whatdevsneed - Curated Developer Tools

Hoppscotch

Open source API development ecosystem.

Free (?)

AI Code Commenter by Quod AI

Generate comments for your code using AI. Supported are: JavaScript, Python, Java, TypeScript and Ruby. Works on any code snippets and functions.

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Free (?)

HTTP Toolkit

Beautiful & open-source tools to debug, test and develop with HTTP(S).

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Freemium (?)

fabform.io

Fabform.io is an intelligent forms backend for handling HTML forms on static websites. Collect form submissions, reduce form spam, send form to email notifications.

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Freemium (?)

UITest.com

A web-based check to facilitate testing a website in more than 80 other tools.

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Free (?)

lobe.ai STAFF PICK

Build and train your own AI and export it to all kinds of Frameworks like TensorFlow, CoreML, or ONNX.

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termius STAFF PICK

Connect to your server with SSH on mobile and desktop. Your credentials are securely synced between devices.

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Freemium (?)

VirusTotal

Analyse suspicious files, domains, IPs and URLs to detect malware and other breaches. Use VirusTotal's APIs for more use cases.

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Freemium (?)

TheseMetrics

Simpler analytics for your website - easy to implement and without cookies.

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Freemium (?)

Linear STAFF PICK

Linear is an easy to use but also very functional issue tracker. It allows you to collaborate on issues, make roadmaps, and set goals.

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Freemium (?)

Web Formatter

Format your HTML, CSS, XML, PHP, and JSON files to comply with popular formats.

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Nova

A beautiful and powerful IDE from Panic.

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Paid (?)

Panelbear STAFF PICK

Cookie-less and GDPR-compliant website analytics service.

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Freemium (?)

Zink STAFF PICK

Accept micro-donations (from $0.05) from your website.

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Free (?)

diagrams.net

Plan out your next project with the help of diagrams.net. It's open source and you can decide where to store your data.

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DevBox

65+ small developer tools, 20+ cheat-sheets, 65+ code snippets, works offline and respects your data.

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Freemium (?)

KalendMe

An alternative to Calendly, with an API built for developers. Launch your tool using your own scheduling without having to build it.

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Freemium (?)

GenDocu

gRPC API Documentation with live code examples

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Freemium (?)

calmcode STAFF PICK

Learn how to use open source software, packages and advanced Python without distractions.

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Constructor

Constructor is a new lightweight and flexible tracking tool for small teams with basic needs. You can get your team up and running very quickly.

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Freemium (?)

Hero Patterns STAFF PICK

Find and generate a great background pattern for your website.

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Hyper STAFF PICK

Hyper is the extendable terminal of the future. It's built to be reliable yet minimalistic.

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deepsource

Automate your code reviews and write cleaner code. Free for personal use.

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Freemium (?)

uiGradients

Quickly find good-looking color gradients and copy the required HEX codes.

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Free (?)

PopSQL

A modern and collaborative SQL Editor.

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Freemium (?)

mjml

Build responsive emails with this open source framework.

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Resumey.Pro

Markdown-based resume designing tool, with beautiful templates that help you stand out without any effort.

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Paid (?)

Doppler

Use Doppler to keep your secrets and app configurations in sync across devices, environments, and team members.

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Freemium (?)

Notion is an application that provides components such as notes, databases, kanban boards, wikis, calendars and reminders. Users can connect these components to create their own systems for knowledge.

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Freemium (?)

Learning

Encode STAFF PICK

Learn to code in Python, JavaScript, Swift, and more with this iOS/Android app.

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Freemium (?)

Legal

HelloConsent

Easy to use cookie consent for your website to comply with GDPR.

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Paid (?)

Testing

Karate

Karate is the only open-source tool to combine API test-automation, mocks, performance-testing and even UI automation into a single, unified framework.

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Free (?)

APIs

Treblle

Treblle makes it super easy to understand what’s going on with your APIs in every stage of the API life cycle, from development to post-production.

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Freemium (?)

Design

Codepng

Codepng allows you to create awesome snapshots from your source code that you can share on social media. Choose between beautiful hand-selected background gradients and editor themes before exporting.

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Free (?)

Monitoring

Instatus STAFF PICK

Create your own customized status page for free with all kinds of integrations. Only pay extra for a custom domain.

