developer frameworks and starter kits
Recent window: last 5.2 months (2026-04-24 → 2026-09-28), compared with the prior 5.2 months.
These products provide code libraries, application frameworks, templates, and self-hosted infrastructure to speed up software development. They are primarily used by software engineers, technical founders, and indie hackers building web and mobile applications. Unlike end-user software, this cluster focuses on foundational building blocks and infrastructure for creating new software products.
Metrics
- Stage
- crowded
- Recent count
- 164
- Prior count
- 30
- Total count
- 234
- Momentum
- 300.00
- Attention
- 0.59
- Crowding
- 0.81
- Concentration
- 0.80
- Opportunity
- 0.49
Opportunity components
- Attention
- 0.59
- Low crowding
- 0.19
- Momentum (normalized)
- 1.00
- Low concentration
- 0.20
Monthly trajectory
Source split
- github
- 27 (0.16)
- hn
- 22 (0.13)
- ph
- 115 (0.70)
- yc
- 0 (0.00)
Dominant source: ph · Divergence: 0.70
Similar themes
- developer infrastructure and tooling (0.43)
- cybersecurity tools and professional training (0.29)
- database infrastructure and developer tools (0.28)
- developer infrastructure and system tools (0.26)
- developer billing and payments infrastructure (0.26)
- agentic workspaces and business operations (0.26)
- startup launch and fundraising tools (0.25)
- startup launch and fundraising tools (0.23)
Members
| Name | Source | Upvotes ▲ | Launched |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cookie Consent SDK | PH | 22 | 2026-09-30 |
| Chart Preview | HN | 22 | 2025-12-20 |
| video-processing-pipeline | GITHUB | 23 | 2026-09-28 |
| Mocktail | HN | 25 | 2026-08-14 |
| docker-rollout-action | GITHUB | 36 | 2026-09-25 |
| Hocuspocus 4 | HN | 38 | 2026-05-20 |
| jornadas-cloud-2026 | GITHUB | 40 | 2026-09-18 |
| fullstack-saas-starter | GITHUB | 40 | 2026-09-09 |
| Renovate | HN | 43 | 2026-02-11 |
| Vertex.js | HN | 46 | 2026-03-01 |
| redStackPRO | GITHUB | 47 | 2026-09-25 |
| Titan | HN | 49 | 2025-12-11 |
| rn-update | GITHUB | 51 | 2026-09-12 |
| Mantle | PH | 58 | 2026-09-18 |
| AuthMonster | PH | 65 | 2026-10-01 |
| Write SaaS apps where users control where their data is stored | HN | 70 | 2026-06-19 |
| Embedful | PH | 81 | 2026-09-20 |
| I open-sourced my Go and Next B2B SaaS Starter (deploy anywhere, MIT) | HN | 83 | 2025-12-19 |
| Stepped Actions | HN | 85 | 2025-12-14 |
| Gridland: make terminal apps that also run in the browser | HN | 111 | 2026-03-24 |
| Dub Program Marketplace | PH | 117 | 2026-09-23 |
| Typebase | HN | 119 | 2026-08-26 |
| ReadyKit | HN | 121 | 2025-11-30 |
| Sakana Fugu | PH | 156 | 2026-06-23 |
| InfrOS | PH | 265 | 2026-03-19 |
| Modaal for Android | PH | 268 | 2026-09-17 |
| Shizuku-Next | GITHUB | 271 | 2026-09-26 |
| InstantDB | PH | 323 | 2026-04-22 |
| Tailgrids 3.0 | PH | 339 | 2026-05-10 |
| Your Next Store | PH | 347 | 2026-03-10 |
| Vendo | PH | 364 | 2026-08-17 |
| OpenWorkers | HN | 500 | 2026-01-01 |
| ExploreYC | PH | 571 | 2026-07-08 |
| awesome-cloudflare-selfhosted | GITHUB | 659 | 2026-09-15 |