Share your VS Code setup in one click

Setting up a new machine usually means an hour of clicking through extension pages, copying snippets out of a Notion doc, and remembering which keybindings you tweaked at 2am six months ago. SetupHub exists so that "an hour" becomes "one click."

What does SetupHub capture from VS Code?

The SetupHub extension captures three things — and nothing else — when it syncs your editor:

• Extensions. The full list, with publisher and version, so a restore on another machine pulls the same builds.
• User settings. Your settings.json, minus secrets that match known token patterns.
• Keybindings. Your keybindings.json exactly as you wrote it.

Themes and icon packs ride along as extensions, so they restore without any extra step.

Workspace settings stay in the repo where they belong. SetupHub only touches your user configuration.

Why publish a setup instead of pasting a gist?

A gist is a snapshot of text. A SetupHub profile is restorable. The differences that matter in practice:

1. One-click restore. The extension reads your profile and applies it locally without you copying anything.
2. Version history. Every sync is a snapshot. Roll back when an extension update breaks your workflow.
3. Discoverability. Other developers find your setup by username via Browse Setups — no link sharing required.

How does the sync actually work?

The flow is intentionally boring:

# 1. Install the extension
# 2. Sign in to SetupHub
# 3. Click "Sync now"

That's it. Behind the scenes the extension serializes your config, signs it with your account, and POSTs it to the SetupHub API. The site stores the snapshot and renders a public page at setuphub.dev/<your-username>.

What's next for SetupHub?

We're working on per-language profiles (one setup for Go work, another for React work), team profiles (shared baselines without forcing personal tweaks), and a Cursor-native experience that mirrors what the VS Code extension does today.

If you want any of these sooner, the fastest way to help is to publish your setup — every profile teaches us what people actually configure.