A curated list of awesome developer-first products.
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The definition of developer-first for this repo is:
- Developers are the target audience.
- "Headless", "API-first", "SaaS" are frequently used keywords.
- Usually, this means that the front page has some code examples.
- Products - tools/services that people pay for.
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- AI Coding
- Analytics
- Authentication & Identity
- Automation
- Backend-as-a-Service
- CI/CD
- CMS (headless)
- Code Quality
- Computer Vision
- Databases & Spreadsheets
- Debugging
- Deployment Hosting
- Discussions
- Documentation
- Environment & Secret Management
- Feature Flags
- Gen UI
- GEO
- IDE
- Infrastructure as Code
- Integrations
- Localization
- Media
- Messaging
- Misc
- Monitoring
- Natural Language Processing
- Orchestration
- Payments & Pricing
- Repo
- Reports Generation
- Scraping
- Search
- Security
- Shipping
- Testing
AI IDEs and AI Assistants.
- Aider - Open-source terminal AI assistant.
- Amazon Q - Amazon’s AI assistant.
- Cline - Open-source VS Code plugin for Claude as a coding assistant.
- CodeParrot - Frontend component AI assistant for VS Code.
- CodeSquire - Browser extension for AI generation in Jupyter/BigQuery etc.
- Cody - Sourcegraph’s coding assistant.
- Continue - AI coding assistant for VS Code and JetBrains.
- Cursor - A VS Code fork built from the ground up with AI.
- Fine - Build Software with AI Agents.
- GitHub Copilot - The “OG” AI IDE everyone heard about. Still kind of feels behind, but does integrate nicely with GitHub.
- IntelliCode - Visual Studio’s AI offering from Microsoft.
- JetBrains AI - JetBrains’s AI offering integrated into most of their IDEs.
- Kilo Code - Fast, open-source AI coding agent for VS Code and JetBrains.
- Mastra - Build AI agents with a modern TypeScript stack.
- OpenHands - an open-source Devin alternative.
- Qodo - Focusing on confident code generation (focused on testing well).
- Replit AI - Replit’s code IDE using AI (has also a free limited plan).
- Supermaven - Heard really good things, especially around speed and context length.
- Tabby - Self-hosted open-source coding assistant.
- Tabnine - One of the OG players in the AI code assistant space.
- Warp - Fully integrated AI in your terminal.
Track web/app visitors.
- Baremetrics - Subscription analytics for Stripe.
- devActivity - Contributions analytics with AI Insights, Performance Review, Retrospectives and Gamifications.
- Heap - Product analytics API for web and mobile, captures all events.
- Mixpanel - Product analytics and dashboards.
- Pirsch - Privacy-friendly web analytics with a backend integration and API.
- Plausible - Simple, privacy-friendly, and open-source web analytics tool.
- PoeticMetric - Privacy-first, regulation-compliant, fast analytics tool.
- PostHog - Open-source product analytics platform.
- Segment - Collect user data and send it to your other tools.
- Tinybird - Real-time data streams to APIs.
- Zoho Apptics - Unified, simplified, and actionable product analytics.
Products that handle authentication and user identity for you.
- Aserto - Cloud-native authorization for applications and APIs.
- Auth0 - Authentication & authorization as a service.
- AWS Cognito - AWS's authentication as a service.
- BoxyHQ Enterprise SSO - Open-source API for enterprise SSO and Directory Sync.
- Clerk - Authentication and user management platform for React, React Native, and Next.js.
- Corbado - Passkey-first authentication as a service.
- Firebase Auth - Google Firebase's take on authentication.
- FusionAuth - Security-centric authentication as a Service, including self-hosting.
- Hanko - Passwordless (WebAuthn API) PSD2, eIDAS, and GDPR compliant.
- Kinde - Authentification and user management as a service.
- LoginRadius - Managed user authentication service with SSO.
- MojoAuth - Complete CIAM solution with Enterprise SSO and extensive out-of-the-box enterprise features.
- Okta - Embeddable authentication with SSO.
- Ory - Open-source identity & access-control solutions (also available as a service).
- Oso - Authorization framework (RBAC).
- Permit.io - Permissions and access-control as a service.
- PropelAuth - Team-based authentication.
- Scalekit - Add enterprise SSO (SAML, OIDC), SCIM provisioning to your existing auth setup like Firebase, Auth0, or Cognito without rewrites.
- SSOJet - Enterprise SSO without rebuilding auth. The free plan includes unlimited monthly active users, unlimited organizations, 2 SSO & 2 SCIM connections.
- Stack Auth - Open-source Auth0 alternative.
