Where to submit a developer tool: 71 directories

GitHub's marketplace of Apps and Actions that extend developer workflows. Devtools with a GitHub integration can list free or paid plans and be found by developers browsing by category.

Microsoft's marketplace for VS Code extensions, searchable from inside the editor. Devtool makers can ship an extension to reach developers where they work; each extension gets a public page…

Show HN is the section of Hacker News for sharing something you built that people can try out and discuss. The audience is developers, founders and technically minded readers who give blunt…

An open publishing platform and community where developers post articles, tutorials and project write-ups that show up in tag feeds and the main feed. Makers use it to tell the build story behind a…

A Laravel and PHP news site with a weekly newsletter and a community link feed where developers share packages, tutorials and tools. It is read by Laravel developers. Links shared in the feed show…

The dominant package manager for macOS (and Linux), with a public index of formulae and casks at formulae.brew.sh. Getting into homebrew/core or homebrew/cask makes a tool installable with a single…

A blogging platform for developers: you get your own publication (on a hashnode.dev subdomain, or a custom domain on Pro) and posts also surface in Hashnode's shared feed. It suits technical…

A vendor-neutral registry for VS Code-compatible extensions, run by the Eclipse Foundation and used by editors such as VSCodium, Gitpod and other VS Code forks. Publishing here makes an extension…

The package manager and package index for the Sublime Text editor. Adding a package to the default channel lets Sublime users install and auto-update it, and gives it a page with install stats and…

Svelte Society is the community hub for Svelte, with curated libraries, resources, recipes, videos, announcements and a weekly newsletter. Members can submit libraries and resources so they appear…

Jamstack.org is the community site for the Jamstack approach and hosts two well-known lists: static site generators and headless CMSs, each filterable by language, template engine and license…

A Monday newsletter and podcast about software development news, which features community submissions. It is written for developers. Submissions need a URL, a title and a note on why it's…

A weekly launchpad inside Peerlist, a professional network for developers and designers, where makers launch projects to get early users and feedback. The audience is Peerlist's community of…

A large marketplace of Model Context Protocol servers, clients, skills and AI agents, used heavily by developers. You submit your project from its repository URL, and a paid option publishes it…

A large marketplace of Model Context Protocol servers and agent skills that developers use to connect AI agents to services. Anyone can submit a GitHub repo for free and wait in a queue, or pay once…

A directory of Model Context Protocol servers and agent skills for developers building with Claude, Cursor and other AI agents. Submissions are free with a slow review, or a one-time premium buys a…

APIs.io is a search engine and catalog of API providers built around the APIs.json format, with pages covering specs, plans, rate limits and agent-facing artifacts such as MCP servers. A listing…

Cooperpress's biggest newsletter: a weekly roundup of JavaScript articles, releases and interesting projects, running since 2010. It's read by JavaScript and web developers. New libraries and tools…

A community-maintained list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS services with genuine free tiers for developers, mirrored on a website. Getting added exposes an infrastructure-oriented product to developers…

Django Packages is a community directory of reusable Django apps and tools, with comparison grids that line packages up by features, activity and maturity. Listing a package gives it a page and a…

A curated showcase of command-line and terminal UI tools with install instructions per platform, a 'tool of the week' and a newsletter. Accepted tools get a detailed page with previews, features and…

A free weekly email with Python news, articles, tutorials and new projects. It is read by Python developers. They take link suggestions for projects, articles and events, though not every one is used.

Awesome Go is the long-running curated list of Go frameworks, libraries and software, published on its own site from the GitHub list. Being accepted puts a Go package in the reference list many Go…

Best of JS tracks the most popular open-source projects for the web platform and Node.js, ranking them by daily GitHub star trends and tags. A tracked project appears in trend rankings and yearly…

A launchpad for developer tools, APIs, SDKs, libraries and open-source projects, built as a developer-focused alternative to Product Hunt. Voting and commenting require GitHub login, so the audience…

An editorially reviewed newsletter and site highlighting a handful of interesting developer tools and betas each week. Being selected gets a short independent review sent to a developer audience; it…

A collaborative, categorised list of 1,400+ public APIs with a companion website. If your product offers a self-serve, documented API, it can be added via pull request and gets a card linking to it.

A young, developer-oriented directory and registry of AI agents across platforms (GPTs, LangChain, AutoGen and commercial agents), with view counts and ratings on each profile. Listing is free with…

A free weekly newsletter covering Android and Kotlin development articles, libraries, tools and news. It is read by Android developers. Anyone can suggest a link through the form on the site, and…

API List is a categorized collection of public and free APIs, run by the API company apilayer, with upvotes and a twice-monthly email digest. Anyone can recommend an API through a short form, and…

APIs.guru is an open, community-run catalog of machine-readable web API definitions, mostly in OpenAPI format, that other tools and developers pull from through its own API. Getting added means your…

Awesome Shadcn/ui is a directory of boilerplates, component libraries, themes, tools and apps built around shadcn/ui, with a newsletter the site says reaches 15,000+ members. A free listing adds…

The public package feed for Chocolatey, the Windows package manager, with thousands of community-maintained packages. Each package page shows install commands, version history and links to the…

Google's official store for Chrome extensions and themes. If your product has a browser extension, publishing here is how Chrome users install it, and the listing page shows ratings, screenshots and…

A searchable collection of 3,000+ developer resources across dozens of categories, backed by an open GitHub repo. Tools are added by pull request and appear as cards linking straight to the product.

A developer tools directory spanning AI, DevOps, databases, observability, frameworks and more, with comparison pages. Accepted tools get a profile linking to the website and repository.

