Leaderboard

Ranked by Elo across 160 judged duels. No one can buy a position here.

1
1Password

Password manager that families actually manage to adopt.

Provisional6W-1L
1292
Elo
2
Framer

Design a site and publish it without exporting to anything.

Provisional3W-0L
1263
Elo
3
Retool

Internal tools assembled from components instead of built from scratch.

Provisional3W-0L
1257
Elo
4
Deno

TypeScript that runs without a build step and ships secure by default.

Provisional3W-0L
1257
Elo
5
Supabase

Postgres with auth, storage and instant APIs bolted on.

Provisional2W-0L
1239
Elo
6
Drizzle

SQL you write yourself, with the types generated for you.

Provisional2W-0L
1238
Elo
7
Notion

Docs, wiki and database in one app that everyone reorganises weekly.

Provisional2W-0L
1237
Elo
8
GitHub

Where the code lives, whatever you think of the pull request UI.

Provisional2W-0L
1236
Elo
9
Sophie Games

Best games in the world bro trust

Provisional6W-3L
1233
Elo
10
Cursor

An editor built around the assistant rather than beside it.

Provisional3W-2L
1224
Elo
11
Linear

Issue tracking built for speed. Keyboard first, opinionated on purpose.

Provisional2W-1L
1223
Elo
12
Vercel

Deploy a frontend without ever meeting your infrastructure.

Provisional2W-1L
1221
Elo
13
Plausible

Web analytics with no cookies and a dashboard on one screen.

Provisional2W-1L
1220
Elo
14
Clerk

Auth you drop in, with the account UI already built.

Provisional2W-1L
1220
Elo
15
Granola

Meeting notes that take themselves and stay readable.

Provisional1W-0L
1220
Elo
16
Bun

A JavaScript runtime that made everyone benchmark their tooling again.

Provisional3W-2L
1219
Elo
17
Umami

Open source analytics you host yourself in an afternoon.

Provisional2W-1L
1219
Elo
18
n8n

Workflow automation you can self-host and read the source of.

Provisional1W-0L
1219
Elo
19
Superhuman

Email built around keyboard shortcuts and a stopwatch.

Provisional3W-2L
1217
Elo
20
Polar

Billing for developers, with the tax paperwork handled for you.

Provisional3W-3L
1209
Elo
21
Lemon Squeezy

Sell software as a merchant of record and skip VAT filings.

Provisional2W-2L
1204
Elo
22
Zapier

Glue between apps that never shipped an integration with each other.

Provisional2W-2L
1204
Elo
23
Lines of Battle

Napoleonic and WW2 battles where both sides move at once, under fog of war.

Provisional1W-1L
1202
Elo
24
Stripe

Payments infrastructure that developers actually like reading docs for.

Provisional1W-1L
1202
Elo
25
Tailwind CSS

Utility classes instead of naming things you will rename later.

Provisional1W-1L
1201
Elo
26
Resend

Transactional email for developers, written in React.

Provisional1W-1L
1200
Elo
27
Prisma

A typed ORM with migrations you can actually read.

Provisional0W-0L
1200
Elo
28
Figma

Design tool that runs in a browser tab and never loses your file.

Provisional2W-2L
1199
Elo
29
Neon

Serverless Postgres with database branches per pull request.

Provisional1W-1L
1199
Elo
30
Webflow

Visual site builder that emits real, editable markup.

Provisional1W-1L
1199
Elo
31
GitLab

The whole pipeline in one place, self-hosted if you want.

Provisional2W-2L
1196
Elo
32
Fly.io

Run containers close to your users without writing Kubernetes.

Provisional1W-2L
1186
Elo
33
Railway

Deploy a backend by pointing it at a repo and walking away.

Provisional1W-2L
1185
Elo
34
Cloudflare

CDN, DNS and edge compute with a free tier that is genuinely free.

Provisional0W-1L
1183
Elo
35
Raycast

A launcher that quietly replaces Spotlight and half your menu bar.

Provisional2W-3L
1180
Elo
36
Sentry

Error tracking that shows you the line and the user who hit it.

Provisional0W-1L
1180
Elo
37
Svelte

A compiler pretending to be a framework, and it works.

Provisional0W-1L
1179
Elo
38
Slack

Work chat that replaced email and then became email.

Provisional0W-1L
1178
Elo
39
Astro

Ships almost no JavaScript unless you specifically ask for some.

Provisional0W-2L
1164
Elo
40
Warp

A terminal with blocks, history and autocomplete that works.

Provisional2W-4L
1163
Elo
41
Loom

Record your screen instead of scheduling a meeting about it.

Provisional1W-3L
1163
Elo
42
HEY

Email with opinions, including some you will disagree with.

Provisional0W-2L
1162
Elo
43
Upstash

Serverless Redis and Kafka billed by the request.

Provisional2W-4L
1161
Elo
44
Discord

Voice and chat servers that quietly became every community.

Provisional0W-2L
1160
Elo
45
Tailscale

A private network between your machines with no VPN config.

Provisional0W-2L
1160
Elo
46
Airtable

A spreadsheet that grew into a database and kept the friendly part.

Provisional1W-3L
1159
Elo
47
PostHog

Product analytics, session replay and flags in one self-hostable box.

Provisional1W-4L
1146
Elo
48
Obsidian

Local markdown notes that link to each other and outlive the app.

Provisional0W-3L
1143
Elo
49
PlanetScale

MySQL that lets you branch a schema like it is code.

Provisional1W-4L
1140
Elo
50
Arc

A browser that treats tabs as something to be managed, not hoarded.

Provisional1W-4L
1139
Elo