List of Developer Tools etc.

Table of Contents

Source Code Repos

Tools for Teams and Collaboration

  • http://appear.in/ – One click video conversations, for free
  • https://www.flowdock.com/ – Chat and inbox, free for teams up to 5
  • https://slack.com/ – Free for unlimited users with some feature limitations
  • https://hipchat.com/ – Free for unlimited users with some feature limitations
  • https://gitter.im/ – Chat, for GitHub. Unlimited public & private rooms, free for teams of up to 25
  • http://www.google.com/hangouts/ – One place for all your Conversations, for free, need a Google account
  • http://seafile.com/ – Private or cloud storage, file sharing, sync, discussions. Private version is full. Cloud version has just 1 GB
  • https://sameroom.io/ – Free for unlimited users with some feature limitations
  • https://yammer.com/ – Private social network standalone or for MS Office 365. Free, just a bit less admin tools and users management features
  • https://www.blockspring.com/ – Share scripts with anyone on your team: cross language and with spreadsheet users. Free for 5 million runs/month
  • https://helpmonks.com/ – Shared inbox for teams – Free for open source projects and non-profit organizations
  • http://typetalk.in/ – Share and discuss ideas with your team through instant messaging on the web or on your mobile
  • https://talky.io/ – Free group video chat. Anonymous. Peer‑to‑peer. No plugins, signup, or payment required
  • http://sourcetalk.net/ – Code discussion tool, free for open code talks
  • http://vipaar.com/ – Help over video with augmented reality. Free without analytics, encryption, support
  • https://evernote.com/ – Tool for organizing information. Share your notes and work together with others
  • https://www.wunderlist.com/ – Share your lists and work collaboratively on projects with your colleagues – Available for free to download and use on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android, Windows and the Web
  • http://doodle.com/ – The scheduling tool you’ll actually use. Find a date for a meeting 2 times faster
  • https://sendtoinc.com/ – Share links, notes, files and have discussions. Free for 3 and 100 MB
  • https://www.zoom.us/ – Secure Video and Web conferencing, add-ons available. Free limited to 40 min
  • https://ideascale.com/ – Allow clients to submit ideas and vote, free for 25 members in 1 community
  • https://filehero.io/ – Make it easy to access your company’s file storage from a corporate download page. Free for 5 concurrent downloads
  • https://codenvy.com/ – Share developer environments for your project. Includes configuration for the browser IDE, build, debug and run environments. Free tier with 4 GB environments and support for 90+ languages
  • http://wistia.com/ – Video hosting with viewer analytics, HD video delivery, and marketing tools to help understand your visitors, 25 videos and Wistia branded player
  • https://cnverg.com/ – Real-time shared visual workspace, whiteboard, GitHub integration. Free 5 GB, 5 spaces and 5 collaborators, no GitHub repos

Code Quality

Code Search and Browsing

CI / CD

Security and PKI

Management System

Log Management

Translation Management

Monitoring

Crash and Exception Handling

  • https://rollbar.com/ – Exception and error monitoring, free plan – 5,000 errors/month, unlimited users, 30 days retention
  • https://bugsnag.com/ – Free for up to 2,000 errors/month after the initial trial
  • https://airbrake.io/ – Automatically groups, organizes and notifies you about your application errors. Free plan – 7,200 errors/day, 1 user, 1 project, 2 days retention
  • http://getsentry.com/ – Sentry tracks app exceptions in realtime, has a small free plan. Free, unrestricted use if self-hosted

Search

  • https://www.algolia.com/ – Hosted search-as-you-type (instant). Free hacker plan up to 1,000 documents and 50,000 operations. Bigger free plans available for community/open source projects
  • https://swiftype.com/ – Hosted search solution (API and crawler). Free for a single search engine with up to 1,000 documents. Free upgrade to Premium level for open-source projects
  • https://bonsai.io/ – Free 1 GB memory and 1 GB storage
  • http://www.searchly.com/ – Free 2 indices and 5 MB storage
  • https://facetflow.com/ – Hosted Elasticsearch for Microsoft Azure. Free 5,000 docs / 500 MB
  • http://indexisto.com/ – Site search reinvented. Free 10,000,000 document index limit with advertisement block

