Really love this style of thinking. Tool building done well can have such a huge impact on everyone around you; especially if it’s easy to build good tools.

We’ve been building something with this in mind; to try to make it way easier to focus on the important parts of tooling, and abstract away all the annoying boilerplate. You might be interested in checking it out at https://ab.bot. We’re in the current YC batch and had a Launch HN a few weeks ago.

I wrote about our love of toolmaking here: https://blog.ab.bot/archive/2021/07/15/tools-for-inside-the-... :)