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Messaging

  • Ably

    Pub/sub, real-time messaging, notifications, chat, multiplayer and data synchronization.

  • Applozic

    Chat SDKs, real-time messaging.

  • Knock

    Notifications as a service.

  • MagicBell

    Real-time notification system with API & UI components.

  • Novu

    Open-source notification (Email, SMS, Direct, and Push) management.

Automation

  • Abstra

    Python-based workflow engine for custom business processes.

  • Lil'bots

    Create and deploy automation scripts in JavaScript or Python and deploy them to the cloud instantly, with free built-in APIs like OpenAI, Anthropic, and more.

  • n8n

    Free and source-available fair-code licensed workflow automation tool.

Misc

  • Actyx

    Developer-first factory building.

  • daily.dev

    Personalized developer news feed aggregating from 1000+ tech sources with community discussion.

  • Docusign

    APIs for eSignature, and Intelligent Agreement Management.

  • Frigade

    SDK for shipping an in-product AI assistant that learns your app and takes actions on the user's behalf (open modals, navigate, walk through workflows).

  • Interval

    SDK to build internal tools and scripts for your product.

  • ngrok

    Generate public URLs for internal servers (behind NAT/firewall).

Deployment Hosting

  • Adaptable

    Deploy apps and DBs via common templates.

  • Beam

    Serverless cloud infrastructure.

  • Cycle.io

    DevOps platform for building platforms. Handles container orchestration, load-balancing, monitoring, and more.

  • Digital Ocean App Platform

    Deploy and don't care about infrastructure, works with all major frameworks.

  • Fly.io

    Deploy dockerized full-stack apps via a location-aware service (latency reduction).

  • Heroku

    Deploy via CLI to scalable servers.

Search

  • Agentset

    Open-source production-ready RAG platform with built-in agentic reasoning, hybrid search, and multimodal support.

  • Algolia

    Search as a service and full suite of search APIs.

  • Cognee

    AI Memory layer for agents. Knowledge graph + vector search for contextual retrieval and reasoning.

  • Meilisearch

    Open-source, fast, and relevant search engine.

AI Coding

  • Aider

    Open-source terminal AI assistant.

  • Amazon Q

    Amazon’s AI assistant.

  • Cline

    Open-source VS Code plugin for Claude as a coding assistant.

  • CodeParrot

    Frontend component AI assistant for VS Code.

  • CodeSquire

    Browser extension for AI generation in Jupyter/BigQuery etc…

  • Cody

    Sourcegraph’s coding assistant.

Monitoring

  • Airbrake

    Error monitoring in production.

  • Anteon

    Kubernetes monitoring and performance testing — available on CLI, self-hosted, and cloud.

  • Better Stack

    Uptime monitoring, incident management, and status pages.

  • Future AGI

    Open-source self-hostable end-to-end LLMOps platform unifying tracing, evals, simulations, datasets, gateway, and guardrails.

  • Helicone AI

    LLM observabilty and monitoring for your LLM apps in production.

  • Highlight.io

    Full-stack monitoring platform.

GEO

  • AirPinpoint

    API for Apple AirTags tracking.

  • Mapbox

    Maps and locations products for devs.

  • OpenCage

    Forward and reverse geocoding API based on open data.

  • PlaceKit

    Locations search API.

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