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Jan 04, 2023
CI/CD
- Depot - Drop-in replacement to build Docker images faster in CI.
Nov 24, 2022
Analytics
- PoeticMetric - Privacy-first, regulation-compliant, blazingly fast analytics tool.
Databases & Spreadsheets
- upstash - Serverless tailored redis provider.
Nov 10, 2022
CI/CD
- Spacelift - CI/CD platform for infrastructure-as-code, currently supporting Terraform, Pulumi, AWS CloudFormation, and Kubernetes.
Oct 29, 2022
Feature Flags
- GrowthBook - Open-source feature flag and experimentation platform.
Oct 22, 2022
Deployment Hosting
- cyclic - Full stack app hosting (including dynamo db and s3).
- Qoddi - Git connected app hosting platform.
- Adaptable - Deploy apps and DBs via common templates.
Aug 02, 2022
Misc
- Interval - SDK to build internal tools and scripts for your product.
Jul 04, 2022
Reports Generation
Jun 29, 2022
Authentication & Identity
- userfront - Simplistic user authentication with pre-built back-office dashboard.
May 05, 2022
Orchestration
- Camunda- Platform - Workflow engine that delivers scalable, on-demand process automation.
- AWS Step Functions - visual workflow service to build distributed applications and automate processes
Apr 29, 2022
CMS (headless)
- Sanity - Headless CMS, treat content as data.
Apr 19, 2022
Documentation
- Mintlify - AI powered code documentation, IDE extension (open source).
Apr 11, 2022
Reports Generation
- PDFBlade - HTML to PDF API usage based pricing.
Mar 31, 2022
Infrastructure as Code
- Terraform - DSL, open-source and free (paid solution adds team management, policy-as-code...).
- Pulumi - Developer-first IaC with Python, TypeScript, Go and more languages...
Mar 17, 2022
Localization
- Tolgee - Developer & translator friendly web-based localization platform.
Mar 06, 2022
Authentication & Identity
- FusionAuth - Security-centric authentication as a Service, including self-hosting.
Mar 01, 2022
Computer Vision
- Scanbot SDK - Structured data extraction from images for applications.
Feb 13, 2022
Authentication & Identity
- SuperTokens - Opensource and hosted email & Oauth authentication with prebuilt UI.
Jan 30, 2022
CI/CD
- Gitpod - Automated cloud dev environments.
Jan 18, 2022
Authentication & Identity
- Permit.io - Permissions and access-control as a service.
Jan 10, 2022
Integrations
- Apideck - Integration marketplace builder, one-API with 3rd parties for quick development.
Jan 08, 2022
Feature Flags
- LaunchDarkly - Feature flags-as-a-service platform.
- split - Feature flags platform with data analytics.
- Flagsmith - Feature flags-as-a-service platform simplified.
Jan 06, 2022
Computer Vision
- roboflow - Simplified computer vision model creation for developers.
Jan 03, 2022
Misc
- zigi - Developer’s assistant for mundane non-coding tasks via Slack.
Dec 28, 2021
Misc
- Nylas - APIs for productivity workflows (email, calendar, contacts...) - like plaid for productivity.
Dec 26, 2021
Search
- typesense cloud - Open-source and hosted search as a Service.
Dec 19, 2021
Testing
- Loadmill - Generate tests from user behavior.
Dec 17, 2021
Misc
- ngrok - Generate public URLs for internal servers (behind NAT/firewall).
Dec 02, 2021
Databases & Spreadsheets
- PlanetScale - Hosted managed MySQL database, CI integration & auto scaling.
Nov 30, 2021
Documentation
- swimm - Docs that are coupled with your code, auto-synced, works with your IDE.
Nov 16, 2021
Deployment Hosting
- Railway - Out of the box git to deployment with auto scaling, DBs, secrets and rollbacks.
Nov 08, 2021
Reports Generation
- Export SDK - PDF generator API with visual template editor.
Oct 10, 2021
Deployment Hosting
- Fly.io - Deploy dockerized full stack apps via a location-aware service (latency reduction).
Sep 29, 2021
Authentication & Identity
- Hanko - Passwordless (WebAuthn API) PSD2, eIDAS, and GDPR compliant.
Sep 27, 2021
Media
- APITemplate.io - APIs to generate images and PDFs from reusable templates.
Reports Generation
- Carbone - JSON into PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, ODS... API.
Sep 25, 2021
Analytics
- Pirsch - Privacy-friendly web analytics with a backend integration and API.
Authentication & Identity
- Oso - Authorization framework (RBAC).
Media
- Pintura - A fully configurable JavaScript image editor SDK.
Sep 20, 2021
Environment & Secret Management
- Ubiq - Encryption APIs wiht secret management
Sep 09, 2021
Databases & Spreadsheets
- Supabase - Hosted and open source managed postgres DB like firebase.
Aug 03, 2021
Debugging
- Lightrun - Debug production servers using a plugin in the IDE (on-prem or SaaS) that supports Java, Node.js, and Python.
- Rookout - Debug production servers via a cloud-based debugger. Supporting Java, .Net, Node.js, Python, and Ruby.
Aug 02, 2021
Scraping
- SerpApi - Real-time search engine scraping API.
