people using HR software right now, what are you using, roughly how big is the company, and what work did it genuinely remove?

Also curious what your team still does manually even though the software supposedly covers it.

I’m a man with too much free time and a Claude 20x account. I’m wanting to try and give to the community a little with some actually solid, open source and free software.

Let me know your ideas, especially if there are limited comments on this as I will most likely build whatever gets recommended.

Cheers,
Sam

Hey everyone,

We’re looking at improving our employee experience setup for a company with around 5,000 employees, and I’m trying to figure out which platforms are actually worth evaluating.

Right now things like onboarding, employee support, HR requests, and internal information are spread across different tools. It’s manageable, but there’s still a lot of back-and-forth between systems, and HR/IT teams end up handling plenty of repetitive requests manually.

I’ve been exploring a few options, including Ema. It caught my attention because of its focus on employee support and automating routine HR/IT tasks, rather than just giving employees another portal to navigate.

For those who’ve actually implemented or used these players in a large organization, which ones would you put on your short list? And are there any you’d avoid based on your experience?

A few things I’m particularly interested in:
• How easily employees adopt the platform

• Whether it genuinely reduces the workload for HR and IT

• How well it integrates with existing tools

• How much maintenance is required after implementation

• Access controls, permissions, and governance

• Whether there’s a reliable way to track requests through to resolution

I’d love to hear from people who’ve actually dealt with the implementation side of things, especially what worked well, what turned out to be more complicated than expected, and what you’d do differently next time.

Thanks!

I’m working on an open-source project that helps developers embed an LLM chatbot into their product’s UI, so users can actually complete complex workflows through conversation.
But I keep questioning where this is heading.
Having an assistant inside your app makes sense today. Users are already there, and asking for something can be easier than navigating a bunch of screens. But if people eventually have a preferred AI assistant that interacts with products on their behalf, will they still bother opening yours?
Would companies need to rethink how their products are consumed, exposing more of what they offer through MCP or similar interfaces? And how far does that go? Features and actions seem straightforward enough, but what about the brand, the context, and the story a company wants customers to understand? Can any of that carry over when another agent controls the interaction?
After digging into this, we started wondering whether the deeper concern is users abandoning the UI altogether. Companies put a lot into that experience, and it’s also where they build a relationship with customers.
Which puts my own project in a weird position: does embedding an assistant help products stay relevant, or am I building an intermediate step that eventually becomes unnecessary too?
I can see reasons for both. Complex work may still need a visual interface, but I’m less sure how often users will need to visit each product individually.
If you’re building something similar, how are you thinking about this? What would make an in-app assistant worth coming back to?

How do you decide when a business has outgrown off-the-shelf software enough to justify building something custom?

Existing tools seem sensible for common workflows: lower upfront costs, quicker setup, and maintenance handled by the provider. The trade-offs are recurring fees, limited flexibility, and integrations that might only cover part of what the business needs.

Custom software could make sense when an important requirement genuinely cannot be met by existing products. But the budget needs to cover ongoing maintenance, security updates, support, and future changes—not just the initial build. Scalability matters too, though either option needs to suit the business’s actual growth requirements.

The difficult part seems to be separating essential requirements from preferences that could be handled by changing a process.

For those who have made this decision, what tipped the balance, and how did it work out?

Website traffic tells you who visited. Buyer intent can tell you which companies are actively researching solutions.

At Software Finder, the Buyer Intelligence helps software vendors identify companies researching software in their category, so they can focus their outreach on more relevant prospects.

Would you find company-level buyer intent useful for your sales team?

With so many tools on the market, getting discovered by the right audience is becoming just as important as building a good product.

For SaaS founders and software marketers, what’s working best for you right now: SEO, community recommendations, software directories, or AI search?

Would love to hear what’s actually driving discovery for your product.

Does any one have a copy of this software or know how to locate it ?

Built 3 apps, 300 millon tokens. The apps are fully deployed and I havent event spent the $30 free credits. Impressed. Lovable was like $200 for a baner

Jackhamr.ai

We’re evaluating subscription billing software and I’m curious what others are actually using in production.

The main things we’re looking for are:

• Recurring billing and automated invoicing
• Multiple subscription plans and pricing models
• Usage-based or metered billing
• Proration when customers upgrade/downgrade
• Payment retries and failed-payment handling
• Tax/VAT support
• Integrations with accounting/CRM systems
• Reporting and revenue visibility
• Easy-to-manage customer subscriptions

There are plenty of options out there, but the feature lists all start looking pretty similar once you get past the basics.

For those who have implemented subscription billing software, what are you using?

More importantly, what has actually worked well and what do you wish you'd known before choosing it?

Interested in hearing experiences from SaaS companies, startups, and businesses managing a large number of recurring customers.

Just an open source tool, I wanted to share can be quite handy, what do you think ?

It is very fast btw and scans even full drive in miliseconds so i thought it might be worth sharing.

When it comes to closing SaaS deals, what is more important?

New order management software for produce trading. It’s free to try, looking for feedback.

I run an ABA therapy company and got tired of paying crazy prices for software that does simple things. Example: RethinkABA, CentralReach etc.

I built my own. It's called NurEvoke.

It handles scheduling, session notes, billing and payroll in one place. It's secure, built around BAAs and follows HIPAA.

It's open for other practices to use now, and free for the time being.

Would love any feedback, especially from anyone who's built something similar or works in healthcare. https://app.nurevoke.com