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May 19, 2025
Misc
- SignatureAPI - API-first electronic signatures.
May 13, 2025
Authentication & Identity
- Unkey - Authentication, rate limiting and usage analytics for APIs.
Documentation
- Fern - Instant docs and SDKs for APIs.
Localization
- Lingo - AI localization infrastructure.
Misc
- Trophy - APIs for gamified product experiences.
Apr 15, 2025
Authentication & Identity
- Scalekit – Add enterprise SSO (SAML, OIDC), SCIM provisioning to your existing auth setup like Firebase, Auth0, or Cognito without rewrites.
Mar 31, 2025
Authentication & Identity
- SSOJet - Enterprise SSO without rebuilding auth. The free plan includes unlimited monthly active users, unlimited organizations, 2 SSO & 2 SCIM connections.
Mar 11, 2025
Scraping
- Corsfix - CORS Proxy to fetch any web resource and bypass CORS errors.
Feb 27, 2025
Testing
- Sherlo - Visual testing and review tool for React Native Storybook.
Feb 12, 2025
IDE
- OneCompiler - A versatile, AI-powered Online IDE supporting over 70+ programming languages, designed for developers to write, compile, and execute code seamlessly.
Jan 31, 2025
Feature Flags
- Bucket - Purpose-built feature flagging for B2B SaaS products.
Jan 21, 2025
Infrastructure as Code
- Terrateam - GitOps-first open-source Infrastructure as Code automation for Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt, CDKTF, and Pulumi.
Jan 20, 2025
IDE
- GoCodeo- An AI coding & testing agent.
Jan 19, 2025
Backend-as-a-Service
- Encore - Open-source TypeScript backend framework for robust type-safe applications.
Deployment Hosting
- Reflex - Python framework to build and deploy
web apps (including frontend).
Jan 18, 2025
Localization
- Locize - The translation management system created by the creators of i18next. Work with writers in dev/stage env before hitting prod.
Misc
- Propexo - Unified API to integrate with property management systems.
Dec 22, 2024
Authentication & Identity
- PropelAuth - Team-based authentication.
- Stack Auth - Open-source Auth0 alternative.
Backend-as-a-Service
- Jamsocket - Backends for real-time apps.
- Supabase - Hosted and open-source managed Postgres DB like Firebase.
Code Quality
- Ellipsis - AI code reviews and bug fixes.
Databases & Spreadsheets
- Outerbase - AI-powered database UI.
Deployment Hosting
- Beam - Serverless cloud infrastructure.
- Propel - Serverless ClickHouse platform.
Documentation
- Speakeasy - API tooling for SDKs, API docs, Terraform providers, and end-to-end testing.
Environment & Secret Management
- KeyHippo - API Keys for Postgres RLS.
GEO
- AirPinpoint - API for Apple AirTags tracking.
Integrations
- OpenInt - Open-source embeddable product integrations.
Misc
- Magic Patterns - Prototype product ideas with AI.
- Tempo Labs - Code-first Figma alternative.
Monitoring
- Laminar - Open-source platform for tracing, evaluating, and labeling LLM products.
- Pinecone - AI infrastructure for building accurate, secure, and scalable AI apps.
- Quivr - Open-source RAG framework to deploy and use AI agents.
Orchestration
- Camunda - Workflow engine that delivers scalable, on-demand process automation.
Testing
- Coval - Simulation and evals for AI agents.
- Fiberplane - Test and debug Hono APIs.
- Synth - Automated AI agent optimization.
Dec 02, 2024
Monitoring
- 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.
Nov 29, 2024
Scraping
- WebScrapingHQ - Webscraping API and fully managed service.
Nov 12, 2024
Automation
- 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.
Oct 31, 2024
Integrations
- Nango - Hundreds of pre-built product integrations with 250+ APIs, customizable in code.
Oct 16, 2024
Code Quality
- CodeRabbit AI - AI-powered code review and automated pull request management.
Oct 09, 2024
Monitoring
- Langfuse - Open-source LLM observability platform that helps teams collaboratively debug, analyze, and iterate on their LLM applications.
Oct 03, 2024
Analytics
- devActivity - Contributions analytics with AI Insights, Performance Review, Retrospectives and Gamifications.
Automation
- 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.
- Heybounce - Email verification API.
