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Dec 28, 2025

Search

• Cognee - AI Memory layer for agents. Knowledge graph + vector search for contextual retrieval and reasoning.

Dec 02, 2025

Testing

• BitDive - Zero-code integration testing for Java/Kotlin that generates tests from runtime application behavior.

Oct 20, 2025

Integrations

• Metorial - Connect AI agents to 600+ integrations with a single interface. OAuth, scaling, and monitoring included.

Oct 14, 2025

Code Quality

• DebuggAI - Zero-config AI browser (E2E) tests that review every commit & pull request (PR).

Sep 29, 2025

Repo

• Buildstash - Binary artifact and release management for app, game, and embedded software.

Sep 25, 2025

Code Quality

• Kodus - Open-source code review agent.

Sep 24, 2025

AI Coding

• Kilo Code - Fast, open-source AI coding agent for VS Code and JetBrains.

Sep 16, 2025

AI Coding

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

Gen 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.

• v0 by Vercel - Generate UI from a prompt, all of the UI is streamed and runs as client side components.

Sep 08, 2025

CI/CD

• Ona - Automated cloud dev environments.

Feature Flags

• Hypertune - Type-safe feature flags, optimized for React and Next.js.

Aug 28, 2025

Monitoring

• Instatus - Uptime monitoring, incident response, and status pages.

Jul 29, 2025

Authentication & Identity

• AWS Cognito - AWS's authentication as a service.

Gen UI

• Tempo - Code-first Figma alternative.

Localization

• Lingo.dev - AI localization infrastructure.

Monitoring

• Anteon - Kubernetes monitoring and performance testing — available on CLI, self-hosted, and cloud.

Testing

• CodSpeed - Continuous Performance Testing in CI environments.

Jul 01, 2025

Scraping

• Proxy Sentinel - A self-managed proxy rotator.

Jun 06, 2025

Monitoring

• Maxim AI - End-to-end evaluation and observability platform, helping teams ship their AI agents reliably and 5x faster.

May 26, 2025

Mail

• Zyntra – Unlimited e-mail inboxes with API/UI access for automation and QA.

May 19, 2025

Misc

• SignatureAPI - API-first electronic signatures.

May 12, 2025

Authentication & Identity

• Unkey - Authentication, rate limiting and usage analytics for APIs.

Documentation

• Fern - Instant docs and SDKs for APIs.

Misc

• Trophy - APIs for gamified product experiences.

Apr 14, 2025

Authentication & Identity

• Scalekit – Add enterprise SSO (SAML, OIDC), SCIM provisioning to your existing auth setup like Firebase, Auth0, or Cognito without rewrites.

Mar 31, 2025

Authentication & Identity

• SSOJet - Enterprise SSO without rebuilding auth. The free plan includes unlimited monthly active users, unlimited organizations, 2 SSO & 2 SCIM connections.

• SuperTokens - Open-source and hosted email & Oauth authentication with prebuilt UI.

Mar 10, 2025

Scraping

• Corsfix - CORS Proxy to fetch any web resource and bypass CORS errors.

Feb 26, 2025

Testing

• Sherlo - Visual testing and review tool for React Native Storybook.

Feb 11, 2025

IDE

• OneCompiler - A versatile, AI-powered Online IDE supporting over 70+ programming languages, designed for developers to write, compile, and execute code seamlessly.

Jan 29, 2025

Feature Flags

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

Jan 21, 2025

Infrastructure as Code

• Terrateam - GitOps-first open-source Infrastructure as Code automation for Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt, CDKTF, and Pulumi.

Jan 20, 2025

IDE

• GoCodeo - An AI coding & testing agent.

Jan 19, 2025

Analytics

• PoeticMetric - Privacy-first, regulation-compliant, fast analytics tool.

Backend-as-a-Service

• Encore - Open-source TypeScript backend framework for robust type-safe applications.

Deployment Hosting

• Reflex - Python framework to build and deploy web apps (including frontend).

Jan 18, 2025

Localization

• Locize - The translation management system created by the creators of i18next. Work with writers in dev/stage env before hitting prod.

Misc

• Propexo - Unified API to integrate with property management systems.

Dec 21, 2024

AI Coding

• Fine - Build Software with AI Agents.

Analytics

• PostHog - Open-source product analytics platform.

• Tinybird - Real-time data streams to APIs.

