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.
26 opportunities
Frontend developers lose time inspecting and tweaking rendered CSS
For frontend developers and web designers
Backup owners struggle to balance retention with storage limits
For self-hosters and operations teams managing backups and shared storage
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
Developers struggle to run coding agents in safe, reusable sandboxes
For AI-assisted software developers
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
Teams struggle to deploy OpenTelemetry without complexity or bill shocks
For backend and platform engineering teams adopting OpenTelemetry
Markdown writers struggle to manage image assets reliably
For markdown writers and static-site authors
Home Assistant users lack full controls for smart appliances
For home Assistant users with smart appliances
Small-site creators struggle to build responsive, portable websites
For independent creators and small teams building websites
AWS developers juggle role credentials across tools and accounts
For AWS developers and DevOps teams managing multiple accounts
AI agent builders lack reliable control over model settings and token use
For AI agent and workflow builders
Agent builders wrestle with bloated prompts and opaque workflows
For n8n builders and developers maintaining multi-prompt agent workflows
Teams struggle to issue, renew, and trust TLS certificates across environments
For developers and IT teams operating web services and development environments
Jupyter users lose work when notebook sessions disconnect
For jupyter users running long computations or sharing notebook outputs
Developers struggle to test apps outside standard browser workflows
For frontend and app developers maintaining automated UI tests
Indoor maps are difficult to create from plans and spatial data
For indoor-map builders and floorplan-based app developers
Developers struggle to organize multi-project workspaces
For developers working across multiple projects or monorepos
Spreadsheet teams struggle to connect operational data reliably
For spreadsheet-first operations and data teams
Vault users lack an easy web interface for TOTP codes
For teams administering shared credentials in HashiCorp Vault
Mathematical notation is hard to enter and move between tools
For mathematical-content authors and developers
Quill developers struggle to preserve semantic nested lists
For developers embedding Quill in web apps
Template-based file and project creation lacks flexible inputs
For developers and Obsidian users who generate files from templates