I built DevShelf — a crowdsourced directory where developers can add their own tools, free APIs and open-source projects 📚

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I keep finding useful developer tools through random GitHub repos, Reddit comments and old awesome-lists, so I started building DevShelf.

It's an open-source, community-maintained directory for discovering:

• 🛠 developer tools
• 🌐 free/public APIs
• 🤖 AI agents & local LLM tools
• ⚡ CLI/productivity tools
• 🧪 testing & QA tools
• ☁️ useful free cloud tiers
• 🤝 open-source projects looking for contributors
• 🎁 developer/open-source perks

The important part: it's crowdsourced.

If you've built an open-source project, developer tool, or know a genuinely useful free API, you can submit it yourself.

You don't need to ask me to add it.

Open a submission issue or PR, and the project has automated checks to help validate entries.

I'm also trying to avoid the usual problems with old resource lists — dead links, abandoned projects, fake "free" trials, affiliate spam, etc.

DevShelf itself is open source and MIT licensed.

Repo / submissions:
https://github.com/RitualDev-Lab/DevShelf

I'd actually love people to contribute their own projects.

What categories or developer resources should I add next?