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GhostMap
Structured annotations that live inside your code
GhostMap is a VS Code productivity tool that turns @ghost annotations into a live, navigable project map. Free for personal, educational, and evaluation use.
Hey Product Hunt. I’m building GhostMap.
I built it because TODO and FIXME comments kept failing me in real projects.
They are fast to write, but after a few weeks they often stop being useful. A comment says “fix retry logic,” but not why it matters, whether it is still open, what code region it belongs to, or what risk it was supposed to capture.
GhostMap is a VS Code extension that turns structured @ghost annotations into a navigable active-file tree.
The goal is simple:
Keep developer context inside the code, but make it structured enough to actually use later.
What you can try today:
Ghost Tree for the active file
Structured @ghost annotations
Named anchors like #payment-retry
Range anchors with @ghost start and @ghost end
Status and description fields
Snippets for faster annotation
Support for 19 languages
GhostMap is still pre-1.0.
Current limits:
It maps the active file, not the whole workspace yet.
Some language-specific symbol edge cases are still being cleaned up.
Block and JSDoc comments are not the main @ghost syntax in V1.
Commercial/company/production use requires authorization.
I’m not trying to replace issue trackers. Some work belongs in GitHub Issues, Linear, or Jira.
GhostMap is for code-local context: the notes, risks, decisions, regions, and work markers that are only useful because they live next to the code they describe.
I’d love feedback from developers who already use TODO Tree, Better Comments, VS Code Outline, or their own TODO convention.
Main question:
Would structured annotations fit your workflow, or should this stay closer to normal TODO comments?
About GhostMap on Product Hunt
“Structured annotations that live inside your code”
GhostMap was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 2 comments, placing #159 on the daily leaderboard. GhostMap is a VS Code productivity tool that turns @ghost annotations into a live, navigable project map. Free for personal, educational, and evaluation use.
On the analytics side, GhostMap competes within Productivity, Software Engineering and Developer Tools — topics that collectively have 1.2M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how GhostMap performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted GhostMap?
GhostMap was hunted by Dante. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of GhostMap including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
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