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by arthur_sav 1909 days ago
There are plenty of profitable developer tools out there. I usually encounter 2 issues when evaluating a dev tool:

1) Complexity & bad UI/UX. It's often not clear what i'm buying or all the features are hidden "under the hood". Many devs don't understand that user experience matters, even if the users are also devs.

2) Trust. This also ties to the first point, i need to have a clear picture of what this thing you're selling me does. I don't trust someone else generating code for me, i don't trust magic solutions and i don't trust tools that look like they were built in the 90s.

I think there are plenty of opportunities for more developer tools but unfortunately it takes a unique kind of dev to build a product + engineer a marketable solution.