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DevUtils: Offline Toolbox for Developers
- crankyadmin 5y agoThis looks awesome (beautiful looking app) but wow... its expensive! I've been using Boop (free) for the same purpose https://apps.apple.com/us/app/boop/id1518425043?mt=12 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/boop/id1518425043?mt=12 and really wouldn't mind paying for devutils (I've tried the demo and liked it) but $49.95 for the standard edition seems a little on the steep side for what it is... In the event of a decent price reduction this would have me purchase for sure. Edit: "This is a perpetual license and includes one year’s worth of updates." - yeah, I'll pass thanks.
- andrei_says_ 5y agoI bought the $25 license and it’s enough. Love the app. The developer regularly adds more functionality. I also paid for dash and alfred and love their integration. All these licenses are affordable and help some very cool people put bread on the table.
- trungdq88 5y agoThank you very much for your support, Andrei! I'm a solo developer and this means a lot to me!
- andrei_says_ 5y agoYou’re more than welcome. I feel your care in every update and every communication I receive.
- dmitriid 5y ago> but wow... its expensive! 25 dollars is expensive? Should I remind you that you're complaining about the cost of a few beers while typing your complaint on a >$1000-dollar device.
- dijit 5y ago“Are you seriously complaining about the price of power, when you’re sitting in a home worth hundreds of thousands”? Same energy.
- jbschirtzs 5y agoI mean, there are apartments...this assumes much...
- true_religion 5y ago50 is as expensive or inexpensive as you want it to be considering you are buying a tool for a specific purpose. It’s also competing with stuff which is free.
- Aeolun 5y agoFor a combination of tools already available elsewhere (command line/existing sites), maybe?
- Art9681 5y agoThe value is in the convenience of NOT having to spend the time researching, bookmarking, and remembering all those tools you use. That is the calling of software developers right? To abstract complexity so the other person doesnt have to worry about "this"? All businesses are born out of creating convenience for someone else who values time more than experience (in that particular thing). $25 for this app might save you hours of work, hundreds or thousands. Just like $25 for a half tank of gas will save you a few hours from getting to where you want to go.
- trungdq88 5y agoDisclaimer: I'm the app developer. Thank you for the kind words, and I'm glad you like DevUtils! I just want to drop a quick comment about the license terms. "This is a perpetual license and includes one year’s worth of updates" In the last 12 months, I added 10+ major upgrades[1] with a lot of new tools, bug fixes, and improvements. I think the 1-year upgrades term is the best way to keep me motivated and keep improving the app. This license type is the same as seen in many other popular apps like JetBrains IDE, Sketch, TablePlus, Parallels Desktop, etc. I hope you understand. I do offer student discounts and special discounts if you are from a country with a low-income level. Feel free to hit me up anytime (email in my profile). Thanks! [1]: https://devutils.app/changelog/ https://devutils.app/changelog/
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- prox 5y agoI don’t think it is expensive at all. I wouldn’t fret about it, and nice to have discounts for low income countries.
- genem9 5y agoNo need to apologize to anyone. Your pricing is a steal for the convenience. It takes time to maintain and develop new features and it would be crazy for people to expect all of this for free…
- bovermyer 5y agoI'll echo others' sentiments - the pricing seems fine to me. I happily bought a license this morning.
- trungdq88 5y agoThank you very much!
- friedman23 5y agoThis is why developers constantly choose to go for an ad based revenue model over just charging users. The amount that can be made by not respecting user privacy and getting a million users greatly exceeds the amount that can be made by charging a fraction of those users. Everyone pays lip service to the idea that they are willing to pay for a no ad experience but it's just that, lip service.
- kyawzazaw 5y agoI agree. I notice even at big corps, they don’t even pay for a Postman license which is used daily
- kylegawley 5y agoI'm a happy customer – I bought it ~6 months ago and use it most days as part of my work flow. $25 was a no-brainer for me, I didn't even think twice.
- trungdq88 5y agoThank you very much, @kylegawley!
- kyawzazaw 5y agoI would say the pricing seems reasonable, especially for teams in the US. Each 1 yr license is less than an intern's hourly wage.