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Freemium (?)

Testing

Emtrey

Emtrey automates visual testing for web applications. Every time you push a change to a web app, Emtrey checks it for any impact that change might have had visually.

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Free (?)

APIs

HTTPdump

HTTP Dump gives you a unique URL to dump your data and shows it in a human-friendly way.

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Free (?)

Libraries

LibHunt STAFF PICK

Find open source alternatives to open source software and libraries.

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Free (?)

Analytics

PostHog

A suite of product and data tools built on the modern data stack. Understand your users & build a better product. Open source product analytics, built for developers.

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Freemium (?)

APIs

Apideck

Integrate APIs 100x faster. Simplify integration development by using our standardized APIs aggregating the most popular software categories.

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Freemium (?)

Extensions

Postcode

An alternative to Postman, but as a VS Code extension.

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Free (?)

IDEs

Glitch

Write code in your browser and instantly test it out. Upgrade for always-on servers.

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Freemium (?)

Software

Working Copy

A powerful mobile git client, packed to the rim with features.

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Freemium (?)

Hosting

Digger.dev

Infrastructure in one click - Digger.dev makes AWS simple. It automatically generates infrastructure for your code in your AWS account. So you can focus 100% on your product, not infra.

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Freemium (?)

Extensions

Ponicode

Create, visualize, and modify unit tests easily with their VS Code extension.

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Freemium (?)

Design

Type Anything

Find great font combinations for your next project.

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Free (?)

Monitoring

updown.io STAFF PICK

Simple & inexpensive website monitoring with REST API, Webhooks, SSL testing, integrations, and hosted status pages. Pay as you go.

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Paid (?)

Performance

PageSpeed Compare

Compare performance metrics of your pages against each other or your competitors using Google PageSpeed Insights.

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Free (?)

APIs

api.audio

Build Audio Experiences With Code. Api.audio is an audio creation environment - by developers for developers.

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Freemium (?)

Monitoring

Checkly

Monitor the uptime and performance of your APIs and services.

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Freemium (?)

Learning

web.dev

A website made by Google to improve your Web Development skills. You can also test your website for speed and SEO.

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Free (?)

Testing

httpstatus.io

httpstatus.io is a popular HTTP status checker, redirect checker and header checker. You can use this tool to easily check HTTP status codes, status messages, response headers, and redirect chains.

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Free (?)

APIs

Mocklets

Mocklets is a HTTP-based mock API simulator, which helps simulate APIs for faster parallel development and more comprehensive testing.

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Freemium (?)

Documentation

GitBook STAFF PICK

Easily create your own knowledge base/wiki for your software with GitBook. Custom domains and Git Sync included.

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Freemium (?)

Design

Mesh•y

Generate custom mesh gradients and download them as a PNG.

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Free (?)

APIs

Student Status

Verify students in seconds with the help of AI.

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Paid (?)

Hosting

pageclip

A server for your HTML forms. Now you don't need to code a backend only for a form.

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Freemium (?)

Productivity

Build with Flexbox

Flexbox is a layout system optimized for building user interfaces. Use this interactive reference tool to recall flexbox properties and experiment with layouts.

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Free (?)

Other

Tally

A good Typeform alternative with a lot of great free features and a simple to use editor.

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Freemium (?)

Domains

handshake

An experimental peer-to-peer root naming system. Domains, but decentralized.

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Free (?)

APIs

pREST

PostgreSQL REST, low-code, simplify and accelerate development, instant, realtime, high-performance on any Postgres application, existing or new.

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Free (?)

APIs

Push STAFF PICK

Quickly send push notifications to your iOS or Android device with one simple API call.

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Freemium (?)

Security

FriendlyCaptcha STAFF PICK

A good alternative to Google Captchas. GDPR-compliant and simple to integrate.

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Freemium (?)

Databases

SQLime STAFF PICK

A super simple but functional SQL playground website.

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Free (?)

Extensions

SEO Peek

A Chrome extension to get a quick peek into on-page SEO factors of a web page you've visited in just one click.

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Free (?)

Hosting

tiiny.host

Share your web project superfast.

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Freemium (?)

Legal

GetTerms

Easily generate terms, privacy & cookie policies.

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Freemium (?)

