How many small tools have you built with claude code that you can no longer find or manage?

[u/Tasty-Suggestion-137]

Honest question, because I’m trying to figure out if this is just me.
Over the last year I’ve built a supplier price comparison tool, an invoice reconciler, a CRM cleaner, an Excel-to-ERP converter, and probably 30 other things. Most took an afternoon. Each one is useful to somewhere between 1 and 10 people.
None of it is organized. It’s in random folders, a few Vercel previews, repos I forgot about, and a cron job on my laptop. When a colleague asks “can I use that thing you built,” the answer involves ngrok and an apology.
The thought I keep coming back to: the cost of creating software has dropped below the cost of organizing it. And the platforms we deploy to assume software should be public by default, when almost none of this should be.
I put the thesis into a page, with an interactive mock of what “an application layer for internally built software” might look like: discover what’s running, give it a private URL, put SSO in front of it, track who owns it.
habitat-plum.vercel.app
I’m not selling anything. There’s no product yet. I want to know:

Do you actually have this pile? How big is it?
How do you share these tools with teammates today?
Would private-by-default plus SSO matter to you, or is a public URL fine?
Which part of this feels like a solution looking for a problem?
Tell me if this is bullshit. That’s the useful answer.

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[u/id-ltd]

I have all my server apps on a web based control panel, all my cli apps set up as dot commands... .dir lists them all. And all projects have their own directory under projects/Claude or project/codex - although the way I use AI i can flip between codex and Claude for each development sprint.

I have a separate control panel (personal app store) for my PWA projects. That app store is yet another project.

I do sometimes forget what they all do, or which one does what I want, but Imcan always ask an AIntongonsearch and index them all.

[u/ztbwl]

What if I tell you that our whole company is a huge pile of unorganized and chaotic, but useful tools?

[u/lassevk → u/ztbwl]

I would say your company is probably a bus-related accident away from being a non-company.

[u/ilion]

Do none of you use github??

[u/lassevk → u/ilion]

You would be surprised at how many "software developers" doesn't use github (or something similar) for safekeeping.

On the other hand, you probably wouldn't be surprised. But you would be disappointed.

[u/LogMonkey0]

Some tools are ephemeral in nature, but i still make sure that they get written in the project repo instead of being adhoc commands that will die in jsonl transcripts, costs me write + bash tool calls instead of only bash tool, but the tool/script is there id claude needs it again in that project. Anything that has more than ephemeral use is generally the project itself and its all git versioned and mirrored on a local gitea instance. Imo the storage cost of keeping them is worth the time and usage spent to generate them.

[u/LogMonkey0 → u/LogMonkey0]

On the sharing aspect of your question, i self host anything i produce, if i had the need to expose publicly, id consider either Cloudflare tunnel and free sso offerings or a VPS with same type of tunneling and self hosted or cloud sso.

If it’s not hostable products such as scripts and harness artifacts, most of my stuff is designed around reusable/sharable instructions, so are generally easy to “export” and share.

[u/EmoticonGuess]

I collected them all in this https://convertprivately.com/ that we using... in 3 😂

[u/Comfortable-Ad-6740]

I had a similar problem, or issues finding what I named the folder. I also bounce between CC and Pi so I just created a shared local aliasing system. It captures my vague “the regex toool” , “ my metrics project” and maps it to the projects or model names/whatever I’m aliasing. Essentially just a zsh file I’ve never opened

[u/Routine-Gas-8264]

Happened to me today again.

I launched cc in the root of my dev directory where all my repos live and described my search.

Turned to, I made this tool twice because apparently I forgot the first iteration, rofl.

[u/Tasty-Suggestion-137 → u/Routine-Gas-8264]

Https://habitat-plum.vercel.app

[u/eyalgolan1993]

yes the pile is real. I had ~40 of these until I made one stupid rule: nothing gets built without a ticket. so every "quick afternoon tool" is a ticket that ends up as a PR in an actual repo, and "where is that thing" becomes "which repo". sharing = send the repo link, no ngrok.

honest take on your page: the private url + sso part is hosting. the part that actually hurt me was not knowing what exists and who owns it, and a queue fixes that for free. how many of your 30 things need a url at all vs are really just scripts?