Authentication & Identity

• Permit.io - Permissions and access-control as a service.

• PropelAuth - Team-based authentication.

• Stack Auth - Open-source Auth0 alternative.

• WorkOS - Enterprise SSO and more out-of-the-box enterprise features.

Automation

• 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

• Appwrite - End-to-end backend server for frontend and mobile developers.

• Jamsocket - Backends for real-time apps.

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

CI/CD

• Depot - Drop-in replacement to build Docker images faster in CI.

CMS (headless)

• Strapi - Open-source headless CMS, 100% JavaScript.

Code Quality

• Ellipsis - AI code reviews and bug fixes.

Databases & Spreadsheets

• Neuledge - Abstract ORM with a universal schema language for any database.

• Outerbase - AI-powered database UI.

Deployment Hosting

• Beam - Serverless cloud infrastructure.

• Fly.io - Deploy dockerized full-stack apps via a location-aware service (latency reduction).

• 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.

• Propel - Serverless ClickHouse platform.

• Railway - Out-of-the-box git to deployment with auto-scaling, DBs, secrets, and rollbacks.

Discussions

• Commento - Privacy-centric embeddable comment system.

Documentation

• Mintlify - NextJS-based, AI-powered platform for documentation sites.

• Speakeasy - API tooling for SDKs, API docs, Terraform providers, and end-to-end testing.

Environment & Secret Management

• KeyHippo - API Keys for Postgres RLS.

• Vault - API-driven secret key management.

Feature Flags

• LaunchDarkly - Feature flags-as-a-service platform.

GEO

• AirPinpoint - API for Apple AirTags tracking.

Infrastructure as Code

• Terraform - DSL, open-source, and free (paid solution adds team management, policy-as-code...).

Integrations

• Nango - Hundreds of pre-built product integrations with 250+ APIs, customizable in code.

• Sequin - Interface with third-party services using SQL.

Mail

• Loops - REST API to manage contact properties, send events and transactional emails.

• Resend - Email API to build, test, and deliver transactional emails.

Media

• Flatfile - Programmatically import data from files so it's API-ready.

• Mux - APIs to upload, manage, and stream video.

Monitoring

• Highlight.io - Full-stack monitoring 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.

• Pinecone - AI infrastructure for building accurate, secure, and scalable AI apps.

• Quivr - Open-source RAG framework to deploy and use AI agents.

• Sentry - Application monitoring for bugs and performance.

Orchestration

• Camunda - Workflow engine that delivers scalable, on-demand process automation.

Payments & Pricing

• 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.

Reports Generation

• Image-Charts - Chart as Image API for reports, PDFs, and more.

• PDFBlade - HTML to PDF API usage-based pricing.

Search

• Meilisearch - Open-source, fast, and relevant search engine.

Testing

• Coval - Simulation and evals for AI agents.

• Fiberplane - Test and debug Hono APIs.

• Octomind - Auto-generated, run, and maintained Playwright UI tests with AI-assisted test case discovery.

• Synth - Automated AI agent optimization.

Dec 01, 2024

Monitoring

• 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.

Nov 29, 2024

Scraping

• WebScrapingHQ - Webscraping API and fully managed service.

Nov 07, 2024

Environment & Secret Management

• Ubiq - Encryption APIs with secret management.

Oct 15, 2024

Code Quality

• CodeRabbit AI - AI-powered code review and automated pull request management.

Oct 03, 2024

Automation

• 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.

Mail

• Heybounce - Email verification API.

Oct 02, 2024

Analytics

• devActivity - Contributions analytics with AI Insights, Performance Review, Retrospectives and Gamifications.

Sep 25, 2024

Monitoring

• Opik - Evaluate, test, and ship LLM applications across your dev and production lifecycles.

Aug 29, 2024

Monitoring

• Helicone AI - LLM observabilty and monitoring for your LLM apps in production.

Aug 21, 2024

Authentication & Identity

• MojoAuth - Complete CIAM solution with Enterprise SSO and extensive out-of-the-box enterprise features.

Aug 08, 2024

Scraping

• browserless - Browser automation deployed to the cloud.

• ZenRows - Web scraping API with built-in proxies and rotating IPs to avoid detection.

Jun 12, 2024

IDE

• MarsCode - AI-powered cloud-based IDE.

Jun 05, 2024

Misc

• Docusign - APIs for eSignature, and Intelligent Agreement Management.

