Development & Tech

GitHub hosts Git code and handles reviews, continuous integration, and project tracking. Generous free plan, Team at 4 $/user/month.

Docker packages an application and its dependencies into a container that runs identically everywhere. Free tier, Pro from 9 $/month.

Next.js structures React apps with server rendering, routing, and production-ready optimizations built in. Open source, built by Vercel.

Volza provides import-export trade data covering shipments in more than 200 countries. Annual subscription from $1,500/year, 7-day free trial.

InMotion Hosting is a US web host. Shared plans from $2.75/month, managed VPS from $9.99/month, with a 90-day money-back guarantee.

Akismet is Automattic's anti-spam service for WordPress. Free for personal sites, commercial Plus plan from $9.95/month, Business at $49.95/month.

WooCommerce is Automattic's open source e-commerce plugin for WordPress. Free core, extensions from $29 to $299/year, WooPayments billed per use.

Pressable is Automattic's managed WordPress hosting on WP Cloud. Plans from $25/month ($20.83 billed annually), Jetpack Security included.

Jetpack is Automattic's security, backup, and performance suite for WordPress. Free plan, individual products from $4.95/month in year one.

Bluehost is a web host recommended by WordPress.org for beginners. Shared plans from $3.99/month, with a big gap between intro and renewal pricing.

US registrar under the Network Solutions group: .com for $5 the first year, hosting from $2.99/month. Renewals are notably more expensive.

Discord is a voice, video, and text chat platform organized into servers, born from gaming. Free to use, Nitro add-on from $2.99/month.

Microsoft Teams brings together chat, video calls, and file sharing, integrated with Microsoft 365. Free version available, paid plans from $4/user/month.

UptimeRobot monitors uptime for your sites, servers, and APIs and alerts you on outages, with status pages. Free plan available, Solo from $9/month.

React Email is an open-source library to build emails with React components, made by Resend. Entirely free.

Zeplin turns mockups into developer-ready specs: measurements, styles, assets. Free plan, then from around $8 per editor.

Google Maps Platform provides map, directions and places APIs to embed in an application. Usage-based billing with a free monthly credit.

Amazon SES is AWS's transactional and marketing email sending service, billed by usage at very low cost. Reserved for technical profiles.

Twilio provides communications APIs: SMS, voice calls, WhatsApp, email. Usage-based billing, per message or per minute, no fixed subscription.

npm is the reference package manager for JavaScript and Node.js, with the largest library registry in the world. Free, paid options for teams.

Git is the reference distributed version control system, created by Linus Torvalds. Entirely free and open source, a universal standard.

Helm is the open-source package manager for Kubernetes: it deploys applications via reusable charts. Entirely free.

Vite is an open-source front-end build tool, known for fast startup and reloading. Entirely free, now a modern standard.

Cargo is Rust's official package manager and build tool: dependencies, compilation, tests. Entirely free and open source.