ExplainDev — The programmer's assistant of the future

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“ Hi Product Hunters! Maker, Eddie here. Ianeta and I are a few months into working on this and I’m stoked to be posting here today! Our users that love ExplainDev find we help them to learn more independently and contribute to software projects more quickly. Users ramping up into a new project report being less reliant on more senior engineers and spend less time figuring out how to apply the code they find on the internet to their code base. ExplainDev acts as a virtual assistant that goes where you go. Once installed, ExplainDev adds explain buttons to the code you see on websites (for example GitHub, Stack Overflow, and docs). Upon click, ExplainDev uses OpenAI to generate explanations. You will also have an Explain option included in your right-click menu. 🤔 Who uses ExplainDev: We released a private beta in January that we’ve been iterating on based on feedback and interviews from our ~500 users. Our users fit into three categories: learning to code (48.5%), learning a new coding language (41.5%), or non-coders who work with code for their jobs (10%). Many of our power users are in Latin America and really appreciate that we use plain language for explanations and work in Spanish as well as English. 🥲 What we did before ExplainDev: A year ago we were working on Kmdr, a CLI tool and Browser extension that explained CLI commands options and arguments, token by token. We received lots of feedback from users that they wanted more context than what was available in man pages and official documentation. They also preferred the browser extension over the CLI tool. 🤯 Explanations are just the beginning: We were granted access to OpenAI Codex in December and are learning and exploring new ideas with this technology. Early adopter users are getting opportunities to try more features as we prototype. Our latest is answering follow-up questions. We have awesome users so far that have accepted meetings with us and provided a lot of feedback on ExplainDev and helped us understand the way they work. I’m excited to post here to get more folks trying ExplainDev and to hear from you and answer any questions. Thanks! Eddie Join our community Twitter: https://twitter.com/explain_dev Discord: https://discord.gg/JTU2v6TtPv LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company... ” – Eddie Ramírez Discussion | Link