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

    1. Prelint

    579 upvotes

    Prevent 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…

    #1 on July 29, 2026prelint.com3 makers, 3 with emails
  2. Gemini 3.1 Pro

    2. Gemini 3.1 Pro

    577 upvotes

    A 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

    3. Coldtea.ai

    516 upvotes

    Make 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…

  4. Claude Code Artifacts

    4. Claude Code Artifacts

    461 upvotes

    Preview 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

    5. Mastra

    451 upvotes

    Build 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

    #3 on January 21, 2026YC W25mastra.ai1 maker, 1 with an email
  6. Replay QA

    6. Replay QA

    423 upvotes

    Replay 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

  7. Tadata

    7. Tadata

    395 upvotes

    The 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.

    #2 on September 6, 2026tadata.com1 maker, 1 with an email
  8. Tonkotsu

    8. Tonkotsu

    386 upvotes

    Manage 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.

  9. Imagine

    9. Imagine

    365 upvotes

    Build 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…

  10. Enia Code

    10. Enia Code

    336 upvotes

    Proactive 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…

  11. Struct

    11. Struct

    329 upvotes

    AI 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.

  12. skills.sh

    12. skills.sh

    318 upvotes

    The 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

  13. oqoqo

    13. oqoqo

    317 upvotes

    Build 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…

    #1 on August 10, 2026oqoqo.ai3 makers, 1 with an email
  14. Decawork

    14. Decawork

    317 upvotes

    Control 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…

    #2 on August 24, 2026YC S26decawork.ai1 maker
  15. Freebuff

    15. Freebuff

    315 upvotes

    Free 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…

    #3 on August 14, 2026YC F24freebuff.com1 maker, 1 with an email

Best Software Engineering Tools by month

A ranked list for every month with at least a handful of Software Engineering launches.

Latest Software Engineering Tools

  1. Seclai

    Seclai

    11 upvotes

    Everything you need around your LLM calls.

    #39 on October 22, 2026seclai.com1 maker, 1 with an email
  2. BAND for Developers

    Coding agents, meet teamwork

    #2 on October 21, 2026band.ai1 maker, 1 with an email
  3. Terraform Automation by Buddy

    AI moves fast. Keep your infrastructure under control.

  4. RunInfra

    RunInfra

    115 upvotes

    Open models, built for agents.

  5. Buildhorn: CI/CD Alerts

    Know the instant your build breaks

  6. Kerno 1.0

    Kerno 1.0

    92 upvotes

    The AI Runtime Backend QA Engineer

    #13 on October 15, 2026kerno.io1 maker, 1 with an email
  7. CodeCrab

    CodeCrab

    77 upvotes

    AI code reviews with deep analysis & multi-tool integrations

    #26 on October 15, 2026codecrab.ai1 maker, 1 with an email
  8. Tiden

    Tiden

    210 upvotes

    Intent verification for coding agents

    #4 on October 14, 2026tiden.ai1 maker, 1 with an email
  9. Edgee Mod for Claude Code

    Use any model inside Claude Code, keep your Claude plan

  10. SwarmPane

    SwarmPane

    22 upvotes

    One desktop workspace for all your AI coding agents

    #28 on October 11, 2026swarmpane.com1 maker, 1 with an email
  11. KloudMate 2.0

    KloudMate 2.0

    130 upvotes

    AI-powered Full-Stack Observability & Agentic SRE-Ops

    #7 on October 8, 2026kloudmate.com1 maker, 1 with an email
  12. OrgComputers

    OrgComputers

    72 upvotes

    Workspace for your AI Agents

    #29 on October 6, 2026orgcomputers.com1 maker, 1 with an email

Launches by month

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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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