Jun 03, 2024

Monitoring

• Pagerly - Manage Oncalls, Tickets, Incidents in Slack.

Security

• Pixee - Automated vulnerability remediation. Fixes vulnerabilities and hardens code.

May 31, 2024

Feature Flags

• Statsig - All-in-one platform spanning across analytics, feature flagging, and A/B testing. Free for up to 1m metered events per month.

May 22, 2024

Databases & Spreadsheets

• Neon - Serverless Postgres database with scale-to-zero, branching, autoscaling.

May 03, 2024

Authentication & Identity

• Stytch - All-in-one authentication, authorization, and fraud prevention infrastructure.

CMS (headless)

• DatoCMS - API-based CMS.

Media

• Bytescale - File storage and processing APIs.

May 02, 2024

Deployment Hosting

• Cycle.io - DevOps platform for building platforms. Handles container orchestration, load-balancing, monitoring, and more.

Apr 01, 2024

Automation

• Abstra - Python-based workflow engine for custom business processes.

Mar 09, 2024

Integrations

• YepCode - Build and run serverless functions with the best development experience.

Feb 26, 2024

Documentation

• Apidog - All-in-one API documentation tool, 1-click to generate API documentation from requests.

Feb 14, 2024

Integrations

• Panora - Easy, flexible API to add customer-facing integrations to your SaaS product.

Feb 08, 2024

Analytics

• Plausible - Simple, privacy-friendly, and open-source web analytics tool.

Authentication & Identity

• Hanko - Passwordless (WebAuthn API) PSD2, eIDAS, and GDPR compliant.

Automation

• n8n - Free and source-available fair-code licensed workflow automation tool.

CMS (headless)

• Ghost - Blog platform, can be used as headless CMS (ex. with Hexo).

Databases & Spreadsheets

• CrateDB - Distributed open-source SQL database for real-time analytics.

Feature Flags

• GrowthBook - Open-source feature flag and experimentation platform.

• Unleash - Open-source, privacy-first, and enterprise-ready feature management solution.

Integrations

• Revert - Open-source unified API to build B2B product integrations.

Messaging

• Novu - Open-source notification (Email, SMS, Direct, and Push) management.

Search

• Typesense Cloud - Open-source and hosted search as a Service.

Security

• Infisical - Open-source, end-to-end encrypted secrets manager.

Jan 23, 2024

Authentication & Identity

• Kinde - Authentification and user management as a service.

Nov 15, 2023

Payments & Pricing

• OpenMeter - Open-source usage metering for billing and chargeback.

Oct 13, 2023

Monitoring

• Airbrake - Error monitoring in production.

Sep 22, 2023

Media

• Dyte - Build powerful live experiences in your product with an all-in-one Video SDK.

Sep 20, 2023

Natural Language Processing

• DialogFlow - Voice/text chatbot framework by Google.

Sep 07, 2023

Deployment Hosting

• Quix - One tool to build and run event streaming applications.

Aug 29, 2023

Monitoring

• Better Stack - Uptime monitoring, incident management, and status pages.

Aug 28, 2023

GEO

• OpenCage - Forward and reverse geocoding API based on open data.

Aug 11, 2023

Scraping

• SearchApi - Real-time Google SERP API.

Jul 24, 2023

Deployment Hosting

• Zeabur - One click deployment for frontend, backend and databases services.

Jun 28, 2023

Payments & Pricing

• LemonSqueezy - SaaS payments - covers more countries and takes care of VAT Tax.

Jun 27, 2023

Authentication & Identity

• Aserto - Cloud-native authorization for applications and APIs.

Jun 07, 2023

Authentication & Identity

• Corbado - Passkey-first authentication as a service.

Jun 05, 2023

Messaging

• Ably - Pub/sub, real-time messaging, notifications, chat, multiplayer and data synchronization.

May 30, 2023

Integrations

• Vessel - Developer-first, native integration platform for GTM tools.

Payments & Pricing

• Increase - Bare-metal banking APIs.

May 10, 2023

GEO

• PlaceKit - Locations search API.

Messaging

• MagicBell - Real-time notification system with API & UI components.

May 09, 2023

Misc

• Plain - API-first customer service platform (support, feedback, rating widgets...).

Apr 28, 2023

Mail

• Imitate Email - End-to-end email testing tool.