A curated directory of developer tools and services grouped into categories, collections and tags, from the maker of OpenAlternative. Each accepted tool gets a detail page with a link to its site.

devtools.directory is an open, wiki-style directory of developer tools, languages, libraries, stacks and learning resources, with all data stored as YAML in a public GitHub repo. Adding a tool…

Echo JS is a small, community-voted news site for JavaScript links, similar in spirit to Hacker News but focused on JS libraries, articles and tools. Registered users can submit links, which rise or…

A community and directory for AI builders covering coding assistants, agent frameworks, MCP servers, vibe-coding tools and LLM evaluation, with discussions, contests and a newsletter. Any signed-in…

Flutter Gems is a curated, categorized index of Dart and Flutter packages, grouped by functional area such as authentication, maps, storage and UI. Getting a package added places it in the right…

Free Public APIs is a list of several hundred no-cost APIs that are tested automatically every day and ranked by speed and reliability. It started as a resource for students at a Swiss university…

FreeStuff.dev is a tag-based list of free tools, free tiers and services for developers, from hosting and databases to design assets. The data lives in a public GitHub repo, so adding a tool means…

A weekly Cooperpress newsletter for Go developers with language news, articles, and new open-source packages and tools. Its readers write Go for servers, CLIs and infrastructure. New Go libraries…

Grafana Labs' catalogue of data source, panel and app plugins that can be installed into Grafana. Published plugins get a catalog page with README, versions and install instructions, and can be…

A hand-written Friday newsletter covering Swift and Apple platform development, with commentary on each pick. It goes to iOS and macOS developers. Links, libraries and tools that make it in appear…

The plugin repository for IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, WebStorm and other JetBrains IDEs, searchable from inside each IDE. New plugins and every update are verified by the Marketplace team before they…

A Sunday newsletter with Kotlin articles, libraries and community news, including Kotlin Multiplatform. It's read by Kotlin and Android developers, and the site says it goes to about 22,900 of them…

A Tuesday newsletter that features five new AI and developer tools for founders, backed by a tools directory on the same site. Readers are founders and builders. Tools can be featured free if you…

Made with React.js collects apps, websites, component libraries and dev tools built with React, each reviewed by hand before publishing. A listing gives the project a page in the relevant category…

Made with Svelte is a curated gallery of projects, components, templates and tools built with Svelte, run by the same small team behind the Vue and React showcases. Approved submissions get a…

Made with Vue.js is a hand-curated showcase of websites, apps, UI kits and developer tools built with Vue. Accepted projects get their own page and are announced on the site's X and Bluesky…

A weekly Node.js newsletter from Cooperpress, spun off from JavaScript Weekly, covering Node releases, articles, packages and tools. It is read by back-end JavaScript developers. Useful npm packages…

A free weekly newsletter of PHP news, articles and blog posts, curated by hand by a small group of people. It's read by PHP developers, including many Laravel users. The site asks readers to email…

PublicAPIs.io is a searchable directory of free and public APIs grouped into categories like finance, weather and machine learning. Listed APIs get an entry developers can browse and bookmark; a…

A weekly Cooperpress newsletter about React and React Native, with articles, releases and component libraries. It is read by React developers. New React tools and libraries are regularly featured.

Cooperpress's first newsletter: a weekly roundup of Ruby and Rails news, articles, gems and tools, running since 2010. It's read by Ruby and Rails developers. New gems and tools are regularly…

A weekly newsletter of articles on site reliability, incident response, scalability and automation, plus notable outages. It's read by SREs and operations engineers. The editor takes article…

A catalogue of terminal software: CLI utilities, TUI apps, emulators, shells, multiplexers, prompts and fonts, indexed by kind, language and platform. Listed tools get a page showing repo activity…

A veteran open source hosting and download platform that also runs a business software directory. Projects can be created or imported from GitHub with free mirror-based downloads and stats; each…

FOSSHub is a download host and catalog for open-source and some freeware desktop software, known for serving installers without bundled adware. Projects that are accepted get a program page with…

LinuxLinks is an editorial site that reviews and rounds up free and open-source Linux software, with 'best of' lists and individual program write-ups. Suggested programs can end up featured in an…

selfh.st is a self-hosting publication with a weekly newsletter, blog and a large app directory of self-hosted software, companion apps and alternatives. Its directory refreshes every morning and…

A curated catalogue of open source projects organised as replacements for well-known proprietary apps. Developers and technical buyers browse it by alternative, category and tech stack, and each…

The best-known curated list of free software network services and web apps that can be self-hosted, published as a website and GitHub list. Inclusion puts a project in front of the self-hosting…

A directory that pairs self-hostable open source projects with the commercial products they can replace. Visitors browse by proprietary tool, category, language and licence; an accepted project gets…

Awesome Self-Hosted Apps is an editor-reviewed directory of open-source, source-available and freeware apps you can run on your own server, showing license, repository health and install details…

Good First Issue gathers beginner-friendly issues from popular open-source repositories, sorted by language, so newcomers can find a place to start contributing. A listed repo appears with its star…

Self-Hosted.Directory is a curated catalog of self-hostable software organized by category, scenario and deployment style, with reviewed project pages. Makers can submit for free with a badge, or…

SelfHostIndex catalogs open-source, self-hostable apps with health scores, setup difficulty and the proprietary tools each one replaces. Its data is open, and each new app automatically gets its own…

Up For Grabs is a long-running list of open-source projects that keep beginner-friendly tasks labeled for newcomers. It helps maintainers attract first-time contributors, and each listed project…