Where to submit a developer tool: 75 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 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…

A long-running GitHub list of free and open-source Android apps, grouped by category from ad blockers to VPNs. It is aimed at people who care about privacy and licences, and each entry links to the…

A GitHub list of open-source macOS apps, about 710 apps in 49 categories according to its own badges, also published as a small website. Entries are added by editing a JSON file rather than the…

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…