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.
58 opportunities
Developers struggle to tell which vulnerability alerts need action
For software maintainers and small security teams
Self-hosters miss urgent alerts or get flooded with noisy ones
For self-hosters and small infrastructure operators
Developers struggle to keep website data extraction reliable
For developers and small data teams building recurring web-data pipelines
Backup owners struggle to balance retention with storage limits
For self-hosters and operations teams managing backups and shared storage
Developers struggle to keep code and documentation aligned
For developers maintaining evolving codebases
Developers spend too much time building and maintaining API integrations
For software developers and integration maintainers
Software teams struggle to know whether their tests catch real defects
For software developers and QA engineers maintaining automated test suites
Web developers struggle to validate accessibility with real users
For web developers and small product teams
Small service operators get noisy, incomplete uptime alerts
For indie site and small-service operators
API teams struggle to keep OpenAPI usable across tools
For API developers and platform teams
React Native teams struggle to get useful, portable observability
For react Native engineering teams
Kubernetes teams struggle to make Helm deployments safe and portable
For kubernetes platform engineers and Helm chart maintainers
Container teams struggle to deliver secrets safely
For devOps and platform engineers running containerized applications
AWS Kubernetes teams struggle to control capacity costs
For AWS Kubernetes platform and infrastructure teams
AWS teams struggle to govern automatically created log groups
For AWS infrastructure and platform engineers
Application teams struggle to ship database migrations safely
For developers and small teams shipping database-backed applications
Admins struggle to provision consistent VS Code setups
For IT administrators provisioning shared developer environments
Developers lack fine-grained control when debugging failing tests
For software developers and test engineers
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
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