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Command-line tools written in Python, Ruby, PHP or Node spend most of each call loading their code. speedrunner keeps them loaded in the background and starts each call from a ready copy, with the same output. For developers and teams who run aws, black, rubocop, artisan or eslint all day, in a shell, an editor or scripts. No per-tool setup, median x4.9 over 96 commands, safe fallback to the normal tool, single binary for Linux and macOS, free and open source.
PH · launched Nov 4, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 19%) · 0 views
Niche: developer command-line tools · 226 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -67% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Open Source
- Developer Tools
- GitHub
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Could you build this?
Partial Wrapping commands in a persistent warm daemon is a known pattern, but making it transparent and output-identical across four runtimes takes systems-level work.
What it would actually take: Build a per-language background server that preloads interpreters and modules, with a thin client that forwards argv, env, cwd, and stdio over a Unix socket. The hard part is faithful process semantics (signals, TTYs, exit codes, environment changes) and cache invalidation. This needs experience with interpreter internals and OS process handling.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 201 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #47 of 202 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 361 days after the earliest competitor.
- Home Maker: Declare Your Dev Tools in a Makefile · hn · 2026-03-29 · 91 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Bashr.run · ph · 2026-10-31 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Sub-millisecond VM sandboxes using CoW memory forking · hn · 2026-03-17 · 311 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Forte · hn · 2026-06-24 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Bitrise Build Hub · ph · 2026-09-24 · 174 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Awsmux · hn · 2026-07-25 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Glu · hn · 2026-09-16 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Shuck · hn · 2026-04-30 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.40
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