Discontinue Sourcetrail

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  • Sourcetrail

    Discontinued Sourcetrail - free and open-source interactive source explorer

    Link won't load for me but seems like it's talking about https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail.

  • flowistry

    Flowistry is an IDE plugin for Rust that helps you focus on relevant code.

    Will Crichton just open sourced flowistry for Rust:

    https://github.com/willcrichton/flowistry

    It's a vscode plugin that analyzes the data flow graph, let's you do things like highlight statements that depend on the current one, etc.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • code2flow

    Pretty good call graphs for dynamic languages

    I maintain a similar (but less popular) open-source CLI that generates flow charts for dynamic languages (Python, JS, Ruby, PHP) - https://github.com/scottrogowski/code2flow/

    The thought has crossed my mind to try to actually sell it as a SaaS. But by itself, call graph visualizers are the sort of thing that you would need only once or only every once in a while. That sort of software is very difficult to monetize - as 10,000 failed productivity app companies could tell you. I don't know the details of what happened with Sourcetrail but I assume it was similar - developers might have found it useful occasionally but it's not something most developers would use daily or even monthly - so it's hard to justify a subscription.

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