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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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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. 
* Segment - Collect user data and send it
to your other tools. * Tinybird -
Real-time data streams to APIs.
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. 
* 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. 
* 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. 
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. 
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. * Gitpod - Automated cloud dev
environments. 
Backend only Content Management System, you decide on frontend
and consume content via API. * Contentful - CMS as an API. * DatoCMS - API-based CMS. * ElegantCMS - Headless CMS builder.
* Ghost - Blog platform, can be used as
headless CMS (ex. with
Hexo). 
Check your code quality. * Codacy - Automatic code quality
checks. * CodeRabbit AI -
AI-powered code review and automated pull request management. * Ellipsis - AI code reviews and bug
fixes. * 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. 
* PlanetScale - Hosted managed MySQL
database, CI integration & auto scaling. * 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. * 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. * Cyclic.sh - Full stack
app hosting (including dynamo db and s3). * DeployBot - REST API to trigger
deployments from GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket. * 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). 
Comments and forums. * Bazaarvoice - Ratings, reviews as a service. * Commento - Privacy-centric embeddable comment system. * MuutIo - Tools to create a community-driven app. * 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. * 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. * 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. * Flagsmith - Feature flags-as-a-service
platform simplified. * GrowthBook - Open-source feature
flag and experimentation 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.
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. * Codota - AI code completions for your
IDE. * TabNine - Deep learning
completion (part of codota). * Fine
- Build Software with AI Agents. * GoCodeo - An AI coding & testing
agent. * Jolt AI - An AI codegen and
chat tool for 100k to multi-million line codebases that automatically
identifies context files, handles multi-file changes, and matches code
styles. * 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…). 
Integration management systems or products that ease integration
development. * Apideck -
Integration marketplace builder, one-API with 3rd parties for quick
development. * 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. 
* 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 - 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. * 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. 
Different products that probably don’t have a category. * Actyx - Developer-first factory
building. * Docusign -
APIs for eSignature, and Intelligent Agreement Management. * Interval - SDK to build internal tools
and scripts for your product. * Magic Patterns - Prototype product
ideas with AI. * 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. * Tempo Labs -
Code-first Figma alternative. * Trophy -
APIs for gamified product experiences. * Volta - Fast, elegant GitHub desktop and
web app.
Monitoring your production application. * Airbrake - Error monitoring in
production. * Better Stack -
Uptime monitoring, incident management, and status pages. * Helicone AI - LLM observabilty and
monitoring for your LLM apps in production. 
* 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. 
* 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. * 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.
Fetching data from websites not via an intended API. * Apify - Turn websites to an API. * browserless - Browser automation
deployed to the cloud. 
Index and search your content as a service API. * Algolia - Search as a service and
full suite of search APIs. * 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. 
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. 
Creating and handling the shipment of goods. * EasyPost - Shipping APIs for e-commerce.
Testing tools. * Apidog -
GUI tool for API mocking, testing (scenario testing, functional testing,
performance testing, etc.). * Applitools - Automated visual
testing. * Beeceptor - REST API
mocking. * Blackfire.io -
Performance testing. * Chromatic - Visual UI testing for
storybook. * CodSpeed - Continuous Performance
Testing in CI environments. * Coval - Simulation and evals for AI
agents. * Ddosify - Distributed Performance
Testing Platform. * Fiberplane -
Test and debug Hono APIs. * Firecamp - DX first open-source API dev
tool alternative to Postman. 
* Testim - Frontend testing.
See here: CONTRIBUTING.md
