Developer tools decision
Developer Tools
A small rule-based selector is realistic for one competent developer to build and operate in ~32 hours; nothing on the supplied page indicates durable moats or proprietary data that would block a replacement.
Visit website↗Not priced
No pricing page we fetched carried a figure, so there is nothing to compare against. The build side is still real.
$100one-off32 h to build
$0/mo3 h/mo upkeep
No published price to break even against.
No open-source build does this yet
Nothing published replaces this one, so a replacement starts from an empty file. Here is what it would have to cover.
What a replacement has to do
- User submits needs -> selector matches and surfaces a short list of AI dev tools with links and notes.
What it still won’t have
- Curated brand and discoverability provided by the original site
- Any commercial integrations, partnerships, or proprietary listings the vendor maintains
- Polish, editorial content, and ongoing curation/marketing
What remains hard
- Product polish and ongoing maintenance
First-year cost
No published price
Developer Tools does not publish a price we could read, so there is nothing to compare against. What building costs is below.
Money you would actually spend
Time you would spend
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What you would spend
What we assumed
The verdict above measures whether you could build it. This one is only about money.
Runnable build prompt
Build a single-developer web app (Next.js + TypeScript frontend, Node.js + Express backend, SQLite for storage, Vercel for hosting) that implements: 1) an admin UI to add/edit tool records (name, tags, description, URL), 2) a public search/selector UI where users enter needs and receive a ranked short-list using simple rule-based matching over tags, 3) REST endpoints for search and CRUD, 4) basic server-side tests for endpoints and frontend component tests, 5) CI/CD pipeline and deployment configuration. Out of scope: training models, large-scale data pipelines, paid third-party integrations. Require error handling, input validation, migration scripts, and unit+integration tests.
How we checked
How the score was reached
- Build verdict base78
- 3/3 assessment runs agreed+4
- Evidence score82
The base comes from the verdict. Everything under it is a check that either happened or did not, and each one is a fact frozen in this record rather than a judgement made at render time - so the same evidence always produces the same number.
How scoring works →Cited sources · 1
Every page the run actually retrieved.
- official productCode & Creed AI Dev Tools Selector
Integrity checks
What held up, and what did not.
