What potential ideas for developer tooling have not been explored yet?
I recently quit my job and I would love to pursue some sort of lifestyle business, after lurking around in indie hackers a bit, I still haven't found any idea worth pursuing, I would love to work on something related to the developer space, some small tool that can grow organically over time, do you have any suggestions?
One of my favorite examples of a small, successful dev tool is https://getcssscan.com. You can already see styles in your browser dev tools for free, but this tool is just so much faster/easier that people are happy to pay (dev has done $70k in sales). As a starting point, it might be worth exploring other browser dev tool features and consider what each would look like if turned into a product.
Another space that has a lot of potential is tooling that helps people skip the boilerplate that goes into setting up a new project. I'm working on one for React at https://divjoy.com, but I'm sure there are a bunch of other ways to make project setup easier.
Might be a bit out there but I always thought there should be tools which help provide code snippets inside your IDE as you develop. I think Twitter Bootstrap might be a low hanging fruit for this.