Developer-First Products
Awesome Developer-First 
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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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Analytics¶
Track web/app visitors.
* Baremetrics - Subscription analytics for Stripe.
* 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. 
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. 
Automation¶
Automate workflows via APIs and SDKs.
* Abstra - Python-based workflow engine for custom business processes. 
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. 
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.
* Gitpod - Automated cloud dev environments. 
CMS (headless)¶
- ElegantCMS - Headless CMS builder.
- Ghost - Blog platform, can be used as headless CMS (ex. with Hexo).
- Strapi - Open-source headless CMS, 100% JavaScript.
Code Quality¶
Check your code quality. * Codacy - Automatic code quality checks. * Sonar - Lint and code quality checks.
Computer Vision¶
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.
Databases & Spreadsheets¶
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. 
Debugging¶
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.
Deployment Hosting¶
Products that help you deploy your app/website. * Adaptable - Deploy apps and DBs via common templates. * 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. * 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. * 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. * MuutIo - Tools to create a community-driven app. * 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.
* Mintlify - AI powered code documentation, IDE extension (open source). 
Environment & Secret Management¶
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. * Ubiq - Encryption APIs wiht secret management. * Vault - API driven secret key management.
Feature Flags¶
Control production features with conditional flags in your code.
* Flagsmith - Feature flags-as-a-service platform simplified.
* GrowthBook - Open-source feature flag and experimentation platform. 
GEO¶
Location services. * 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. * Codota - AI code completions for your IDE. * TabNine - Deep learning completion (part of codota). * Fine - Build Software with AI Agents. * Kite - AI assistant in your IDE (Python or JS).
Infrastructure as Code¶
Declare your infrastructure and reproducibly provision cloud infrastrucure 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...).
Integrations¶
Integration management systems or products that ease integration development.
* Apideck - Integration marketplace builder, one-API with 3rd parties for quick development.
* Panora - Easy, flexible API to add customer-facing integrations to your SaaS product. 
Localization¶
Translating your product (also denoted i18n). * Localazy - App translation built for developers. * Tolgee - Developer & translator friendly web-based localization platform.
Mail¶
Sending emails as a service. * Anymail finder - Verify and find email APIs. * FormSpree - Receive form submissions by email. * 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.
Media¶
Media APIs (optimization, CDN). * APITemplate.io - APIs to generate images and PDFs from reusable templates. * 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. 
Misc¶
Different products that probably don't have a category. * Actyx - Developer-first factory building. * Defer - Serverless Node.js background jobs. * 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...). * Volta - Fast, elegant GitHub desktop and web app.
Monitoring¶
Monitoring your production application.
* Airbrake - Error monitoring in production.
* Better Stack - Uptime monitoring, incident management, and status pages.
* Highlight.io - Full-stack monitoring platform. 
Natural Language Processing¶
Interactions with natural language.
* CometLLM - UI to log, visualize, and search prompts, prompt templates, prompt variables, and chains. 
Orchestration¶
Orchestration tools for (micro) services.
* Abstra - Python-based workflow engine for custom business processes.
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. * 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 could. 
Search¶
- 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.
- Websolr - Open-source and hosted search with Solr.
Security¶
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. 
Shipping¶
Creating and handling the shipment of goods. * EasyPost - Shipping APIs for e-commerce.
Testing¶
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.
* Ddosify - Distributed Performance Testing Platform.
* Firecamp - DX first open-source API dev tool alternative to Postman. 
Contributing¶
See here: CONTRIBUTING.md