Apr 18, 2023

Authentication & Identity

• Clerk - Authentication and user management platform for React, React Native, and Next.js.

Apr 07, 2023

Security

• Bearer - Static application security testing (SAST) tool for JavaScript and Ruby stacks.

• GitGuardian - Real-time GitHub activity scanner.

• Snyk - Vulnerability scanner for code, dependencies, containers, and infrastructure as code.

• Socket - Detect and block open-source supply chain attacks.

Apr 04, 2023

Authentication & Identity

• Userfront - Simplistic user authentication with pre-built back-office dashboard.

Code Quality

• Sonar - Lint and code quality checks.

Computer Vision

• Clarifai - Set of computer vision APIs.

• Roboflow - Simplified computer vision model creation for developers.

Databases & Spreadsheets

• Upstash - Serverless tailored redis provider.

Documentation

• ReadMe - Personalized and dynamic developer docs.

• Swimm - Docs that are coupled with your code, auto-synced, works with your IDE.

Feature Flags

• Split - Feature flags platform with data analytics.

GEO

• Mapbox - Maps and locations products for devs.

Messaging

• Stream - Feed and chat as a service.

Payments & Pricing

• Stigg - API-first pricing plans.

Repo

• Cloudsmith - Cloud-native private package management.

Scraping

• Crawlbase - Scrape hard-to-scrape websites with proxies.

Shipping

• EasyPost - Shipping APIs for e-commerce.

Apr 01, 2023

Databases & Spreadsheets

• Apitable - API-oritented Airtable alternative.

Mar 28, 2023

Authentication & Identity

• BoxyHQ Enterprise SSO - Open-source API for enterprise SSO and Directory Sync.

• Ory - Open-source identity & access-control solutions (also available as a service).

CI/CD

• GitLab - Open-source CI and hosted solution with Github-like abilities.

Orchestration

• AWS Step Functions - Visual workflow service to build distributed applications and automate processes

Mar 27, 2023

Messaging

• Knock - Notifications as a service.

Mar 24, 2023

Deployment Hosting

• Vercel - Cloud platform for building and deploying serverless web applications, static websites, and Jamstack (mainly Next.js) projects.

Mar 12, 2023

Documentation

• Bump.sh - API documentation and change management solution.

Feb 13, 2023

Analytics

• Mixpanel - Product analytics and dashboards.

• Segment - Collect user data and send it to your other tools.

Authentication & Identity

• FusionAuth - Security-centric authentication as a Service, including self-hosting.

• LoginRadius - Managed user authentication service with SSO.

• Okta - Embeddable authentication with SSO.

Debugging

• Rookout - Debug production servers via a cloud-based debugger. Supporting Java, .Net, Node.js, Python, and Ruby.

Deployment Hosting

• Adaptable - Deploy apps and DBs via common templates.

• Heroku - Deploy via CLI to scalable servers.

• Netlify - Deploy JAMStack (mainly Gatsby) via CLI.

• Platform.sh - Continuously deploy full-stack apps.

• Render - Deploy from git to a CDN with SSL.

Discussions

• Bazaarvoice - Ratings, reviews as a service.

Environment & Secret Management

• Doppler - Environment variable management across projects, in one place.

GEO

• Radar - Geofencing and geo APIs.

Mail

• Anymail finder - Verify and find email APIs.

• Lob - Email and address verification.

• Mailgun - Send, track, and receive emails.

• Sendgrid - Email API.

Media

• APITemplate.io - APIs to generate images and PDFs from reusable templates.

• imgix - Transforms, optimizes, and cache images.

Messaging

• Applozic - Chat SDKs, real-time messaging.

Misc

• Interval - SDK to build internal tools and scripts for your product.

Monitoring

• Rollbar - Reports errors in production.

Payments & Pricing

• Stripe Payments - Accept payments and move money globally with APIs.

Reports Generation

• Export SDK - PDF generator API with visual template editor.

Scraping

• ScrapingBee - Using headless browsers and proxies to scrape without being blocked.

Search

• Websolr - Open-source and hosted search with Solr.

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.

• Percy - Continuous visual testing.

• Testim - Frontend testing.

Feb 04, 2023

Debugging

• Linear - Issue tracking built for developers.

Nov 09, 2022

CI/CD

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

Oct 22, 2022

Deployment Hosting

• Qoddi - Git connected app hosting platform.

