# bookmarksfor.dev

> A hand-picked catalog of developer tools, websites, and resources — organized by category and tag, plus a blog with picks and how-tos.

A curated directory of the best tools, sites, and resources for developers.

## Frontend

- [21st.dev](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/21st-dev): 12,000+ hand-crafted React and Tailwind components, templates, and shadcn themes — preview live, install with one command.
- [Aceternity UI](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/aceternity-ui): 200+ animated copy-paste React components, blocks and landing templates built with Tailwind CSS and Motion.
- [Component Gallery](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/component-gallery): A cross-reference of UI components as they appear in dozens of real design systems — see how everyone else named and built a combobox.
- [CSS Text Effects](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/css-text-effects): 90 pure-CSS animated text effects — gradient, glitch, typewriter, neon — click to copy, no JavaScript.
- [Fancy Components](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/fancy-components): Unusual React and Motion components for the parts of a site meant to show off — text effects, physics, and deliberately playful hovers.
- [Framer University](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/framer-university): Free Framer components, templates, and tutorials — drop-in effects and layouts for people building sites in Framer rather than in code.
- [Kinetics](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/kinetics): 150+ spring-physics micro-interactions with CSS, React code and build prompts — tune the physics, copy the motion.
- [Liquid Glass](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/liquid-glass): Liquid-glass refraction components that bend the live DOM behind them, in every browser.
- [loading.dev](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/loading-dev): 29 drop-in React loading spinners, from arcs to bouncing dots, installed as one npm package.
- [Magic UI](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/magic-ui): Animated React components and landing-page templates built with Tailwind and Motion, installable via the shadcn CLI.
- [mapcn](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/mapcn): Open-source map components and ready-made blocks for React — store locators, heatmaps, choropleths and delivery trackers built on MapLibre GL, shadcn/ui and Tailwind, installed with one shadcn CLI command.
- [MicroKit UI](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/microkit-ui): Free copy-paste microinteractions for React, CSS and Tailwind — animated buttons, hovers, tabs and inputs, no package to install.
- [Motion Primitives](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/motion-primitives): Animated React components built on Motion and Tailwind — copy the source in, tune the springs, and skip writing the transitions yourself.
- [NumberFlow](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/numberflow): A component that animates numbers as they change — digit-by-digit transitions for counters, prices, and dashboards, in React, Vue, or Svelte.
- [React Bits](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/react-bits): A large collection of animated React components — text effects, backgrounds, and interactions, shipped in JS or TS and CSS or Tailwind.
- [shadcn/ui](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/shadcn-ui): Beautifully designed, copy-paste React components built on Radix and Tailwind.
- [Theatre.js](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/theatre-js): A motion design library with a visual editor — animate anything in JavaScript, three.js scenes included, and keyframe it in the browser.
- [ThreeUI](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/threeui): Copy-ready Three.js components, WebGL backgrounds, hero sections, and full templates with source.
- [UIAble](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/uiable): An open-source component library for Next.js — customizable blocks you copy in and make your own.
- [Uiverse](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/uiverse): A community library of open-source UI elements — buttons, loaders, toggles, cards — copyable as CSS or Tailwind.

## Developer Tools

- [Color.review](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/color-review): A contrast checker you can design inside — nudge two colors side by side and watch the WCAG ratio update against real text samples.
- [Deskflow](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/deskflow): Share one keyboard and mouse across several computers — a software KVM without the video, running on macOS, Windows, and Linux.
- [Easing Editor](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/easing-editor): Anime.js's easing playground — shape a curve, preview it on a moving object, and copy the CSS or JavaScript value straight out.
- [Easing Functions](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/easing-functions): The reference sheet for standard easing curves — every ease-in, ease-out, and elastic variant with a live preview and copyable code.
- [Easing Gradients](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/easing-gradients): Generates CSS gradients that fade along an easing curve instead of a straight line — the fix for banded, muddy-looking gradient edges.
- [LocalSend](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/localsend): Send files between devices on the same network with no account and no cloud hop — AirDrop's idea, working across every platform.
- [OKLCH Color Picker](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/oklch-color-picker): A color picker built on OKLCH — choose perceptually even shades, see which ones fall outside sRGB, and copy the CSS value.
- [Ray.so](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/ray-so): Turns a snippet into a shareable code screenshot — themes, padding, and window chrome, from the team behind Raycast.
- [RegExr](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/regexr): Build and debug regular expressions with live highlighting, a plain-English explanation panel, and a searchable library of patterns.
- [SVGOMG](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/svgomg): The web front end for SVGO — drop in an SVG, toggle the optimizations, and watch the file size drop with the preview right beside it.
- [ui.camera](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/ui-camera): Turns a screenshot of your interface into a polished product shot — device frames, backgrounds, and video, without opening a design tool.

## Repos

- [Astro](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/astro): The web framework for content-driven sites — ships zero JS by default and brings your own UI components.
- [Awesome Free LLM APIs](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/awesome-free-llm-apis): A list of LLM APIs with permanent free tiers for text inference — rate limits, models and OpenAI-compatible base URLs for each provider, with caveats like prompt logging noted.
- [Better Auth](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/better-auth): A framework-agnostic authentication library for TypeScript — email, OAuth, 2FA and organizations via plugins.
- [Biome](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/biome): One fast toolchain for formatting and linting JS, TS, JSON and CSS — a drop-in for Prettier and most of ESLint.
- [Coolify](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/coolify): A self-hostable alternative to Heroku and Vercel — deploy apps, databases and services to your own servers.
- [Drizzle ORM](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/drizzle-orm): A TypeScript ORM that reads like SQL — typed schemas, zero runtime dependencies, and migrations for Postgres, MySQL and SQLite.
- [lazygit](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/lazygit): A terminal UI for git: stage hunks, rebase interactively and resolve conflicts with a few keystrokes.
- [Motion](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/motion): A production-grade animation library for React and vanilla JS — springs, gestures, layout and scroll animations.
- [n8n](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/n8n): Fair-code workflow automation with a visual editor, hundreds of integrations and code steps when you need them.
- [Open WebUI](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/open-webui): A self-hosted chat interface for LLMs — works with Ollama and OpenAI-compatible APIs, with RAG and multi-user support.
- [Playwright](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/playwright): Reliable end-to-end testing across Chromium, Firefox and WebKit, with auto-waiting, tracing and codegen.
- [PocketBase](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/pocketbase): An open-source backend in one file: realtime database, auth, file storage and an admin dashboard.
- [TanStack Query](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/tanstack-query): Server-state management for the web — fetching, caching, background refetching and mutations without hand-rolled loading flags.
- [tRPC](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/trpc): End-to-end typesafe APIs for TypeScript — call the server like a local function, no schema or codegen step.
- [uv](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/uv): An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust — replaces pip, pip-tools, virtualenv and pyenv.
- [Zod](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/zod): TypeScript-first schema validation: declare a shape once, get the runtime check and the static type from the same line.

## Vibe Coding

- [Career Ops](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/career-ops): Open-source AI job search that runs inside your coding CLI — scans job portals, scores listings, tailors your CV, and tracks applications.
- [DESIGN.md](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/design-md): Hundreds of community-made design systems as DESIGN.md files your AI coding tools can read — with an MCP server and CLI.
- [Scrolltide](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/scrolltide): A library of 120+ full build prompts for scroll-driven and 3D websites — each a complete design brief for Claude, Cursor or v0; four are free, the rest need a subscription.
- [Skills](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/skills): A registry of agent skills for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and the rest — browse what people actually install, then add one by command.
- [VibePrompt](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/vibeprompt): A library of UI layout prompts with ready-to-paste Tailwind code for every page section — heroes, pricing, dashboards and more.

