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Developer Tools
Developer tools made by founders who hit the problem first: APIs, testing, deployment and databases, each with the story behind it.
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About Developer Tools
Most developer tools begin as an itch. Someone loses a weekend to a flaky deploy, a brittle test suite or an API that answers in riddles, and decides to build the thing they wish had existed. This category gathers those products and the people behind them, so you can read how each one started before you decide whether to trust it with your codebase.
Browse the subcategories, from APIs and SDKs through to databases and backend, and use the filters to narrow the list. Listings appear newest first by default, and you can sort by community votes instead; votes can never be bought. Each profile carries the founder's own account, which often tells you more about how a tool will be looked after than a feature table can. Founders choose a main category when they submit, so what you find here is what its makers say it is.
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Developer Tools: questions answered
- What belongs in Developer Tools?
- Products built mainly for people who write, test, ship or run software. That covers libraries and SDKs, test platforms, deployment pipelines, and databases and backend services. If the buyer is a developer and the product sits in their daily workflow, it fits here.
- How do I choose between the subcategories?
- Start with the job the tool does for you. Reach for APIs and SDKs when you are building a connection, Testing and QA when you are checking work, DevOps for shipping it, and Databases and backend for storing and serving it. Projects whose code is public now have their own category, Open Source.
- How do I get my developer tool listed?
- Go to /submit and paste your website address. An AI drafts the profile from that site, and you check and edit every field before anything goes live. A paid launch costs $5, while a free listing joins a queue of about 6-8 weeks.
- Can a tool appear in more than one subcategory?
- Every listing has a main category, chosen at submission and included free. If your product straddles areas, a paid upgrade adds up to 3 more categories for $5, so people looking in neighbouring subcategories can still find it.
- What should I look for when comparing developer tools here?
- Read the founder's story for signs of how the tool is maintained and why it exists. Then check how well it fits your stack, how easy it is to leave if you need to, and what the community votes say. Sorting by votes shows what other people have backed.
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