Dev Opinions Scanner

About

Dev Opinions Scanner is a specialized utility for Claude Code designed to provide instant market sentiment and technical feedback on any software topic. By performing parallel searches across platforms like Hacker News, Reddit, Dev.to, and Lobsters, it identifies consensus opinions, controversial debates, and expert insights. This skill helps developers move beyond marketing materials to understand the practical pros, cons, and edge cases of libraries, frameworks, or tools as experienced by the global developer community.

Key Features

• Mandatory inline citations with direct links to original community threads
• Automated synthesis of community consensus and recurring technical patterns
• Extraction of notable perspectives from senior developers and domain experts
• Parallel multi-source searching across Reddit, Hacker News, Dev.to, and Lobsters
• Identification of controversial viewpoints and conflicting architectural arguments
• 313 GitHub stars

Use Cases

• Evaluating the production-readiness of a new library or framework before adoption
• Comparing competing technologies like Bun vs. Node or pnpm vs. Yarn
• Gathering unfiltered developer feedback on recent software releases and API changes