Show HN: Ladderline – a local-first CLI for tracking career-ladder evidence

Category: cli-tool

Tags: cli-tool, career-development, performance-management

Score: 6.0/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 5, Documentation: 7, Utility: 6)

Ladderline is a local-first CLI tool that lets engineering managers track career ladder evidence for their reports using simple YAML/Markdown files, avoiding lock-in and preserving privacy. Its clean approach to assembling structured cases from dated notes, with honest gap reporting, fills a real workflow need for promo season preparation.

Target audience: engineering managers

Repository: https://github.com/umbrova/ladderline · TypeScript · MIT

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