## Design Inspiration

- [Shoot Design](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/shoot-design): A gallery of hand-picked UI shots from real products — search by pattern, flow, or component.
- [404s](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/404s): A curated gallery of creative 404 and error pages.
- [60fps.design](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/60fps-design): Endless collection of delightful UI details from best-in-class apps, in motion.
- [AppShot Gallery](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/appshot-gallery): A curated gallery of App Store screenshots and app icons, browsable by genre — reference for mobile UI and ASO.
- [Collect UI](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/collect-ui): Daily-updated collection of UI shots from Dribbble, organized by component and screen type.
- [Cosmos](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/cosmos): A visual search and curation engine for creatives — save what catches your eye into boards and it keeps surfacing more of the same.
- [CTA Gallery](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/cta-gallery): Call-to-action inspiration from real sites — forms, popups, banners and buttons built to convert.
- [Curated Design](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/curated-design): Design inspiration pulled from real, live websites rather than mockups — sortable by industry, style, and the section you need ideas for.
- [Dark Design](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/dark-design): A curated collection of the best dark-mode interfaces and dark-themed marketing sites.
- [Design Spells](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/design-spells): A running collection of the small delightful details — the hovers, transitions, and easter eggs that make an interface feel alive.
- [Footer](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/footer): A curated gallery of website footers, sortable by type and style.
- [Game UI Database](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/game-ui-database): A searchable archive of over a thousand game interfaces, broken down screen by screen — menus, HUDs, inventories, and settings.
- [Growth.design](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/growth-design): Comic-style UX case studies that dissect real product flows, decision by decision.
- [HUDS+GUIS](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/huds-guis): A gallery of fictional and speculative interface design — the HUDs, dashboards, and screen graphics built for film, games, and concept work.
- [Interface In Game](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/interface-in-game): Video game UI catalogued screen by screen — filter by genre, platform, or interface type to see how shipped games solve a pattern.
- [Kage](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/kage): Browse real product interfaces by section — heroes, pricing tables, feature grids — and turn any design into a prompt for Claude Code, Codex or Cursor.
- [Laws of UX](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/laws-of-ux): The psychology principles behind good interfaces, one law per page with examples.
- [Layers](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/layers): A community feed where designers post work in progress and finished shots — closer to a design-focused network than a curated gallery.
- [loadmo.re](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/loadmo-re): An archive of unconventional mobile websites — one curator making the case for friction and personality over another identical layout.
- [Minimal Gallery](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/minimal-gallery): Hand-picked minimal websites since 2013 — clean typography, whitespace, and restraint.
- [Navbar Gallery](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/navbar-gallery): A collection of website navigation bars from real products — find the right nav pattern for your layout.
- [Page Flows](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/page-flows): Recorded user flows from popular apps — onboarding, checkout, upgrade — searchable by task.
- [Rebrand](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/rebrand): A reference library of brand identity redesigns shown before and after — useful when you need evidence behind a visual direction.
- [Recent Design](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/recent-design): Fresh design inspiration, updated constantly — the newest well-crafted sites as they ship.
- [Refero Styles](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/refero-styles): 2,000+ real website styles with their colors, typography and spacing captured as AI-readable DESIGN.md files.
- [Saaspo](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/saaspo): SaaS website design collected page by page and section by section — pricing tables, hero blocks, and feature grids from real products.
- [Same Energy](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/same-energy): A visual search engine that matches an aesthetic rather than a keyword — feed it one picture and it returns the rest of the mood.
- [SEESAW](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/seesaw): A curated gallery of live website design browsable by category — screenshots that link straight through to the working site.
- [Supahero](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/supahero): A library of website hero sections pulled from live sites — the one part of a landing page that always needs another reference.
- [UX Snaps](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/ux-snaps): Annotated UI teardowns of real apps — what each screen does well, filtered by pattern and by mobile or desktop.
- [Wall of Portfolios](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/wall-of-portfolios): A showcase of the best UX, UI, and product designer portfolios — minimal, dark, animated, and bento styles.

## Design & UI

- [3dicons](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/3dicons): 1,440+ open-source 3D icons, free for personal and commercial use without attribution.
- [Best Free Fonts](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/best-free-fonts): A tight, curated shortlist of free typefaces — a couple of hundred picks rather than ten thousand search results to wade through.
- [Bezi](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/bezi): Collaborative 3D and spatial design in the browser — prototype an interactive scene with a team the way you would a flat mockup.
- [cables](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/cables): A node-based editor for real-time WebGL visuals — patch the scene together in the browser and export it as a web-ready piece.
- [Cavalry](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/cavalry): Procedural 2D motion design — node graphs and data-driven rigs instead of hand-keyframing a hundred versions of the same asset.
- [Coolors](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/coolors): Generate, browse, and save color palettes in seconds.
- [Fonts In Use](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/fonts-in-use): An archive of typography in the wild, indexed by typeface, industry, and era — see how a font behaves in public before you license it.
- [Fontshare](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/fontshare): Free, professional-quality typefaces from the Indian Type Foundry — full families, licensed for personal and commercial work alike.
- [Free Faces](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/free-faces): A gallery of free typefaces from independent designers — the characterful end of free type rather than the safe, familiar end.
- [gltfjsx](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/gltfjsx): Turns a glTF file into a declarative React Three Fiber component — every mesh addressable in JSX instead of one opaque scene graph.
- [gltfpack](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/gltfpack): Compresses and simplifies glTF scenes for the web — meshopt quantization that routinely cuts model size by an order of magnitude.
- [Hairline](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/hairline): Fine-line SVG illustrations for interfaces and empty states, plus an AI skill that draws new ones in the same style. MIT licensed.
- [Hugeicons](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/hugeicons): Very large icon library in several styles (stroke, solid, duotone, bulk); a sizeable free set, with the full catalog behind a license.
- [Jitter](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/jitter): Motion design in the browser with a Figma-shaped interface — animate a layout and export it as video, GIF, or Lottie.
- [KIRI Engine](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/kiri-engine): Photogrammetry and Gaussian splatting from a phone — scan an object with the camera and get a usable 3D model back from the cloud.
- [Kitbitz](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/kitbitz): 2,000+ hand-drawn illustrations as SVG/PNG with Figma kits, a plugin and MCP access — free for commercial use (CC0).
- [LosslessCut](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/losslesscut): Trims and cuts video without re-encoding — lossless, near-instant, and ideal for salvaging usable clips out of huge recordings.
- [Lottie Creator](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/lottie-creator): LottieFiles' browser editor for building and tweaking Lottie animations — no After Effects round trip just to change a color.
- [Lottielab](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/lottielab): A dedicated Lottie editor with interactivity and states — design the animation, then hand developers a single JSON file.
- [Lucide](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/lucide): A beautiful, consistent open-source icon set with first-class React/Vue/Svelte support.
- [Luma AI](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/luma-ai): Capture real scenes as radiance fields and generate video from them — 3D reconstruction and generative video under one roof.
- [Meteocons](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/meteocons): 500+ animated weather icons in SVG and Lottie — fill, flat, line and monochrome styles, MIT licensed.
- [Needle Viewer](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/needle-viewer): A browser viewer and light editor for glTF and USD files — drop a model in, inspect it, and share a link that runs anywhere.
- [Nodes](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/nodes): A browser canvas for creative coding with JavaScript and npm — wire code blocks together into generative and visual experiments.
- [OpenCut](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/opencut): A timeline video editor that runs in the browser and keeps footage on your own machine — an open, watermark-free answer to CapCut.
- [Paper](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/paper): A web-native design tool built on real HTML and CSS — what you draw is what the browser renders, shaders and all, with no handoff gap.
- [Phosphor Icons](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/phosphor-icons): Flexible open-source icon family in six weights, from thin to fill plus duotone — one set that covers both quiet UI and bold marketing pages.
- [Polycam](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/polycam): 3D scanning on a phone — LiDAR, photogrammetry, and splat capture, with export to the mesh formats the rest of your pipeline expects.
- [RealityScan](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/realityscan): Epic's photogrammetry app — shoot an object from every angle on a phone and get a game-ready mesh processed in the cloud.
- [Recordly](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/recordly): An open-source screen recorder for product demos — automatic zooms and a smoothed cursor turn a raw capture into something watchable.
- [ShaderToy](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/shadertoy): The gallery and live editor where GLSL fragment shaders are shared — read the source behind effects you assumed were impossible.
- [ShareX](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/sharex): A Windows capture toolkit — region screenshots, GIF and video recording, OCR, and a very long list of upload destinations.
- [Stitch by Google Labs](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/stitch-by-google-labs): Google Labs’ prompt-to-UI experiment — describe or sketch a screen and get back an editable design along with the frontend code for it.
- [SuperSplat Editor](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/supersplat-editor): An open-source browser editor for 3D Gaussian splats — clean up a scan, crop away the mess, and publish the result to a link.
- [SVG Spinners](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/svg-spinners): A collection of 60+ SVG and CSS loading spinners — copy the markup or use them via Iconify.
- [SVGL](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/svgl): An open-source library of SVG brand and product logos, copy-ready as SVG or React/TSX.
- [Tabler Icons](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/tabler-icons): Thousands of MIT-licensed stroke icons on a 24px grid, with adjustable stroke width and packages for React, Vue, Svelte and plain SVG.
- [UNCUT](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/uncut): A curated catalogue of 160+ contemporary typefaces by independent designers — sans, serif, mono and display, all free for commercial use.
- [Unicorn.studio](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/unicorn-studio): Design interactive WebGL effects without writing shaders — build the animation visually, then embed it in a real site.
- [Womp](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/womp): Browser-based 3D modeling built on soft, blobby shapes — the friendliest on-ramp into 3D for people who normally design in 2D.

