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Awesome Developer-First

A curated list of awesome developer-first tools products.

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AI Coding

Aider

Open-source terminal AI assistant.

In 9 listsDetails

Amazon Q

Amazon’s AI assistant.

In 4 lists

Cline

Open-source VS Code plugin for Claude as a coding assistant.

In 4 lists

CodeParrot

Frontend component AI assistant for VS Code.

CodeSquire

Browser extension for AI generation in Jupyter/BigQuery etc.

Cody

Sourcegraph’s coding assistant.

In 4 lists

Continue

AI coding assistant for VS Code and JetBrains.

In 6 listsDetails

Cursor

A VS Code fork built from the ground up with AI.

In 12 listsDetails

Fine

Build Software with AI Agents.

In 3 lists

GitHub Copilot

The “OG” AI IDE everyone heard about. Still kind of feels behind, but does integrate nicely with GitHub.

In 11 listsDetails

IntelliCode

Visual Studio’s AI offering from Microsoft.

In 2 lists

JetBrains AI

JetBrains’s AI offering integrated into most of their IDEs.

In 3 lists

Kilo Code

Fast, open-source AI coding agent for VS Code and JetBrains.

In 5 listsDetails

Mastra

Build AI agents with a modern TypeScript stack.

In 2 lists

OpenHands

an open-source Devin alternative.

Qodo

Focusing on confident code generation (focused on testing well).

In 7 listsDetails

Replit AI

Replit’s code IDE using AI (has also a free limited plan).

Supermaven

Heard really good things, especially around speed and context length.

In 2 lists

Tabby

Self-hosted open-source coding assistant.

Tabnine

One of the OG players in the AI code assistant space.

In 9 listsDetails

Warp

Fully integrated AI in your terminal.

Analytics

Baremetrics

Subscription analytics for Stripe.

In 2 lists

devActivity

Contributions analytics with AI Insights, Performance Review, Retrospectives and Gamifications.

Heap

Product analytics API for web and mobile, captures all events.

In 2 lists

Mixpanel

Product analytics and dashboards.

In 7 listsDetails

Pirsch

Privacy-friendly web analytics with a backend integration and API.

In 2 lists

Plausible

Simple, privacy-friendly, and open-source web analytics tool.

In 9 listsDetails

PoeticMetric

Privacy-first, regulation-compliant, fast analytics tool.

PostHog

Open-source product analytics platform.

In 8 listsDetails

Segment

Collect user data and send it to your other tools.

In 6 listsDetails

Tinybird

Real-time data streams to APIs.

Zoho Apptics

Unified, simplified, and actionable product analytics.

Authentication & Identity

Aserto

Cloud-native authorization for applications and APIs.

Auth0

Authentication & authorization as a service.

In 9 listsDetails

AWS Cognito

AWS's authentication as a service.

In 6 listsDetails

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.

In 9 listsDetails

Corbado

Passkey-first authentication as a service.

In 3 lists

Firebase Auth

Google Firebase's take on authentication.

FusionAuth

Security-centric authentication as a Service, including self-hosting.

In 2 lists

Hanko

Passwordless (WebAuthn API) PSD2, eIDAS, and GDPR compliant.

Kinde

Authentification and user management as a service.

In 2 lists

LoginRadius

Managed user authentication service with SSO.

In 3 lists

MojoAuth

Complete CIAM solution with Enterprise SSO and extensive out-of-the-box enterprise features.

In 3 lists

Okta

Embeddable authentication with SSO.

In 2 lists

Ory

Open-source identity & access-control solutions (also available as a service).

In 2 lists

Oso

Authorization framework (RBAC).

Permit.io

Permissions and access-control as a service.

In 2 lists

PropelAuth

Team-based authentication.

Scalekit

Add enterprise SSO (SAML, OIDC), SCIM provisioning to your existing auth setup like Firebase, Auth0, or Cognito without rewrites.

In 3 lists

SSOJet

Enterprise SSO without rebuilding auth. The free plan includes unlimited monthly active users, unlimited organizations, 2 SSO & 2 SCIM connections.

In 2 lists

Stack Auth

Open-source Auth0 alternative.

Stytch

All-in-one authentication, authorization, and fraud prevention infrastructure.

In 2 lists

SuperTokens

Open-source and hosted email & Oauth authentication with prebuilt UI.

Unkey

Authentication, rate limiting and usage analytics for APIs.