Sep 25, 2024
Monitoring
- Opik - Evaluate, test, and ship LLM applications across your dev and production lifecycles.
Aug 29, 2024
Monitoring
- Helicone AI - LLM observabilty and monitoring for your LLM apps in production.
Aug 22, 2024
Authentication & Identity
- MojoAuth - Complete CIAM solution with Enterprise SSO and extensive out-of-the-box enterprise features.
Aug 08, 2024
Scraping
- ZenRows - Web scraping API with built-in proxies and rotating IPs to avoid detection.
Jun 13, 2024
IDE
- MarsCode - AI-powered cloud-based IDE.
Jun 05, 2024
Misc
- Docusign - APIs for eSignature, and Intelligent Agreement Management.
Jun 03, 2024
Monitoring
- Pagerly - Manage Oncalls, Tickets, Incidents in Slack.
Security
- Pixee - Automated vulnerability remediation. Fixes vulnerabilities and hardens code.
Testing
- CodSpeed - Continuous Performance Testing in CI environments.
May 31, 2024
Feature Flags
- Statsig - All-in-one platform spanning across analytics, feature flagging, and A/B testing. Free for up to 1m metered events per month.
May 22, 2024
Databases & Spreadsheets
- Neon - Serverless Postgres database with scale-to-zero, branching, autoscaling.
May 03, 2024
Authentication & Identity
- Stytch - All-in-one authentication, authorization, and fraud prevention infrastructure.
CMS (headless)
- DatoCMS - API-based CMS.
Media
- Bytescale - File storage and processing APIs.
May 02, 2024
Deployment Hosting
- Cycle.io - DevOps platform for building platforms. Handles container orchestration, load-balancing, monitoring, and more.
Apr 02, 2024
Automation
- Abstra - Python-based workflow engine for custom business processes.
Mar 09, 2024
Integrations
- YepCode - Build and run serverless functions with the best development experience.
Feb 26, 2024
Testing
- Apidog - GUI tool for API mocking, testing (scenario testing, functional testing, performance testing, etc.).
Feb 23, 2024
Media
- Flatfile - Programmatically import data from files so it's API-ready.
Feb 15, 2024
Integrations
- Panora - Easy, flexible API to add customer-facing integrations to your SaaS product.
Feb 06, 2024
Monitoring
- Highlight.io - Full-stack monitoring platform.
Feb 02, 2024
Testing
- Octomind - Auto-generated, run, and maintained Playwright UI tests with AI-assisted test case discovery.
Jan 31, 2024
- Loops - REST API to manage contact properties, send events and transactional emails.
Jan 23, 2024
Authentication & Identity
- Kinde - Authentification and user management as a service.
Backend-as-a-Service
- Appwrite - End-to-end backend server for frontend and mobile developers.
Jan 08, 2024
IDE
- Fine - Build Software with AI Agents.
Dec 08, 2023
Scraping
- browserless - Browser automation deployed to the cloud.
Nov 16, 2023
Payments & Pricing
- OpenMeter - Open-source usage metering for billing and chargeback.
Oct 20, 2023
Deployment Hosting
- Kinsta - Deploy static sites, apps, and databases from GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket and host headless WordPress.
Integrations
- Sequin - Interface with third-party services using SQL.
Oct 13, 2023
Monitoring
- Airbrake - Error monitoring in production.
Oct 10, 2023
Deployment Hosting
- DeployBot - REST API to trigger deployments from GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket.
Sep 23, 2023
Media
- Dyte - Build powerful live experiences in your product with an all-in-one Video SDK.
Sep 18, 2023
Integrations
- Revert - Open-source unified API to build B2B product integrations.
Sep 08, 2023
Deployment Hosting
- Quix - One tool to build and run event streaming applications.
Testing
- Firecamp - DX first open-source API dev tool alternative to Postman.
Aug 29, 2023
Monitoring
- Better Stack - Uptime monitoring, incident management, and status pages.
Aug 28, 2023
GEO
- OpenCage - Forward and reverse geocoding API based on open data.
Aug 17, 2023
Reports Generation
- Image-Charts - Chart as Image API for reports, PDFs, and more.
Aug 12, 2023
Scraping
- SearchApi - Real-time Google SERP API.
