Dev Tools

90-day signals

Launches

14-day momentum

Eight open-source dev tools launched in 24h (PEP 827, Gapless.js, GraphGPU, Web Audio Studio, Commitdog, Xpandas, ConfigClarity, OpenClaw Carapace). Mechanic is overwhelmingly free or open-source; gap persists in productized debugging workflows—most are single-problem tools with no integrated observability layer.

Launches · 90 Days

Mar 2

Web Audio Studio Show HN

A Visual Debugger for Web Audio API Graphs · dev tools

Mar 1

I built a zero Show HN

browser, pure-JS typesetting engine for bit-perfect PDFs · dev tools

Mar 1

Vertex.js Show HN

A 1kloc SPA Framework · dev tools

Mar 1

React-Kino Show HN

Cinematic scroll storytelling for React (1KB core) · dev tools

Feb 28

GitShow Repo Showroom Show HN

a landing page for any GitHub repo · dev tools

Feb 27

DiagramIDE Show HN

a Rust GUI to Compose Diagrams via Tcl, Prolog, and Pikchr · dev tools

Feb 27

Claude-File Show HN

Recovery, recover files from your ~/.claude sessions · dev tools

Feb 27

Lazycal Show HN

Google Calendar TUI · dev tools

Feb 24

Scry Show HN

Test migrations against production scale copy of your DB · dev tools

Feb 24

TypeGraph Show HN

Type-safe graphs on Postgres/SQLite (no graph DB required) · dev tools

Feb 23

Babyshark Show HN

Wireshark made easy (terminal UI for PCAPs) · dev tools

Feb 23

Shibuya Show HN

A High-Performance WAF in Rust with eBPF and ML Engine · dev tools

Feb 23

BVisor Show HN

An Embedded Bash Sandbox, 2ms Boot, Written in Zig · dev tools

Feb 23

Irpapers Show HN

Visual embeddings vs. OCR trade-offs in scientific PDFs · dev tools

Feb 23

PgDog Show HN

Scale Postgres without changing the app · dev tools

Feb 23

OpenBrowserClaw Show HN

No Mac Mini. No VPS. No Cloud Deploy. Just Open a Tab · dev tools

Feb 23

Sprime Show HN

weather, crypto, news, forex all normalized to one JSON schema · dev tools

Feb 23

Agent Multiplexer Show HN

manage Claude Code via tmux · dev tools

Feb 22

Local Show HN

First Linux MicroVMs for macOS · dev tools

Feb 22

CS Show HN

indexless code search that understands code, comments and strings · dev tools

Feb 22

OpenGem Show HN

A Load-Balanced Gemini API Proxy (No API Key Required) · dev tools

Feb 22

Pq Show HN

Simple, durable background tasks in Python using Postgres · dev tools

Feb 22

Django-xbench Show HN

slow endpoint aggregation for Django · dev tools

Feb 21

See Show HN

searchable JSON compression (offline 10-min demo) · dev tools

Feb 21

CodeLayers Show HN

See your codebase's dependency layers in 3D · dev tools

Feb 21

Script Snap Show HN

Extract code from videos · dev tools

Feb 21

Murl Show HN

Curl for MCP Servers · dev tools

Feb 21

Cc-md Show HN

Zero-cost Obsidian sync across iPhone, Mac, and GitHub · dev tools

Feb 21

Elecxzy Show HN

A lightweight, Lisp-free Emacs-like editor in Electron · dev tools

Feb 21

Velo Show HN

Open-source, keyboard-first email client in Tauri and Rust · dev tools

Feb 16

Breadboard Show HN

A modern HyperCard for building web apps on the canvas · dev tools

Feb 16

Pg-workflows Show HN

Lightweight workflows for Node.js using Postgres · dev tools

Feb 16

Journey Show HN

A Custom 2D ECS Game Engine Written in Rust and WGPU · dev tools

Feb 16

Provisioner per Show HN

board sidecar for serial access, flashing, and bring-up · dev tools

Gaps in this category

1.
Dev Tools AI — 0 funded plays, watch for differentiation.
2.
Production multi-model LLM orchestration—Claude, Gemini, Llama cost tracking and failover in one plane. Five open-source CLI tools launched; none address it.
3.
ADHD-native habit tracking (DopaLoop) and home stereo build tools (BuildHiFi) hit niche demand; neither priced for scale.
4.
Production telemetry for agentic systems: No observability tools for tracking agent decision trees, token spend per decision branch, or hallucination detection in live inference.
5.
Multi-agent coordination: Open-source launches cluster around single-agent dev tools; none address scheduling, resource contention, or consensus across swarms.

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