- Stytch - All-in-one authentication, authorization, and fraud prevention infrastructure.
- SuperTokens - Open-source and hosted email & Oauth authentication with prebuilt UI.
- Unkey - Authentication, rate limiting and usage analytics for APIs.
- Userfront - Simplistic user authentication with pre-built back-office dashboard.
- WorkOS - Enterprise SSO and more out-of-the-box enterprise features.
Automate workflows via APIs and SDKs.
- Abstra - Python-based workflow engine for custom business processes.
- 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.
- n8n - Free and source-available fair-code licensed workflow automation tool.
- 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.
- Trigger.dev - Open-source platform to create workflows from APIs, on a schedule or on demand.
Abstract away all the backend hassles with an out-of-the-box suite of backend solutions.
- Appwrite - End-to-end backend server for frontend and mobile developers.
- Encore - Open-source TypeScript backend framework for robust type-safe applications.
- Jamsocket - Backends for real-time apps.
- Nhost - Open-source backend with a Postgres database, instant GraphQL API, authentication, storage, and serverless functions.
- Supabase - Hosted and open-source managed Postgres DB like Firebase.
Continuous Integration/Delivery.
- CircleCI - YML to configure your builds, parallel jobs, jobs marketplace.
- Depot - Drop-in replacement to build Docker images faster in CI.
- GitLab - Open-source CI and hosted solution with Github-like abilities.
- Ona - Automated cloud dev environments.
- RunMyJob - Cloud runners for GitHub Actions and GitLab CI.
- Spacelift - CI/CD platform for infrastructure-as-code, currently supporting Terraform, Pulumi, AWS CloudFormation, and Kubernetes.
Backend only Content Management System, you decide on frontend and consume content via API.
- Contentful - CMS as an API.
- DatoCMS - API-based CMS.
- Ghost - Blog platform, can be used as headless CMS (ex. with Hexo).
- Sanity - Headless CMS, treat content as data.
- Strapi - Open-source headless CMS, 100% JavaScript.
Check your code quality.
- Codacy - Automatic code quality checks.
- CodeRabbit AI - AI-powered code review and automated pull request management.
- DebuggAI - Zero-config AI browser (E2E) tests that review every commit & pull request (PR).
- Ellipsis - AI code reviews and bug fixes.
- Kodus - Open-source code review agent.
- Sonar - Lint and code quality checks.
Manipulate and detect visual data.
- Clarifai - Set of computer vision APIs.
- CloudSight - Digital media brand recognition.
- Google Vision AI - Google's AI vision APIs.
- Roboflow - Simplified computer vision model creation for developers.
Storing data and processing it.
- Airtable - Database and spreadsheet hybrid with an API.
- Apitable - API-oritented Airtable alternative.
- CrateDB - Distributed open-source SQL database for real-time analytics.
- Neon - Serverless Postgres database with scale-to-zero, branching, autoscaling.
- Neuledge - Abstract ORM with a universal schema language for any database.
- Outerbase - AI-powered database UI.
- PlanetScale - Hosted managed MySQL database, CI integration & auto scaling.
- Prisma Postgres - Managed Postgres with a free plan (1.01 GB, 200k operations/month, 50 databases) and paid plans from $10/month.
- Upstash - Serverless tailored redis provider.
Tools that help in tracking bugs.
- Lightrun - Debug production servers using a plugin in the IDE (on-prem or SaaS) that supports Java, Node.js, and Python.
- Linear - Issue tracking built for developers.
- Multiplayer - Debugging agent that runs locally next to your favorite coding agents (open source or SaaS), feeding them full-stack, unsampled runtime data to catch and fix bugs automatically.
- Rookout - Debug production servers via a cloud-based debugger. Supporting Java, .Net, Node.js, Python, and Ruby.
Products that help you deploy your app/website.
- Adaptable - Deploy apps and DBs via common templates.
- Beam - Serverless cloud infrastructure.
- Cycle.io - DevOps platform for building platforms. Handles container orchestration, load-balancing, monitoring, and more.
- Digital Ocean App Platform - Deploy and don't care about infrastructure, works with all major frameworks.
- Fly.io - Deploy dockerized full-stack apps via a location-aware service (latency reduction).
- Heroku - Deploy via CLI to scalable servers.
- Kinsta - Deploy static sites, apps, and databases from GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket and host headless WordPress.
- Koyeb - Serverless platform for deploying full-stack apps and APIs in minutes.
- Netlify - Deploy JAMStack (mainly Gatsby) via CLI.
- Platform.sh - Continuously deploy full-stack apps.