## Mobile

- [Mobbin](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/mobbin): A searchable library of real mobile app screenshots and flows — UI and UX reference from hundreds of shipped products.

## Learn & Docs

- [Devouring Details](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/devouring-details): Rauno Freiberg's interactive manual on interaction design — 23 chapters of live demos you can poke at, each with its React source; one prototype chapter is free.
- [Interfaces](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/interfaces): Free design-engineering magazine with hands-on pieces on animation, typography, layout and color, written for people who build the UI themselves.
- [Invisible Details](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/invisible-details): A course on the small interface decisions users never notice but always feel — timing, weight, feedback and predictability; three lessons are free to read.

## Launch & Directories

- [Acquire.com](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/acquire-com): Startup acquisition marketplace — list a profitable SaaS for sale, or watch listings to see what small products actually sell for.
- [AlternativeTo](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/alternativeto): Crowdsourced database of software alternatives — being listed next to an incumbent captures people already searching for a switch.
- [AppSumo](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/appsumo): Lifetime-deal marketplace for software — launching a deal here trades margin for a large first cohort of paying users and reviews.
- [Awwwards](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/awwwards): Juried web design awards — submitting a site puts it in front of designers, and a nomination is a real credential.
- [Behance](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/behance): Adobe's portfolio platform for full case studies — better than a single shot when you want to show the whole design process.
- [BetaList](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/betalist): Showcase for pre-launch and recently launched startups — get in front of early adopters and beta testers. Every submission is paid.
- [Capterra](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/capterra): Gartner-owned software directory where buyers shortlist tools by category — free vendor listing plus optional paid placement.
- [Chrome Web Store](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/chrome-web-store): Distribution channel for browser extensions — a store listing with screenshots is its own search surface inside Chrome.
- [Crunchbase](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/crunchbase): Company and funding database used by press, investors, and buyers — a maintained profile is table stakes for a startup.
- [DEV Community](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/dev-community): Developer blogging platform where a build-in-public writeup reaches a large technical audience and keeps ranking afterwards.
- [Devpost](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/devpost): Hackathon platform and project portfolio — publish what you built and it stays discoverable to developers and sponsors.
- [Dribbble](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/dribbble): Designer portfolio network — post shots of your product's UI to reach designers and pick up inbound work.
- [Fazier](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/fazier): Product Hunt-style launchpad for makers, with badges you can embed and a queue that is far less crowded.
- [Future Tools](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/future-tools): Hand-curated AI tool collection by Matt Wolfe, filtered by use case — smaller index, higher bar for what gets in.
- [Futurepedia](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/futurepedia): Large AI tool directory with category filters and a newsletter — free submissions plus a paid queue skip for faster review.
- [G2](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/g2): The largest B2B software review site — a claimed profile with real reviews drives buyer comparison traffic and category rankings.
- [Hacker News](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/hacker-news): Y Combinator's tech forum — a Show HN post can put a side project in front of thousands of developers in a morning.
- [Indie Hackers](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/indie-hackers): Community of bootstrapped founders sharing revenue numbers, launches, and post-mortems — list your product and post milestones.
- [Lobsters](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/lobsters): Invite-only link aggregator with a strict technical focus — small but unusually high-signal traffic for infrastructure and dev tools.
- [Microlaunch](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/microlaunch): Month-long launch board for makers — a smaller crowd than the big leaderboards, so a new product stays visible long enough to collect feedback.
- [Open Launch](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/open-launch): Open-source launch platform for makers — daily rankings, free submissions, and the whole codebase public on GitHub.
- [Peerlist](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/peerlist): Professional network for developers and designers with a project feed — ship a project post and it reaches an engaged maker audience.
- [Product Hunt](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/product-hunt): The default launch stage for new products — a daily leaderboard where makers post and an audience of early adopters votes.
- [Reddit](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/reddit): Subreddits like r/SideProject, r/SaaS, and r/webdev are launch channels — read each one's self-promo rules before posting.
- [SaaSHub](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/saashub): Software alternatives and reviews site with a fast free submission — good early backlink and steady comparison traffic.
- [Sidebar](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/sidebar): Five hand-picked design links a day, delivered by newsletter — small, curated, and worth submitting a genuinely useful post to.
- [SideProjectors](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/sideprojectors): Marketplace for buying and selling side projects — also a discovery surface for a project you are still building.
- [Slant](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/slant): Community-ranked "what is the best X" comparisons — pros and cons voted by users, and easy to add a missing option.
- [SourceForge](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/sourceforge): Long-running open-source download and review directory — still ranks well for software category searches and mirrors releases.
- [StackShare](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/stackshare): Directory of the tech stacks real companies use — list a developer tool where engineers browse for what others adopted.
- [There's An AI For That](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/there-s-an-ai-for-that): The largest AI tool index, organized by task — the first place people look when they want an AI tool for a specific job.
- [Toolify](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/toolify): AI tool directory with traffic rankings and category leaderboards, plus multilingual pages that pick up international search.
- [TrustRadius](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/trustradius): In-depth B2B software reviews with verified reviewers — long-form writeups that enterprise buyers read before shortlisting.
- [Uneed](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/uneed): Daily launch board for indie tools with a lightweight submission flow and a free tier that still gets front-page placement.
- [Wellfound](https://bookmarksfor.dev/item/wellfound): Startup profiles, hiring, and investor discovery — formerly AngelList Talent, and still where startup job seekers look first.

