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Free Stuff for Developers
- radicalriddler 5y agoSeems to have a fair few spelling mistakes in the item headers: GitKranken -> GitKraken HardperDB -> HarperDB Might be others but I wasn't actually looking, those were just the ones I noticed.
- maxbaines 5y agoThis is a great list, some companies and solutions I had not seen before on other lists. Thanks.
- hilmanski 5y agoglad you like it max. Thanks
- yewenjie 5y agoThere is also https://free-for.dev/ https://free-for.dev/
- hilmanski 5y agoDefinitely inspired by that also. As stated here https://github.com/hilmanski/freeStuffDev https://github.com/hilmanski/freeStuffDev
- paulcarroty 5y agoAlso free tiers https://github.com/255kb/stack-on-a-budget https://github.com/255kb/stack-on-a-budget
- hilmanski 5y agowhich brings me to list them all :) thanks! https://freestuff.dev/tags/other-list/ https://freestuff.dev/tags/other-list/
- dawnerd 5y agoShould have an easy way to suggest more services. (Was going to suggest expo)
- shakna 5y agoThere's a repository. [0] [0] https://github.com/hilmanski/freeStuffDev https://github.com/hilmanski/freeStuffDev
- hilmanski 5y agoCurrently using Hugo (SSG) Need to create new file to add new content. Definitely not the user friendly right now, currently thinking how to make this easier. But really glad to know someone wants to contribute
- lalaland1125 5y agoThe most underrated thing on here is probably Visual Studio Code. It's a really great piece of software and has a bunch of really neat features when editing on a remote machine.
- somethingsright 5y agoSorry, but I have no knowledge and do not understand what "editing remote" means? What is the use case? The source files are in a shared network directory, but VS code (the editor) is on my machine? Or is it something different? Where would the compiler reside? Will the Compile/Build be executed on my machine? Edit: found some answers: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/remote-overview https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/remote-overview
- lalaland1125 5y agoThe source files can be on a remote machine but you still get great GUI editor support.
- loopz 5y agoOf course emacs supported remote editing since mid 90's ;)
- lalaland1125 5y agoIf only emacs had a sane UI :P
- mixmastamyk 5y agoTelemetry trojan.
- npteljes 5y agoI can't believe there's telemetry in desktop software and the people just accept it as a part of life. Times truly have changed.
- hilmanski 5y agoHi, freestuff.dev built with hugo SSG Currently the easiest way to contribute is creating a new file on github. I have an idea to make a GUI, so people just put links, benefits and tags, the other stuff will be pre-filled, but still will go through github's pull request. Let me know if you have an idea to make it easier to contribute
- systemvoltage 5y agoThis needs Cloudflare. Ridiculously awesome free tier.
- hilmanski 5y agocloudflare is added. Thanks
- bartvk 5y agoIt's not free but it's only a buck: open source sticker pack from StickerMule https://www.stickermule.com/unixstickers https://www.stickermule.com/unixstickers And note these are pretty high quality stickers too.
- ajsnigrutin 5y agoNo gentoo, no perl, and no emacs in the $1 pack :/
- bartvk 5y agoAlthough I'm a vi user, I have to respect that they give you the the Emacs sticker the pack labeled "Elite" :)
- ajsnigrutin 5y agoWell yeah, emacs users are elite :) If you really prefer the vi syntax, there is even an "evil mode" for emacs - https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
- zibzab 5y agoNope, You're are not a real emacs user unless you use real emacs with real emacs key bindings. (uEmacs is okay too).
- chaorace 5y agoMan, sometimes being an evil-mode user feels like being the red-headed stepchild... That's okay though, I quite like that I can use Emacs like a souped-up vim, especially when Emacs sometimes does vim-like better than even vim could in so many workflows.
- Otek 5y agoWhy to gatekeep being a emacs user tho?
- yegle 5y agoIt looks like Disqus' free plan is ads supported now. I think this should be called out, since other free services has the free quota/limit listed.
