Dig Better Things by Comparison

The all-in-one workspace — docs, databases, wikis, and project boards living together in a single block-based editor.

The team chat app that defined the category — channels, integrations, and search that scale from 5-person startups to 50,000-person enterprises.

The issue tracker built by engineers for engineers — fast, opinionated, and gorgeous enough to make project management feel like a pleasure.

The browser-based design tool that replaced Sketch for most teams — multiplayer, plugin-rich, and the only design tool that ships dev-ready code.

The JavaScript and TypeScript linter that catches bugs, enforces style, and runs in your editor, CI, and pre-commit hooks.

A Vite-native test runner that's dramatically faster than Jest, with a Jest-compatible API and first-class TypeScript and ESM support.

The in-memory data structure server that became the default cache, queue, session store, and pub/sub bus for modern backends.

The world's most advanced open-source relational database — 30 years of battle-tested reliability, and still the default choice for serious production work.

The most-used framework for composing LLM calls, tools, and memory into agents and pipelines — batteries-included but with real opinions.

The leading alternative to OpenAI — Sonnet 4.5 and Opus 4.5 set the bar for long-context reasoning, code, and writing quality.

The de-facto LLM API for production applications — GPT-4o, o1, embeddings, fine-tuning, vision, and tools in one REST endpoint.

Hard switch. Drizzle reads the live Postgres schema, not Prisma's migration history — but if your schema is already correct, you can adopt Drizzle without losing data.

Bun in Docker works well in 2026 — the official `oven/bun` image is small (~50 MB) and production-ready. Bare metal is faster on cold start but loses the deployment consistency.

Yes — Obsidian is plain Markdown under the hood, and Pandoc handles the Markdown → LaTeX conversion well for most academic writing.

The de-facto standard for server state in React — caching, retries, and invalidation done right.

The fastest path from `git push` to a global HTTPS deployment, with first-class Next.js support.

A TypeScript-first ORM that gives you SQL-shaped types without hiding the SQL.

An all-in-one JavaScript toolkit — runtime, package manager, bundler, and test runner in a single binary.

A local-first Markdown knowledge base that thinks the way you do.