## Articles

- [What Are Agent Skills? SKILL.md Explained, With Install Commands and a 10-Line Example](https://bookmarksfor.dev/ai/what-are-agent-skills): Agent skills are folders with a SKILL.md that an AI agent loads on demand. Which agents support them, how to install vendor skills, and how to write your own.
- [MCP Servers for Databases Compared (2026): Postgres, Supabase, Neon, MongoDB and More](https://bookmarksfor.dev/ai/mcp-servers-for-databases-compared): Six database MCP servers compared on read-only mode, auth, install command and transport, plus which ones are safe to point at production data.
- [Free Vector Databases and Embedding APIs: 11 Free Tiers Compared (2026)](https://bookmarksfor.dev/ai/free-vector-databases-and-embedding-apis): Free vector database and embedding API tiers for developers: Pinecone, Qdrant, Weaviate, Zilliz, Upstash, Supabase, MongoDB, Voyage, Jina and Gemini compared.
- [Free Postgres and Database Hosting in 2026: 8 Free Tiers Compared](https://bookmarksfor.dev/devtools/free-postgres-database-hosting-compared): Free Postgres hosting compared: Neon, Supabase, Prisma Postgres, Nile, Turso, Aiven, Render and CockroachDB. Storage, pausing rules, project limits, card rules.
- [Free Hosting for Side Projects in 2026: 9 Providers Compared](https://bookmarksfor.dev/devtools/free-hosting-for-side-projects-compared): Free hosting compared for side projects: Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare, GitHub Pages, Render, Railway, Koyeb, Fly.io, Deno. Limits and commercial-use rules.
- [Fluid Typography with CSS clamp(): The Formula, Zoom and Tailwind (2026)](https://bookmarksfor.dev/frontend/fluid-typography-css-clamp): How to build fluid font sizes and spacing with CSS clamp(): the slope and intercept formula, a worked example, the zoom rule for accessibility, and Tailwind usage.
- [Favicon Sizes in 2026: Which Icon Files a Website Actually Needs](https://bookmarksfor.dev/frontend/favicon-sizes): The favicon and icon files a site needs in 2026: favicon.ico, SVG, apple-touch-icon and manifest icons, with sizes, exact link tags and the Next.js app/icon conventions.
- [Best Supabase Alternatives in 2026: 5 Backends Compared](https://bookmarksfor.dev/devtools/best-supabase-alternatives): Five Supabase alternatives compared: Firebase, Appwrite, Nhost, Convex and Neon, with licenses, free tiers and which one fits your stack.
- [Best Raycast Alternatives in 2026: 6 Launchers Compared](https://bookmarksfor.dev/devtools/best-raycast-alternatives): Six Raycast alternatives compared: Alfred, Spotlight, LaunchBar, Sol, Quicksilver and PowerToys Run, with prices, licenses and platforms.
- [App Icon Sizes 2026: iOS, Android Adaptive Icons and Expo app.json](https://bookmarksfor.dev/mobile/app-icon-sizes-ios-android-expo): The app icon sizes iOS, Android and Expo need in 2026: the 1024 px master, adaptive icon layers and safe zone, mipmap densities, the Play 512 px icon and exact app.json keys.
- [How to Promote a Side Project on Reddit Without Getting Banned](https://bookmarksfor.dev/launch/promote-side-project-on-reddit): What Reddit's own rules say about self-promotion, how subreddit rules stack on top, the 9:1 and 10% rules of thumb, and free mention alerts with F5Bot.
- [Privacy-Friendly Google Analytics Alternatives With a Free Tier or Self-Hosting (2026)](https://bookmarksfor.dev/devtools/privacy-friendly-google-analytics-alternatives): Seven Google Analytics alternatives you can run free, hosted or self-hosted: free limits, cookie use, self-host license and what each one leaves out.
- [Playwright vs Cypress vs Selenium in 2026: Which to Pick for a Web App](https://bookmarksfor.dev/devtools/playwright-vs-cypress-vs-selenium): Playwright, Cypress and Selenium compared on browsers, languages, parallel runs and their cost, tabs and iframes, debugging, AI features and license.
- [Over-the-Air Updates for Mobile Apps: EAS Update vs Capgo vs Capawesome (2026)](https://bookmarksfor.dev/mobile/over-the-air-updates-for-mobile-apps): Expo EAS Update, Capgo, Capawesome Cloud and self-hosted OTA compared: free tiers, MAU pricing, React Native or Capacitor, and what Apple and Google allow.
- [Next.js SaaS Boilerplates Compared: 4 Free Starters vs 3 Paid Kits](https://bookmarksfor.dev/devtools/nextjs-saas-boilerplates-compared): Free and paid Next.js SaaS boilerplates side by side: auth, payments, database, license, price and last commit date, checked on each repo and pricing page.
- [LLM Observability and Evaluation Tools With a Free Tier (2026)](https://bookmarksfor.dev/devtools/llm-observability-and-evaluation-tools-free-tiers): Eight LLM tracing and eval tools with a free tier or free self-host: monthly limits, retention, licenses, and which ones work with the Vercel AI SDK.
- [Image and Video Generation APIs Compared (2026): fal, Replicate, Runware and More](https://bookmarksfor.dev/ai/image-and-video-generation-apis-compared): Seven image and video generation APIs for developers: how each one bills, example prices, models, async jobs and webhooks, JS/TS SDKs and free credits.
- [How to Get Your Dev Tool Cited by AI Search: llms.txt, Crawlers, Structured Data](https://bookmarksfor.dev/launch/get-your-site-cited-by-ai-search): What Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and Perplexity document on AI search: which crawlers to allow, what llms.txt does, where schema helps, plus a checklist.
- [Free Uptime Monitoring and Status Pages in 2026: 6 Hosted Tiers, 3 Self-Hosted](https://bookmarksfor.dev/devtools/free-uptime-monitoring-and-status-pages): Free uptime monitoring compared: monitors, check intervals, alert channels and status pages for six hosted free tiers, plus Uptime Kuma, Gatus and Upptime.
- [Free AI Image Upscalers for Web Assets (2026): 7 Options, Local First](https://bookmarksfor.dev/design/free-ai-image-upscalers): Seven free AI image upscalers for screenshots, logos and product shots: free limits, max scale, whether your image is uploaded, and licenses.
- [Dynamic OG Images in Next.js: next/og vs Screenshot and Template APIs](https://bookmarksfor.dev/frontend/dynamic-og-images-in-nextjs): How to generate Open Graph images in Next.js with next/og, where Satori stops (CSS, fonts, 500KB), and when a screenshot or template API is the better buy.
- [Docs Platforms AI Agents Can Read: Mintlify, GitBook, Fumadocs, Docusaurus and More](https://bookmarksfor.dev/devtools/docs-platforms-ai-agents-can-read): Six docs platforms compared on what AI agents can read: llms.txt, Markdown pages and MCP servers, plus hosting, free plan and license for each one.
