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24 alternatives to Exposing technical debt before it’s a problem
Exposing technical debt before it’s a problem
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Exposing technical debt before it’s a problem launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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A tech debt reading and resources list - to help diagnose, prevent and control tech debt. - Hiberly/tech-debt-reading-list
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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State.of.dev▲135Visualizing the current state of development
2017 · dataviewer.com · its alternatives →
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The first dysfunction of a software team
2016 · gadgetsprimer.com · its alternatives →
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This is the first half of my book, “Swimming in Tech Debt”. It is available at a pre-launch sale price of $0.99 (https://loufranco.com/tech-debt-book). I have been working on it since January 2024. It is based on some posts in my blog, but expands on my ideas quite a bit. In September 2024, excerpts appeared in Gergely Orosz’s Pragmatic Engineer newsletter, which helped me get a lot of feedback that expanded the book from my initial idea. This half is about what I expected to do before that —- the rest of the book goes into team and CTO practices.
2025 · helpthisbook.com · its alternatives →
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James Studdart of CynicalDeveloper
2017 · gadgetsprimer.com · its alternatives →
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List of Problems▲138See how makers are solving real problems
2018 · seedproof.com · its alternatives →
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The 3rd dysfunction of a software team
2016 · gadgetsprimer.com · its alternatives →
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Onward▲106Get tech-life balance by cutting down on technology overuse
2017 · onward.org · its alternatives →
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Eric Fisher of CodeSchool
2016 · gadgetsprimer.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, tl;dr we built a bug finder that's working really well, especially for app backends. Try it out and send us your thoughts! Long story below. -------------------------- We originally set out to work on technical debt. We had all seen codebases with a lot of debt, so we had personal grudges about the problem, and AI seemed to be making it a lot worse. Tech debt also seemed like a great problem for AI because: 1) a small portion of the work is thinky and strategic, and then the bulk of the execution is pretty mechanical, and 2) when you're solving technical debt, you're usually trying to…
Dec 2025 · detail.dev · its alternatives →
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