whatdevsneed - Curated Developer Tools

Checkly

Monitor the uptime and performance of your APIs and services.

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Freemium (?)

deepsource

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

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Freemium (?)

mjml

Build responsive emails with this open source framework.

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Free (?)

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 (?)

Hyper STAFF PICK

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

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Free (?)

GenDocu

gRPC API Documentation with live code examples

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Freemium (?)

Doppler

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

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Freemium (?)

SpeedVitals

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

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Freemium (?)

RefiApp

A GUI tool to make interacting with Firestore less painful

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Freemium (?)

Cusdis

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

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Freemium (?)

Fontless

Self-host Google Fonts for more privacy and speed.

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Free (?)

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 (?)

HTTP Toolkit

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

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Freemium (?)

Ray.so

Create beautiful images of your code.

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Free (?)

SQLime STAFF PICK

A super simple but functional SQL playground website.

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Free (?)

PageSpeed Compare

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

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Free (?)

Hoppscotch

Open source API development ecosystem.

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Free (?)

hashnode

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

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Free (?)

Deta STAFF PICK

The free and simple cloud provider to boost your ideas. Deta offers Node.js & Python hosting, a database, and file storage.

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Free (?)

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 (?)

umami

Fast, beautiful, and open source self-hosted website analytics.

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Free (?)

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 (?)

Zink STAFF PICK

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

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Free (?)

Mesh•y

Generate custom mesh gradients and download them as a PNG.

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Free (?)

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 (?)

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 (?)

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 (?)

Apideck

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

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Freemium (?)

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 (?)

repl.it

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

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Freemium (?)

Panelbear STAFF PICK

Cookie-less and GDPR-compliant website analytics service.

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Freemium (?)

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 (?)

surge

Superfast static website publishing through the command line.

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Freemium (?)

Temp API

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

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Free (?)

Logflare

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

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Freemium (?)

tiiny.host

Share your web project superfast.

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Freemium (?)

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 (?)

MuteDeck

Take control of your meetings with MuteDeck

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Paid (?)

Badgen

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

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Free (?)

YunoHost

YunoHost is an operating system aiming for the simplest administration of a server while making sure it stays reliable, secure, and lightweight.

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Free (?)

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 (?)

Haikei

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

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Freemium (?)

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 (?)

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 (?)

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 (?)

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 (?)

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 (?)

GetTerms

Easily generate terms, privacy & cookie policies.

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Freemium (?)

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 (?)

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 (?)

FotaHub

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

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Freemium (?)

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 (?)

vim-bootstrap

Easy to use configuration generator for Neovim/Vim.

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Free (?)

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 (?)

Hero Patterns STAFF PICK

Find and generate a great background pattern for your website.

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Free (?)

calmcode STAFF PICK

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

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Free (?)

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 (?)

Loggram

Simple and secure cloud logging based on Telegram

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Free (?)

aliceandbob.io

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

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Free (?)

PopSQL

A modern and collaborative SQL Editor.

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Freemium (?)

Tally

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

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Freemium (?)

Krane

The best way to run self-hosted container infrastructure.

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Free (?)

UITest.com

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

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Free (?)

Nova

A beautiful and powerful IDE from Panic.

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Paid (?)

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 (?)

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 (?)

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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Free (?)

Lightrun

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

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Freemium (?)

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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Paid (?)

Gridbox.io

One-page website & landing page builder with HTML export

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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 (?)

Encode STAFF PICK

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

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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 (?)

Design

Type Anything

Find great font combinations for your next project.

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Free (?)

APIs

API Tracker

The world's largest API search engine, tracking 15,000+ APIs.

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Free (?)

Design

Color Review

Test, tweak, and explore accessible colors visually for your app or website.

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Free (?)

Other

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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Free (?)

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 (?)

Documentation

Archbee

A lightweight tool to create your team/product docs effortlessly.

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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 (?)

Productivity

DevBox

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

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Freemium (?)

APIs

Student Status

Verify students in seconds with the help of AI.

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Hosting

fly.io

Deploy your app close to your users from the console.

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Freemium (?)

Design

Spline

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

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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 (?)

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 (?)

Design

Resumey.Pro

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

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Paid (?)

Productivity

Standard Notes STAFF PICK

Encrypted, privacy focused, and open source notes app. Sync to all kinds of operating systems.

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Freemium (?)

Domains

handshake

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

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Free (?)

Legal

HelloConsent

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

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Paid (?)

Other

Meta Tags

Generate and test your website's meta tags and social images.

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Free (?)

Software

Polypane

The browser for developers. Test how your website looks and works, including accessibility testing.

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Freemium (?)

Documentation

Logseq

Take notes, track your knowledge or your progress. Every note is connected. Your data is synced to a GitHub Repo.

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Free (?)

Communication

Rocket.Chat

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

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Freemium (?)

Design

uiGradients

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

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Free (?)

Design

Figside

Ship websites right from Figma.

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Freemium (?)

Extensions

Postcode

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

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Free (?)

Security

FriendlyCaptcha STAFF PICK

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

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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 (?)

Analytics

TheseMetrics

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

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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 (?)

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 (?)