Developer tools
Follow Developer tools weekly with ProProblems that at least three different people described in public discussions. Open one to see what they said, how it scores and what you could build.
102 opportunities
Developers can’t reliably cap unpredictable API and cloud bills
For developers and small software teams using metered APIs
Teams struggle to deploy OpenTelemetry without complexity or bill shocks
For backend and platform engineering teams adopting OpenTelemetry
Developers struggle to provision environments on restricted networks
For developers and platform engineers in restricted-network environments
Protobuf teams patch generated imports and rename schemas to avoid collisions
For teams generating Protobuf code in Python and Go
Cloud infrastructure teams duplicate configuration across IaC templates
For cloud infrastructure developers
Cloud teams coordinate Terraform work across accounts with brittle wrappers
For platform and infrastructure engineers managing multi-account cloud environments
Helm and Kubernetes YAML is hard to validate and test reliably
For helm chart maintainers and Kubernetes platform engineers
Infrastructure teams struggle to review and protect changes safely
For infrastructure engineers and DevOps teams managing declarative deployments
Windows app updates are manual or hard to control
For windows desktop app users and indie developers
CI teams piece together complete test and coverage reports
For developers and test teams using monorepos or sharded CI
Self-hosted CI runners and artifacts linger after workflows
For teams running self-hosted GitHub Actions
JavaScript monorepo teams fight fragile package publishing workflows
For javaScript monorepo maintainers
Shared dev containers break on collaborators’ local files
For teams sharing VS Code Dev Containers across different local setups
Teams hand-wire missing build and issue alerts into Slack
For developer teams using AWS Amplify or Sentry
AWS teams struggle to keep scheduled jobs aligned with local time
For AWS infrastructure developers using Terraform or CDK
Teams struggle to issue, renew, and trust TLS certificates across environments
For developers and IT teams operating web services and development environments
AWS developers struggle to use SSO credentials across dev tools
For AWS developers and platform engineers using multiple accounts
Developers struggle to authenticate containerized apps without baking in secrets
For developers and QA engineers running containerized apps locally
FiveM admins lack APIs to connect custom admin tools
For fiveM server administrators and developers
EKS teams struggle to make cluster changes safely with Terraform
For platform and infrastructure teams running Amazon EKS with Terraform
Angular teams lose track of errors in complex forms
For angular frontend developers building large, nested forms
Infrastructure teams lack safe automation for plan and apply workflows
For infrastructure engineers and platform teams
Cloud teams struggle to find and import existing resources
For cloud infrastructure teams
Amplify teams can't share usable PR preview URLs
For development teams using AWS Amplify previews