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Dev.to · Alex Spinov
2w ago
Upstash Has a Free Serverless Redis and Kafka — Pay Only Per Request
Traditional Redis costs $15/month minimum even when idle. Upstash Redis is serverless — you pay per...
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2w ago
Xata Has a Free Serverless Database — PostgreSQL With Built-in Search, Analytics, and AI
What if your database had built-in full-text search, vector embeddings, file storage, and analytics —...
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2w ago
EdgeDB Has a Free Graph-Relational Database — SQL Power With Object Syntax
SQL is powerful but verbose. ORMs are convenient but limited. EdgeDB gives you a query language that...
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2w ago
shadcn/ui Has Free Copy-Paste Components — Not a Library, a Collection You Own
Most UI libraries lock you in. Update the library, and your custom styles break. shadcn/ui copies...
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2w ago
Trigger.dev Has a Free Background Jobs Platform — Cron, Queues, and AI Tasks for TypeScript
Background jobs in JavaScript have always been painful. BullMQ needs Redis. Cron needs...
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2w ago
Garnet Has a Free Redis-Compatible Cache From Microsoft — Built on .NET
Microsoft built their own Redis alternative. It's open-source, runs on .NET, and outperforms Redis on...
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2w ago
Biome Has a Free All-in-One Formatter and Linter — Replace Prettier + ESLint
What if one tool replaced Prettier, ESLint, and their 50+ config packages? That's Biome. ...
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2w ago
MSW Has a Free API Mocking Framework — Stop Using Custom Mock Servers
You're probably mocking APIs wrong. Custom mock servers, intercepting fetch globally, hardcoding...
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2w ago
ElectricSQL Has a Free API You've Never Heard Of
ElectricSQL syncs data between your Postgres database and local SQLite on every client device. Your...
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2w ago
WebNN Has a Free API You've Never Heard Of
WebNN (Web Neural Network API) is a new browser API that gives JavaScript direct access to...
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2w ago
Fly.io Has a Free API: Deploy Docker Containers Globally in 35 Regions With a Generous Free Tier and Built-In Postgres
Heroku killed its free tier. AWS is complex. Vercel is great for Next.js but not for a Go backend...
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2w ago
Mojo Has a Free Language: Python Syntax With C++ Speed — The AI Programming Language That's 68,000x Faster Than Python
Your ML pipeline is in Python. Training takes 4 hours. You profile it — 80% of the time is spent in...
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2w ago
Zellij Has a Free Terminal Multiplexer: The Modern tmux Alternative With Built-In Layouts, Plugin System, and Session Management
You've tried to learn tmux three times. Each time you gave up after memorizing Ctrl-b then trying to...
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2w ago
Warp Has a Free Terminal: The Rust-Based Terminal That Adds AI Command Search, Block-Based Editing, and Workflow Sharing
You spend hours in the terminal. You've customized iTerm2, installed Oh My Zsh, configured fzf and...
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2w ago
Sonic Has a Free API: Add Lightning-Fast Full-Text Search to Your App Without Running Elasticsearch
Your app needs search. You look at Elasticsearch: 4GB RAM minimum, complex cluster configuration, a...
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2w ago
Leptos Has a Free API: Build Full-Stack Rust Web Apps with React-Like Reactivity at Warp Speed
A senior frontend developer rewrote a dashboard in React. It was fast. Then the data grew. 10,000...
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2w ago
Dioxus Has a Free API: Write React-Style UIs in Rust That Run Everywhere — Web, Desktop, Mobile
A mobile developer spent six months building the same feature three times: once in Swift for iOS,...
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2w ago
Connect-RPC Has a Free API: gRPC That Works in Browsers Without a Proxy
gRPC is great for backend-to-backend. But in browsers? You need grpc-web, Envoy proxy, and prayers....
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2w ago
Buf Has a Free API: Make Protocol Buffers Actually Developer-Friendly
Protobuf is powerful but painful. protoc plugins, code generation configs, import path hell — Buf...
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2w ago
Spin Has a Free API: Build WebAssembly Microservices in 30 Seconds
Docker containers start in seconds. WebAssembly modules start in milliseconds. Spin makes building...
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2w ago
Dokku Has a Free API: Your Own Heroku on a $5 VPS
Heroku charges $25/mo for one hobby dyno. Dokku gives you unlimited apps on a $5 VPS with the same...
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2w ago
Coolify Has a Free API: Self-Host Your Apps Like Vercel on Your Own Server
What is Coolify? Coolify is an open-source, self-hostable alternative to Vercel, Netlify,...
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2w ago
Sentry Has a Free API: Catch Errors Before Your Users Report Them
What is Sentry? Sentry is an application monitoring platform that captures errors,...
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2w ago
Trigger.dev Has a Free API: Background Jobs for JavaScript Without Infrastructure
What is Trigger.dev? Trigger.dev is an open-source background job framework for...
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