- [How to Block Disposable Emails at Sign-Up: Free Lists, APIs and a Next.js Example](https://bookmarksfor.dev/devtools/block-disposable-emails-at-sign-up): Block throwaway emails at sign-up: three free open-source domain lists, check APIs with free tiers, built-in auth options and a short Next.js server check.
- [Best Tailwind Plus Alternatives in 2026: 7 Component Kits Compared](https://bookmarksfor.dev/frontend/best-tailwind-plus-alternatives): Tailwind Plus is closed to new buyers. Seven free and paid Tailwind component kits compared by license, component count, React or HTML output and price.
- [Best Postman Alternatives in 2026: Bruno, Hoppscotch, Insomnia, Yaak and More](https://bookmarksfor.dev/devtools/best-postman-alternatives): Five Postman alternatives compared on offline use, git storage, forced login, license and free tier: Bruno, Hoppscotch, Insomnia, Yaak, API Dash.
- [Best OpenRouter Alternatives (2026): 7 LLM Gateways Compared](https://bookmarksfor.dev/ai/best-openrouter-alternatives): Seven OpenRouter alternatives compared: LiteLLM, Bifrost, Portkey, Helicone, Vercel, Cloudflare and Requesty, with fees, licenses, BYOK and free tiers.
- [Best MCP Servers for Web Developers (2026): 12 Worth Installing](https://bookmarksfor.dev/ai/best-mcp-servers-for-web-developers): Twelve MCP servers a web developer would actually install, by job: what each exposes, license, transport, auth, the Claude Code install line and the risk.
- [Best Gumroad and Lemon Squeezy Alternatives in 2026: Merchant-of-Record Fees Compared](https://bookmarksfor.dev/launch/best-gumroad-alternatives): Paddle, Polar, Creem, Payhip, Dodo and Stripe compared with Gumroad and Lemon Squeezy: fees per sale, who handles VAT and sales tax, payouts and free plans.
- [Background Coding Agents Compared (2026): Codex, Jules, Copilot, Devin](https://bookmarksfor.dev/vibecoding/background-coding-agents-compared): Codex, Jules, Devin, Copilot coding agent, Claude Code on the web and Cursor cloud agents: how you hand off a task, where it runs, the PR flow and the price.
- [Best LosslessCut Alternatives 2026: 4 Ways to Cut Video Without Re-encoding](https://bookmarksfor.dev/design/best-losslesscut-alternatives): Four LosslessCut alternatives for cutting video without re-encoding: Avidemux, FFmpeg, Shutter Encoder and MKVToolNix, with platforms, licences and caveats.
- [Best Hugeicons Alternatives in 2026: 6 Icon Libraries Compared](https://bookmarksfor.dev/design/best-hugeicons-alternatives): Six Hugeicons alternatives, all free and open source: Lucide, Phosphor, Tabler Icons, Iconoir, Heroicons and Remix Icon, compared on icon counts, styles and licenses.
- [Best Behance Alternatives in 2026: 4 Portfolio Sites Compared](https://bookmarksfor.dev/inspiration/best-behance-alternatives): Four Behance alternatives for showing design work: Dribbble, Cargo, Contra and Format, with what each is for, the free plan, and the cheapest paid plan.
- [Best Toolify Alternatives in 2026: 4 AI Directories Compared](https://bookmarksfor.dev/launch/best-toolify-alternatives): Four Toolify alternatives for finding or listing AI tools: There's An AI For That, TopAI.tools, Future Tools and Futurepedia, with listing prices and how fast you go live.
- [Best SourceForge Alternatives in 2026: 8 Options Compared](https://bookmarksfor.dev/launch/best-sourceforge-alternatives): Eight SourceForge alternatives compared: GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, SourceHut and Launchpad for code and releases, plus AlternativeTo, Product Hunt and G2 for discovery.
- [Game UI Database Alternatives: 4 Game UI Reference Sites (2026)](https://bookmarksfor.dev/inspiration/best-game-ui-database-alternatives): Game UI Database and four other places to study game interfaces: Interface In Game, HUDS+GUIS, Dribbble's game UI tag and GDC Vault, by what each one is good for.
- [How to Add a GIF or Video to a GitHub README and Pull Request (2026)](https://bookmarksfor.dev/devtools/gif-or-video-in-github-readme-and-pull-requests): Record your screen, turn it into a GIF or a small MP4, and embed it in a GitHub README, issue or pull request. Size limits, formats and the free browser tools to do it.
- [How to Compress an Image to 100 KB (or Any Size) Without Uploading It](https://bookmarksfor.dev/frontend/compress-image-to-100kb): Get an image under 100 KB, 200 KB or 1 MB for an upload form, CMS or email. Which format to use, what quality does, when to resize, and a free browser tool that does the search for you.
- [App Store Screenshot Sizes 2026: iPhone, iPad and Google Play](https://bookmarksfor.dev/mobile/app-store-screenshot-sizes): The exact screenshot sizes App Store Connect and Google Play accept in 2026, which ones are actually required, and how to turn simulator captures into them for free.
- [Best Unicorn Studio Alternatives in 2026: 5 Compared](https://bookmarksfor.dev/inspiration/best-unicorn-studio-alternatives): Five Unicorn Studio alternatives for WebGL effects: cables, Spline, ShaderToy, Paper Shaders and Vanta.js, compared on licensing and free tiers.
- [Best Polycam Alternatives 2026: Free and Open-Source Picks](https://bookmarksfor.dev/inspiration/best-polycam-alternatives): Five Polycam alternatives, all with a free option: KIRI Engine for phone scanning, RealityScan for desktop, and open-source Meshroom, COLMAP and nerfstudio.
- [Best PocketBase Alternatives in 2026: 5 Backends Compared](https://bookmarksfor.dev/devtools/best-pocketbase-alternatives): Five PocketBase alternatives compared: Supabase, Appwrite, Firebase, Nhost and Parse Server, for when you need Postgres, scale or a managed host.
- [Best n8n Alternatives in 2026: 5 Automation Tools Compared](https://bookmarksfor.dev/devtools/best-n8n-alternatives): Five n8n alternatives compared: Activepieces, Windmill, Zapier, Make and Node-RED, with licenses, free tiers and who each one is for.
- [Best Mobbin Alternatives in 2026: 5 UI References Compared](https://bookmarksfor.dev/inspiration/best-mobbin-alternatives): Five Mobbin alternatives for UI research, four with a free option: Page Flows, Refero, Lapa Ninja, UX Snaps and AppShot Gallery, compared on content and pricing.
- [Best Magic UI Alternatives in 2026: 6 Libraries Compared](https://bookmarksfor.dev/frontend/best-magic-ui-alternatives): Six Magic UI alternatives, most of them free: Aceternity UI, React Bits, shadcn/ui, Motion Primitives, 21st.dev and Uiverse, compared on licenses and pricing.
- [Best Jitter Alternatives in 2026: 4 Motion Tools Compared](https://bookmarksfor.dev/inspiration/best-jitter-alternatives): Four Jitter alternatives, each with a free plan: Lottielab, Lottie Creator, Cavalry and Rive, compared on Lottie export, desktop motion design and interactive output.
- [Best Coolors Alternatives in 2026: 5 Color Tools Compared](https://bookmarksfor.dev/inspiration/best-coolors-alternatives): Five Coolors alternatives compared: OKLCH Color Picker, Realtime Colors, Color.review, Huemint and Colormind, by job and cost.
