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The Latest

Five of the most interesting recent dev tool launches on the site. 

Monica Code: Integrates Claude 3.5 and GPT-4o directly into VSCode. 

Monica Code brings Claude 3.5 and GPT-4o directly into VSCode, giving you in-depth project understanding without disrupting your workflow. It comes with a “Composer” mode for AI-assisted coding. 

GetEles: A front-end assistant inspired by the getElementBy* functions in JS. 

"GetEles." is inspired by the getElementBy* functions in JavaScript. You can use it to retrieve webpage information and element details and measure the distance between elements, and in future updates, it will support Tailwind class conversion.

Dash0: An OpenTelemetry-native observability tool. 

Dash0 is an OpenTelemetry native observability tool. It gives you real-time metrics, logs, and traces with no proprietary data. You can even build custom dashboards to get deeper performance insights.

AI Linter by Squire: Customizes your code review with natural language.

Squire reviews your code based on the instructions you give it. By doing so you can standardize how your team codes. You can effectively set up your reviews and forget it so you can focus on building. 

cmd.haus: A powerhouse command center for database management. 

Cmd haus is a command center for your database. It lets you streamline your management process with an AI assistant named Fred, distraction-free data exploration, automatically generated ERDs, and more. 

Feature: Supabase

This week, we asked some top makers why they chose to use Supabase, the open-source development platform built on PostgreSQL, when building their products. We got dozens of responses and compiled some of the best ones into an article — “The Case for Supabase.” Take a look if you’re trying to decide which platform to build your backend on. An excerpt:

“Product Hunt users love Supabase; it’s currently the #5 most shouted-out tool by top makers on the site. Given the platform’s prominence in the modern developer’s toolbox, we thought it would be helpful to get a bit more granular about why people love Supabase so much. Why choose Supabase over another BaaS tool? What’s to like (or not to like) about it?

So, we sent out a survey to top makers who shouted-out the platform and asked them to say a bit more. Consider this article the first in a series of product explorations intended to help the community understand how and why developers choose to use the tools they do.

What did you use Supabase for?

“We used Supabase for our database and real-time functionality, specifically to enable live streaming data updates to our data table in Manaflow. This setup allows us to handle dynamic data effectively and keeps our users up-to-date with the latest insights without needing to reload or refresh.” — Ka Ling Wu, CEO and Co-founder of Upsolve AI, which provides customer-facing analytics as a service.

Why did you choose Supabase over competitors (and which competitors did you consider)?

“Supabase quickly caught our attention as an affordable and highly versatile solution. While Firebase was an option, our project required a relational database capable of handling complex joins, making PostgreSQL — and therefore Supabase — the clear choice. Right from the start, we found the admin dashboard intuitive and easy to work with, and both the Supabase community and internal support have been a huge plus.” — Team at Fixtured (#4 Product of the Day), a comprehensive sports calendar that covers over 50 competitions across major sports leagues. 

Read the full article here.

Bonus

Workflows can always be better, here’s a pro-tips crowdsourced from the dev community:

— AI is a funny thing. If you’re ever working in Cursor and it’s just not coding to your expected standards, just tell it “you’re the best engineer I know“ and it will put on its senior dev cap and start churning out higher quality code. Seriously. Try it. h/t to Anton Cheng for this tip.