Jul 24, 2023
Deployment Hosting
- Zeabur - One click deployment for frontend, backend and databases services.
Jul 20, 2023
- Resend - Email API to build, test, and deliver transactional emails.
Security
- Infisical - Open-source, end-to-end encrypted secrets manager.
Jul 13, 2023
Analytics
- Tinybird - Real-time data streams to APIs.
Jul 12, 2023
Messaging
- Novu - Open-source notification (Email, SMS, Direct, and Push) management.
Jun 29, 2023
Payments & Pricing
- LemonSqueezy - SaaS payments - covers more countries and takes care of VAT Tax.
Jun 27, 2023
Authentication & Identity
- Aserto - Cloud-native authorization for applications and APIs.
Jun 16, 2023
Automation
- n8n - Free and source-available fair-code licensed workflow automation tool.
- Trigger.dev - Open-source platform to create workflows from APIs, on a schedule or on demand.
Jun 13, 2023
Feature Flags
- Unleash - Open-source, privacy-first, and enterprise-ready feature management solution.
Testing
- Ddosify - Distributed Performance Testing Platform.
Jun 07, 2023
Authentication & Identity
- Corbado - Passkey-first authentication as a service.
Jun 05, 2023
Messaging
- Ably - Pub/sub, real-time messaging, notifications, chat, multiplayer and data synchronization.
May 30, 2023
Integrations
- Vessel - Developer-first, native integration platform for GTM tools.
Payments & Pricing
- Increase - Bare-metal banking APIs.
May 10, 2023
GEO
- PlaceKit - Locations search API.
Messaging
- MagicBell - Real-time notification system with API & UI components.
May 09, 2023
Misc
- Plain - API-first customer service platform (support, feedback, rating widgets...).
Apr 28, 2023
- Imitate Email - End-to-end email testing tool.
Apr 18, 2023
Authentication & Identity
- Clerk - Authentication and user management platform for React, React Native, and Next.js.
Apr 17, 2023
Analytics
- PostHog - Open-source product analytics platform.
Apr 15, 2023
Search
- Meilisearch - Open-source, fast, and relevant search engine.
Apr 13, 2023
Databases & Spreadsheets
- CrateDB - Distributed open-source SQL database for real-time analytics.
Apr 08, 2023
Security
- Bearer - Static application security testing (SAST) tool for JavaScript and Ruby stacks.
- GitGuardian - Real-time GitHub activity scanner.
- Snyk - Vulnerability scanner for code, dependencies, containers, and infrastructure as code.
- Socket - Detect and block open-source supply chain attacks.
Apr 04, 2023
Authentication & Identity
- Userfront - Simplistic user authentication with pre-built back-office dashboard.
Code Quality
- Sonar - Lint and code quality checks.
Computer Vision
- Clarifai - Set of computer vision APIs.
- Roboflow - Simplified computer vision model creation for developers.
Databases & Spreadsheets
- Upstash - Serverless tailored redis provider.
Deployment Hosting
- Cyclic.sh - Full stack app hosting (including dynamo db and s3).
Documentation
- ReadMe - Personalized and dynamic developer docs.
- Swimm - Docs that are coupled with your code, auto-synced, works with your IDE.
Feature Flags
- Split - Feature flags platform with data analytics.
GEO
- Mapbox - Maps and locations products for devs.
Messaging
- Stream - Feed and chat as a service.
Payments & Pricing
- Stigg - API-first pricing plans.
Repo
- Cloudsmith - Cloud-native private package management.
Scraping
- Crawlbase - Scrape hard-to-scrape websites with proxies.
Search
- Typesense Cloud - Open-source and hosted search as a Service.
Shipping
- EasyPost - Shipping APIs for e-commerce.
Apr 03, 2023
Databases & Spreadsheets
- Neuledge - Abstract ORM with a universal schema language for any database.
Mar 30, 2023
Misc
- Volta - Fast, elegant GitHub desktop and web app.
Mar 28, 2023
CI/CD
- GitLab - Open-source CI and hosted solution with Github-like abilities.
Messaging
- Knock - Notifications as a service.
Mar 24, 2023
Authentication & Identity
- BoxyHQ Enterprise SSO - Open-source API for enterprise SSO and Directory Sync.
- WorkOS - Enterprise SSO and more out-of-the-box enterprise features.