- [Best Coolify Alternatives in 2026: 6 Options Compared](https://bookmarksfor.dev/devtools/best-coolify-alternatives): Six Coolify alternatives compared: Dokploy, CapRover, Dokku, Render, Railway and Vercel, with pricing, free tiers and who each one suits.
- [Best Aceternity UI Alternatives in 2026: 5 Compared](https://bookmarksfor.dev/frontend/best-aceternity-ui-alternatives): Five Aceternity UI alternatives compared: Magic UI, React Bits, Motion Primitives, 21st.dev and shadcn/ui, with license terms and pricing.
- [Best Mac Apps for Developers in 2026](https://bookmarksfor.dev/devtools/best-mac-apps-for-developers): The Mac apps developers actually keep installed: Raycast, Rectangle, Ghostty, OrbStack, Proxyman, TablePlus, Maccy, CleanShot X and more, grouped by the friction each one removes, with 2026 prices.
- [Best Mac Apps for Claude Code and Codex Users (2026)](https://bookmarksfor.dev/devtools/best-mac-apps-for-claude-code-and-codex): The Mac apps that make working with AI coding agents easier: running agents in parallel, tracking usage limits, prompting by voice, reviewing diffs and keeping long runs alive.
- [Best Finder Alternatives for Mac in 2026 (Free and Paid)](https://bookmarksfor.dev/devtools/best-finder-alternatives-for-mac): ForkLift, Commander One, Path Finder, Nimble Commander, Marta and QSpace compared, plus the small apps that fix Finder without replacing it. Prices checked October 2026.
- [Where to Launch Your Side Project in 2026](https://bookmarksfor.dev/launch/where-to-launch-your-side-project): Product Hunt, Show HN, Uneed, Fazier, Peerpush, SideProjectors and more: what each launch site is good for, what listing costs, and a launch-week order.
- [UI Pattern and Component Galleries for Developers](https://bookmarksfor.dev/inspiration/ui-pattern-and-component-galleries): Collect UI, Navbar Gallery, UX Snaps, Page Flows, Component Gallery, Mobbin: what each pattern gallery collects, how to search it, and what is free.
- [Launch-Day SEO Checklist With Free Browser Tools](https://bookmarksfor.dev/devtools/launch-day-seo-checklist): A launch-day SEO checklist for a new site: meta tags, OG image, favicon, JSON-LD, robots.txt, sitemap, IndexNow and more, done with free browser tools.
- [GitHub Student Developer Pack 2026: How to Apply and What to Claim](https://bookmarksfor.dev/learning/github-student-developer-pack): How to get the GitHub Student Developer Pack: who qualifies, how verification works, whether Copilot is free for students, and which offers to claim first.
- [Developer Portfolio Inspiration: Where to Look (2026)](https://bookmarksfor.dev/inspiration/developer-portfolio-inspiration): Where to find great developer and designer portfolios, from Wall of Portfolios to a 1,900-site GitHub list, and what the best ones have in common.
- [Best Free React Icon Libraries in 2026, Compared](https://bookmarksfor.dev/frontend/best-react-icon-libraries): Tabler, Lucide, Phosphor, Heroicons, Radix, Iconoir and Meteocons compared: icon counts, licenses, React packages, import style and tree-shaking.
- [Startup Credits for Cloud and AI in 2026: Who Actually Qualifies](https://bookmarksfor.dev/launch/startup-credits-for-ai-and-cloud): AWS Activate, Google Cloud, Microsoft and 25 more startup credit programs, sorted by what it takes to qualify: open, gated on funding, or referral-only.
- [Free Text-to-Speech and Transcription APIs: 8 Free Tiers Compared](https://bookmarksfor.dev/ai/free-text-to-speech-and-transcription-apis): Free text-to-speech and speech-to-text APIs for developers: the most generous free tiers (Deepgram $200, ElevenLabs, Polly, AssemblyAI and more), card rules and resets.
- [Free AI for Students (2026): 9 Student Plans Compared](https://bookmarksfor.dev/learning/free-ai-tools-for-students): Free AI for students in 2026: Google AI Pro, GitHub Copilot, JetBrains, Zed, Kiro and more. What each gives, who qualifies, card needed, end dates.
- [Free AI API Tiers That Actually Last: 13 Options for 2026](https://bookmarksfor.dev/ai/free-ai-api-tiers): Thirteen free AI and LLM API tiers that reset monthly or never expire, most with no credit card: what each gives you, the limit, and who it suits.
- [Vibe Coding Tools Compared: Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code](https://bookmarksfor.dev/vibecoding/vibe-coding-tools-compared): Cursor, Windsurf, Zed, Cline, Claude Code, Codex, v0, Bolt.new and Lovable with November 2026 prices: what each is for, where they overlap, and what none of them do well.
- [Free SVG Icon and Logo Resources for Developers](https://bookmarksfor.dev/frontend/free-svg-icon-and-logo-resources): Where to find free SVG icons and brand logos you can actually ship: open icon sets, a logo library, the license rules that bite, and the cleanup steps.
- [13 Free Developer Tools, No Sign-Up Required](https://bookmarksfor.dev/devtools/free-developer-tools-no-sign-up): Thirteen free online developer tools that run in your browser with no account and no upload: color, SEO, conversion, and formatting utilities that just work.
- [Best Design Inspiration Sites for Developers (2026)](https://bookmarksfor.dev/inspiration/best-design-inspiration-sites-for-developers): Design galleries worth bookmarking, grouped by what they hold: whole sites, mobile flows, motion, components — plus how to search one without wasting an hour.
- [5 Best Mobile Development Tools for Solo Developers (2026)](https://bookmarksfor.dev/mobile/best-mobile-tools-solo-developers): Shipping an app alone means build, release, monetization, monitoring, and design all land on you. These five tools — Expo, Fastlane, RevenueCat, Sentry, and Mobbin — cover the whole loop.
- [5 Best AI Tools for Developers to Get Ahead in 2026](https://bookmarksfor.dev/ai/best-ai-tools-for-developers): The AI stack worth learning this year: Claude, the Anthropic API, Ollama, Hugging Face, and LangChain — what each one is actually for, and when to skip it.
- [5 Best Lovable Alternatives for Shipping Apps with AI (2026)](https://bookmarksfor.dev/vibecoding/best-lovable-alternatives): Five Lovable alternatives with November 2026 prices: Cursor, Bolt.new, v0, Windsurf and Claude, what each one is for, and which has the best free plan.
- [5 Frontend Tools Worth Bookmarking in 2026](https://bookmarksfor.dev/frontend/frontend-tools-to-bookmark): A short, opinionated list of the frontend tools and references we reach for every week — frameworks, styling, components, and icons.
- [How We Pick Resources for the Directory](https://bookmarksfor.dev/learning/how-we-pick-resources): The simple criteria behind every link in the catalog — and how to suggest one.

