Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to whatthefuck
An alternative to code debugger. WTF!
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. whatthefuck launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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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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- 3WA
2020 · whatsthatformula.com · its alternatives →
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WTFUtil▲103The personal information dashboard for your terminal.
2019 · wtfutil.com · its alternatives →
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TheInternet.wtf▲124Trending social media stories in an iOS app ♥️
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN my name is Thassilo, I'm a student and passionate programmer from Germany. I want to showcase Spray, a small C debugger I've been working on for a few months now. Spray has a very simple and approachable interface. Its feature set is limited at this point, but it's already enough to tackle some basic problems. I stared to work on Spray because I was curious about how debuggers work. I am also trying to design Spray in such a way that it's easy to grasp and has a small mental overhead. I'd love to get your feedback on Spray. Email: d4kd (at) proton (dot) me PS: I'm generally interested…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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eBPF is an amazing technology that allows safely running user-supplied functions at pretty much arbitrary probe points in a kernel/user space context. Much has been written about how amazing this feature is for kernel observability. But as someone who writes user space code, what I find even more amazing is the support for tracing arbitrary user space programs, with no code changes and low overhead. However, doing in-depth analysis can get complicated and time-consuming. My goal with wachy was to make this debugging significantly easier/faster to use, by displaying traces in a TUI…
2022 · rubrikinc.github.io · its alternatives →
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A site for people who don't know WTF to do.
2016 · its alternatives →
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Hi! I've been building a debugger on my nights and weekends because it's fun, and I personally need a better debugger for my work. GDB and LLDB pain me greatly; we can and will do better! As explained in the README, it's still very early-days and it's not ready for use yet, but check back often because it's improving all the time! Check out https://calabro.io/uscope for a more detailed explanation. Thanks for taking a look!
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 12GWGlance.wtf▲23
2014 · glance.wtf · its alternatives →
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Or more precisely, my little site maker... It is a personal tool that I thoroughly enjoyed making, and enjoy using to write my website . A caveat before any more; nobody was supposed to promote this insanity. Like, terrible things have been done involving inotify and xdotool. But. It showed up on HN some months ago. That too while it was still, shall we say, fermenting. It got "done" some time thence, and of course one could not let the half-past just be. So here we are, for better or worse. Thank you HN mods for helping me repost! _\\// The README explains all, animated GIFs and…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Meticulous▲137Catch JavaScript bugs on web applications with zero-effort
2021 · meticulous.ai · 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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Rust debugger for Linux x86-64. Contribute to godzie44/BugStalker development by creating an account on GitHub.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Dontbug is a reverse debugger for PHP. Contribute to sidkshatriya/dontbug development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · 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. It’s called Jam (jam.dev) and it prevents product managers (like I used to be) from being able to create completely 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. I used to write in the ticket that something didn’t work— only to lead to a ton of confusion by the engineer what I meant by “didn’t work”. Was the button unresponsive? Did the page crash? Did it return an error? Or like sometimes I thought…
2024 · its alternatives →
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CSS debugging tool with an unpronounceable name. Contribute to lucagez/Debucsser development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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debugcode.ai▲103Debug like never before with the power of AI
2023 · debugcode.ai · its alternatives →
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