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Ranked by Elo across 160 judged duels. No one can buy a position here.
Password manager that families actually manage to adopt.
Design a site and publish it without exporting to anything.
Internal tools assembled from components instead of built from scratch.
TypeScript that runs without a build step and ships secure by default.
Postgres with auth, storage and instant APIs bolted on.
SQL you write yourself, with the types generated for you.
Docs, wiki and database in one app that everyone reorganises weekly.
Where the code lives, whatever you think of the pull request UI.
Best games in the world bro trust
An editor built around the assistant rather than beside it.
Issue tracking built for speed. Keyboard first, opinionated on purpose.
Deploy a frontend without ever meeting your infrastructure.
Web analytics with no cookies and a dashboard on one screen.
Auth you drop in, with the account UI already built.
Meeting notes that take themselves and stay readable.
A JavaScript runtime that made everyone benchmark their tooling again.
Open source analytics you host yourself in an afternoon.
Workflow automation you can self-host and read the source of.
Email built around keyboard shortcuts and a stopwatch.
Billing for developers, with the tax paperwork handled for you.
Sell software as a merchant of record and skip VAT filings.
Glue between apps that never shipped an integration with each other.
Napoleonic and WW2 battles where both sides move at once, under fog of war.
Payments infrastructure that developers actually like reading docs for.
Utility classes instead of naming things you will rename later.
Transactional email for developers, written in React.
A typed ORM with migrations you can actually read.
Design tool that runs in a browser tab and never loses your file.
Serverless Postgres with database branches per pull request.
Visual site builder that emits real, editable markup.
The whole pipeline in one place, self-hosted if you want.
Run containers close to your users without writing Kubernetes.
Deploy a backend by pointing it at a repo and walking away.
CDN, DNS and edge compute with a free tier that is genuinely free.
A launcher that quietly replaces Spotlight and half your menu bar.
Error tracking that shows you the line and the user who hit it.
A compiler pretending to be a framework, and it works.
Work chat that replaced email and then became email.
Ships almost no JavaScript unless you specifically ask for some.
A terminal with blocks, history and autocomplete that works.
Record your screen instead of scheduling a meeting about it.
Email with opinions, including some you will disagree with.
Serverless Redis and Kafka billed by the request.
Voice and chat servers that quietly became every community.
A private network between your machines with no VPN config.
A spreadsheet that grew into a database and kept the friendly part.
Product analytics, session replay and flags in one self-hostable box.
Local markdown notes that link to each other and outlive the app.
MySQL that lets you branch a schema like it is code.
A browser that treats tabs as something to be managed, not hoarded.