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Awesome Developer-First Awesome

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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Contents

AI Coding

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.

Analytics

Track web/app visitors.

Authentication & Identity

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.

Automation

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.

Backend-as-a-Service

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.
  • Supabase - Hosted and open-source managed Postgres DB like Firebase.

CI/CD

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.
  • Spacelift - CI/CD platform for infrastructure-as-code, currently supporting Terraform, Pulumi, AWS CloudFormation, and Kubernetes.

CMS (headless)

Backend only Content Management System, you decide on frontend and consume content via API.

Code Quality

Check your code quality.

Computer Vision

Manipulate and detect visual data.

Databases & Spreadsheets

Storing data and processing it.

Debugging

Tools that help in tracking bugs.

Deployment Hosting

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.

Discussions

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

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.

Environment & Secret Management

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.

Feature Flags

Control production features with conditional flags in your code.

  • Bucket - Purpose-built feature flagging for B2B SaaS products.
  • 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.

Gen UI

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.

GEO

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.

IDE

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.

Infrastructure as Code

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.

Integrations

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.

Localization

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.

Mail

Sending emails as a service.

Media

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

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.
  • Stream - Feed and chat as a service.
  • Twilio - SMS, push notifications, and VoIP APIs.
  • Vonage - Video, SMS, chat, and voice APIs.

Misc

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.
  • 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

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.
  • 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.
  • Keywords AI - The enterprise-grade software to build, monitor, and improve your AI application. Keywords AI is a full-stack LLM engineering platform for developers and PMs.
  • 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.
  • Maxim AI - End-to-end evaluation and observability platform, helping teams ship their AI agents reliably and 5x faster.
  • Pinecone - AI infrastructure for building accurate, secure, and scalable AI apps.
  • Opik - Evaluate, test, and ship LLM applications across your dev and production lifecycles.
  • Pagerly - Manage Oncalls, Tickets, Incidents in Slack.
  • Quivr - Open-source RAG framework to deploy and use AI agents.
  • Rollbar - Reports errors in production.
  • Sentry - Application monitoring for bugs and performance.

Natural Language Processing

Interactions with natural language.

  • DialogFlow - Voice/text chatbot framework by Google.

Orchestration

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.

Payments & Pricing

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.

Repo

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.

Reports Generation

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.

Scraping

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.
  • 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.

Security

Products that secure your codebase.

Shipping

Creating and handling the shipment of goods.

  • EasyPost - Shipping APIs for e-commerce.

Testing

Testing tools.

Contributing

See here: CONTRIBUTING.md

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