- ekianjo 5y ago"Open Source" is hardly a good descriptor. The license is important.
- hilmanski 5y agothanks for your input
- tobr 5y agoThe “contribute” link is very confusing if you’re not logged in to GitHub. Why not just link to the repo?
- httpsterio 5y agoSublime Text is not free. You're free to try it out and it won't stop you, except for the reminder pop-up. That doesn't make it free though, you still need a license.
- NullPrefix 5y agoSo it's like WinRAR?
- hilmanski 5y agoIt's really hard what to do here. I'll let it stay on the list, since it will promote itself too and people can still use it for free.
- tomjuggler 5y agoI'm over all of this "free" stuff. When the service transitions to being 10 dollars per month without notice (looking at you, Trello) how many times can you say "just add it to my tab"? I'm only using self hosted, open source solutions from now on. Been burned too many times in the past, and yes, I do pay for some services - but that doesn't stop the providers from increasing the price or even discontinuing the service (Google) at any time
- unknown_error 5y agoPlease, please think this through on a case-by-case basis. Adopting some poorly-maintained FOSS solution just because it's free instead of paying $10/mo isn't always the right choice. It creates a lot of tech debt that you or someone else has to pay down later, often at a MUCH higher cost. Something like postman, for example, is easily a multi-month or year project for a big team of devs to create/maintain. I've been using the free version for years and it's saved an amazing amount of time. I'd use the paid version if I had a bigger team. Something like Cloudflare is a whole different scale altogether. Their free tier is a loss-leader for their enterprise plan, but even the free tier is better than most paid CDNs out there. And good luck trying to replicate that on a FOSS stack and shared infrastructure. If you're worried about secret billing, either don't provide your billing info to begin with, cancel trial subscriptions as soon as you start them (usually they won't expire until the end), or use a virtual CC# service like privacy.com.
- allarm 5y ago> Adopting some poorly-maintained FOSS solution Well, don’t adopt a poorly-maintained solution, adopt a well-maintained one. Simple.
- unknown_error 5y agoThat's why it's a case-by-case thing. If there IS a well-maintained, well-documented etc. FOSS solution, of course use it (and contribute back!). But npm has the popularity/quality/maintenance metrics for a reason; a lot of smaller FOSS projects become abandonware once their original use case is dealt with, or developers turn over, or whatever. There's a lot of smaller packages/solutions/projects that just don't see much love anymore. I'm not against using FOSS or commercial. Just think there should be a case-by-case cost-benefit analysis. A $10/mo service should be evaluated differently than a $1000/mo stack, and labor value should be compared against both. Case in point, my boss recently asked me to build a new project that wasn't a part of our regular stack in a somewhat emerging field (web mapping). I did a brief market analysis and let him know that different vendors could probably get it done in about 2 weeks at about $2000. He said that was too much, I warned him that building it in-house would take several months and be very buggy because we have no specialists in that field on our team. He said to use FOSS software to do it, so we did... it ended up taking about 9 months and a few hundred hours of dev time. Now it's built, but with minimal features and lots of bugs. And nobody else can maintain it. The project was in turn open sourced, because we built it from open source software and wanted to give back, but honestly it's shit code. And we're considering abandoning it already due to the high overhead. But you know, someone else is going to run into the same situation at some point, and maybe find it and fork it because it's open source... then probably go through the same rigamarole... well, now we have a proper abandonware factory. shrug At the same time, I use (and thoroughly appreciate) redis, apache, varnish, chromium, brew, react, etc. Some of those are vendor-supported, some aren't. It's just a mixed bag. I'm just saying that choosing something just because it's FOSS so you save $10/mo is a lousy reason. There's a lot of great commercial software out there, just like there's a lot of great FOSS software out there.
- maskaler 5y agoRepair JSON missed a trick when they failed to call it Shitty Print
- hilmanski 5y agoI add a GUI for contribute new stuff It helps pre-fill some content before adding new stuff via github pull request https://freestuff.dev/new-stuff https://freestuff.dev/new-stuff