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Best tools for developers

Tools made by indie makers for people who write and ship code: editors, APIs, monitoring, security and data tools. Ranked by upvotes from the IndieNeed community.

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00felix by Alchemain
autonomous verified upgrades across your codebase
Our product was designed to automate the process of upgrading third-party dependencies, whether the upgrade is for new features, known vulnerabilities, or deprecation.
Free15 upvotesDeveloper Tools
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Market Verdict
Verified listing
Validate business ideas with a data-driven viability score.
Market Verdict scores a business idea's viability from 0 to 100 before you commit money to it. Built for founders, small-business owners and side-hustlers weighing ideas like a coffee cart or a yoga studio.
Freemium8 upvotesAnalytics
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DigMyName
World's fastest domain search. Fight us.
We built DigMyName to simplify domain discovery. Finding and comparing domain availability across multiple registrars and TLDs was unnecessarily complex and time-consuming.
Free6 upvotesDeveloper Tools
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Mestto
Seu cardápio digital.
🇺🇸 MESTTO is a SaaS platform for restaurants and food businesses, offering digital menus, online ordering, delivery management, payments, and business operations in one platform.
Free5 upvotes5.0 (1)Developer Tools
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Trends Radar by GrowthUpdate
Analyze search, content & product trends
New products launch every day. Search behavior changes. New categories start getting attention before they become obvious.
Free4 upvotesAnalytics
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Screen Issues
Free screen testing and dead-pixel diagnosis guides
Screen Issues is a free online screen test tool. Instantly diagnose dead pixels, stuck pixels, lines, colour issues, backlight bleed and flickering on monitors, laptops, TVs and phones.
Free4 upvotesProductivity
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Ovly Surveys
Turn unloved spreadsheets into clear reports in minutes
Turn survey spreadsheets into clear reports. Standard £5 (was £19). Deep AI from £19 by respondent rows. No subscription. OVLY Surveys turns raw Excel and CSV survey exports into clear, ready-to-share reports.
Paid3 upvotesAI
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Duefolio
Track subscriptions without adding another subscription
Most subscription trackers hand you a list. Duefolio gives you a timeline: every recurring charge laid across months, so what’s ending, what renews next, and what it all costs is clear at a glance.
Free3 upvotesFinance
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Shadcn Space
Extraordinary Shadcn UI blocks, components, and templates
Shadcn Space is a comprehensive platform offering an extensive collection of beautifully designed, accessible, and composable UI blocks, components, and templates specifically tailored for React and Next.js…
Freemium3 upvotesDeveloper Tools
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CellPointer
Never lose your place in large Excel sheets.
CellPointer is a Windows tool for people who work with large Microsoft Excel worksheets. It follows the active cell with row and column guides, making it easier to see exactly where you are in a large table.
Free3 upvotesData
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Free Ad Diagnosis Tool
Free Google Ads & Meta Ads Performance Analyzer
You're spending money, getting nothing back, and you have no clue what's actually broken. Is it your targeting? Your creative? Your landing page? The guessing game is killing you. That's why we built this free tool.
Free3 upvotesMonitoring
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Vibe Code Pipeline
Vibe Code Pipeline · Learn how AI agents work by watching th
Vibe Code Pipeline is an interactive encyclopedia and laboratory focused on AI agents, prompts, and vibe coding pipelines, offering simulations, a growing catalog of agents, and a prompt library to help users learn and…
Free3 upvotesDesign Tools
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Melaya
Choose your AI. Automate the work. Accelerate your growth.
Melaya is a platform for building and running AI agents across business tools, browsers and Android apps, with six connected products: - Melaya Agents: A visual builder for workflows and multi-agent teams - Melaya…
Freemium3 upvotesAI
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Fresh Thread
See what’s happening in long Codex sessions and start fresh
FreshThread is a Windows companion for developers who spend hours in Codex. It reads local session data to surface compactions, context load, task activity, and session pressure in real time.
Free3 upvotesProductivity
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Styx
Styx puts every project and agent in one window.
A mac app so my coding agents can't deploy to prod without asking Run Claude Code, Codex and Gemini across a bunch of repos. Got tired of terminal chaos and agents having full access to my keys.
Free3 upvotesAI