Show HN: Idt – A Swiss Army Knife for UUID, ULID, Snowflake, and More

Category: cli-tool

Tags: cli, id-generation, developer-tools

Score: 6.5/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 6, Documentation: 8, Utility: 7)

A comprehensive CLI tool written in Rust for generating, inspecting, converting, validating, and sorting various ID formats like UUIDs, ULIDs, Snowflake IDs, and even assigned identifiers like ISBNs. It's interesting because it consolidates many disparate ID utilities into a single, fast, and well-documented tool with extensive format support and developer-friendly features like structured output.

Target audience: backend devs, devops, data engineers

Repository: https://github.com/sh-cho/idt · Rust · NOASSERTION · 7 stars

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