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An opinionated index of AI developer tools

An opinionated index of AI developer tools

by karphi·May 14, 2026·2 points·0 comments
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AI Analysis

●●SolidNiche GemSolve My Problem

Editorial scoring cuts through the noise when generic leaderboards fail.

Strengths
  • •Mixing GitHub stars with human curation prevents popularity-contest bias.
  • •Category-specific ranking acknowledges that agents and MCPs aren't directly comparable.
  • •Daily data refreshes keep the index relevant in a fast-moving market.
Weaknesses
  • •Another directory in a space already crowded by FutureTools and similar aggregators.
  • •Lacks unique data sources beyond standard GitHub metrics and manual tagging.
Target Audience

Developers overwhelmed by the volume of new AI tooling

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Post Description

I built this because I could not keep up with the AI developer tooling space and wanted to get an overview on hot tools.

The site tracks more then 500 tools across 19 categories with a unified scoring and combines GitHub signals with curated datasets and ranks.

The scoring is intentionally not a universal leaderboard. It is useful inside a category, but a coding agent and an MCP directory are not comparable just because both have a number.

I would be happy to get some feedback :)

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