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Apr 01 - Apr 07, 2024
Orchestration
- Abstra - Python-based workflow engine for custom business processes.
Mar 04 - Mar 10, 2024
Integrations
- YepCode - Build and run serverless functions with the best development experience.
Feb 26 - Mar 03, 2024
Testing
- Apidog - GUI tool for API mocking, testing (scenario testing, functional testing, performance testing, etc.).
Feb 19 - Feb 25, 2024
Media
- Flatfile - Programmatically import data from files so it's API-ready.
Feb 12 - Feb 18, 2024
Integrations
- Panora - Easy, flexible API to add customer-facing integrations to your SaaS product.
Feb 05 - Feb 11, 2024
Misc
- Defer - Serverless Node.js background jobs.
Monitoring
- Highlight.io - Full-stack monitoring platform.
Jan 29 - Feb 04, 2024
- Loops - REST API to manage contact properties, send events and transactional emails.
Testing
- Octomind - Auto-generated, run and maintained Playwright UI tests with AI-assisted test case discovery.
Jan 22 - Jan 28, 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 - Jan 14, 2024
IDE
- Fine - Build Software with AI Agents.
Dec 04 - Dec 10, 2023
Scraping
- browserless - Browser automation deployed to the could.
Nov 13 - Nov 19, 2023
Payments & Pricing
- OpenMeter - Open-source usage metering for billing and chargeback.
Oct 16 - Oct 22, 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 09 - Oct 15, 2023
Deployment Hosting
- DeployBot - REST API to trigger deployments from GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket.
Monitoring
- Airbrake - Error monitoring in production.
Sep 18 - Sep 24, 2023
Integrations
- Revert - Open-source unified API to build B2B product integrations.
Media
- Dyte - Build powerful live experiences in your product with an all-in-one Video SDK.
Natural Language Processing
- CometLLM (⭐421) - UI to log, visualize, and search prompts, prompt templates, prompt variables, and chains.
Sep 04 - Sep 10, 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 28 - Sep 03, 2023
GEO
- OpenCage - Forward and reverse geocoding API based on open data.
Monitoring
- Better Stack - Uptime monitoring, incident management, and status pages.
Aug 14 - Aug 20, 2023
Reports Generation
- Image-Charts - Chart as Image API for reports, PDFs and more.
Aug 07 - Aug 13, 2023
Scraping
- SearchApi - Real-time Google SERP API.
Jul 24 - Jul 30, 2023
Deployment Hosting
- Zeabur - One click deployment for frontend, backend and databases services.
Jul 17 - Jul 23, 2023
- Resend - Email API to build, test, and deliver transactional emails.
Security
- Infisical - Open-source, end-to-end encrypted secrets manager.
Jul 10 - Jul 16, 2023
Analytics
- Tinybird - Real-time data streams to APIs.
Messaging
- Novu - Open-source notification (Email, SMS, Direct, and Push) management.
Jun 26 - Jul 02, 2023
Authentication & Identity
- Aserto - Cloud-native authorization for applications and APIs.
Payments & Pricing
- LemonSqueezy - SaaS payments - covers more countries and takes care of VAT Tax.
Jun 12 - Jun 18, 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.
Feature Flags
- Unleash - Open-source, privacy-first, and enterprise-ready feature management solution.
Testing
- Ddosify - Distributed Performance Testing Platform.
Jun 05 - Jun 11, 2023
Authentication & Identity
- Corbado - Passkey-first authentication as a service.
Messaging
- Ably - Pub/sub, real-time messaging, notifications, chat, multiplayer and data synchronization.
May 29 - Jun 04, 2023
Integrations
- Vessel - Developer-first, native integration platform for GTM tools.
Payments & Pricing
- Increase - Bare-metal banking APIs.
May 08 - May 14, 2023
GEO
- PlaceKit - Locations search API.
Messaging
- MagicBell - Real-time notification system with API & UI components.
Misc
- Plain - API-first customer service platform (support, feedback, rating widgets...).
Apr 24 - Apr 30, 2023
- Imitate Email - End-to-end email testing tool.
Apr 17 - Apr 23, 2023
Analytics
- PostHog - Open-source product analytics platform.
Authentication & Identity
- Clerk - Authentication and user management platform for React, React Native, and Next.js.
Apr 10 - Apr 16, 2023
Databases & Spreadsheets
- CrateDB - Distributed open-source SQL database for real-time analytics.
Search
- Meilisearch - Open-source, fast and relevant search engine.
Apr 03 - Apr 09, 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
- Neuledge - Abstract ORM with a universal schema language for any kind of database.
- 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.
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.
Shipping
- EasyPost - Shipping APIs for e-commerce.
Mar 27 - Apr 02, 2023
CI/CD
- GitLab - Open-source CI and hosted solution with Github-like abilities.
Messaging
- Knock - Notifications as a service.
Misc
- Volta - Fast, elegant GitHub desktop and web app.
Mar 20 - Mar 26, 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 - Mar 19, 2023
Documentation
- Bump.sh - API documentation and change management solution.
Feb 20 - Feb 26, 2023
Authentication & Identity
- Ory - Open-source identity & access-control solutions (also available as a service).
CMS (headless)
- Strapi - Open-source headless CMS, 100% JavaScript.
Feb 06 - Feb 12, 2023
Databases & Spreadsheets
- Apitable - API-oritented Airtable alternative.
