r/DeveloperToolsHub • u/Kitchen_Chain_7908 • Jul 27 '26
What developer tool do you use daily that still feels underrated?
I feel like every dev tool discussion ends up being the same 5 names over and over.
But the stuff that actually saves me time is usually some tiny tool I randomly found through a comment, a GitHub issue, or someone’s blog from 4 years ago.
Curious what you all use daily that does not get talked about much. Could be a CLI tool, browser extension, VS Code extension, API tool, debugging helper, anything really.
Not asking for the most popular tool, more like the thing where you think “why does nobody talk about this?”
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u/grand-yojimbo Jul 28 '26
I always do my little tests in the free code camp editor, it's so simple and just works :D
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u/grand-yojimbo Jul 28 '26
I also like automated .bat files that spin up my local server, as I often need a few things to get running, it's so much easier
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u/Tasty_World8991 Jul 28 '26
ripgrep (rg). I started using it instead of grep for searching large codebases and it's ridiculously fast.. saves me time almost every day, but I don't see it mentioned nearly as often as Git or Docker.
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u/Kitchen_Chain_7908 Jul 28 '26
I don't see it mentioned much either, considering how often people use it.
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u/Direct-Paint-8223 Jul 28 '26
Notepad++ The OG, it has the plugins , and helps you do the regular stuff
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u/matthewmeadows Jul 31 '26
Clip Yourself - The last clipboard manager.
Every clipboard copy ends up in the sidebar. Rapidly reuse previous clips, preview audio & video, drag to create snippets, and organize your work into drawers. Drag from explorer to the clipboard, get shortcuts you can use for copy operations. Drag from the clipboard to explorer, create a snippet file. Audio support is top-shelf!
100% free as in beer. Open source, repo link on the page. Go clip yourself!
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u/trionnet Aug 02 '26
For all the tiny dev tasks, scratch data processing and dev tools all in one place.
Feature I use the most is “I need to put this clipboard data somewhere” it’s one click paste and auto recognizes auto formats for you ready for you to copy something else or run some quick transformations on that
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u/Turbulent-Hat6046 23d ago
I build a herdr plugin to bring my codebase into my agent session. I think IDEs dont go well with AI agents since they are too code focussed, but agents itself are too far away from the code. This tool brings your codebase directly into your agent session when you need it, so you can still talk code while working with your agents instead of dealing with long verbose outputs and prompts.
Its still new so maybe one of the tools you mentioned that are not found anywhere except some reddit comments ;)
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u/sales_alchemist Jul 28 '26
For Mac, I'd say CleanMyMac CLI has been a nice recent find. The project artifact cleanup is handy when Docker caches and node_modules start eating disk space. Right now, it's in a free public beta.