- Propel - Serverless ClickHouse platform.
- Qoddi - Git connected app hosting platform.
- Quix - One tool to build and run event streaming applications.
- Railway - Out-of-the-box git to deployment with auto-scaling, DBs, secrets, and rollbacks.
- Reflex - Python framework to build and deploy web apps (including frontend).
- 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.
- Zeabur - One click deployment for frontend, backend and databases services.
Comments and forums.
- Bazaarvoice - Ratings, reviews as a service.
- Commento - Privacy-centric embeddable comment system.
- Yotpo - Reviews ratings and Q&A as a service.
Documentation solutions.
- Apidog - All-in-one API documentation tool, 1-click to generate API documentation from requests.
- Bump.sh - API documentation and change management solution.
- DeveloperHub - Collaborative developer documentation platform.
- Fern - Instant docs and SDKs for APIs.
- Mintlify - NextJS-based, AI-powered platform for documentation sites.
- ReadMe - Personalized and dynamic developer docs.
- Speakeasy - API tooling for SDKs, API docs, Terraform providers, and end-to-end testing.
- Swimm - Docs that are coupled with your code, auto-synced, works with your IDE.
Manage environment variables and secrets for multiple apps or projects.
- Doppler - Environment variable management across projects, in one place.
- Envkey - Environment management with syncing mechanism for all apps.
- KeyHippo - API Keys for Postgres RLS.
- Ubiq - Encryption APIs with secret management.
- Vault - API-driven secret key management.
Control production features with conditional flags in your code.
- Bucket - Purpose-built feature flagging for B2B SaaS products.
- ConfigCat - Powerful, privacy-first feature flag management with unlimited team size and a forever free plan.
- Flagsmith - Feature flags-as-a-service platform simplified.
- GrowthBook - Open-source feature flag and experimentation platform.
- Hypertune - Type-safe feature flags, optimized for React and Next.js.
- LaunchDarkly - Feature flags-as-a-service platform.
- Split - Feature flags platform with data analytics.
- Statsig - All-in-one platform spanning across analytics, feature flagging, and A/B testing. Free for up to 1m metered events per month.
- Unleash - Open-source, privacy-first, and enterprise-ready feature management solution.
Or Generative UI, Dynamic User Experiences, Adaptive UI.
- AI SDK by Vercel - SDK for creating Gen UI applications.
- Coframe - Automatically optimizes your website’s copy, images, and UI with AI.
- Horizon UI - A shadcn boilerplate with backed in Gen UI AI components.
- Magic Patterns - Prototype product ideas with AI.
- Tempo - Code-first Figma alternative.
- v0 by Vercel - Generate UI from a prompt, all of the UI is streamed and runs as client side components.
Location services.
- AirPinpoint - API for Apple AirTags tracking.
- Mapbox - Maps and locations products for devs.
- OpenCage - Forward and reverse geocoding API based on open data.
- PlaceKit - Locations search API.
- Radar - Geofencing and geo APIs.
- SmartyStreets - US Reverse Geocoding and Address Verification APIs.
Products that extend your IDE and help development.
- GoCodeo - An AI coding & testing agent.
- Kite - AI assistant in your IDE (Python or JS).
- MarsCode - AI-powered cloud-based IDE.
- OneCompiler - A versatile, AI-powered Online IDE supporting over 70+ programming languages, designed for developers to write, compile, and execute code seamlessly.
Declare your infrastructure and reproducibly provision cloud infrastructure from it.
- 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...).
- Terrateam - GitOps-first open-source Infrastructure as Code automation for Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt, CDKTF, and Pulumi.
Integration management systems or products that ease integration development.
- Apideck - Integration marketplace builder, one-API with 3rd parties for quick development.
- Metorial - Connect AI agents to 600+ integrations with a single interface. OAuth, scaling, and monitoring included.
- Nango - Hundreds of pre-built product integrations with 250+ APIs, customizable in code.
- Panora - Easy, flexible API to add customer-facing integrations to your SaaS product.
- Revert - Open-source unified API to build B2B product integrations.
- Sequin - Interface with third-party services using SQL.
- Vessel - Developer-first, native integration platform for GTM tools.
- YepCode - Build and run serverless functions with the best development experience.
Translating your product (also denoted i18n).
- Lingo.dev - AI localization infrastructure.
- Localazy - App translation built for developers.
- Locize - The translation management system created by the creators of i18next. Work with writers in dev/stage env before hitting prod.
- Tolgee - Developer & translator friendly web-based localization platform.
Sending emails as a service.
- Anymail finder - Verify and find email APIs.
- FormSpree - Receive form submissions by email.
