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17 Best Developer Productivity Tools to Try

Shani Shoham on May 10, 2024

Efficiency and productivity aren't just goals for developers—they're necessities. We craft numerous tools and script our way through daily tasks, a...
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Hossein Yazdi

All great ones. Here are many more helpful ones for those who're looking further: webcurate.co/c/developer

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Harsh Rajput

Wow, that's awesome!"

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Alois Sečkár

White Postman is great feature-rich application, for many use-cases REST Client VSCode extension is all you need to test API calls - and it is directly from IDE.

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Joe Fiorini

A couple other great development environment tools:

devbox - I've been using this between my Mac and Linux machines. It uses a simple json file to declaratively manage the development environment for your app or your global environment.

distrobox - An abstraction to manage multiple environments running in docker containers (or any other OCR engine).

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Kavinda Jayakody

For anyone who likes to streamline their API development. Have a look at XAPI. This Platform streamlines your API Development from design to release - and it have a good API designing tool that supports OpenAPI spec and AsyncSpec (Oncoming)

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allen_z

Thanks, it's cool. I recommend two productivity tools.
Focus on work in IDE :leiga
Automatically generate PRD tool : docuopia

In discussing favorite productivity tools, I'd like to share two platforms that play crucial roles in my daily workflow: leiga and docuopia .

Leiga is an exceptional AI-powered smart assistant designed to enhance productivity and management capabilities by leveraging AI technology. Its intuitive interface allows seamless integration of AI capabilities with a range of productivity tools. Leiga manages your emails, messages, and tasks intelligently, reminds you of important events, and provides personalized recommendations and assistance.

Docuopia is another noteworthy tool—an AI-based collaboration platform dedicated to boosting efficiency by improving team communication and collaboration. It offers various features such as document management, project tracking, team discussions, and intelligent task assignments. These features facilitate more efficient teamwork among members.

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Ricardo Gouveia

How to get these free tier github copilot plan? I did some searching and found out that it is only free for students or frequent contributors to open source public projects. Is there a way to get a free tier (not free trial) for a independent developer usage?
(prices for a sign up are charged in US $ which has quite expensive conversion rates depending on where you're from, like in my case...)

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Dovile Miseviciute

Great list. Here is some additional info on the engineering productivity metrics to track. It may be helpful when determining which tool to choose.

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Alex Kaul

Great list. Another productivity app: github.com/FreeterApp/Freeter
App story: dev.to/alexk/how-i-boosted-my-prod...

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junyiwang

Copilot is awesome, but it's a bummer that it's not free 😭 I'm now switching to other AI coding tools like MarsCode and Codeium. They're pretty neat to use and the best part is they're free🥹

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Lakhan Jindam

I would highly recommend warp as your terminal replacement. It has so many cool(actually helpful) features.

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Wojciechxtx

Using none of them; doing all this by myself; my way, exactly the way I want. Not some shitty/shady company wants me to. Screw them.

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MexiKode ⚙

all good and all, but we always end up with an excel sheet lol

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Karina Babcock

There's also a new category of tools that are starting to surface that automatically troubleshoot and in some cases remediate issues, for example causely.io.

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Martin Baun

What of productivity assessment? We use videofeedbackr

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C9

I used five reactions to support more.

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Cheikhnouha

So good

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Kishan

Super cool

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Robb D

AppMap sounds interesting... And so does Copilot. Anyone have any experience with these to share? Anyone use them professionally?

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Joshua Mel

Thank you! Also commenting to return post when someone engages with it

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Zane Estere Gruntmane

🙏💪🏼🌊

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chris lee

Is there a recommendation on testing tools ?