Email

CDN and Protection

PaaS

BaaS

  • http://apigee.com/docs/api-baas (product docs), http://apigee.com/docs/developer-vs-edge (registration) – Unlimited trial includes NoSQL data store with 25 GB of storage, user and permission management, geolocation, 10,000,000 push notifications/month, remote configuration, beta and A/B split testing, APM, fully API driven. Accessible and manageable via UI, SDK, and API
  • http://appacitive.com/ – Mobile backend, free for the first 3 months with 100 K API calls, push notifications
  • https://bip.io/ – A web-automation platform for easily connecting web services. Fully open GPLv3 to power the backend of your open-source project. Commercial OEM License available
  • https://www.blockspring.com/ – Cloud functions. Free for 5 million runs/month
  • https://www.contentful.com/ – Content as a Service. Content management and delivery APIs in the cloud. 3 users, 3 spaces (repositories) and 1,000,000 API requests/month for free
  • http://www.kinvey.com/ – Mobile backend, starter plan has unlimited requests/second, with 2 GB of data storage, as well as push notifications for up 5,000,000 unique recipients. Enterprise application support
  • http://konacloud.io/ – Web and Mobile Backend as a Service, with 5 GB free account
  • https://layer.com/ – The full-stack building block for communications
  • https://www.parse.com/ – Mobile backends, free plan has 30 requests/sec, with 20 GB of file and database storage, as well as push notifications for up to 1,000,000 unique recipients
  • http://quickblox.com/ – A communication backend for instant messaging, video and voice calling, and push notifications
  • https://pushbots.com/ – Push notification service. Free for up to 1,500,000 push/month
  • http://www.dreamfactory.com/ – DreamFactory is an open source backend platform that provides all of the RESTful services you need to build fantastic mobile and web applications
  • https://www.mashape.com/ – API Marketplace And Powerful Tools For Private And Public APIs. With the free tier, some features are limited such as monitoring, alerting and support
  • https://onesignal.com/ – Unlimited free push notifications
  • https://getstream.io/ – Build scalable news feeds and activity streams in a few hours instead of weeks, free for 3 million feed updates/month
  • https://tyk.io/ – API management with authentication, quotas, monitoring, and analytics. Free cloud offering
  • http://www.iron.io/ – Async task processing (like AWS Lambda) with free tier and 1 month free trial
  • http://stackhut.com/ – Async task processing (like AWS Lambda). 10 free private services and unlimited free public services
  • https://www.pubnub.com/ – Free push notifications for up to 1,000,000 messages/month and 100 active daily devices
  • https://webtask.io/ – Run code with an HTTP call. No provisioning. No deployment. Developed by Auth0
  • https://zapier.com/ – Connect the apps you use, to automate tasks. 5 zaps, every 15 min. and 100 tasks/month
  • https://stackstorm.com/ – Event-driven automation for apps, services and workflows, free without flow, access control, LDAP,…
  • https://simperium.com/ – Move data everywhere instantly and automatically, multi-platform, unlimited sending and storage of structured data, max. 2,500 users/month

Web Hosting

IaaS

DBaaS

STUN, WebRTC, Web Socket Servers and Other Routers

  • https://pusher.com/ – Hosted Web Sockets broker. Free for up to 20 simultaneous connections and 100 K messages/day
  • stun:stun.l.google.com:19302 – Google STUN
  • stun:global.stun.twilio.com:3478?transport=udp – Twilio STUN
  • https://www.segment.com/ – Hub to translate and route events to other third party services. 100 K events/month free
  • https://ngrok.com/ – Expose locally running servers over a tunnel to a public URL
  • https://www.cloudamqp.com/ – RabbitMQ as a Service. Little Lemur plan: max 1 million messages/month, max 20 concurrent connections, max 100 queues, max 10,000 queued messages, multiple nodes in differen AZ’s

Issue Tracking and Project Management

Storage and Media Processing

  • https://www.aerofs.com/ – P2P file syncing, free for up to 30 users
  • https://bintray.com/ – Binary File storage, free for Open Source. Includes SSL, CDN and a limited number of REST calls
  • http://cloudinary.com/ – Image upload, powerful manipulations, storage, and delivery for sites and apps, with libraries for Ruby, Python, Java, PHP, Objective-C and more. Perpetual free tier includes 7,500 images/month, 2 GB storage, 5 GB bandwidth
  • https://plot.ly/ – Graph and share your data. Free tier includes unlimited public files and 10 private files
  • https://transloadit.com/ – Handles file uploads & encoding of video, audio, images, documents. Free for open source & other do-gooders. Commercial applications get the first GB free for test driving
  • https://podio.com/ – You can use Podio with a team of up to five people and try out the features of the Basic Plan – except User Management
  • https://shrinkray.io/ – Free image optimization of GitHub repos
  • http://imagefly.io/ – Responsive images on-demand. CDN fronted image resizing, transcoding, and optimizing. 100 MB/month for free
  • https://kraken.io/ – Image optimization for website performance as a service – free plan up to 1 MB file size
  • https://placehold.it/ – A quick and simple image placeholder service
  • https://placekitten.com/ – A quick and simple service for getting pictures of kittens for use as placeholders
  • http://placepenguin.com/ – A quick and simple service for placeholder images of penguins
  • http://embed.ly/ – Provides APIs for embeding media in a webpage, Responsive image scaling, extracting elements from a webpage. Free for up to 5,000 URLs/Month at 15 requests/sec
  • https://backhub.co/ – Backup and archive your GitHub repositories. Free for public repos
  • http://www.otixo.com/ – Encrypt, share, copy and move all your cloud storage files from one place. Basic plan provides unlimited files transfer with 250 MB max file size limit and allows 5 encrypted files

