The Casablanca list of developer tools that shut because curating it took too much time.

Qudos pitched itself as "A daily list of the most useful software tools." Its listing, created in December 2014 and captured in March 2015 with a Casablanca address, described "the perfect place to showcase, discover, and discuss the best in free/open source software projects and tools," where software engineers, DevOps engineers and startup CTOs gathered every day to share the libraries, packages and projects that had made their code and infrastructure better.

The site itself, as the Wayback Machine saved it on 15 March 2015, was in beta under the line "Discover, share and collect the best of dev tools," aimed at frontend, backend and DevOps engineers. Members voted tools up a weekly trending list, which Apache Hive led that day with 16 votes, ahead of D3, Neo4j and the Ruby search library SearchKick. A weekly newsletter sent the best new tools by email, and visitors could sign in with Twitter or GitHub.

Co-founder Mehdi Sakout, a developer living in Morocco, describes Qudos on his About page as "a weekly list of the most accurate dev tools used by developers around the world," a Product Hunt for development tools. His project page records the end in one line: "Shutted down due to time contraints (handpicking tools and moderating entries)." It gives no date.

Sakout's own site now presents him as the maker of Hackertab, a browser extension that gathers articles, repositories, jobs and events for developers and filters them by interest. The page does not mention Qudos, and qudos.io no longer leads to the old site.