DevHunt is the open-source platform where you can showcase your developer tool. Tools compete every week for the top spot. Here's a look at who's in the race this time.
Unified.to
Unified is an API platform that's supposed to substitute for API integrations, instead developers integrate Unified once and have access to 127 integrations available.
After signing up, I was immediately directed to the dashboard where I'll see statistics about my integrations. Onboarding is easy, I like that they point to the resources you'd need in case you get stuck. Also I like that documentation isn't hidden somewhere, you navigate to Help menu and you can go check the docs.
At first glance documentation might feel weird with all the section namings, but I liked that you can navigate to the integration's documentation that you'd like to use. Pretty good tool in general!
Papermark
Papermark is an open-source DocSend alternative. Checking out the landing page, I'm not sure whether I like the dude with sign image. First impression: I don't care if you're looking for an investor. BUT, when I think about it, it's a good signal for expectations.
And let me tell you: Papermark is very good at what it's supposed to achieve. Send a pitch deck in PDF format and get analytics about it. I haven't tried setting it up for myself, but I might give it a try one day when I feel like it.
Another thing I liked about the landing page is the alternatives section in the footer. As a user you're probably not familiar to what you can do with Papermark but especially if you're working in a startup, it's realistic that you're using some kind of tool to send decks and such. Pretty useful to have some comparison to other tools.
Task Badger
Task Badger is a monitoring solution for backend tasks and queues. It's a useful tool when you'd like to visualize your backend's performance.
Task Badger is designed for engineers and they included lots of examples to provide starting points. Right next to the sign up button, they included a button that directs users to documentation - another brownie point for Task Badger.
I like the docs, too, but I think it could be improved with some of the individual sections turned into separate, smaller sections. For example, the quick start guide can be broken down into a separate sections for API and CLI users. I've found a weird thing though: this page of the documentation can't be accessed from the sections list or the table of content, just through a link in the getting started guide. I wouldn't hide it.
Pontus
Pontus is a privacy-focussed AI tool. I can't try or look at it because you can only request a demo as of now.
Recombinant AI
Recombinant AI is a conversational IDE tool which based on this demo video can only be used with paid access to ChatGPT because it's essentially a ChatGPT plugin. It's not easy to find out more about the project, as the landing page itself isn't really informative about what you can do with Recombinant AI.
DailyDomains
DailyDomains is a simple tool for domain hoarding enthusiasts. I mean, 2023 was the first year I purchased a domain and I didn't stop there. I assume there are many people who just think about an idea and immediately buy the domain knowing well they'll never make the solution.
Anyway, DailyDomains takes it a step further. It'll suggest you a few domains and generate a business idea for it. I kind of like this approach! For the small price of $12/month, you can use it to brainstorm domains for your business idea, which is probably a gamechanger to any indie hacker struggling to name their thing.
My only question is: how come this has so few upvotes days into voting?
Squirrelsong
Squirrelsong is a low-contrast light and dark theme. You can find out more about the themes here. I recommend at least a look at this, because I tried it with Google Chrome and it looks great.
Maruti.io
Maruti.io is an API for open-source language models. Based on the landing page it's difficult to figure out what's the purpose of this project, but after looking around and checking out the launch, it seems like an MLOps platform that can be utilized via an API.
I think there's a lot to improve, because documentation is very rudimentary, you can see it for yourself here. And as someone who's not a native English speaker, I can understand how difficult it can be to write copy, but the lack of copy is a bigger problem than the quality of the copy.
Vite Plugin
Vite Plugin is an open-source plugin that removes React.js attributes. It's useful for excluding attributes like 'data-testid' used in testing. Options include specific file extensions, attributes, ignored folders, and files.
blogfactory.dev
Blog Factory is a blog post generator tool. Getting started needs a bit of fixing: when you click on the Get started button, you should be directed to the log in page. Without log in you're stuck in the Create your first article flow where you can't do anything.
When you'd like to generate a blog post, you can specify a title and keywords, then set style-related options, including language, flavor (SEO friendly article, how-to guides, etc.) and writer. It has a persona option, too, but the only option for that is none as of now.
I gave it a test run to write a similar how-to blog post to our latest one of dyrector.io's blog discussing self-hosted GitHub runners.
Of course, it's not going to be as detailed as written by a human, and our case is very specific when it comes to GitHub runners, but I think there's potential in Blog Factory. It would be pretty dope to have a tool that can accelerate content writing for developer tools, because small teams and indie hackers usually can't find a way to consistently create new content.
NoCode Animations
NoCode Animations is an animation Anime.js tool on Bubble.
SkillAI
SkillAI is an AI generator tool that helps you design learn paths for skills you'd like to develop. You can input any skill you'd like, so I went with this below:
Bricks AI
Bricks AI is a tool that helps teams use business applications in a conversational way. Right now it can't be used, only a waiting list is available.
Bird Eats Bug
Bird Eats Bug is a tool that helps you manage bug reports and fixes more efficiently. One of the coolest things about this is the bug replay feature which allows you to recreate bugs that you missed tracking somehow.
Kropply
Kropply is a coding assistant tool that helps you discover bugs within your code. It works as a VS Code extension. It's compatible with some of the most popular languages: C#, C++, C, Java, Go, Rust, JS, TS, Python.
That's it for the weekly batch of developer tools that launched on DevHunt. What's your favorite project out of them? Leave it in the comments and show some love by casting a vote!
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