- kyawzazaw 5y agoEdit: 1 yr is update so it’s pretty good
- cyberferret 5y agoExpensive? Not really. I was an early purchaser of DevUtils, and in the intervening time, the author has released a steady plethora of improvements and enhancements. Not to mention develop a bunch of other unrelated useful utilities. He kind of reminds me of myself 25 years ago, when I used to write utility app after utility app for DOS, early Windows systems, Unix systems etc. Hundreds of long forgotten tools that were used by either just myself, or large corporations and government departments for a modest fee. Had there been a Stripe or easy way of monetising decades ago, I could have made some serious coin. But eventually I burnt out and started a 'boring' consulting business to pay the bills. I just loved creating, and I wish that someone had paid me enough to just keep experimenting and creating them because who knows where it could have gone. I paid for a DevUtils licence because I wanted Tony to continue to be encouraged to create more without feeling unappreciated, and I don't want him to end up an old, jaded programmer like me. ;) I can either pay $25 over the next week to buy coffees that I will pee down the drain, or I can help a young indie programmer create something new...
- trungdq88 5y agoThank you so much for the encouraging words, cyberferret! I recently quit my full-time job and go solo to work on DevUtils and my other apps. Your comment is such a great motivation boost for me! I really appreciate this, thank you so much!
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- beepbooptheory 5y agoIt is expensive for me, personally, but just in the that it is just enough of a price point to encourage me to automate and script these things myself, relative to my income. But I'm surprised to hear that sentiment on here more broadly, don't y'all all have fancy jobs? Also its an osx app, y'all already have macbooks, and $25 is too much?
- pjmorris 5y agoThe price seems 'about like a software development book.' That doesn't strike me as jarringly out of range for what it is.
- ascendantlogic 5y agoif $25 is expensive then I would say you value your time at a very, very cheap rate.
- jbschirtzs 5y agoPart of that equation is convincing other people your time is worth what you say it is. I, for instance, value my time highly, but 25 bucks would still be "more than I am willing to pay for something available for free".
- trungdq88 5y agoThank you @kyawzazaw for posting this! I'm the developer of the app. I'm happy to answer any questions :)
- p2hari 5y agoI really like this app for quick tasks. @trungdq88 thanks for also leveraging setapp[1]. I am using this via setapp subscription. 1. https://setapp.com/ https://setapp.com/
- trungdq88 5y agoThank you very much, @p2hari! Setapp is a very good platform!
- hobr 5y agoThanks for making DevUtils available through Setapp. Do you plan to add the M1 version to Setapp? Seems to be missing for me.
- trungdq88 5y agoHi hobr, the version on Setapp is already M1 native. (Make sure you upgraded the app to the latest version 1.12)
- hobr 5y agoWeirdly it's not showing for me even after a Setapp update this morning. I'm not on Monterey yet if that's needed? If not, I'll email Setapp support.
- trungdq88 5y agoHow did you check for M1 support? Can you share a screenshot with me (or via email if you prefer, my email is in profile). You can see a screenshot here for reference: https://cln.sh/ZEULbo https://cln.sh/ZEULbo
- hobr 5y agoIn case anybody is having problems finding DevUtils in Setapp - we found that it was hidden in our Setapp Teams account for some reason! Thanks @trungdq88 for your help.
- rlv-dan 5y agoDoes anyone know of something similar for Windows?
- mananvaghasiya 5y agoLooking for something like this on linux.
- drcursor 5y agoWhat about a local running instance of cyberchef ? https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/ https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/
- gdotdesign 5y agoCheck out DevBox https://www.dev-box.app/ https://www.dev-box.app/ (I'm the developer) It has most of the utilities of DevUtils and actually more :)
- MattOfNZ 5y agoI haven’t tried DevUtils, but a lot of the features on the landing page look like a more polished version of CyberChef: https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/ https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/
- throwaway744678 5y agoWow, just discovered CyberChef, thanks for the link! DevUtils has a comparison page at [1] describing the differences between both tools. To their credit (I reckon it is rare on such "comparison" pages), they even highlight the features of their competitor that they don't match. [1] https://devutils.app/devutils_vs_cyberchef/ https://devutils.app/devutils_vs_cyberchef/
- wernsey 5y agoI still keep Notepad++ around on my Windows machines because of the all the plugins. I regularly use the JSTool (for Javascript/JSON), MIME tools (for Base64 and URL encode/decode) and Markdown++ plugins. There is also a NppCalc calculator app.
- visarga 5y agoMost of these functionalities are easy to find as online apps (formatting JSON, regex validator, color picker, minifiers, etc) or can be done in REPL in one line.
- puruvj 5y agoThose sites could be just storing that stuff in their internal databases, breaching privacy. This app is open source, and nothing goes up to any servers. Online apps, yur paying with yur info devutils, yur paying with money but preserving privacy. Choose as you must :)
- Aeolun 5y agoWait? It’s open source? I thought I would check the claim about no connection, but couldn’t find anything.
- Master_Odin 5y agoI think parent might have meant "offline". Definitely doesn't look like devutils or devbox are open source.