- Heybounce - Email verification API.
- Hunter.io - Email lead and validation APIs.
- Imitate Email - End-to-end email testing tool.
- Lob - Email and address verification.
- Loops - REST API to manage contact properties, send events and transactional emails.
- Mailgun - Send, track, and receive emails.
- Mailtrap - Email delivery platform for developers to test emails in a sandbox and send transactional and bulk emails via API and SMTP.
- Resend - Email API to build, test, and deliver transactional emails.
- Sendgrid - Email API.
- Zyntra - Unlimited e-mail inboxes with API/UI access for automation and QA.
Media APIs (optimization, CDN).
- APITemplate.io - APIs to generate images and PDFs from reusable templates.
- Bytescale - File storage and processing APIs.
- Cloudinary - Optimize, create, manage, and deliver images and videos.
- Dyte - Build powerful live experiences in your product with an all-in-one Video SDK.
- Flatfile - Programmatically import data from files so it's API-ready.
- ImageKit - Automate image optimization, transformation, and delivery.
- imgix - Transforms, optimizes, and cache images.
- Mux - APIs to upload, manage, and stream video.
- Pintura - A fully configurable JavaScript image editor SDK.
Messaging APIs - SMS, notifications, chats, and VoIP.
- Ably - Pub/sub, real-time messaging, notifications, chat, multiplayer and data synchronization.
- Applozic - Chat SDKs, real-time messaging.
- Knock - Notifications as a service.
- MagicBell - Real-time notification system with API & UI components.
- Novu - Open-source notification (Email, SMS, Direct, and Push) management.
- Pingram - Messaging APIs for email, SMS, voice, and WhatsApp with managed A2P 10DLC.
- Stream - Feed and chat as a service.
- Twilio - SMS, push notifications, and VoIP APIs.
- Vonage - Video, SMS, chat, and voice APIs.
Different products that probably don't have a category.
- Actyx - Developer-first factory building.
- daily.dev - Personalized developer news feed aggregating from 1000+ tech sources with community discussion.
- Docusign - APIs for eSignature, and Intelligent Agreement Management.
- Fernand - API-first customer support for indie hackers and small SaaS teams.
- Frigade - SDK for shipping an in-product AI assistant that learns your app and takes actions on the user's behalf (open modals, navigate, walk through workflows).
- Interval - SDK to build internal tools and scripts for your product.
- ngrok - Generate public URLs for internal servers (behind NAT/firewall).
- Nylas - APIs for productivity workflows (email, calendar, contacts...) - like plaid for productivity.
- Plain - API-first customer service platform (support, feedback, rating widgets...).
- Propexo - Unified API to integrate with property management systems.
- SignatureAPI - API-first electronic signatures.
- Trophy - APIs for gamified product experiences.
Monitoring your production application.
- Airbrake - Error monitoring in production.
- Anteon - Kubernetes monitoring and performance testing — available on CLI, self-hosted, and cloud.
- Better Stack - Uptime monitoring, incident management, and status pages.
- Future AGI - Open-source self-hostable end-to-end LLMOps platform unifying tracing, evals, simulations, datasets, gateway, and guardrails.
- Helicone AI - LLM observabilty and monitoring for your LLM apps in production.
- Highlight.io - Full-stack monitoring platform.
- Instatus - Uptime monitoring, incident response, and status pages.
- KeenIO - Event streaming platform.
- Laminar - Open-source platform for tracing, evaluating, and labeling LLM products.
- Langfuse - Open-source LLM observability platform that helps teams collaboratively debug, analyze, and iterate on their LLM applications.
- LogRocket - Replay bugs users had.
- Maple - OpenTelemetry-native observability for traces, logs, and metrics with dashboards, alerting, and an MCP server.
- Maxim AI - End-to-end evaluation and observability platform, helping teams ship their AI agents reliably and 5x faster.
- Middleware - Full-stack observability platform with APM, distributed tracing, logs and infra metrics in one place.
- Oh Dear - Uptime, performance, SSL certificate, broken link, and DNS monitoring.
- Opik - Evaluate, test, and ship LLM applications across your dev and production lifecycles.
- Pagerly - Manage Oncalls, Tickets, Incidents in Slack.
- Phare - Uptime monitoring, incident management and status pages. REST API, first-party Terraform support, and plenty of integrations.
- Pinecone - AI infrastructure for building accurate, secure, and scalable AI apps.
- Quivr - Open-source RAG framework to deploy and use AI agents.
- Respan - Full-stack AI engineering platform to trace agent workflows in production, evaluate output quality with custom graders, iterate on prompts without code changes, and route across 250+ models through one gateway. Formerly Keywords AI.
