awesome-developer-first
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A curated list of developer tools and services that cater to the needs of developers.
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Analytics
- Baremetrics
Subscription analytics for Stripe
- devActivity
Contributions analytics with AI Insights, Performance Review, Retrospectives and Gamifications
- Heap
Product analytics API for web and mobile, captures all events
- Mixpanel
Product analytics and dashboards
- Pirsch
Privacy-friendly web analytics with a backend integration and API
- Plausible
Simple, privacy-friendly, and open-source web analytics tool
- PoeticMetric
Privacy-first, regulation-compliant, blazingly fast analytics tool
- PostHog
Open-source product analytics platform
- Segment
Collect user data and send it to your other tools
- Tinybird
Real-time data streams to APIs
Authentication & Identity
- Aserto
Cloud-native authorization for applications and APIs
- Auth0
Authentication & authorization as a service
- AWS cognito
AWS's authentication as a service
- BoxyHQ Enterprise SSO
Open-source API for enterprise SSO and Directory Sync
- Clerk
Authentication and user management platform for React, React Native, and Next.js
- Corbado
Passkey-first authentication as a service
- Firebase Auth
Google Firebase's take on authentication
- FusionAuth
Security-centric authentication as a Service, including self-hosting
- Hanko
Passwordless (WebAuthn API) PSD2, eIDAS, and GDPR compliant
- Kinde
Authentification and user management as a service
- LoginRadius
Managed user authentication service with SSO
- Magic.link
Passwordless (email-based) log in as a service
- MojoAuth
Complete CIAM solution with Enterprise SSO and extensive out-of-the-box enterprise features
- Okta
Embeddable authentication with SSO
- Ory
Open-source identity & access-control solutions (also available as a service)
- Oso
Authorization framework (RBAC)
- Permit.io
Permissions and access-control as a service
- SuperTokens
Open-source and hosted email & Oauth authentication with prebuilt UI
- Stytch
All-in-one authentication, authorization, and fraud prevention infrastructure
- Userfront
Simplistic user authentication with pre-built back-office dashboard
- WorkOS
Enterprise SSO and more out-of-the-box enterprise features
Automation
- Abstra
Python-based workflow engine for custom business processes
- Lil'bots
Create and deploy automation scripts in JavaScript or Python and deploy them to the cloud instantly, with free built-in APIs like OpenAI, Anthropic, and more
- n8n
Free and source-available fair-code licensed workflow automation tool
- Potpie
Open source AI agents for your codebase in minutes. Use pre-built agents for Q&A, testing, debugging and system design or create your own purpose-built agents
- Trigger.dev
Open-source platform to create workflows from APIs, on a schedule or on demand
Backend-as-a-Service
CI/CD
- CircleCI
YML to configure your builds, parallel jobs, jobs marketplace
- Depot
Drop-in replacement to build Docker images faster in CI
- GitLab
Open-source CI and hosted solution with Github-like abilities
- Gitpod
Automated cloud dev environments
- Spacelift
CI/CD platform for infrastructure-as-code, currently supporting Terraform, Pulumi, AWS CloudFormation, and Kubernetes
CMS (headless)
- Contentful
CMS as an API
- DatoCMS
API-based CMS
- ElegantCMS
Headless CMS builder
- Ghost
Blog platform, can be used as headless CMS (ex. )
- Sanity
Headless CMS, treat content as data
- Strapi
Open-source headless CMS, 100% JavaScript
Code Quality
- Codacy
Automatic code quality checks
- CodeRabbit AI
AI-powered code review and automated pull request management
- Sonar
Lint and code quality checks
Computer Vision
- Clarifai
Set of computer vision APIs
- CloudSight
Digital media brand recognition
- Google Vision AI
Google's AI vision APIs
- Roboflow
Simplified computer vision model creation for developers
Databases & Spreadsheets
- Airtable
Database and spreadsheet hybrid with an API
- Apitable
API-oritented Airtable alternative
- CrateDB
Distributed open-source SQL database for real-time analytics
- Neon
Serverless Postgres database with scale-to-zero, branching, autoscaling
- Neuledge
Abstract ORM with a universal schema language for any kind of database
- PlanetScale
Hosted managed MySQL database, CI integration & auto scaling
- Upstash
Serverless tailored redis provider
Debugging
Deployment Hosting
- Adaptable
Deploy apps and DBs via common templates
- Cycle.io
DevOps platform for building platforms. Handles container orchestration, load-balancing, monitoring, and more
- Cyclic.sh
Full stack app hosting (including dynamo db and s3)
- DeployBot
REST API to trigger deployments from GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket
- Digital Ocean App Platform
Deploy and don't care about infrastructure, works with all major frameworks
- Fly.io
Deploy dockerized full stack apps via a location-aware service (latency reduction)
- Heroku
Deploy via CLI to scalable servers
- Kinsta