Jul 04, 2022

Reports Generation

• DocRaptor - HTML to PDF API built specifically for Paged Media using the Prince PDF library.

Apr 29, 2022

CMS (headless)

• Sanity - Headless CMS, treat content as data.

Mar 31, 2022

Infrastructure as Code

• Pulumi - Developer-first IaC with Python, TypeScript, Go and more languages...

Mar 17, 2022

Localization

• Tolgee - Developer & translator friendly web-based localization platform.

Jan 10, 2022

Integrations

• Apideck - Integration marketplace builder, one-API with 3rd parties for quick development.

Jan 08, 2022

Feature Flags

• Flagsmith - Feature flags-as-a-service platform simplified.

Dec 28, 2021

Misc

• Nylas - APIs for productivity workflows (email, calendar, contacts...) - like plaid for productivity.

Dec 19, 2021

Testing

• Loadmill - Generate tests from user behavior.

Dec 17, 2021

Misc

• ngrok - Generate public URLs for internal servers (behind NAT/firewall).

Dec 02, 2021

Databases & Spreadsheets

• PlanetScale - Hosted managed MySQL database, CI integration & auto scaling.

Sep 27, 2021

Reports Generation

• Carbone - JSON into PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, ODS... API.

Sep 25, 2021

Analytics

• Pirsch - Privacy-friendly web analytics with a backend integration and API.

Authentication & Identity

• Oso - Authorization framework (RBAC).

Media

• Pintura - A fully configurable JavaScript image editor SDK.

Aug 03, 2021

Debugging

• Lightrun - Debug production servers using a plugin in the IDE (on-prem or SaaS) that supports Java, Node.js, and Python.

Aug 02, 2021

Scraping

• SerpApi - Real-time search engine scraping API.

Jun 06, 2021

CI/CD

• CircleCI - YML to configure your builds, parallel jobs, jobs marketplace.

Documentation

• DeveloperHub - Collaborative developer documentation platform.

Environment & Secret Management

• Envkey - Environment management with syncing mechanism for all apps.

Jun 04, 2021

GEO

• SmartyStreets - US Reverse Geocoding and Address Verification APIs.

May 01, 2021

Mail

• Hunter.io - Email lead and validation APIs.

Apr 17, 2021

Testing

• Blackfire.io - Performance testing.

Dec 20, 2020

CMS (headless)

• Contentful - CMS as an API.

Databases & Spreadsheets

• Airtable - Database and spreadsheet hybrid with an API.

Deployment Hosting

• Digital Ocean App Platform - Deploy and don't care about infrastructure, works with all major frameworks.

IDE

• Kite - AI assistant in your IDE (Python or JS).

Mail

• FormSpree - Receive form submissions by email.

Media

• Cloudinary - Optimize, create, manage, and deliver images and videos.

Messaging

• Twilio - SMS, push notifications, and VoIP APIs.

• Vonage - Video, SMS, chat, and voice APIs.

Misc

• Actyx - Developer-first factory building.

Monitoring

• KeenIO - Event streaming platform.

• LogRocket - Replay bugs users had.

Payments & Pricing

• Braintree - Paypal's take on API-first payments.

Dec 19, 2020

Computer Vision

• CloudSight - Digital media brand recognition.

• Google Vision AI - Google's AI vision APIs.

Scraping

• Apify - Turn websites to an API.

• ScrapingANT - Scrape with headless chrome.

Dec 12, 2020

Analytics

• Heap - Product analytics API for web and mobile, captures all events.

Authentication & Identity

• Auth0 - Authentication & authorization as a service.

Code Quality

• Codacy - Automatic code quality checks.

Search

• Algolia - Search as a service and full suite of search APIs.

• Swiftype - Search as a service (crawlers and React ready).

Nov 30, 2020

Testing

• Chromatic - Visual UI testing for storybook.

Sep 28, 2020

Authentication & Identity

• Firebase Auth - Google Firebase's take on authentication.

Discussions

• Yotpo - Reviews ratings and Q&A as a service.

Localization

• Localazy - App translation built for developers.

Repo

• Artifactory - Create your own package repository.

Testing

• Applitools - Automated visual testing.

Sep 26, 2020

Analytics

• Baremetrics - Subscription analytics for Stripe.

Media

• ImageKit - Automate image optimization, transformation, and delivery.