Design and UI

  • Pixlr – Free online browser editor on the level of commercial ones
  • Imagebin – Pastebin for images
  • Cloudconvert – Convert anything to anything. 208 supported formats including videos to gif
  • App Icon Resizer – A simple service to resize and manage your app icons
  • Vectr – Free Design App For Web + Desktop
  • http://www.walkme.com/ – Enterprise Class Guidance and Engagement Platform – Free plan 3 walk-thrus up to 5 steps/walk

Data Visualization on Maps

Package Build System

IDE and Code Editing

  • https://c9.io/ – IDE in a browser. Incorporates an Ubuntu virtual machine and in-browser terminal access. Integrates with GitHub and BitBucket, but also adds SFTP and generic GIT access
  • https://codeanywhere.com/ – Full IDE in the browser and mobile apps. Access FTP, SFTP, Dropbox, Google Drive, GitHub, and BitBucket. Hosted virtual machines with terminal access. Collaboration features like share links, live editing, permissions, and version tracking
  • https://codenvy.com/ – IDE and automated developer workspaces in a browser, collaborative, GIT/SVN integration, build and run your app in customizable Docker-based runners (free tier includes: 4 GB RAM, always-on machines, ability to run multiple machines simultaneously), pre-integrated deploy to Google Apps
  • https://koding.com/ – IDE in a browser. Features: Full sudo access – VMs hosted on Amazon EC2 – SSH Access – Real EC2 VM, no LXCs/hypervising – Custom sub-domains – Publicly accessible IP – Ubuntu 14.04 – IDE/Terminal/Collaboration
  • https://www.nitrous.io/ – Private Linux instance(s) with interactive collaboration, free for 2 hours/day. {More Details}
  • http://visualstudio.com/free – Fully-featured IDE with thousands of extensions, cross-platform app development (Microsoft extensions available for download for iOS and Android), desktop, web and cloud development, multi-language support (C#, C++, JavaScript, Python, PHP and more)
  • https://cloud.sagemath.com/ – Collaborative mathematics-oriented IDE in a browser, with support for Python, LaTeX, IPython Notebooks, etc
  • https://wakatime.com/ – Quantified self metrics about your coding activity, using text editor plugins – Limited plan for free
  • https://apiary.io/ – Collaborative design API with instant API mock and generated documentation (Free for unlimited API blueprints and unlimited user with one admin account and hosted documentation)
  • https://www.mockable.io/ – Mockable is a simple configurable service to mock out RESTful API or SOAP web-services. This online service allows you to quickly define REST API or SOAP endpoints and have them return JSON or XML data
  • https://www.jetbrains.com/products.html – Productivity tools, IDEs and deploy tools. Free license for students, teachers, open source projects, and user groups
  • https://readme.io/ – Beautiful documentations made easy – free for Open Source
  • https://codio.com/ – Codio is a cloud-based computer programming platform for universities, schools, and developer professionals
  • http://www.stackhive.com/ – Cloud based IDE in browser that supports HTML5/CSS3/jQuery/Bootstrap
  • http://www.tadpoledb.com/ – IDE in browser Database tool. Support Amazon RDS, Apache Hive, Apache Tajo, CUBRID, MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, SQLite, MSSQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB databases
  • https://www.sourcelair.com/ – In-browser IDE for Django, JavaScript, HTML5, Python, and more. Integrates with GIT, Mercurial, GitHub, Heroku and more. Free forever for 1 private project
  • https://codepen.io/ – CodePen is a playground for the front end side of the web

Analytics, Events and Statistics

International Mobile Number Verification API and SDK

  • https://www.cognalys.com/ – Freemium mobile number verification through an innovative and reliable method than using SMS gateway. Free accounts will have 70 tries and 50 verifications/day. {Signup}
  • https://numverify.com/ – Global Phone Number Validation & Lookup JSON API. 250 API requests/month
  • https://sumome.com/ – Heat map and conversion enhancement tools, free without few advanced features

Payment / Billing Integration

  • https://www.braintreepayments.com/ – Credit Card, Paypal, Venmo, Bitcoin, Apple Pay,… integration. Single and Recurrent Payments. First $50 are free of charge
  • http://taxratesapi.avalara.com/ – Get the right sales tax rates to charge for the close to 10,000 sales tax jurisdictions in the USA. Free REST API. Registration required
  • https://currencylayer.com/ – Reliable Exchange Rates & Currency Conversion for your Business, 1,000 API requests/month free
  • https://vatlayer.com/ – Instant VAT Number Validation & EU VAT Rates API, free 100 API requests/month

Other Packs

Docker Related

Alternate Hosting

PaaS

  • https://www.tutum.co/ – The Docker Platform for Dev and Ops – Build, deploy, and manage your apps across any cloud – free while in beta and free developer plan when tutum will be production ready

Vagrant Related

Vagrant Box Indexes

Technology Watch

Data Mining

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