Developer tools opportunities

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Problems developers keep running into with their editors, build tools, tests, deployments and AI coding assistants. Developers are quick to try new tools and will pay for ones that save them time at work. Every opportunity here was described by at least three different people in public discussions. Open one to see what they said, how it scores and what you could build.

Developer tools opportunities

Developers avoid whitespace cleanup that pollutes code diffs

JavaScript developers wrestle with dates, time zones, and formatting

Sass developers struggle to reuse selectors across media queries

VS Code users lack comfortable, consistent editor shortcuts

Developers struggle to see and edit matching code brackets

App developers struggle to order asynchronous service initialization

App users can't keep dark themes comfortable and consistent

Developers struggle to use tmux across remote and local workflows

VS Code users struggle with cursor placement around gutters and folds

Frontend developers need more adaptable, accessible carousels

Angular teams struggle to keep development-only code out of production

VS Code folding disrupts routine line selection and movement

Devcontainer users struggle to open the right workspace

Postman users lose API request edits to manual saving

C++ developers lack a smooth, trustworthy debugging setup

Web developers lack convenient, low-maintenance HTML sanitization

VS Code users can't tune ligatures by font or code context