Deploy static sites, apps, and databases from GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket and host headless WordPress
- Koyeb
Serverless platform for deploying full-stack apps and APIs in minutes
- Netlify
Deploy JAMStack (mainly Gatsby) via CLI
- Platform.sh
Continuously deploy full-stack apps
- Qoddi
Git connected app hosting platform
- Quix
One tool to build and run event streaming applications
- Railway
Out-of-the-box git to deployment with auto scaling, DBs, secrets and rollbacks
- Render
Deploy from git to a CDN with SSL
- Vercel
Cloud platform for building and deploying serverless web applications, static websites, and Jamstack (mainly Next.js) projects
- Zeabur
One click deployment for frontend, backend and databases services
Discussions
- Bazaarvoice
Ratings, reviews as a service
- Commento
Privacy centric embeddable comment system
- MuutIo
Tools to create a community-driven app
- Yotpo
Reviews ratings and Q&A as a service
Documentation
- Apidog
All-in-one API documentation tool, 1-click to generate API documentation from requests
- Bump.sh
API documentation and change management solution
- DeveloperHub
Collaborative developer documentation platform
- Mintlify
AI powered code documentation, IDE extension (open source)
- ReadMe
Personalized and dynamic developer docs
- Swimm
Docs that are coupled with your code, auto-synced, works with your IDE
Environment & Secret Management
- 1Password Secrets Automation
Secrets management with integration to 1Password
- Doppler
Environment variable management across projects, in one place
- Envkey
Environment management with syncing mechanism for all apps
- Ubiq
Encryption APIs with secret management
- Vault
API driven secret key management
Feature Flags
- Flagsmith
Feature flags-as-a-service platform simplified
- GrowthBook
Open-source feature flag and experimentation platform
- LaunchDarkly
Feature flags-as-a-service platform
- Split
Feature flags platform with data analytics
- Statsig
All-in-one platform spanning across analytics, feature flagging, and A/B testing. Free for up to 1m metered events per month
- Unleash
Open-source, privacy-first, and enterprise-ready feature management solution
GEO
- Mapbox
Maps and locations products for devs
- OpenCage
Forward and reverse geocoding API based on open data
- PlaceKit
Locations search API
- Radar
Geofencing and geo APIs
- SmartyStreets
US Reverse Geocoding and Address Verification APIs
IDE
- Codota
AI code completions for your IDE
IDE / Codota
- TabNine
Deep learning completion (part of codota)
IDE
Infrastructure as Code
Integrations
- Apideck
Integration marketplace builder, one-API with 3rd parties for quick development
- Nango
Hundreds of pre-built product integrations with 250+ APIs, customizable in code
- Panora
Easy, flexible API to add customer-facing integrations to your SaaS product
- Revert
Open-source unified API to build B2B product integrations
- Sequin
Interface with third-party services using SQL
- Vessel
Developer-first, native integration platform for GTM tools
- YepCode
Build and run serverless functions with the best development experience
Localization
- Anymail finder
Verify and find email APIs
- FormSpree
Receive form submissions by email
- Heybounce
Email verification API
- Hunter.io
Email lead and validation APIs
- Imitate Email
End-to-end email testing tool
- Lob
Email and address verification
- Loops
REST API to manage contact properties, send events and transactional emails
- Mailgun
Send, track, and receive emails
- Resend
Email API to build, test, and deliver transactional emails
- Sendgrid
Email API
Media
- APITemplate.io
APIs to generate images and PDFs from reusable templates
- Bytescale
File storage and processing APIs
- Cloudinary
Optimize, create, manage, and deliver images and videos
- Dyte
Build powerful live experiences in your product with an all-in-one Video SDK
- Flatfile
Programmatically import data from files so it's API-ready
- ImageKit
Automate image optimization, transformation, and delivery
- imgix
Transforms, optimizes, and cache images
- Mux
APIs to upload, manage, and stream video
- Pintura
A fully configurable JavaScript image editor SDK
Messaging
- Ably
Pub/sub, real-time messaging, notifications, chat, multiplayer and data synchronization
- Applozic
Chat SDKs, real-time messaging
- Knock
Notifications as a service
- MagicBell
Real-time notification system with API & UI components
- Novu
Open-source notification (Email, SMS, Direct, and Push) management
- Stream
Feed and chat as a service
- Twilio
SMS, push notifications, and VoIP APIs
- Vonage
Video, SMS, chat, and voice APIs
Misc
- Actyx
Developer-first factory building
- Defer
Serverless Node.js background jobs
- Docusign
APIs for eSignature, and Intelligent Agreement Management
- Interval
SDK to build internal tools and scripts for your product
- ngrok
Generate public URLs for internal servers (behind NAT/firewall)
- Nylas
APIs for productivity workflows (email, calendar, contacts...) - like plaid for productivity
- Plain
API-first customer service platform (support, feedback, rating widgets...)
