Building TechLogHub: A Better Way to Discover Developer Tools
Hey everyone 👋
I kept running into the same problem: discovering developer tools meant jumping between Product Hunt, GitHub, Reddit, blogs, and countless bookmarks.
So I built TechLogHub.
It's a platform where developers can discover SaaS products, open-source projects, AI tools, and developer resources in one place. Makers can launch their products for free and get a permanent, SEO-friendly listing.
The goal isn't to replace existing platforms—it's to make discovering useful developer products simpler and help indie makers and open-source maintainers get discovered.
I'm actively improving the platform and would genuinely love feedback from this community.
What features would make a developer tool discovery platform truly valuable for you?
Thanks for reading, and I appreciate any suggestions or constructive criticism! 🚀
I'm the exact user you're describing — 19, solo, just launched a SaaS and spent this week hunting for places to get discovered. So take this as a customer, not a critic.
The honest problem with your idea isn't the execution, it's the cold start. Directories only work if one side is already there. Right now you're asking makers to list (they'll do it, it's free) and developers to browse (they won't, because there's nothing to browse yet). Every directory dies in that gap.
So the feature question is the wrong one to be asking. The question is: why does a developer open TechLogHub instead of Product Hunt?
The only answer that's ever worked for a directory is curation with a point of view. Product Hunt is a popularity contest. GitHub is a graveyard of abandoned repos. What nobody does well is tell you which tools are actually maintained and actually used. "Last commit 3 days ago, 200 weekly downloads, 4 open issues" — that's information Product Hunt will never show you, and it's the only thing I actually care about before I adopt a tool.
If I could filter by "still alive," you'd have something the big platforms structurally can't copy.
Also worth being blunt about: "permanent SEO-friendly listing" is a benefit to makers, not to developers. That's your supply-side pitch. Don't put it on the page that's meant to attract demand.
Happy to be one of your first listings if you get this off the ground — and if it's useful, I build a tool that scores landing pages, I'd gladly run yours through it and send you what it flags.
A feature I'd find useful is "similar tools." If I'm looking at one product, I'd immediately want to see alternatives with a comparison of features, pricing, and open-source options.
Free permanent listings will quietly become your biggest liability: a huge share of indie dev tools are abandoned within a year, and a directory full of dead projects loses trust faster than one with gaps. I'd pull a freshness signal into every listing (last GitHub commit, last release date) and de-rank anything stale. That one feature would separate you from G2 and Product Hunt more than any filter set.
Best of luck with techloghub!
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I like the idea of creating a single place to discover developer tools. One thing I'd personally find valuable is a strong filtering system, by things like pricing model, open source vs proprietary, self-hosted, API availability, and target audience, etc...
Looking forward to seeing how the platform evolves, good luck on your journey :)
One thing I'd keep testing is whether people want to discover more tools or reach a decision faster.
The internet isn't short on directories anymore. If TechLogHub consistently helps developers narrow the field with confidence instead of expanding it, that's a much stronger reason to come back.
As both a user and seller of dev tools, I really like this. ProductHunt doesn't seem like a good fit for us, and it's hard to get noticed through organic platforms.
From the user part, it's a pain to go find and compare. G2 and other sites lump tools together incorrectly, and they suffer from being too generalist rather than finely targeted at developers.
My biggest question for you is how you jumpstart this? It's not just a chicken-and-egg two sided market, but you also need to get to scale to ensure comprehensive comparisons. Answering my own question - I'd suggest manually assembling comprehensive lists of reviews of key types of devtools to begin bootstrapping. Could also make great blog articles for SEO and sharing on nerd sites.
Happy to do a quick call if you're doing market research at any point.