Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to FlouState
I built FlouState because "4 hours of coding" tells you nothing. Was it 4 hours debugging or 4 hours building features? Very different. It's a VS Code extension that automatically categorizes your coding into: Creating (new features), Debugging (fixing issues), Refactoring (improving code), or Exploring (learning codebase). Example: Yesterday I "coded" 6 hours but it was actually 3.5h debugging a race condition, 1.5h refactoring, 0.5h tests, 0.5h exploring. Traditional time trackers just show "6 hours in TypeScript." Technical: Tracks file changes, debug sessions, and edit patterns locally.…
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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TimeFly Dev▲309TimeFly tracks your coding to stop procrastinating and finish your projects. Built because I kept getting excited about side features and forgetting my goals. See your real coding patterns and ship what matters. Full details on the site.
2025 · timefly.dev · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I wanted to show you a product a small team and I have been working on for 4 years. https://jam.dev It’s called Jam and it prevents product managers (like I used to be) from being able to create vague and un-reproducible bug tickets (like I used to create). It’s actually really hard as a non-engineer to file useful bug tickets for engineers. Like, sometimes I thought I included a screenshot, but the important information the engineer needed was what was actually right outside the boundary of the screenshot I took. Or I'd write that something "didn't work" but the engineer…
2024 · its alternatives →
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Hey! We are presenting CodeTracer - a user-friendly time-traveling debugger designed to support a wide range of programming languages: https://github.com/metacraft-labs/codetracer?tab=readme-ov-f... CodeTracer records the execution of a program into a sharable self-contained trace file. You can load the produced trace files in a GUI environment that allows you to move forward and backward through the execution and to examine the history of all memory locations. They say a picture is worth a thousand words — well, a video is even better! Watch the demo below to see…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Automated Penetration Testing for AI-Built Apps
2021 · replay.io · its alternatives →
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I made this because building UIs in a lexical medium like code is super annoying. I have to pre-render what I’m making in my head, and then jump between the browser and IDE to test. I was inspired by the developer console in chrome and safari since I end up editing css there because it’s ironically more convenient. Hope it’s useful!
2022 · dev.aspect.app · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I just built an experimental VSCode extension called LLM Debugger. It’s a proof-of-concept that lets a large language model take charge of debugging. Instead of only looking at the static code, the LLM also gets to see the live runtime state—actual variable values, function calls, branch decisions, and more. The idea is to give it enough context to help diagnose issues faster and even generate synthetic data from running programs. Here’s what it does: * Active Debugging: It integrates with Node.js debug sessions to gather runtime info (like variable states and stack traces). *…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A VS Code extension to track your 100 Days of Code progress.
2020 · antenna.dev · its alternatives →
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Instant time complexity, explanation, and documentation
2021 · marketplace.visualstudio.com · its alternatives →
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Reactime▲66Time travel debugging tool, visualizing and tracing state
2020 · reactime.io · its alternatives →
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CodeTime▲117Automatically track time you code and the languages you use
2018 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hours 2.0▲299The time tracker you will actually use. Now on the web.
2016 · hourstimelord.com · its alternatives →
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Code Time▲135VS Code extension for automatic programming metrics
2019 · antenna.dev · its alternatives →
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2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I've been working on Reflame since I quit my job at Brex last year, excited to finally open it up for everybody to try out! Here's a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SohUnrjiIxk Reflame deploys client-rendered React web apps instantly, to previews and to production. In concrete wall-clock terms, deploys generally take: - ~50-500ms from our VSCode extension - ~500-3000ms from our GitHub app (Jump to this comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33134082) for what makes Reflame so fast) The Reflame GitHub App automatically deploys default branches…
2022 · reflame.app · its alternatives →
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Reactime▲70Chrome extension that helps debug React applications
2020 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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VS Code extension that encourages you to take a break. - schneefux/vscode-winddown
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Started as a timer to track my freelance coding hours and stay focused. It’s local-only, zero-login, minimalist. Not monetizing it (yet), just seeing if others find it helpful. Thoughts welcome.
2025 · iamlockedin.com · its alternatives →
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I got sick of the old software development loop: Change code -> Run tests -> wait -> wait some more -> look at failures. I decided to build a tool that will enable you to: Change code -> look at failures. No wait time, no explicit test running. Under the hood: - Runs the whole test suite and collects code coverage per test. - For each auto file save, analyzes the changes on the tests. - Runs changed tests in the background. - Display results, the loop time from change to test results is approx 250ms. Instead of: code -> alt+tab -> arrow up -> rerun all the tests -> wait ... -> test results…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! I've recently released and open-sourced a time travel debugging VSCode extension for Python, Javascript & Typescript. https://github.com/dedale-dev/ariana It's born from the pain of spending hours reproducing bugs, struggling to read parallel streams of logging across client/server, and managing print/console.log statements. You can see a short video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2gZv7IOo7s Basically its two parts: One part CLI called `ariana` that you install with npm/pip and run alongside your code's run command. For…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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