The Performance Collective

Despite amazing hardware advances, software continues to be slow. It is somehow acceptable for software to be slow and still widely used. We dont want writing great software to become a lost art.

The Performance Collective is committed to curate and promote software that is instant and high-performant. We believe that fast software is essential for providing a seamless and enjoyable user experience, and we will promote products that meet this standard.

Rules for a product to enter the Club:

1. Performance is a top priority: All software accepted into the club must prioritize performance and strive for instant responsiveness.

2. Minimize feature creep: Software should focus on delivering a core set of features that are essential for the user, rather than trying to include every possible feature.

3. Simplicity is key: Fast software should be intuitive and easy to use, with a clear and straightforward interface.

How to add a product:

• Create a Pull request and propose any well-established product you believe it fulfills the requirements. Feel free to propose new categories if you dont find the appropriate category.

Digital Art

• Aseprite is a proprietary, source-available image editor designed primarily for pixel art drawing and animation.

Project Management / Issue Tracking

Web Category

• Linear.app Linear streamlines issues, sprints, and product roadmaps. It’s the new standard for modern software development. "Built for speed with 50ms interactions and real-time sync."

  Note Keeping

• nv NOTATIONAL VELOCITY is an application that stores and retrieves notes.

  Text Editors

  • Lite-XL A lightweight, simple, fast, feature-filled, and extremely extensible text editor written in C, and Lua, adapted from lite.
  • Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose. You'll love the slick user interface, extraordinary features and amazing performance.
  • Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

Version Control

• git Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
• Sublime Merge Git GUI Client for Mac, Windows and Linux, from the makers of Sublime Text. Line-by-line Staging. Commit Editing. Unmatched Performance.