Userfront

Simplistic user authentication with pre-built back-office dashboard.

WorkOS

Enterprise SSO and more out-of-the-box enterprise features.

In 2 lists

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.

In 4 listsDetails

Trigger.dev

Open-source platform to create workflows from APIs, on a schedule or on demand.

Backend-as-a-Service

Appwrite

End-to-end backend server for frontend and mobile developers.

In 4 listsDetails

Encore

Open-source TypeScript backend framework for robust type-safe applications.

Jamsocket

Backends for real-time apps.

Nhost

Open-source backend with a Postgres database, instant GraphQL API, authentication, storage, and serverless functions.

In 4 listsDetails

Supabase

Hosted and open-source managed Postgres DB like Firebase.

In 8 listsDetails

CI/CD

CircleCI

YML to configure your builds, parallel jobs, jobs marketplace.

In 13 listsDetails

Depot

Drop-in replacement to build Docker images faster in CI.

In 3 lists

GitLab

Open-source CI and hosted solution with Github-like abilities.

In 9 listsDetails

Ona

Automated cloud dev environments.

RunMyJob

Cloud runners for GitHub Actions and GitLab CI.

In 2 lists

Spacelift

CI/CD platform for infrastructure-as-code, currently supporting Terraform, Pulumi, AWS CloudFormation, and Kubernetes.

In 5 listsDetails

CMS (headless)

Contentful

CMS as an API.

DatoCMS

API-based CMS.

In 3 lists

Ghost

Blog platform, can be used as headless CMS (ex. with Hexo).

In 4 listsDetails

Sanity

Headless CMS, treat content as data.

Strapi

Open-source headless CMS, 100% JavaScript.

In 4 listsDetails

Code Quality

Codacy

Automatic code quality checks.

In 8 listsDetails

CodeRabbit AI

AI-powered code review and automated pull request management.

In 7 listsDetails

DebuggAI

Zero-config AI browser (E2E) tests that review every commit & pull request (PR).

Ellipsis

AI code reviews and bug fixes.

Kodus

Open-source code review agent.

In 2 lists

Sonar

Lint and code quality checks.

Computer Vision

Clarifai

Set of computer vision APIs.

CloudSight

Digital media brand recognition.

In 2 lists

Google Vision AI

Google's AI vision APIs.

In 3 lists

Roboflow

Simplified computer vision model creation for developers.

In 2 lists

Databases & Spreadsheets

Airtable

Database and spreadsheet hybrid with an API.

In 8 listsDetails

Apitable

API-oritented Airtable alternative.

In 2 lists

CrateDB

Distributed open-source SQL database for real-time analytics.

In 4 listsDetails

Neon

Serverless Postgres database with scale-to-zero, branching, autoscaling.

In 4 lists

Neuledge

Abstract ORM with a universal schema language for any database.

Outerbase

AI-powered database UI.

PlanetScale

Hosted managed MySQL database, CI integration & auto scaling.

In 3 lists

Upstash

Serverless tailored redis provider.

In 4 lists

Debugging

Lightrun

Debug production servers using a plugin in the IDE (on-prem or SaaS) that supports Java, Node.js, and Python.

Linear

Issue tracking built for developers.

In 4 lists

Multiplayer

Debugging agent that runs locally next to your favorite coding agents (open source or SaaS), feeding them full-stack, unsampled runtime data to catch and fix bugs automatically.

Rookout

Debug production servers via a cloud-based debugger. Supporting Java, .Net, Node.js, Python, and Ruby.

Deployment Hosting

Adaptable

Deploy apps and DBs via common templates.

Beam

Serverless cloud infrastructure.

In 2 lists

Cycle.io

DevOps platform for building platforms. Handles container orchestration, load-balancing, monitoring, and more.

In 3 lists

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).

In 7 listsDetails

Heroku

Deploy via CLI to scalable servers.

In 10 listsDetails

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.

In 2 lists

Netlify

Deploy JAMStack (mainly Gatsby) via CLI.

In 13 listsDetails

Platform.sh

Continuously deploy full-stack apps.

Propel

Serverless ClickHouse platform.

Qoddi

Git connected app hosting platform.

In 2 lists

Quix

One tool to build and run event streaming applications.

In 2 lists

Railway

Out-of-the-box git to deployment with auto-scaling, DBs, secrets, and rollbacks.

In 5 listsDetails

Reflex

Python framework to build and deploy web apps (including frontend).