## [Free tiers & credits](https://bookmarksfor.dev/catalog/free-credits)

### AI APIs & inference

- [Google Gemini Developer API — Free Tier](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing): Ongoing free tier; Rate-limited per model; outside the EEA, UK and Switzerland free-tier prompts may be used to improve Google products and read by human reviewers
- [Groq Free Tier](https://console.groq.com/docs/rate-limits): Ongoing free tier; 30 requests/min and 1,000 requests/day on the main chat models; some models are lower
- [Mistral AI Free Plan](https://mistral.ai/pricing): $10 / month in API credits; Limited messages, web searches and coding sessions; Free mode prompts may be used for training unless you opt out in admin settings
- [Claude API — New User Credits](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing): One-time signup credits; First-party Claude API only
- [Cohere Free Trial API](https://cohere.com/pricing): Free trial API key; 1,000 API calls / month, Chat 20 requests/min; for evaluation, production needs a paid key
- [NVIDIA NIM Free Inference Endpoints](https://docs.api.nvidia.com/nim/docs/product): Free hosted inference endpoints; NVIDIA Developer Program members; prototyping and testing only, production needs an AI Enterprise license
- [IBM watsonx.ai Lite Plan](https://www.ibm.com/products/watsonx-ai/pricing): 300K tokens / month; Monthly reset; Lite plan model selection
- [Hugging Face ZeroGPU on Spaces](https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/spaces-zerogpu): Free GPU quota on Spaces; Free account: ~5 min/day GPU quota, medium queue priority
- [Vercel AI Gateway Free Tier](https://vercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/pricing): $5 / month; $5 every 30 days; payment method required to activate
- [Replicate — Try for Free](https://replicate.com/collections/try-for-free): Free runs on selected models; Limited number of runs; exact cap not published
- [Alibaba Cloud Model Studio Free Token Quota](https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/model-studio/new-free-quota): Typically 1M tokens per model; Valid 90 days from activation; Singapore-region international models; real-time inference only
- [OpenRouter Free AI Models](https://openrouter.ai/docs/api-reference/limits): Free model catalog; 20 requests/min; 50 requests/day, or 1,000/day after buying $10 in credits
- [Cerebras Inference Free Trial](https://inference-docs.cerebras.ai/support/rate-limits): $5 trial credit; Expires 30 days after grant; verified payment method required; no permanent free tier
- [DeepInfra DeepStart — 50B Free Inference Tokens](https://deepinfra.com/deepstart): ~50,000,000,000 tokens; Must have raised $250K–$10M; founded within 2 years; priced at DeepSeek V4 Flash rates
- [Voyage AI Free Embedding & Reranking Tokens](https://docs.voyageai.com/docs/pricing): 200M tokens (current models); 50M for specialized older models (multilingual-2, finance-2, law-2, code-2); per account across embedding + rerank; excludes Batch API
- [Jina AI Free API Access](https://jina.ai/api-dashboard/pricing/): Free rate-limited API access; Reader 500 RPM; Embeddings & Reranker 100 RPM / 100K TPM; Search 100 RPM
- [Firecrawl Free Plan](https://www.firecrawl.dev/pricing): 1,000 credits / month; Monthly refresh; rate limited
- [Exa Free Credits](https://exa.ai/pricing): $10 credit, resets monthly; Balance resets to $10 on the 1st of each month; no payment method required
- [Scaleway Generative APIs Free Tier](https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/model-as-a-service/): 1M tokens; One-time free tier across generative APIs; includes 60 min audio transcription
- [Cloudflare Workers AI Free Allocation](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/pricing/): 10,000 Neurons / day; Shared across all models, resets daily at 00:00 UTC; requests over the allocation fail instead of billing on the Workers Free plan
- [Ollama Cloud Free Plan](https://ollama.com/pricing): Free starter usage credits; Smaller set of starter models; 1 concurrent request; prompts are not logged or trained on
- [OVHcloud AI Endpoints](https://docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/public-cloud/ai-machine-learning/ai-endpoints-capabilities): Free anonymous access, no API key; 2 requests/min per IP per model without a key; hosted in France
- [LLM7.io Free Token](https://docs.llm7.io/limits): Free API token; 60 requests/min, 250/hour, 100K tokens per 24h; limits may be reduced without notice
- [Z.ai GLM Flash Models](https://docs.z.ai/guides/overview/pricing): Free GLM-4.7-Flash, GLM-4.5-Flash and GLM-4.6V-Flash; Input and output listed as free; rate and concurrency limits not published
- [Kilo Gateway Free Models](https://kilo.ai/docs/gateway/authentication): Free :free models without an API key; 200 requests/hour per IP; some free models route to providers that train on prompts

### Coding assistants

- [ChatGPT Free Plan](https://chatgpt.com): Ongoing free tier; Unlimited text chats; limited file uploads, image gen and reasoning
- [Cursor Free Plan](https://cursor.com/pricing): Ongoing free tier; Limited agent requests; no cloud agents or third-party models
- [CodeRabbit Free for Open Source](https://www.coderabbit.ai/oss): Free AI code review; Public repositories only
- [Cline Free Models](https://docs.cline.bot/getting-started/free-models): Rotating free model access; Limited-time rotating promos; capped quota; Cline IDE extension and CLI only
- [Devin Free Plan](https://devin.ai/pricing): Ongoing free tier; Light usage quota; limited models; unlimited inline edits and Tab
- [Browser Use — $1 Signup Credit](https://browser-use.com/pricing): $1 credit; One per person; never expires

### Image, audio & video

- [Bing Image Creator](https://www.bing.com/images/create/help): 15 fast-mode creations / day; Daily reset; standard speed capped at 200 prompts / 24h
- [Stability AI — 25 Free API Credits](https://platform.stability.ai): 25 API credits; One-time grant on signup; no recurring free quota
- [ElevenLabs Free Plan](https://elevenlabs.io/pricing): 10,000 credits / month; Shared across all products; commercial use restricted
- [Amazon Polly Free Tier](https://aws.amazon.com/polly/pricing/): 5M characters / month (Standard voices); Standard ongoing; neural 1M, long-form 500K, generative 100K chars for first 12 months
- [Deepgram — $200 Free Credit](https://deepgram.com/pricing): $200 in credits; No expiration; speech-to-text and TTS
- [AssemblyAI Free Credits](https://www.assemblyai.com/pricing): $50 in credits; One-time grant; free tier capped at 5 new streams / min
- [Suno Free Plan](https://suno.com/pricing): 50 credits / day; Non-commercial use on the free plan
- [Runway Free Plan](https://runway.com/pricing): 125 one-time credits; No monthly refresh; limited model selection
- [Recraft Free Plan](https://www.recraft.ai/docs/plans-and-billing/free-plan): Daily free credits (raster + vector); Up to 3 uploads/day, 2 images per generation
- [Leonardo.Ai Free Plan](https://leonardo.ai): 150 tokens / day; Resets every 24h; unused tokens do not roll over
- [Meshy Free Plan](https://help.meshy.ai/en/articles/15696428-what-is-included-on-the-free-plan): 100 3D generation credits / month; Resets on the 1st; credits do not roll over
- [Speechmatics — $100 Free Credit](https://www.speechmatics.com/pricing): $100 in credits; Credits valid 12 months; 2 concurrent real-time sessions
- [Gladia Free Credits](https://www.gladia.io/pricing): €50 in credits; Valid one year; strong on European languages
- [Cartesia Free Plan](https://www.cartesia.ai/pricing): 20,000 credits / month (~$1) + $1 agent credit; Monthly reset; 2 concurrent TTS; no voice cloning
- [fal — MiniMax H3 Max Free Tier](https://fal.ai/minimax-h3-max): 5 video generations / 24h; Daily reset; single model
- [Vidu Free Plan](https://www.vidu.com): Trial credits + daily login bonus; Amounts not published; watermarks likely

