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.
25 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
Software teams struggle to know whether their tests catch real defects
For software developers and QA engineers maintaining automated test suites
API teams struggle to keep OpenAPI usable across tools
For API developers and platform teams
Container teams struggle to deliver secrets safely
For devOps and platform engineers running containerized applications
Application teams struggle to ship database migrations safely
For developers and small teams shipping database-backed applications
Windows app updates are manual or hard to control
For windows desktop app users and indie developers
Teams struggle to issue, renew, and trust TLS certificates across environments
For developers and IT teams operating web services and development environments
Teams manually spot visual changes across screenshots and websites
For QA testers and frontend teams
Indoor maps are difficult to create from plans and spatial data
For indoor-map builders and floorplan-based app developers
CI teams struggle to reuse and manage build caches reliably
For CI and build engineers
API testers duplicate setups to cover environment and payload combinations
For API developers and testers
Spreadsheet teams struggle to connect operational data reliably
For spreadsheet-first operations and data teams
Self-hosted site builders lack a dependable image publishing workflow
For web developers and self-hosted site publishers
People struggle to report problems they find online
For online users and small web product teams
Website operators struggle to offer usable CAPTCHA checks
For website operators and application developers
Self-hosted status pages struggle to email subscribers about updates
For self-hosted status page operators
Developers struggle to run and monitor long-lived background jobs
For python developers and small teams running background jobs
Developers lack simple ways to move data between machines
For IT teams and developers moving data between machines
GitHub teams lack scriptable control over credential access
For gitHub organization administrators and security-conscious developers
App developers struggle to add end-to-end encryption
For developers building chat and note-taking apps
Developers lack simple, secure crypto payment integrations
For developers and small online merchants adding crypto payments