- Master_Odin 5y agoActually, it looks like it is paid source available: https://github.com/DevUtilsApp/DevUtils-app https://github.com/DevUtilsApp/DevUtils-app But I could not find anywhere on the site that linked to this repo.
- yashg 5y agoConvenience and saving time. I don't need these functionalities on a daily basis because I don't code on a daily basis but I totally see the point of and appeal of this app. Yes there are free online versions available for all of these things, but having them all in one place is helpful. Being from India, prices are a tad too high but not unaffordable. If I needed it, I would pay for it.
- pjmlp 5y agoLooks quite nice.
- beebeepka 5y agoMac only. Stuff like this should be in the title
- Aeolun 5y agoThis is the risk with the ‘no electron’ crowd. Everything native is nice, but you’re always excluding a bunch of people.
- damechen 5y agoI bought it a while ago. Love it!
- trungdq88 5y agoThank you, @damechen!
- habosa 5y agoThis looks great however if the dev here I just want to point out that scrolling up and down the home page a few times gets super laggy and eventually crashes the tab on my phone (Chrome on iOS on iPhone SE 2020)
- trungdq88 5y agoThank you so much for letting me know, I will check this right away! Quick question if you are still around: does it happen consistently?
- elric 5y agoThe page eats all of my CPU on firefox.
- trungdq88 5y agoThank you for letting me know. It looks like the lazy-loaded videos are not performing very well. I'll fix it asap.
- elkekeer 5y agoIncluding of SAML tools would have been great (sign, encrypt/decrypt, encode/decode).
- wodenokoto 5y agoI like that it’s not subscription based pricing. I also like having an offline json converter and similar small tools you often go online for, with risc of leaking company code/data. But isn’t a standard license cheaper than a team license?
- trungdq88 5y agoHi, I'm the app's developer. I'm glad you like the app! Yes, the standard license is cheaper than the team license, but the terms is for 1 person only. I'm counting on companies' good faith that they won't cheat on a solo developer :)
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- fareesh 5y agoCould there be an offline GitHub Copilot at some point in the future which does some of this stuff in the editor itself? i.e. an interface where you just describe what you want in a comment.
- ludovicianul 5y agoI'm working on a similar open source command line tool: https://github.com/ludovicianul/dvt https://github.com/ludovicianul/dvt
- mutant 5y agoSo.... Cyberchef. https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/ https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/
- trungdq88 5y agoHi, app's author here. I have a page that compares DevUtils vs CyberChef, hope it helps :) https://devutils.app/devutils_vs_cyberchef/ https://devutils.app/devutils_vs_cyberchef/
- kensavage 5y agoThank you for not having a monthly subscription price.
- trungdq88 5y agoYou're welcome! :)
- gdotdesign 5y agoIf you are not on macOS and like something similar check out DevBox https://www.dev-box.app/ https://www.dev-box.app/ It has most of the utilities as DevUtils. It's available on macOS, Windows, Linux and as Chrome and Firefox extensions. (edit) I'm the developer of DevBox.
- trungdq88 5y agoYou should also disclose that you are promoting your own app.
- gdotdesign 5y agoThank you for reminding me :)
- jve 5y agoNice that something like that available for windows. But judging from the first screenshot of both apps - the former is more powerful, as allows querying and sorting json. And features syntax highlighting. But yeah, as you said - it has most of the utilities.
- gdotdesign 5y agoYou are right :) I'm planning on adding a lot more features in the future though, like the ones you said. I'm working on it in my spare time, so things are going slow.
- mro_name 5y agolooks super nice, thanks for sharing. Maybe a cheat-sheet for cmdline equivalents might be fun.
- ffpip 5y agoNeat website (and useful app) but scrolling is _extremely_ laggy on Firefox on windows. Seems smooth on Brave.
- trungdq88 5y agoHi, thank you for letting me know. It looks like the lazy-load videos are not performing well on Firefox, I'll take a look at this ASAP. Thanks again!
- Master_Odin 5y agoLooking through the site, the developer's "Show HN" and ProductHunt posts mention that the app was "open-source", but I could not for the love of me find any links on the site to the source. Had to turn to google to find it: https://github.com/DevUtilsApp/DevUtils-app https://github.com/DevUtilsApp/DevUtils-app. Of course, given that the license is the super restrictive CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0, so I guess makes sense to not bother advertising it given the very limited freedoms that are available.
- ChrisMarshallNY 5y agoCool toolset. Thanks for sharing it, and I sincerely wish you luck. It appears to be one that is aimed at JavaScript/TypeScript developers, as opposed to native Swift devs (like me). Some of the tools are quite interesting, but only a few would probably apply to my workflow.