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Fayaz Ahmed
Fayaz Ahmed

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These free tools for developers are πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯

I make multiple projects during my free time, like Tvflix, GSON, Appy Dev and many other micro projects. So finding these free tools as alternatives for my project has become a hobby.

This is a very opinionated list and there could be several other better tools, here are some of my favorites.

Hosts, Servers for deploying you frontend/backend

1. Netlify

Deploy modern static websites with Netlify. Get CDN, Continuous deployment, 1-click HTTPS, and all the services you need. Get started for free.

2. Vercel(formerly Zeit)

Vercel is the easiest way to deploy websites. Host your web projects with zero configuration, automatic SSL, and global CDN.

3. Surge

Shipping web projects should be fast, easy, and low risk. Surge is static web publishing for Front-End Developers, right from the CLI.

4. Firebase

A Netlify/Zeit alternative from Google. Firebase is Google’s mobile platform that helps you quickly develop high-quality apps and grow your business.

5. Azure Static Web Apps

Launched just today, Static Web Apps single page hosting in Azure is now available.

6. Github Pages

Websites for you and your projects, hosted directly from your GitHub repository. Just edit, push, and your changes are live.

7. Gitlab Pages

Similar to Github, GitLab Pages is a feature that allows you to publish static websites directly from a repository in GitLab.

8. Aerobatic

Turbocharged static hosting. Works great with SSG like Hugo, jekyll, Gatsby, Gridsome.

9. Glitch

This is probably one of my most used tools these days, Simple, powerful, free tool to create and host node apps.

10. Heroku

A more advanced version of Glitch, Heroku is a platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to build, run, and operate applications entirely in the cloud.


Automation Tools

1. Cronjob.org

Cron job is free, open source and lets you run unlimited cron jobs, all you have to do is just your api/webhook url and it will calling it on intervals which we decide.

2. n8n

A open source zapier alternative which is constantly adding new tools and apps you can connect with for endless possibilities. You can also self host this on your own server.

3. Integromat

Integromat is an easy to use, powerful tool with unique features for automating manual processes. Connect your favorite apps, services and devices with each other without having any programming skills.

4. IFTTT

Get started with IFTTT, the easiest way to do more with your favorite apps and devices for free. Make your home more relaxing. Make your work more productive. Keep your data private and secure. We believe every thing works better together

5. Pipedream

Pipedream is where developers create and share data related projects. Discover and fork projects across thousands of sources and destinations.


Nocode Tools

1. NoCodeApi

The easiest way to connect your third party application without code and backend for front-end developers like google sheet, airtable, google analytics, twitter, instagram, xml, rss to JSON, Slack, currency, 50+ more.

2. GlideApps

Glide turns spreadsheets into beautiful, easy-to-use apps, without code. Pick a spreadsheet or start with a template, customize your app, then share it instantly with anyone. Start today for free!

3. Airtable

Airtable works like a spreadsheet but gives you the power of a database to organize anything.

4. Bubble

Bubble introduces a new way to build a web application. It’s a no-code, point-and-click programming tool, entirely without code. Bubble hosts all applications on its cloud platform.

5. Material Icon Generator

Generate Material design SVG icons for your apps, open source


SEO/Digital Maeketing/Promotion/Legal Tools

1. Metatags

Generate and preview all Meta tags, and Social media tags from a webpage.

2. Webcode Tools

Generate Scehmas, Tags, and a lot of repeated code snippets.

3. Carbon

Carbon is the easiest way to create and share beautiful images of your source code.

4. CodeImg

Create and share beautiful images of your source code.

5. Getterms

Generate a simple Terms of Service and Privacy Policy statement for your website

6. Beefree

BEE is an email editor to build beautiful, responsive emails quickly and easily. Our objective is to build the Best Email Editor. Use it online or embed it into your application.

For more such tools checkout - https://appy-dev.netlify.app/

Share your list in the comments.

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Aurel

I'll add notion.so with their new free plan

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Vitor Amaral

Add Codacy for automated code reviews and code analytics. Nice list.

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Fayaz Ahmed

Seems like a paid tool.

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Vitor Amaral

Hey, Fayaz please check out their pricing, all the features is free for Open-Source and Small Teams.

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Tiago

Pricing page looks free for open source only, not small closed source projects.

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Vitor Amaral

Hey Tiago, strange, they must have changed recently, I use Codacy since they started and I have private projects and teams on my account. I apologize for my misinformation but it remains an excellent product.

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Tiago

No worries Vitor. It does look potentially curious, if it were easily free for small private projects (like codefactor for example), I'd love to hook it up too. Just can't justify paying for smaller personal projects sadly.

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Yevhen Fabizhevskyi

In addition to this list I can share free-for.dev resource that I use from time to time.

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Copple • Edited

Throwing supabase.io in the mix too - it's in early alpha but is a great alternative to Firebase

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Kabbura

Great article. I think you can add GrapesJS and VvvebJs to the nocode category.

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Fayaz Ahmed

Will write a v2 of the list, let me know if find any more tools. Will add them in it.

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Zaahir Moolla

If you don’t mind a bit of self promotion, I created reporemover.xyz. It’s a free and open source tool to help devs delete/archive multiple repos. Great for cleaning up your GitHub if you’ve got lots of forks or old deprecated projects.

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Fayaz Ahmed

Adding this in appydev

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Evan Roth

What about Charles for inspecting, intercepting, and rewriting network requests? It has free/paid modes but the free mode (I believe) has full functionality except is time-limited.

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Se-ok Jeon

Thx for this! This is really what I wanted. Helped A LOT.
Can I translate in Korean this post? If you don't mind, I wanna share this awesome post in Korean. Surely, There will be a linke directing to this original post.

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Philip Wels • Edited

Awesome list and well structured. Thanks for your work. In the deployment section, you could add stormkit.io.

btw the title "Hosts, Servers for deoplying you frontend/backend" has a typo. Not that it matters :)

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Erik Hooijer

Thank you Fayaz! Really helpful list.

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Cal • Edited

Can you add ralley.io? It's a message queue as a service.

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David Paine20

In addition to this list, I can share the url-decode.com/ resource that I use from time to time. With 100+ web utilities.

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Akshit Chaudhary

Really helpful post, I think we are gonna use few of the tools mentioned here.

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Fayaz Ahmed

Glad I coupd be of help!

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Norro valentin

Tanks !

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open

Tank ya :)

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Kyle Prinsloo

Nice post Fayaz!