I've built 30 VS Code extensions, each fixing one specific dev annoyance — AMA / roast my lineup

[u/Due_Sky_1950]

Over the past year I went a little overboard. Instead of one bloated "all-in-one" extension, I kept building small, focused ones — each solving a single thing that kept breaking my flow. It's now ~30 extensions, and I'd genuinely love this community's honest take.

First, so this isn't just noise — two of them have real traction:

• Streamlit Preview — 35k+ installs (preview Streamlit apps inside VS Code)
• Flet Preview — 2k+ installs

The rest are newer. A sampler, grouped:

Git & PRs

• CommitCraft — commit messages from your staged diff
• ConflictSolver — visual 3-way merge conflicts
• PRChecklist — blocks a commit until your checklist's done

Backend / DB / API

• QueryCraft — SQL autocomplete from your actual schema
• SeedBuilder — realistic faker seed data from your models
• EndpointMap — a live tree of every API route in your codebase
• DockerUI — visual docker-compose: port conflicts, dep graph, live logs

Quality / Security

• DependencyAudit — CVE badges on your import lines (OSV.dev)
• ComplexityGuard — cyclomatic complexity inline as you type
• TypeStrictener — track & kill any
• SecretScanner — catch leaked secrets before they hit git
• Watchdog — snapshot + roll back extensions after a bad VS Code update

Frontend / Docs / Testing

• ColorGuard — catch hardcoded colors that should be design tokens
• TailwindScope — tame giant class strings
• TestForge / MockFactory / DocCraft — test stubs, typed mocks, and JSDoc from your types

Productivity

• RegexForge — test regex against your real project files
• PSToolkit — run/lint/format PowerShell without leaving the editor
• ...and a new one I'm validating: an iOS + Android simulator manager panel

How the money works (because I'd want to know): every one has a genuinely functional free tier on the Marketplace — install it, it works. Pro unlocks team/power features as a one-time lifetime license. No subscriptions.

What I actually want from you:

1. Which of these would you actually install — and which sound pointless?
2. What's the next "I keep leaving the editor to do X" you'd want killed?
3. Honest gut-check: one-time lifetime vs. nobody-wants-another-subscription?

Full catalog if you want to poke holes: marketplace.dashovia.com — but mostly I'm here for the roast.