Deployment Hosting
- Koyeb - Serverless platform for deploying full-stack apps and APIs in minutes.
Mar 13, 2023
Documentation
- Bump.sh - API documentation and change management solution.
Feb 23, 2023
CMS (headless)
- Strapi - Open-source headless CMS, 100% JavaScript.
Feb 21, 2023
Authentication & Identity
- Ory - Open-source identity & access-control solutions (also available as a service).
Feb 10, 2023
Databases & Spreadsheets
- Apitable - API-oritented Airtable alternative.
Feb 05, 2023
Debugging
- Linear - Issue tracking built for developers.
Jan 31, 2023
Analytics
- Plausible - Simple, privacy-friendly, and open-source web analytics tool.
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, fast analytics tool.
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
- Adaptable - Deploy apps and DBs via common templates.
- Qoddi - Git connected app hosting platform.
Aug 02, 2022
Misc
- Interval - SDK to build internal tools and scripts for your product.
Jul 04, 2022
Reports Generation
May 05, 2022
Orchestration
- 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 - NextJS-based, AI-powered platform for documentation sites.
Apr 11, 2022
Reports Generation
- PDFBlade - HTML to PDF API usage-based pricing.
Mar 31, 2022
Infrastructure as Code
- Pulumi - Developer-first IaC with Python, TypeScript, Go and more languages...
- Terraform - DSL, open-source, and free (paid solution adds team management, policy-as-code...).
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.
Feb 13, 2022
Authentication & Identity
- SuperTokens - Open-source 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
- Flagsmith - Feature flags-as-a-service platform simplified.
- LaunchDarkly - Feature flags-as-a-service platform.
Dec 28, 2021
Misc
- Nylas - APIs for productivity workflows (email, calendar, contacts...) - like plaid for productivity.
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 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 with secret management.
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.
Documentation
- DeveloperHub - Collaborative developer documentation platform.
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.
- Vault - API-driven secret key management.
Jun 04, 2021
GEO
- SmartyStreets - US Reverse Geocoding and Address Verification APIs.
Jun 03, 2021
Payments & Pricing
- Paddle - Revenue delivery platform for SaaS with broad geographical support (unlike Stripe at the moment).
May 01, 2021
- Anymail finder - Verify and find email APIs.
- Hunter.io - Email lead and validation APIs.
Apr 17, 2021
Testing
- Blackfire.io - Performance testing.
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
- Digital Ocean App Platform - Deploy and don't care about infrastructure, works with all major frameworks.
- Platform.sh - Continuously deploy full-stack apps.
- 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.
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).
- FormSpree - Receive form submissions by email.
- Mailgun - Send, track, and receive emails.
Media
- Cloudinary - Optimize, create, manage, and deliver images and videos.
- Mux - APIs to upload, manage, and stream video.
Messaging
- Applozic - Chat SDKs, real-time messaging.
- Twilio - SMS, push notifications, and VoIP APIs.
- Vonage - Video, SMS, chat, and voice APIs.
Misc
- Actyx - Developer-first factory building.
Monitoring
- KeenIO - Event streaming platform.
- LogRocket - Replay bugs users had.
- Sentry - Application monitoring for bugs and performance.
Natural Language Processing
- DialogFlow - Voice/text chatbot framework by Google.
Payments & Pricing
- Braintree - Paypal's take on API-first payments.
- Plaid - Accept, send ACH (bank transfers), and get bank information.
Scraping
- ScrapingBee - Using headless browsers and proxies to scrape without being blocked.
Dec 19, 2020
Computer Vision
- 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
- Heap - Product analytics API for web and mobile, captures all events.
- Mixpanel - Product analytics and dashboards.
Authentication & Identity
- Auth0 - Authentication & authorization as a service.
- LoginRadius - Managed user authentication service with SSO.
- Okta - Embeddable authentication with SSO.
Code Quality
- Codacy - Automatic code quality checks.
Deployment Hosting
- Heroku - Deploy via CLI to scalable servers.
- Netlify - Deploy JAMStack (mainly Gatsby) via CLI.
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)
Testing
- Chromatic - Visual UI testing for storybook.
- Testim - Frontend testing.
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.
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 & Pricing
- Stripe Payments - Accept payments and move money globally with APIs.