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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.

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