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Golden Kitty Awards - Best developer tools launched in 2024?

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As we're approaching the long-awaited Golden Kitty Awards, I'm dropping here some of my favorite developer tools launched on Product Hunt in 2024:

  • Supabase - the open-source Firebase alternative went GA last April and had a *stellar* launch: #1 Product of the Day, #1 Product of the Week, #1 Product of the Month!

  • bolt.new - last year, Vercel's v0.dev was nominee, and I predict the alternative built by StackBlitz, #1 Product of the Day, #2 Product of the Week, and #9 Product of the Month, hit the list this year

  • Langfuse 2.0 - the open-source LLM engineering platform, best AI Infra Product of the Year in 2023, had another amazing launch this year: #1 Product of the Day, #8 Product of the Week.

  • Helicone AI - the open-source LLM observability platform had a great launch last August: #1 Product of the Day, #2 Product of the Week.

  • Tempo Labs - Discovered during the Mega Launch Week, this code-first Figma alternative kept momentum on Product Hunt last December: #1 Product of the Day, #3 Product of the Week.

I could possibly think of more developer tools that ranked really well: Octomind (#1 Product of the Day), Pullpo (#2 Product of the Day), Inkeep (#3 Product of the Day), Corbado (#4 Product of the Day), MotherDuck (#5 Product of the Day)...

How about you? What are your predictions for this 2025 GKA edition?

Edit 2025-01-20: Product Hunt just unveiled a list of 20 dev-first products nominated for the Golden Kitty Award 2024 in the “Developer Tools” category!

Fun facts

- 16 products (89%) launch on a weekday: 28% launched on Monday, 22% launched on Tuesday, 17% launched on Wednesday or Thursday

- 13 products (72%) launched for the first time.

On launch day, the best developer tools got on average:

- 1,090 upvotes, and

- 239 comments.

As a result:

- 11 products (61%) ranked #1 Product of the Day, 16 products (89%) reached the Top 5

- 4 products (22%) ranked #1 Product of the Week, 12 products (66%) reached the Top 5

- 6 products (33%) reached the Top 5 Products of the Month.

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Marc Klingen
Thanks for the mention @fmerian! Really love this community of builders that means so much for us at Langfuse. Last year we launched Langfuse 2.0 but also a completely rearchitected backend which was really important for the long-term scalability and maturity of the product. More details on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite... Blog post: https://langfuse.com/changelog/2...
fmerian
Launching soon!
@marc_klingen keep up your great work, Marc!
DeannaWoodard
Hey there! For 2024, I think AI-powered IDEs will be huge. Tools like GitHub Copilot are getting smarter and more intuitive. Cloud-based dev environments will also gain traction - they're so convenient for remote work. And don't forget about low-code platforms; they're making development accessible to more people. Just my two cents!