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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 kind of database.
Mar 30, 2023
Misc
- Volta - Fast, elegant GitHub desktop and web app.
- Zigi - Developer’s assistant for mundane non-coding tasks via Slack.
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, blazingly 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
- Camunda- Platform - Workflow engine that delivers scalable, on-demand process automation.
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
- 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.
Mar 01, 2022
Computer Vision
- Scanbot SDK - Structured data extraction from images for applications.
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 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.
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.