In 2 lists

Render

Deploy from git to a CDN with SSL.

In 8 listsDetails

Vercel

Cloud platform for building and deploying serverless web applications, static websites, and Jamstack (mainly Next.js) projects.

In 12 listsDetails

Zeabur

One click deployment for frontend, backend and databases services.

In 3 lists

Discussions

Bazaarvoice

Ratings, reviews as a service.

Commento

Privacy-centric embeddable comment system.

In 2 lists

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.

In 3 lists

Bump.sh

API documentation and change management solution.

In 2 lists

DeveloperHub

Collaborative developer documentation platform.

Fern

Instant docs and SDKs for APIs.

In 2 lists

Mintlify

NextJS-based, AI-powered platform for documentation sites.

In 5 listsDetails

ReadMe

Personalized and dynamic developer docs.

In 2 lists

Speakeasy

API tooling for SDKs, API docs, Terraform providers, and end-to-end testing.

In 2 lists

Swimm

Docs that are coupled with your code, auto-synced, works with your IDE.

Environment & Secret Management

Doppler

Environment variable management across projects, in one place.

In 2 lists

Envkey

Environment management with syncing mechanism for all apps.

KeyHippo

API Keys for Postgres RLS.

Ubiq

Encryption APIs with secret management.

Vault

API-driven secret key management.

In 6 listsDetails

Feature Flags

Bucket

Purpose-built feature flagging for B2B SaaS products.

ConfigCat

Powerful, privacy-first feature flag management with unlimited team size and a forever free plan.

Flagsmith

Feature flags-as-a-service platform simplified.

In 3 lists

GrowthBook

Open-source feature flag and experimentation platform.

In 2 lists

Hypertune

Type-safe feature flags, optimized for React and Next.js.

LaunchDarkly

Feature flags-as-a-service platform.

In 2 lists

Split

Feature flags platform with data analytics.

In 2 lists

Statsig

All-in-one platform spanning across analytics, feature flagging, and A/B testing. Free for up to 1m metered events per month.

In 2 lists

Unleash

Open-source, privacy-first, and enterprise-ready feature management solution.

In 2 lists

Gen UI

AI SDK by Vercel

SDK for creating Gen UI applications.

In 2 lists

Coframe

Automatically optimizes your website’s copy, images, and UI with AI.

Horizon UI

A shadcn boilerplate with backed in Gen UI AI components.

Magic Patterns

Prototype product ideas with AI.

Tempo

Code-first Figma alternative.

v0 by Vercel

Generate UI from a prompt, all of the UI is streamed and runs as client side components.

GEO

AirPinpoint

API for Apple AirTags tracking.

Mapbox

Maps and locations products for devs.

In 6 listsDetails

OpenCage

Forward and reverse geocoding API based on open data.

In 3 lists

PlaceKit

Locations search API.

Radar

Geofencing and geo APIs.

SmartyStreets

US Reverse Geocoding and Address Verification APIs.

IDE

GoCodeo

An AI coding & testing agent.

In 2 lists

Kite

AI assistant in your IDE (Python or JS).

In 2 lists

MarsCode

AI-powered cloud-based IDE.

OneCompiler

A versatile, AI-powered Online IDE supporting over 70+ programming languages, designed for developers to write, compile, and execute code seamlessly.

In 4 listsDetails

Infrastructure as Code

Pulumi

Developer-first IaC with Python, TypeScript, Go and more languages...

In 3 lists

Terraform

DSL, open-source, and free (paid solution adds team management, policy-as-code...).

Terrateam

GitOps-first open-source Infrastructure as Code automation for Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt, CDKTF, and Pulumi.

In 3 lists

Integrations

Apideck

Integration marketplace builder, one-API with 3rd parties for quick development.

Metorial

Connect AI agents to 600+ integrations with a single interface. OAuth, scaling, and monitoring included.

Nango

Hundreds of pre-built product integrations with 250+ APIs, customizable in code.

In 2 lists

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.

In 2 lists

Localization

Lingo.dev

AI localization infrastructure.

Localazy

App translation built for developers.

Locize

The translation management system created by the creators of i18next. Work with writers in dev/stage env before hitting prod.

In 2 lists

Tolgee

Developer & translator friendly web-based localization platform.

In 4 listsDetails

Mail

Anymail finder

Verify and find email APIs.

In 4 listsDetails

FormSpree

Receive form submissions by email.

