Treedocs: Documentation that automatically checks for staleness
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HN · launched Jun 23, 2026 · 53 upvotes (top 15%) · 0 views
Niche: developer documentation platforms · 70 launches, 1 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes It is a CLI tool written in Swift that parses a YAML configuration file, walks the local filesystem, checks for missing/stale entries, and prints a formatted terminal tree.
Discussion
19 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: llmdoc (file hashing with LLM summaries), grep and built-in agent tooling
Concerns raised: No Linux release yet (macOS only), Agents don't reliably use treedocs explore by default, Monolithic file format vs. more diffuse approach, Who maintains the documentation over time
Feature requests: Linux and Windows support, Better documentation of nested treedocs.yaml capability, Improved prompts/skills to make agents prefer treedocs over grep
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 2501 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #314 of 2502 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 235 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Cachekit · hn · 2026-01-14 · 47 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- jsoncompat · hn · 2026-04-06 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- alembic-default-diff · github · 2026-10-07 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- nix-compact · github · 2026-09-21 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Testbump · hn · 2026-06-03 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- genpark-symbolic-execution-path-explorer-skill · github · 2026-09-28 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Cachet · hn · 2026-06-23 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.53
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