Jun 06, 2021
CI/CD
- CircleCI - YML to configure your builds, parallel jobs, jobs marketplace.
- Gitlab - Open source CI and hosted solution with Github-like abilities.
Documentation
- readme - Personalized and dynamic developer docs.
- DeveloperHub - Collaborative developer documentation platform.
Environment & Secret Management
- Vault - API driven secret key management.
- Doppler - Environment variable management across projects, in one place.
- 1Password Secrets Automation - Secrets management with integration to 1Password.
- Envkey - Environment management with syncing mechanism for all apps.
Jun 04, 2021
GEO
- SmartyStreets - US Reverse Geocoding and Address Verification APIs.
Jun 03, 2021
Payments
- Paddle - Revenue delivery platform for SaaS with broad geographical support (unlike stripe at the moment).
May 01, 2021
- Hunter.io - Email lead and validation APIs.
- Anymail finder - Verify and find email APIs.
Apr 17, 2021
Testing
- Blackfire.io - Performance testing.
Dec 21, 2020
Scraping
- proxycrawl - Scrape hard-to-scrape websites with proxies.
Dec 20, 2020
Analytics
- Segment - Collect user data and send it to your other tools.
Authentication & Identity
- AWS cognito - AWS's authentication as a service.
- Magic.link - Passwordless (email-based) log in as a service.
CMS (headless)
- Contentful - CMS as an API.
Databases & Spreadsheets
- Airtable - Database and spreadsheet hybrid with an API.
Deployment Hosting
- Render - Deploy from git to a CDN with SSL.
- Vercel - Deploy JAMStack (mainly Next.js) via CLI.
- Digital Ocean App Platform - Deploy and don't care about infrastructure, works with all major frameworks.
- Platform.sh - Continuously deploy full-stack apps.
Discussions
- Commento - Privacy centric embeddable comment system.
- MuutIo - Tools to create a community-driven app.
IDE
- Kite - AI assistant in your IDE (Python or JS).
- Mailgun - Send, track, and receive emails.
- FormSpree - Receive form submissions by email.
Media
- Cloudinary - Optimize, create, manage, and deliver images and videos.
- Mux - APIs to upload, manage, and stream video.
Messaging
- Twilio - SMS, push notifications, and VoIP APIs.
- Vonage - Video, SMS, chat, and voice APIs.
- stream - Feed and chat as a service.
- Applozic - Chat SDKs, real-time messaging.
Misc
- Actyx - Developer-first factory building.
Monitoring
- Sentry - Application monitoring for bugs and performance.
- KeenIO - Event streaming platform.
- LogRocket - Replay bugs users had.
Natural Language Processing
- DialogFlow - Voice/text chatbot framework by Google.
Payments
- Braintree - Paypal's take on API-first payments.
- Plaid - Accept, send ACH (bank transfers) and get bank information.
Repo
- cloudsmith - Cloud-native private package management.
Scraping
- ScrapingBee - Using headless browsers and proxies to scrape without being blocked.
Shipping
- easypost - Shipping APIs for e-commerce.
Dec 19, 2020
Computer Vision
- clarifai - Set of computer vision APIs.
- CloudSight - Digital media brand recognition.
- Google Vision AI - Google's AI vision APIs.
Scraping
- Apify - Turn websites to an API.
- ScrapingANT - Scrape with headless chrome.
Testing
- Beeceptor - REST API mocking.
Dec 12, 2020
Analytics
- Mixpanel - Product analytics and dashboards.
- Heap - Product analytics API for web and mobile, captures all events.
Authentication & Identity
- Auth0 - Authentication & authorization as a service.
- Okta - Embeddable authentication with SSO.
- LoginRadius - Managed user authentication service with SSO.
Code Quality
- Codacy - Automatic code quality checks.
Deployment Hosting
- Netlify - Deploy JAMStack (mainly Gatsby) via CLI.
- Heroku - Deploy via CLI to scalable servers.
Media
- imgix - Transforms, optimizes, and cache images.
Search
- Algolia - Search as a service and full suite of search APIs.
- Swiftype - Search as a service (crawlers and React ready).
- Websolr - Open-source and hosted search with Solr.
Testing
- Percy - Continuous visual testing.
Nov 30, 2020
CMS (headless)
Code Quality
- sonarsource - Lint and code quality checks.
Testing
- Testim - Frontend testing.
- Chromatic - Visual UI testing for storybook.
Sep 28, 2020
Authentication & Identity
- Firebase Auth - Google Firebase's take on authentication.
Discussions
- Bazaarvoice - Ratings, reviews as a service.
- Yotpo - Reviews ratings and Q&A as a service.
GEO
- Radar - Geofencing and geo APIs.
- mapbox - Maps and locations products for devs.
Localization
- Localazy - App translation built for developers.
- Lob - Email and address verification.
Monitoring
- Rollbar - Reports errors in production.
Repo
- Artifactory - Create your own package repository.
Testing
- Applitools - Automated visual testing.
Sep 26, 2020
Analytics
- Baremetrics - Subscription analytics for Stripe.
CMS (headless)
- ElegantCMS - Headless CMS builder.
- Sendgrid - Email API.
Media
- ImageKit - Automate image optimization, transformation, and delivery.
Payments
- Stripe Payments - Accept payments and move money globally with APIs.