Heybounce

Email verification API.

In 2 lists

Hunter.io

Email lead and validation APIs.

In 8 listsDetails

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.

In 3 lists

Mailgun

Send, track, and receive emails.

In 6 listsDetails

Mailtrap

Email delivery platform for developers to test emails in a sandbox and send transactional and bulk emails via API and SMTP.

In 5 listsDetails

Resend

Email API to build, test, and deliver transactional emails.

In 8 listsDetails

Sendgrid

Email API.

In 4 lists

Zyntra

Unlimited e-mail inboxes with API/UI access for automation and QA.

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.

In 4 lists

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.

In 2 lists

imgix

Transforms, optimizes, and cache images.

In 2 lists

Mux

APIs to upload, manage, and stream video.

In 4 lists

Pintura

A fully configurable JavaScript image editor SDK.

Messaging

Ably

Pub/sub, real-time messaging, notifications, chat, multiplayer and data synchronization.

In 2 lists

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.

In 2 lists

Pingram

Messaging APIs for email, SMS, voice, and WhatsApp with managed A2P 10DLC.

Stream

Feed and chat as a service.

In 2 lists

Twilio

SMS, push notifications, and VoIP APIs.

In 6 listsDetails

Vonage

Video, SMS, chat, and voice APIs.

In 3 lists

Misc

Actyx

Developer-first factory building.

daily.dev

Personalized developer news feed aggregating from 1000+ tech sources with community discussion.

In 2 lists

Docusign

APIs for eSignature, and Intelligent Agreement Management.

Fernand

API-first customer support for indie hackers and small SaaS teams.

Frigade

SDK for shipping an in-product AI assistant that learns your app and takes actions on the user's behalf (open modals, navigate, walk through workflows).

Interval

SDK to build internal tools and scripts for your product.

ngrok

Generate public URLs for internal servers (behind NAT/firewall).

In 7 listsDetails

Nylas

APIs for productivity workflows (email, calendar, contacts...) - like plaid for productivity.

In 2 lists

Plain

API-first customer service platform (support, feedback, rating widgets...).

Propexo

Unified API to integrate with property management systems.

SignatureAPI

API-first electronic signatures.

Trophy

APIs for gamified product experiences.

Monitoring

Airbrake

Error monitoring in production.

In 2 lists

Anteon

Kubernetes monitoring and performance testing — available on CLI, self-hosted, and cloud.

Better Stack

Uptime monitoring, incident management, and status pages.

In 3 lists

Future AGI

Open-source self-hostable end-to-end LLMOps platform unifying tracing, evals, simulations, datasets, gateway, and guardrails.

Helicone AI

LLM observabilty and monitoring for your LLM apps in production.

In 5 listsDetails

Highlight.io

Full-stack monitoring platform.

Instatus

Uptime monitoring, incident response, and status pages.

In 4 listsDetails

KeenIO

Event streaming platform.

In 2 lists

Laminar

Open-source platform for tracing, evaluating, and labeling LLM products.

Langfuse

Open-source LLM observability platform that helps teams collaboratively debug, analyze, and iterate on their LLM applications.

In 10 listsDetails

LogRocket

Replay bugs users had.

In 2 lists

Maple

OpenTelemetry-native observability for traces, logs, and metrics with dashboards, alerting, and an MCP server.

Maxim AI

End-to-end evaluation and observability platform, helping teams ship their AI agents reliably and 5x faster.

In 8 listsDetails

Middleware

Full-stack observability platform with APM, distributed tracing, logs and infra metrics in one place.

In 6 listsDetails

Oh Dear

Uptime, performance, SSL certificate, broken link, and DNS monitoring.

In 2 lists

Opik

Evaluate, test, and ship LLM applications across your dev and production lifecycles.

In 6 listsDetails

Pagerly

Manage Oncalls, Tickets, Incidents in Slack.

In 3 lists

Pinecone

AI infrastructure for building accurate, secure, and scalable AI apps.

In 8 listsDetails

Quivr

Open-source RAG framework to deploy and use AI agents.

Respan

Full-stack AI engineering platform to trace agent workflows in production, evaluate output quality with custom graders, iterate on prompts without code changes, and route across 250+ models through one gateway. Formerly Keywords AI.

Rollbar

Reports errors in production.

In 3 lists

Sentry

Application monitoring for bugs and performance.

