Guts
convert Golang types to TypeScript
Details
- External ID
- 45969708
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Guts
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Nov. 18, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 105
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9082969432314411
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- niche developer utilities and toolchains
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- convert golang types to typescript
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A CLI tool parsing Go structs using `go/parser` and printing equivalent TypeScript interface definitions is an established, cleanly scoped AST task.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: OpenAPI/Swagger, GraphQL, JSON Schema, Protocol Buffers, Zod
Concerns raised: Generated TypeScript quality issues, GraphQL performance problems with deeply nested queries, GraphQL complexity for backend engineers, Proto float/long JSON conversion issues, Proto lacks generics/templates
Feature requests: Support for more languages beyond two, Validation with clear error messages, LLM compatibility for structured output, Zod schema output for TypeScript
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 132 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #8 of 133 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 4 days after the earliest competitor.
- PEP 827 · hn · 2026-03-02 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.53
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- JSON to TypeScript Interface Converter · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Golang Client Library for Gradium.ai TTS/STT API · hn · 2025-12-02 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Rewriting Mongosh in Golang Using Claude · hn · 2026-03-11 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Open-source Typeform · hn · 2026-03-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- The fastest JSON parser for Go · hn · 2026-07-31 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Write native binary web apps with TypeScript and Express · hn · 2026-02-16 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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