- Rollbar - Reports errors in production.
- Sentry - Application monitoring for bugs and performance.
Interactions with natural language.
- DialogFlow - Voice/text chatbot framework by Google.
Orchestration tools for (micro) services.
- AWS Step Functions - Visual workflow service to build distributed applications and automate processes.
- Camunda - Workflow engine that delivers scalable, on-demand process automation.
Handling payments, credit card processing, and invoices.
- Braintree - Paypal's take on API-first payments.
- Increase - Bare-metal banking APIs.
- LemonSqueezy - SaaS payments - covers more countries and takes care of VAT Tax.
- OpenMeter - Open-source usage metering for billing and chargeback.
- Paddle - Revenue delivery platform for SaaS with broad geographical support (unlike Stripe at the moment).
- Plaid - Accept, send ACH (bank transfers), and get bank information.
- Stigg - API-first pricing plans.
- Stripe Payments - Accept payments and move money globally with APIs.
Repository and artifacts management.
- Artifactory - Create your own package repository.
- Buildstash - Binary artifact and release management for app, game, and embedded software.
- Cloudsmith - Cloud-native private package management.
Generating reports, mainly PDFs.
- Carbone - JSON into PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, ODS... API.
- DocRaptor - HTML to PDF API built specifically for Paged Media using the Prince PDF library.
- Export SDK - PDF generator API with visual template editor.
- Image-Charts - Chart as Image API for reports, PDFs, and more.
- PDFBlade - HTML to PDF API usage-based pricing.
- PDFShift - HTML/Url to PDF conversion API.
Fetching data from websites not via an intended API.
- Apify - Turn websites to an API.
- browserless - Browser automation deployed to the cloud.
- Corsfix - CORS Proxy to fetch any web resource and bypass CORS errors.
- Crawlbase - Scrape hard-to-scrape websites with proxies.
- Geonode - Rotating residential and datacenter proxies with REST API access.
- Proxy Sentinel - A self-managed proxy rotator.
- ScrapingANT - Scrape with headless chrome.
- ScrapingBee - Using headless browsers and proxies to scrape without being blocked.
- SearchApi - Real-time Google SERP API.
- SerpApi - Real-time search engine scraping API.
- WebScrapingHQ - Webscraping API and fully managed service.
- ZenRows - Web scraping API with built-in proxies and rotating IPs to avoid detection.
Index and search your content as a service API.
- Agentset - Open-source production-ready RAG platform with built-in agentic reasoning, hybrid search, and multimodal support.
- Algolia - Search as a service and full suite of search APIs.
- Cognee - AI Memory layer for agents. Knowledge graph + vector search for contextual retrieval and reasoning.
- Meilisearch - Open-source, fast, and relevant search engine.
- Swiftype - Search as a service (crawlers and React ready).
- Typesense Cloud - Open-source and hosted search as a Service.
- Websolr - Open-source and hosted search with Solr.
Products that secure your codebase.
- Bearer - Static application security testing (SAST) tool for JavaScript and Ruby stacks.
- GitGuardian - Real-time GitHub activity scanner.
- Infisical - Open-source, end-to-end encrypted secrets manager.
- Pixee - Automated vulnerability remediation. Fixes vulnerabilities and hardens code.
- Snyk - Vulnerability scanner for code, dependencies, containers, and infrastructure as code.
- Socket - Detect and block open-source supply chain attacks.
Creating and handling the shipment of goods.
- EasyPost - Shipping APIs for e-commerce.
Testing tools.
- Applitools - Automated visual testing.
- Beeceptor - No-code, cloud-based platform for mocking and debugging multi-protocol APIs (REST, SOAP, gRPC & GraphQL), providing instant servers with rules-based logic, CRUD & stateful mocking, proxying, and CORS management for faster integration and testing.
- BitDive - Zero-code integration testing for Java/Kotlin that generates tests from runtime application behavior.
- Blackfire.io - Performance testing.
- Chromatic - Visual UI testing for storybook.
- CodSpeed - Continuous Performance Testing in CI environments.
- Coval - Simulation and evals for AI agents.
- Fiberplane - Test and debug Hono APIs.
- Loadmill - Generate tests from user behavior.
- Octomind - Auto-generated, run, and maintained Playwright UI tests with AI-assisted test case discovery.
- Percy - Continuous visual testing.
- Sherlo - Visual regression testing for React Native, with a Storybook integration.
- Synth - Automated AI agent optimization.
- Testim - Frontend testing.
See here: CONTRIBUTING.md