### Startup programs

- [Google Cloud AI Startup Program](https://cloud.google.com/startup): Up to $350,000 over 2 years; Year 1 up to $250,000 for AI-first scale-tier startups
- [AWS Activate](https://aws.amazon.com/startups/credits/): Up to $200,000 in credits; Founders tier starts at $1,000; larger tiers need accelerator/VC
- [Microsoft for Startups](https://www.microsoft.com/startups): Up to $150,000 in Azure credits; Eligible Azure services only
- [Cloudflare for Startups](https://www.cloudflare.com/forstartups/): Up to $350,000 in credits; Valid 1 year or until consumed; payment method required
- [GitHub for Startups](https://github.com/enterprise/startups): $10,000 in platform credits; Partner-affiliated, up to Series B; up to 12 months from approval
- [NVIDIA Inception](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/startups/): Cloud credits from NVIDIA and partners; Amount not fixed; preferred pricing + technical support
- [MongoDB for Startups](https://www.mongodb.com/startups): Up to $15,000 in Atlas credits; Activate code within 30 days; valid 6 months ($500) or 12 months
- [Vercel for Startups](https://vercel.com/startups): Up to $30,000 flexible commitment; Enterprise-tier access; startup-focused eligibility
- [PostHog Startup Program](https://posthog.com/startups): $50,000 in credits; Under $5M raised, under 2 years old; valid 12 months
- [Sentry for Startups](https://sentry.io/for/startups/): $5,000 in credits; Founded in last 2 years, raised under $5M; expires in 12 months
- [Atlassian for Startups](https://www.atlassian.com/software/startups): 12 months at $0, up to 50 seats; Cloud products; VC/accelerator-backed, under $10M raised; one enrollment
- [Notion for Startups](https://www.notion.com/startups): Up to $12,000 of credit; 6 months via partner, 3 months self-serve, 1 month if SMB; under 100 employees
- [Linear Startup Program](https://linear.app/startups): Free Linear Business plan; Must be affiliated with an official Linear partner; under 50 employees
- [Google Cloud Free Program](https://cloud.google.com/free): $300 welcome credit; Consumed within 90 days; Always Free tier continues after
- [Oracle Cloud Free Tier](https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/): $300 credit + Always Free resources; Credit valid 30 days; one account per person
- [ElevenLabs Startup Grants](https://elevenlabs.io/startup-grants): $5,500 (33M characters); Under 25 employees; ~680+ hours of Agents usage over 12 months
- [Together AI Startup Accelerator](https://www.together.ai/startup-accelerator): Up to $50,000 inference credits; Tiered by funding raised; Build (up to $5M) up to $15K + 3h engineering
- [Neon Startup Program](https://neon.com/startups): Up to $200,000 (combined with Databricks); Self-funded tier up to $1,000; valid 12 months
- [Render Startup Program](https://render.com/startups): Up to $100,000 in credits; Tiered by funding: $500, $10K (<$1M), $25K ($1M+), $100K AI tier ($2.5M+ from partner VC)
- [Modal for Startups](https://modal.com/startups): Tiered one-time credit grant; Tier 1 = Seed to Series A; no reapplying within a tier
- [Baseten AI Startup Program](https://www.baseten.co/startup-program/): Up to $25,000; Dedicated deployments/training; up to $2,500 for Model APIs
- [fal Startup Program](https://fal.ai/startups): $1,000 to start; Grows with spend: $2,500 at $1K/mo, $5,000 at $2.5K/mo; EU/Asia startups
- [RunPod Startup Program](https://www.runpod.io/startup-program): $1,000 starter or $5,000 VC-backed credits; $10-25K bonus on commit; Starter <$1M raised; Venture <$5M via partner VC; Growth >$5M
- [E2B Free Hobby Tier + $100 Credits](https://e2b.dev/pricing): $100 one-time usage credits; Up to 10 concurrent sandboxes, 1 hour per sandbox
- [Railway Free Plan + Trial Credits](https://railway.com/pricing): $5 trial credit + $1/mo usage on free plan; Trial credit expires in 30 days
- [Pinecone for Startups](https://www.pinecone.io/startup-program/): Free Standard tier + Pro access; Under 100 employees, Series A or earlier
- [LangSmith for Startups](https://www.langchain.com/startups): $10,000 in credits; Valid 1 year (2 for YC); first-time customers, Series A or earlier, premier VC partner

### Student deals

- [Google AI Pro — Free Student Plan](https://one.google.com/offer/studentoffer8): 12 months of AI Pro (normally $19.99/mo); Gemini + image + video; student verification; card required
- [JetBrains Student Pack](https://www.jetbrains.com/community/education/): All pro IDEs + AI coding agents; Non-commercial; re-verification each year of study
- [Azure for Students](https://azure.microsoft.com/free/students): $100 cloud credit; 12 months + free monthly amounts on popular services
- [v0 Premium Free for Students](https://v0.app/students): 1 year of v0 Premium; Eligible schools only (Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, UC…)
- [Anthropic AI for Science Program](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/11199177-anthropic-s-ai-for-science-program): Up to $20,000 in API credits; 6-month period; API usage only, no Claude web app
- [Kiro for Students](https://kiro.dev/students/): 1,000 credits / month for 12 months; Credits do not roll over; no add-ons; 18+, supported universities
- [Zed Pro for Students](https://zed.dev/education): 12 months of Zed Pro ($10/mo of AI token credits); Downgrades to Free after 12 months
- [Tavily Student Plan](https://help.tavily.com/articles/6606514713-student-account): 4,000 API credits / month; 4 months of Project Plan access; student verification

## Feed sources

- [Addy Osmani](https://addyosmani.com): Web performance, JavaScript, and engineering leadership from Google Chrome.
- [All Things Distributed](https://www.allthingsdistributed.com): Werner Vogels (Amazon CTO) on distributed systems and cloud architecture.
- [BleepingComputer](https://www.bleepingcomputer.com): Breaking cybersecurity and technology news, malware analysis, and how-tos.
- [ByteByteGo](https://blog.bytebytego.com): Alex Xu explains system design and scalable architecture, visually.
- [Cloudflare Blog](https://blog.cloudflare.com): Networking, performance, security, and edge-computing deep dives.
- [Dark Reading](https://www.darkreading.com): Enterprise security news, analysis, and threat coverage.
- [Google Research](https://research.google/blog): AI and computer-science research from Google's teams.
- [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/blog): Open machine-learning models, datasets, and applied ML tutorials.
- [Import AI](https://importai.substack.com): Jack Clark's weekly briefing on AI research and policy.
- [Josh W. Comeau](https://www.joshwcomeau.com): Interactive tutorials on CSS, React, and delightful UI.
- [Kent C. Dodds](https://kentcdodds.com): Testing, React, and shipping better software.
- [Krebs on Security](https://krebsonsecurity.com): In-depth security news and investigation by journalist Brian Krebs.
- [Latent Space](https://www.latent.space): Interviews and essays on the AI engineering stack, by swyx & friends.
- [Lil'Log](https://lilianweng.github.io): Lilian Weng's deep technical write-ups on machine learning.
- [Martin Fowler](https://martinfowler.com): Refactoring, patterns, and software design from the author of many seminal books.
- [Netflix Tech Blog](https://netflixtechblog.com): Architecture and operations behind one of the largest streaming platforms.
- [OpenAI](https://openai.com/news): Research, product, and announcements from OpenAI.
- [Overreacted](https://overreacted.io): Dan Abramov on React, JavaScript, and the mental models behind them.
- [Robin Wieruch](https://www.robinwieruch.de): In-depth React, Next.js, and full-stack JavaScript tutorials.
- [Schneier on Security](https://www.schneier.com): Commentary on security, cryptography, and privacy by Bruce Schneier.
- [Shopify Engineering](https://shopify.engineering): Scaling commerce: Ruby, Rails, data, and infrastructure at Shopify.
- [Simon Willison](https://simonwillison.net): Hands-on notes on LLMs, prompt engineering, and building with AI.
- [Slack Engineering](https://slack.engineering): Platform, infrastructure, and product engineering from the Slack team.
- [Spotify Engineering](https://engineering.atspotify.com): Backend, data, and platform engineering from the Spotify team.
- [Stripe Blog](https://stripe.com/blog): Payments, infrastructure, and engineering writing from Stripe.
- [swyx](https://swyx.io): Essays on developer experience, AI engineering, and learning in public.
- [The GitHub Blog](https://github.blog): Engineering, product, and open-source updates from GitHub.
- [The Hacker News](https://thehackernews.com): Breaking cybersecurity news, vulnerabilities, and threat intelligence.
- [The Pragmatic Engineer](https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com): Gergely Orosz on big-tech engineering, teams, and architecture.
- [Troy Hunt](https://www.troyhunt.com): Breaches, web security, and privacy from the creator of Have I Been Pwned.