I love software and non software tools that help me in some way. Most tools I use & like are mentioned appropriately in other parts of the wiki.
- is.gd - URL shortener with options like make the new URL pronouncable or create QR code.
- Gravatar - Attach an image to an email and websites supporting Gravatar will simply pick up the image you specified.
- Calendly - Schedule meetings.
- Styleguide - Tool to make creating and maintaining style guides easy.
- UFree - Sort out what day to meet.
- Updwn - See what everybody thinks.
- Leetchi - Online money pot for group gifting & personal fundraising.
- Paddle - Checkout, subscriptions, licenses, promotions and analytics that work well together.
- Git.io - URL shortener by GitHub.
- Sourcegraph - Code search and intelligence, self-hosted and scalable.
- Observable - Discover insights faster and communicate more effectively with interactive notebooks for data analysis, visualization, and exploration.
- Visualization of Google's autocomplete
- Carbon - Create and share beautiful images of your source code.
- livegrep - Tool, partially inspired by Google Code Search, for interactive regex search of ~gigabyte-scale source repositories.
- webhook - Lightweight incoming webhook server to run shell commands.
- Remove Image Background
- Canny - Track feedback to build better products.
- Metabase - Simplest, fastest way to get business intelligence and analytics to everyone in your company. (Binary deployment)
- EditorConfig - Helps maintain consistent coding styles for multiple developers working on the same project across various editors and IDEs.
- Apprise - Push Notifications that work with just about every platform.
- Bloaty - Size profiler for binaries.
- mdck - Reports broken links found within md files.
- Docusaurus - Easy to maintain open source documentation websites.
- Coverr - Beautiful, free videos for your homepage.
- Tiny Letter
- Loom - New kind of work communication tool that helps you get your message across through instantly shareable videos.
- Habitat - Modern applications with built-in automation.
- Toodles - Project management directly from the TODO's in your codebase.
- Speedscope - Fast, interactive web-based viewer for performance profiles.
- Dependabot - Creates pull requests to keep your dependencies secure and up-to-date.
- imgproxy - Fast and secure standalone server for resizing and converting remote images.
- Loki - Like Prometheus, but for logs.
- HCL - HashiCorp configuration language.
- Buttondown - Easiest way to run your newsletter in markdown.
- How many people are around - Count the number of people around you 👨👨👦 by monitoring wifi signals 📡.
- Confluent - Streaming platform built by the original creators of Apache Kafka.
- JournalBook - Private, offline-first personal journal.
- AfterClass - New kind of document for futuristic teams.
- WriteFreely - Simple, federated blogging platform. Written in Go.
- Snap.as - Permanent home for your photos.
- Jsonnet - Data templating language.
- fastmod - Fast partial replacement for the codemod tool.
- showthedocs - Documentation browser that finds the relevant docs for your code.
- hack.chat - Minimal, distraction-free chat application.
- Seafile - Enterprise file hosting platform with high reliability and performance.
- Outline - Read & annotate without distractions.
- HelloSign - Most Powerful Platform for Business Agreements.
- Liberapay - Recurrent donations platform. OSS.
- Catch - Taxes, retirement, health insurance and more — built to work together like they always should have.
- Tips for success in building libraries/tools:
- Scratch your own itch.
- Stand on the shoulders of giants.
- Solve for the 80 % use case.
- Make it easy to adopt/delete.
- Hacker Tools - Make the most of the tools that hackers have been using for decades.
- The Developer's Toolbox 2018
- Seeking the Productive Life: Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure (2019) (HN)
- Awesome Uses Page - List of /uses pages that detail apps and gear used by professional web developers.