Jan 30 - Feb 05, 2023
Analytics
- Plausible - Simple, privacy-friendly, and open-source web analytics tool.
Debugging
- Linear - Issue tracking built for developers.
Jan 02 - Jan 08, 2023
CI/CD
- Depot - Drop-in replacement to build Docker images faster in CI.
Nov 21 - Nov 27, 2022
Analytics
- PoeticMetric - Privacy-first, regulation-compliant, blazingly fast analytics tool.
Nov 07 - Nov 13, 2022
CI/CD
- Spacelift - CI/CD platform for infrastructure-as-code, currently supporting Terraform, Pulumi, AWS CloudFormation, and Kubernetes.
Oct 24 - Oct 30, 2022
Feature Flags
- GrowthBook - Open-source feature flag and experimentation platform.
Oct 17 - Oct 23, 2022
Deployment Hosting
- Adaptable - Deploy apps and DBs via common templates.
- Qoddi - Git connected app hosting platform.
Aug 01 - Aug 07, 2022
Misc
- Interval - SDK to build internal tools and scripts for your product.
Jul 04 - Jul 10, 2022
Reports Generation
May 02 - May 08, 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 25 - May 01, 2022
CMS (headless)
- Sanity - Headless CMS, treat content as data.
Apr 18 - Apr 24, 2022
Documentation
- Mintlify - AI powered code documentation, IDE extension (open source).
Apr 11 - Apr 17, 2022
Reports Generation
- PDFBlade - HTML to PDF API usage based pricing.
Mar 28 - Apr 03, 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 14 - Mar 20, 2022
Localization
- Tolgee - Developer & translator friendly web-based localization platform.
Feb 28 - Mar 06, 2022
Authentication & Identity
- FusionAuth - Security-centric authentication as a Service, including self-hosting.
Feb 07 - Feb 13, 2022
Authentication & Identity
- SuperTokens - Open-source and hosted email & Oauth authentication with prebuilt UI.
Jan 24 - Jan 30, 2022
CI/CD
- Gitpod - Automated cloud dev environments.
Jan 17 - Jan 23, 2022
Authentication & Identity
- Permit.io - Permissions and access-control as a service.
Jan 10 - Jan 16, 2022
Integrations
- Apideck - Integration marketplace builder, one-API with 3rd parties for quick development.
Jan 03 - Jan 09, 2022
Feature Flags
- Flagsmith - Feature flags-as-a-service platform simplified.
- LaunchDarkly - Feature flags-as-a-service platform.
Dec 27 - Jan 02, 2021
Misc
- Nylas - APIs for productivity workflows (email, calendar, contacts...) - like plaid for productivity.
Dec 13 - Dec 19, 2021
Misc
- ngrok - Generate public URLs for internal servers (behind NAT/firewall).
Testing
- Loadmill - Generate tests from user behavior.
Nov 29 - Dec 05, 2021
Databases & Spreadsheets
- PlanetScale - Hosted managed MySQL database, CI integration & auto scaling.
Nov 15 - Nov 21, 2021
Deployment Hosting
- Railway - Out-of-the-box git to deployment with auto scaling, DBs, secrets and rollbacks.
Nov 08 - Nov 14, 2021
Reports Generation
- Export SDK - PDF generator API with visual template editor.
Oct 04 - Oct 10, 2021
Deployment Hosting
- Fly.io - Deploy dockerized full stack apps via a location-aware service (latency reduction).
Sep 27 - Oct 03, 2021
Authentication & Identity
- Hanko - Passwordless (WebAuthn API) PSD2, eIDAS, and GDPR compliant.
Media
- APITemplate.io - APIs to generate images and PDFs from reusable templates.
Reports Generation
- Carbone - JSON into PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, ODS... API.
Sep 20 - Sep 26, 2021
Analytics
- Pirsch - Privacy-friendly web analytics with a backend integration and API.
Authentication & Identity
- Oso - Authorization framework (RBAC).
Environment & Secret Management
- Ubiq - Encryption APIs wiht secret management.
Media
- Pintura - A fully configurable JavaScript image editor SDK.
Sep 06 - Sep 12, 2021
Backend-as-a-Service
- Supabase - Hosted and open source managed Postgres DB like Firebase.
Aug 02 - Aug 08, 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.
Scraping
- SerpApi - Real-time search engine scraping API.
May 31 - 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.
GEO
- SmartyStreets - US Reverse Geocoding and Address Verification APIs.
Payments & Pricing
- Paddle - Revenue delivery platform for SaaS with broad geographical support (unlike stripe at the moment).
Apr 26 - May 02, 2021
- Anymail finder - Verify and find email APIs.
- Hunter.io - Email lead and validation APIs.
Apr 12 - Apr 18, 2021
Testing
- Blackfire.io - Performance testing.
Dec 21 - Dec 27, 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.
Computer Vision
- CloudSight - Digital media brand recognition.
- Google Vision AI - Google's AI vision APIs.
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
- Apify - Turn websites to an API.
- ScrapingANT - Scrape with headless chrome.
- ScrapingBee - Using headless browsers and proxies to scrape without being blocked.
Testing
- Beeceptor - REST API mocking.
Dec 14 - Dec 20, 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.
Dec 07 - Dec 13, 2020
CMS (headless)
Testing
- Chromatic - Visual UI testing for storybook.
- Testim - Frontend testing.
Oct 05 - Oct 11, 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 28 - Oct 04, 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.