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.
17 opportunities
Developers struggle to keep website data extraction reliable
For developers and small data teams building recurring web-data pipelines
Software teams struggle to know whether their tests catch real defects
For software developers and QA engineers maintaining automated test suites
Developers struggle to make safe, repetitive changes across codebases
For developers maintaining multi-file codebases
Developers struggle to review and undo AI-generated code changes
For software engineers reviewing code written by AI agents
Small service operators get noisy, incomplete uptime alerts
For indie site and small-service operators
Technical users struggle to get reliable answers from documentation
For software developers and technical users
Developers hit rough edges using DevContainers across tools
For developers who work in DevContainers
AI coding agents are hard to supervise safely across projects
For developers running multiple AI coding agents across repositories
Small teams find simple, low-cost app deployment too hard
For solo developers and small startup teams
AI coding sessions lose project context between tasks
For developers relying on AI coding agents for multi-session code work
Python developers struggle to keep project environments reproducible
For python developers and maintainers
Developers struggle to collect and compare performance results
For software developers and performance engineers
Small-site creators struggle to build responsive, portable websites
For independent creators and small teams building websites
Teams struggle to issue, renew, and trust TLS certificates across environments
For developers and IT teams operating web services and development environments
Developers struggle to test apps outside standard browser workflows
For frontend and app developers maintaining automated UI tests
Technical diagrams are tedious to create and revise
For developers and technical communicators creating structured diagrams
Developers struggle to inspect noisy and awkward code diffs
For developers reviewing code and configuration across files or revisions