In 8 listsDetails

Natural Language Processing

DialogFlow

Voice/text chatbot framework by Google.

In 2 lists

Orchestration

AWS Step Functions

Visual workflow service to build distributed applications and automate processes.

In 4 listsDetails

Camunda

Workflow engine that delivers scalable, on-demand process automation.

Payments & Pricing

Braintree

Paypal's take on API-first payments.

In 3 lists

Increase

Bare-metal banking APIs.

In 2 lists

LemonSqueezy

SaaS payments - covers more countries and takes care of VAT Tax.

In 3 lists

OpenMeter

Open-source usage metering for billing and chargeback.

Paddle

Revenue delivery platform for SaaS with broad geographical support (unlike Stripe at the moment).

In 5 listsDetails

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.

In 3 lists

Buildstash

Binary artifact and release management for app, game, and embedded software.

Cloudsmith

Cloud-native private package management.

In 2 lists

Reports Generation

Carbone

JSON into PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, ODS... API.

DocRaptor

HTML to PDF API built specifically for Paged Media using the Prince PDF library.

Export SDK

PDF generator API with visual template editor.

Image-Charts

Chart as Image API for reports, PDFs, and more.

In 2 lists

PDFBlade

HTML to PDF API usage-based pricing.

PDFShift

HTML/Url to PDF conversion API.

Scraping

Apify

Turn websites to an API.

browserless

Browser automation deployed to the cloud.

Corsfix

CORS Proxy to fetch any web resource and bypass CORS errors.

Crawlbase

Scrape hard-to-scrape websites with proxies.

In 2 lists

Geonode

Rotating residential and datacenter proxies with REST API access.

Proxy Sentinel

A self-managed proxy rotator.

ScrapingANT

Scrape with headless chrome.

ScrapingBee

Using headless browsers and proxies to scrape without being blocked.

SearchApi

Real-time Google SERP API.

In 2 lists

SerpApi

Real-time search engine scraping API.

In 3 lists

WebScrapingHQ

Webscraping API and fully managed service.

ZenRows

Web scraping API with built-in proxies and rotating IPs to avoid detection.

Agentset

Open-source production-ready RAG platform with built-in agentic reasoning, hybrid search, and multimodal support.

In 3 lists

Algolia

Search as a service and full suite of search APIs.

In 7 listsDetails

Cognee

AI Memory layer for agents. Knowledge graph + vector search for contextual retrieval and reasoning.

Meilisearch

Open-source, fast, and relevant search engine.

In 3 lists

Swiftype

Search as a service (crawlers and React ready).

In 2 lists

Typesense Cloud

Open-source and hosted search as a Service.

Websolr

Open-source and hosted search with Solr.

In 2 lists

Security

Bearer

Static application security testing (SAST) tool for JavaScript and Ruby stacks.

GitGuardian

Real-time GitHub activity scanner.

In 3 lists

Infisical

Open-source, end-to-end encrypted secrets manager.

In 3 lists

Pixee

Automated vulnerability remediation. Fixes vulnerabilities and hardens code.

In 3 lists

Snyk

Vulnerability scanner for code, dependencies, containers, and infrastructure as code.

In 14 listsDetails

Socket

Detect and block open-source supply chain attacks.

In 2 lists

Shipping

EasyPost

Shipping APIs for e-commerce.

Testing

Applitools

Automated visual testing.

In 3 lists

Beeceptor

No-code, cloud-based platform for mocking and debugging multi-protocol APIs (REST, SOAP, gRPC & GraphQL), providing instant servers with rules-based logic, CRUD & stateful mocking, proxying, and CORS management for faster integration and testing.

In 6 listsDetails

BitDive

Zero-code integration testing for Java/Kotlin that generates tests from runtime application behavior.

In 4 lists

Blackfire.io

Performance testing.

In 2 lists

Chromatic

Visual UI testing for storybook.

In 2 lists

CodSpeed

Continuous Performance Testing in CI environments.

Coval

Simulation and evals for AI agents.

Fiberplane

Test and debug Hono APIs.

Loadmill

Generate tests from user behavior.

Octomind

Auto-generated, run, and maintained Playwright UI tests with AI-assisted test case discovery.

In 2 lists

Percy

Continuous visual testing.

In 2 lists

Sherlo

Visual regression testing for React Native, with a Storybook integration.

In 2 lists

Synth

Automated AI agent optimization.

Testim

Frontend testing.

In 2 lists
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