Curated lists of tools

Alec Campbell
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  1. Find best alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux and others.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
  2. We directly & personally negotiate the best deals on software, SaaS, lifetime products, and tech promos for Startups, Products Makers, Freelance Web Designers, Remote Workers, & Entrepreneurs! 💸

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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    ByPeople Collections
  3. A professionally curated selection of commercial use resources and tools for designers and developers, conveniently collected and categorized in one place.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  4. switching.software is a grassroots website, that is trying to let people know about ethical and easy-to-use alternatives to well-known websites, apps and other software.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  5. UX Tools icon
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    Compare and Discover Tools for User Experience Design, including prototyping, collaboration, monitoring and testing.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  6. Learn about the tech stack behind some of the world's best software companies. See which tools and services they use, and how they're using them.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  7. wwwhere icon
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    Curated list of tools and resources for people who make websites.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  8. Top Best Alternatives is a crowdsourced software recommendation and discovery engine. Top Best Alternatives lets you discover new and interesting alternatives to the software you love and hate.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  9. JSter icon
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    JSter is a community-driven catalog of the most useful javascript libraries. Find the right tool for a work and do it effectively. Based on Juho Vepsäläinen's JSWiki

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
  10. Makerbook icon
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    Hand-picked directory of the best free resources for creatives.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  11. Growthparty it's a free online directory of resources and tools to help the new generation of creators find the right web tools for their work, startup, or side hustle. The platform features a wide variety of resources for entrepreneurs, business owners, designers...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  12. Banditore retrieves new releases from your GitHub starred repositories and put them in a RSS feed, just for you.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  13. Receive notifications for new version releases of projects from GitHub, GitLab, PyPI, Maven, Docker Hub, Bitbucket, Ruby Gems, Rust Cargo, Node.js NPM and Yarn and PHP Packagist.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
  14. David icon
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    David gets you an overview of your project dependencies, the version you use and the latest available, so you can quickly see what's drifting. Then it's all boiled down into a badge showing the current status, which you can embed on your site.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
  15. Requires.io monitors the requirements of your Python project and notify you whenever a dependency is outdated.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  16. Dependency Update Automation for npm, composer and docker made easy. Check your git repositories for vulnerabilities now!.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    pyup.io helps you to keep track of dependency updates by sending you automated pull requests whenever a new update comes out, directly to your GitHub repo.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  18. Real-time, automated dependency updates for JavaScript projects.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • GitHub Marketplace
    • npm
    Never miss an update, and know immediately whether it breaks your code.
    All updates include changelogs, so you can quickly decide how important each one is.
    Greenkeeper maintains a PR for each dependency and will update it whenever the package updates.
  19. Release Bell tracks your starred GitHub repositories and will notify you on every new tag or release. Furthermore it allows to manually track GitLab project releases.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
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  20. BookStack icon
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    BookStack is a free and open source knowledge management platform built on PHP. The system has been built around simplicity to ensure that adding information to it is not a chore. The content structure is built on the metaphors of Books, Chapters & Pages.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
    • Cloudron
    • Docker
    Page Editing
    Page View
    Book Overview
    +18
    Organising Content
  21. Read the Docs hosts documentation for the open source community. It supports Sphinx docs written with reStructuredText, and can pull from your Subversion, Bazaar, Git, and Mercurial repositories. The code is open source, and available on github.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    Getting Started
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  22. Daux.io icon
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    Daux.io is a documentation generator that uses a simple folder structure and Markdown files to create custom documentation on the fly. It helps you create great looking documentation in a developer friendly way.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
    Preview
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  23. MkDocs icon
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    MkDocs is static site generator that's geared towards building project documentation. Documentation source files are written in Markdown, and configured with a single YAML configuration file.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
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  24. Booktype icon
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    Booktype helps you turn intellectual property into beautiful, professional books.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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  25. Leanpub icon
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    Platform for writing, publishing, and selling ebooks or courses, supporting Markdown, ongoing updates, GitHub/Dropbox sync, quizzes, and 80% royalties.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
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  26. SkyDocs icon
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    SkyDocs is a software that takes your MarkDown files and build a complete website with some magic tricks !

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Java
    The homepage of SkyDocs (built with SkyDocs).
    Another page built with SkyDocs.
    An example MarkDown file.
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    SkyDocs GUI.
  27. DocFX icon
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    DocFX generates Documentation directly from source code (.NET, RESTful API, JavaScript, Java, etc...) and Markdown files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
  28. Doclets.io is the missing hosted and automated API-Doc generation service for Javascript. By simplifying API-Doc setup it enables you to actually focus on writing documentation!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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  29. Antora icon
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    A static site generator for creating documentation sites from AsciiDoc content aggregated from multiple repositories. Made by the creators of Asciidoctor.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Reedsy allows authors to find and work with the best publishing professionals: from developmental editors to book cover designers, publicists and translators. Reedsy also provides a powerful and elegant editor, a beautiful production tool that takes care of the formatting and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    Write and collaborate on projects
    Browse and request quotes from professionals
    Compare quotes
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    Beautiful writing interface
  31. hexo-theme-doc is a documentation theme for Hexo, the fast and powerful blog framework powered by Node.js. It differs from other Hexo themes by allowing you to present documentation—especially REST API documentation.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • npm
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    Docpress generates websites from your project's basic documentation; that is, at the very least, a README.md file. It also supports multiple Markdown pages in docs/.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • JavaScript
    • Node.JS
    • npm
  33. Jigsaw is a framework for rapidly building static sites using the same modern tooling that powers your web applications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • PHP
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    Penflip is Github for writing: a platform for hosting, collaborating on, and publishing writing projects. Projects can be private or public.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
  35. Couscous icon
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    Static website generator designed for documentation. Couscous turns Markdown documentation into beautiful websites. It's GitHub Pages on steroids.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  36. Archbee icon
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    Create and manage AI-generated documentation with real-time team collaboration, GitHub integration, custom domains, automated onboarding, and 30 content blocks.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    GraphQL Integration.
    Maps + Minitaskers
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    Code Editor
  37. Orchid icon
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    Orchid is a general-purpose static site generator with a focus on extensibility, and aimed at developers looking to improve their technical documentation. Orchid was born out of a desire for better-looking Javadocs and frustration with how difficult is it to manage large Jekyll...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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