Awesome List

A curated list of tools and resources, mostly open source.

Analytics

• Rudder (OSS) — Open-source Segment alternative
• Umami (OSS) — Website analytics alternative to Google Analytics
• PostHog (OSS) — Product analytics, feature flags, session replay, and A/B testing

Auth

• Clerk — Drop-in authentication with prebuilt components
• Auth.js (OSS) — Authentication for Next.js and SvelteKit
• WorkOS — Enterprise SSO and user management

Automation

• Huginn (OSS) — Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf
• Airflow (OSS) — Programmatically schedule and monitor workflows
• Node-RED (OSS) — Low-code programming for event-driven applications
• n8n (OSS) — Open source alternative for Zapier
• Seliom — Automate human workflows
• Pipedream — The integration platform built for developers

Browser Automation

• Playwright (OSS) — Browser automation for Chromium, Firefox, WebKit
• Helium (OSS) — Selenium-Python variant
• Selenium (OSS) — Browser automation testing

CMS

• Contentful — Headless content management platform
• Payload (OSS) — TypeScript-first headless CMS with Next.js integration

Database & Backend

• EasyDb — A one-click database, no server required
• eSQLate (OSS) — Build minimum viable admin panels with just SQL
• Supabase (OSS) — Open-source Firebase alternative with Postgres, auth, and realtime
• Staart (OSS) — Backend and payments starter for SaaS startups

Design & CSS

• Tailwind CSS (OSS) — A utility-first CSS framework
• Leon Sans (OSS) — Geometric sans-serif typeface
• Base UI (OSS) — Unstyled, accessible UI components from the MUI team
• shadcn/ui (OSS) — Copy-paste component library built on Tailwind and Radix

Development & Scripting

• Intercooler.js (OSS) — AJAX with attributes
• bash-lib (OSS) — Bash utility methods and tools
• Snowpack (OSS) — Build a web application without a bundler

Ecommerce

• Stripe — Payments infrastructure for the internet
• Shopify — The dominant hosted ecommerce platform
• Medusa (OSS) — Open-source headless commerce engine
• Vendure (OSS) — TypeScript headless commerce framework built on Node.js

Email

• Resend — Modern transactional email API
• React Email (OSS) — Build emails with React components
• Postmark — Reliable transactional email delivery

Forms & Data

• React JSON Form (OSS) — Schema-driven form component
• Uniforms (OSS) — Schema-driven form library
• jExcel (OSS) — Create HTML spreadsheets

Hosting & Static Sites

• 1MB — Free static website hosting and database
• Fast — Hosting for files, images, and apps
• ipfs-deploy (OSS) — Deploy static websites to IPFS

Image Processing

• imgproxy (OSS) — Resize and convert remote images
• Thumbor (OSS) — On-demand crop, resizing, and flipping

Issue Tracking

• Linear — Issue tracking platform
• Plane (OSS) — Open-source project management alternative to Linear and Jira

Media

• soundcn (OSS) — Free sound effects library for web applications and games

Monitoring & Testing

• Bird Eats Bug — Record and share bugs with console logs
• Embrace — Application testing and monitoring tool
• GoAccess (OSS) — Analytics for access logs
• Ciao (OSS) — HTTP checks and tests monitoring

NoCode & App Development

• BravoApp — Turn Figma prototypes into native iOS & Android apps
• Supernova — Convert design files to Flutter, iOS, Android, React Native apps
• CoScreen — Turns your secondary display into your joint team desktop
• Draftbit — Build apps from the browser
• Autocode — Automatically generate API code for SaaS apps

Search & Knowledge

• Typesense (OSS) — Open-source alternative to Algolia
• Tettra — Knowledge base for teams
• Contextualise (OSS) — Manage your knowledge
• Outline (OSS) — Team wiki and knowledge base

Security & Configuration

• ssl-config (OSS) — SSL configuration generator
• SOPS (OSS) — Encrypt secrets in version control

Specialized Tools

• Polynote (OSS) — IDE-inspired polyglot notebook
• Streamlit (OSS) — The fastest way to build custom ML tools
• Spider — Easy and cheap web scraping
• Spotify TUI (OSS) — Spotify client for the terminal
• React Nice Dates (OSS) — React date library
• Webhook.site — Test webhooks and HTTP requests
• Ollama (OSS) — Run large language models locally

Tools & Infrastructure

• code-server (OSS) — Run VS Code on a remote server
• Pulumi (OSS) — Modern Infrastructure as Code
• KOPS (OSS) — Kubernetes Operations
• Elastic APM (OSS) — Open source application performance monitoring
• Coolify (OSS) — Self-hosted alternative to Vercel, Netlify, and Heroku
• Dokploy (OSS) — Self-hosted PaaS for deploying applications and databases

Visualization & Charts

• RoughViz (OSS) — Create sketchy/hand-drawn style charts
• Flowy (OSS) — Create flowcharts
• RAWGraphs (OSS) — Vector-based visualizations from spreadsheets
• diagram-js (OSS) — Node diagrams and graphs