WhatToBuild is an platform that helps developers discover, analyze, and understand open-source projects. Whether you're looking for inspiration, trying to understand complex codebases, or comparing developer profiles, WhatToBuild provides comprehensive insights to accelerate your development journey.
Pleased to launch on the same day as so many other exciting projects on Product Hunt. Your tool could really help me by giving AI-powered ideas, surfacing similar repositories, and providing a clear build plan to speed up my next project. Any feedback on our launch would be amazing!
Genius move, Niladri, congratulations from a fellow launcher! I dropped an upvote because I want to remember this so that I can try it out with my own platform, they feel like a match made in heaven!
This is a great idea! Starting a new project is always a pain, and having What To Build help with that is a huge timesaver! Congrats on the launch! 🙌
Definitely a great way to explore new ideas and dig deeper into the pain points that these projects are solving! Are there ways to identify projects that are more "beginner-friendly"?
What To Build ?
What To Build turns raw ideas into confident, evidence‑backed decisions by mapping the open‑source landscape, analyzing repos deeply, and surfacing where you can truly differentiate.
Why it’s useful?
Discover similar projects fast, see the code and stack behind them, compare people building in the space, and get AI help to draft docs ..all in one place. Go from “Is this worth building?” to a clear angle in minutes, not weeks.
My journey
I kept burning cycles on prototypes that either already existed or didn’t show traction. I started tagging repos, tracking adoption signals, and comparing patterns in a messy spreadsheet. That scrappy system grew into What To Build...now it automatically finds nearby projects, explains their architecture and tech stack, highlights gaps, and helps me decide: double down, pivot, or pass.
Hey,
Nice launch, upvoted, we launched today too and a quick visit would mean a lot.
The AI readme is not working properly, and I wish you could have a feature to generate change logs.
No way, this is exactly what I needed! Finding relevant open-source projects always eats up so much time—if this makes discovery easier, my side project pipeline just got a major upgrade.
Ngl, the way WhatToBuild lets you actually *understand* messy open-source codebases is kinda genius—saves so much headache for devs like me, fr!
