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.
68 opportunities
Developers struggle to tell which vulnerability alerts need action
For software maintainers and small security teams
Frontend developers lose time inspecting and tweaking rendered CSS
For frontend developers and web designers
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
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
API teams struggle to keep OpenAPI usable across tools
For API developers and platform teams
Developers struggle to run coding agents in safe, reusable sandboxes
For AI-assisted software developers
React Native teams struggle to get useful, portable observability
For react Native engineering teams
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
Mobile developers lose time preparing app-store releases
For independent mobile app developers and small app teams
AI coding sessions lose project context between tasks
For developers relying on AI coding agents for multi-session code work
Local AI is hard to run reliably on everyday hardware
For local AI experimenters with consumer PCs
Application teams struggle to ship database migrations safely
For developers and small teams shipping database-backed applications
Markdown and notebook authors struggle to publish across formats
For markdown and notebook authors
Python developers struggle to keep project environments reproducible
For python developers and maintainers
JavaScript developers wrestle with fragmented project tooling
For javaScript and Node.js developers
Indie game developers struggle to turn ideas into tested prototypes
For indie game developers
Frontend developers hand-build UI when libraries don't fit their stack
For frontend developers who want less hand-written UI code