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Work

Software and routines for independent workers and small product teams.

Courier, driver and remote platform worker around an international labor agreement while national approval stamps approach from the edges
Work

Gig workers have a global labor standard. Now countries have to use it.

ILO Convention 193 covers delivery riders, drivers and online platform workers across borders. Adoption is the beginning of domestic law, not an instant change inside an app.

6 min read · Updated July 22, 2026 · Method: The adopted convention text and independent Reuters-based reporting

Disclosure: No paid placement. Top Apps HQ has no commercial relationship with the ILO, unions, platforms or cited publishers.

A turquoise octopus at a central card file linking several computers with cyan cables in a newspaper collage
Work

AI coding agents keep forgetting how you work. mddb is building one shared memory.

Claude Code, Codex and other coding agents each keep their own rules, skills and server settings. mddb is trying to preserve the meaning once, then render the files each tool expects.

11 min read · Updated July 22, 2026 · Method: Public product pages and a disclosed publisher-conducted repository review; no independent product test

Publisher disclosure: mddb is a project connected to the publisher of Top Apps HQ. This article explains the problem it is designed to address and is not an independent review. The product is currently in prelaunch; claims about sync speed, recovery, security and compatibility are based on its public product pages and have not yet been independently tested by Top Apps HQ.