- Volta
Fast, elegant GitHub desktop and web app
Monitoring
- Airbrake
Error monitoring in production
- Better Stack
Uptime monitoring, incident management, and status pages
- Helicone AI
LLM observabilty and monitoring for your LLM apps in production
- Highlight.io
Full-stack monitoring platform
- KeenIO
Event streaming platform
- Keywords AI
The enterprise-grade software to build, monitor, and improve your AI application. Keywords AI is a full-stack LLM engineering platform for developers and PMs
- Langfuse
Open-source LLM observability platform that helps teams collaboratively debug, analyze, and iterate on their LLM applications
- LogRocket
Replay bugs users had
- Opik
Evaluate, test, and ship LLM applications across your dev and production lifecycles
- Pagerly
Manage Oncalls, Tickets, Incidents in Slack
- Rollbar
Reports errors in production
- Sentry
Application monitoring for bugs and performance
Natural Language Processing
- DialogFlow
Voice/text chatbot framework by Google
Orchestration
- Abstra
Python-based workflow engine for custom business processes
- AWS Step Functions
Visual workflow service to build distributed applications and automate processes
- Camunda- Platform
Workflow engine that delivers scalable, on-demand process automation
Payments & Pricing
- Braintree
Paypal's take on API-first payments
- Increase
Bare-metal banking APIs
- LemonSqueezy
SaaS payments - covers more countries and takes care of VAT Tax
- OpenMeter
Open-source usage metering for billing and chargeback
- Paddle
Revenue delivery platform for SaaS with broad geographical support (unlike stripe at the moment)
- Plaid
Accept, send ACH (bank transfers) and get bank information
- Stigg
API-first pricing plans
- Stripe Payments
Accept payments and move money globally with APIs
Repo
- Artifactory
Create your own package repository
- Cloudsmith
Cloud-native private package management
Reports Generation
- Carbone
JSON into PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, ODS... API
- DocRaptor
HTML to PDF API built specifically for Paged Media using the PDF library
- Export SDK
PDF generator API with visual template editor
- Image-Charts
Chart as Image API for reports, PDFs and more
- PDFBlade
HTML to PDF API usage based pricing
Scraping
- Apify
Turn websites to an API
- browserless
Browser automation deployed to the cloud
- Crawlbase
Scrape hard-to-scrape websites with proxies
- ScrapingANT
Scrape with headless chrome
- ScrapingBee
Using headless browsers and proxies to scrape without being blocked
- SearchApi
Real-time Google SERP API
- SerpApi
Real-time search engine scraping API
- WebScrapingHQ
Webscraping API and fully managed service
- ZenRows
Web scraping API with built-in proxies and rotating IPs to avoid detection
Search
- Algolia
Search as a service and full suite of search APIs
- Meilisearch
Open-source, fast and relevant search engine
- Swiftype
Search as a service (crawlers and React ready)
- Typesense Cloud
Open-source and hosted search as a Service
- Websolr
Open-source and hosted search with Solr
Security
- Bearer
Static application security testing (SAST) tool for JavaScript and Ruby stacks
- GitGuardian
Real-time GitHub activity scanner
- Infisical
Open-source, end-to-end encrypted secrets manager
- Pixee
Automated vulnerability remediation. Fixes vulnerabilities and hardens code
- Snyk
Vulnerability scanner for code, dependencies, containers, and infrastructure as code
- Socket
Detect and block open-source supply chain attacks
Shipping
- EasyPost
Shipping APIs for e-commerce
Testing
- Apidog
GUI tool for API mocking, testing (scenario testing, functional testing, performance testing, etc.)
- Applitools
Automated visual testing
- Beeceptor
REST API mocking
- Blackfire.io
Performance testing
- Chromatic
Visual UI testing for storybook
- CodSpeed
Continuous Performance Testing in CI environments
- Ddosify
Distributed Performance Testing Platform
- Firecamp
DX first open-source API dev tool alternative to Postman
- Loadmill
Generate tests from user behavior
- Octomind
Auto-generated, run and maintained Playwright UI tests with AI-assisted test case discovery
- Percy
Continuous visual testing
- Testim
Frontend testing
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