New Software Engineering Tools in 2026
160 Software Engineering Tools launched on Product Hunt between January 11, 2026 and October 22, 2026, collecting 21,374 upvotes between them. The most upvoted is Prelint, with 579.
74 of them (46%) have a working website on file, and 7 come from Y Combinator companies. Every launch below links to the makers behind it.
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Top Software Engineering Tools, by upvotes
The 15 most upvoted Software Engineering launches since January 2026.

1. Prelint
579 upvotesPrevent product drift in AI-written code
AI writes your code at 10× speed. Prelint makes sure it's the right code - it reviews every PR against your ADRs, docs and past decisions, and catches product drift before it ships. On teams using several AI reviewers, ~40% of the issues…

2. Gemini 3.1 Pro
577 upvotesA smarter model for your most complex tasks
3.1 Pro is designed for tasks where a simple answer isn’t enough. Building on the Gemini 3 series, 3.1 Pro represents a step forward in core reasoning. 3.1 Pro is a smarter, more capable baseline for complex problem-solving.

3. Coldtea.ai
516 upvotesMake your software self-driving
The faster your team ships with AI, the harder it becomes to keep production stable. Not anymore. Coldtea is an agentic IDE where your coding agents build, visual QA agents catch regressions, and AI monitoring watches production, so your…
#1 on August 7, 20262 makers
4. Claude Code Artifacts
461 upvotesPreview and share your coding work live as it happens
Preview your in-progress work in Claude Code as a live, interactive artifact—built from your full session context and shareable with your team.

5. Mastra
451 upvotesBuild AI agents with a modern TypeScript stack
From the team behind Gatsby, Mastra is a framework for building AI-powered apps and agents with workflows, memory, streaming, evals, tracing, and Studio, an interactive UI for dev and testing. Start building: npm create mastra@latest

6. Replay QA
423 upvotesReplay QA tells you what is broken before your users do
Add your GitHub repo for continuous testing, or drop in a URL for a one-time check. Replay QA explores your app, records every session, finds real bugs, and gives your coding agent the root cause and fix. Try for free: qa.replay.io
#4 on July 20, 20261 maker
7. Tadata
395 upvotesThe AI employee in Slack that reads the room
Tadata is the AI employee that lives in your Slack. It connects to your tools, learns your company and your preferences, and does work for your team.

8. Tonkotsu
386 upvotesManage a team of coding agents from a doc
Tonkotsu is a fresh approach: a clean, focused GUI that lets you manage a team of coding agents from a doc. FREE during our early access program.
#1 on January 23, 20261 maker
9. Imagine
365 upvotesBuild something real with the most complete AI builder
The most complete AI builder ever made. With Imagine, you turn your ideas into functional products by chatting with AI. No matter your prompt, your applications will always have: - Built-in cloud: Auth, Databases, Storage, Notifications…
#3 on January 28, 20261 maker
10. Enia Code
336 upvotesProactive AI that refines code & learns your standards
Most AI coding tools wait for you to ask. Enia Code doesn’t. Enia is a proactive AI coding agent that detects bugs, performance issues, architectural inconsistencies, and refactoring opportunities — as you write code. No prompting. No…
#2 on March 4, 20261 maker
11. Struct
329 upvotesAI agent that root-causes engineering alerts
Struct is an AI agent that root-causes engineering alerts using logs, metrics, traces, and code. Resolve incidents faster with a composable, customizable system that deploys in minutes and works with your existing DevOps workflows.
#2 on March 14, 20261 maker
12. skills.sh
318 upvotesThe Open Agent Skills Ecosystem
Discover and install skills for AI agents. Skills are reusable capabilities for AI agents. Install them with a single command to enhance your agents with access to procedural knowledge: npx skills add
#3 on January 31, 2026skills.sh
13. oqoqo
317 upvotesBuild evals and custom benchmarks for real-world tasks
Run eval experiments at scale in realistic environments. Define custom task sets to build your private benchmarks, measure how well agents can use any product, and find best models for your use cases. Generate dynamic insights to detect…

14. Decawork
317 upvotesControl your company's internal AI agents and tools
Decawork is how IT teams take employee-built AI agents live and control every one of them from one place. An employee builds an agent on Claude Code, Codex, or any vibecoding tool; we take it in, put it on company accounts, and run it as…

15. Freebuff
315 upvotesFree coding agents to kill Claude, Cursor, Replit, and Devin
Freebuff is a free coding agent that gives you access to the best open source models. We offer a CLI, Desktop app, Web app builder, and Cloud agent -- all free! This is the free way to build full-stack apps. No subscription, no API keys…
Best Software Engineering Tools by month
A ranked list for every month with at least a handful of Software Engineering launches.
- Best Software Engineering Tools of October 2026#1 BAND for Developers16 launches
- Best Software Engineering Tools of September 2026#1 Tadata15 launches
- Best Software Engineering Tools of August 2026#1 Coldtea.ai20 launches
- Best Software Engineering Tools of July 2026#1 Prelint13 launches
- Best Software Engineering Tools of June 2026#1 Claude Code Artifacts20 launches
- Best Software Engineering Tools of May 2026#1 Revolte10 launches
- Best Software Engineering Tools of April 2026#1 Claude Code /ultrareview10 launches
- Best Software Engineering Tools of March 2026#1 Enia Code22 launches
- Best Software Engineering Tools of February 2026#1 Gemini 3.1 Pro21 launches
- Best Software Engineering Tools of January 2026#1 Mastra13 launches
Latest Software Engineering Tools

Seclai
11 upvotesEverything you need around your LLM calls.

BAND for Developers
310 upvotesCoding agents, meet teamwork

Terraform Automation by Buddy
14 upvotesAI moves fast. Keep your infrastructure under control.
#39 on October 21, 20262 makers

Kerno 1.0
92 upvotesThe AI Runtime Backend QA Engineer

CodeCrab
77 upvotesAI code reviews with deep analysis & multi-tool integrations

Tiden
210 upvotesIntent verification for coding agents

Edgee Mod for Claude Code
87 upvotesUse any model inside Claude Code, keep your Claude plan
#11 on October 11, 20261 maker
SwarmPane
22 upvotesOne desktop workspace for all your AI coding agents

KloudMate 2.0
130 upvotesAI-powered Full-Stack Observability & Agentic SRE-Ops
OrgComputers
72 upvotesWorkspace for your AI Agents
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Questions
- How many Software Engineering Tools launched on Product Hunt in 2026?
- 160, between January 11, 2026 and October 22, 2026: 1% of every launch Junior tracks. The busiest month was March 2026, with 22.
- Which Software Engineering Tools got the most upvotes?
- Prelint ("Prevent product drift in AI-written code") leads with 579 upvotes, ahead of Gemini 3.1 Pro (577) and Coldtea.ai (516).
- How are launches put in Software Engineering?
- By the first topic the makers chose on Product Hunt. A launch sits in one category on Junior, so the counts here never double up.
- How do I contact the makers of these Software Engineering Tools?
- Each launch links to its page on Junior, with the founders and makers behind it. Junior has 159 makers on file in Software Engineering. Their work emails, LinkedIn and X profiles come with a subscription.
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