Hosting

Porter

Heroku, but in your own cloud. Host easily on AWS/GCP/DO and more.

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Freemium (?)

Hosting

Scaleway STAFF PICK

Scaleway helps developers and businesses to build, deploy and scale applications to any infrastructure. Located in Paris, Amsterdam and Warsaw, Scaleway is used by 25,000+ businesses.

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Performance

SpeedVitals

SpeedVitals is a website performance testing tool for improving Core Web Vitals.

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Freemium (?)

Communication

Cusdis

A lightweight, open source, and privacy oriented comments system for your website.

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Freemium (?)

Software

Cyberduck

A free file transfer client for macOS and Windows. Comes with a command line interface (CLI) for Linux, macOS and Windows.

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Free (?)

Security

aliceandbob.io

Generate PGP key pairs and easily encrypt/decrypt messages online and on your desktop.

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Free (?)

Design

Figside

Ship websites right from Figma.

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Freemium (?)

Productivity

Codiga

Codiga is a Coding Assistant and Code Analysis/Automated Code Reviews platform. Boost your productivity by creating and sharing code snippets with your team and getting your code reviewed in seconds.

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Freemium (?)

Design

Spline

Make 3D experiences and embed them into your website with ease.

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Free (?)

Monitoring

Lightrun

Debug applications in production with the ease and security of local debugging. Integrates seamlessly into your IDE.

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Freemium (?)

Hosting

fly.io

Deploy your app close to your users from the console.

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Freemium (?)

Documentation

changes.page

Share product updates, important news and more using a public changes page. Unlimited posts, custom domain, integrations and everything you need for just $2/month.

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Paid (?)

Productivity

MuteDeck

Take control of your meetings with MuteDeck

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Paid (?)

APIs

Temp API

Test your applications by generating a temporary REST API that matches yours.

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Free (?)

Continuous Integrations

Krane

The best way to run self-hosted container infrastructure.

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Free (?)

Design

Haikei

Haikei is a web-based design tool to generate unique SVG design assets.

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Freemium (?)

Logging

Loggram

Simple and secure cloud logging based on Telegram

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Free (?)

Design

Gridbox.io

One-page website & landing page builder with HTML export

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Freemium (?)

IDEs

repl.it

Free, collaborative, in-browser IDE to code in 50+ languages — without spending a second on setup.

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Freemium (?)

Productivity

TMetric

Time tracking and productivity app to monitor activity and capture screenshots, manage tasks, projects, and teams, take care of payroll, billing, and invoicing.

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Freemium (?)

Logging

Logflare

An easy to integrate logging app. You can also get alerts when something goes wrong.

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Freemium (?)

APIs

Badgen

A faster replacement for shields.io. Generate badges for your READMEs and more.

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Blogging

hashnode

Create your own developer blog and newsletter for free without annoying ads or popups.

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Free (?)

Security

Dotenv

Sync your .env files, quickly & securely. Stop sharing them over insecure channels like Slack and email, and never lose an important .env file again.

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Freemium (?)

Design

Fontless

Self-host Google Fonts for more privacy and speed.

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Free (?)

Analytics

Swetrix

Privacy-focused, cookieless and opensource web analytics service

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Freemium (?)

IDEs

vim-bootstrap

Easy to use configuration generator for Neovim/Vim.

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Free (?)

Automation

FotaHub

Simple Over-The-Air updates for everyone. Especially useful for IoT devices.

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Freemium (?)

Communication

Rocket.Chat

Rocket.Chat is a free, open-source communication platform for teams & communities.

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Freemium (?)

Design

Ray.so

Create beautiful images of your code.

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Free (?)

Productivity

Pluto

Pluto is an Open-source On-device debugger for Android applications, which helps in inspection of HTTP requests/responses, capture Crashes and ANRs and manipulating application data on-the-go.

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Free (?)

Terminals

iTerm2

The successor to iTerm. It works on Macs with macOS 10.14 or newer. iTerm2 brings the terminal into the modern age with features you never knew you always want.

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Free (?)

Productivity

Yerbo

Yerbo is a mental health app for developers, integrating with Slack and monitoring 36 factors to help you prevent burnout. It presents actionable steps to help you feel healthy and engaged.

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Freemium (?)