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What are the free tools in your web development workflow that not many people know about?

This page summarizes and extends the software alternatives mentioned in the source post on Reddit.
2022-05-01

unDraw DBeaver BundlePhobia DevDocs PlaceKitten JSON Placeholder DuckDuckGo: Bang Karabiner Fig Terminal StackEdit
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  1. unDraw Landing Page
    unDraw Landing Page
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    unDraw

    Open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine and create.
    UnDraw — kind of like Unsplash (free photos), but for vector illustrations.

    #Illustrations #Design Tools #Web Development Tools 70 social mentions

  2. DBeaver Landing Page
    DBeaver Landing Page
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    DBeaver

    DBeaver - Universal Database Manager and SQL Client.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Colleagues that use mac use dbeaver, for people on windows: we use heidisql.

    #Databases #Database Management #MySQL Tools 93 social mentions

  3. BundlePhobia Landing Page
    BundlePhobia Landing Page
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    BundlePhobia

    Find the performance impact of adding a npm package to your bundle.

    #JavaScript Tools #JavaScript #Software Development 50 social mentions

  4. DevDocs Landing Page
    DevDocs Landing Page
    4

    DevDocs

    Open source API documentation browser with instant fuzzy search, offline mode, keyboard shortcuts, and more
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Devdocs.io awesome docs for everything and it's also offline and allows to use it offline.

    #Cryptocurrencies #Software Development #Blockchain 123 social mentions

  5. PlaceKitten Landing Page
    PlaceKitten Landing Page
    5

    PlaceKitten

    Dead-easy placeholder images. Of kittens.
    Placekitten — photos of cats for using as placeholder images while prototyping.

    #Placeholder Images #Design Tools #Web Development Tools 20 social mentions

  6. JSON Placeholder Landing Page
    JSON Placeholder Landing Page
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    JSON Placeholder

    JSON Placeholder is a modern platform that provides you online REST API, which you can instantly use whenever you need any fake data.

    #Development #Online Services #Web Browsers 123 social mentions

  7. DuckDuckGo: Bang Landing Page
    DuckDuckGo: Bang Landing Page
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    DuckDuckGo: Bang

    Search thousands of sites directly from DuckDuckGo
    If you use DuckDuckGo, bangs are really handy Https://duckduckgo.com/bang.

    #Search Engine #iPhone #Web App 196 social mentions

  8. Karabiner Landing Page
    Karabiner Landing Page
    8

    Karabiner

    Karabiner, previously called KeyRemap4MacBook, is a very powerful keyboard remapper for Mac OS X.
    Another thing that makes it easier is something called Karabiner-Elements, which is a key customiser and allows you to use Windows bindings on your Mac.

    #Mac Tools #Window Manager #Automation 269 social mentions

  9. Fig Terminal Landing Page
    Fig Terminal Landing Page
    9

    Fig Terminal

    Fig adds VSCode-style autocomplete to your existing terminal. Move faster with Fig.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Fig: https://fig.io its adds autocomplete to your terminal.

    #SSH #Server Management #Terminal Tools 37 social mentions

  10. StackEdit Landing Page
    StackEdit Landing Page
    10

    StackEdit

    Full-featured, open-source Markdown editor based on PageDown, the Markdown library used by Stack Overflow and the other Stack Exchange sites.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Markdown Editor #Text Editors #Office & Productivity 49 social mentions

  11. NicheGenerator.nyz Landing Page
    NicheGenerator.nyz Landing Page
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    NicheGenerator.nyz

    A funny solution to start with people, not ideas or products.
    Pricing:
    • Freemium
    • Free Trial
    The Niche Generator to find challenges to solve (made for me at the beginning).

    #Business #Productivity #Web App 1 social mentions

  12. Meta Tags Landing Page
    Meta Tags Landing Page
    12

    Meta Tags

    Meta Tags is a tool to debug and generate meta tag code for any website.

    #SEO Tools #SEO #SEO Monitoring 38 social mentions

  13. Linear Landing Page
    Linear Landing Page
    13

    Linear

    Streamlined issue tracking for software teams

    #Project Management #Task Management #Productivity 121 social mentions

  14. Answer the Public Landing Page
    Answer the Public Landing Page
    14

    Answer the Public

    Find out what what questions people are asking Google and more.

    #SEO Tools #SEO #Keyword Research 62 social mentions

  15. Akar Icons Landing Page
    Akar Icons Landing Page
    15

    Akar Icons

    Perfectly rounded icon library for your projects.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Akar Icons to get high-quality icons.

    #Web Icons #Vector Icons #Design Tools 2 social mentions

  16. Fake Data Landing Page
    Fake Data Landing Page
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    FD

    Fake Data

    A form filler extension with a lot of features
    Fake Data - browser extension to quickly fill out forms with random data during development.

    #Firefox Extensions #Chrome Extensions #Developer Tools 1 social mentions

  17. Pixlr Landing Page
    Pixlr Landing Page
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    Pixlr

    Pixlr® makes it easy to transform everyday images into stunning works of art.
    Also I find pixlr good for online photo editing: https://pixlr.com/.

    #Graphic Design Software #Image Editing #Digital Drawing And Painting 154 social mentions

  18. Mockaroo Landing Page
    Mockaroo Landing Page
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    M

    Mockaroo

    A realistic data generator to test your app

    #Testing #Databases #API Tools 26 social mentions

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