Indie Dev Radar

2026-11-15 · 5

7.5 · Recommended Tools · GitHub Trending · 今日(全部语言) · AI: DeepSeek 7.5 ✓

Chrome DevTools MCP: Let AI Coding Agents Control and Debug Chrome

Google's chrome-devtools-mcp is an MCP server and CLI that lets AI coding agents like Claude, Cursor and Copilot control and inspect a live Chrome browser. It supports performance trace recording, network analysis, screenshots, console errors with source-mapped stacks, and reliable Puppeteer-based automation. Usage statistics and CrUX trace uploads are on by default and can be disabled via flags.
What this means for indie developers:Indie developers debugging web or hybrid apps can plug this in to let AI agents surface performance and network issues, but should opt out of default usage statistics and CrUX uploads if needed.
7.5 · Recommended Policy · Hacker News · App Store/ASO · AI: DeepSeek 7.5 ✓

Lovable apps expose passport details and more than 200K private messages

Researchers examined 159,041 Lovable projects built between December 2025 and September 2026, 34,545 of which used Supabase. Many apps returned database records without requiring login, in some cases exposing passport details and over 200,000 private messages. The platform markets no-code building, but its terms place data-handling responsibility on customers.
What this means for indie developers:If you ship AI-generated or Supabase-backed apps, verify row-level security and anonymous access rules before launch, or user data may be publicly readable.
6.5 · Okay Tools · GitHub Trending · Swift · AI: DeepSeek 6.5 ✓

sw33tLie/macshot

macshot is an open-source, native macOS screenshot and screen recording tool built with Swift and AppKit, offering 19+ annotation tools, recording with a built-in editor, OCR + translation, automatic PII redaction, scroll capture, beautify, and one-click uploads to S3/Google Drive. It lives in the menu bar, has no Electron or subscription, and installs via Homebrew.
What this means for indie developers:Useful as a reference for native macOS utility design, menu bar apps, and screenshot/recording feature sets.
6.5 · Okay Open source · GitHub Trending · 今日(全部语言) · AI: DeepSeek 6.5 ✓

louislam/uptime-kuma

Uptime Kuma is an easy-to-use self-hosted monitoring tool supporting HTTP(s), TCP, Ping, DNS, Docker containers, and Steam game servers, with alerts through 90+ notification services such as Telegram, Discord, Slack, and email. It also offers status pages, certificate info, 2FA, and proxy support, and can be deployed via Docker Compose, Docker, or Node.js.
What this means for indie developers:Indie developers can self-host it to monitor their APIs, backends, and game servers and get alerted on downtime instead of paying for a monitoring service.
6.5 · Okay Open source · GitHub Trending · 今日(全部语言) · AI: DeepSeek 6.5 ✓

alibaba/open-code-review

Open Code Review is an open-source AI code review CLI from Alibaba, combining deterministic pipelines with an LLM agent to produce line-level review comments on Git diffs, with built-in multi-language rules for NPE, thread safety, XSS and SQL injection, and OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible endpoints. Its benchmark claims higher precision and F1 than general-purpose agents at roughly 1/9 the token cost, with lower recall by design.
What this means for indie developers:Indie developers can add AI code review cheaply, but it is a dev-side helper with no direct bearing on App Store submission, ASO or monetization.