Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to DebtBomb – Make TODOs expire and automatically create Jira tickets
Hi HN, In most codebases I’ve worked on, temporary hacks (“TODO: remove later”, “just for this release”) slowly become permanent. Nobody remembers why they exist, but they keep shipping to production. I built a small CLI called DebtBomb to make that explicit. Instead of free-form TODOs, you attach an expiry date to temporary code. When the date passes, CI fails until the code is removed or the expiry is intentionally extended. Recently I added integrations so expired debt bombs don’t just fail CI — they become visible and owned: When a debt bomb expires, DebtBomb can automatically create a…
DebtBomb is a CLI tool that prevents temporary code hacks from becoming permanent by attaching expiry dates to TODOs. When the date passes, CI fails until the code is removed or the expiry is extended. The tool… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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After having cycled through various CLI-based todo apps, I started to realise that I actually don’t need a tool at all for managing my todos. Most of the time, my use cases are quite simple, like viewing my todo items, checking them off, or adding a new one. Rather than having to memorise CLI commands for these interactions (which I’m not super good at), I figured that it’s easier for me to use my text editor directly, and have an editor plugin help me with the visual structure and some convenience functionality. So, kind-of similar to Emacs Org Mode, but without having to use Emacs. I…
2022 · its alternatives →
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Share web pages, code snippets, and rich text with an auto-expiring link. No signup needed — paste, pick a lifetime from 5 minutes to 30 days, and send the link.
2017 · ctxt.io · its alternatives →
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Preflight▲77Hey HN, I’m a product designer on a payments team. Every time we were close to shipping a feature, we’d run a bug bash in a giant Google doc or spreadsheet: copy the spec in, write the test cases, ask people to mark Pass/Fail, paste screenshots, then manually turn everything into Jira tickets. It worked, but it always felt a bit painful. Instead of another heavy test management tool, I wanted something that feels closer to the tools we actually like using. More Linear/Notion, less old-school QA. With Preflight, you paste your product requirements and Figma link and get an initial…
Dec 2025 · preflightqa.xyz · its alternatives →
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Support teams handle hundreds of tickets but rarely analyze them systematically. Patterns like workarounds, feature confusion, or rising escalations often surface too late. This tool: Analyzes Zendesk tickets daily (last 7 days vs 30-day baseline) Detects workaround language, expectation gaps, and escalation trends Sends Slack alerts when thresholds spike Includes real customer quotes for context Built with TypeScript, Vercel, Supabase, Slack SDK, and Claude for extraction and categorization. Free for now. Would love feedback from support leaders or B2B builders.
Feb 2026 · usercall.co · its alternatives →
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toktrack▲68Did you know Claude Code deletes your session data after 30 days? I found out the hard way when I tried to check my spending history. My session files hit 3GB (2000+ files) and existing tools took 40+ seconds. Rewrote it in Rust with simd-json + rayon. - First run: ~1s (vs 40s+) - Daily use: ~0.04s (1000x faster, cached) - TUI dashboard with daily/weekly/monthly breakdown - Supports Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI - Persistent cache — history survives even after CLI deletes files GitHub: https://github.com/mag123c/toktrack Feedback welcome!
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, the is Chris, creator of FireDBG. We’ve been working on this debugger just about a year now. Time travel debugging isn’t a new concept, the new idea here is to use call tree visualisation to help us navigate the debug trace. It supports various Linux distros on x64 and macOS on x64 and M1. It’s only available for Rust right now, but we do want to bring this debugging experience to other programming languages. Please give it a try! Would love to know your thoughts. What’s your anecdote in debugging programs? My stupidity is usually in the form of: after a few hours of debugging, I…
2023 · firedbg.sea-ql.org · its alternatives →
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Billing history for Stripe applications. Handling discounts, credits, invoices, PDF and emails. Beautifully presented on desktop or mobile. Also handles pre-DUNNING, DUNNING and Disputes.
2015 · accountdock.com · its alternatives →
- 12TI
I thought I'd be more likely to do the things on my todo list if GPT-4 was watching me (fail to) do them, so I built this. Let me know what you think!
2023 · todobot.ai · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I’m Tobi. For a couple of hours over the past few days I’ve been hacking on something to fix a pain point in my dev workflow: writing status updates. Progress is invisible by default. GitHub, Linear, Jira all track tickets and code, but they don’t do a good job of capturing the narrative between “ticket started” and “ticket done.” You start working on a feature, your PM asks “how’s it going?”, and even though you know exactly how it’s going - because you’ve been committing and making progress - you still struggle to answer. That usually means breaking your flow to piece together an…
2025 · zyg.sh · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone, I’ve been on Hacker News for a good number of years, but this is my first “Show HN”. I changed jobs recently. Tax is weird in Europe (and maybe other places as well?) in that different amounts go out at different times and repeat at various intervals. I needed to make sure I had enough cashflow to make all upcoming payments, I didn't want any surprises. So I created a little tool for my own purposes, then had fun putting a small HTML frontend on it as I thought it might be useful for someone else. I'm a backend developer in my day job, as you can probably tell from the design :)…
2023 · whenwillirunoutofmoney.com · its alternatives →
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Meteor City▲12Share secrets that expire exactly when you want
2025 · meteor-city.online · its alternatives →
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- 18AS
2018 · pullreminders.com · its alternatives →
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Track money between friends and family. Offline, simple.
Jan 2026 · dibs.pablogamero.com · its alternatives →
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Never let a coupon or reward expire unused again
Apr 2026 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Getting ahead of your debts should be free.
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Temporary scheduling links | share availability in seconds
2025 · whenavailable.com · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone! I’ve been working on a small personal finance tool called Tender for the better part of a year. I got tired of doing expenses by hand - going through several accounts to figure out refunds, subscription cancellations, getting paid back via venmo, etc. I’d get to the point where I’d have to go through months of transactions at a time if I got lazy and fell behind. The workflow in Tender is centered around getting to inbox-zero. Transactions leave the inbox when they’re categorized and there’s a basic rules engine for automation. You can also do things like add notes, set…
2023 · tender.run · its alternatives →
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Doxpri▲9Stop losing money to expired contracts and missed renewals!
Jun 2026 · doxpri.com · its alternatives →
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