Developer Tools

Self-hostable backend platform combining Postgres, Auth, Storage, realtime APIs, edge functions, and an admin dashboard to build and scale apps quickly.

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Firebase+4

Self-hosted VS Code in a browser with remote development, extensions, and secure access—ideal for cloud/dev containers, labs, and consistent dev environments.

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GitHub Codespaces+3

Open-source Airtable alternative that adds a spreadsheet UI, views, forms, automations, and APIs on top of SQL databases like Postgres and MySQL.

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Airtable+2

Single-file backend with built-in database, auth, admin UI, files, and real-time APIs for web and mobile apps.

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Firebase+2

Self-hosted backend-as-a-service with auth, databases, storage, functions, and realtime APIs for web and mobile apps.

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Firebase+2

Self-hosted Git server with a web UI, issues, pull requests, Actions CI/CD, packages, and fine-grained access controls.

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GitHub+3

Lightweight Git hosting with web UI, SSH/HTTP access, PRs, issues, and webhooks—easy to deploy on small servers.

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GitHub+2

Build and deploy internal tools fast with a low-code builder, prebuilt UI widgets, and secure integrations with databases, APIs, and SaaS services.

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Retool+9

Build internal tools fast with a low-code builder, database/API connectors, queries, and role-based access controls—self-hostable and extensible.

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Retool+5

Browser-based tool for decoding, encoding, encryption, and data analysis using a drag-and-drop “recipe” workflow for security, DFIR, and engineering tasks.

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CrackStation (online hash cracking/lookup)+4

Open-source, modular commerce backend for building custom eCommerce stores with APIs, admin dashboard, plugins, and integrations.

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Shopify+5

Low-code, flow-based tool to wire devices, APIs, and services using a browser editor and Node.js runtime; widely used for IoT, automation, and integrations.

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IFTTT+5

Etherpad is a real-time collaborative editor for notes and documents, featuring live multi-user editing, version history, and an extensible plugin system.

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Google Workspace+3

CLI tool and web app to record, replay, and share terminal sessions in a compact, text-based format with copyable output and embeddable players.

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Loom+3

OneDev is a self-hosted all-in-one DevOps platform combining Git hosting, pull requests/code review, CI/CD pipelines, package registries, and issue tracking.

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GitLab+5

LibreTranslate is an open-source translation API and web UI for private, self-hosted machine translation with offline models and optional API keys/limits.

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Google Cloud Translation+6

Open-source platform to provision secure, reproducible cloud workspaces from code using Terraform, with web access and IDE support.

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GitHub Codespaces+3

EverShop is a Node.js-based eCommerce platform with storefront, admin dashboard, product/catalog management, orders, payments, and an extension-based architecture.

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Shopify+4

A self-hosted, browser-based collection of utilities for encoding/decoding, text and data conversion, and other common developer-friendly tools in one place.

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CyberChef (hosted/online instances)+3

Self-hosted, zero-knowledge pastebin that encrypts text in the browser, supports file attachments, expiration, burn-after-reading, and discussion threads.

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Pastebin.com+4

Self-hosted, real-time collaborative Markdown editor for teams, with note sharing, history, and flexible publishing via links and permissions.

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Confluence+7

Self-hosted translation management platform with Git-based workflows, web UI, team collaboration, and machine-translation support for software localization.

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Crowdin+7

Livebook is a collaborative, web-based notebook for running Elixir code, building data workflows, and deploying notebooks as interactive apps, with real-time collaboration.

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CodeSandbox+9

A web-based, distributed cron replacement for scheduling and running scripts across a fleet with logging, retries, notifications, and access controls.

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Pagerduty+5

Self-hosted web UI for SQL database administration and querying with role-based access, connection management, and a browser SQL editor based on DBeaver.

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Retool+3

Self-hosted JSON storage server with REST APIs, versioning, auth, and sync primitives used by Mozilla for offline-first and synchronization use cases.

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Firebase+3

Baserow is a collaborative no-code database (Airtable alternative) to create tables, views, forms, and an API for building internal tools and lightweight apps.

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Airtable+9

Open-source tool to generate an admin UI and REST API from your database schema, with authentication, role-based access, and extensible configuration.

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Retool+4

Self-hosted workflow scheduler that runs DAGs from YAML, with a web UI, retries, notifications, and logs for operational automation.

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Apache Airflow (Managed/Cloud)+5

Opengist is a self-hosted, Git-backed alternative to GitHub Gist for sharing code snippets and text pastes with syntax highlighting, Markdown support, and user management.

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GitHub Gist+5